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2006-09-30[PATCH] Use early clobber in semaphoresAndi Kleen
New code clobbers the result always early, so tell gcc about it Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Define vsyscall cache as blob to make clearer that user space ↵Andi Kleen
shouldn't use it Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Re-positioning the bss segmentVivek Goyal
[AK: This apparently broke some systems, but we need it to fix a compile problem with old binutils and in theory the patch is correct. So let's trying reenabling it again.] o Currently bss segment is being placed somewhere in the middle (after .data) section and after bss lots of init section and data sections are coming. Is it intentional? o One side affect of placing bss in the middle is that objcopy keeps the bss in raw binary image (vmlinux.bin) hence unnecessarily increasing the size of raw binary image. (In my case ~600K). It also increases the size of generated bzImage, though the increase is very small (896 bytes), probably a very high compression ratio for stream of zeros. o This patch moves the bss at the end hence reducing the size of bzImage by 896 bytes and size of vmlinux.bin by 600K. o This change benefits in the context of relocatable kernel patches. If kernel bss is not part of compressed data (vmlinux.bin) then it does not have to be decompressed and this area can be used by the decompressor for its execution hence keeping the memory requirements bounded and decompressor code does not stomp over any other data loaded beyond kernel image (As might be the case with bootloaders like kexec). Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Use ARRAY_SIZE in setup.cAndi Kleen
Based on i386 patch from Bjorn. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] i386: replace intermediate array-size definitions with ARRAY_SIZE()Bjorn Helgaas
Code is easier to validate if array sizes aren't hidden behind extra #defines. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctlsAndi Kleen
Use prototypes in headers Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Refactor some duplicated code in mpparse.cAndi Kleen
No logic changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Document iommu=panicAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Fix broken indentation in iommu_setupAndi Kleen
No functional changes; only white space. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Allow disabling DAC using command line optionsAndi Kleen
Might or might not work around some reported bugs on VIA systems. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomicAndi Kleen
Noticed by Al Viro Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] i386: Update defconfigAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Update defconfigAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-29[PATCH] uml build fixOllie Wild
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] MLSXFRM: fix mis-labelling of child socketsDavid Woodhouse
Accepted connections of types other than AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_UNIX won't have an appropriate label derived from the peer, so don't use it. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (33 commits) IB/ipath: Fix lockdep error upon "ifconfig ibN down" IB/ipath: Fix races with ib_resize_cq() IB/ipath: Support new PCIE device, QLE7142 IB/ipath: Set CPU affinity early IB/ipath: Fix EEPROM read when driver is compiled with -Os IB/ipath: Fix and recover TXE piobuf and PBC parity errors IB/ipath: Change HT CRC message to indicate how to resolve problem IB/ipath: Clean up module exit code IB/ipath: Call mtrr_del with correct arguments IB/ipath: Flush RWQEs if access error or invalid error seen IB/ipath: Improved support for PowerPC IB/ipath: Drop unnecessary "(void *)" casts IB/ipath: Support multiple simultaneous devices of different types IB/ipath: Fix mismatch in shifts and masks for printing debug info IB/ipath: Fix compiler warnings and errors on non-x86_64 systems IB/ipath: Print more informative parity error messages IB/ipath: Ensure that PD of MR matches PD of QP checking the Rkey IB/ipath: RC and UC should validate SLID and DLID IB/ipath: Only allow complete writes to flash IB/ipath: Count SRQs properly ...
2006-09-29Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (49 commits) [XFS] Remove v1 dir trace macro - missed in a past commit. [XFS] 955947: Infinite loop in xfs_bulkstat() on formatter() error [XFS] pv 956241, author: nathans, rv: vapo - make ino validation checks [XFS] pv 956240, author: nathans, rv: vapo - Minor fixes in [XFS] Really fix use after free in xfs_iunpin. [XFS] Collapse sv_init and init_sv into just the one interface. [XFS] standardize on one sema init macro [XFS] Reduce endian flipping in alloc_btree, same as was done for [XFS] Minor cleanup from dio locking fix, remove an extra conditional. [XFS] Fix kmem_zalloc_greedy warnings on 64 bit platforms. [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on EFAULT formatter() error [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on formatter() error [XFS] Fixes the leak in reservation space because we weren't ungranting [XFS] Add lock annotations to xfs_trans_update_ail and [XFS] Fix a porting botch on the realtime subvol growfs code path. [XFS] Minor code rearranging and cleanup to prevent some coverity false [XFS] Remove a no-longer-correct debug assert from dio completion [XFS] Add a greedy allocation interface, allocating within a min/max size [XFS] Improve error handling for the zero-fsblock extent detection code. [XFS] Be more defensive with page flags (error/private) for metadata ...
2006-09-29[PATCH] i2c-sibyte: Fix modular build breakageYoichi Yuasa
Fix undefined reference in i2c_sibyte_exit(). drivers/built-in.o: In function `i2c_sibyte_exit': i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x368): undefined reference to `i2c_del_bus' i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x368): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `i2c_del_bus' i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x38c): undefined reference to `i2c_del_bus' i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x38c): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `i2c_del_bus' Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] cpuset: fix obscure attach_task vs exiting racePaul Jackson
Fix obscure race condition in kernel/cpuset.c attach_task() code. There is basically zero chance of anyone accidentally being harmed by this race. It requires a special 'micro-stress' load and a special timing loop hacks in the kernel to hit in less than an hour, and even then you'd have to hit it hundreds or thousands of times, followed by some unusual and senseless cpuset configuration requests, including removing the top cpuset, to cause any visibly harm affects. One could, with perhaps a few days or weeks of such effort, get the reference count on the top cpuset below zero, and manage to crash the kernel by asking to remove the top cpuset. I found it by code inspection. The race was introduced when 'the_top_cpuset_hack' was introduced, and one piece of code was not updated. An old check for a possibly null task cpuset pointer needed to be changed to a check for a task marked PF_EXITING. The pointer can't be null anymore, thanks to the_top_cpuset_hack (documented in kernel/cpuset.c). But the task could have gone into PF_EXITING state after it was found in the task_list scan. If a task is PF_EXITING in this code, it is possible that its task->cpuset pointer is pointing to the top cpuset due to the_top_cpuset_hack, rather than because the top_cpuset was that tasks last valid cpuset. In that case, the wrong cpuset reference counter would be decremented. The fix is trivial. Instead of failing the system call if the tasks cpuset pointer is null here, fail it if the task is in PF_EXITING state. The code for 'the_top_cpuset_hack' that changes an exiting tasks cpuset to the top_cpuset is done without locking, so could happen at anytime. But it is done during the exit handling, after the PF_EXITING flag is set. So if we verify that a task is still not PF_EXITING after we copy out its cpuset pointer (into 'oldcs', below), we know that 'oldcs' is not one of these hack references to the top_cpuset. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patchesKirill Korotaev
Add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to fix mozilla. Thunderbird has the similar options. Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] lockdep core: improve the lock-chain-hashIngo Molnar
With CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC turned off i was getting sporadic failures in the locking self-test: ------------> | Locking API testsuite: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock: ok |FAILED| ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |FAILED| after much debugging it turned out to be caused by accidental chain-hash key collisions. The current hash is: #define iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) \ (((key1) << MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS/2) ^ \ ((key1) >> (64-MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS/2)) ^ \ (key2)) where MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS is 11. This hash is pretty good as it will shift by 5 bits in every iteration, where every new ID 'mixed' into the hash would have up to 11 bits. But because there was a 6 bits overlap between subsequent IDs and their high bits tended to be similar, there was a chance for accidental chain-hash collision for a low number of locks held. the solution is to shift by 11 bits: #define iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) \ (((key1) << MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS) ^ \ ((key1) >> (64-MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS)) ^ \ (key2)) This keeps the hash perfect up to 5 locks held, but even above that the hash is still good because 11 bits is a relative prime to the total 64 bits, so a complete match will only occur after 64 held locks (which doesnt happen in Linux). Even after 5 locks held, entropy of the 5 IDs mixed into the hash is already good enough so that overlap doesnt generate a colliding hash ID. with this change the false positives went away. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Kcore elf note namesz field fixVivek Goyal
o As per ELF specifications, it looks like that elf note "namesz" field contains the length of "name" including the size of null character. And currently we are filling "namesz" without taking into the consideration the null character size. o Kexec-tools performs this check deligently hence I ran into the issue while trying to open /proc/kcore in kexec-tools for some info. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] expand_fdtable(): remove pointless unlock+lockAndrew Morton
This unlock/lock on a super-unlikely path isn't worth the kernel text. Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Clean up expand_fdtable() and expand_files()Vadim Lobanov
Perform a code cleanup against the expand_fdtable() and expand_files() functions inside fs/file.c. It aims to make the flow of code within these functions simpler and easier to understand, via added comments and modest refactoring. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingDrivers: minor updateAlexey Dobriyan
* fix copright typo * remove trailing whitespace * remove Kernel Traffic from Resources. Zack, it was great reading! * Name Arjan by name and fix URL of "How to NOT" paper. * Remove "Last updated" tag. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] audit/accounting: tty lockingAlan Cox
Add tty locking around the audit and accounting code. The whole current->signal-> locking is all deeply strange but it's for someone else to sort out. Add rather than replace the lock for acct.c Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Fix locking for tty drivers when doing urgent charactersAlan Cox
If you send a priority character (as is done for flow control) then the tty driver can either have its own method for "jumping the queue" or the characrer can be queued normally. In the latter case we call the write method but without the atomic_write_lock taken elsewhere. Make this consistent. Note that the send_xchar method if implemented remains outside of the lock as it can jump ahead of a current write so must not be locked out by it. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] specialix - remove private speed decodingAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] istallion: Remove private baud rate decoding, which is also broken ↵Alan Cox
in this case on some platforms Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] generic_serial: remove private decoding of baud rate bitsAlan Cox
The driver has no business doing this work itself any more and hasn't for some years. When the new speed stuff goes in this will break entirely so fix it up ready. Also remove a #if 0 around a comment.... Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] RTC: more XSTP/VDET support for rtc-rs5c348 driverAtsushi Nemoto
If the chip detected "oscillator stop" condition, show an warning message. And initialize it with the Epoch time instead of leaving it with unknown date/time. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] build sound/sound_firmware.c only for OSSAdrian Bunk
All sound/sound_firmware.c contains is mod_firmware_load() that is a legacy API only used by some OSS drivers. This patch builds it into an own sound_firmware module that is only built depending on CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME making the kernel slightly smaller for ALSA users. [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: comment fix] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] stop_machine.c copyrightRusty Russell
I had to look back: this code was extracted from the module.c code in 2005. 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>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Access Control Lists for tmpfsAndreas Gruenbacher
Add access control lists for tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Generic infrastructure for aclsAndreas Gruenbacher
The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices based on who is logged in from where, etc. This includes switching back and forth between multiple user sessions, etc. Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem. Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs. Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate. RedHat uses pam_console, which changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user. Others use a set of groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses. The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach. These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with no problems reported. The previous submission is archived here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231 This patch: Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory filesystems such as tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] enforce RLIMIT_NOFILE in poll()Chris Snook
POSIX states that poll() shall fail with EINVAL if nfds > OPEN_MAX. In this context, POSIX is referring to sysconf(OPEN_MAX), which is the value of current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NOFILE].rlim_cur in the linux kernel, not the compile-time constant which happens to also be named OPEN_MAX. In the current code, an application may poll up to max_fdset file descriptors, even if this exceeds RLIMIT_NOFILE. The current code also breaks applications which poll more than max_fdset descriptors, which worked circa 2.4.18 when the check was against NR_OPEN, which is 1024*1024. This patch enforces the limit precisely as POSIX defines, even if RLIMIT_NOFILE has been changed at run time with ulimit -n. To elaborate on the rationale for this, there are three cases: 1) RLIMIT_NOFILE is at the default value of 1024 In this (default) case, the patch changes nothing. Calls with nfds > 1024 fail with EINVAL both before and after the patch, and calls with nfds <= 1024 pass the check both before and after the patch, since 1024 is the initial value of max_fdset. 2) RLIMIT_NOFILE has been raised above the default In this case, poll() becomes more permissive, allowing polling up to RLIMIT_NOFILE file descriptors even if less than 1024 have been opened. The patch won't introduce new errors here. If an application somehow depends on poll() failing when it polls with duplicate or invalid file descriptors, it's already broken, since this is already allowed below 1024, and will also work above 1024 if enough file descriptors have been open at some point to cause max_fdset to have been increased above nfds. 3) RLIMIT_NOFILE has been lowered below the default In this case, the system administrator or the user has gone out of their way to protect the system from inefficient (or malicious) applications wasting kernel memory. The current code allows polling up to 1024 file descriptors even if RLIMIT_NOFILE is much lower, which is not what the user or administrator intended. Well-written applications which only poll valid, unique file descriptors will never notice the difference, because they'll hit the limit on open() first. If an application gets broken because of the patch in this case, then it was already poorly/maliciously designed, and allowing it to work in the past was a violation of POSIX and a DoS risk on low-resource systems. With this patch, poll() will permit exactly what POSIX suggests, no more, no less, and for any run-time value set with ulimit -n, not just 256 or 1024. There are existing apps which which poll a large number of file descriptors, some of which may be invalid, and if those numbers stradle 1024, they currently fail with or without the patch in -mm, though they worked fine under 2.4.18. Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Uninitialized variable in drivers/net/wan/syncppp.cEric Sesterhenn
For len equal to 4, we never call sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options(), therefore rmagic does not get initialized. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] /sys/modules: allow full length section namesIan S. Nelson
I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it can't probe a lot of modules. Turns out it's kind of silly, the sections section of /sys/module is limited to 32byte filenames and many of the actual sections are a a bit longer than that. [akpm@osdl.org: rewrite to use dymanic allocation] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] SuperH list is moderatedMatthew Wilcox
I just got a bounce telling me my contributions aren't welcome. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] network block device is mostly known as "NBD"Pavel Machek
People search maintainers for NBD and then decide it is not maintained. (akpm: ditto LVM. And other things, but I forget what they were) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] SubmittingPatches cleanupsPavel Machek
This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] lib/ts_fsm.c: constify structsAndreas Mohr
Constify two structs. Correct some typos. Compile-tested and run-tested (module inserted) on 2.6.18-rc4-mm3. Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] rate limiting for the ldisc open failure messagesAkinobu Mita
This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen. It happens under memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklistRandy Dunlap
Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] valid_swaphandles() fixHugh Dickins
akpm draws my attention to the fact that sysctl(VM_PAGE_CLUSTER) might conceivably change page_cluster to 0 while valid_swaphandles() is in the middle of using it, leading to an embarrassingly long loop: take a local snapshot of page_cluster and work with that. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] call mm/page-writeback.c:set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-addedChandra Seetharaman
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit()) every time a CPU is hot-added/removed. But this value is not recalculated when new pages are hot-added. This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] remove static variable mm/page-writeback.c:total_pagesChandra Seetharaman
page-writeback.c has a static local variable "total_pages", which is the total number of pages in the system. There is a global variable "vm_total_pages", which is the total number of pages the VM controls. Both are assigned from the return value of nr_free_pagecache_pages(). This patch removes the local variable and uses the global variable in that place. One more issue with the local static variable "total_pages" is that it is not updated when new pages are hot-added. Since vm_total_pages is updated when new pages are hot-added, this patch fixes that problem too. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o supportGeoff Levand
This change corrects the logic on the preprocessor conditionals that include support for ISA port i/o (/dev/ioports) into the mem character driver. This fixes the following error when building for powerpc platforms with CONFIG_PCI=n. drivers/built-in.o: undefined reference to `pci_io_base' Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <lins@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] SuperH maintainership changeKaz Kojima
I think this is a time to step down from my SUPERH architecture maintainerships. The major development issues for this port seem to shift on the hardwares I can't access and I have no recent activity on kernel. I shouldn't qualify as a maintainer of SUPERH port now and there is no problem because Paul is actively maintaining it. The attached patch drops my name, address and web URL from MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] fs/namei.c: replace multiple current->fs by shortcut variableAndreas Mohr
Replace current->fs by fs helper variable to reduce some indirection overhead and (at least at the moment, before the current_thread_info() %gs PDA improvement is available) get rid of more costly current references. Reduces fs/namei.o from 37786 to 37082 Bytes (704 Bytes saved). [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>