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Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] PNX8550: Fix system timer support
[MIPS] TX49: Fix use of CDEX build_store_reg()
[MIPS] pnx8550: Fix write_config_byte() PCI config space accessor
[MIPS] Fix build errors on SEAD
[MIPS] SMTC build fix
[MIPS] csum_partial and copy in parallel
[MIPS] Malta: Add missing MTD file.
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] Provide basic printk_clock() implementation
[ARM] Resolve fuse and direct-IO failures due to missing cache flushes
[ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page()
[ARM] Fix potential MMCI bug
[ARM] Fix kernel-mode undefined instruction aborts
[ARM] 4082/1: iop3xx: fix iop33x gpio register offset
[ARM] 4070/1: arch/arm/kernel: fix warnings from missing includes
[ARM] 4079/1: iop: Update MAINTAINERS
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Pass "irq" to __DO_IRQ_SMTC_HOOK() macro.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Implement optimized asm version of csum_partial_copy_nocheck,
csum_partial_copy_from_user and csum_and_copy_to_user which can do
calculate and copy in parallel, based on memcpy.S.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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fuse does not work on ARM due to cache incoherency issues - fuse wants
to use get_user_pages() to copy data from the current process into
kernel space. However, since this accesses userspace via the kernel
mapping, the kernel mapping can be out of date wrt data written to
userspace.
This can lead to unpredictable behaviour (in the case of fuse) or data
corruption for direct-IO.
This resolves debian bug #402876
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Since get_user_pages() may be used with processes other than the
current process and calls flush_anon_page(), flush_anon_page() has to
cope in some way with non-current processes.
It may not be appropriate, or even desirable to flush a region of
virtual memory cache in the current process when that is different to
the process that we want the flush to occur for.
Therefore, pass the vma into flush_anon_page() so that the architecture
can work out whether the 'vmaddr' is for the current process or not.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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iop33x gpio offset is correct in include/asm-arm/arch-iop33x/iop33x.h, but
include/asm-arm/hardware/iop3xx.h adds 4.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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o Relocatable bzImage support had got rid of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option
thinking that now this option is not required as people can build a
second kernel as relocatable and load it anywhere. So need of compiling
the kernel for a custom address was gone. But Magnus uses vmlinux images
for second kernel in Xen environment and he wants to continue to use
it.
o Restoring the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option for the time being. I think
down the line we can get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the kernels later than 2.6.19 there is a regression that makes swsusp
fail if the resume device is not explicitly specified.
It can be fixed by adding an additional parameter to
mm/swapfile.c:swap_type_of() allowing us to pass the (struct block_device
*) corresponding to the first available swap back to the caller.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The current interrupt injection mechanism might delay an interrupt under
the following circumstances:
- if injection fails because the guest is not interruptible (rflags.IF clear,
or after a 'mov ss' or 'sti' instruction). Userspace can check rflags,
but the other cases or not testable under the current API.
- if injection fails because of a fault during delivery. This probably
never happens under normal guests.
- if injection fails due to a physical interrupt causing a vmexit so that
it can be handled by the host.
In all cases the guest proceeds without processing the interrupt, reducing
the interactive feel and interrupt throughput of the guest.
This patch fixes the situation by allowing userspace to request an exit
when the 'interrupt window' opens, so that it can re-inject the interrupt
at the right time. Guest interactivity is very visibly improved.
Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jeffrey Altman, one of the gatekeepers of OpenAFS (the open source project
which inherited the Transarc/IBM AFS codebase) has requested that the magic
number 0x5346414F (little endian 'OAFS') be allocated for the f_type field
of the fsinfo structure on Linux:
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2006-December/024829.html
Add it to include/linux/magic.h, mostly as a way of publishing this number
and ensuring that no other filesystem accidentally uses it.
Cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[IPV4/IPV6]: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order.
[TCP]: Use old definition of before
[NETFILTER]: ebtables: don't compute gap before checking struct type
[NETFILTER]: nf_nat: fix MASQUERADE crash on device down
[NETFILTER]: New connection tracking is not EXPERIMENTAL anymore
[NETFILTER]: Fix routing of REJECT target generated packets in output chain
[NETFILTER]: compat offsets size change
[SUNGEM]: PHY updates & pause fixes (#2)
[X25]: proper prototype for x25_init_timers()
[AF_NETLINK]: module_put cleanup
[XFRM_USER]: avoid pointless void ** casts
[NETFILTER] xt_hashlimit.c: fix typo
[NET] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()
[PKTGEN]: Convert to kthread API.
[NET]: ifb double-counts packets
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This reverts the new (unambiguous) definition of the TCP `before'
relation. As pointed out in an example by Herbert Xu, there is
existing code which implicitly requires the old definition in order
to work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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:
ACPI: asus_acpi: new MAINTAINER
ACPI: fix section mis-match build warning
ACPI: increase ACPI_MAX_REFERENCE_COUNT for larger systems
ACPI: EC: move verbose printk to debug build only
backlight: fix backlight_device_register compile failures
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This patch adds a proper prototype for x25_init_timers() in
include/net/x25.h
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgart:
[AGPGART] drivers/char/agp/sgi-agp.c: check kmalloc() return value
[AGPGART] Fix PCI-posting flush typo.
[AGPGART] fix detection of aperture size versus GTT size on G965
[AGPGART] Remove unnecessary flushes when inserting and removing pages.
[AGPGART] K8M890 support for amd-k8.
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 4081/1: Add definition for TI Sync Serial Protocol
[ARM] 4080/1: Fix for the SSCR0_SlotsPerFrm macro
[ARM] Fix VFP initialisation issue for SMP systems
[ARM] 4078/1: Fix ARM copypage cache coherency problems
[ARM] 4077/1: iop13xx: fix __io() macro
[ARM] 4074/1: Flat loader stack alignment
[ARM] 4073/1: Prevent s3c24xx drivers from including asm/arch/hardware.h and asm/arch/irqs.h
[ARM] 4071/1: S3C24XX: Documentation update
[ARM] 4066/1: correct a comment about PXA's sched_clock range
[ARM] 4065/1: S3C24XX: dma printk fixes
[ARM] 4064/1: make pxa_get_cycles() static
[ARM] 4063/1: ep93xx: fix IRQ_EP93XX_GPIO?MUX numbering
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Of the possible SSP frame formats (FRF bits in SSCR0), only SSCR0_PSP is defined. Other possible formats are Motorola SPI (0<<4), TI SSP (1<<4) and Microwire (2<<4). Attached patch adds a definition SSCR0_TISSP.
This mode is used for the sound codec attached to the PXA272 SSP1 of some HTC PDA phones.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The SSCR0_SlotsPerFrm macro writes a 3-bit value to bits [2:0], while the correct location of FRDC in SSCR0 is at bits [26:24]. This patch adds the missing "<< 24".
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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We have some new larger ia64 systems in HP that trip over the
ACPI_MAX_REFERENCE_COUNT limit which triggers a large number of these
debug messages:
ACPI Warning (utdelete-0397): Large Reference Count (XXX) in object e0000a0ff6797ab0 [20060707]
This was increased once in the past as described in this very brief thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org/msg00890.html
Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Handle ISA devices with no 'regs' property.
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
[SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release.
[SPARC64]: Fix "mem=xxx" handling.
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Don't add it there please; add it lower down inside the existing #ifdef
__KERNEL__. You just made the _userspace_ net.h include random.h, which
then fails to compile unless <asm/types.h> was already included.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When a driver writer calls this, they generally expect that
all previous stores and modifications they've made will be
visible before netif_poll_enable() executes, so ensure this.
Noticed by Ben H.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We need to pass in the resource otherwise we cannot
release the region properly. We must know whether it is
an I/O or MEM resource.
Spotted by Eric Brower.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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fs/proc/base.c:1869: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
fs/proc/base.c:2150: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some issues were recently turned up with the current specification of what
it means for spi_transfer.tx_buf to be null, as part of transfers which are
(from the SPI protocol driver perspective) pure reads.
Specifically, that it seems better to change the TX behaviour there from
"undefined" to "will shift zeroes". This lets protocol drivers (like the
ads7846 driver) depend on that behavior. It's what most controller drivers
in the tree are already doing (with one exception and one case of driver
wanting-to-oops), it's what Microwire hardware will necessarily be doing,
and it removes an issue whereby certain security audits would need to
define such a value anyway as part of removing covert channels.
This patch changes the specification to require shifting zeroes, and
updates all currently merged SPI controller drivers to do so.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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WARN_ON() ever triggering is a kernel bug. Do not try to paper over this
fact by suggesting to the user that this is 'only' a warning, as the
following recent commit does:
commit 30e25b71e725b150585e17888b130e3324f8cf7c
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:24 2006 -0800
[PATCH] Fix generic WARN_ON message
A warning is a warning, not a BUG.
( it might make sense to rename BUG() to CRASH() and BUG_ON() to
CRASH_ON(), but that does not change the fact that WARN_ON()
signals a kernel bug. )
i and others objected to this change during lkml review:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116115160710533&w=2
still the change slipped upstream - grumble :)
Also, use the standard "BUG: " format to make it easier to grep logs and
to make it easier to google for kernel bugs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If PG_dcache_dirty is set for a page, we need to flush the source page
before performing any copypage operation using a different virtual address.
This fixes the copypage implementations for XScale, StrongARM and ARMv6.
This patch fixes segmentation faults seen in the dynamic linker under
the usage patterns in glibc 2.4/2.5.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Since iop13xx defines the PCI I/O spaces with physical resource addresses
the __io macro needs to perform the physical to virtual conversion. I
incorrectly assumed that this would be handled by ioremap, but drivers
(like e1000) directly dereference the address returned from __io.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The ARM EABI requires doubleword (8-byte) stack alignment at all public entry
points. The patch below makes the bFLT loader honour this.
It's always safe to start with a doubleword aligned stack so it doesn't seem
worth making this conditional on CONFIG_AEABI.
Paul
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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asm/arch/irqs.h
As reminded in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/23/26, one should use
asm/hardware.h and asm/irq.h but absent-minded devs like me tends to use
asm/arch/hardware.h and/or asm/arch/irqs.h.
This patch aims at preventing such things.
In order to make it work, I had to modify asm-arm/irq.h too so that it can
be included from assembly files.
Also, as a side effect, I had to modify some headers who were using the
asm/arch/hardware.h or asm/arch/irqs.h.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Fix incorrect IRQ numbering in arch-ep93xx/irqs.h (source: Applied
Data Systems 2.6.17 kernel tree.)
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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include/media/ir-common.h:78: error: field 'work' has incomplete type
drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c: In function 'ir_rc5_timer_end':
drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:301: error: 'jiffies' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:301: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once)
drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:301: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:347: error: 'HZ' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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This bug broke the MPEG audio mode controls.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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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: (68 commits)
ACPI: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
ACPI: Add support for acpi_load_table/acpi_unload_table_id
fbdev: update after backlight argument change
ACPI: video: Add dev argument for backlight_device_register
ACPI: Implement acpi_video_get_next_level()
ACPI: Kconfig - depend on PM rather than selecting it
ACPI: fix NULL check in drivers/acpi/osl.c
ACPI: make drivers/acpi/ec.c:ec_ecdt static
ACPI: prevent processor module from loading on failures
ACPI: fix single linked list manipulation
ACPI: ibm_acpi: allow clean removal
ACPI: fix git automerge failure
ACPI: ibm_acpi: respond to workqueue update
ACPI: dock: add uevent to indicate change in device status
ACPI: ec: Lindent once again
ACPI: ec: Change #define to enums there possible.
ACPI: ec: Style changes.
ACPI: ec: Acquire Global Lock under EC mutex.
ACPI: ec: Drop udelay() from poll mode. Loop by reading status field instead.
ACPI: ec: Rename gpe_bit to gpe
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... duh
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- ipv6.c: sctp_inet6addr_event()
- protocol.c: sctp_inetaddr_event()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Ivan Skytte Jorgensen <isj-sctp@i1.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This file contains protocol definitions and there are no SCTP apps
that use this file.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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While looking at DCCP sequence numbers, I stumbled over a problem with
the following definition of before in tcp.h:
static inline int before(__u32 seq1, __u32 seq2)
{
return (__s32)(seq1-seq2) < 0;
}
Problem: This definition suffers from an an ambiguity, i.e. always
before(a, (a + 2^31) % 2^32)) = 1
before((a + 2^31) % 2^32), a) = 1
In text: when the difference between a and b amounts to 2^31,
a is always considered `before' b, the function can not decide.
The reason is that implicitly 0 is `before' 1 ... 2^31-1 ... 2^31
Solution: There is a simple fix, by defining before in such a way that
0 is no longer `before' 2^31, i.e. 0 `before' 1 ... 2^31-1
By not using the middle between 0 and 2^32, before can be made
unambiguous.
This is achieved by testing whether seq2-seq1 > 0 (using signed
32-bit arithmetic).
I attach a patch to codify this. Also the `after' relation is basically
a redefinition of `before', it is now defined as a macro after before.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is a change to include <linux/netdevice.h> in <linux/if_fddi.h> which is
needed for "struct fddi_statistics".
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Hellwig has expressed concerns that the recent fdtable changes
expose the details of the RCU methodology used to release no-longer-used
fdtable structures to the rest of the kernel. The trivial patch below
addresses these concerns by introducing the appropriate free_fdtable()
calls, which simply wrap the release RCU usage. Since free_fdtable() is a
one-liner, it makes sense to promote it to an inline helper.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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register_memory() becomes double definition in 2.6.20-rc1. It is defined
in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c as static definition in 2.6.19. But it is
moved to arch/i386/kernel/e820.c in 2.6.20-rc1. And same name function is
defined in driver/base/memory.c too. So, it becomes cause of compile error
of duplicate definition if memory hotplug option is on.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add more debugging in the rmap code in an attempt to locate to source of
the occasional "mapcount went negative" assertions.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Matthew Wilcox noticed that the debug_locks_silent use should be inverted
in DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(). This bug was causing spurious stacktraces and
incorrect failures in the locking self-test on the parisc kernel.
Bug-found-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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fix vm_events_fold_cpu() build breakage
2.6.20-rc1 does not build properly if CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is set
and CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset:
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
mm/built-in.o: In function `page_alloc_cpu_notify':
page_alloc.c:(.text+0x56eb): undefined reference to `vm_events_fold_cpu'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The VM event counters, enabled by CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS, which provides
VM event counters in /proc/vmstat, has become more essential to
non-EMBEDDED kernel configurations than they were in the past. Comments in
the code and the Kconfig configuration explanation were stale, downplaying
their role excessively.
Refresh those comments to correctly reflect the current role of VM event
counters.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add compile-time and run-time API versioning.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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They were horribly easy to mis-use because of their tempting naming, and
they also did way more than any users of them generally wanted them to
do.
A dirty page can become clean under two circumstances:
(a) when we write it out. We have "clear_page_dirty_for_io()" for
this, and that function remains unchanged.
In the "for IO" case it is not sufficient to just clear the dirty
bit, you also have to mark the page as being under writeback etc.
(b) when we actually remove a page due to it becoming inaccessible to
users, notably because it was truncate()'d away or the file (or
metadata) no longer exists, and we thus want to cancel any
outstanding dirty state.
For the (b) case, we now introduce "cancel_dirty_page()", which only
touches the page state itself, and verifies that the page is not mapped
(since cancelling writes on a mapped page would be actively wrong as it
is still accessible to users).
Some filesystems need to be fixed up for this: CIFS, FUSE, JFS,
ReiserFS, XFS all use the old confusing functions, and will be fixed
separately in subsequent commits (with some of them just removing the
offending logic, and others using clear_page_dirty_for_io()).
This was confirmed by Martin Michlmayr to fix the apt database
corruption on ARM.
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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