safe/jmp/linux-2.6
16 years agowriteback: fix time ordering of the per superblock dirty inode lists: memory-backed...
Andrew Morton [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:33 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock dirty inode lists: memory-backed inodes

For reasons which escape me, inodes which are dirty against a ram-backed
filesystem are managed in the same way as inodes which are backed by real
devices.

Probably we could optimise things here.  But given that we skip the entire
supeblock as son as we hit the first dirty inode, there's not a lot to be
gained.

And the code does need to handle one particular non-backed superblock: the
kernel's fake internal superblock which holds all the blockdevs.

Still.  At present when the code encounters an inode which is dirty against a
memory-backed filesystem it will skip that inode by refiling it back onto
s_dirty.  But it fails to update the inode's timestamp when doing so which at
least makes the debugging code upset.

Fix.

Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agowriteback: fix time-ordering of the per-superblock dirty-inode lists
Andrew Morton [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:32 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
writeback: fix time-ordering of the per-superblock dirty-inode lists

When writeback has finished writing back an inode it looks to see if that
inode is still dirty.  If it is, that means that a process redirtied the inode
while its writeback was in progress.

What we need to do here is to refile the redirtied inode onto the s_dirty
list.

But we're doing that wrongly: it could be that this inode was redirtied
_before_ the last inode on s_dirty.  We're blindly appending this inode to the
list, after an inode which might be less-recently-dirtied, thus violating the
list's ordering.

So we must either insertion-sort this inode into the correct place, or we must
update this inode's dirtied_when field when appending it to the reverse-sorted
s_dirty list, to preserve the reverse-time-ordering.

This patch does the latter: if this inode was dirtied less recently than the
tail inode then copy the tail inode's timestamp into this inode.

This means that in rare circumstances, some inodes will be writen back later
than they should have been.  But the time slip will be small.

Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodrivers/char/ip2: fix used-uninit'd bug
Jeff Garzik [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:31 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
drivers/char/ip2: fix used-uninit'd bug

Fix bug flagged by a variable-used-uninitialized warning.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoChange man-pages maintainer address
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:31 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Change man-pages maintainer address

The email address that I use for man-pages maintenance has changed as of
now.  This patch changes the address in Documentation/HOWTO and
MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodontdiff: update based on gitignore updates
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:30 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
dontdiff: update based on gitignore updates

Update dontdiff, based on .gitignore patches from Pete Zaitcev and Adrian
Bunk.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoreiserfs: do not repair wrong journal params
Edward Shishkin [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:30 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
reiserfs: do not repair wrong journal params

When mounting a file system with wrong journal params do not try to repair
them, suggest fsck instead.

Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agolp_console: cleanups
Pavel Machek [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:29 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
lp_console: cleanups

Remove NULL initializers and clean whitespace a bit.

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>
16 years agoprintk: add KERN_CONT annotation
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:29 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
printk: add KERN_CONT annotation

printk: add the KERN_CONT annotation (which is empty string but via
which checkpatch.pl can notice that the lacking KERN_ level is fine).
This useful for multiple calls of hand-crafted printk output done by
early debug code or similar.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoext3: lighten up resize transaction requirements
Eric Sandeen [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:28 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
ext3: lighten up resize transaction requirements

When resizing online, setup_new_group_blocks attempts to reserve a
potentially very large transaction, depending on the current filesystem
geometry.  For some journal sizes, there may not be enough room for this
transaction, and the online resize will fail.

The patch below resizes & restarts the transaction as necessary while
setting up the new group, and should work with even the smallest journal.

Tested with something like:

[root@newbox ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=fsfile bs=1024 count=32768
[root@newbox ~]# mkfs.ext3 -b 1024 fsfile 16384
[root@newbox ~]# mount -o loop fsfile mnt/
[root@newbox ~]# resize2fs /dev/loop0
resize2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
Filesystem at /dev/loop0 is mounted on /root/mnt; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/loop0 to 32768 (1k) blocks.
resize2fs: No space left on device While trying to add group #2
[root@newbox ~]# dmesg | tail -n 1
JBD: resize2fs wants too many credits (258 > 256)
[root@newbox ~]#

With the below change, it works.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomodule: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:27 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
module: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed

load_module() returns zero when mod_sysfs_init() fails, then the module
loading will succeed accidentally.

This patch makes load_module() return error correctly in that case.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoF_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation
Ulrich Drepper [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:26 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

One more small change to extend the availability of creation of file
descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set.  Adding a new command to fcntl() requires
no new system call and the overall impact on code size if minimal.

If this patch gets accepted we will also add this change to the next
revision of the POSIX spec.

To test the patch, use the following little program.  Adjust the value of
F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC appropriately.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#ifndef F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
# define F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC 12
#endif

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  if  (argc > 1)
    {
      if (fcntl (3, F_GETFD) == 0)
{
  puts ("descriptor not closed");
  exit (1);
}
      if (errno != EBADF)
{
  puts ("error not EBADF");
  exit (1);
}

      exit (0);
    }
  int fd = fcntl (STDOUT_FILENO, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 0);
  if (fd == -1 && errno == EINVAL)
    {
      puts ("F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC not supported");
      return 0;
    }
  if (fd != 3)
    {
      puts ("program called with descriptors other than 0,1,2");
      return 1;
    }

  execl ("/proc/self/exe", "/proc/self/exe", "1", NULL);
  puts ("execl failed");
  return 1;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agotask_struct: move ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:26 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
task_struct: move ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj

There is nice 2 byte hole after struct task_struct::ioprio field
into which we can put two 1-byte fields: ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agospin_lock_unlocked cleanups
Roel Kluin [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:25 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
spin_lock_unlocked cleanups

Replace some SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED with DEFINE_SPINLOCK

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoBreak ELF_PLATFORM and stack pointer randomization dependency
Franck Bui-Huu [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:24 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Break ELF_PLATFORM and stack pointer randomization dependency

Currently arch_align_stack() is used by fs/binfmt_elf.c to randomize
stack pointer inside a page. But this happens only if ELF_PLATFORM
symbol is defined.

ELF_PLATFORM is normally set if the architecture wants ld.so to load
implementation specific libraries for optimization. And currently a
lot of architectures just yield this symbol to NULL.

This is the case for MIPS architecture where ELF_PLATFORM is NULL but
arch_align_stack() has been redefined to do stack inside page
randomization. So in this case no randomization is actually done.

This patch breaks this dependency which seems to be useless and allows
platforms such MIPS to do the randomization.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agorename signalfd_siginfo fields
Davide Libenzi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:23 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
rename signalfd_siginfo fields

For Michael Kerrisk request, the following patch renames signalfd_siginfo
fields in order to keep them consistent with the siginfo_t ones.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoext3: remove #ifdef CONFIG_EXT3_INDEX
Eric Sandeen [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:23 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
ext3: remove #ifdef CONFIG_EXT3_INDEX

CONFIG_EXT3_INDEX is not an exposed config option in the kernel, and it is
unconditionally defined in ext3_fs.h.  tune2fs is already able to turn off
dir indexing, so at this point it's just cluttering up the code.  Remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofs: correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options
Alan Cox [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:22 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
fs: correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options

The early LFS work that Linux uses favours EFBIG in various places. SuSv3
specifically uses EOVERFLOW for this as noted by Michael (Bug 7253)

[EOVERFLOW]
    The named file is a regular file and the size of the file cannot be
represented correctly in an object of type off_t. We should therefore
transition to the proper error return code

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoCompile handle_percpu_irq even for uniprocessor kernels
Ralf Baechle [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:21 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Compile handle_percpu_irq even for uniprocessor kernels

Compiling handle_percpu_irq only on uniprocessor generates an artificial
special case so a typical use like:

  set_irq_chip_and_handler(irq, &some_irq_type, handle_percpu_irq);

needs to be conditionally compiled only on SMP systems as well and an
alternative UP construct is usually needed - for no good reason.

This fixes uniprocessor configurations for some MIPS SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoCompletely remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)
Ahmed S. Darwish [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:21 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Completely remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)

Only very little files use the deprecated SA_* IRQ flags in latest pull.  This
patch series removes such macros from the tree and transfrom old code to the
new IRQF_* flags.

I've grepped the whole tree to make sure that no more files than the patched
ones use such deprecated macros.  I hope this series won't introduce build
errors.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoNCR53C8XX: Remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)
Ahmed S. Darwish [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:20 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
NCR53C8XX: Remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)

Stop using deprecated IRQ flags in ncr53c8xx documentaion.  The new IRQF_*
macros are used instead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoanon-inodes use open coded atomic_inc for the shared inode
Davide Libenzi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:19 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
anon-inodes use open coded atomic_inc for the shared inode

Since we know the shared inode count is always >0, we can avoid igrab()
and use an open coded atomic_inc().

This also fixes a bug noticed by Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>: were checking
for an IS_ERR() return from igrab(), but it actually returns NULL on error.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoFix wrong filename reference in drivers-testing.txt
Ralf Baechle [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:18 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Fix wrong filename reference in drivers-testing.txt

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoDon't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters
James Pearson [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:17 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters

/proc/PID/environ currently truncates at 4096 characters, patch based on
the /proc/PID/mem code.

Signed-off-by: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofs/udf/balloc.c: mark a variable as uninitialized_var()
WANG Cong [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:17 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
fs/udf/balloc.c: mark a variable as uninitialized_var()

Kill a may-be-used-uninitialized warning.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomenuconfig: transform Network Filesystems menu
Jan Engelhardt [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:16 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
menuconfig: transform Network Filesystems menu

Turn Network File Systems into a menuconfig so that it can be disabled at
once.

(Note: I added a "default y". If you do not like that, speak up.)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomenuconfig: transform NLS and DLM menus
Jan Engelhardt [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:15 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
menuconfig: transform NLS and DLM menus

Changes NLS and DLM menus into a 'menuconfig' object so that it can be
disabled at once without having to enter the menu first to disable the config
option.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoHVC console is also used by iSeries, so add that to HVC_DRIVER help.
Rusty Russell [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:14 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
HVC console is also used by iSeries, so add that to HVC_DRIVER help.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoDelay creation of khcvd thread
Rusty Russell [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:13 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Delay creation of khcvd thread

This changes hvc_init() to be called only when someone actually uses the
hvc_console driver.  Dave Jones complained when profiling bootup.

hvc_console used to only be for Power aka pSeries: now lguest and Xen both
want it built-in in case the kernel is a guest under one of those, even
though usually it will be a native boot.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agochange inotifyfs magic as the same magic is used for futexfs
Andrey Mirkin [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:13 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
change inotifyfs magic as the same magic is used for futexfs

Right now futexfs and inotifyfs have one magic 0xBAD1DEA, that looks a
little bit confusing.  Use 0xBAD1DEA as magic for futexfs and 0x2BAD1DEA as
magic for inotifyfs.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoincrease AT_VECTOR_SIZE to terminate saved_auxv properly
Olaf Hering [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:12 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
increase AT_VECTOR_SIZE to terminate saved_auxv properly

include/asm-powerpc/elf.h has 6 entries in ARCH_DLINFO.  fs/binfmt_elf.c
has 14 unconditional NEW_AUX_ENT entries and 2 conditional NEW_AUX_ENT
entries.  So in the worst case, saved_auxv does not get an AT_NULL entry at
the end.

The saved_auxv array must be terminated with an AT_NULL entry.  Make the
size of mm_struct->saved_auxv arch dependend, based on the number of
ARCH_DLINFO entries.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agovfs: use the predefined d_unhashed inline function instead
Denis Cheng [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:11 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
vfs: use the predefined d_unhashed inline function instead

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoUse KMEM_CACHE macro to create the nsproxy cache
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:11 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Use KMEM_CACHE macro to create the nsproxy cache

The blessed way for standard caches is to use it.  Besides, this may give
this cache a better alignment.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoRemove unused member from nsproxy
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:10 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Remove unused member from nsproxy

The nslock spinlock is not used in the kernel at all.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agouser.c: #ifdef ->mq_bytes
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:09 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
user.c: #ifdef ->mq_bytes

For those who deselect POSIX message queues.

Reduces SLAB size of user_struct from 64 to 32 bytes here, SLUB size -- from
40 bytes to 32 bytes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agouser.c: deinline
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:09 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
user.c: deinline

Save some space because uid_hash_find() has 3 callsites.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoUDF: coding style fixups
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:08 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
UDF: coding style fixups

This patch does additional coding style fixup.  Initially the code is being
distorted by Lindent (in my patches sent not very long ago) and fixed in
the followup patches but this stuff was accidently missed.

New and old compiled files were compared with cmp to check for being
identically.  So the patch will not break the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoatomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information [Bug 9020]
Matti Linnanvuori [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:08 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information [Bug 9020]

atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information about
semantics of initializer, atomic_set, atomic_read and atomic_xchg.

It also incorrectly implies that operations mentioned above are not actual
atomic operations.

Included is most of the patch Document non-semantics of atomic_read() and
atomic_set() by Chris Snook, except the word "assignment".

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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>
16 years agotty: expose new methods needed for drivers to get termios right
Alan Cox [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:07 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
tty: expose new methods needed for drivers to get termios right

This adds three new functions (or in one case to be more exact makes it
always available)

tty_termios_copy_hw

Copies all the hardware settings from one termios structure to the other.
This is intended for drivers that support little or no hardware setting

tty_termios_encode_baud_rate

Allows you to set the input and output baud rate in a termios structure.  A
driver is supposed to set the resulting baud rate from a request so most
will want to use this function to set the resulting input and output rates
to match the hardware values.  Internally it knows about keeping Bxxx
encoding when possible to maximise compatibility.

tty_encode_baud_rate

As above but for the tty's own current termios structure

I suspect this will initially need some tweaking as it gets enabled by
driver patches over the next few mm cycles so consider this lot -mm only
for the moment so it can stabilize and end up neat before it goes to base.

I've tried not to break any obscure architectures - if you get a speed you
can't represent the code will print warnings on non updated termios systems
but not break.

Once this is merged and seems sane I've got a growing pile of driver
updates to use it - notably for USB serial drivers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoide-cd is unmaintained
Alan Cox [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:06 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
ide-cd is unmaintained

I simply don't have any old IDE systems any more or time to really look
after this.  Nobody responded to the previous linux-ide mail about
maintainers so...

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofs/isofs/namei.c: Remove uninitialized local vars warning
Borislav Petkov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:05 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
fs/isofs/namei.c: Remove uninitialized local vars warning

shut up those:
fs/isofs/namei.c: In function 'isofs_lookup':
fs/isofs/namei.c:161: warning: 'offset' may be used uninitialized in this function
fs/isofs/namei.c:161: warning: 'block' may be used uninitialized in this function

By the way, they get overwritten at the end of isofs_find_entry().

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoDelete gcc-2.95 compatible structure definition.
Robert P. J. Day [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:05 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
Delete gcc-2.95 compatible structure definition.

Since nothing earlier than gcc-3.2 is supported for kernel
compilation, that 2.95 hack can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoreiserfs: workaround for dead loop in finish_unfinished
Lepton Wu [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:04 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
reiserfs: workaround for dead loop in finish_unfinished

There is possible dead loop in finish_unfinished function.

In most situation, the call chain iput -> ...  -> reiserfs_delete_inode ->
remove_save_link will success.  But for some reason such as data
corruption, reiserfs_delete_inode fails on reiserfs_do_truncate ->
search_for_position_by_key.

Then remove_save_link won't be called.  We always get the same
"save_link_key" in the while loop in finish_unfinished function.  The
following patch adds a check for the possible dead loop and just remove
save link when deap loop.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoadd consts where appropriate in fs/nls/*
Denys Vlasenko [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:54 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
add consts where appropriate in fs/nls/*

Add const modifiers to a few struct nls_table's member pointers in
include/linux/nls.h and adds a lot of const's in fs/nls/*.c files.

Resulting changes as visible by size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 113612  481216    2368  597196   91ccc nls.org/built-in.o
 593548    3296     288  597132   91c8c nls/built-in.o

Apparently compiler managed to optimize code a bit better
because of const-ness.

No other changes are made.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoshrink_dcache_sb speedup
Denis V. Lunev [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:53 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
shrink_dcache_sb speedup

This patch makes shrink_dcache_sb consistent with dentry pruning policy.

On the first pass we iterate over dentry unused list and prepare some
dentries for removal.

However, since the existing code moves evicted dentries to the beginning of
the LRU it can happen that fresh dentries from other superblocks will be
inserted *before* our dentries.

This can result in significant slowdown of shrink_dcache_sb().  Moreover,
for virtual filesystems like unionfs which can call dput() during dentries
kill existing code results in O(n^2) complexity.

We observed 2 minutes shrink_dcache_sb() with only 35000 dentries.

To avoid this effects we propose to isolate sb dentries at the end
of LRU list.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@openvz.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agolk201: remove obsolete driver
Maciej W. Rozycki [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:51 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
lk201: remove obsolete driver

Remove the old-fashioned lk201 driver under drivers/tc/ that used to be
used by the old dz.c and zs.c drivers, which is now orphan code referred to
from nowhere and does not build anymore.  A modern replacement is available
as drivers/input/keyboard/lkkbd.c.

There are no plans to do anything about this piece of code and it does not
fit anywhere anymore, so it is not just a matter of maintenance or the lack
of.  There are still some bits that might be added to the new lkkbd.c
driver based on the old code, and the embedded hardware documentation which
is otherwise quite hard to get hold of might be useful to keep too.  Both
of these can be done separately though.  RIP.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agolib/iomap.c:bad_io_access(): print 0x hex prefix
Rene Herman [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:51 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
lib/iomap.c:bad_io_access(): print 0x hex prefix

Be explicit about printing hex.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoreiserfs: fix kernel panic on corrupted directory
Lepton Wu [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:50 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
reiserfs: fix kernel panic on corrupted directory

When reading corrupted reiserfs directory data, d_reclen could be a
negative number or a big positive number, this can lead to kernel panic or
oop.  The following patch adds a sanity check.

Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodoc: about email clients for Linux patches
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:49 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
doc: about email clients for Linux patches

Requested by Jeff Garzik.
v3, updated from lkml comments.

Add info about various email clients and their applicability
in being used to send Linux kernel patches.

Some notes takes from http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients
Portions used with permission.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoMake the pr_*() family of macros in kernel.h complete
Emil Medve [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:48 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Make the pr_*() family of macros in kernel.h complete

Other/Some pr_*() macros are already defined in kernel.h, but pr_err() was
defined multiple times in several other places

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoKEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous
David Howells [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:46 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous

Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous to make it easier for
NFS to make use of them.  There are now accessor functions that do
asynchronous constructions, a wait function to wait for construction to
complete, and a completion function for the key type to indicate completion
of construction.

Note that the construction queue is now gone.  Instead, keys under
construction are linked in to the appropriate keyring in advance, and that
anyone encountering one must wait for it to be complete before they can use
it.  This is done automatically for userspace.

The following auxiliary changes are also made:

 (1) Key type implementation stuff is split from linux/key.h into
     linux/key-type.h.

 (2) AF_RXRPC provides a way to allocate null rxrpc-type keys so that AFS does
     not need to call key_instantiate_and_link() directly.

 (3) Adjust the debugging macros so that they're -Wformat checked even if
     they are disabled, and make it so they can be enabled simply by defining
     __KDEBUG to be consistent with other code of mine.

 (3) Documentation.

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: keys: missing word in documentation]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agotry to reap reiserfs pages left around by invalidatepage
Chris Mason [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:44 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
try to reap reiserfs pages left around by invalidatepage

reiserfs_invalidatepage will refuse to free pages if they have been logged
in data=journal mode, or were pinned down by a data=ordered operation.  For
data=journal, this is fairly easy to trigger just with fsx-linux, and it
results in a large number of pages hanging around on the LRUs with
page->mapping == NULL.

Calling try_to_free_buffers when reiserfs decides it is done with the page
allows it to be freed earlier, and with much less VM thrashing.  Lock
ordering rules mean that reiserfs can't call lock_page when it is releasing
the buffers, so TestSetPageLocked is used instead.  Contention on these
pages should be rare, so it should be sufficient most of the time.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomaintainers: linux-omap list is subscribers only
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:44 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
maintainers: linux-omap list is subscribers only

You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been
automatically rejected.  If you think that your messages are being rejected
in error, contact the mailing list owner at
linux-omap-open-source-owner@linux.omap.com.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoRemove dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functions
Ralf Baechle [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:42 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Remove dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functions

dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) were the earliest attempt on a generalized
cache managment API for I/O purposes.  Originally it was basically the raw
MIPS low level cache API exported to the entire world.  The API has
suffered from a lack of documentation, was not very widely used unlike it's
more modern brothers and can easily be replaced by dma_cache_sync.  So
remove it rsp.  turn the surviving bits back into an arch private API, as
discussed on linux-arch.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodcache: trivial comment fix
J. Bruce Fields [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:42 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
dcache: trivial comment fix

As it stands this comment is confusing, and not quite grammatical.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoMutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers
Matti Linnanvuori [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:41 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoSpelling fix: weired -> weird
Ralf Baechle [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:40 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Spelling fix: weired -> weird

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc namespace: remove config ipc ns fix
Cedric Le Goater [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:40 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
ipc namespace: remove config ipc ns fix

Finish the work : kill all #ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS.

Thanks Robert !

Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmision.com>
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoI2O: Fix "defined but not used" build warnings
Satyam Sharma [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:39 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
I2O: Fix "defined but not used" build warnings

drivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c:539: warning: `i2o_exec_lct_notify' defined but not used

comes when CONFIG_I2O_LCT_NOTIFY_ON_CHANGES=n, because its only callsite
is #ifdef'ed as such. So let's #ifdef the function definition also. Also
move the definition to before the callsite, to get rid of forward prototype.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoupdate checkpatch.pl to version 0.10
Andy Whitcroft [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:38 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10

This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes.  Of note:

  - better categorisation and space checks for dual use unary/binary
    operators
  - warn on deprecated use of {SPIN,RW}_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  - check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
  - detect DOS line endings
  - detect redundant casts for kalloc()

Andy Whitcroft (18):
      Version: 0.10
      asmlinkage is also a storage type
      pull out inline specifiers
      allow only some operators before a unary operator
      parenthesised values may span line ends
      add additional attribute matching
      handle sparse annotations within pointer type space checks
      support alternative function definition syntax for typedefs
      check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
      fix output format for case checks
      deprecate SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED
      allow complex macros with bracketing braces
      detect and report DOS line endings
      fastcall is a valid function attribute
      bracket spacing is ok for 'for'
      categorise operators into unary/binary/definitions
      add heuristic to pick up on unannotated types
      remove spurious warnings from cat_vet

Dave Jones (1):
      Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoadd CONFIG_VT_UNICODE
Bill Nottingham [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:38 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard.
We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults
in the kernel.

The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in
unicode mode by default on boot, including both the virtual terminal and
the keyboard driver.

Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoavoid negative (and full-width) shifts in radix-tree.c
Peter Lund [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:35 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
avoid negative (and full-width) shifts in radix-tree.c

Negative shifts are not allowed in C (the result is undefined).  Same thing
with full-width shifts.

It works on most platforms but not on the VAX with gcc 4.0.1 (it results in an
"operand reserved" fault).

Shifting by more than the width of the value on the left is also not
allowed.  I think the extra '>> 1' tacked on at the end in the original
code was an attempt to work around that.  Getting rid of that is an extra
feature of this patch.

Here's the chapter and verse, taken from the final draft of the C99
standard ("6.5.7 Bitwise shift operators", paragraph 3):

  "The integer promotions are performed on each of the operands. The
  type of the result is that of the promoted left operand. If the
  value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal
  to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is
  undefined."

Thank you to Jan-Benedict Glaw, Christoph Hellwig, Maciej Rozycki, Pekka
Enberg, Andreas Schwab, and Christoph Lameter for review.  Special thanks
to Andreas for spotting that my fix only removed half the undefined
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Peter Lund <firefly@vax64.dk>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoconstify string/array kparam tracking structures
Jan Beulich [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:34 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
constify string/array kparam tracking structures

.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agostore __setup_str_* in a more compact way
Jan Beulich [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:34 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
store __setup_str_* in a more compact way

__setup_str_* are referenced only during boot, hence there's no need to
waste image space for aligning these strings (with the aim of improving
performance).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agohandle recursive calls to bust_spinlocks()
Jan Beulich [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:33 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
handle recursive calls to bust_spinlocks()

Various architectures may call bust_spinlocks() recursively; the function
itself, however, doesn't appear to be meant to be called in this manner.
Nevertheless, this doesn't appear to be a problem as long as
bust_spinlocks(0) doesn't get called twice in a row (otherwise,
unblank_screen() may enter the scheduler).  However, at least on i386 die()
has been capable of returning (and on other architectures this should
really be that way, too) when notify_die() returns NOTIFY_STOP.

Short of getting a reply to a respective query, this patch makes
bust_spinlocks() increment/decrement oops_in_progress, and wake klogd only
when the count drops back to zero.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoAdd a "rounddown_pow_of_two" routine to log2.h
Robert P. J. Day [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:32 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Add a "rounddown_pow_of_two" routine to log2.h

To go along with the existing "roundup_pow_of_two" routine, add one for
rounding down since that operation appears to crop up on a regular basis in
the source tree.

[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: fix unbalanced parentheses]
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomake dmapool code use __set_current_state()
Arjan van de Ven [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:32 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
make dmapool code use __set_current_state()

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@Linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoquota: send messages via netlink
Jan Kara [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:31 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
quota: send messages via netlink

Implement sending of quota messages via netlink interface.  The advantage
is that in userspace we can better decide what to do with the message - for
example display a dialogue in your X session or just write the message to
the console.  As a bonus, we can get rid of problems with console locking
deep inside filesystem code once we remove the old printing mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoRemove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parm
Robert P. J. Day [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:30 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Remove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parm

Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated
since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodocs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:29 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs:
- fix typos/spellos/grammar
- clarify RAM disk config location
- correct cpio option

Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agolocal_t: update documentation
Mathieu Desnoyers [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:29 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
local_t: update documentation

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoatomic_ops.txt: mention local_t
Grant Grundler [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:28 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
atomic_ops.txt: mention local_t

local_t is a variant of atomic_t and has related ops to match.
Add reference for local_t documentation to atomic_ops.txt.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agolocal_t Documentation update 2
Mathieu Desnoyers [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:28 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
local_t Documentation update 2

Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local
atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to
local_ops.txt.

"Please add a bit more detail.  If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then
there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process
and interrupt contexts.  I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly
since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite
painful."

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoRemove valueless definition of hard-selected RAMFS option
Robert P. J. Day [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:27 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Remove valueless definition of hard-selected RAMFS option

Since CONFIG_RAMFS is currently hard-selected to "y", and since
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt reads as follows:

"The amount of code required to implement ramfs is tiny, because all the
work is done by the existing Linux caching infrastructure.  Basically,
you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem.  Because of this, ramfs is
not an optional component removable via menuconfig, since there would be
negligible space savings."

It seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodrivers/block/cciss.c: fix check-after-use
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:26 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
drivers/block/cciss.c: fix check-after-use

The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "disk"
was NULL.

Since "disk" being NULL seems impossible at this point this patch
removes the NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomake kernel/profile.c:time_hook static
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:26 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
make kernel/profile.c:time_hook static

{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agokernel/sys_ni.c: add dummy sys_ni_syscall() prototype
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:25 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
kernel/sys_ni.c: add dummy sys_ni_syscall() prototype

kernel/sys_ni.c can't #include <linux/syscalls.h> due to cond_syscall(),
but let's tell gcc to not warn with -Wmissing-prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agon_hdlc.c: fix check-after-use
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:25 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
n_hdlc.c: fix check-after-use

The Coverity checker spotted that we'd have already oops'ed if "tty"
was NULL.

Since "tty" can't be NULL when we reach this line of code this patch
removes the NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoremove include/asm-*/ipc.h
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:24 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
remove include/asm-*/ipc.h

All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>.

This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the
contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoDrop some headers from mm.h
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:23 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
Drop some headers from mm.h

mm.h doesn't use directly anything from mutex.h and backing-dev.h, so
remove them and add them back to files which need them.

Cross-compile tested on many configs and archs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocciss: fix error reporting for SG_IO
Steve Cameron [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:37 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
cciss: fix error reporting for SG_IO

This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" field
of the request structure upon completion of requests.  Previously, it just
put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation of this as the uptodate
parameter to one of the functions in the block layer, being a block device.
 For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not sufficient, and we noticed that, for
example, sg_turs from sg3_utils did not correctly detect problems due to
cciss having set rq->errors incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoNBD: allow hung network I/O to be cancelled
Paul Clements [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:37 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
NBD: allow hung network I/O to be cancelled

Allow NBD I/O to be cancelled when a network outage occurs.  Previously, I/O
would just hang, and if enough I/O was hung in nbd, the system (at least
user-level) would completely hang until a TCP timeout (default, 15 minutes)
occurred.

The patch introduces a new ioctl NBD_SET_TIMEOUT that allows a transmit
timeout value (in seconds) to be specified.  Any network send that exceeds the
timeout will be cancelled and the nbd connection will be shut down.  I've
tested with various timeout values and 6 seconds seems to be a good choice for
the timeout.  If the NBD_SET_TIMEOUT ioctl is not called, you get the old (I/O
hang) behavior.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoNBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0
Paul Clements [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:36 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
NBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0

This fixes errors with utilities (such as LVM's vgscan) that try to scan all
devices.  Previously this would generate read errors when uninitialized nbd
devices were scanned:

# vgscan
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
   /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Input/output error
   /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error
   /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
   /dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error
   /dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error

 From now on, uninitialized nbd devices will have size zero, which
prevents these errors.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoCodingStyle: relax the 80-cole rule
Alan Cox [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:33 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
CodingStyle: relax the 80-cole rule

I would suggest this change to make CodingStyle properly reflect the style
used by the kernel, rather than the current wording which is wishful
thinking and misleading, and comes from the same school of thought that
gets off on prescriptive grammar, latin and comp.std.c

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocleanup floppy.h
Jan Beulich [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:33 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
cleanup floppy.h

AUTO_DMA and FLOPPY_MOTOR_MASK in include/asm-*/floppy.h are dead symbols -
remove them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofloppy: tolerate DMA channel unavailability
Jan Beulich [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:32 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
floppy: tolerate DMA channel unavailability

The floppy driver is already written to be able to operate in virtual DMA
mode.  Thus it can easily be adjusted to tolerate failure from
fd_request_dma() as long as virtual DMA mode is not disallowed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoMove PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig
Avi Kivity [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:31 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig

Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k).  On those
archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol
PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt).

So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by
everyone.

Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agotty.h: remove dead define
Alan Cox [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:31 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
tty.h: remove dead define

No longer used. TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE will also go soon but needs a couple of
other cleanups first

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoShrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=n
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:30 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
Shrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=n

robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are
really used if futexes are on.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoadd-vmcore: add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros
Ken'ichi Ohmichi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:30 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
add-vmcore: add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros

Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros.  Old vmcoreinfo macros
were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is
impossible to grep for them.  So these names should be changed.  This
discussion is the following:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoadd-vmcore: use the existing ia64_tpa() instead of asm code
Ken'ichi Ohmichi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:29 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
add-vmcore: use the existing ia64_tpa() instead of asm code

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoadd-vmcore: add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data
Ken'ichi Ohmichi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:28 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
add-vmcore: add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data

[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data.
  The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed
  the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint.
  So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch
  to let the kernel output them.
  makedumpfile site:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoadd-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments
Ken'ichi Ohmichi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:28 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments

[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html
- vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that
  the compiler can check its use.
- vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t.
- Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec.
- Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoAdd vmcoreinfo
Ken'ichi Ohmichi [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:27 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
Add vmcoreinfo

This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.

makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump.  It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis.  To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information.  These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.

To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml.  As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)

Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)

And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agobinfmt_flat: warning fixes
Andrew Morton [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:26 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
binfmt_flat: warning fixes

Fix this lot:

fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `decompress_exec':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:293: warning: label `out' defined but not used
fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_file':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3)
fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 4)
fs/binfmt_flat.c:518: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c:549: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c:601: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_binary':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:116: warning: 'dummy' might be used uninitialized in this function

Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoAdd stack checking for Blackfin
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:25 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
Add stack checking for Blackfin

Simply fill out the bits in checkstack.pl for Blackfin.  I thought I already
sent this, but I don't see it in -mm anywhere ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodo_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:24 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()

do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says:

* If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
* threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.

I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case,
bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction.

Kill this special case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoexec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:23 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec

de_thread() yields waiting for ->group_leader to be a zombie. This deadlocks
if an rt-prio execer shares the same cpu with ->group_leader. Change the code
to use ->group_exit_task/notify_count mechanics.

This patch certainly uglifies the code, perhaps someone can suggest something
better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoexec: consolidate 2 fast-paths
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:23 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
exec: consolidate 2 fast-paths

Now that we don't pre-allocate the new ->sighand, we can kill the first fast
path, it doesn't make sense any longer. At best, it can save one "list_empty()"
check but leads to the code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoexec: simplify the new ->sighand allocation
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:22 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
exec: simplify the new ->sighand allocation

de_thread() pre-allocates newsighand to make sure that exec() can't fail after
killing all sub-threads. Imho, this buys nothing, but complicates the code:

- this is (mostly) needed to handle CLONE_SIGHAND without CLONE_THREAD
  tasks, this is very unlikely (if ever used) case

- unless we already have some serious problems, GFP_KERNEL allocation
  should not fail

- ENOMEM still can happen after de_thread(), ->sighand is not the last
  object we have to allocate

Change the code to allocate the new ->sighand on demand.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoexec: simplify ->sighand switching
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:22 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
exec: simplify ->sighand switching

There is no any reason to do recalc_sigpending() after changing ->sighand.
To begin with, recalc_sigpending() does not take ->sighand into account.

This means we don't need to take newsighand->siglock while changing sighands.
rcu_assign_pointer() provides a necessary barrier, and if another process
reads the new ->sighand it should either take tasklist_lock or it should use
lock_task_sighand() which has a corresponding smp_read_barrier_depends().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>