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2006-04-09[NETFILTER]: Add helper functions for mass hook registration/unregistrationPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Fix drift with HPET timer enabledJordan Hargrave
If the HPET timer is enabled, the clock can drift by ~3 seconds a day. This is due to the HPET timer not being initialized with the correct setting (still using PIT count). If HZ changes, this drift can become even more pronounced. HPET patch initializes tick_nsec with correct tick_nsec settings for HPET timer. Vojtech comments: "It's not entirely correct (it assumes the HPET ticks totally exactly), but it's significantly better than assuming the PIT error there." Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Handle empty PXMs that only contain hotplug memoryAndi Kleen
The node setup code would try to allocate the node metadata in the node itself, but that fails if there is no memory in there. This can happen with memory hotplug when the hotplug area defines an so far empty node. Now use bootmem to try to allocate the mem_map in other nodes. And if it fails don't panic, but just ignore the node. To make this work I added a new __alloc_bootmem_nopanic function that does what its name implies. TBD should try to use nearby nodes here. Currently we just use any. It's hard to do it better because bootmem doesn't have proper fallback lists yet. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Support memory hotadd without sparsememAndi Kleen
Memory hotadd doesn't need SPARSEMEM, but can be handled by just preallocating mem_maps. This only needs some untangling of ifdefs to enable the necessary code even without SPARSEMEM. Originally from Keith Mannthey, hacked by AK. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-02Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] splice: fix page stealing LRU handling. [PATCH] splice: page stealing needs to wait_on_page_writeback() [PATCH] splice: export generic_splice_sendpage [PATCH] splice: add a SPLICE_F_MORE flag [PATCH] splice: add comments documenting more of the code [PATCH] splice: improve writeback and clean up page stealing [PATCH] splice: fix shadow[] filling logic
2006-04-02[PATCH] splice: fix page stealing LRU handling.Jens Axboe
Originally from Nick Piggin, just adapted to the newer branch. You can't check PageLRU without holding zone->lru_lock. The page release code can get away with it only because the page refcount is 0 at that point. Also, you can't reliably remove pages from the LRU unless the refcount is 0. Ever. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02[PATCH] splice: add a SPLICE_F_MORE flagJens Axboe
This lets userspace indicate whether more data will be coming in a subsequent splice call. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02[PATCH] splice: improve writeback and clean up page stealingJens Axboe
By cleaning up the writeback logic (killing write_one_page() and the manual set_page_dirty()), we can get rid of ->stolen inside the pipe_buffer and just keep it local in pipe_to_file(). This also adds dirty page balancing logic and O_SYNC handling. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (48 commits) Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warnings BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/net/ BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/net/lcs.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/slab.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/highmem.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/signal.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/signal.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/ptrace.c BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/shm.c BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/freevxfs/ BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/udf/ BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/sysv/ BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/inode.c BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/fcntl.c BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dquot.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid10.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid6main.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid5.c Fix minor documentation typo BFP->BPF in Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt ...
2006-04-02Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (49 commits) V4L/DVB (3667b): cpia2: fix function prototype V4L/DVB (3702): Make msp3400 routing defines more consistent V4L/DVB (3700): Remove obsolete commands from tvp5150.c V4L/DVB (3697): More msp3400 and bttv fixes V4L/DVB (3696): Previous change for cx2341X boards broke the remote support V4L/DVB (3693): Fix msp3400c and bttv stereo/mono/bilingual detection/handling V4L/DVB (3692): Keep experimental SLICED_VBI defines under an #if 0 V4L/DVB (3689): Kconfig: fix VP-3054 Secondary I2C Bus build configuration menu dependencies V4L/DVB (3673): Fix budget-av CAM reset V4L/DVB (3672): Fix memory leak in dvr open V4L/DVB (3671): New module parameter 'tv_standard' (dvb-ttpci driver) V4L/DVB (3670): Fix typo in comment V4L/DVB (3669): Configurable dma buffer size for saa7146-based budget dvb cards V4L/DVB (3653h): Move usb v4l docs into Documentation/video4linux V4L/DVB (3667a): Fix SAP + stereo mode at msp3400 V4L/DVB (3666): Remove trailing newlines V4L/DVB (3665): Add new NEC uPD64031A and uPD64083 i2c drivers V4L/DVB (3663): Fix msp3400c wait time and better audio mode fallbacks V4L/DVB (3662): Don't set msp3400c-non-existent register V4L/DVB (3661): Add wm8739 stereo audio ADC i2c driver ...
2006-04-02Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (26 commits) Input: add support for Braille devices Input: synaptics - limit rate to 40pps on Toshiba Protege M300 Input: gamecon - add SNES mouse support Input: make modalias code respect allowed buffer size Input: convert /proc handling to seq_file Input: limit attributes' output to PAGE_SIZE Input: gameport - fix memory leak Input: serio - fix memory leak Input: zaurus keyboard driver updates Input: i8042 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver() Input: ns558 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver() Input: pcspkr - separate device and driver registration Input: atkbd - allow disabling on X86_PC (if EMBEDDED) Input: atkbd - disable softrepeat for dumb keyboards Input: atkbd - fix complaints about 'releasing unknown key 0x7f' Input: HID - fix duplicate key mapping for Logitech UltraX remote Input: use kzalloc() throughout the code Input: fix input_free_device() implementation Input: initialize serio and gameport at subsystem level Input: uinput - semaphore to mutex conversion ...
2006-04-02Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET]: Fully fix the memory leaks in sys_accept(). [NETFILTER]: iptables 32bit compat layer [NETFILTER]: {ip,nf}_conntrack_netlink: fix expectation notifier unregistration [NETFILTER]: fix ifdef for connmark support in nf_conntrack_netlink [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 multiport match [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 esp match [NET]: Fix dentry leak in sys_accept(). [IPSEC]: Kill unused decap state structure [IPSEC]: Kill unused decap state argument [NET]: com90xx kmalloc fix [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate. [TG3]: Revert "Speed up SRAM access"
2006-04-02splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flagLinus Torvalds
It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations nonblocking. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-02Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warningsMartin Waitz
This patch updates the comments to match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3692): Keep experimental SLICED_VBI defines under an #if 0Hans Verkuil
The sliced VBI defines added in videodev2.h are removed since requires more discussion. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02Input: add support for Braille devicesSamuel Thibault
- Add KEY_BRL_* input keys and K_BRL_* keycodes; - Add emulation of how braille keyboards usually combine braille dots to the console keyboard driver; - Add handling of unicode U+28xy diacritics. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-04-02Manual merge with Linus.Dmitry Torokhov
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c
2006-04-01[NETFILTER]: iptables 32bit compat layerDmitry Mishin
This patch extends current iptables compatibility layer in order to get 32bit iptables to work on 64bit kernel. Current layer is insufficient due to alignment checks both in kernel and user space tools. Patch is for current net-2.6.17 with addition of move of ipt_entry_{match| target} definitions to xt_entry_{match|target}. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> Acked-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01[NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 multiport matchYasuyuki Kozakai
This unifies ipt_multiport and ip6t_multiport to xt_multiport. As a result, this addes support for inversion and port range match to IPv6 packets. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01[NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 esp matchYasuyuki Kozakai
This unifies ipt_esp and ip6t_esp to xt_esp. Please note that now a user program needs to specify IPPROTO_ESP as protocol to use esp match with IPv6. This means that ip6tables requires '-p esp' like iptables. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01Fix comments: s/granuality/granularity/Kalin KOZHUHAROV
I was grepping through the code and some `grep ganularity -R .` didn't catch what I thought. Then looking closer I saw the term "granuality" used in only four places (in comments) and granularity in many more places describing the same idea. Some other facts: dictionary.com does not know such a word define:granuality on google is not found (and pages for granuality are mostly related to patches to the kernel) it has not been discussed as a term on LKML, AFAICS (=Can Search) To be consistent, I think granularity should be used everywhere. Signed-off-by: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-31Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET]: Allow skb headroom to be overridden [TCP]: Kill unused extern decl for tcp_v4_hash_connecting() [NET]: add SO_RCVBUF comment [NET]: Deinline some larger functions from netdevice.h [DCCP]: Use NULL for pointers, comfort sparse. [DECNET]: Fix refcount
2006-03-31[PATCH] fs/namei.c: make lookup_hash() staticAdrian Bunk
As announced, lookup_hash() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] fbcon: Fix big-endian bogosity in slow_imageblit()Antonino A. Daplas
The monochrome->color expansion routine that handles bitmaps which have (widths % 8) != 0 (slow_imageblit) produces corrupt characters in big-endian. This is caused by a bogus bit test in slow_imageblit(). Fix. This patch may deserve to go to the stable tree. The code has already been well tested in little-endian machines. It's only in big-endian where there is uncertainty and Herbert confirmed that this is the correct way to go. It should not introduce regressions. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] backlight: Backlight Class ImprovementsRichard Purdie
Backlight class attributes are currently easy to implement incorrectly. Moving certain handling into the backlight core prevents this whilst at the same time makes the drivers simpler and consistent. The following changes are included: The brightness attribute only sets and reads the brightness variable in the backlight_properties structure. The power attribute only sets and reads the power variable in the backlight_properties structure. Any framebuffer blanking events change a variable fb_blank in the backlight_properties structure. The backlight driver has only two functions to implement. One function is called when any of the above properties change (to update the backlight brightness), the second is called to return the current backlight brightness value. A new attribute "actual_brightness" is added to return this brightness as determined by the driver having combined all the above factors (and any driver/device specific factors). Additionally, the backlight core takes care of checking the maximum brightness is not exceeded and of turning off the backlight before device removal. The corgi backlight driver is updated to reflect these changes. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] dcache: Add helper d_hash_and_lookupEric W. Biederman
It is very common to hash a dentry and then to call lookup. If we take fs specific hash functions into account the full hash logic can get ugly. Further full_name_hash as an inline function is almost 100 bytes on x86 so having a non-inline choice in some cases can measurably decrease code size. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] pidhash: Refactor the pid hash tableEric W. Biederman
Simplifies the code, reduces the need for 4 pid hash tables, and makes the code more capable. In the discussions I had with Oleg it was felt that to a large extent the cleanup itself justified the work. With struct pid being dynamically allocated meant we could create the hash table entry when the pid was allocated and free the hash table entry when the pid was freed. Instead of playing with the hash lists when ever a process would attach or detach to a process. For myself the fact that it gave what my previous task_ref patch gave for free with simpler code was a big win. The problem is that if you hold a reference to struct task_struct you lock in 10K of low memory. If you do that in a user controllable way like /proc does, with an unprivileged but hostile user space application with typical resource limits of 1000 fds and 100 processes I can trigger the OOM killer by consuming all of low memory with task structs, on a machine wight 1GB of low memory. If I instead hold a reference to struct pid which holds a pointer to my task_struct, I don't suffer from that problem because struct pid is 2 orders of magnitude smaller. In fact struct pid is small enough that most other kernel data structures dwarf it, so simply limiting the number of referring data structures is enough to prevent exhaustion of low memory. This splits the current struct pid into two structures, struct pid and struct pid_link, and reduces our number of hash tables from PIDTYPE_MAX to just one. struct pid_link is the per process linkage into the hash tables and lives in struct task_struct. struct pid is given an indepedent lifetime, and holds pointers to each of the pid types. The independent life of struct pid simplifies attach_pid, and detach_pid, because we are always manipulating the list of pids and not the hash table. In addition in giving struct pid an indpendent life it makes the concept much more powerful. Kernel data structures can now embed a struct pid * instead of a pid_t and not suffer from pid wrap around problems or from keeping unnecessarily large amounts of memory allocated. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] task: RCU protect task->usageEric W. Biederman
A big problem with rcu protected data structures that are also reference counted is that you must jump through several hoops to increase the reference count. I think someone finally implemented atomic_inc_not_zero(&count) to automate the common case. Unfortunately this means you must special case the rcu access case. When data structures are only visible via rcu in a manner that is not determined by the reference count on the object (i.e. tasks are visible until their zombies are reaped) there is a much simpler technique we can employ. Simply delaying the decrement of the reference count until the rcu interval is over. What that means is that the proc code that looks up a task and later wants to sleep can now do: rcu_read_lock(); task = find_task_by_pid(some_pid); if (task) { get_task_struct(task); } rcu_read_unlock(); The effect on the rest of the kernel is that put_task_struct becomes cheaper and immediate, and in the case where the task has been reaped it frees the task immediate instead of unnecessarily waiting an until the rcu interval is over. Cleanup of task_struct does not happen when its reference count drops to zero, instead cleanup happens when release_task is called. Tasks can only be looked up via rcu before release_task is called. All rcu protected members of task_struct are freed by release_task. Therefore we can move call_rcu from put_task_struct into release_task. And we can modify release_task to not immediately release the reference count but instead have it call put_task_struct from the function it gives to call_rcu. The end result: - get_task_struct is safe in an rcu context where we have just looked up the task. - put_task_struct() simplifies into its old pre rcu self. This reorganization also makes put_task_struct uncallable from modules as it is not exported but it does not appear to be called from any modules so this should not be an issue, and is trivially fixed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] resurrect __put_task_structAndrew Morton
This just got nuked in mainline. Bring it back because Eric's patches use it. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: activate SCHED BATCH expiredCon Kolivas
To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can activate batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are latency insensitive tasks. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: cleanup task_activated()Con Kolivas
The activated flag in task_struct is used to track different sleep types and its usage is somewhat obfuscated. Convert the variable to an enum with more descriptive names without altering the function. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: reduce overhead of calc_loadJack Steiner
Currently, count_active_tasks() calls both nr_running() & nr_interruptible(). Each of these functions does a "for_each_cpu" & reads values from the runqueue of each cpu. Although this is not a lot of instructions, each runqueue may be located on different node. Depending on the architecture, a unique TLB entry may be required to access each runqueue. Since there may be more runqueues than cpu TLB entries, a scan of all runqueues can trash the TLB. Each memory reference incurs a TLB miss & refill. In addition, the runqueue cacheline that contains nr_running & nr_uninterruptible may be evicted from the cache between the two passes. This causes unnecessary cache misses. Combining nr_running() & nr_interruptible() into a single function substantially reduces the TLB & cache misses on large systems. This should have no measureable effect on smaller systems. On a 128p IA64 system running a memory stress workload, the new function reduced the overhead of calc_load() from 605 usec/call to 324 usec/call. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] hrtimer: create generic sleeperThomas Gleixner
The removal of the data field in the hrtimer structure enforces the embedding of the timer into another data structure. nanosleep now uses a private implementation of the most common used timer callback function (simple task wakeup). In order to avoid the reimplentation of such functionality all over the place a generic hrtimer_sleeper functionality is created. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED triggerRichard Purdie
Add an LED trigger for IDE disk activity to the ide-disk driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] LED: add LED trigger tupportRichard Purdie
Add support for LED triggers to the LED subsystem. "Triggers" are events which change the state of an LED. Two kinds of trigger are available, simple ones which can be added to exising code with minimum disruption and complex ones for implementing new or more complex functionality. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] LED: add LED classRichard Purdie
Add the foundations of a new LEDs subsystem. This patch adds a class which presents LED devices within sysfs and allows their brightness to be controlled. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] vt: add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECTRafael J. Wysocki
Add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT needed by the userland suspend tool to get the current value of kmsg_redirect from the kernel so that it can save it and restore it after resume. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sys_sync_file_range()Andrew Morton
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead. Reasons: - It's more flexible. Things which would require two or three syscalls with fadvise() can be done in a single syscall. - Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX. The patch wires up the syscall for x86. The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c. The intention is that we can move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later. Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c. A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz. The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC. I can skip the ->fsync call for NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common." Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if the queue is congested. This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set wbc->nonblocking. But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation details down to that level. Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing. Same with fsync() and fdatasync()). Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines. It makes such attempts appear to succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility. Perhaps it should make such requests fail... Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] IPMI: fix startup race conditionCorey Minyard
Matt Domsch noticed a startup race with the IPMI kernel thread, it was possible (though extraordinarly unlikely) that a message could come in before the upper layer was ready to handle it. This patch splits the startup processing of an IPMI interface into two parts, one to get ready and one to actually start the processes to receive messages from the interface. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regressionJoe Korty
Make baby-simple the code for /proc/devices. Based on the proven design for /proc/interrupts. This also fixes the early-termination regression 2.6.16 introduced, as demonstrated by: # dd if=/proc/devices bs=1 Character devices: 1 mem 27+0 records in 27+0 records out This should also work (but is untested) when /proc/devices >4096 bytes, which I believe is what the original 2.6.16 rewrite fixed. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications] Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] kill __init_timer_base in favor of boot_tvec_basesOleg Nesterov
Commit a4a6198b80cf82eb8160603c98da218d1bd5e104: [PATCH] tvec_bases too large for per-cpu data introduced "struct tvec_t_base_s boot_tvec_bases" which is visible at compile time. This means we can kill __init_timer_base and move timer_base_s's content into tvec_t_base_s. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] mm: schedule find_trylock_page() removalNick Piggin
find_trylock_page() is an odd interface in that it doesn't take a reference like the others. Now that XFS no longer uses it, and its last remaining caller actually wants an elevated refcount, opencode that callsite and schedule find_trylock_page() for removal. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] migrate_pages_to() must be defined for the no swap caseChristoph Lameter
Fix migrate_pages_to() definition. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] drivers/mtd/: small cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- chips/sharp.c: make two needlessly global functions static - move some declarations to a header file where they belong to Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sem2mutex: drivers/mtd/Ingo Molnar
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[NET]: Allow skb headroom to be overriddenAnton Blanchard
Previously we added NET_IP_ALIGN so an architecture can override the padding done to align headers. The next step is to allow the skb headroom to be overridden. We currently always reserve 16 bytes to grow into, meaning all DMAs start 16 bytes into a cacheline. On ppc64 we really want DMA writes to start on a cacheline boundary, so we increase that headroom to one cacheline. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-30Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] sata_mv: three bug fixes [PATCH] libata: ata_dev_init_params() fixes [PATCH] libata: Fix interesting use of "extern" and also some bracketing [PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logic [PATCH] libata - ATA is both ATA and CFA [PATCH] libata: Add ->set_mode hook for odd drivers [PATCH] libata: BMDMA handling updates [PATCH] libata: kill trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add FIXME above ata_dev_xfermask() [PATCH] libata: cosmetic changes in ata_bus_softreset() [PATCH] libata: kill E.D.D.
2006-03-30[PATCH] splice: add support for SPLICE_F_MOVE flagJens Axboe
This enables the caller to migrate pages from one address space page cache to another. In buzz word marketing, you can do zero-copy file copies! Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system callJens Axboe
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only). From the splice.c comments: "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands. This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer. Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logicAlan Cox
Add a field to the host_set called 'flags' (was host_set_flags changed to suit Jeff) Add a simplex_claimed field so we can remember who owns the DMA channel Add a ->mode_filter() hook to allow drivers to filter modes Add docs for mode_filter and set_mode Filter according to simplex state Filter cable in core This provides the needed framework to support all the mode rules found in the PATA world. The simplex filter deals with 'to spec' simplex DMA systems found in older chips. The cable filter avoids duplicating the same rules in each chip driver with PATA. Finally the mode filter is neccessary because drive/chip combinations have errata that forbid certain modes with some drives or types of ATA object. Drive speed setup remains per channel for now and the filters now use the framework Tejun put into place which cleans them up a lot from the older libata-pata patches. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>