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2005-08-03[PATCH] ARM: 2832/1: BAST - limit clock-rate for IIC busBen Dooks
Patch from Ben Dooks The default clock rate does not specify a maximum, so the default of 400KHz is used. This rate is too fast for the PMU on the EB2410ITX, so we now specify platform data with a rate of around 100KHz. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-02[PATCH] Xmon bug fix for soft-resetHaren Myneni
For soft reset during system hang, got an error "CPU did not take control" for some CPUs even though they responded to soft-reset (called SystemReset, die and called debugger - xmon). First these CPUs entered into xmon by IPI callback and then got a soft-reset exception and re-entered into xmon again. The first CPU which re-entered into xmon got the output lock and made into xmon successfully without unlocking. Hence, the next CPU(s) which re-entered into xmon try to acquire a lock (get_output_lock). Therefore, we can not view state of those CPU(s). [This is a simple, very low risk, obvious fix for an obvious bug, and should go into 2.6.13. -- paulus] Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02[PATCH] ACPI: increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86Ivan Kokshaysky
We have increased PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x4000, but still want motherboard resources to be allocated properly. So we need to state 0x1000 (according to the comment) limit explicitely. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02[PATCH] increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86Ivan Kokshaysky
There is a number of x86 laptops that have some non-PCI IO ports in the 0x1000-0x1fff range, and it's quite hard to control the correct order of resource allocation between PCI and other subsystems controlling these ports. Especially with modular kernel. So just increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x4000 to prevent any new PCI resource allocations in the problematic range (this limitation must apply _only_ to the root bus resources - see Linus' change in pci_bus_alloc_resource). As PCIBIOS_MIN_IO and PCIBIOS_MIN_CARDBUS_IO are the same now on i386 and x86-64, we can remove the latter. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02pci: make bus resource start address override minimum IO addressLinus Torvalds
The reason we have PCIBIOS_MIN_IO and PCIBIOS_MIN_CARDBUS_IO is because we want to protect badly documented motherboard PCI resources and thus don't want to allocate new resources in low IO/MEM space. However, if we have already discovered a PCI bridge with a specified resource base, that should override that decision. This change will allow us to move the "careful" region upwards without resulting in problems allocating resources in low mappings. This was brought on by us having allocated a bus resource at 0x1000, conflicting with a undocumented VAIO Sony PI resources.
2005-08-02[PATCH] cfq-iosched: fix problem with barriers and max_depth == 1Jens Axboe
CFQ will currently stall when using write barriers and the default max_depth setting of 1, since we artificially need a depth of 2 when pre-pending the first flush. So never deny the barrier request going to the device. This is a regression since 2.6.12, it was found in SUSE testing. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02[PATCH] aic byteorder fixes after recent cleanupOlaf Hering
Rebuild the aic7xxx firmware doesn't work anymore after this change which appeared int 2.6.13-rc1: [SCSI] aic7xxx/aic79xx: remove useless byte order macro cruft Two files did not include byteorder.h, resulting in aic dying with a panic "Unknown opcode encountered in seq program" This fixes it for me. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02[PATCH] Obvious bugfix for yenta resource allocationPaul Mackerras
Recent changes (well, dating from 12 July) have broken cardbus on my powerbook: I get 3 messages saying "no resource of type xxx available, trying to continue", and if I plug in my wireless card, it complains that there are no resources allocated to the card. This all worked in 2.6.12. Looking at the code in yenta_socket.c, function yenta_allocate_res, it's obvious what is wrong: if we get to line 639 (i.e. there wasn't a usable preassigned resource), we will always flow through to line 668, which is the printk that I was seeing, even if a resource was successfully allocated. It looks to me as though there should be a return statement after the two config_writel's in each of the 3 branches of the if statements, so that the function returns after successfully setting up the resource. The patch below adds these return statements, and with this patch, cardbus works on my powerbook once again. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01Linux v2.6.13-rc5Linus Torvalds
Ok, let's get it right this time
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc64: POWER 4 fails to boot with NUMAMike Kravetz
If CONFIG_NUMA is set, some POWER 4 systems will fail to boot. This is because of special processing needed to handle invalid node IDs (0xffff) on POWER 4. My previous patch to handle memory 'holes' within nodes forgot to add this special case for POWER 4 in one place. In reality, I'm not sure that configuring the kernel for NUMA on POWER 4 makes much sense. Are there POWER 4 based systems with NUMA characteristics that are presented by the firmware? But, distros want one kernel for all systems so NUMA is on by default in their kernels. The patch handles those cases. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] Module per-cpu alignment cannot always be metRusty Russell
The module code assumes noone will ever ask for a per-cpu area more than SMP_CACHE_BYTES aligned. However, as these cases show, gcc asks sometimes asks for 32-byte alignment for the per-cpu section on a module, and if CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT is 4, we hit that BUG_ON(). This is obviously an unusual combination, as there have been few reports, but better to warn than die. See: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html And more recently: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97006 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc64: topology API fixAnton Blanchard
Dont include asm-generic/topology.h unconditionally, we end up overriding all the ppc64 specific functions when NUMA is on. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] shm: CONFIG_SHMEM=n build fixAndrew Morton
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup. shmem_set_policy() and shmem_get_policy() are macros if !CONFIG_SHMEM, so this doesn't work. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fixAndrew Morton
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] sys_set_mempolicy() doesnt check if mode < 0Eric Dumazet
A kernel BUG() is triggered by a call to set_mempolicy() with a negative first argument. This is because the mode is declared as an int, and the validity check doesnt check < 0 values. Alternatively, mode could be declared as unsigned int or unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] x86_64: access of some bad addressHugh Dickins
x86_64 has a large sparse gate area between VSYSCALL_START and VSYSCALL_END, not all of it presently backed by pmds. Alexander Nyberg has found that in some circumstances gdb may try to ptrace here, and hit get_user_pages BUG_ON. It seems odd that gdb should be accessing here, but it certainly shouldn't crash in this way: relax BUG_ON to -EFAULT. Fixes kernel bugzilla #4801. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] hfs: don't reference missing pageRoman Zippel
If there was a read error, the bnode might miss some pages, so skip them. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] hfs: don't dirty unchanged inodeRoman Zippel
If inode size hasn't changed, don't do anything further in truncate, which also prevents a dirty inode, what might upset some readonly devices quite badly. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] include/linux/dcookies.h: dummy functions must be "static inline"Adrian Bunk
We don't want these to be global 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>
2005-08-01[PATCH] v4l: bug fix to correct tea5767 autodetectionMauro Carvalho Chehab
This patch does correct radio chip autodetection to avoid misdetecting mt20xx microtune as tea5767 chip. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] aacraid: Fix for controller load based timeoutsMark Haverkamp
Martin Drab found that he could get aacraid timeouts with high load on his controller / disk drive combinations. After some experimentation Mark Salyzyn has come up with a patch to reduce the default max_sectors to something that will keep the controller from being overloaded and will eliminate the timeout issues. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] m32r: Fix local-timer event handlingHirokazu Takata
There was a scheduling problem of the m32r SMP kernel; A process rarely stopped and gave no responding but the other process have been handled by the other CPU still lives, then if we did something in the other terminal or something like that, the stopped process came back to life and continued its operation... (ex. LMbench: lat_sig) In the m32r SMP kernel, a local-timer event is delivered by using an IPI(inter processor interrupts); LOCAL_TIMER_IPI. And a function smp_send_timer() is prepared to send the LOCAL_TIMER_IPI from the current CPU to the other CPUs. The funtion smp_send_timer() was placed and used in do_IRQ() in former times (before 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 kernel), however, it was unintentionally removed when arch/m32r/kernel/irq.c was modified to employ the generic hardirq framework (CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ) in my previous patch. [PATCH 2.6.10-rc3-mm1] m32r: Use generic hardirq framework http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.2/0358.html The following patch fixes the above problem. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <hitoshiy@isl.melco.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] s390: ioprio & inotify system calls.Martin Schwidefsky
Add system calls for io priorities and inotify. 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>
2005-08-01[PATCH] s390: kexec fixes and improvements.Heiko Carstens
Disable pseudo page fault handling before starting the new kernel and try to use diag308 to reset the machine. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@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>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc32: add missing 4xx EMAC sysfs nodesEugene Surovegin
Add missing 4xx EMAC data sysfs nodes. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc32: add bamboo defconfigMatt Porter
Add Bamboo platform defconfig Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc32: add bamboo platformMatt Porter
Add Bamboo platform support. This is an AMCC 440EP-based reference platform. Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc32: add 440ep supportMatt Porter
Add PPC440EP core support. PPC440EP is a PPC440-based SoC with a classic PPC FPU and another set of peripherals. Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc32: Mark boards that don't build as BROKENKumar Gala
Marked APUS and GEMINI as BROKEN since they do not build at the platform level. We have requested that the maintainers of these boards/platforms fix them by the time 2.6.15 is released or we plan on concerning them unmaintained and thus removing them. 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>
2005-08-01[PATCH] silence cs89x0Denis Vlasenko
cs89x0 talks a lot at boot. Seems like debug leftover. This patch downgrades printks to KERN_DEBUG. While we're at it, make these messages a bit less obscure. Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] md: make sure raid5/raid6 resync uses correct 'max_sectors'NeilBrown
The default resync_max_sector is set to "mddev->size << 1". If the raid-personality-module updates mddev->size, it must update resync_max_sectors too. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] ppc64: Fix CONFIG_ALTIVEC not setBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The code that sets the altivec capability of the CPU based on firmware informations can enable altivec when the kernel has CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled. This results in "interesting" crashes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatchesPaul Jackson
Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the MAN-PAGES maintainer. This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE" Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] MAINTAINERS record -- MAN-PAGESMichael Kerrisk
Michael maintains the kernel manpages. He wants us to tell him when we change or augment the userspace API. Add his contact details to MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] v4l: cx88 card support and documentation finishing touchesMichael Krufky
Peter Missel: - Add support for the SVideo input on the GDI Black Gold. Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - Linux/version.h removed. Replaced by linux/utsname.h Michael Krufky: - Added analog support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold. CC: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] V4L: Miscellaneous fixesMauro Carvalho Chehab
- Fixed some bttv card numbers. - BTTV and SAA7134 version numbers incremented to reflect changes. - pci_dma_supported() is called after pci_set_dma_mask() which already did check that for us. This patch removes the unneeded call to pci_dma_supported() at bttv-driver.c - Ensure a sufficient I2C bus idle time between 2 messages for saa7134-i2c.c - It is important to write at first to MO_GP3_IO for cx88-tvaudio.c - Use try_to_freeze() instead of refrigerator at msp3400.c - Recognizing the MFPE05-2 Tuner at tveeprom.c - Add new parameter to help identify radio chipsets at tuner module: show_i2c=1 will show 16 reading bytes from detected tuners. - BTTV does generate some Unimplemented IOCTL log at tuner module: 0x40046d11(dir=1,tp=0x6d,nr=17,sz=4) means that it is sending MSP3400 calls to non-msp3400 tuners. Warning eliminated. VIDIOSAUDIO is also called, so debug messages updated. It is still requiring IOCTL implementation. - Added two more tuners. - Add support for the SVideo input on the GDI Black Gold. Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Graham Bevan <graham.bevan@ntlworld.com> Signed-off-by: Torsten Seeboth <Torsten.Seeboth@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t.online.de> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUsEric Lammerts
We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs by quite large amounts. We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after a fork+exec. So disable randomization by default on those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] skge build fixAndrew Morton
Make it compile with CONFIG_PM=n Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] i2c-mpc.c: revert duplicate patchAndrew Morton
Seems that both Greg and I submitted the same patch and it just kept on applying... Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01Revert ACPI interrupt resume changesLinus Torvalds
If there are devices that use interrupts over a suspend event, ACPI must restore the PCI interrupt links on resume. Anything else breaks any device that hasn't been converted to the new (dubious) PM rules. Drivers that need the irq free/re-aquire sequence can be done one by one independently of this one.
2005-08-01Fix get_user_pages() race for write accessLinus Torvalds
There's no real guarantee that handle_mm_fault() will always be able to break a COW situation - if an update from another thread ends up modifying the page table some way, handle_mm_fault() may end up requiring us to re-try the operation. That's normally fine, but get_user_pages() ended up re-trying it as a read, and thus a write access could in theory end up losing the dirty bit or be done on a page that had not been properly COW'ed. This makes get_user_pages() always retry write accesses as write accesses by making "follow_page()" require that a writable follow has the dirty bit set. That simplifies the code and solves the race: if the COW break fails for some reason, we'll just loop around and try again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] tridentfb: Fix scrolling artifacts during disk IOAntonino A. Daplas
Reported by: Jochen Hein (Bugzilla Bug 4312) When there is disk I/O happening, the framebuffer has a little snow on the screen. Once I/O has finished, no garbage remains on screen. This bug was explained by: Knut Petersen Most important is CRTC register 2f, signal quality is also improved for higher vclk values by changing set_vclk() according to the X drivers and cyblafb.c The fix is to set the performance register (0x2f) with a more stable value. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] tridentfb: Fix scrolling artifacts if acceleration is enabledAntonino A. Daplas
Reported by: Jochen Hein (Bugzilla Bug 4386) booting leaves the end of long lines in the last line on screen when scrolling. When X is running, scrolling puts garbage on the screen (looks like X data) Console switch fixes the screen. Behaviour seems to be identical with noaccel and without on the video=tridentfb parameter in lilo.conf. This bug was explained by: Knut_Petersen Acceleration is broken for all BLADE 3D chips for all versions of kernel 2.6 except for 32bit modes. Most important reason is that the u32 col parameter of the graphics engine needs the color value replicated to all u8 of the u32 (8bit modes) and to both u16 of the u32. Fix color value passed to graphics engine, verified by the reporter. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()Ingo Molnar
This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now. While i'm sure Martin is trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much for eternity. I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not hit v2.6.13 in its current form. Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ] Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2 where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way: ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time. ' in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results, without showing the variability data. How much variance is there run-to-run? I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed and understood! The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or so. The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes. We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of external factors in the VM balance picture. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] pcmcia: fix multiple insertion of multifunction cardsDominik Brodowski
The ordering of setting and clearing device_add_pending went wrong on some occasions, causing multifunction cards only to be handled correctly on the first insertion, not on subsequent ones. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] pcmcia: defer ide-cs initialization after other IDE drivers started upDominik Brodowski
Avoid registering PCMCIA CF cards before other IDE stuff. This means the risk of /dev/hd* being re-ordered is lessened. The _sane_ thing to assert any ordering is to use udev, nameif and so on, of course. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] inotify: fix race between the kernel and user spaceJohn McCutchan
When you rm a watch, an IN_IGNORED event is sent down the event queue with the watch descriptor that you just rm'd. If you then add a watch you could get the ignored watch's wd and if you haven't read the entire event queue, user space will think that it's newly created watch was just ignored. To avoid this problem we just use idr_get_new_above instead of idr_get_new. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] inotify: fix file deletion by rename detectionJohn McCutchan
When a file is moved over an existing file that you are watching, inotify won't send you a DELETE_SELF event and it won't unref the inode until the inotify instance is closed by the application. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-31Merge head 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2005-07-31Merge head 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev