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2006-03-25[PATCH] reiserfs: cleanupsVladimir V. Saveliev
Clean up several places where gcc issues warnings when -W is specified. Thanks to Neil for finding that. Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] parport: move PP_MAJOR from ppdev.h to major.hRene Herman
Today I wondered about /dev/parport<n> after not seeing anything in drivers/parport register char-major-99. Having PP_MAJOR in include/linux/major.h would've allowed me to more quickly determine that it was the ppdev driver driving these. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentryNick Piggin
Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused, but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the system. Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a 512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes. Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not its parent inode has a watch on it. Event queueing to parent will skip taking locks if this flag is cleared. Setting and clearing of this flag on all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check. The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] kernel/params.c: make param_array() staticAdrian Bunk
param_array() in kernel/params.c can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARMRusty Russell
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as unused. It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the most unloved drivers anyway. 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>
2006-03-25[PATCH] constify tty flip buffer handlingThomas Koeller
Add a couple of 'const' qualifiers to the TTY flip buffer APIs, where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flagOleg Drokin
Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain consistent behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and execution happens on different nodes. akpm: Needed by Lustre at present. I assume their objective to to work towards being able to install Lustre on an unmodified distro kernel, which seems sane. It should have zero runtime cost. Trond and Chuck indicate that NFS4 can probably use this too, for the same thing. Steven says it's also on the GFS todo list. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] reiserfs: fix transaction overflowingAlexander Zarochentzev
This patch fixes a bug in reiserfs truncate. A transaction might overflow when truncating long highly fragmented file. The fix is to split truncation into several transactions to avoid overflowing. Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc; Charles McColgan <cm@chuck.net> Cc: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com> Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] fs/inode.c: make iprune_mutex staticAdrian Bunk
There's no reason for iprune_mutex being global. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] Small cleanup in quota.hJan Kara
Remove unused quota flag. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] jbd: embed j_commit_timer in journal structAndrew Morton
The kjournald timer is currently on the kernel thread's stack and the journal structure points at it. Save a pointer hop by moving the timer into the journal structure. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc callsPekka Enberg
As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a compile-time constant size. Please note that the patch increases kernel text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocatorPekka Enberg
Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The allocator already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch makes the allocator available for the general public. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocatorsAl Viro
Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixupThomas Gleixner
alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds. The value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the itimer. The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX. Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion. It's not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the timeval_to_jiffies code. hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as already expired. This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a timeout value > INT_MAX seconds. For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds value to avoid API breakage. Instead of doing this in all implementations of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function in itimer.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[IPV4]: Aggregate route entries with different TOS valuesIlia Sotnikov
When we get an ICMP need-to-frag message, the original TOS value in the ICMP payload cannot be used as a key to look up the routes to update. This is because the TOS field may have been modified by routers on the way. Similarly, ip_rt_redirect should also ignore the TOS as the router that gave us the message may have modified the TOS value. The patch achieves this objective by aggregating entries with different TOS values (but are otherwise identical) into the same bucket. This makes it easy to update them at the same time when an ICMP message is received. In future we should use a twin-hashing scheme where teh aggregation occurs at the entry level. That is, the TOS goes back into the hash for normal lookups while ICMP lookups will end up with a node that gives us a list that contains all other route entries that differ only by TOS. Signed-off-by: Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24[NET]: Fill in a 32-bit hole in struct sock on 64-bit platforms.David S. Miller
This makes struct sock 8 bytes smaller on 64-bit. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24[MODULES]: Don't allow statically declared exportsPatrick McHardy
Add an extern declaration for exported symbols to make the compiler warn on symbols declared statically. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24[IA64] New IA64 core/thread detection patchFenghua Yu
IPF SDM 2.2 changes definition of PAL_LOGICAL_TO_PHYSICAL to add proc_number=-1 to get core/thread mapping info on the running processer. Based on this change, we had better to update existing core/thread detection in IA64 kernel correspondingly. The attached patch implements this change. It simplifies detection code and eliminates potential race condition. It also runs a bit faster and has better scalability especially when cores and threads number grows up in one package. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platformsJack Steiner
Node number are kept in the cpu_to_node_map which is currently defined as u8. Change to u16 to accomodate larger node numbers. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platformsJack Steiner
Add support in IA64 acpi for platforms that support more than 256 nodes. Currently, ACPI is limited to 256 nodes because the proximity domain number is 8-bits. Long term, we expect to use ACPI3.0 to support >256 nodes. This patch is an interim solution that works with platforms that pass the high order bits of the proximity domain in "reserved" fields of the ACPI tables. This code is enabled ONLY on SN platforms. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platformsJack Steiner
Add a configuration option to allow the maximum number of nodes to be configurable for GENERIC or SN kernels. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24[IA64] Tollhouse HP: IA64 arch changesPrarit Bhargava
arch/ia64/sn and include/asm-ia64/sn changes required to support Tollhouse system PCI hotplug, fixes the ia64_sn_sysctl_ioboard_get call, and introduces the PRF_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT feature bit. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24[IA64] cleanup dig_irq_initChen, Kenneth W
dig_irq_init is equivalent to machvec_noop, no need to define another empty function. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3599): Implement new routing commands for wm8775 and cs53l32a.Hans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3598): Add bit algorithm adapter for the Conexant CX2341X boards.Hans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3584): Implement V4L2_TUNER_MODE_LANG1_LANG2 audio modeHans Verkuil
Add a new audio mode V4L2_TUNER_MODE_LANG1_LANG2 (used by VIDIOC_G/S_TUNER). This mode allows the user to select both languages of a bilingual transmission, one language on the left, one on the right audio channel. If there is no bilingual transmission, or it is not supported, then this mode should act like V4L2_TUNER_MODE_STEREO. This mode is introduced for PVR-like drivers where it is useful to be able to record both languages of a bilingual broadcast. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3582): Implement correct msp3400 input/output routingHans Verkuil
- implement VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING for msp3400 and tvaudio - use the new command in bttv, pvrusb2 and em28xx. - remove the now obsolete MSP_SET_MATRIX from msp3400 (yeah!) - remove the obsolete VIDIOC_S_AUDIO from msp3400. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3581): Add new media/msp3400.h header containing the routing macrosHans Verkuil
Moved msp3400.h to msp3400-driver.h. Created media/msp3400.h with the new routing defines and lots of comments. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3577): Cleanup audio input handlingHans Verkuil
Cleanup audio input handling in bttv and tvaudio: - inputs were specified that were never used - mute was handled as a special input which led to confusing code - confusing naming made it difficult to see if the setting was for i2c or gpio. The old audiochip.h input names moved to tvaudio.h. Currently this is used both by tvaudio and msp3400 until the msp3400 implements the new msp3400-specific inputs. Detect in bttv the tvaudio and msp3400 i2c clients and use these client pointers to set the inputs directly instead of broadcasting the command. Removed AUDC_SET_INPUT. Now replaced by VIDIOC_S_AUDIO. This will be replaced again later by the new ROUTING commands. Removed VIDIOC_G_AUDIO implementations in i2c drivers: this command is a user level command and not to be used internally. It wasn't called at all anyway. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3548): Renamed I2C_foo addresses to I2C_ADDR_fooMauro Carvalho Chehab
I2C_foo were used for some i2c addresses. Bad, since those constants could mean other i2c chip things. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3547): Tvaudio.h are just i2c addresses. Merged into i2c-addr.hMauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3546): Fix Compilation after moving bttv codeMauro Carvalho Chehab
- Missing a Makefile for bt8xx - rds.h were at wrong directory, since it is a global header for an internal interface - tda7432 and tda9875 were dependent from bttv.h - bttv.h were holding i2c addresses Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24V4L/DVB (3516): Make video_buf more genericMauro Carvalho Chehab
Video_buf were concerned to allow PCI devices to be used as video capture devices. This patch extends video_buf features by virtualizing pci-dependent functions and allowing other type of devices to use it. It is still DMA centric, although it may be used also by devices that emulates scatter/gather behavior or a DMA device Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-24[IA64] MCA recovery: kernel context recovery tableRuss Anderson
Memory errors encountered by user applications may surface when the CPU is running in kernel context. The current code will not attempt recovery if the MCA surfaces in kernel context (privilage mode 0). This patch adds a check for cases where the user initiated the load that surfaces in kernel interrupt code. An example is a user process lauching a load from memory and the data in memory had bad ECC. Before the bad data gets to the CPU register, and interrupt comes in. The code jumps to the IVT interrupt entry point and begins execution in kernel context. The process of saving the user registers (SAVE_REST) causes the bad data to be loaded into a CPU register, triggering the MCA. The MCA surfaces in kernel context, even though the load was initiated from user context. As suggested by David and Tony, this patch uses an exception table like approach, puting the tagged recovery addresses in a searchable table. One difference from the exception table is that MCAs do not surface in precise places (such as with a TLB miss), so instead of tagging specific instructions, address ranges are registers. A single macro is used to do the tagging, with the input parameter being the label of the starting address and the macro being the ending address. This limits clutter in the code. This patch only tags one spot, the interrupt ivt entry. Testing showed that spot to be a "heavy hitter" with MCAs surfacing while saving user registers. Other spots can be added as needed by adding a single macro. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24Fix simple typosAndrzej Zaborowski
This corrects some trivial errors in ARM docs and comments, Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24[PATCH] AT91RM9200 Ethernet driverAndrew Victor
This patch adds support for the Ethernet controller integrated in the Atmel AT91RM9200 SoC processor. Changes since the previous submission (01/02/2006) are: - Make use of the clk.h clock infrastructure. - The multicast hash function is not crc32. [Patch by Pedro Perez] Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-24Merge 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] libata: Remove dependence on host_set->dev for SAS [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_ioctl cleanup [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_queuecmd cleanup [libata] export ata_dev_pair; trim trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add ata_dev_pair helper [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE. [PATCH] libata: make ata_set_mode() responsible for failure handling [PATCH] libata: use ata_dev_disable() in ata_bus_probe() [PATCH] libata: implement ata_dev_disable() [PATCH] libata: check if port is disabled after internal command [PATCH] libata: make per-dev transfer mode limits per-dev [PATCH] libata: add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_mask [PATCH] libata: implement ata_unpack_xfermask() [libata] Move some bmdma-specific code to libata-bmdma.c [libata sata_uli] kill scr_addr abuse [libata sata_nv] eliminate duplicate codepaths with iomap [libata sata_nv] cleanups: convert #defines to enums; remove in-file history [libata sata_sil24] cleanups: use pci_iomap(), kzalloc()
2006-03-24[PATCH] strndup_user()Davi Arnaut
This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings from userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the final \0 after the strlen_user(). Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanupsIngo Molnar
Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task. (the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup phase and does small style fixes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operationsKumar Gala
In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@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>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regsPierre Ossman
Class code and register definitions for the Secure Digital Host Controller standard. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] fsync: extract internal codeAndrew Morton
Pull the guts out of do_fsync() - we can use it elsewhere. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixesAndrew Morton
We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state. This wasn't right in a couple of places. Do a kernel-wide audit, fix things up. This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from set_page_dirty() sometime in the future. But we don't do that at present. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages argAndrew Morton
Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument. For msync(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] sound: remove PC98-specific OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98Arthur Othieno
OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98 #define isn't used anywhere; previously in sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_lib.c and sound/isa/cs423x/pc98.c, the latter of which went away with the rest of PC98 subarch. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] fadvise(): write commandsAndrew Morton
Add two new linux-specific fadvise extensions(): LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. Any pages which are currently under writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. By combining these two operations the application may do several things: LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been written. It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data will be available after a crash. To complete this suite of operations I guess we should have a "sync file metadata only" operation. This gives applications access to all the building blocks needed for all sorts of sync operations. But sync-metadata doesn't fit well with the fadvise() interface. Probably it should be a new syscall: sys_fmetadatasync(). The patch also diddles with the meaning of `endbyte' in sys_fadvise64_64(). It is made to represent that last affected byte in the file (ie: it is inclusive). Generally, all these byterange and pagerange functions are inclusive so we can easily represent EOF with -1. As Ulrich notes, these two functions are somewhat abusive of the fadvise() concept, which appears to be "set the future policy for this fd". But these commands are a perfect fit with the fadvise() impementation, and several of the existing fadvise() commands are synchronous and don't affect future policy either. I think we can live with the slight incongruity. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assemblyJan Beulich
Provide abstraction for generating type and size information of assembly routines and data, while permitting architectures to override these defaults. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] s/;;/;/gAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizationsPaul Jackson
The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path. Many systems will use neither feature. This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the current tasks task_struct flags. For non NUMA systems, this hook and related code is already ifdef'd out. The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using a non-default NUMA mempolicy. Taking this flag bit along with the PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current tasks task_struct flags. This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text space, and moves some of it out of line. Due to the nested inlines called from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit wasteful of instruction memory. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>