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19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: style cleanups
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:45 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: style cleanups

Clean up various style issues in the IPMI driver.  Should be no functional
changes.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: add hacks for IPMI chassis poweroff for certain Dell servers
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:43 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add hacks for IPMI chassis poweroff for certain Dell servers

This patch allows Dell servers with IPMI controllers that predate IPMI 1.5
to use the standard poweroff or powercycle commands.  These systems
firmware don't set the chassis capability bit in the Get Device ID, but
they do implement the standard poweroff and powercycle commands.

Tested on RHEL3 kernel 2.4.21-20.ELsmp on a PowerEdge 2600.  The standard
ipmi_poweroff driver cannot drive these systems.  With this patch, they
power off or powercycle as expected.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: fix panic ipmb response
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:42 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: fix panic ipmb response

The "null message handler" in the IPMI driver is used in startup and panic
situations to handle messages.  It was only designed to work with messages
from the local management controller, but in some cases it was used to get
messages from remote managmenet controllers, and the system would then
panic.  This patch makes the "null message handler" in the IPMI driver more
general so it works with any kind of message.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: clean up versioning of the IPMI driver
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:42 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: clean up versioning of the IPMI driver

This adds MODULE_VERSION, MODULE_DESCRIPTION, and MODULE_AUTHOR tags to the
IPMI driver modules.  Also changes the MODULE_VERSION to remove the
prepended 'v' on each value, consistent with the module versioning policy.

This patch also removes all the version information from everything except
the ipmi_msghandler module.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: OEM flag handling and hacks for some Dell machines
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:41 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: OEM flag handling and hacks for some Dell machines

The ipmi driver does not have a way to handle firmware-generated events
which have the OEM[012] Data Available flags set.  In such a case, the
SMS_ATN bit may never get cleared by firmware, leaving the driver looping
infinitely but never able to make any progress.

This patch first simplifies storage and use of the data returned from an
IPMI Get Device ID command.

It then creates a new per-OEM handler hook, which should know how to handle
events with the OEM[012] Data Available flags set.  It then uses this to
implement a workaround for IPMI 1.5-capable Dell PowerEdge servers which
are susceptable to setting the OEM[012] Data Available flags when the
driver can't handle it.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: allow userland to include ipmi.h
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:40 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: allow userland to include ipmi.h

The IPMI driver include file needs to include compiler.h so it has definitions
for __user and such.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: watchdog/NMI interaction fixes
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:39 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: watchdog/NMI interaction fixes

There are some interactions between IPMI NMI timeouts and the other operations
of the IPMI driver.  This make sure those interactions are handled properly.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: high-res timer support fixes
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:38 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: high-res timer support fixes

Fix some problems with the high-res timer support.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: add per-channel IPMB addresses
Corey Minyard [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:38 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add per-channel IPMB addresses

IPMI allows multiple IPMB channels on a single interface, and each channel
might have a different IPMB address.  However, the driver has only one IPMB
address that it uses for everything.  This patch adds new IOCTLS and a new
internal interface for setting per-channel IPMB addresses and LUNs.  New
systems are coming out with support for multiple IPMB channels, and they are
broken without this patch.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] IPMI: use dmi_find_device()
Andrey Panin [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:37 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: use dmi_find_device()

This patch replaces homebrew DMI scanning code in IPMI System Interface driver
with dmi_find_device() call.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ALSA: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:36 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ALSA: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch introduces a memory-leak tracking version of kzalloc for ALSA.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fs: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:35 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:35 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] USB: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:34 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] input: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:33 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] input: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] PPC64: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:32 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] PPC64: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] IA64: convert kcalloc to kzalloc
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:31 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] IA64: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc
Pekka J Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:31 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc

This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it.  It
saves a little program text.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fix: dmi_check_system
Robert Love [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:30 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix: dmi_check_system

Background:

1) dmi_check_system() returns the count of the number of
   matches.  Zero thus means no matches.
2) A match callback can return nonzero to stop the match
   checking.

Bug: The count is incremented after we check for the nonzero return value,
so it does not reflect the actual count.  We could say this is intended,
for some dumb reason, except that it means that a match on the first check
returns zero--no matches--if the callback returns nonzero.

Attached patch implements the count before calling the callback and thus
before potentially short-circuiting.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] dmi: add onboard devices discovery
Andrey Panin [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:29 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] dmi: add onboard devices discovery

This patch adds onboard devices and IPMI BMC discovery into DMI scan code.
Drivers can use dmi_find_device() function to search for devices by type and
name.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] dmi: make dmi_string() behave like strdup()
Andrey Panin [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:28 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] dmi: make dmi_string() behave like strdup()

This patch changes dmi_string() function to allocate string copy by itself, to
avoid code duplication in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] dmi: remove old debugging code
Andrey Panin [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:28 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] dmi: remove old debugging code

DMI debugging code is unused for ages.  This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] dmi: remove uneeded function
Andrey Panin [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:26 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] dmi: remove uneeded function

After elimination of central DMI blacklist dmi_scan_machine() function became
a wrapper for dmi_iterate().  This patch moves some code around to kill
unneeded function.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cifs_create() fix
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:26 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cifs_create() fix

cifs_create() did totally the wrong thing with nd->intent.open.flags:
it interpreted nd->intent.open.flags as the original open flags, not
the one transformed for open_namei().  Also it used the intent data
even if it was not filled in (if called from sys_mknod()).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove duplicated sys_open32() code from 64bit archs
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:25 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove duplicated sys_open32() code from 64bit archs

64 bit architectures all implement their own compatibility sys_open(),
when in fact the difference is simply not forcing the O_LARGEFILE
flag.  So use the a common function instead.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove duplicated code from proc and ptrace
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:24 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove duplicated code from proc and ptrace

Extract common code used by ptrace_attach() and may_ptrace_attach()
into a separate function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fix enum pid_directory_inos in proc/base.c
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:23 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix enum pid_directory_inos in proc/base.c

This patch fixes wrongly placed elements in the pid_directory_inos
enum.  Also add comment so this mistake is not repeated.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] use get_fs_struct() in proc
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:22 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] use get_fs_struct() in proc

This patch cleans up proc_cwd_link() and proc_root_link() by factoring
out common code into get_fs_struct().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] namei cleanup
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:21 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] namei cleanup

Extract common code into inline functions to make reading easier.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove iattr.ia_attr_flags
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:21 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove iattr.ia_attr_flags

Remove unused ia_attr_flags from struct iattr, and related defines.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Remove maintainer's bad e-mails addresses
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:19 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove maintainer's bad e-mails addresses

This patch removes 1 whole entry, which is no longer maintained and 1
e-mail, which is not right.  [comtrol was posted by Rolf Eike Beer]

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] provide MODALIAS= enviroment variable to autoload ieee1394 modules via udev
Olaf Hering [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:18 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] provide MODALIAS= enviroment variable to autoload ieee1394 modules via udev

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103746

Old 2.6.13 hotplug enviroment for 'plug in firewire disk' event:

==> debug.01139.ieee1394.add.8211 <==
set -- ieee1394
UDEV_LOG='7'
ACTION='add'
DEVPATH='/class/ieee1394/00010410100036e0-0'
SUBSYSTEM='ieee1394'
SEQNUM='1139'
PHYSDEVPATH='/devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:0d.0/0001:11:0a.0/fw-host0/00010410100036e0/00010410100036e0-0'
PHYSDEVBUS='ieee1394'
VENDOR_ID='000000'
MODEL_ID='001010'
GUID='00010410100036e0'
SPECIFIER_ID='00609e'
VERSION='010483'
UDEVD_EVENT='1'

Module spb2 is not loaded.

grep sbp2 /lib/modules/2.6.13-20050901172817-default/modules.alias
alias ieee1394:ven*mo*sp0000609Ever00010483* sbp2

printf 'ieee1394:ven%08Xmo%08Xsp%08Xver%08X\n' '0x000000' '0x001010' '0x00609e' '0x010483'
ieee1394:ven00000000mo00001010sp0000609Ever00010483

modprobe -v ieee1394:ven00000000mo00001010sp0000609Ever00010483
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.13-20050901172817-default/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.ko

Providing a MODALIAS= enviroment variable with the content above will fix it.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] alloc_buffer_head() and free_buffer_head() cleanup
Coywolf Qi Hunt [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:17 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] alloc_buffer_head() and free_buffer_head() cleanup

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] struct dentry: place d_hash close to d_parent and d_name to speedup lookups
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:16 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] struct dentry: place d_hash close to d_parent and d_name to speedup lookups

dentry cache uses sophisticated RCU technology (and prefetching if
available) but touches 2 cache lines per dentry during hlist lookup.

This patch moves d_hash in the same cache line than d_parent and d_name
fields so that :

1) One cache line is needed instead of two.

2) the hlist_for_each_rcu() prefetching has a chance to bring all the
   needed data in advance, not only the part that includes d_hash.next.

I also changed one old comment that was wrong for 64bits.

A further optimisation would be to separate dentry in two parts, one that
is mostly read, and one writen (d_count/d_lock) to avoid false sharing on
SMP/NUMA but this would need different field placement depending on 32bits
or 64bits platform.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: re-enable "dynamic sched domains"
John Hawkes [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:15 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: re-enable "dynamic sched domains"

Revert the hack introduced last week.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: fix the "dynamic sched domains" bug
John Hawkes [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:14 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: fix the "dynamic sched domains" bug

For a NUMA system with multiple CPUs per node, declaring a cpu-exclusive
cpuset that includes only some, but not all, of the CPUs in a node will mangle
the sched domain structures.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc; Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic code
John Hawkes [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:14 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic code

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: confine oom_killer to mem_exclusive cpuset
Paul Jackson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:13 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: confine oom_killer to mem_exclusive cpuset

Now the real motivation for this cpuset mem_exclusive patch series seems
trivial.

This patch keeps a task in or under one mem_exclusive cpuset from provoking an
oom kill of a task under a non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset.  Since only
interrupt and GFP_ATOMIC allocations are allowed to escape mem_exclusive
containment, there is little to gain from oom killing a task under a
non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset, as almost all kernel and user memory
allocation must come from disjoint memory nodes.

This patch enables configuring a system so that a runaway job under one
mem_exclusive cpuset cannot cause the killing of a job in another such cpuset
that might be using very high compute and memory resources for a prolonged
time.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: formalize intermediate GFP_KERNEL containment
Paul Jackson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:12 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: formalize intermediate GFP_KERNEL containment

This patch makes use of the previously underutilized cpuset flag
'mem_exclusive' to provide what amounts to another layer of memory placement
resolution.  With this patch, there are now the following four layers of
memory placement available:

 1) The whole system (interrupt and GFP_ATOMIC allocations can use this),
 2) The nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset (GFP_KERNEL allocations can use),
 3) The current tasks cpuset (GFP_USER allocations constrained to here), and
 4) Specific node placement, using mbind and set_mempolicy.

These nest - each layer is a subset (same or within) of the previous.

Layer (2) above is new, with this patch.  The call used to check whether a
zone (its node, actually) is in a cpuset (in its mems_allowed, actually) is
extended to take a gfp_mask argument, and its logic is extended, in the case
that __GFP_HARDWALL is not set in the flag bits, to look up the cpuset
hierarchy for the nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset, to determine if
placement is allowed.  The definition of GFP_USER, which used to be identical
to GFP_KERNEL, is changed to also set the __GFP_HARDWALL bit, in the previous
cpuset_gfp_hardwall_flag patch.

GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL allocations will stay within the current tasks
cpuset, so long as any node therein is not too tight on memory, but will
escape to the larger layer, if need be.

The intended use is to allow something like a batch manager to handle several
jobs, each job in its own cpuset, but using common kernel memory for caches
and such.  Swapper and oom_kill activity is also constrained to Layer (2).  A
task in or below one mem_exclusive cpuset should not cause swapping on nodes
in another non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset, nor provoke oom_killing of a
task in another such cpuset.  Heavy use of kernel memory for i/o caching and
such by one job should not impact the memory available to jobs in other
non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpusets.

This patch enables providing hardwall, inescapable cpusets for memory
allocations of each job, while sharing kernel memory allocations between
several jobs, in an enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset.

Like Dinakar's patch earlier to enable administering sched domains using the
cpu_exclusive flag, this patch also provides a useful meaning to a cpuset flag
that had previously done nothing much useful other than restrict what cpuset
configurations were allowed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: new __GFP_HARDWALL flag
Paul Jackson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:10 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: new __GFP_HARDWALL flag

Add another GFP flag: __GFP_HARDWALL.

A subsequent "cpuset_zone_allowed" patch will use this flag to mark GFP_USER
allocations, and distinguish them from GFP_KERNEL allocations.

Allocations (such as GFP_USER) marked GFP_HARDWALL are constrainted to the
current tasks cpuset.  Other allocations (such as GFP_KERNEL) can steal from
the possibly larger nearest mem_exclusive cpuset ancestor, if memory is tight
on every node in the current cpuset.

This patch collides with Mel Gorman's patch to reduce fragmentation in the
standard buddy allocator, which adds two GFP flags.  This was discussed on
linux-mm in July.  Most likely, one of his flags for user reclaimable memory
can be the same as my __GFP_HARDWALL flag, under some generic name meaning its
user address space memory.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: oom_kill tweaks
Paul Jackson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:09 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpusets: oom_kill tweaks

This patch series extends the use of the cpuset attribute 'mem_exclusive'
to support cpuset configurations that:
 1) allow GFP_KERNEL allocations to come from a potentially larger
    set of memory nodes than GFP_USER allocations, and
 2) can constrain the oom killer to tasks running in cpusets in
    a specified subtree of the cpuset hierarchy.

Here's an example usage scenario.  For a few hours or more, a large NUMA
system at a University is to be divided in two halves, with a bunch of student
jobs running in half the system under some form of batch manager, and with a
big research project running in the other half.  Each of the student jobs is
placed in a small cpuset, but should share the classic Unix time share
facilities, such as buffered pages of files in /bin and /usr/lib.  The big
research project wants no interference whatsoever from the student jobs, and
has highly tuned, unusual memory and i/o patterns that intend to make full use
of all the main memory on the nodes available to it.

In this example, we have two big sibling cpusets, one of which is further
divided into a more dynamic set of child cpusets.

We want kernel memory allocations constrained by the two big cpusets, and user
allocations constrained by the smaller child cpusets where present.  And we
require that the oom killer not operate across the two halves of this system,
or else the first time a student job runs amuck, the big research project will
likely be first inline to get shot.

Tweaking /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is not ideal -- if the big research project
really does run amuck allocating memory, it should be shot, not some other
task outside the research projects mem_exclusive cpuset.

I propose to extend the use of the 'mem_exclusive' flag of cpusets to manage
such scenarios.  Let memory allocations for user space (GFP_USER) be
constrained by a tasks current cpuset, but memory allocations for kernel space
(GFP_KERNEL) by constrained by the nearest mem_exclusive ancestor of the
current cpuset, even though kernel space allocations will still _prefer_ to
remain within the current tasks cpuset, if memory is easily available.

Let the oom killer be constrained to consider only tasks that are in
overlapping mem_exclusive cpusets (it won't help much to kill a task that
normally cannot allocate memory on any of the same nodes as the ones on which
the current task can allocate.)

The current constraints imposed on setting mem_exclusive are unchanged.  A
cpuset may only be mem_exclusive if its parent is also mem_exclusive, and a
mem_exclusive cpuset may not overlap any of its siblings memory nodes.

This patch was presented on linux-mm in early July 2005, though did not
generate much feedback at that time.  It has been built for a variety of
arch's using cross tools, and built, booted and tested for function on SN2
(ia64).

There are 4 patches in this set:
  1) Some minor cleanup, and some improvements to the code layout
     of one routine to make subsequent patches cleaner.
  2) Add another GFP flag - __GFP_HARDWALL.  It marks memory
     requests for USER space, which are tightly confined by the
     current tasks cpuset.
  3) Now memory requests (such as KERNEL) that not marked HARDWALL can
     if short on memory, look in the potentially larger pool of memory
     defined by the nearest mem_exclusive ancestor cpuset of the current
     tasks cpuset.
  4) Finally, modify the oom killer to skip any task whose mem_exclusive
     cpuset doesn't overlap ours.

Patch (1), the one time I looked on an SN2 (ia64) build, actually saved 32
bytes of kernel text space.  Patch (2) has no affect on the size of kernel
text space (it just adds a preprocessor flag).  Patches (3) and (4) added
about 600 bytes each of kernel text space, mostly in kernel/cpuset.c, which
matters only if CONFIG_CPUSET is enabled.

This patch:

This patch applies a few comment and code cleanups to mm/oom_kill.c prior to
applying a few small patches to improve cpuset management of memory placement.

The comment changed in oom_kill.c was seriously misleading.  The code layout
change in select_bad_process() makes room for adding another condition on
which a process can be spared the oom killer (see the subsequent
cpuset_nodes_overlap patch for this addition).

Also a couple typos and spellos that bugged me, while I was here.

This patch should have no material affect.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ia64 cpuset + build_sched_domains() mangles structures
John Hawkes [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:06 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] ia64 cpuset + build_sched_domains() mangles structures

I've already sent this to the maintainers, and this is now being sent to a
larger community audience.  I have fixed a problem with the ia64 version of
build_sched_domains(), but a similar fix still needs to be made to the
generic build_sched_domains() in kernel/sched.c.

The "dynamic sched domains" functionality has recently been merged into
2.6.13-rcN that sees the dynamic declaration of a cpu-exclusive (a.k.a.
"isolated") cpuset and rebuilds the CPU Scheduler sched domains and sched
groups to separate away the CPUs in this cpu-exclusive cpuset from the
remainder of the non-isolated CPUs.  This allows the non-isolated CPUs to
completely ignore the isolated CPUs when doing load-balancing.

Unfortunately, build_sched_domains() expects that a sched domain will
include all the CPUs of each node in the domain, i.e., that no node will
belong in both an isolated cpuset and a non-isolated cpuset.  Declaring a
cpuset that violates this presumption will produce flawed data structures
and will oops the kernel.

To trigger the problem (on a NUMA system with >1 CPUs per node):
   cd /dev/cpuset
   mkdir newcpuset
   cd newcpuset
   echo 0 >cpus
   echo 0 >mems
   echo 1 >cpu_exclusive

I have fixed this shortcoming for ia64 NUMA (with multiple CPUs per node).
A similar shortcoming exists in the generic build_sched_domains() (in
kernel/sched.c) for NUMA, and that needs to be fixed also.  The fix
involves dynamically allocating sched_group_nodes[] and
sched_group_allnodes[] for each invocation of build_sched_domains(), rather
than using global arrays for these structures.  Care must be taken to
remember kmalloc() addresses so that arch_destroy_sched_domains() can
properly kfree() the new dynamic structures.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] block: CFQ refcounting fix
Brian King [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:04 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] block: CFQ refcounting fix

I ran across a memory leak related to the cfq scheduler. The cfq
init function increments the refcnt of the associated request_queue.

This refcount gets decremented in cfq's exit function. Since blk_cleanup_queue
only calls the elevator exit function when its refcnt goes to zero, the
request_q never gets cleaned up. It didn't look like other io schedulers were
incrementing this refcnt, so I removed the refcnt increment and it fixed the
memory leak for me.

To reproduce the problem, simply use cfq and use the scsi_host scan sysfs
attribute to scan "- - -" repeatedly on a scsi host and watch the memory
vanish.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] sunrpc: print unsigned integers in stats
Max Kellermann [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:03 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] sunrpc: print unsigned integers in stats

The sunrpc stats are collected in unsigned integers, but they are printed
with '%d'.  That can result in negative numbers in /proc/net/rpc when the
highest bit of a counter is set.  The following patch changes '%d' to '%u'
where appropriate.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] inotify: fix event loss on hardlinked files
John McCutchan [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:02 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] inotify: fix event loss on hardlinked files

People have run into a problem when they do this:

watch (file1, all_events);
watch (file2, some_events);

if file2 is a hard link to file1, some events will be missed because by
default we replace the mask.  The patch below adds a flag IN_MASK_ADD which
will cause inotify to add to the existing mask if present.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Consolidate the asm-ppc*/fcntl.h files into asm-powerpc
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:01 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] Consolidate the asm-ppc*/fcntl.h files into asm-powerpc

This makes sense now that we have asm-powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Clean up struct flock64 definitions
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:01 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] Clean up struct flock64 definitions

This patch gathers all the struct flock64 definitions (and the operations),
puts them under !CONFIG_64BIT and cleans up the arch files.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Clean up struct flock definitions
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:00 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
[PATCH] Clean up struct flock definitions

This patch just gathers together all the struct flock definitions except
xtensa into asm-generic/fcntl.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Clean up the fcntl operations
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:59 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Clean up the fcntl operations

This patch puts the most popular of each fcntl operation/flag into
asm-generic/fcntl.h and cleans up the arch files.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Clean up the open flags
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:58 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Clean up the open flags

This patch puts the most popular of each open flag into asm-generic/fcntl.h
and cleans up the arch files.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Consolidate asm-ppc*/fcntl.h
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:58 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Consolidate asm-ppc*/fcntl.h

These two files are basically identical, so make one just include the other
(protecting the 32-bit-only parts with __powerpc64__).  Also remove some
completely unused defines.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Create asm-generic/fcntl.h
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:57 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Create asm-generic/fcntl.h

This set of patches creates asm-generic/fcntl.h and consolidates as much as
possible from the asm-*/fcntl.h files into it.

This patch just gathers all the identical bits of the asm-*/fcntl.h files into
asm-generic/fcntl.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] tpm: fix tpm_atmel.c on ICH6
Philipp Matthias Hahn [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:56 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] tpm: fix tpm_atmel.c on ICH6

While installing Debian on our new IBM X41 Tablet, I tried briefly to use
the built-in Atmel TPM.  The Athmel TPM is also located on the LPC-bus of
the ICH6.  To make it work I had to apply the following patch:

Signed-off-by: Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@titan.lahn.de>
Acked-by: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] isdn_v110 warning fix
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:55 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] isdn_v110 warning fix

Here's a small warning fix for drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_v110.c
 drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_v110.c:523: warning: `ret' might be used uninitialized in this function

In addition to Karsten Keil signing off on the patch, Thomas Pfeiffer also
commented on the patch, saying
"initializing ret with the value zero is correct and should be done."

Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] hpet: fix drift and url
Alex Williamson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:54 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] hpet: fix drift and url

The HPET driver is using a parts per second drift factor instead of the
standard parts per million drift the time interpolator code expects.  This
patch fixes that problem and updates the URL for the HPET spec.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: "Robert W. Picco" <bob.picco@hp.com>
Acked-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] vt: fix possible memory corruption in complement_pos
Antonino A. Daplas [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:52 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] vt: fix possible memory corruption in complement_pos

Based on a patch from Andr Pereira de Almeida <andre@cachola.com.br>

It might be possible for the saved pointer (*p) to become invalid in
between vc_resizes, so saving the screen offset instead of the screen
pointer is saner.

This bug is very hard to trigger though, but Andre probably did, if he's
submitting this patch.  Anyway, with Andre's patch, it's still possible for
the offsets to be still illegal, if the new screen size is smaller than the
old one.  So I've also added checks if the offsets are still within the
screenbuffer size.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] optimise 64bit unaligned access on 32bit kernel
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:51 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] optimise 64bit unaligned access on 32bit kernel

I've rewriten Atushi's fix for the 64-bit put_unaligned on 32-bit systems
bug to generate more efficient code.

This case has buzilla URL http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5138.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove fs/umsdos/notes as it only contain a verify_area...
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:51 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove fs/umsdos/notes as it only contain a verify_area related note

The file `fs/umsdos/notes' contains only a small note about a possible bug
involving verify_area().  Since umsdos is no longer in the kernel and
verify_area() is also gone, it seems to make sense that this file goes the way
of the Dodo.

After applying this patch the `fs/umsdos/' directory will be empty and can be
removed entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:50 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in Documentation/

Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function
from files in Documentation/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove verify_area() from various uaccess.h headers
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:49 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove verify_area() from various uaccess.h headers

Remove the deprecated (and unused) verify_area() from various uaccess.h
headers.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] pipe: remove redundant fifo_poll abstraction
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:48 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] pipe: remove redundant fifo_poll abstraction

Remove a redundant fifo_poll() abstraction from fs/pipe.c and adds a big
fat comment stating we set POLLERR for FIFOs too on Linux unlike most
Unices.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Remove non-arch consumers of asm/segment.h
Kumar Gala [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:47 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove non-arch consumers of asm/segment.h

asm/segment.h varies greatly on different architectures but is clearly
deprecated.  Removing all non-architecture consumers will make it easier
for us to get ride of asm/segment.h all together.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] blk: Use blk_queue_xxx functions to set parameters
Stuart McLaren [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:47 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] blk: Use blk_queue_xxx functions to set parameters

Per-queue parameters should be updated using the appropriate blk_queue_xxx
functions.

Signed-off-by: Stuart McLaren <stuart.mclaren@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] NTP: ntp-helper functions
john stultz [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:46 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] NTP: ntp-helper functions

This patch cleans up a commonly repeated set of changes to the NTP state
variables by adding two helper inline functions:

ntp_clear(): Clears the ntp state variables

ntp_synced(): Returns 1 if the system is synced with a time server.

This was compile tested for alpha, arm, i386, x86-64, ppc64, s390, sparc,
sparc64.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Additions to .data.read_mostly section
Ravikiran G Thirumalai [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:45 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Additions to .data.read_mostly section

Mark variables which are usually accessed for reads with __readmostly.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] futex: remove duplicate code
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:44 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] futex: remove duplicate code

This patch cleans up the error path of futex_fd() by removing duplicate
code.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version strings
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:43 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version strings

Tested with 2.12i and 2.13-pre2.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fix send_sigqueue() vs thread exit race
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:42 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix send_sigqueue() vs thread exit race

posix_timer_event() first checks that the thread (SIGEV_THREAD_ID case)
does not have PF_EXITING flag, then it calls send_sigqueue() which locks
task list.  But if the thread exits in between the kernel will oops
(->sighand == NULL after __exit_sighand).

This patch moves the PF_EXITING check into the send_sigqueue(), it must be
done atomically under tasklist_lock.  When send_sigqueue() detects exiting
thread it returns -1.  In that case posix_timer_event will send the signal
to thread group.

Also, this patch fixes task_struct use-after-free in posix_timer_event.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fix cramfs making duplicate entries in inode cache
Dave Johnson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:40 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix cramfs making duplicate entries in inode cache

Every time cramfs_lookup() is called to lookup and inode for a dentry,
get_cramfs_inode() will allocate a new inode without checking to see if that
inode already exists in the inode cache.

This is fine the first time, but if the dentry cache entry(ies) associated
with that inode are aged out, but the inode entry is not aged out (which can
be quite common if the inode has buffer cache linked to it), cramfs_lookup()
will be called again and another inode will be allocated and added to the
inode cache creating a duplicate in the inode cache.

The big issue here is that the buffers associated with each inode cache entry
are not shared between the duplicates!

The older inode entries are now orphaned as no dentry points to it and won't
be freed until the buffer cache assoicated with them are first freed.  The
newest entry will have to create all new buffer cache for each part of its
file as the old buffer cache is now orphaned as well.

Patch below fixes this by making get_cramfs_inode() use the inode cache before
blindly creating a new entry every time.  This eliminates the duplicate inodes
and duplicate buffer cache.

Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove the second arg of do_timer_interrupt()
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:39 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove the second arg of do_timer_interrupt()

The second arg of do_timer_interrupt() is not used in the functions, and
all callers pass NULL.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@Linux-SH.ORG>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove file.f_maxcount
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:38 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove file.f_maxcount

struct file cleanup: f_maxcount has an unique value (INT_MAX).  Just use
the hard-wired value.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove a redundant variable in sys_prctl()
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:37 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove a redundant variable in sys_prctl()

The patch removes a redundant variable `sig' from sys_prctl().

For some reason, when sys_prctl is called with option == PR_SET_PDEATHSIG
then the value of arg2 is assigned to an int variable named sig.  Then sig
is tested with valid_signal() and later used to set the value of
current->pdeath_signal .

There is no reason to use this intermediate variable since valid_signal()
takes a unsigned long argument, so it can handle being passed arg2
directly, and if the call to valid_signal is OK, then we know the value of
arg2 is in the range zero to _NSIG and thus it'll easily fit in a plain int
and thus there's no problem assigning it later to current->pdeath_signal
(which is an int).

The patch gets rid of the pointless variable `sig'.
This reduces the size of kernel/sys.o in 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 by 32 bytes on my
system.

Patch has been compile tested, boot tested, and just to make damn sure I
didn't break anything I wrote a quick test app that calls
prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG ...) with the entire range of values for a
unsigned long, and it behaves as expected with and without the patch.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fs: remove redundant timespec_equal test in update_atime()
Tejun Heo [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:36 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs: remove redundant timespec_equal test in update_atime()

In update_atime(), timespec_equal() test is done twice in succession and
the second is always false.  This patch removes the second test.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] largefile support for accounting
Peter Staubach [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:35 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] largefile support for accounting

There is a problem in the accounting subsystem in the kernel can not
correctly handle files larger than 2GB.  The output file containing the
process accounting data can grow very large if the system is large enough
and active enough.  If the 2GB limit is reached, then the system simply
stops storing process accounting data.

Another annoying problem is that once the system reaches this 2GB limit,
then every process which exits will receive a signal, SIGXFSZ.  This signal
is generated because an attempt was made to write beyond the limit for the
file descriptor.  This signal makes it look like every process has exited
due to a signal, when in fact, they have not.

The solution is to add the O_LARGEFILE flag to the list of flags used to
open the accounting file.  The rest of the accounting support is already
largefile safe.

The changes were tested by constructing a large file (just short of 2GB),
enabling accounting, and then running enough commands to cause the
accounting data generated to increase the size of the file to 2GB.  Without
the changes, the file grows to 2GB and the last command run in the test
script appears to exit due a signal when it has not.  With the changes,
things work as expected and quietly.

There are some user level changes required so that it can deal with
largefiles, but those are being handled separately.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] arm26: one -g is enough for everyone
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:34 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] arm26: one -g is enough for everyone

The main Makefile is already adding -g to the CFLAGS if
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y.

Not that two -g would do harm, but one works as well.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] do_notify_parent_cldstop() cleanup
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:32 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] do_notify_parent_cldstop() cleanup

This patch simplifies the usage of do_notify_parent_cldstop(), it lessens
the source and .text size slightly, and makes the code (in my opinion) a
bit more readable.

I am sending this patch now because I'm afraid Paul will touch
do_notify_parent_cldstop() really soon, It's better to cleanup first.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Console blanking locking fix
Stephane Doyon [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:31 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Console blanking locking fix

I've had WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED warnings when calling TIOCLINUX
TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN and TIOCL_UNBLANKSCREEN.

(I'm blind and I use a braille display.  I use those functions to blank my
laptop's screen so people don't read it, and hopefully to conserve power.)

The warnings are from these places:
do_blank_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:2754 (Not tainted)
save_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:575 (Not tainted)
do_unblank_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:2822 (Not tainted)
set_palette at drivers/char/vt.c:2908 (Not tainted)

At a glance I would think the following patch ought to fix that.  Tested on
one machine.  Could you please tell me if this is correct and/or forward
the patch where appropriate...

Signed-off-by: Stephane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Add missing overflow check in get_blkdev_list
Neil Horman [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:30 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add missing overflow check in get_blkdev_list

Patch to clean up missing overflow check in get_blkdev_list.  The printf
which adds the "Block Devices" string in /proc/devices can overflow the
presented page if get_chrdev_list eats up the entire 4k space.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Delete unused do_nanosleep declaration
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:29 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Delete unused do_nanosleep declaration

There is no do_nanosleep function so kill it's declaration in <linux/time.h>.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy
Tommy S. Christensen [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:28 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy

The phy status register must be read twice in order to get the actual link
state.

Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove asm-*/hdreg.h
Christoph Hellwig [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:27 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove asm-*/hdreg.h

unused and useless..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Fix function/macro name collision on i386 oprofile
David Gibson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:26 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix function/macro name collision on i386 oprofile

The i386 OProfile code has a function named nmi_exit(), which collides with
the nmi_exit() macro in linux/hardirq.h.  At the moment, we get away with
it, because hardirq.h isn't included in the oprofile code.  I hit this as a
bug when working with a patch which (indirectly) adds a #include of
hardirq.h to oprofile.

Regardless, the name collision is probably not a good idea, so this patch
fixes it, renaming the oprofile function to op_nmi_exit().  It also renames
the nmi_init() and nmi_timer_init() functions similarly, for consistency.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid dead code in __do_IRQ()
Karsten Wiese [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:25 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid dead code in __do_IRQ()

IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures.  This patch introduces the
macros ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU and CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid the generation
of dead code in __do_IRQ().

ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU is defined by architectures using IRQ_PER_CPU in their
include/asm_ARCH/irq.h file.

Through grepping the tree I found the following architectures currently use
IRQ_PER_CPU:

        cris, ia64, ppc, ppc64 and parisc.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminating
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:24 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminating

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] jffs/jffs2: remove wrong function prototypes
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:23 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] jffs/jffs2: remove wrong function prototypes

This patch removes prototypes for the generic_file_open and
generic_file_llseek functions.

Besides being superfluous because they are already present in fs.h, they
were also wrong because the actual functions aren't weak functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fs/Kconfig: quota help text updates
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:22 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs/Kconfig: quota help text updates

This patch contains the following updates to the help texts:
- QUOTA: most people will get the quota utilities from their
         distribution, and if not the mini-HOWTO will tell them
- QFMT_V2: quota utilities 3.01 are no longer recent, they are now
           ancient
           and 3.01 is lower than the minimal version documented in
           Documentation/Changes

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] parport: add NetMOS 9805 support
Maximilian Attems [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:21 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] parport: add NetMOS 9805 support

This interface is said to be commonly used in germany: "The patch has been
proven to work fine in a beige G3 Mac."
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=262324

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests()
Nikita Danilov [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:20 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests()

cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests():

- replace drq selection with hopefully clearer while semantically the
  same construct: take write request, if there is any, otherwise take read
  one, or NULL if none exist.

- kill unused other_dir.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace init
Olof Johansson [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:19 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace init

Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to
run from it.  Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from
/init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical.

Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible,
since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early
userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e.  load filesystem
modules and drivers).

Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if
specified.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] proc: link count fix
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:18 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: link count fix

This patch fixes bug titled "sunrpc as module and bad proc/sys link count"
reported by Jiri Slaby.

The problem was, that only proc_dir_entry->nlink was updated and the
corresponding inode->i_nlink was not.  The fix is to implement the
inode->getattr() method, and update i_nlink (if necessary).

A quick audit of proc code shows that no other attribute changes after
creation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] create_workqueue_thread() signedness fix
Mika Kukkonen [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:17 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] create_workqueue_thread() signedness fix

With "-W -Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare" I get the following compile warning:

  CC      kernel/workqueue.o
kernel/workqueue.c: In function `workqueue_cpu_callback':
kernel/workqueue.c:504: warning: ordered comparison of pointer with integer zero

On error create_workqueue_thread() returns NULL, not negative pointer, so
following trivial patch suggests itself.

Signed-off-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fsnotify: hook on removexattr, too
Robert Love [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:16 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] fsnotify: hook on removexattr, too

Add fsnotify_xattr() hook to removexattr().

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: John McCtuchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support
Doug Warzecha [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:15 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support

This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support.

This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage.

Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] dell_rbu: new Dell BIOS update driver
Abhay Salunke [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:14 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] dell_rbu: new Dell BIOS update driver

Remote BIOS Update driver for updating BIOS images on Dell servers and
desktops.  See dell_rbu.txt for details.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] modified firmware_class.c to support no hotplug
Abhay Salunke [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:13 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] modified firmware_class.c to support no hotplug

Upgrade the request_firmware_nowait function to not start the hotplug
action on a firmware update.

This patch is tested along with dell_rbu driver on i386 and x86-64 systems.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Speedup FAT filesystem directory reads
Karsten Wiese [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:12 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] Speedup FAT filesystem directory reads

      OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

This speeds up directory reads for large FAT partitions, if the buffercache
has to be filled from the drive. Following values were taken from:

        $ time find path_to_freshly_mounted_fat > /dev/null

on an otherwise idle system.

FAT with 16KB Clusters on IDE attached drive:   Factor  2
FAT with 32KB Clusters on USB2 attached drive:  Factor 10 (!)
Its less than 1/10 slower, if the buffercache is uptodate.

The patch introduces the new function fat_dir_readahead().

fat_dir_readahead() calls sb_breadahead() to readahead a whole cluster,
if the requested sector is the first one in a cluster.
It is usefull to do this, because on FAT directories occupy whole
clusters, with the exception of FAT12/FAT16 root dirs.

Readahead is only done, if the cluster's first sector is not uptodate
to avoid overhead, when the buffer cache is already uptodate.
Note that under memory pressure, the maximal byte count wasted
(read: has to be red from disk twice) is 1 cluster's size.  Thats 64KB.

fat_dir_readahead() is called from fat__get_entry().

There is also an unrelated cleanup at one spot:

        if (bh)
                brelse(bh);

is replaced with:

        brelse(bh);

brelse() can handle NULL pointer arguments by itself.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] flush icache early when loading module
Thomas Koeller [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:11 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] flush icache early when loading module

Change the sequence of operations performed during module loading to flush
the instruction cache before module parameters are processed.  If a module
has parameters of an unusual type that cannot be handled using the standard
accessor functions param_set_xxx and param_get_xxx, it has to to provide a
set of accessor functions for this type.  This requires module code to be
executed during parameter processing, which is of course only possible
after the icache has been flushed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipc: convert /proc/sysvipc/* to generic seq_file interface
Mike Waychison [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:10 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipc: convert /proc/sysvipc/* to generic seq_file interface

Change the /proc/sysvipc/shm|sem|msg files to use the generic seq_file
implementation for struct ipc_ids.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] ipc: add generic struct ipc_ids seq_file iteration
Mike Waychison [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:09 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipc: add generic struct ipc_ids seq_file iteration

The following two patches convert /proc/sysvipc/* to use seq_file.

This gives us the following:

 - Self-consistent IPC records in proc.
 - O(n) reading of the files themselves.

This patch:

Add a generic method for ipc types to be displayed using seq_file.  This
patch abstracts out seq_file iterating over struct ipc_ids into ipc/util.c

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference
Bruce Allan [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:08 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference

When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as the
sunrpc module.  However, there are RPC caches owned by other modules.  With
the incorrect owner setting, the real owning module can be removed potentially
with an open reference to the cache from userspace.

For example, if one were to stop the nfs server and unmount the nfsd
filesystem, the nfsd module could be removed eventhough rpc.idmapd had
references to the idtoname and nametoid caches (i.e.
/proc/net/rpc/nfs4.<cachename>/channel is still open).  This resulted in a
system panic on one of our machines when attempting to restart the nfs
services after reloading the nfsd module.

The following patch adds a 'struct module *owner' field in struct
cache_detail.  The owner is further assigned to the struct proc_dir_entry
in cache_register() so that the module cannot be unloaded while user-space
daemons have an open reference on the associated file under /proc.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bwa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>