BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/lib, branch v2.6.26-rc5

lmb: Fix compile warning

2008-05-19T04:35:43+00:00

lib/lmb.c: In function 'lmb_dump_all': lib/lmb.c:51: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u64' Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs

2008-05-15T02:30:51+00:00

* 'for-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: fix error path during early mount 9p: make cryptic unknown error from server less scary 9p: fix flags length in net 9p: Correct fidpool creation failure in p9_client_create 9p: use struct mutex instead of struct semaphore 9p: propagate parse_option changes to client and transports fs/9p/v9fs.c (v9fs_parse_options): Handle kstrdup and match_strdup failure. 9p: Documentation updates add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6

2008-05-15T02:11:36+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Use a TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK lmb: Make lmb debugging more useful. lmb: Fix inconsistent alignment of size argument. sparc: Fix mremap address range validation.

lib: create common ascii hex array

2008-05-15T02:11:14+00:00

Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it. Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value. Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many places in the tree that will be consolidated. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison Acked-by: Paul Mundt Cc: Jason Wessel Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust

2008-05-15T00:23:25+00:00

match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer. There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious. The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See compat_sys_mount() and do_mount(). The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX. We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. PATH_MAX is 4096. As far as I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096. Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct. It doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Cc: Latchesar Ionkov Cc: Jim Meyering Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen

cpumask: remove bitmap_scnprintf_len and cpumask_scnprintf_len

2008-05-13T15:02:25+00:00

They aren't used. They were briefly used as part of some other patches to provide an alternative format for displaying some /proc and /sys cpumasks. They probably should have been removed when those other patches were dropped, in favor of a different solution. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Cc: "Mike Travis" Cc: "Bert Wesarg" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lmb: Make lmb debugging more useful.

2008-05-13T00:21:55+00:00

Having to muck with the build and set DEBUG just to get lmb_dump_all() to print things isn't very useful. So use pr_info() and use an early boot param "lmb=debug" so we can simply ask users to reboot with this option when we need some debugging from them. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

lmb: Fix inconsistent alignment of size argument.

2008-05-12T23:51:15+00:00

When allocating, if we will align up the size when making the reservation, we should also align the size for the check that the space is actually available. The simplest thing is to just aling the size up from the beginning, then we can use plain 'size' throughout. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation

2008-05-11T03:58:02+00:00

The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7 (and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair. The latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a mess of scheduling. The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the previous commit 00b41ec2611dc98f87f30753ee00a53db648d662 'Revert "semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that never had any issues like this. This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore hack which still left a couple percentage point regression. As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that respect. We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the plan for several years. These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in particular) and Alan holds out some hope: "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked." so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action. Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'powerpc-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2008-05-05T22:48:53+00:00

* 'powerpc-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Assign PDE->data before gluing PDE into /proc tree [POWERPC] devres: Add devm_ioremap_prot() [POWERPC] macintosh: ADB driver: adb_handler_sem semaphore to mutex [POWERPC] macintosh: windfarm_smu_sat: semaphore to mutex [POWERPC] macintosh: therm_pm72: driver_lock semaphore to mutex