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Convert the AP325RXA board code to register devices at
arch_initcall() time instead of device_initcall(). This
fix unbreaks pcf8563 RTC driver support.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Convert the Migo-R board code to register devices at
arch_initcall() time instead of __initcall(). This fix
unbreaks migor_ts touch screen driver support.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Convert the processor platform device setup
functions from __initcall() and sometimes
device_initcall() to arch_initcall().
This makes sure that the platform devices are
registered a bit earlier so the devices are
available when drivers register using initcall
levels earlier than device_initcall().
A good example is platform devices needed by
i2c-sh_mobile.c which registers a bit earlier
using subsys_initcall().
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Remove double removal of blktrace directory
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commit fd51d251e4cdb21f68e9dbc4336514d64a105a79
Author: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue May 19 09:59:08 2009 +0200
blktrace: remove debugfs entries on bad path
added in an explicit invocation of debugfs_remove for bt->dir, in
blk_remove_buf_file_callback we are also getting the directory removed. On
occasion I am seeing memory corruption that I have bisected down to
this commit. [The testing involves a (long) series of I/O benchmarks
with blktrace invoked around the actual runs.] I believe that this
committed patch is correct, but the problem actually lies in the code
in blk_remove_buf_file_callback.
With this patch I am able to consistently get complete runs whereas
previously I could not get a single run to complete.
The first part of the patch simply moves the debugfs_remove below the
relay_close: the relay_close call will remove files under bt->dir, and
so we should not remove the directory until all the files we created
have been removed. (Note: This is not sufficient to fix the problem -
the file system code has ref counts on the directoy, so our invocation
does not cause the directory to actually be removed. Nonetheless, we
should not rely upon that feature.)
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: fix spin_is_locked assert on uni-processor builds
xfs: check for dinode realtime flag corruption
use XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR in xfs_btree_check_sblock
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_attr_rmtval_get
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_readlink_bmap
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_attr_rmtval_set
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_buf_associate_memory
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_dir_cilookup_result
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_da_buf_make
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_da_state_alloc
xfs: switch to NOFS allocation under i_lock in xfs_getbmap
xfs: avoid memory allocation under m_peraglock in growfs code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Don't override ADC definitions for ALC codecs
ALSA: hda - Add missing vmaster initialization for ALC269
ASoC: Add missing DRV_NAME definitions for fsl/* drivers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6
* 'zerolen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6:
Remove zero-length file drivers/mtd/maps/sbc8240.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
ahci: add workaround for on-board 5723s on some gigabyte boards
ahci: Soften up the dmesg on SB600 PMP softreset failure recovery
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: document libata's ignore_hpa option
sata_nv: MSI support, disabled by default
libata: OCZ Vertex can't do HPA
pata_atiixp: fix second channel support
pata_at91: fix resource release
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We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without
first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside
nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment()
causes an Oops.
We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in
those cases.
Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already
referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata
structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid
of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all
instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release().
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It was "deleted" in commit 2bf961b7ccd69e108ac435c67e2b0522b403c578
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Some gigabytes have on-board SIMG5723s connected to JMB ahcis. These
are used to implement hardware raid. Unfortunately some firmware
revisions on these 5723s don't bring the link down when all the
downstream ports are unoccupied while not responding to reset protocol
which makes libata think that there's device attached to the port but
is not responding and retry. This results in painfully wrong boot
detection time for these ports when they're empty.
This patch quirks those boards such that ahci gives up after the
initial timeout. Combined with parallel probing, this gives quick
enough probing and also is safe because SIMG5723 will respond to the
first try if any of the downstream ports is occupied.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Marc Bowes <marcbowes@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Too strong words led to spurious bug reports: Novell bugzilla #527748,
RedHat bugzilla #468800. This patch is used to soften up the dmesg on
SB600 PMP softreset failure recovery, so as to remove the scariness and
concern from community.
Reported-by: pgnet Dev <pgnet.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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By default the kernel honors the HPA (host protected area) of hard
drives. Using libata's ignore_hpa module option it's possible to
change this behaviour.
Document usage and options of libata.ignore_hpa in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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At least the nVidia MCP55 controller quite happily supports MSI.
This adds an option to use it. It is disabled by default.
As per feedback by Robert Hancock, it will honour the user
request as the kernel will not enable MSI where the controller
or the specific system configuration do not support it.
Signed-off-by: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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OCZ Vertex SSD can't do HPA and not in a usual way. It reports HPA,
allows unlocking but then fails all IOs which fall in the unlocked
area. Quirk it so that HPA unlocking is not used for the device.
Reported by Daniel Perup in bnc#522414.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522414
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Daniel Perup <probe@spray.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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PIO and MWDMA timings are never programmed for the second channel
because timing registers are treated as 16-bit long ones.
The bug is an attixp -> pata_atiixp regression and goes back to:
commit 669a5db411d85a14f86cd92bc16bf7ab5b8aa235
Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Tue Aug 29 18:12:40 2006 -0400
[libata] Add a bunch of PATA drivers.
Cc: Krystian Juskowiak <jusko@tlen.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Julias Lawall discovered that pata_at91 wasn't freeing a memory region
allocated with kzalloc() on init failure paths. Upon review,
pata_at91 also seems to be doing unnecessary explicit resource
releases for managed resources too. Convert memory allocation to
managed one and drop unnecessary explicit resource releases.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Without SMP or preemption spin_is_locked always returns false,
so we can't do an assert with it. Instead use assert_spin_locked,
which does the right thing on all builds.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reported-by: Johannes Engel <jcnengel@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Engel <jcnengel@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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Ramon tested XFS with a modified version of fsfuzzer and hit a NULL
pointer dereference in __xfs_get_blocks due to the RT device target
pointer being NULL.
To fix this reject inode with the realtime bit set on a a filesystem
without an RT subvolume during inode read.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Reported-by: Ramon de Carvalho Valle <ramon@risesecurity.org>
Tested-by: Ramon de Carvalho Valle <ramon@risesecurity.org>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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In Red Hat Bug 512552
- Can't write to XFS mount during raid5 resync
a user ran into corruption while resyncing a raid, and we failed
a consistency test, but didn't get much more info; it'd be nice
to call XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR here so we can see the buffer
contents.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_attr_rmtval_get is always called with i_lock held, but i_lock is taken
in reclaim context so all allocations under it must avoid recursions into
the filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_readlink_bmap is called with i_lock held, but i_lock is taken in
reclaim context so all allocations under it must avoid recursions into
the filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_attr_rmtval_set is always called with i_lock held, and i_lock is taken
in reclaim context so all allocations under it must avoid recursions into
the filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_buf_associate_memory is used for setting up the spare buffer for the
log wrap case in xlog_sync which can happen under i_lock when called from
xfs_fsync. The i_lock mutex is taken in reclaim context so all allocations
under it must avoid recursions into the filesystem. There are a couple
more uses of xfs_buf_associate_memory in the log recovery code that are
also affected by this, but I'd rather keep the code simple than passing on
a gfp_mask argument. Longer term we should just stop requiring the memoery
allocation in xlog_sync by some smaller rework of the buffer layer.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_dir_cilookup_result is always called with i_lock held, but i_lock is taken
in reclaim context so all allocations under it must avoid recursions into the
filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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i_lock is taken in the reclaim context so all allocations under it
must avoid recursions into the filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_da_state_alloc is always called with i_lock held, but i_lock is taken in
reclaim context so all allocations under it must avoid recursions into the
filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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xfs_getbmap allocates memory with i_lock held, but i_lock is taken in
reclaim context so all allocations under it must avoid recursions into
the filesystem.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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Allocate the memory for the larger m_perag array before taking the
per-AG lock as the per-AG lock can be taken under the i_lock which
can be taken from reclaim context.
Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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* fix/hda:
ALSA: hda - Don't override ADC definitions for ALC codecs
ALSA: hda - Add missing vmaster initialization for ALC269
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* fix/asoc:
ASoC: Add missing DRV_NAME definitions for fsl/* drivers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fyu/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fyu/linux-2.6:
arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic: missing test after ioremap()
ia64/topology.c: exit cache_add_dev when kobject_init_and_add fails
arch/ia64/Makefile: Remove -mtune=merced in IA64 kernel build
IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, pgtable.h
IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, ia64_ksyms.c
ia64: boolean __test_and_clear_bit
Bug Fix arch/ia64/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix recursive dma_supported() call in iommu_dma_supported()
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Missing test after ioremap()
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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Make cache_add_dev exit sysfs when kobject_init_and_add returns an error.
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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Between GCC version 3.4.0 and 4.3.3 (including 3.4.0 and 4.3.3), -mtune=merced
is implemented in GCC. Starting from 4.4.0, -mtune=merced is deprecated.
Even implemented in versions between 3.4.0 and 4.3.3, the -mtune=merced
feature has been broken in some of the versions. For example, GCC 4.1.2 reports
interanl tuning function errors during kernel building with -mtune=merced. Or
GCC Bugzilla 16130 reports another -mtune=merced issue on GCC 3.4.1.
So I would remove the -mtune=merced from IA64 kernel build. Without this option,
kernel on Merced will remain the same except losing an unstable and out-of-date
performance tunning feature.
Since GCC version 3.4.0, -mtune=mckinley has been implemented. The
-mtune=mckinley option functions the same as mtune=itanium2. And mtune=itanium2
is the default option. So we don't need to add mtune=mckinley either since its
been the default option in any GCC version which implements this option.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h: asm/processor.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c: asm/page.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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__test_and_clear_bit() returns a bitfield with the tested-for bit set.
Make it consistent with the other bitops - of ia64 but also every
other architecture - and return a boolean value.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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iommu_dma_supported()
In commit 160c1d8e40866edfeae7d68816b7005d70acf391,
dma_ops->dma_supported = iommu_dma_supported;
This dma_ops->dma_supported is first called in platform_dma_init() during kernel
boot. Then dma_ops->dma_supported will be called recursively in
iommu_dma_supported.
Kernel can not boot because kernel can not get out of iommu_dma_supported until
it runs out of stack memory.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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ALC269 and ALC861-VD parsers override the ADC definitions
unconditionally without checking the spec definition. This causes
the problem when any inconsistent ADC is set up in the device quirk
(like ALC272 with digital-mic).
This patch avoids the overriding by adding the proper checks.
Reference: Novell bnc#529467
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529467
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
SELinux: fix memory leakage in /security/selinux/hooks.c
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Fix memory leakage in /security/selinux/hooks.c
The buffer always needs to be freed here; we either error
out or allocate more memory.
Reported-by: iceberg <strakh@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
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Commit 783ea7d4eeefe895f2731fe73ac951e94418927b
(Driver Core: Rework platform suspend/resume, print warning)
added a warning message printed for platform drivers that use the
legacy PM callbacks rather than struct dev_pm_ops. Unfortunately,
this resulted in some confusion and made some people try to convert
drivers by replacing the old callbacks with struct dev_pm_ops in
automatic way, which generally is not a good idea.
Remove the platform device runtime dev_pm_ops warning for now,
because it's annoying to users and it's not really necessary right
now.
[rjw: Modified the changelog to be more informative.]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Commit d945cb9cc ("pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering
logic") dropped the test for 'tty->stopped' in pty_write_room(), which
then causes the n_tty line discipline thing to not throttle the data
properly when the tty is stopped.
So instead of pausing the write due to the tty being stopped, the ldisc
layer would go ahead and push it down to the pty. The pty write()
routine would then refuse to take the data (because it _did_ check
'stopped'), and the data wouldn't actually be written.
This whole stopped test should eventually be moved into the tty ldisc
layer rather than have low-level tty drivers care about these things,
but right now the fix is to just re-instate the missing pty 'stopped'
handling.
Reported-and-tested-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment
perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record size
perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data
perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output
perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rate
perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependency
perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"
perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx
perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic sampling
perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record unconditionally
perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode
perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default
perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty callchains
perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data
perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping
perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an id
perf_counter/powerpc: Fix oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support
perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)
perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reporting
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/irq: Fix move_irq_desc() for nodes without ram
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: do not use hotplug_slot_attr
PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: fix build failure
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Wei Chong Tan reported a fast-PIT-calibration corner-case:
| pit_expect_msb() is vulnerable to SMI disturbance corner case
| in some platforms which causes /proc/cpuinfo to show wrong
| CPU MHz value when quick_pit_calibrate() jumps to success
| section.
I think that the real issue isn't even an SMI - but the fact
that in the very last iteration of the loop, there's no
serializing instruction _after_ the last 'rdtsc'. So even in
the absense of SMI's, we do have a situation where the cycle
counter was read without proper serialization.
The last check should be done outside the outer loop, since
_inside_ the outer loop, we'll be testing that the PIT has
the right MSB value has the right value in the next iteration.
So only the _last_ iteration is special, because that's the one
that will not check the PIT MSB value any more, and because the
final 'get_cycles()' isn't serialized.
In other words:
- I'd like to move the PIT MSB check to after the last
iteration, rather than in every iteration
- I think we should comment on the fact that it's also a
serializing instruction and so 'fences in' the TSC read.
Here's a suggested replacement.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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