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2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn/gigaset/common.c: fix a memory leakAdrian Bunk1-5/+8
Fix a memory leak spotted by the Coverity checker if (!try_module_get(owner)). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c: small cleanupsAdrian Bunk2-10/+8
- make the needlessly global gigaset_get_cs_by_tty() static - remove the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gigaset_debugdrivers) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: make some variables non-atomicTilman Schmidt10-154/+211
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Replace some atomic_t variables in the Gigaset drivers by non-atomic ones, using spinlocks instead to assure atomicity, as proposed in discussions on the linux-kernel mailing list. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: add READMETilman Schmidt1-0/+286
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Add a README file for the Siemens Gigaset drivers to the Documentation/isdn directory. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: remove forward referencesTilman Schmidt8-71/+60
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Remove four unnecessary forward function declarations and an obsolete E-mail address from the Siemens Gigaset drivers. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: remove private version of ↵Tilman Schmidt3-21/+3
__skb_put() With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Remove the private version of __skb_put() from the Siemens Gigaset drivers. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: mutex conversionTilman Schmidt4-38/+40
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Convert the semaphores used by the Gigaset drivers to mutexes. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: eliminate from_user argumentTilman Schmidt7-33/+18
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Eliminate the from_user argument from a debugging function, thus easing the job of sparse. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: uninlineTilman Schmidt2-40/+43
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Uninline a function which was slightly too big to warrant inlining. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: remove IFNULL macrosTilman Schmidt6-256/+43
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Remove the IFNULL debugging macros from the Gigaset drivers. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: sysfs usageTilman Schmidt5-34/+35
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Correct the way the Gigaset drivers create their sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: logging usageTilman Schmidt10-965/+1078
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Improve error reporting of the Gigaset drivers, by using the dev_err/dev_warn/dev_info macros from device.h instead of err/warn/info from usb.h whereever possible. Also rename the private dbg macro to gig_dbg in order to avoid confusion with the macro of the same name in usb.h. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: timer usageTilman Schmidt2-5/+4
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Correct timer usage in the Gigaset drivers to take advantage of the existing setup_timer() function, and use milliseconds as unit. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: Kconfig correctionTilman Schmidt1-2/+1
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Remove the restriction to build the Gigaset drivers as modules only. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: code cleanupTilman Schmidt10-541/+523
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Source code formatting cleanups for the Siemens Gigaset drivers, such as line length, comments, removal of unused declarations, and typo corrections. It does not introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: account background requestsMiklos Szeredi3-4/+38
The previous patch removed limiting the number of outstanding requests. This patch adds a much simpler limiting, that is also compatible with file locking operations. A task may have at most one synchronous request allocated. So these requests need not be otherwise limited. However the number of background requests (release, forget, asynchronous reads, interrupted requests) can grow indefinitely. This can be used by a malicous user to cause FUSE to allocate arbitrary amounts of unswappable kernel memory, denying service. For this reason add a limit for the number of background requests, and block allocations of new requests until the number goes bellow the limit. Also use this mechanism to block all requests until the INIT reply is received. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: clean up request accountingMiklos Szeredi5-208/+111
FUSE allocated most requests from a fixed size pool filled at mount time. However in some cases (release/forget) non-pool requests were used. File locking operations aren't well served by the request pool, since they may block indefinetly thus exhausting the pool. This patch removes the request pool and always allocates requests on demand. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: consolidate device errorsMiklos Szeredi1-2/+2
Return consistent error values for the case when the opened device file has no mount associated yet. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: use a per-mount spinlockMiklos Szeredi3-84/+74
Remove the global spinlock in favor of a per-mount one. This patch is basically find & replace. The difficult part has already been done by the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: simplify lockingMiklos Szeredi2-62/+33
This is in preparation for removing the global spinlock in favor of a per-mount one. The only critical part is the interaction between fuse_dev_release() and fuse_fill_super(): fuse_dev_release() must see the assignment to file->private_data, otherwise it will leak the reference to fuse_conn. This is ensured by the fput() operation, which will synchronize the assignment with other CPU's that may do a final fput() soon after this. Also redundant locking is removed from fuse_fill_super(), where exclusion is already ensured by the BKL held for this function by the VFS. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: add O_NONBLOCK support to FUSE deviceJeff Dike1-0/+6
I don't like duplicating the connected and list_empty tests in fuse_dev_readv, but this seemed cleaner than adding the f_flags test to request_wait. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: add O_ASYNC support to FUSE deviceJeff Dike3-1/+20
This adds asynchronous notification to FUSE - a FUSE server can request O_ASYNC on a /dev/fuse file descriptor and receive SIGIO when there is input available. One subtlety - fuse_dev_fasync, which is called when O_ASYNC is requested, does no locking, unlink the other methods. I think it's unnecessary, as the fuse_conn.fasync list is manipulated only by fasync_helper and kill_fasync, which provide their own locking. It would also be wrong to use the fuse_lock, as it's a spin lock and fasync_helper can sleep. My one concern with this is the fuse_conn going away underneath fuse_dev_fasync - sys_fcntl takes a reference on the file struct, so this seems not to be a problem. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: fix fuse_dev_poll() return valueMiklos Szeredi1-5/+6
fuse_dev_poll() returned an error value instead of a poll mask. Luckily (or unluckily) -ENODEV does contain the POLLERR bit. There's also a race if filesystem is unmounted between fuse_get_conn() and spin_lock(), in which case this event will be missed by poll(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fuse: fix oops in fuse_send_readpages()Miklos Szeredi1-2/+6
During heavy parallel filesystem activity it was possible to Oops the kernel. The reason is that read_cache_pages() could skip pages which have already been inserted into the cache by another task. Occasionally this may result in zero pages actually being sent, while fuse_send_readpages() relies on at least one page being in the request. So check this corner case and just free the request instead of trying to send it. Reported and tested by Konstantin Isakov. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: VR41XX cleanupAlessandro Zummo1-1/+7
Clean up kconfig entry for the rtc-vr41xx. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: VR41XX driverYoichi Yuasa5-330/+84
This patch updates VR4100 series RTC driver. * This driver supports new RTC subsystem. * Simple set time/read time test worked fine. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: SA1100 cleanupAlessandro Zummo1-8/+5
- convert printks to dev_xxx - remove messages in excess Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: compact error messagesAlessandro Zummo9-15/+3
Move registration error message from drivers to core. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: RS5C372 sysfs fixAlessandro Zummo1-8/+10
Fix sysfs show() return code Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: fix proc outputAlessandro Zummo7-17/+4
Move the "24hr: yes" proc output from drivers to rtc proc code. This is required because the time value in the proc output is always in 24hr mode regardless of the driver. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: whitespaces and error messages cleanupAlessandro Zummo4-9/+1
- fix whitespace - remove some debugging in excess Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: X1205 sysfs cleanupAlessandro Zummo1-10/+12
Fix sysfs show() return code Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: DS1672 cleanupAlessandro Zummo1-19/+10
- removed a duplicate error message - bumped driver version - removed some debugging messages in excess - refined the formatting - adjusted copyright notice Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] RTC subsystem: DS1672 oscillator handlingKumar Gala1-3/+58
* Always enable the oscillator when we set the time * If the oscillator is disable when we probe the RTC report back a warning to the user * Added sysfs attribute to represent the state of the oscillator Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] ext3: Fix missed mutex unlockAnaniev, Leonid I1-0/+1
Missed unlock_super()call is added in error condition code path. Signed-off-by: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Overrun in cdrom/aztcd.cEric Sesterhenn1-1/+1
This fixes coverity bug id #473. After the for loop i==16 if we didn't find a cdrom. So we should check for i==16 first before checking the array element. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Wrong out of range check in drivers/char/applicom.cEric Sesterhenn1-1/+1
This fixes coverity bug id #469. The out of range check didnt work as intended, as seen by the printk(), which states that boardno has to be 1 <= boardno <= MAX_BOARD. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] page-writeback comment fixesCoywolf Qi Hunt1-3/+2
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] 3ware: kmap_atomic() fixAndrew Morton1-0/+3
We must disable local IRQs while holding KM_IRQ0 or KM_IRQ1. Otherwise, an IRQ handler could use those kmap slots while this code is using them, resulting in memory corruption. Thanks to Nick Orlov <bugfixer@list.ru> for reporting. Cc: <linuxraid@amcc.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] hdaps: use ENODEVAndrew Morton1-1/+1
Use ENODEV when the hdaps hardware isn't there, not ENXIO. Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] ipmi: fix event queue limitCorey Minyard1-0/+2
The event handler mechanism in the IPMI driver had a limit on the number of received events, but the counts were not being updated. Update the counts to impose a limit. This is not a critical fix, as this function (the sending of the events) has to be turned on by the user, anyway. This avoids problems if they forget to turn it back off. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] inotify: check for NULL inode in inotify_d_instantiateArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
The spufs file system creates files in a directory before instantiating the directory itself, which causes a NULL pointer access in inotify_d_instantiate since c32ccd87bfd1414b0aabfcd8dbc7539ad23bcbaa. I'd like to keep this behavior since it means that the user will not have access to files in the directory before I know that I succeed in creating everything in it. This patch adds a simple check for the inode to keep that working. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] kdump: enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by defaultVivek Goyal1-0/+1
Everybody seems to be using /proc/vmcore as a method to access the kernel crash dump. Hence probably it makes sense to enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by default if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected. This makes kdump configuration further easier for a user. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] module support: record in vermagic ability to unload a modulePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso1-1/+6
An UML user reported (against 2.6.13.3/UML) he got kernel Oopses when trying to rmmod (on a kernel with module unloading enabled) a module compiled with module unloading disabled. As crashing is a very correct thing to do in that case, a solution is altering the vermagic string to include this too. Possibly, however, the code should not crash in this case, even if the module didn't support unloading - it should simply abort the module removal. In this case, fixing that bug would be a better solution. I've not investigated though. (akpm: a bit marginal - root screwed up and shot himself in the foot). Cc: Hayim Shaul <hayim@post.tau.ac.il> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] parport: remove duplicate entry for NETMOS_9835Martin Michlmayr1-2/+0
Remove a duplicated entry from parport_serial_pci_tbl. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] kexec: update MAINTAINERSRandy Dunlap1-2/+0
Eric is the kexec maintainer. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Keys: Improve usage of memory barriers and remove IRQ disablementDavid Howells1-21/+20
Remove an unnecessary memory barrier (implicit in rcu_dereference()) from install_session_keyring(). install_session_keyring() is also rearranged a little to make it slightly more efficient. As install_*_keyring() may schedule (in synchronize_rcu() or keyring_alloc()), they may not be entered with interrupts disabled - and so there's no point saving the interrupt disablement state over the critical section. exec_keys() will also be invoked with interrupts enabled, and so that doesn't need to save the interrupt state either. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Update contact info for Geert UytterhoevenGeert Uytterhoeven1-3/+3
Update contact info for Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Improve data-dependency memory barrier example in documentationDavid Howells1-1/+15
In the memory barrier document, improve the example of the data dependency barrier situation by: (1) showing the initial values of the variables involved; and (2) repeating the instruction sequence description, this time with the data dependency barrier actually shown to make it clear what the revised sequence actually is. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Fix memory barrier docs wrt atomic opsDavid Howells1-19/+33
Fix the memory barrier documentation to attempt to describe atomic ops correctly. atomic_t ops that return a value _do_ imply smp_mb() either side, and so don't actually require smp_mb__*_atomic_*() special barriers. Also explains why special barriers exist in addition to normal barriers. Further fix the memory barrier documents to portray bitwise operation memory barrier effects correctly following Nick Piggin's comments. It makes the point that any atomic op that both modifies some state in memory and returns information on that state implies memory barriers on both sides. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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