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2006-01-06[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: x86 partsArjan van de Ven
x86 specific parts to make the .rodata section read only Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic infrastructureArjan van de Ven
Generic prep-work for marking the .rodata section readonly: * Align the rodata section at 4Kb boundary * call the mark_rodata_ro() function when available Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86: handle -Wsign-compare in bitopsDavid Howells
Make i386's find_first_bit() use an unsigned integer as a counter to avoid getting warnings when -Wsign-compare is given. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86: Pnp byte granularityZachary Amsden
The one remaining caller of set_limit, the PnP BIOS code, calls into the PnP BIOS, passing kernel parameters in and out. These parameteres may be passed from arbitrary kernel virtual memory, so they deserve strict protection to stop a bad BIOS from smashing beyond the object size. Unfortunately, the use of set_limit was badly botching this by setting the limit in terms of pages, when it really should have byte granularity. When doing this, I discovered my BIOS had the buggy code during the "get system device node" call: mov ax, es:[bx] Which is harmless, but has a trivial workaround. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86: Deprecate obsolete ldt accessorsZachary Amsden
Old accessors to fetch LDT descriptors are unused and outdated and in the wrong header file. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86: Pnp segments in segment hZachary Amsden
Move PnP BIOS segment definitions into segment.h; the segments are reserved here, so they might as well be defined here as well. Note I didn't do this for APM BIOS, as Macintosh and other systems use those values to emulate APM in some scary way I don't want to understand. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86: Cr4 is valid on some 486sZachary Amsden
So some 486 processors do have CR4 register. Allow them to present it in register dumps by using the old fault technique rather than testing processor family. Thanks to Maciej for noticing this. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] i386: move SIMD initializationJan Beulich
Move some code unrelated to any dealing with hardware bugs from i386's bugs.h to a more logical place. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] x86: GDT alignment fixZachary Amsden
Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a hypervisor. This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in VMware. Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is allocated dynamically. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mips: remove include/asm-mips/riscos-syscall.hDomen Puncer
Remove nowhere referenced file ("grep riscos -r ." didn't find anything). Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] frv: improve signal handlingDavid Howells
The attached patch improves the signal handling: (1) It makes do_signal() static as it isn't called from anywhere outside of the arch code. (2) It removes the regs argument to all the static functions within that file, using __frame instead (which is the same thing held in a global register). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] FRV: Make futex code compilable on nommu [try #2]David Howells
Make the futex code compilable and usable on NOMMU by making the attempt to handle page faults conditional on CONFIG_MMU. If this is not enabled, then we can assume that EFAULT returned from futex_atomic_op_inuser() is not recoverable, and that the address lies outside of valid memory. handle_mm_fault() is made to BUG if called on NOMMU without attempting to invoke the actual handler (__handle_mm_fault). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] FRV: Implement futex operations for FRVDavid Howells
The attached patch implements futex operations for the FRV architecture. The operations are applicable to both MMU and no-MMU modes; though the EFAULT handling will be a little bit of wasted space on the latter. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMUDavid Howells
The attached patch makes the SYSV IPC shared memory facilities use the new ramfs facilities on a no-MMU kernel. The following changes are made: (1) There are now shmem_mmap() and shmem_get_unmapped_area() functions to allow the IPC SHM facilities to commune with the tiny-shmem and shmem code. (2) ramfs files now need resizing using do_truncate() rather than by modifying the inode size directly (see shmem_file_setup()). This causes ramfs to attempt to bind a block of pages of sufficient size to the inode. (3) CONFIG_SYSVIPC is no longer contingent on CONFIG_MMU. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] NOMMU: Provide shared-writable mmap support on ramfsDavid Howells
The attached patch makes ramfs support shared-writable mmaps by: (1) Attempting to perform a contiguous block allocation to the requested size when truncate attempts to increase the file from zero size, such as happens when: fd = shm_open("/file/on/ramfs", ...): ftruncate(fd, size_requested); addr = mmap(NULL, subsize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED, fd, offset); (2) Permitting any shared-writable mapping over any contiguous set of extant pages. get_unmapped_area() will return the address into the actual ramfs pages. The mapping may start anywhere and be of any size, but may not go over the end of file. Multiple mappings may overlap in any way. (3) Not permitting a file to be shrunk if it would truncate any shared mappings (private mappings are copied). Thus this patch provides support for POSIX shared memory on NOMMU kernels, with certain limitations such as there being a large enough block of pages available to support the allocation and it only working on directly mappable filesystems. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] ppc32: Allows compilation of a MPC52xx kernel without PCISylvain Munaut
Some custom cards might not need PCI, without this patch, compilation fails. Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld <blofeldus@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] ppc32: Modify Freescale MPC52xx IRQ mapping to _not_ use irq 0Sylvain Munaut
AFAIK IRQ number 0 is a perfectly valid IRQ number. But it seems there are numerous places where it's considered to be invalid or "no irq" value. Since that value is problematic, the IRQ mapping is changed to not use it. Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] ppc32: remove "jumbo" member from ocp_func_emac_dataEugene Surovegin
Remove the not needed anymore "jumbo" member from ocp_func_emac_data. Jumbo frame support is handled by PPC4xx EMAC driver internally now. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] Keys: Remove key duplicationDavid Howells
Remove the key duplication stuff since there's nothing that uses it, no way to get at it and it's awkward to deal with for LSM purposes. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: page_state opt docsNick Piggin
Comment the new locking rules for page_state statistics. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: page_state optNick Piggin
Optimise page_state manipulations by introducing interrupt unsafe accessors to page_state fields. Callers must provide their own locking (either disable interrupts or not update from interrupt context). Switch over the hot callsites that can easily be moved under interrupts off sections. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2Christoph Lameter
Several counters already have the need to use 64 atomic variables on 64 bit platforms (see mm_counter_t in sched.h). We have to do ugly ifdefs to fall back to 32 bit atomic on 32 bit platforms. The VM statistics patch that I am working on will also make more extensive use of atomic64. This patch introduces a new type atomic_long_t by providing definitions in asm-generic/atomic.h that works similar to the c "long" type. Its 32 bits on 32 bit platforms and 64 bits on 64 bit platforms. Also cleans up the determination of the mm_counter_t in sched.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: move determination of policy_zone into page allocatorChristoph Lameter
Currently the function to build a zonelist for a BIND policy has the side effect to set the policy_zone. This seems to be a bit strange. policy zone seems to not be initialized elsewhere and therefore 0. Do we police ZONE_DMA if no bind policy has been used yet? This patch moves the determination of the zone to apply policies to into the page allocator. We determine the zone while building the zonelist for nodes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: add populated_zone() helperCon Kolivas
There are numerous places we check whether a zone is populated or not. Provide a helper function to check for populated zones and convert all checks for zone->present_pages. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: rmap optimisationNick Piggin
Optimise rmap functions by minimising atomic operations when we know there will be no concurrent modifications. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: dma32 zone statisticsNick Piggin
Add dma32 to zone statistics. Also attempt to arrange struct page_state a bit better (visually). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] kill last zone_reclaim() bitsAndrew Morton
Remove the last bits of Martin's ill-fated sys_set_zone_reclaim(). Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] Cleanup bootmem allocator and fix alloc_bootmem_lowRavikiran G Thirumalai
Patch cleans up the alloc_bootmem fix for swiotlb. Patch removes alloc_bootmem_*_limit api and fixes alloc_boot_*low api to do the right thing -- allocate from low32 memory. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: remove pcp lowNick Piggin
struct per_cpu_pages.low is useless. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] sparsemem: provide pfn_to_nidAndy Whitcroft
Before SPARSEMEM is initialised we cannot provide an efficient pfn_to_nid() implmentation; before initialisation is complete we use early_pfn_to_nid() to provide location information. Until recently there was no non-init user of this functionality. Provide a post init pfn_to_nid() implementation. Note that this implmentation assumes that the pfn passed has been validated with pfn_valid(). The current single user of this function already has this check. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] flatmem split out memory modelAndy Whitcroft
There are three places we define pfn_to_nid(). Two in linux/mmzone.h and one in asm/mmzone.h. These in essence represent the three memory models. The definition in linux/mmzone.h under !NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES is both the FLATMEM definition and the optimisation for single NUMA nodes; the one under SPARSEMEM is the NUMA sparsemem one; the one in asm/mmzone.h under DISCONTIGMEM is the discontigmem one. This is not in the least bit obvious, particularly the connection between the non-NUMA optimisations and the memory models. Two patches: flatmem-split-out-memory-model: simplifies the selection of pfn_to_nid() implementations. The selection is based primarily off the memory model selected. Optimisations for non-NUMA are applied where needed. sparse-provide-pfn_to_nid: implement pfn_to_nid() for SPARSEMEM This patch: pfn_to_nid is memory model specific The pfn_to_nid() call is memory model specific. It represents the locality identifier for the memory passed. Classically this would be a NUMA node, but not a chunk of memory under DISCONTIGMEM. The SPARSEMEM and FLATMEM memory model non-NUMA versions of pfn_to_nid() are folded together under NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES, while DISCONTIGMEM has its own optimisation. This is all very confusing. This patch splits out each implementation of pfn_to_nid() so that we can see them and the optimisations to each. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] Shut up warnings in ipc/shm.cRussell King
Fix two warnings in ipc/shm.c ipc/shm.c:122: warning: statement with no effect ipc/shm.c:560: warning: statement with no effect by converting the macros to empty inline functions. For safety, let's do all three. This also has the advantage that typechecking gets performed even without CONFIG_SHMEM enabled. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODESMike Kravetz
The NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config option was created so that DISCONTIGMEM could handle pSeries numa layouts. However, support for DISCONTIGMEM has been replaced by SPARSEMEM on powerpc. As a result, this config option and supporting code is no longer needed. I have already sent a patch to Paul that removes the option from powerpc specific code. This removes the arch independent piece. Doesn't really matter which is applied first. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: pfn_to_pgdat not used in common codeAndy Whitcroft
pfn_to_pgdat() isn't used in common code. Remove definition. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: kvaddr_to_nid not used in common codeAndy Whitcroft
kvaddr_to_nid() isn't used in common code nor in i386 code. Remove these definitions. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] Remove old node based policy interface from mempolicy.cChristoph Lameter
mempolicy.c contains provisional interface for huge page allocation based on node numbers. This is in use in SLES9 but was never used (AFAIK) in upstream versions of Linux. Huge page allocations now use zonelists to figure out where to allocate pages. The use of zonelists allows us to find the closest hugepage which was the consideration of the NUMA distance for huge page allocations. Remove the obsolete functions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] Add NUMA policy support for huge pages.Christoph Lameter
The huge_zonelist() function in the memory policy layer provides an list of zones ordered by NUMA distance. The hugetlb layer will walk that list looking for a zone that has available huge pages but is also in the nodeset of the current cpuset. This patch does not contain the folding of find_or_alloc_huge_page() that was controversial in the earlier discussion. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing storeBadari Pulavarty
Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a given range of pages & its associated backing store. Current implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return -ENOSYS. "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some client disconnect, some memory can be released. However the only way to release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML. Concerns raised by Andrew Morton: - "We have no plan for holepunching! If we _do_ have such a plan (or might in the future) then what would the API look like? I think sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that." - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?" - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this manner. A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a filesytem operation? truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation which sometimes has MM side-effects. madvise is an mm operation and with this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really significant ones." Comments: - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range. It's possible to fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive, the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them. Short term plan & Future Direction: - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short term. We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and completeness. This is what this patch does. - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also. This also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented. - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in the future. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] reiser4: vfs: add truncate_inode_pages_range()Hans Reiser
This patch makes truncate_inode_pages_range from truncate_inode_pages. truncate_inode_pages became a one-liner call to truncate_inode_pages_range. Reiser4 needs truncate_inode_pages_ranges because it tries to keep correspondence between existences of metadata pointing to data pages and pages to which those metadata point to. So, when metadata of certain part of file is removed from filesystem tree, only pages of corresponding range are to be truncated. (Needed by the madvise(MADV_REMOVE) patch) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] alpha: dma_map_page() fixAndrew Morton
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] nbd: fix TX/RX race conditionHerbert Xu
Janos Haar of First NetCenter Bt. reported numerous crashes involving the NBD driver. With his help, this was tracked down to bogus bio vectors which in turn was the result of a race condition between the receive/transmit routines in the NBD driver. The bug manifests itself like this: CPU0 CPU1 do_nbd_request add req to queuelist nbd_send_request send req head for each bio kmap send nbd_read_stat nbd_find_request nbd_end_request kunmap When CPU1 finishes nbd_end_request, the request and all its associated bio's are freed. So when CPU0 calls kunmap whose argument is derived from the last bio, it may crash. Under normal circumstances, the race occurs only on the last bio. However, if an error is encountered on the remote NBD server (such as an incorrect magic number in the request), or if there were a bug in the server, it is possible for the nbd_end_request to occur any time after the request's addition to the queuelist. The following patch fixes this problem by making sure that requests are not added to the queuelist until after they have been completed transmission. In order for the receiving side to be ready for responses involving requests still being transmitted, the patch introduces the concept of the active request. When a response matches the current active request, its processing is delayed until after the tranmission has come to a stop. This has been tested by Janos and it has been successful in curing this race condition. From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Here is an updated patch which removes the active_req wait in nbd_clear_queue and the associated memory barrier. I've also clarified this in the comment. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: <djani22@dynamicweb.hu> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] Correct blk_execute_rq_nowait() prototypeJens Axboe
2006-01-06[BLOCK] add FUA support to libataTejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] update SCSI to use new blk_ordered for barriersTejun Heo
All ordered request related stuff delegated to HLD. Midlayer now doens't deal with ordered setting or prepare_flush callback. sd.c updated to deal with blk_queue_ordered setting. Currently, ordered tag isn't used as SCSI midlayer cannot guarantee request ordering. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] reimplement handling of barrier requestTejun Heo
Reimplement handling of barrier requests. * Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of target devices. * Retry support for falling back. * Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()Tejun Heo
add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn(). there's no generic way to pass error code to request completion function, making generic error handling of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and each driver uses it differently). this patch adds @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn(). for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the same uptodate argument used in the last call to end_that_request_first() should suffice. imho, this can also help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on. Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] i2c: i2c-nforce2 add nforce4 MCP-04 device IDJean Delvare
One more supported PCI ID for the i2c-nforce2 driver. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] i2c: driver ID list cleanupsJean Delvare
Cleanups to i2c driver ID list: * Remove mostly bogus comments about driver ID ranges. * Drop experimental driver IDs, as the concept is pretty broken. * Drop now unused IDs of non-I2C (ISA) drivers. * Drop a few more IDs which are no more used. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] hwmon: add VRM/VID support for some VIA CPUsRudolf Marek
This patch adds the VIA CENTAUR CPUs to detection table. Table was updated to treat future Intel x86 CPUs as VRD10. Stepping field was added, because some VIA CPUs have different VRM specs across stepping. I changed the vrm type to u8 because all drivers use u8 anyway. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] I2C: Make i2c_add_driver automatically set the proper module ownerGreg Kroah-Hartman
This prevents i2c drivers from messing up and forgetting to set the module owner of their driver. It also reduces the size of their drivers by one line :) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>