kernel/linux.git, branch v2.6.18-rc6

Linux 2.6.18-rc6

2006-09-04T02:19:48+00:00

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix typo in powermac platform functions

2006-09-04T00:53:50+00:00

New sparse caught that typo which could have caused erratic hardware behaviour on some machines if the platform functions are used by the firmware to change bits in some FCR registers. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial

2006-09-02T21:52:07+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] 8250: constify some serial structs [SERIAL] Make uart_match_port() work with all memory mapped UARTs

Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm

2006-09-02T21:51:45+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches [ARM] 3765/1: S3C24XX: cleanup include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/dma.h [ARM] 3764/1: S3C24XX: change type naming to kernel style [ARM] 3763/1: add both rtcs to csb337 defconfig [ARM] Fix ARM __raw_read_trylock() implementation [ARM] 3750/3: Fix double VFP emulation for EABI kernels

[PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid check

2006-09-02T21:51:27+00:00

It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads. Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group, we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer) threads in the same group. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches

2006-09-02T17:43:20+00:00

Patch from George G. Davis Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page() while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far too heavy on non-v6 CPUs". NOTES: 1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page(). 2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page". 3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page". However flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT non-aliasing case. So memory is consistent between kernel and user space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this range. IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before memcpy(). 4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable. We don't need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page() case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same process above if we access "page" again. The flush_ptrace_access() function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6

2006-09-01T18:40:37+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: uhci-hcd: fix list access bug USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2 USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill() USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error usb gadget: g_ether spinlock recursion fix USB: add all wacom device to hid-core.c blacklist hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist USB floppy drive SAMSUNG SFD-321U/EP detected 8 times

[PATCH] backlight last round of fixes

2006-09-01T18:39:10+00:00

Fix some more problems (inverted use of semaphores in some places). He also moved my checks into within the protected section which is better. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] manage-jbd-its-own-slab fix

2006-09-01T18:39:10+00:00

Missed a place where I forgot to convert kfree() to kmem_cache_free() as part of jbd-manage-its-own-slab changes. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pages

2006-09-01T18:39:10+00:00

Since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of smallpages, VMAs for huge pages have the lower HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT bits always cleared, which results in badd offsets to the interleave functions. Take this difference from small pages into account when calculating the offset. This does add a 0-bit shift into the small-page path (via alloc_page_vma()), but I think that is negligible. Also add a BUG_ON to prevent the offset from growing due to a negative right-shift, which probably shouldn't be allowed anyways. Tested on an 8-memory node ppc64 NUMA box and got the interleaving I expected. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Adam Litke Cc: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds