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18 years ago[PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:44 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n

uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper are only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y,
CONFIG_NET=n.

(I stole this back from Greg's tree - it makes allnoconfig work).

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] strndup_user: convert keyctl
Davi Arnaut [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:43 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] strndup_user: convert keyctl

Copies user-space string with strndup_user() and moves the type string
duplication code to a function (thus fixing a wrong check on the length of the
type.)

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] strndup_user: convert module
Davi Arnaut [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:43 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] strndup_user: convert module

Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user.

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] strndup_user()
Davi Arnaut [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:42 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] strndup_user()

This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings
from userspace.  Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the
final \0 after the strlen_user().

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:41 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups

Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing
softirq-context (timer) dependencies.  This means that if the softlockup
watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds
scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task.

(the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup
phase and does small style fixes)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()
Sergey Vlasov [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:38 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()

If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain,
__set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference
acquired by lookup_exec_domain().

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: Properly report backup block present in a group
Glauber de Oliveira Costa [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:37 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: Properly report backup block present in a group

In filesystems with the meta block group flag on, ext3_bg_num_gdb() fails
to report the correct number of blocks used to store the group descriptor
backups in a given group.  It happens because meta_bg follows a different
logic from the original ext3 backup placement in groups multiples of 3, 5
and 7.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:36 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value

Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should.  I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:35 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit

At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero
seconds.  But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does.

Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new
it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead
of overloading the value of it_prof_expires).

Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has
expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's
zero-seconds as one second.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanup
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:34 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanup

- Whitespace cleanups

- Make that expression comprehensible.

There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to
zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison
between raw cputime_t's.

But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change
anything.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
Christoph Hellwig [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:33 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export

Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock.
 The only possibly modular users left are:

 arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
 fs/binfmt_elf.c

which I'll send out fixes for soon.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (2 of 2)
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:32 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (2 of 2)

- Remove more unused headers
- Remove various typedefs
- Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong)
- Kill use of bcopy
- More printk cleanups
- Kill true/false
- Clean up direct access to pci BARs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (1 of 2)
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:31 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (1 of 2)

- Remove more unused headers
- Remove various typedefs
- Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong)
- Kill use of bcopy
- More printk cleanups
- Kill true/false
- Clean up direct access to pci BARs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #5
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:30 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #5

Final polish.  There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left.  We also no
longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #4
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:29 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #4

Third large chunk of code cleanup.  The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list.  These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions.  Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #3
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:28 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #3

Second large chunk of code cleanup.  The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list.  These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions.  Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #2
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:27 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #2

First large chunk of code cleanup.  The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list.  These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions.  Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #1
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:26 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #1

More header cleanups, strip out typedefs and remove cruft.  There are a lot of
magic macros that can go and also a great deal of abuse of volatile that is
not needed any more as this patch set cleans up the misuse of pointer access
to ISA and PCI space.

It now builds cleanly on 64bit, although there is more work left to do

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rioboot: post-Lindent
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:26 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rioboot: post-Lindent

After the indent we can now clean up unused code, and fix all myriad cases
that don't use readb/writeb properly.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rioboot: lindent
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:24 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rioboot: lindent

This is the result of indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rio: more header cleanup
Alan Cox [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:24 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] rio: more header cleanup

Strip some of the typedef mess out Remove a small subset of unused defines
and the like.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix "value computed not used" warnings
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:23 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix "value computed not used" warnings

Fixes for annoying gcc-4.1 compile warnings "value computed not used".
Simply cast to void.

(akpm: Linus will go ballistic...)

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread export
Christoph Hellwig [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:22 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread export

Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operations
Kumar Gala [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:21 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operations

In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit
or smaller accesses.  Allow the interface to specify if this is the case
and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] show MCP menu only on ARCH_SA1100
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:21 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] show MCP menu only on ARCH_SA1100

On architectures like i386, the "Multimedia Capabilities Port drivers" menu is
visible, but it can't be visited since it contains nothing usable for
!ARCH_SA1100.

This patch therefore shows this menu only on ARCH_SA1100.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Conditionalize compat_sys_newfstatat
Kyle McMartin [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:20 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Conditionalize compat_sys_newfstatat

If we don't want sys_newfstatat because __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined, then
we certainly don't want compat_sys_newfstatat either.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] console_setup() depends (wrongly?) on CONFIG_PRINTK
John Z. Bohach [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:19 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] console_setup() depends (wrongly?) on CONFIG_PRINTK

It appears that console_setup() code only gets compiled into the kernel if
CONFIG_PRINTK is enabled.  One detrimental side-effect of this is that
serial8250_console_setup() never gets invoked when CONFIG_PRINTK is not
set, resulting in baud rate not being read/parsed from command line (i.e.
console=ttyS0,115200n8 is ignored, at least the baud rate part...)

Attached patch moves console_setup() code from inside

#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK

to outside (in printk.c), removing dependence on said config. option.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txt
Nico Schottelius [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:18 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txt

I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.

This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.

Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mmc: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
Pierre Ossman [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:17 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] mmc: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver

Driver for the Secure Digital Host Controller Interface specification.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regs
Pierre Ossman [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:16 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regs

Class code and register definitions for the Secure Digital Host Controller
standard.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync()
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:15 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync()

No need to duplicate all that code.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fsync: extract internal code
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:14 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] fsync: extract internal code

Pull the guts out of do_fsync() - we can use it elsewhere.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] msync: fix return value
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:14 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] msync: fix return value

msync() does a strange thing.  Essentially:

vma = find_vma();
for ( ; ; ) {
if (!vma)
return -ENOMEM;
...
vma = vma->vm_next;
}

so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends
within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM.

Fix.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:13 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing

It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O.  Alter
the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:12 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling

It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application
dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller
to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller.

The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just
discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied.  (Otherwise it
wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up).

It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying
those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem.

We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too.

We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing.  It doesn't
seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long.

Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC.  MS_SYNC will be syncing all the
dirty pages anyway.

We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always
has.  We can fix that up...

The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in
taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:11 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes

We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page
from a clean to dirty state.  This wasn't right in a couple of places.  Do a
kernel-wide audit, fix things up.

This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from
set_page_dirty() sometime in the future.  But we don't do that at present.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages arg
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:10 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages arg

Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a
number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument.  For msync().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] HOTPLUG_CPU: avoid hitting too many cachelines in recalc_bh_state()
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:10 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] HOTPLUG_CPU: avoid hitting too many cachelines in recalc_bh_state()

Instead of using for_each_cpu(i), we can use for_each_online_cpu(i).

When a CPU goes offline (ie removed from online map), it might have a non
null bh_accounting.nr, so this patch adds a transfer of this counter to an
online CPU counter.

We already have a hotcpu_notifier, (function buffer_cpu_notify()), where we
can do this bh_accounting.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sound: remove PC98-specific OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98
Arthur Othieno [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:08 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] sound: remove PC98-specific OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98

OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98 #define isn't used anywhere; previously in
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_lib.c and sound/isa/cs423x/pc98.c, the latter of which
went away with the rest of PC98 subarch.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] block: floppy98 removal, really.
Arthur Othieno [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:07 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] block: floppy98 removal, really.

floppy98 went out together with the rest of PC98 subarch.  Remove stale
Makefile entry that remained.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] shmdt: check address alignment
Hugh Dickins [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:06 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] shmdt: check address alignment

SUSv3 says the shmdt() function shall fail with EINVAL if the value of
shmaddr is not the data segment start address of a shared memory segment:
our sys_shmdt needs to reject a shmaddr which is not page-aligned.

Does it have the potential to break existing apps?

Hugh says

  "sys_shmdt() just does the wrong (unexpected) thing with a misaligned
  address: it'll fail on what you might expect it to succeed on, and only
  succeed on what it should definitely fail on.

  "That is, I think it behaves as if shmaddr gets rounded up, when the only
  understandable behaviour would be if it rounded it down.

  "Which does mean you'd have to be devious to see anything but EINVAL from
  a misaligned shmaddr there, so it's not terribly important."

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sb_set_blocksize cleanup
Coywolf Qi Hunt [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:05 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] sb_set_blocksize cleanup

sb_set_blocksize() cleanup: make sb_set_blocksize() use blksize_bits().

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>
18 years ago[PATCH] early_printk: cleanup trailiing whitespace
Randy Dunlap [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:05 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] early_printk: cleanup trailiing whitespace

Remove all trailing tabs and spaces.  No other changes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fadvise(): write commands
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:04 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] fadvise(): write commands

Add two new linux-specific fadvise extensions():

LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file
offsets `offset' and `offset+len'.  Any pages which are currently under
writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty.

LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file
offsets `offset' and `offset+len'.

By combining these two operations the application may do several things:

LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk.

LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently dirty
pages at the disk.

LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push all
of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been written.

It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's
metadata.  So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of
already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data
will be available after a crash.

To complete this suite of operations I guess we should have a "sync file
metadata only" operation.  This gives applications access to all the building
blocks needed for all sorts of sync operations.  But sync-metadata doesn't fit
well with the fadvise() interface.  Probably it should be a new syscall:
sys_fmetadatasync().

The patch also diddles with the meaning of `endbyte' in sys_fadvise64_64().
It is made to represent that last affected byte in the file (ie: it is
inclusive).  Generally, all these byterange and pagerange functions are
inclusive so we can easily represent EOF with -1.

As Ulrich notes, these two functions are somewhat abusive of the fadvise()
concept, which appears to be "set the future policy for this fd".

But these commands are a perfect fit with the fadvise() impementation, and
several of the existing fadvise() commands are synchronous and don't affect
future policy either.   I think we can live with the slight incongruity.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] filemap_fdatawrite_range() api: clarify -end parameter
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:17:45 +0000 (03:17 -0800)]
[PATCH] filemap_fdatawrite_range() api: clarify -end parameter

I had trouble understanding working out whether filemap_fdatawrite_range()'s
`end' parameter describes the last-byte-to-be-written or the last-plus-one.
Clarify that in comments.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO
Jan Beulich [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:19 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO

As a foundation for reliable stack unwinding, this adds a config option
(available to all architectures except IA64 and those where the module
loader might have problems with the resulting relocations) to enable the
generation of frame unwind information.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assembly
Jan Beulich [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:17 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assembly

Provide abstraction for generating type and size information of assembly
routines and data, while permitting architectures to override these
defaults.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fast ext3_statfs
Alex Tomas [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:16 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] fast ext3_statfs

Under I/O load it may take up to a dozen seconds to read all group
descriptors.  This is what ext3_statfs() does.  At the same time, we already
maintain global numbers of free inodes/blocks.  Why don't we use them instead
of group reading and summing?

Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ipmi pm_power_off redefinition
Olaf Hering [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:15 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ipmi pm_power_off redefinition

Use the global define of pm_power_off

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isofs: remove unused debugging macros
Pekka Enberg [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:14 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] isofs: remove unused debugging macros

Remove unused debugging macros from isofs.  The referred debug functions do
not exist in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s/;;/;/g
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:13 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] s/;;/;/g

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset: remove useless local variable initialization
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:12 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: remove useless local variable initialization

Remove a useless variable initialization in cpuset __cpuset_zone_allowed().
 The local variable 'allowed' is unconditionally set before use, later on
in the code, so does not need to be initialized.

Not that it seems to matter to the code generated any, as the compiler
optimizes out the superfluous assignment anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset: memory_spread_slab drop useless PF_SPREAD_PAGE check
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:12 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: memory_spread_slab drop useless PF_SPREAD_PAGE check

The hook in the slab cache allocation path to handle cpuset memory
spreading for tasks in cpusets with 'memory_spread_slab' enabled has a
modest performance bug.  The hook calls into the memory spreading handler
alternate_node_alloc() if either of 'memory_spread_slab' or
'memory_spread_page' is enabled, even though the handler does nothing
(albeit harmlessly) for the page case

Fix - drop PF_SPREAD_PAGE from the set of flag bits that are used to
trigger a call to alternate_node_alloc().

The page case is handled by separate hooks -- see the calls conditioned on
cpuset_do_page_mem_spread() in mm/filemap.c

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset: don't need to mark cpuset_mems_generation atomic
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:11 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: don't need to mark cpuset_mems_generation atomic

Drop the atomic_t marking on the cpuset static global
cpuset_mems_generation.  Since all access to it is guarded by the global
manage_mutex, there is no need for further serialization of this value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset: remove unnecessary NULL check
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:10 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: remove unnecessary NULL check

Remove a no longer needed test for NULL cpuset pointer, with a little
comment explaining why the test isn't needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache hooks
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:09 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache hooks

Change the kmem_cache_create calls for certain slab caches to support cpuset
memory spreading.

See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset
memory spreading, and cpuset_mem_spread_slab_cache for the slab cache support
for memory spreading.

The slab caches marked for now are: dentry_cache, inode_cache, some xfs slab
caches, and buffer_head.  This list may change over time.  In particular,
other file system types that are used extensively on large NUMA systems may
want to allow for spreading their directory and inode slab cache entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:08 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations

The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA
mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path.  Many
systems will use neither feature.

This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the
current tasks task_struct flags.  For non NUMA systems, this hook and related
code is already ifdef'd out.

The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using
a non-default NUMA mempolicy.  Taking this flag bit along with the
PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset
memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these
special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current
tasks task_struct flags.

This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text
space, and moves some of it out of line.  Due to the nested inlines called
from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which
once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit
wasteful of instruction 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>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache implementation
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:07 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache implementation

Provide the slab cache infrastructure to support cpuset memory spreading.

See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset
memory spreading.

This patch provides a slab cache SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag.  If set in the
kmem_cache_create() call defining a slab cache, then any task marked with the
process state flag PF_MEMSPREAD will spread memory page allocations for that
cache over all the allowed nodes, instead of preferring the local (faulting)
node.

On systems not configured with CONFIG_NUMA, this results in no change to the
page allocation code path for slab caches.

On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread"
cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a
cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB.

For tasks so marked, a second inline test is done for the slab cache flag
SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, and if that is set and if the allocation is not
in_interrupt(), this adds a call to to a cpuset routine that computes which of
the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be preferred for this allocation.

==> This patch adds another hook into the performance critical
    code path to allocating objects from the slab cache, in the
    ____cache_alloc() chunk, below.  The next patch optimizes this
    hook, reducing the impact of the combined mempolicy plus memory
    spreading hooks on this critical code path to a single check
    against the tasks task_struct flags word.

This patch provides the generic slab flags and logic needed to apply memory
spreading to a particular slab.

A subsequent patch will mark a few specific slab caches for this placement
policy.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:06 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format

Rewrap the overly long source code lines resulting from the previous
patch's addition of the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD.  This patch
contains only formatting changes, and no function change.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache filesystems
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:05 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache filesystems

Mark file system inode and similar slab caches subject to SLAB_MEM_SPREAD
memory spreading.

If a slab cache is marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, then anytime that a task that's
in a cpuset with the 'memory_spread_slab' option enabled goes to allocate
from such a slab cache, the allocations are spread evenly over all the
memory nodes (task->mems_allowed) allowed to that task, instead of favoring
allocation on the node local to the current cpu.

The following inode and similar caches are marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD:

    file                               cache
    ====                               =====
    fs/adfs/super.c                    adfs_inode_cache
    fs/affs/super.c                    affs_inode_cache
    fs/befs/linuxvfs.c                 befs_inode_cache
    fs/bfs/inode.c                     bfs_inode_cache
    fs/block_dev.c                     bdev_cache
    fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                   cifs_inode_cache
    fs/coda/inode.c                    coda_inode_cache
    fs/dquot.c                         dquot
    fs/efs/super.c                     efs_inode_cache
    fs/ext2/super.c                    ext2_inode_cache
    fs/ext2/xattr.c (fs/mbcache.c)     ext2_xattr
    fs/ext3/super.c                    ext3_inode_cache
    fs/ext3/xattr.c (fs/mbcache.c)     ext3_xattr
    fs/fat/cache.c                     fat_cache
    fs/fat/inode.c                     fat_inode_cache
    fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c           vxfs_inode
    fs/hpfs/super.c                    hpfs_inode_cache
    fs/isofs/inode.c                   isofs_inode_cache
    fs/jffs/inode-v23.c                jffs_fm
    fs/jffs2/super.c                   jffs2_i
    fs/jfs/super.c                     jfs_ip
    fs/minix/inode.c                   minix_inode_cache
    fs/ncpfs/inode.c                   ncp_inode_cache
    fs/nfs/direct.c                    nfs_direct_cache
    fs/nfs/inode.c                     nfs_inode_cache
    fs/ntfs/super.c                    ntfs_big_inode_cache_name
    fs/ntfs/super.c                    ntfs_inode_cache
    fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c               dlmfs_inode_cache
    fs/ocfs2/super.c                   ocfs2_inode_cache
    fs/proc/inode.c                    proc_inode_cache
    fs/qnx4/inode.c                    qnx4_inode_cache
    fs/reiserfs/super.c                reiser_inode_cache
    fs/romfs/inode.c                   romfs_inode_cache
    fs/smbfs/inode.c                   smb_inode_cache
    fs/sysv/inode.c                    sysv_inode_cache
    fs/udf/super.c                     udf_inode_cache
    fs/ufs/super.c                     ufs_inode_cache
    net/socket.c                       sock_inode_cache
    net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c              rpc_inode_cache

The choice of which slab caches to so mark was quite simple.  I marked
those already marked SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, except for fs/xfs, dentry_cache,
inode_cache, and buffer_head, which were marked in a previous patch.  Even
though SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT is for a different purpose, it marks the same
potentially large file system i/o related slab caches as we need for memory
spreading.

Given that the rule now becomes "wherever you would have used a
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT slab cache flag before (usually the inode cache), use
the SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag too", this should be easy enough to maintain.
Future file system writers will just copy one of the existing file system
slab cache setups and tend to get it right without thinking.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread page cache implementation and hooks
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:04 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread page cache implementation and hooks

Change the page cache allocation calls to support cpuset memory spreading.

See the previous patch, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset memory
spreading.

On systems without cpusets configured in the kernel, this is no change.

On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread"
cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a
cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_PAGE.

On tasks in cpusets with "memory_spread" enabled, this adds a call to a cpuset
routine that computes which of the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be
preferred for this allocation.

If memory spreading applies to a particular allocation, then any other NUMA
mempolicy does not apply.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset memory spread basic implementation
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:03 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread basic implementation

This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative
memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory
allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches
(such as inode caches).

The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these
kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of
preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing.

All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack
and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be
allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA
mempolicy.

There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel
allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data
structures.  They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'.

If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the
kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the
nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put
those pages on the node where the task is running.

If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the
kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes
and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to
use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is
running.

The implementation is simple.  Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page'
or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or
PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or
subsequently joins that cpuset.  In subsequent patches, the page allocation
calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an
inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation.

The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple.  It uses the value of a
per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current
tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.

This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place
thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large
file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the
jobs cpuset in order to fit.  Without this patch, especially for jobs that
might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across
the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven.

A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well.  And a couple of email
addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset use combined atomic_inc_return calls
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:01 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset use combined atomic_inc_return calls

Replace pairs of calls to <atomic_inc, atomic_read>, with a single call
atomic_inc_return, saving a few bytes of source and kernel text.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpuset cleanup not not operators
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:00 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset cleanup not not operators

Since the test_bit() bit operator is boolean (return 0 or 1), the double not
"!!" operations needed to convert a scalar (zero or not zero) to a boolean are
not needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpusets: only wakeup kswapd for zones in the current cpuset
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:59 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpusets: only wakeup kswapd for zones in the current cpuset

If we get under some memory pressure in a cpuset (we only scan zones that
are in the cpuset for memory) then kswapd is woken up for all zones.  This
patch only wakes up kswapd in zones that are part of the current cpuset.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rcutorture: tag success/failure line with module parameters
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:58 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] rcutorture: tag success/failure line with module parameters

A long-running rcutorture test can overflow dmesg, so that the line
containing the module parameters is lost.  Although it is usually possible
to retrieve this information from the log files, it is much better to just
tag it onto the final success/failure line so that it may be easily found.
This patch does just that.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:57 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup

include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except
the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch.

This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle()
functions on different architectures:
- remove the unused function:
  - parisc
  - sparc64
- make the needlessly global function static:
  - arm
  - h8300
  - m68k
  - m68knommu
  - s390
  - v850
  - x86_64
- add a prototype in asm/system.h:
  - cris
  - i386
  - ia64

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] extract-ikconfig: don't use --long-options
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:56 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] extract-ikconfig: don't use --long-options

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] extract-ikconfig: be sure binoffset exists before extracting
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:56 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] extract-ikconfig: be sure binoffset exists before extracting

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] extract-ikconfig: use mktemp(1)
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:55 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] extract-ikconfig: use mktemp(1)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] tvec_bases too large for per-cpu data
Jan Beulich [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:54 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] tvec_bases too large for per-cpu data

With internal Xen-enabled kernels we see the kernel's static per-cpu data
area exceed the limit of 32k on x86-64, and even native x86-64 kernels get
fairly close to that limit.  I generally question whether it is reasonable
to have data structures several kb in size allocated as per-cpu data when
the space there is rather limited.

The biggest arch-independent consumer is tvec_bases (over 4k on 32-bit
archs, over 8k on 64-bit ones), which now gets converted to use dynamically
allocated memory instead.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/coda/: proper prototypes
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:53 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/coda/: proper prototypes

Introduce a file fs/coda/coda_int.h with proper prototypes for some code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/ext2/: proper ext2_get_parent() prototype
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:53 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/ext2/: proper ext2_get_parent() prototype

Add a proper prototype for ext2_get_parent().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/9p/: possible cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:52 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/9p/: possible cleanups

- mux.c: v9fs_poll_mux() was inline but not static resuling in needless
         object size bloat
- mux.c: remove all "inline"s: gcc should know best what to inline
- #if 0 the following unused global functions:
  - 9p.c: v9fs_v9fs_t_flush()
  - conv.c: v9fs_create_tauth()
  - mux.c: v9fs_mux_rpcnb()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rcu_process_callbacks: don't cli() while testing ->nxtlist
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:50 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] rcu_process_callbacks: don't cli() while testing ->nxtlist

__rcu_process_callbacks() disables interrupts to protect itself from
call_rcu() which adds new entries to ->nxtlist.

However we can check "->nxtlist != NULL" with interrupts enabled, we can't
get "false positives" because call_rcu() can only change this condition
from 0 to 1.

Tested with rcutorture.ko.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv
Bart Samwel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:50 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv

When (integer) sysctl values are in either seconds or centiseconds, but
represented internally as jiffies, the allowable value range is decreased.
This patch adds range checks to the conversion routines.

For values in seconds: maximum LONG_MAX / HZ.

For values in centiseconds: maximum (LONG_MAX / HZ) * USER_HZ.

(BTW, does anyone else feel that an interface in seconds should not be
accepting negative values?)

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Represent laptop_mode as jiffies internally
Bart Samwel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:49 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] Represent laptop_mode as jiffies internally

Make that the internal value for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is stored as
jiffies instead of seconds.  Let the sysctl interface do the conversions,
instead of doing on-the-fly conversions every time the value is used.

Add a description of the fact that laptop_mode doubles as a flag and a
timeout to the comment above the laptop_mode variable.

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internally
Bart Samwel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:48 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internally

Make that the internal values for:

/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs

are stored as jiffies instead of centiseconds.  Let the sysctl interface do
the conversions with full precision using clock_t_to_jiffies, instead of
doing overflow-sensitive on-the-fly conversions every time the values are
used.

Cons: apparent precision loss if HZ is not a multiple of 100, because of
conversion back and forth.  This is a common problem for all sysctl values
that use proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies.  (There is only one other in-tree
use, in net/core/neighbour.c.)

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] free_uid() locking improvement
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:47 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] free_uid() locking improvement

Reduce lock hold times in free_uid().

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] bitmap: region restructuring
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:46 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] bitmap: region restructuring

Restructure the bitmap_*_region() operations, to avoid code duplication.

Also reduces binary text size by about 100 bytes (ia64 arch).  The original
Bottomley bitmap_*_region patch added about 1000 bytes of compiled kernel text
(ia64).  The Mundt multiword extension added another 600 bytes, and this
restructuring patch gets back about 100 bytes.

But the real motivation was the reduced amount of duplicated code.

Tested by Paul Mundt using <= BITS_PER_LONG as well as power of
2 aligned multiword spanning allocations.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] bitmap: region multiword spanning support
Paul Mundt [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:45 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] bitmap: region multiword spanning support

Add support to the lib/bitmap.c bitmap_*_region() routines

For bitmap regions larger than one word (nbits > BITS_PER_LONG).  This removes
a BUG_ON() in lib bitmap.

I have an updated store queue API for SH that is currently using this with
relative success, and at first glance, it seems like this could be useful for
x86 (arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c) as well.  Particularly for anything using
dma_declare_coherent_memory() on large areas and that attempts to allocate
large buffers from that space.

Paul Jackson also did some cleanup to this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] bitmap: region cleanup
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:44 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] bitmap: region cleanup

Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> says:

This patch set implements a number of patches to clean up and restructure the
bitmap region code, in addition to extending the interface to support
multiword spanning allocations.

The current implementation (before this patch set) is limited by only being
able to allocate pages <= BITS_PER_LONG, as noted by the strategically
positioned BUG_ON() at lib/bitmap.c:752:

        /* We don't do regions of pages > BITS_PER_LONG.  The
 * algorithm would be a simple look for multiple zeros in the
 * array, but there's no driver today that needs this.  If you
 * trip this BUG(), you get to code it... */
        BUG_ON(pages > BITS_PER_LONG);

As I seem to have been the first person to trigger this, the result ends up
being the following patch set with the help of Paul Jackson.

The final patch in the series eliminates quite a bit of code duplication, so
the bitmap code size ends up being smaller than the current implementation as
an added bonus.

After these are applied, it should already be possible to do multiword
allocations with dma_alloc_coherent() out of ranges established by
dma_declare_coherent_memory() on x86 without having to change any of the code,
and the SH store queue API will follow up on this as the other user that needs
support for this.

This patch:

Some code cleanup on the lib/bitmap.c bitmap_*_region() routines:

 * spacing
 * variable names
 * comments

Has no change to code function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove documentation
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:42 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove documentation

This patch removes the documentation of the ISA legacy 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>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers
Al Viro [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:41 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers

unused isa_...() helpers removed.

Adrian Bunk:
The asm-sh part was rediffed due to unrelated changes.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.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>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/net/lance.c
Al Viro [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:41 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/net/lance.c

switch to ioremap()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.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>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/net/hp-plus.c
Al Viro [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:40 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/net/hp-plus.c

switch to ioremap()

Adrian Bunk:
The order of the hunks in the patch was slightly rearranged due to an
unrelated change in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.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>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/scsi/in2000.c
Al Viro [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:38 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/scsi/in2000.c

switched to ioremap(), cleaned the probing up a bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.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>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c
Al Viro [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:37 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c

switched CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM code in g_NCR5380 to ioremap(); massaged
g_NCR5380.h accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.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>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/char/toshiba.c
Al Viro [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:36 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: drivers/char/toshiba.c

switch from isa_read...() to ioremap() and read...()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.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>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Tobias Klauser [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:34 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro

Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove a
duplicate of ARRAY_SIZE.  Some trailing whitespaces are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] dasd: "cleanup dasd_ioctl" fix
Bastian Blank [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:32 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] dasd: "cleanup dasd_ioctl" fix

Cast the argument correctly.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/s390
Eric Sesterhenn [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:31 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/s390

Convert all kmalloc + memset sequences in drivers/s390 to kzalloc usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in arch/s390
Eric Sesterhenn [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:31 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in arch/s390

Convert all kmalloc + memset sequences in arch/s390 to kzalloc usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: CEX2A crt message length
Eric Rossman [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:30 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: CEX2A crt message length

Undetected edge case for CRT messages to CEX2A caused length to be too short,
thus truncating the message.  The solution was to check a different variable
which actually determines which key type is being used.

Increment version number in z90main.c to correct level of 1.3.3, fix copyright
year and add comment about bitlength limit of CEX2A.

Signed-off-by: Eric Rossman <edrossma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: 3590 tape driver
Stefan Bader [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:29 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: 3590 tape driver

      Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>,
      Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: fix endless retry loop in tape driver
Michael Holzheu [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:28 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: fix endless retry loop in tape driver

If a tape device is assigned to another host, the interrupt for the assign
operation comes back with deferred condition code 1.  Under some conditions
this can lead to an endless loop of retries.  Check if the current request is
still in IO in deferred condition code handling and prevent retries when the
request has already been cancelled.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: tape operation abortion leads to panic
Michael Holzheu [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:27 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: tape operation abortion leads to panic

When a request is aborted because of a signal, we currently stop the request
via csh, but we do not wait for the interrupt of csh in any case.  We free the
request structure and therefore when the interrupt for the csh operation is
presented, the request object is no longer valid and an invalid callback
pointer is used.

To fix this wait until the interrupt for csh arrives and until
wait_event_interruptible() does not return -ERESTARTSYS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: tape retry flooding by deferred CC in interrupt
Stefan Bader [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:26 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: tape retry flooding by deferred CC in interrupt

If a deferred CC happens there will be lots of messages, because the retry is
done immediatly in the interrupt handler which can be too fast.  To avoid this
requeue the request and schedule the queue to be processed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting
Stefan Weinhuber [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:25 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting

The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed
information about certain problems in the DASD I/O.  This information can be
used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: random values in result of BIODASDINFO2
Horst Hummel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:24 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: random values in result of BIODASDINFO2

Use kzalloc to get a zeroed buffer for the structure returned to user space by
the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl.  Not all fields are set up, e.g.  the read_devno is
missing.

Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>