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2008-03-27plat-orion: share PCIe handling codeLennert Buytenhek5-260/+365
Split off Orion PCIe handling code into plat-orion/. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27plat-orion: share IRQ handling codeLennert Buytenhek4-34/+84
Split off Orion IRQ handling code into plat-orion/, and add support for multiple sets of (32) interrupts. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27plat-orion: introduceLennert Buytenhek3-0/+13
Create arch/arm/plat-orion/, for peripherals shared between various Marvell Orion SoCs. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27sata_mv: mbus decode window supportLennert Buytenhek5-42/+36
Make it possible to pass mbus_dram_target_info to the sata_mv driver via the platform data, make the sata_mv driver program the window registers based on this data if it is passed in, and make the Orion platform setup code use this method instead of programming the SATA mbus window registers by hand. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27ehci-orion: mbus decode window supportLennert Buytenhek5-53/+50
Make it possible to pass mbus_dram_target_info to the ehci-orion driver via the platform data, make the ehci-orion driver program the window registers based on this data if it is passed in, and make the Orion platform setup code use this method instead of programming the EHCI mbus window registers by hand. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27Orion: make PCIe/PCI support use mbus DRAM infoLennert Buytenhek4-158/+168
Make the Orion PCIe/PCI code initialise MBUS decode windows based on mbus_dram_target_info instead of reading the info from the Orion DDR unit decode registers directly, and move the window code with the other PCI code, where it can be called as part of the generic PCIe/PCI init process. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27Orion: initialise mbus DRAM target info on bootLennert Buytenhek3-0/+31
Initialise orion_mbus_dram_info on boot, and prepare for passing this info into peripheral drivers. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-27introduce mbus DRAM target info abstractionLennert Buytenhek1-0/+36
Introduce struct mbus_dram_target_info, which will be used for passing information about the mbus target ID of the DDR unit, and mbus target attribute, base address and size for each of the DRAM chip selects from the platform code to peripheral drivers. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-03-26Linux 2.6.25-rc7Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
2008-03-26ACPI: fix Medion _PRT quirk (use "ISA_", not "ISA")Bjorn Helgaas1-2/+2
This fixes the builtin RTL8139 NIC on the Medion MD9580-F laptop. The BIOS reports the interrupt routing incorrectly. I recently added a quirk to work around this, and this patch fixes a typo in the quirk. We pad every ACPI pathname component to four characters, so ".ISA." will never match anything. We need ".ISA_." instead. Thank you Johann-Nikolaus Andreae <johann-nikolaus.andreae@nacs.de> for patiently testing this patch. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4773 Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds4-13/+31
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: i2c: Fix docbook problem ASoC/TLV320AIC3X: Stop I2C driver ID abuse i2c-omap: Fix unhandled fault i2c-bfin-twi: Disable BF54x support for now
2008-03-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-9/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: KVM: MMU: Fix memory leak on guest demand faults KVM: VMX: convert init_rmode_tss() to slots_lock KVM: MMU: handle page removal with shadow mapping KVM: MMU: Fix is_rmap_pte() with io ptes KVM: VMX: Restore tss even on x86_64
2008-03-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds10-366/+302
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: [PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity [PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem [PATCH] fix up new filp allocators [PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open() [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr [PATCH] sanitize hppfs hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open() [PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
2008-03-25KVM: MMU: Fix memory leak on guest demand faultsAvi Kivity1-1/+1
While backporting 72dc67a69690288538142df73a7e3ac66fea68dc, a gfn_to_page() call was duplicated instead of moved (due to an unrelated patch not being present in mainline). This caused a page reference leak, resulting in a fairly massive memory leak. Fix by removing the extraneous gfn_to_page() call. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-25KVM: VMX: convert init_rmode_tss() to slots_lockMarcelo Tosatti1-2/+2
init_rmode_tss was forgotten during the conversion from mmap_sem to slots_lock. INFO: task qemu-system-x86:3748 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Call Trace: [<ffffffff8053d100>] __down_read+0x86/0x9e [<ffffffff8053fb43>] do_page_fault+0x346/0x78e [<ffffffff8053d235>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a [<ffffffff8053dcad>] error_exit+0x0/0xa9 [<ffffffff8035a7a7>] copy_user_generic_string+0x17/0x40 [<ffffffff88099a8a>] :kvm:kvm_write_guest_page+0x3e/0x5f [<ffffffff880b661a>] :kvm_intel:init_rmode_tss+0xa7/0xf9 [<ffffffff880b7d7e>] :kvm_intel:vmx_vcpu_reset+0x10/0x38a [<ffffffff8809b9a5>] :kvm:kvm_arch_vcpu_setup+0x20/0x53 [<ffffffff8809a1e4>] :kvm:kvm_vm_ioctl+0xad/0x1cf [<ffffffff80249dea>] __lock_acquire+0x4f7/0xc28 [<ffffffff8028fad9>] vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x6b [<ffffffff8028fd75>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x252/0x26b [<ffffffff8028fdca>] sys_ioctl+0x3c/0x5e [<ffffffff8020b01b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80 Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-25KVM: MMU: handle page removal with shadow mappingMarcelo Tosatti1-1/+12
Do not assume that a shadow mapping will always point to the same host frame number. Fixes crash with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). [avi: move after first printk(), add another printk()] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-25KVM: MMU: Fix is_rmap_pte() with io ptesAvi Kivity1-2/+1
is_rmap_pte() doesn't take into account io ptes, which have the avail bit set. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-25KVM: VMX: Restore tss even on x86_64Avi Kivity1-3/+0
The vmx hardware state restore restores the tss selector and base address, but not its length. Usually, this does not matter since most of the tss contents is within the default length of 0x67. However, if a process is using ioperm() to grant itself I/O port permissions, an additional bitmap within the tss, but outside the default length is consulted. The effect is that the process will receive a SIGSEGV instead of transparently accessing the port. Fix by restoring the tss length. Note that i386 had this working already. Closes bugzilla 10246. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds13-10/+60
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: Fix cut-and-paste error in rtl8150.c USB: ehci: stop vt6212 bus hogging USB: sierra: add another device id USB: sierra: dma fixes USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage mode USB: isd200: fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_data USB: pl2303: another product ID USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-Interface USB: fix gadgetfs class request delegation
2008-03-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds3-1/+14
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value. UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap code
2008-03-25PCI: revert "pcie: utilize pcie transaction pending bit"Andrew Morton2-25/+0
Revert as it is reported to cause problems for people. commit 4348a2dc49f9baecd34a9b0904245488c6189398 Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Wed Oct 24 10:45:08 2007 +0800 pcie: utilize pcie transaction pending bit PCIE has a mechanism to wait for Non-Posted request to complete. I think pci_disable_device is a good place to do this. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Due to the regression reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10065 Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25PCI: iova: lockdep false alarm fixMark Gross1-0/+7
lockdep goes off on the iova copy_reserved_iova() because it and a function it calls grabs locks in the from, and the to of the copy operation. The function grab locks of the same lock classes triggering the warning. The first lock grabbed is for the constant reserved areas that is never accessed after early boot. Technically you could do without grabbing the locks for the "from" structure its copying reserved areas from. But dropping the from locks to me looks wrong, even though it would be ok. The affected code only runs in early boot as its setting up the DMAR engines. This patch gives the reserved_ioval_list locks special lockdep classes. Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.Andrew Morton2-1/+12
Try to find the culprit who caused http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150 Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap codeJean-Samuel Chenard1-0/+2
Mapping of physical memory in UIO needs pgprot_noncached() to ensure that IO memory is not cached. Without pgprot_noncached(), it (accidentally) works on x86 and arm, but fails on PPC. Signed-off-by: Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: Fix cut-and-paste error in rtl8150.cRobert P. J. Day1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: ehci: stop vt6212 bus hoggingRene Herman1-0/+14
The VIA VT6212 defaults to only waiting 1us between passes over EHCI's async ring, which hammers PCI badly ... and by preventing other devices from accessing the bus, causes problems like drops in IDE throughput, a problem that's been bugging users of those chips for several years. A (partial) datasheet for this chip eventually turned up, letting us see how to make it use a VIA-specific register to switch over to the the normal 10us value instead, as suggested by the EHCI specification Solution noted by Lev A. Melnikovsky. It's not clear whether this register exists on other VIA chips; we know that it's ineffective on the vt8235. So this patch only applies to chips that seem to be incarnations of the (discrete) vt6212. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Tested-by: Lev A. Melnikovsky <melnikovsky@mail.ru> Tested-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: sierra: add another device idKevin Lloyd1-0/+1
Add support for the MC8775 device to the sierra driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Lloyd <klloyd@sierrawireless.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: sierra: dma fixesOliver Neukum1-4/+13
while I was adding autosuspend to that driver I noticed a few issues. You were having DMAed buffers as a part of a structure. This will fail on platforms that are not DMA-coherent (arm, sparc, ppc, ...) Please test this patch to fix it. Signed-off-by: Kevin Lloyd <klloyd@sierrawireless.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage modeConstantin Baranov3-2/+16
Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone has bugs in its USB, so it is impossible to use it as mass storage. Patch describes new "unusual" USB device for it with FIX_INQUIRY and FIX_CAPACITY flags and new BULK_IGNORE_TAG flag. Last flag relaxes check for equality of bcs->Tag and us->tag in usb_stor_Bulk_transport routine. Signed-off-by: Constantin Baranov <const@tltsu.ru> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: isd200: fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_dataBoaz Harrosh1-0/+1
If the inquiry fails then the info structure on us->extra was not freed. Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: pl2303: another product IDMax Arnold2-0/+2
Device like this http://aldiga.com/english/A-100-USB-EDGE10.htm contains Prolific 2303 chip. Actually their site a bit outdated - I have AlDiga AL-11U GSM/GPRS/EDGE modem and it works with pl2303 module after adding corresponding product ID. By default modem uses baud rate 460800. GSM chipset - SIMCom SIM600, quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Device info: T: Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 5 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=067b ProdID=0611 Rev= 0.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=500mA I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=pl2303 E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms From: Max Arnold <lwarxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-InterfaceAlan Stern3-1/+10
This patch (as1057) fixes a problem with the X-Rite/Gretag-Macbeth Eye-One Pro display colorimeter; the device crashes when it receives a Set-Interface request. A new quirk (USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF) is introduced and a quirks entry is created for this device. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25USB: fix gadgetfs class request delegationRoy Hashimoto1-2/+2
gadgetfs (drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c) was not delegating all non-device requests to userspace. This patch makes the handling of all request cases consistent. Signed-off-by: Roy Hashimoto <hashimot@alumni.caltech.edu> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-25Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds39-1267/+3032
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix incorrect compatible string for the mdio node [POWERPC] Update some defconfigs
2008-03-25Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds6-45/+140
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for now sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2 libata: improve HPA error handling libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted pata_it821x: use raw nbytes in check_atapi_dma libata: implement ata_qc_raw_nbytes()
2008-03-25[libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for nowJeff Garzik1-1/+5
At least one report claims that a878539ef994787c447a98c2e3ba0fe3dad984ec failed to solve lockups, whereas the old limit-to-32-bit trick worked. Restore the 32-bit limit, but also leave the 255-sector limit in place, because we know that's needed as well. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-03-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linusLinus Torvalds5-3/+15
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linus: kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds
2008-03-25Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into mergePaul Mackerras32-245/+171
2008-03-25sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2Mikael Pettersson1-21/+88
A Promise SATA controller will signal hotplug events when a hard reset (COMRESET) is done on a port. These events aren't masked by the driver, and the unexpected interrupts will cause a sequence of failed reset attempts util libata's EH finally gives up. This has not been a common problem so far, but the pending libata hardreset-by-default changes makes it a critical issue. The solution is to disable hotplug events before a reset, and to reenable them afterwards. (Promise's driver does this too.) This patch adds SATA-specific versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw() that also disable and enable hotplug events. PATA ports continue to use the old versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Accesses to the hotplug register must be serialised via host->lock. We rely on ap->lock == &ap->host->lock and that libata takes this lock before ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Document this requirement. The interrupt handler is adjusted so its hotplug register accesses are inside the region protected by host->lock. Tested on various chips (SATA300TX4, SATA300TX2plus, SATAII150TX4, FastTrack TX4000) with various combinations of SATA and PATA disks, with and without the pending hardreset-by-default changes. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-25Make printk() console semaphore accesses sensibleLinus Torvalds1-35/+48
The printk() logic on when/how to get the console semaphore was unreadable, this splits the code up into a few helper functions and makes it easier to follow what is going on. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespacesPavel Emelyanov1-6/+15
In case we're accounting from a sub-namespace, the tgids reported will not refer to the right namespace. Save the pid_namespace we're accounting in on the acct_glbs and use it in do_acct_process. Two less :) places using the task_struct.tgid member. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always safePavel Emelyanov1-1/+3
This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not safe on debug kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be unmapped - RCU protection is required. Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with task_tgid_xxx call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"Andrew Morton1-22/+5
Revert commit f1a9ee758de7de1e040de849fdef46e6802ea117: Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800 kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight. This problem is notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages, causing unnecessary stalls in the VM. Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be written out. This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while the direct reclaim task sleeps. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos, here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211 Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell2-20/+48
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current: - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the current code: it's a framework now, a "core" with a small sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to. Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end. - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file and better explains what this really does. Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with that important task. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25smackfs: remove redundant lock, fix open(,O_RDWR)Ahmed S. Darwish1-33/+2
Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking write sessions on open() was needed. This lock is no longer useful now since each rule is handled by a single write() call. This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an Oops. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25markers: remove ACCESS_ONCEMathieu Desnoyers1-6/+6
As Paul pointed out, the ACCESS_ONCE are not needed because we already have the explicit surrounding memory barriers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25markers: update preempt_disable. call_rcu, rcu_barrier commentsMathieu Desnoyers1-11/+8
Add comments requested by Andrew. Updated comments about synchronize_sched(). Since we use call_rcu and rcu_barrier now, these comments were out of sync with the code. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_coreYinghai Lu1-6/+19
With numa enabled, some callers could have a range of memory on one node but try to free that on other node. This can cause some pages to be freed wrongly. For example: when we try to allocate 128g boot ram early for gart/swiotlb, and free that range later so gart/swiotlb can get some range afterwards. With this patch, we don't need to care which node holds the range, just loop to call free_bootmem_node for all online nodes. This patch makes free_bootmem_core() more robust by trimming the sidx and eidx according the ram range that the node has. And make the free_bootmem_core handle this out of range case. We could use bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure. So next time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use free_bootmem directly. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.cIngo van Lil1-1/+0
The block2mtd driver (drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c) will kfree an on-stack pointer when handling an invalid argument line (e.g. block2mtd=/dev/loop0,xxx). The kfree was added some time ago when "name" was dynamically allocated. Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-25kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option betterPavel Machek1-0/+4
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory. Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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