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2008-05-01quota: add a convenience macro for filesystemsJan Kara
Note that it cannot be an inline function because we don't have struct super_block prototype... Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01dmi: clean-up dmi helper declarationsJean Delvare
The declaration of dmi helper functions is a bit messy and inconsistent at the moment: * On ia64 they are declared in <asm/io.h>. * On x86-64 they are declared in <asm/dmi.h>. * On i386 they are declared both in <asm/io.h> and <asm/dmi.h>. Fix the header files so that the dmi helper functions are consistently defined in <asm/dmi.h>. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01jsm: add new supported board to jsm serial driverScott Kilau
Add new PCI Express Neo/JSM board to the supported list of drivers in the JSM driver. Signed-off-by: Scott Kilau <scottk@digi.com> Acked-by: Ananda V <avenkat@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for CONFIG_SYSFS=nRandy Dunlap
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a stub for it. next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group' make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison functionDavid Brownell
Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison function, which ignores the trailing newlines found in sysfs inputs. By example: sysfs_streq("a", "b") ==> false sysfs_streq("a", "a") ==> true sysfs_streq("a", "a\n") ==> true sysfs_streq("a\n", "a") ==> true This is intended to simplify parsing of sysfs inputs, letting them avoid the need to manually strip off newlines from inputs. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01ntp: handle leap second via timerRoman Zippel
Remove the leap second handling from second_overflow(), which doesn't have to check for it every second anymore. With CONFIG_NO_HZ this also makes sure the leap second is handled close to the full second. Additionally this makes it possible to abort a leap second properly by resetting the STA_INS/STA_DEL status bits. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01ntp: remove current_tick_length()Roman Zippel
current_tick_length used to do a little more, but now it just returns tick_length, which we can also access directly at the few places, where it's needed. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01ntp: rename TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT to NTP_SCALE_SHIFTRoman Zippel
As TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT is used for more than just the tick length, the name isn't quite approriate anymore, so this renames it to NTP_SCALE_SHIFT. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01ntp: support for TAIRoman Zippel
This adds support for setting the TAI value (International Atomic Time). The value is reported back to userspace via timex (as we don't have a ntp_gettime() syscall). Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01ntp: increase time_offset resolutionRoman Zippel
time_offset is already a 64bit value but its resolution barely used, so this makes better use of it by replacing SHIFT_UPDATE with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT. Side note: the SHIFT_HZ in SHIFT_UPDATE was incorrect for CONFIG_NO_HZ and the primary reason for changing time_offset to 64bit to avoid the overflow. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01ntp: increase time_freq resolutionRoman Zippel
This changes time_freq to a 64bit value and makes it static (the only outside user had no real need to modify it). Intermediate values were already 64bit, so the change isn't that big, but it saves a little in shifts by replacing SHIFT_NSEC with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT. PPM_SCALE is then used to convert between user space and kernel space representation. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01ntp: NTP4 user space bits updateRoman Zippel
This adds a few more things from the ntp nanokernel related to user space. It's now possible to select the resolution used of some values via STA_NANO and the kernel reports in which mode it works (pll/fll). If some values for adjtimex() are outside the acceptable range, they are now simply normalized instead of letting the syscall fail. I removed MOD_CLKA/MOD_CLKB as the mapping didn't really makes any sense, the kernel doesn't support setting the clock. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01remove div_long_long_remRoman Zippel
x86 is the only arch right now, which provides an optimized for div_long_long_rem and it has the downside that one has to be very careful that the divide doesn't overflow. The API is a little akward, as the arguments for the unsigned divide are signed. The signed version also doesn't handle a negative divisor and produces worse code on 64bit archs. There is little incentive to keep this API alive, so this converts the few users to the new API. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01rename div64_64 to div64_u64Roman Zippel
Rename div64_64 to div64_u64 to make it consistent with the other divide functions, so it clearly includes the type of the divide. Move its definition to math64.h as currently no architecture overrides the generic implementation. They can still override it of course, but the duplicated declarations are avoided. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01introduce explicit signed/unsigned 64bit divideRoman Zippel
The current do_div doesn't explicitly say that it's unsigned and the signed counterpart is missing, which is e.g. needed when dealing with time values. This introduces 64bit signed/unsigned divide functions which also attempts to cleanup the somewhat awkward calling API, which often requires the use of temporary variables for the dividend. To avoid the need for temporary variables everywhere for the remainder, each divide variant also provides a version which doesn't return the remainder. Each architecture can now provide optimized versions of these function, otherwise generic fallback implementations will be used. As an example I provided an alternative for the current x86 divide, which avoids the asm casts and using an union allows gcc to generate better code. It also avoids the upper divde in a few more cases, where the result is known (i.e. upper quotient is zero). Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.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>
2008-05-01frv: unbreak misalignment handling changesDavid Howells
Fix a reference in a arch/frv/mm/Makefile to unaligned.c which has now been deleted. Also revert the change to the guard macro name in include/asm-frv/unaligned.h. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-fixes3 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-fixes3: (21 commits) x86: numaq fix x86: 8K stacks by default x86: ioremap ram check fix x86: fix HT cpu booting on 32-bit x86: optimize inlining off x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fix x86: Kconfig fix x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and pci_mmap_page_range() x86: use defconfigs from x86/configs/* toshiba: use ioremap_cached revert: "x86: ioremap(), extend check to all RAM pages" x86: don't bother printing compat vdso address fix: x86: support for new UV apic x86: fix early-BUG message x86: iommu_sac_force can become static x86: add proper header for reboot_force x86 VISWS: build fix x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache() hpet: fix x86: unexport kmap_atomic_to_page ...
2008-04-30klist: fix coding style errors in klist.h and klist.cGreg Kroah-Hartman
Finally clean up the odd spacing in these files. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30driver core: remove no longer used "struct class_device"Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev_ioremapKumar Gala
Use a resource_size_t instead of unsigned long since some arch's are capable of having ioremap deal with addresses greater than the size of a unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for CONFIG_SYSFS=nRandy Dunlap
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a stub for it. next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group' make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30klist: implement klist_add_{after|before}()Tejun Heo
Add klist_add_after() and klist_add_before() which puts a new node after and before an existing node, respectively. This is useful for callers which need to keep klist ordered. Note that synchronizing between simultaneous additions for ordering is the caller's responsibility. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30klist: implement KLIST_INIT() and DEFINE_KLIST()Tejun Heo
klist is missing static initializers and definition helper. Add them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30x86: fix HT cpu booting on 32-bitHugh Dickins
Since recent smpboot 32/64-bit merge, my dual Xeon with HT has been booting only 2 of its 4 cpus (when running an i386 kernel; but x86_64 is okay). J.A. Magallón reports the same. native_cpu_up: bad cpu 2 native_cpu_up: bad cpu 3 The mach-default cpu_present_to_apicid() was just returning cpu number (2, 3) instead of apicid (6, 7): looks like we now need the x86_64 code even for the i386 case. Comparing with other versions of cpu_present_to_apicid(), it seems a good idea to include an NR_CPUS test too, since cpu_present() doesn't include that; but that wasn't a problem here, and may no problem at all. Prior to that smpboot merge, my Xeon booted the two HT siblings on one physical first, then the two siblings on the other physical after - when i386, but alternated them when x86_64. Since the merge, the x86_64 sequence is unchanged, but the i386 sequence is now like x86_64. I prefer this consistency, and I prefer the new sequence: booting with maxcpus=2 then uses the independent physicals without HT sharing. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86 VISWS: build fixIngo Molnar
the 'reboot_force' flag is a notion that non-PC subarchitectures do not have. also, unify the X86_BIOS_REBOOT option between 32-bit and 64-bit and get rid of a few unnecessary Kconfig and Makefile complications that way. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30x86: remove Xgt_desc_structAdrian Bunk
The comment says it should have been removed in 2.6.25. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (179 commits) ACPI: Fix acpi_processor_idle and idle= boot parameters interaction acpi: fix section mismatch warning in pnpacpi intel_menlo: fix build warning ACPI: Cleanup: Remove unneeded, multiple local dummy variables ACPI: video - fix permissions on some proc entries ACPI: video - properly handle errors when registering proc elements ACPI: video - do not store invalid entries in attached_array list ACPI: re-name acpi_pm_ops to acpi_suspend_ops ACER_WMI/ASUS_LAPTOP: fix build bug thinkpad_acpi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kstrdup failed ACPI: check a return value correctly in acpi_power_get_context() #if 0 acpi/bay.c:eject_removable_drive() eeepc-laptop: add hwmon fan control eeepc-laptop: add backlight eeepc-laptop: add base driver ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.20 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix selects in Kconfig ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a private workqueue ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fluff really minor fix ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use uppercase for "LED" on user documentation ... Fixed conflicts in drivers/acpi/video.c and drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c manually.
2008-04-30Merge branch 'pnp' into releaseLen Brown
2008-04-30Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release
2008-04-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: remove duplicated include sparc: Add kgdb support. kgdbts: Sparc needs sstep emulation. sparc32: Kill smp_message_pass() and related code. sparc64: Kill PIL_RESERVED, unused. sparc64: Split entry.S up into seperate files.
2008-04-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (53 commits) tcp: Overflow bug in Vegas [IPv4] UFO: prevent generation of chained skb destined to UFO device iwlwifi: move the selects to the tristate drivers ipv4: annotate a few functions __init in ipconfig.c atm: ambassador: vcc_sf semaphore to mutex MAINTAINERS: The socketcan-core list is subscribers-only. netfilter: nf_conntrack: padding breaks conntrack hash on ARM ipv4: Update MTU to all related cache entries in ip_rt_frag_needed() sch_sfq: use del_timer_sync() in sfq_destroy() net: Add compat support for getsockopt (MCAST_MSFILTER) net: Several cleanups for the setsockopt compat support. ipvs: fix oops in backup for fwmark conn templates bridge: kernel panic when unloading bridge module bridge: fix error handling in br_add_if() netfilter: {nfnetlink,ip,ip6}_queue: fix skb_over_panic when enlarging packets netfilter: x_tables: fix net namespace leak when reading /proc/net/xxx_tables_names netfilter: xt_TCPOPTSTRIP: signed tcphoff for ipv6_skip_exthdr() retval tcp: Limit cwnd growth when deferring for GSO tcp: Allow send-limited cwnd to grow up to max_burst when gso disabled [netdrvr] gianfar: Determine TBIPA value dynamically ...
2008-04-30inlining: do not allow gcc below version 4 to optimize inliningIngo Molnar
fix the condition to match intention: always use the old inlining behavior on all gcc versions below 4. this should solve the UML build problem. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] Update default configuration. [S390] use generic sys_ptrace [S390] Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack. [S390] Convert to SPARSEMEM & SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP [S390] System z large page support. [S390] Convert machine feature detection code to C. [S390] vmemmap: use clear_table to initialise page tables. [S390] Move stfl to system.h and delete duplicated version. [S390] uaccess_mvcos: #ifdef config dependent code. [S390] cpu topology: Fix possible deadlock. [S390] Add topology_core_siblings to topology.h [S390] cio: Make isc handling more robust. [S390] remove -traditional [S390] Automatically detect added cpus. [S390] smp: Fix locking order. [S390] Add missing ifndef/define to include/asm-s390/sysinfo.h. [S390] Move show_regs to traps.c. [S390] cio: Use strict_strtoul() for attributes.
2008-04-30Drop the exporting of empty <linux/byteorder/generic.h>Robert P. J. Day
Fix up the contents of <linux/byteorder/> so that it doesn't export a content-free generic.h to user space. This involves: * Removing the __KERNEL__ tests from generic.h and dropping it from Kbuild. * Wrapping the inclusions of generic.h in both big_endian.h and little_endian.h in __KERNEL__ tests. * Shifting big_endian.h and little_endian.h from header-y to unifdef-y in Kbuild. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30remove __KERNEL__ tests of unexported headers under asm-generic/Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30add hrtimer specific debugobjects codeThomas Gleixner
hrtimers have now dynamic users in the network code. Put them under debugobjects surveillance as well. Add calls to the generic object debugging infrastructure and provide fixup functions which allow to keep the system alive when recoverable problems have been detected by the object debugging core code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging codeThomas Gleixner
Add calls to the generic object debugging infrastructure and provide fixup functions which allow to keep the system alive when recoverable problems have been detected by the object debugging core code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objectsThomas Gleixner
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the kernel: 1) freeing of active objects 2) reinitialization of active objects Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt context and usually causes the machine to panic. While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due to the intrusiveness into the timer code. The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause instantly and keep the system operational. Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special knowledge of the bug reporter. The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive, but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug. Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble. The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is freed. The tracked object operations are: - initializing an object - adding an object to a subsystem list - deleting an object from a subsystem list Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message and a stack trace is printed. The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's limited to the requirements of the first user (timers). The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a global lock. The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line option enables the debugging code. Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30slab: add a flag to prevent debug_free checks on a kmem_cacheThomas Gleixner
This is a preperatory patch for the debugobjects infrastructure. The flag prevents debug_free checks on kmem_caches. This is necessary to avoid resursive calls into a debug mechanism which uses a kmem_cache itself. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Add macros similar to min/max/min_t/max_tHarvey Harrison
Also, change the variable names used in the min/max macros to avoid shadowed variable warnings when min/max min_t/max_t are nested. Small formatting changes to make all the macros have a similar form. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v4l build] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Basic braille screen reader supportSamuel Thibault
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports] Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30asm-*/futex.h should include linux/uaccess.hJeff Dike
Lots of asm-*/futex.h call pagefault_enable and pagefault_disable, which are declared in linux/uaccess.h, without including linux/uaccess.h. They all include asm/uaccess.h, so this patch replaces asm/uaccess.h with linux/uaccess.h. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30reiserfs: use open_bdev_exclChristoph Hellwig
Use the proper helper to open a blockdevice by name for filesystem use, this makes sure it's properly claimed (also added for open-by-number) and gets rid of the struct file abuse. Tested by mounting a reiserfs filesystem with external journal. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: Add NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counterMiklos Szeredi
Fuse will use temporary buffers to write back dirty data from memory mappings (normal writes are done synchronously). This is needed, because there cannot be any guarantee about the time in which a write will complete. By using temporary buffers, from the MM's point if view the page is written back immediately. If the writeout was due to memory pressure, this effectively migrates data from a full zone to a less full zone. This patch adds a new counter (NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP) for the number of pages used as temporary buffers. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add vmstat_text for NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP] Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: bdi: export bdi_writeout_inc()Miklos Szeredi
Fuse needs this for writable mmap support. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capabilityMiklos Szeredi
Add a new BDI capability flag: BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB. If this flag is set, then don't update the per-bdi writeback stats from test_set_page_writeback() and test_clear_page_writeback(). Misc cleanups: - convert bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() and friends to static inline functions - create a flag that includes all three dirty/writeback related flags, since almst all users will want to have them toghether Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: bdi: move statistics to debugfsMiklos Szeredi
Move BDI statistics to debugfs: /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/<bdi>/stats Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs, because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall(). Update descriptions in ABI documentation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limitPeter Zijlstra
Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the maximum percentage of the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi. [mszeredi@suse.cz] - fix parsing in max_ratio_store(). - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio - document new sysfs attribute Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limitPeter Zijlstra
Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other devices. min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to a particular device. This is useful in situations where you might want to provide a minimum QoS. (One request for this feature came from flash based storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course needed some pdflush hacks as well) max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a particular device. This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one device taking all or most of the write-back cache. Eg. an NFS mount that is prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair. Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the minimum percentage of the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi. [mszeredi@suse.cz] - fix parsing in min_ratio_store() - document new sysfs attribute Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>