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2006-09-11[PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54Daniel Drake
Tested by Martin Dummer. zd1211 chip 0b3b:5630 v4330 high 00-01-e3 RF2959_RF pa0 --- Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-09-11[PATCH] bcm43xx: Correct out of sequence initialization stepLarry Finger
This patch fixes an out of sequence step in the bcm43xx_init_board routine for bcm43xx-softmac. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-09-11[PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: Init, shutdown and restart fixesLarry Finger
This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code that would lead to lockups and crashes. Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-09-11Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' into upstreamJohn W. Linville
2006-09-11[PATCH] zd1211rw: Fix of signal strength and quality measurementUlrich Kunitz
Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent by the access point. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-09-11Merge branch 'from-linus' into upstreamJohn W. Linville
2006-09-08[IA64] SN fix for cpu hotplug/kexecJack Steiner
The sn_cpu_init() is required for cpu initialization on SN platforms. Change __init to __cpuinit so that the function is not freed with init code/data. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-08[IA64] Save register stack contents on cpu startJack Steiner
The SN PROM uses the register stack in the slave loop. The contents must be preserved for the OS to return to the slave loop via offlining a cpu or for kexec. A 'flushrs" is needed to force the stack to be written to memory prior to changing bspstore. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-08[IA64] Unwire set/get_robust_listAndreas Schwab
The syscalls set/get_robust_list must not be wired up until futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic is implemented. Otherwise the kernel will hang in handle_futex_death. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-08[IA64] correct file descriptor reference counting in perfmonStephane Eranian
Fix a bug in sys_perfmonctl() whereby it was not correctly decrementing the file descriptor reference count. Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-08[PATCH] NFS: large non-page-aligned direct I/O clobbers memoryTrond Myklebust
The logic in nfs_direct_read_schedule and nfs_direct_write_schedule can allow data->npages to be one larger than rpages. This causes a page pointer to be written beyond the end of the pagevec in nfs_read_data (or nfs_write_data). Fix this by making nfs_(read|write)_alloc() calculate the size of the pagevec array, and initialise data->npages. Also get rid of the redundant argument to nfs_commit_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] invalidate_complete_page() race fixAndrew Morton
If a CPU faults this page into pagetables after invalidate_mapping_pages() checked page_mapped(), invalidate_complete_page() will still proceed to remove the page from pagecache. This leaves the page-faulting process with a detached page. If it was MAP_SHARED then file data loss will ensue. Fix that up by checking the page's refcount after taking tree_lock. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] ext3_getblk() should handle HOLE correctlyBadari Pulavarty
It has been reported that ext3_getblk() is not doing the right thing and triggering following WARN(): BUG: warning at fs/ext3/inode.c:1016/ext3_getblk() <c01c5140> ext3_getblk+0x98/0x2a6 <c03b2806> md_wakeup_thread+0x26/0x2a <c01c536d> ext3_bread+0x1f/0x88 <c01cedf9> ext3_quota_read+0x136/0x1ae <c018b683> v1_read_dqblk+0x61/0xac <c0188f32> dquot_acquire+0xf6/0x107 <c01ceaba> ext3_acquire_dquot+0x46/0x68 <c01897d4> dqget+0x155/0x1e7 <c018a97b> dquot_transfer+0x3e0/0x3e9 <c016fe52> dput+0x23/0x13e <c01c7986> ext3_setattr+0xc3/0x240 <c0120f66> current_fs_time+0x52/0x6a <c017320e> notify_change+0x2bd/0x30d <c0159246> chown_common+0x9c/0xc5 <c02a222c> strncpy_from_user+0x3b/0x68 <c0167fe6> do_path_lookup+0xdf/0x266 <c016841b> __user_walk_fd+0x44/0x5a <c01592b9> sys_chown+0x4a/0x55 <c015a43c> vfs_write+0xe7/0x13c <c01695d4> sys_mkdir+0x1f/0x23 <c0102a97> syscall_call+0x7/0xb Looking at the code, it looks like it's not handle HOLE correctly. It ends up returning -EIO. Here is the patch to fix it. If we really want to be paranoid, we can allow return values 0 (HOLE), 1 (we asked for one block) and return -EIO for more than 1 block. But I really don't see a reason for doing it - all we need is the block# here. (doesn't matter how many blocks are mapped). ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks it mapped. It returns 0 in case of HOLE. ext3_getblk() should handle HOLE properly (currently its dumping warning stack and returning -EIO). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] sis5513: add SiS south bridge ID 0x966 and 0x968David Wang
New SiS south bridge device ID is 0x966. Next coming product will be 0x968. (Will be released in Q4, this year) We don't make any updates to the IDE controller. Signed-off-by: David Wang <touch@sis.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] sh: fix FPN_START typoAlexey Dobriyan
Not that it passes allmodconfig without it... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] optical /proc/ide/*/mediaAlexey Dobriyan
Sergey Vlasov reported that his "FUJITSU MCC3064AP, ATAPI OPTICAL drive" pops up as UNKNOWN in /proc/ide/*/media . Closes #4145. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] Use the correct restart option for futex_lock_piThomas Gleixner
The current implementation of futex_lock_pi returns -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK in case that the lock operation has been interrupted by a signal. This results in a return of -EINTR to userspace in case there is an handler for the signal. This is wrong, because userspace expects that the lock function does not return in any case of signal delivery. This was not caught by my insufficient test case, but triggered a nasty userspace problem in an high load application scenario. Unfortunately also glibc does not check for this invalid return value. Using -ERSTARTNOINTR makes sure, that the interrupted syscall is restarted. The restart block related code can be safely removed, as the possible timeout argument is an absolute time value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08[PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFsKirill Korotaev
This prevents cross-region mappings on IA64 and SPARC which could lead to system crash. They were correctly trapped for normal mmap() calls, but not for the kernel internal calls generated by executable loading. This code just moves the architecture-specific cross-region checks into an arch-specific "arch_mmap_check()" macro, and defines that for the architectures that needed it (ia64, sparc and sparc64). Architectures that don't have any special requirements can just ignore the new cross-region check, since the mmap() code will just notice on its own when the macro isn't defined. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> [ Cleaned up to not affect architectures that don't need it ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: [PATCH] myri10ge: update the firmware download URL in Kconfig
2006-09-06[PATCH] FRV: Use the generic time stuff for FRVjohn stultz
Use the generic time stuff for FRV. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] Remove unneeded asm-i386/cpufeature.h from user visibility.David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] Move linux/device.h include in linux/atmdev.h to #ifdef __KERNEL__ ↵Ismail Donmez
section linux/device.h header is not included in the David Woodhouse's kernel-headers git tree which is used for userspace kernel headers. Which results in compile errors when building iproute2. Attached patch moves linux/device.h include under the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section. Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] lockdep: do not touch console state when tainting the kernelIngo Molnar
Remove an unintended console_verbose() side-effect from add_taint(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] prevent swsusp with PAEPavel Machek
PAE + swsusp results in hard-to-debug crash about 50% of time during resume. Cause is known, fix needs to be ported from x86-64 (but we can't make it to 2.6.18, and I'd like this to be worked around in 2.6.18). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflowThomas Gleixner
Frank v. Waveren pointed out that on 64bit machines the timespec to ktime_t conversion might overflow. This is also true for timeval to ktime_t conversions. This breaks a "sleep inf" on 64bit machines. While a timespec/timeval with tx.sec = MAX_LONG is valid by specification the internal representation of ktime_t is based on nanoseconds. The conversion of seconds to nanoseconds overflows for seconds values >= (MAX_LONG / NSEC_PER_SEC). Check the seconds argument to the conversion and limit it to the maximum time which can be represented by ktime_t. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] add missing desctiption in super.cHenrik Kretzschmar
Adds kernel-doc for alloc_super() type in fs/super.c. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] Documentation for lock_key in struct hrtimer_baseHenrik Kretzschmar
Fixes an error message on make xmldocs. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] lockdep ifdef fixJarek Poplawski
With CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y # CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not set spin_unlock_irqrestore() goes through lockdep but spin_lock_irqsave() doesn't. Apparently, bad things happen. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06[PATCH] myri10ge: update the firmware download URL in KconfigBrice Goglin
Update the firmware download URL in Kconfig to match the header in drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c. Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-03Linux 2.6.18-rc6Linus Torvalds
2006-09-03[PATCH] powerpc: Fix typo in powermac platform functionsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
New sparse caught that typo which could have caused erratic hardware behaviour on some machines if the platform functions are used by the firmware to change bits in some FCR registers. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-02Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] 8250: constify some serial structs [SERIAL] Make uart_match_port() work with all memory mapped UARTs
2006-09-02Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches [ARM] 3765/1: S3C24XX: cleanup include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/dma.h [ARM] 3764/1: S3C24XX: change type naming to kernel style [ARM] 3763/1: add both rtcs to csb337 defconfig [ARM] Fix ARM __raw_read_trylock() implementation [ARM] 3750/3: Fix double VFP emulation for EABI kernels
2006-09-02[PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid checkOleg Nesterov
It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads. Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group, we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer) threads in the same group. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-02[ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing ↵George G. Davis
Harvard caches Patch from George G. Davis Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page() while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far too heavy on non-v6 CPUs". NOTES: 1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page(). 2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page". 3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page". However flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT non-aliasing case. So memory is consistent between kernel and user space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this range. IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before memcpy(). 4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable. We don't need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page() case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same process above if we access "page" again. The flush_ptrace_access() function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-01Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: uhci-hcd: fix list access bug USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2 USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill() USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error usb gadget: g_ether spinlock recursion fix USB: add all wacom device to hid-core.c blacklist hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist USB floppy drive SAMSUNG SFD-321U/EP detected 8 times
2006-09-01[PATCH] backlight last round of fixesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Fix some more problems (inverted use of semaphores in some places). He also moved my checks into within the protected section which is better. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] manage-jbd-its-own-slab fixBadari Pulavarty
Missed a place where I forgot to convert kfree() to kmem_cache_free() as part of jbd-manage-its-own-slab changes. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pagesNishanth Aravamudan
Since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of smallpages, VMAs for huge pages have the lower HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT bits always cleared, which results in badd offsets to the interleave functions. Take this difference from small pages into account when calculating the offset. This does add a 0-bit shift into the small-page path (via alloc_page_vma()), but I think that is negligible. Also add a BUG_ON to prevent the offset from growing due to a negative right-shift, which probably shouldn't be allowed anyways. Tested on an 8-memory node ppc64 NUMA box and got the interleaving I expected. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] sgiioc4: fixup use of mmio opsJohn Keller
Fix some bugs in the patch that converted the IOC4 driver from port IO ops to memio ops. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114895892231438&w=2 Problems fixed are: - Call to default_hwif_mmiops() was not being done until _after_ first IO operation, resulting in the first IO operation being done as a port IO op, instead of memio. - request_region() calls needed to be request_mem_region() - Incomplete error case handling. - Non-usage of ioremap() and __iomem. Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] ALSA: ac97: correct some Mic mixer elementsTakashi Iwai
Revert the mixer element names of some Mic controls to the state of 2.6.17. This should fix the name mismatch in alsactl. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] powerpc: Fix PowerMac IRQ handling bugBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The port to genirq & the new powerpc interrupt model in 2.6.18 introduced a bug in the legacy PowerMac PIC code (used on older machines) because of a typo potentially causing hangs due to interrupt storms. This fixes it, along with a performance issue causing us to do spurrious retriggers after masking an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] powerpc: More via-pmu backlight fixesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The via-pmu backlight code (introduced in 2.6.18) has various design issues causing crashes on machines using it like the old Wallstreet powerbook (Michael, the author, never managed to test on these and I just got my hand on one of those old beasts). This fixes them by no longer trying to hijack the backlight device of the frontmost framebuffer (causing that framebuffer to crash) but having it's own local bits instead. Might look weird but it's better that way on those old machines, at least as a last-minute fix for 2.6.18. We might rework the whole thing later. This patch also changes the way it gets notified of sleep and wakeup in order to properly shut the backlight down on sleep and bring it back on wakeup. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocksPavel Mironchik
This patch works around a complex dm-related deadlock/livelock down in the mempool allocator. Alasdair said: Several dm targets suffer from this. Mempools are not yet used correctly everywhere in device-mapper: they can get shared when devices are stacked, and some targets share them across multiple instances. I made fixing this one of the prerequisites for this patch: md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch which in some cases makes people more likely to hit the problem. There's been some progress on this recently with (unfinished) dm-crypt patches at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/ (dm-crypt-move-io-to-workqueue.patch plus dependencies) and: I've no problems with a temporary workaround like that, but Milan Broz (a new Redhat developer in the Czech Republic) has started reviewing all the mempool usage in device-mapper so I'm expecting we'll soon have a proper fix for this associated problems. [He's back from holiday at the start of next week.] For now, this sad-but-safe little patch will allow the machine to recover. [akpm@osdl.org: rewrote changelog] Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd roundAdrian Bunk
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. A rationale of the patch is in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] IPMI: fix occasional oops on module unloadCorey Minyard
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do that. Thanks Olaf! Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] kerneldoc for handle_bad_irq()Henrik Kretzschmar
Adds the description of the parameters from handle_bad_irq(). Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] SBC8360: module_param() permission fixesIan E. Morgan
The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value. Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] exit early in floppy_init when no floppy existsOlaf Hering
modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late, when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized. check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks the device-tree looking for a floppy node. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] x86: increase MAX_MP_BUSSES on default archAndrew Morton
Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> reports that an HP DL380 g4 fails using the default arch due to the ISA bus having an ID of 32. It would have worked OK with the generic arch - for some reason the default arch doesn't support as many busses. So bump that up to support 256 busses, but leave it at 32 if we're building a tiny system to save a bit of memory. Cc: Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>