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2007-10-18alpha: fix bitopsNick Piggin
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt defines these primitives must contain a memory barrier both before and after their memory operation. This is consistent with the atomic ops implementation on alpha. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18bitops: introduce lock opsNick Piggin
Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics. Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18x86 msr driver: Misc cpuinit annotationsSatyam Sharma
msr_class_cpu_callback() can be marked __cpuinit, being the notifier callback for a __cpuinitdata notifier_block. So can be marked msr_device_create() too, called only from the newly-__cpuinit msr_class_cpu_callback() or from __init-marked msr_init(). Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Redefine {un}register_hotcpu_notifier() !HOTPLUG_CPU stubsSatyam Sharma
The return of the present "do {} while" based stub definition of register_hotcpu_notifier() cannot be checked. This makes the stub asymmetric w.r.t. the real HOTPLUG_CPU=y implementation that is int-returning. So let us redefine this to be consistent with the full version. Also do the same for unregister_hotcpu_notifier(). We cannot define these as static inline functions due to an existing GCC bug (#33172). So define as macros that return appropriately instead (int '0' for the register_hotcpu_notifier case and void for unregister_hotcpu_notifier). Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18powerpc: add scaled time accountingMichael Neuling
This adds POWERPC specific hooks for scaled time accounting. POWER6 includes a SPURR register. The SPURR is based off the PURR register but is scaled based on CPU frequency and issue rates. This gives a more accurate account of the instructions used per task. The PURR and timebase will be constant relative to the wall clock, irrespective of the CPU frequency. This implementation reads the SPURR register in account_system_vtime which is only call called on context witch and hard and soft irq entry and exit. The percentage of user and system time is then estimated using the ratio of these accounted by the PURR. If the SPURR is not present, the PURR read. An earlier implementation of this patch read the SPURR whenever the PURR was read, which included the system call entry and exit path. Unfortunately this showed a performance regression on lmbench runs, so was re-implemented. I've included the lmbench results here when run bare metal on POWER6. 1st column is the unpatch results. 2nd column is the results using the below patch and the 3rd is the % diff of these results from the base. 4th and 5th columns are the results and % differnce from the base using the older patch (SPURR read in syscall entry/exit path). Base Scaled-Acct SPURR-in-syscall Result Result % diff Result % diff Simple syscall: 0.3086 0.3086 0.0000 0.3452 11.8600 Simple read: 0.4591 0.4671 1.7425 0.5044 9.86713 Simple write: 0.4364 0.4366 0.0458 0.4731 8.40971 Simple stat: 2.0055 2.0295 1.1967 2.0669 3.06158 Simple fstat: 0.5962 0.5876 -1.442 0.6368 6.80979 Simple open/close: 3.1283 3.1009 -0.875 3.2088 2.57328 Select on 10 fd's: 0.8554 0.8457 -1.133 0.8667 1.32101 Select on 100 fd's: 3.5292 3.6329 2.9383 3.6664 3.88756 Select on 250 fd's: 7.9097 8.1881 3.5197 8.2242 3.97613 Select on 500 fd's: 15.2659 15.836 3.7357 15.873 3.97814 Select on 10 tcp fd's: 0.9576 0.9416 -1.670 0.9752 1.83792 Select on 100 tcp fd's: 7.248 7.2254 -0.311 7.2685 0.28283 Select on 250 tcp fd's: 17.7742 17.707 -0.375 17.749 -0.1406 Select on 500 tcp fd's: 35.4258 35.25 -0.496 35.286 -0.3929 Signal handler installation: 0.6131 0.6075 -0.913 0.647 5.52927 Signal handler overhead: 2.0919 2.1078 0.7600 2.1831 4.35967 Protection fault: 0.7345 0.7478 1.8107 0.8031 9.33968 Pipe latency: 33.006 16.398 -50.31 33.475 1.42368 AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 14.5093 30.910 113.03 30.715 111.692 Process fork+exit: 219.8 222.8 1.3648 229.37 4.35623 Process fork+execve: 876.14 873.28 -0.32 868.66 -0.8533 Process fork+/bin/sh -c: 2830 2876.5 1.6431 2958 4.52296 File /var/tmp/XXX write bw: 1193497 1195536 0.1708 118657 -0.5799 Pagefaults on /var/tmp/XXX: 3.1272 3.2117 2.7020 3.2521 3.99398 Also, kernel compile times show no difference with this patch applied. [pbadari@us.ibm.com: Avoid unnecessary PURR reading] Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18add-scaled-time-to-taskstats-based-process-accounting fixMichael Neuling
This moves the new items to the end of the taskstats struct as requested by Balbir and yourself. Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Add scaled time to taskstats based process accountingMichael Neuling
This adds items to the taststats struct to account for user and system time based on scaling the CPU frequency and instruction issue rates. Adds account_(user|system)_time_scaled callbacks which architectures can use to account for time using this mechanism. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Add missing newlines to some uses of dev_<level> messagesJoe Perches
Found these while looking at printk uses. Add missing newlines to dev_<level> uses Add missing KERN_<level> prefixes to multiline dev_<level>s Fixed a wierd->weird spelling typo Added a newline to a printk Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com> Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: rocket, fix signed/unsigned warningJiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: rocket, remove potential leak in module_initJiri Slaby
if (controller && !request_region) then we leaked a tty driver struct, fix it by adding function deinit tail with goto-ing into it (and from other fail paths too) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: rocket, remove pci_read_config_dword(CLASS_REVISION)Jiri Slaby
We may use pdev->revision instead of reading pci config space directly, so remove pci_read_config_dword invoking. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: rocket, don't re-set statics to 0Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: rocket, fix dynamic_dev ttyJiri Slaby
- register_device unconditionally (non-pci dependent) to have also isa devices in /dev - unregister devices on module removal - don't set TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV twice (removed the one dependent on some macro) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: rocket, switch sleep_on to completionJiri Slaby
rocket, switch sleep_on to completion - sleep_on is deprecated and racy, use completion instead - also check retval of interruptible function and return ERESTARTSYS eventually Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: moxa, remove sleep_onJiri Slaby
interruptible_sleep_on is deprecated, use completion instead Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: moxa, function names cleanupJiri Slaby
prepend moxa_ to all moxa functions which laxes this Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: moxa, cleanup printsJiri Slaby
- use dev_* where pdev is available (probe function) - add some printks on fail paths - add KERN_ macros otherwise - remove useless verbose variable - wrap lines to 80 cols at most Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Cyclades: Avoid label defined but not used warningJesper Juhl
CC drivers/char/cyclades.o drivers/char/cyclades.c: In function 'cy_init': drivers/char/cyclades.c:5488: warning: label 'err_unr' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: cyclades, fix some -W warningsJiri Slaby
Most of them are signedness, the rest unused function parameters. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: cyclades, move spin_lock to one placeJiri Slaby
Lock whole processing in isr, avoid error-prone locking/unlocking in rx/tx esp. On fail paths (there was a bug in the past yet). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: cyclades, make the isr code readableJiri Slaby
Due to large indent the code was wrapped and unreadable. Create 3 function instead of one and reorder the code, so it is readable now. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: cyclades, remove bottom half processingJiri Slaby
The work done in bottom half doesn't cost much cpu time (e.g. tty_hangup itself schedules its own bottom half), it's possible to do the work in isr directly and save hence some .text. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: moxa, fix and optimise empty timerJiri Slaby
moxa, fix and optimise empty timer don't wait and delete empty timer in empty timer function. Also fire next empty timer at rounded jiffies to save power. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18The next round of scheduled OSS code removalAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the next round of scheduled OSS code removal. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: system timersDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: interval timersDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: execution domainsDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: system auditingDaniel Walker
Just removing white space at the end of lines. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: compat syscallsDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: syscall auditingDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: capability syscallsDaniel Walker
Large chunks of 5 spaces instead of tabs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: panic handlingDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: module loadingDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: forkDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: DMA channel allocatorDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: audit filteringDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: relayfsDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: cpusetDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: process accountingDaniel Walker
Lots of converting spaces to tabs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: time syscallsDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18mxser: fix compiler warning when building without CONFIG_PCIJesper Juhl
drivers/char/mxser.c:386: warning: 'mxser_get_PCI_conf' declared 'static' but never defined when building without CONFIG_PCI. [jesper.juhl@gmail.com: Fix warning: 'CheckIsMoxaMust' defined but not used] Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18mxser: remove commented crapAlan Cox
This is years dead code and it keeps turning up in confusing ways when grepping for stuff. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: mxser_new, remove useless comments in mxser_cardsJiri Slaby
mxser_new, remove useless comments in mxser_cards It was rest from times, where info about the card was separated (name, ports number and flags). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: mxser_new, move to PCI_VDEVICEJiri Slaby
mxser_new, move to PCI_VDEVICE Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Char: mxser_new, upgrade to 1.10Jiri Slaby
mxser_new, upgrade to 1.10 This adds support for new (5 cards) hardware. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18V3 file capabilities: alter behavior of cap_setpcapAndrew Morgan
The non-filesystem capability meaning of CAP_SETPCAP is that a process, p1, can change the capabilities of another process, p2. This is not the meaning that was intended for this capability at all, and this implementation came about purely because, without filesystem capabilities, there was no way to use capabilities without one process bestowing them on another. Since we now have a filesystem support for capabilities we can fix the implementation of CAP_SETPCAP. The most significant thing about this change is that, with it in effect, no process can set the capabilities of another process. The capabilities of a program are set via the capability convolution rules: pI(post-exec) = pI(pre-exec) pP(post-exec) = (X(aka cap_bset) & fP) | (pI(post-exec) & fI) pE(post-exec) = fE ? pP(post-exec) : 0 at exec() time. As such, the only influence the pre-exec() program can have on the post-exec() program's capabilities are through the pI capability set. The correct implementation for CAP_SETPCAP (and that enabled by this patch) is that it can be used to add extra pI capabilities to the current process - to be picked up by subsequent exec()s when the above convolution rules are applied. Here is how it works: Let's say we have a process, p. It has capability sets, pE, pP and pI. Generally, p, can change the value of its own pI to pI' where (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP = 0. That is, the only new things in pI' that were not present in pI need to be present in pP. The role of CAP_SETPCAP is basically to permit changes to pI beyond the above: if (pE & CAP_SETPCAP) { pI' = anything; /* ie., even (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP != 0 */ } This capability is useful for things like login, which (say, via pam_cap) might want to raise certain inheritable capabilities for use by the children of the logged-in user's shell, but those capabilities are not useful to or needed by the login program itself. One such use might be to limit who can run ping. You set the capabilities of the 'ping' program to be "= cap_net_raw+i", and then only shells that have (pI & CAP_NET_RAW) will be able to run it. Without CAP_SETPCAP implemented as described above, login(pam_cap) would have to also have (pP & CAP_NET_RAW) in order to raise this capability and pass it on through the inheritable set. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sysctl: deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.Eric W. Biederman
After adding checking to register_sysctl_table and finding a whole new set of bugs. Missed by countless code reviews and testers I have finally lost patience with the binary sysctl interface. The binary sysctl interface has been sort of deprecated for years and finding a user space program that uses the syscall is more difficult then finding a needle in a haystack. Problems continue to crop up, with the in kernel implementation. So since supporting something that no one uses is silly, deprecate sys_sysctl with a sufficient grace period and notice that the handful of user space applications that care can be fixed or replaced. The /proc/sys sysctl interface that people use will continue to be supported indefinitely. This patch moves the tested warning about sysctls from the path where sys_sysctl to a separate path called from both implementations of sys_sysctl, and it adds a proper entry into Documentation/feature-removal-schedule. Allowing us to revisit this in a couple years time and actually kill sys_sysctl. [lethal@linux-sh.org: sysctl: Fix syscall disabled build] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sysctl: for irda update sysctl_checks list of binary pathsEric W. Biederman
It turns out that the net/irda code didn't register any of it's binary paths in the global sysctl.h header file so I missed them completely when making an authoritative list of binary sysctl paths in the kernel. So add them to the list of valid binary sysctl paths. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sysctl: update sysctl_check_tableEric W. Biederman
Well it turns out after I dug into the problems a little more I was returning a few false positives so this patch updates my logic to remove them. - Don't complain about 0 ctl_names in sysctl_check_binary_path It is valid for someone to remove the sysctl binary interface and still keep the same sysctl proc interface. - Count ctl_names and procnames as matching if they both don't exist. - Only warn about missing min&max when the generic functions care. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tablesEric W. Biederman
After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has become clear that code review and testing is just not effective in prevent problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable kernel. I certainly can't seem to fix the problems as fast as they are introduced. Therefore this patch adds sysctl_check_table which is called when a sysctl table is registered and checks to see if we have a problematic sysctl table. The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl entries, but since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table should not need to change, and it makes it much easier to detect when someone unintentionally adds a new binary sysctl value. As best as I can determine all of the several hundred errors spewed on boot up now are legitimate. [bunk@kernel.org: kernel/sysctl_check.c must #include <linux/string.h>] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>