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John Johansen
9d0633cfed Remove redundant check from proc_sys_setattr()
notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.

Alan sayeth

  This is a behaviour change on all of these and limits some behaviour of
  existing established security modules

  When inode_change_ok is called it has side effects.  This includes
  clearing the SGID bit on attribute changes caused by chmod.  If you make
  this change the results of some rulesets may be different before or after
  the change is made.

  I'm not saying the change is wrong but it does change behaviour so that
  needs looking at closely (ditto all other attribute twiddles)

Signed-off-by: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
John Johansen
1e8123fded Remove redundant check from proc_setattr()
notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
David Brownell
49a4ec188f fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers
We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style
platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support.

The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the
driver model.  They assume a role that should be the responsibility of
infrastructure code: creating device nodes.

The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those
roles into different modules.  The lack of this split causes the problems.
When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug
event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS"
step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the
result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ...  badness.

This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add"
events.  (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can
hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather
than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to
one bit, saving a word in "struct device".

So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy
drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform
drivers.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
eb81d93046 kernel-doc: generate main index page when building 'htmldocs'
A patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global, TOC-like
index.html page after building 'htmldocs'

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
Mike Miller (OS Dev)
198b766013 cciss: set rq->errors more correctly in driver
Set rq->errors more correctly in cciss driver.  Previously we had set it
synonymously with the meaning of the last parameter of end_that_last_request
and complete_buffers (the "uptodate" parameter) and had gotten away with it
for all this time because nobody ever looked at rq->errors.
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND looks at rq->errors, so now it matters that it be
right.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Mike Miller (OS Dev)
03bbfee58d cciss: add SG_IO ioctl to cciss
For all of you that think cciss should be a scsi driver here is the patch that
you have been waiting for all these years. This patch actually adds the SG_IO
ioctl to cciss. The primary purpose is for clustering and high-availibilty.
But now anyone can exploit this ioctl in any manner they wish.

Note, SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND doesn't work with this patch due to rq->errors
being set incorrectly.  Subsequent patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Mike Miller (OS Dev)
d38ae168bf cciss: reformat error handling
Reformat some error handling code to reduce line lengths a bit.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Martin Peschke
09f0892ec7 proc: cleanup: use seq_release_private() where appropriate
We can save some lines of code by using seq_release_private().

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Martin Peschke
5a0c6a0d1a kallsyms: cleanup: use seq_release_private() where appropriate
We can save some lines of code by using seq_release_private().

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
6272e26679 cleanup compat ioctl handling
Merge all compat ioctl handling into compat_ioctl.c instead of splitting it
over compat.c and compat_ioctl.c.  This also allows to get rid of ioctl32.h

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Looks-good-to: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
039b6b3ed8 audit: add spaces on either side of case "..." operator.
Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make
sure the case "..." operator has spaces on either side.

According to:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case-Ranges:

  "Be careful: Write spaces around the ..., for otherwise it may be
parsed wrong when you use it with integer values."

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>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
b2bbe383ef dtlk: fix error checks in module_init()
This patch fixes two things in module_init.

- fix register_chrdev() error check

  Currently dtlk doesn't check register_chrdev() failure correctly.
  register_chrdev() returns a errno on failure.

- check probe failure

  dtlk ignores probe failure and allows the module loading without
  such device. I got "Trying to free nonexistent resource" message
  by release_region() when unloading module without device.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix error code return]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Pallotta <chris@allmedia.com>
Cc: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Philippe De Muyter
19d0e8ce85 partition: add support for sysv68 partitions
Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition (slices in motorola
doc).

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
e729aa16b1 Pad irq_desc to internode cacheline size
We noticed a drop in n/w performance due to the irq_desc being cacheline
aligned rather than internode aligned.  We see 50% of expected performance
when two e1000 nics local to two different nodes have consecutive irq
descriptors allocated, due to false sharing.

Note that this patch does away with cacheline padding for the UP case, as
it does not seem useful for UP configurations.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
428e6ce023 Lockdep treats down_write_trylock like regular down_write
This causes constructions like

down_write(&mm1->mmap_sem);
if (down_write_trylock(&mm2->mmap_sem)) {
       ...
       up_write(&mm2->mmap_sem);
}
up_write(&mm1->mmap_sem);

generate a lockdep warning about circular locking dependence.

Call rwsem_acquire() with trylock set to 1.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
644fd4f5de merge compat_ioctl.h into compat_ioctl.c
Now that there is no arch-specific compat ioctl handling left there is not
point in having a separate copat_ioctl.h, so merge it into compat_ioctl.c

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
884f2810b1 kernel-doc: handle arrays with arithmetic expressions as initializers
In a different approach here's a patch that handles the special case of
composite arithmetic expressions in array size initializers.  With it,
prior to pushing the split strings on the @first_arg array, I split the
keywords before the array name as before and then keep the array name along
with the subscript expression as a single whole element which gets pushed
last.  In this manner, kernel-doc produces correct output without removing
whitespaces which makes the array subscripts unreadable in the docs.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-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>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Milind Arun Choudhary
1525dccbc2 ROUND_UP macro cleanup in fs/smbfs/request.c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use ALIGN

Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Milind Arun Choudhary
022a169244 ROUND_UP macro cleanup in fs/(select|compat|readdir).c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use,ALIGN or DIV_ROUND_UP where ever appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
10f8a59813 parport_serial: fix PCI must_checks
drivers/parport/parport_serial.c:402: warning: ignoring return value of 'pci_enable_device', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

Signed-off-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>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
7e80d0d0b6 i386: sched.h inclusion from module.h is baack
linux/module.h
  -> linux/elf.h
     -> asm-i386/elf.h
        -> linux/utsname.h
           -> linux/sched.h

Noticeably cut the number of files which are rebuild upon touching sched.h
and cut down pulled junk from every module.h inclusion.

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>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Milind Arun Choudhary
b259d74b39 ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/char/lp.c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use DIV_ROUND_UP

Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
0e8638e2ac Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2
The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated
warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines:

> This is going to break a lot of external stuff.  We should have found
> a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_
> warning) to warn people of impending doom.  But I can't immediately
> find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I
> suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months.  It's
> going to get ugly out there.  We shall see...

Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function
so a warning is emitted on compile time.

Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2833bf68b9 Replace deprecated SA_xxx interrupt flags
Fix the last users of the deprecated SA_xxx interrupt flags.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
9730b5b06f kernel/params.c: fix lying comment for param_array()
This fixes the comment for the function param_array. Which lies that it
only *temporarily* mangle the input string @val.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <wesarg@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a5c43dae7a Fix race between cat /proc/slab_allocators and rmmod
Same story as with cat /proc/*/wchan race vs rmmod race, only
/proc/slab_allocators want more info than just symbol name.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
9d65cb4a17 Fix race between cat /proc/*/wchan and rmmod et al
kallsyms_lookup() can go iterating over modules list unprotected which is OK
for emergency situations (oops), but not OK for regular stuff like
/proc/*/wchan.

Introduce lookup_symbol_name()/lookup_module_symbol_name() which copy symbol
name into caller-supplied buffer or return -ERANGE.  All copying is done with
module_mutex held, so...

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ffb4512276 Simplify kallsyms_lookup()
Several kallsyms_lookup() pass dummy arguments but only need, say, module's
name.  Make kallsyms_lookup() accept NULLs where possible.

Also, makes picture clearer about what interfaces are needed for all symbol
resolving business.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ea07890a68 Fix race between rmmod and cat /proc/kallsyms
module_get_kallsym() leaks "struct module *" outside of module_mutex which is
no-no, because module can dissapear right after mutex unlock.

Copy all needed information from inside module_mutex into caller-supplied
space.

[bunk@stusta.de: is_exported() can now become static]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ae84e32470 Simplify module_get_kallsym() by dropping length arg
module_get_kallsym() could in theory truncate module symbol name to fit in
buffer, but nobody does this.  Always use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 bytes for name.

Suggested by lg^WRusty.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
David Brownell
55955aad7c PNPACPI sets pnpdev->dev.archdata
Teach PNPACPI how to hook up its devices to their ACPI nodes, so that
pnpdev->dev.archdata points to the parallel acpi device node.  Previously
this only worked for PCI, leaving a notable hole.

Export "acpi_bus_type" so this can work.

Remove some extraneous whitespace.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
kalash nainwal
98701d1b0f (re)register_binfmt returns with -EBUSY
When a binary format is unregistered and re-registered, register_binfmt
fails with -EBUSY.  The reason is that unregister_binfmt does not set
fmt->next to NULL, and seeing (fmt->next != NULL), register_binfmt fails
with -EBUSY.

One can find his way around by explicitly setting fmt->next to NULL after
unregistering, but that is kind of unclean (one should better be using only
the interfaces, and not the interal members, isn't it?)

Attached one-liner can fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kalash Nainwal <kalash.nainwal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
0f95b7fc83 Kprobes: print details of kretprobe on assertion failure
In certain cases like when the real return address can't be found or when
the number of tracked calls to a kretprobed function is less than the
number of returns, we may not be able to find the correct return address
after processing a kretprobe.  Currently we just do a BUG_ON, but no
information is provided about the actual failing kretprobe.

Print out details of the kretprobe before calling BUG().

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8f0c45cdf8 enhance initcall_debug, measure latency
enhance the initcall_debug boot option:

 - measure the time the initcall took to execute and report
   it in units of milliseconds.

 - show the return code of initcalls (useful to see failures and
   to make sure that an initcall hung)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
b73a7e76c1 Fix kevent's childs priority greediness
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness.  Such tasks were always scheduled
at nice level -5 and, at that time, udev stole us the CPU time with -5.

Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/10/85

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Simon Horman
6672f76a5a kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time
Currently the size of the per-cpu region reserved to save crash notes is
set by the per-architecture value MAX_NOTE_BYTES.  Which in turn is
currently set to 1024 on all supported architectures.

While testing ia64 I recently discovered that this value is in fact too
small.  The particular setup I was using actually needs 1172 bytes.  This
lead to very tedious failure mode where the tail of one elf note would
overwrite the head of another if they ended up being alocated sequentially
by kmalloc, which was often the case.

It seems to me that a far better approach is to caclculate the size that
the area needs to be.  This patch does just that.

If a simpler stop-gap patch for ia64 to be squeezed into 2.6.21(.X) is
needed then this should be as easy as making MAX_NOTE_BYTES larger in
arch/asm-ia64/kexec.h.  Perhaps 2048 would be a good choice.  However, I
think that the approach in this patch is a much more robust idea.

Acked-by:  Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Ken Chen
7328508274 remove artificial software max_loop limit
Remove artificial maximum 256 loop device that can be created due to a
legacy device number limit.  Searching through lkml archive, there are
several instances where users complained about the artificial limit that
the loop driver impose.  There is no reason to have such limit.

This patch rid the limit entirely and make loop device and associated block
queue instantiation on demand.  With on-demand instantiation, it also gives
the benefit of not wasting memory if these devices are not in use (compare
to current implementation that always create 8 loop devices), a net
improvement in both areas.  This version is both tested with creation of
large number of loop devices and is compatible with existing losetup/mount
user land tools.

There are a number of people who worked on this and provided valuable
suggestions, in no particular order, by:

Jens Axboe
Jan Engelhardt
Christoph Hellwig
Thomas M

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Russell King
4f911d64e0 Make /dev/port conditional on config symbol
Instead of having /dev/port support dependent in multiple places on a
string of preprocessor symbols, define a new configuration directive for
it.  This ensures that all four places remain consistent with each other.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
John Feeney
62456726d7 Fix 82875 PCI setup
The 82875 EDAC driver enables an otherwise-hidden PCI device, but doesn't
register it as a PCI device properly.  Therefore, the device list in
/proc/bus/pci/devices is different than the tree in /sys/bus/pci.  This
usually manifests as the X server failing to start, since it expects the
two lists to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajackson@redhat.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-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>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
04c9167f91 add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs()
Add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() to allow the softlockup watchdog
timers on all cpus to be updated.  This is used to prevent sysrq-t from
generating a spurious watchdog message when generating lots of output.

Softlockup watchdogs use sched_clock() as its timebase, which is inherently
per-cpu (at least, when it is measuring unstolen time).  Because of this,
it isn't possible for one CPU to directly update the other CPU's timers,
but it is possible to tell the other CPUs to do update themselves
appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.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>
2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
966812dc98 Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
The softlockup watchdog is currently a nuisance in a virtual machine, since
the whole system could have the CPU stolen from it for a long period of
time.  While it would be unlikely for a guest domain to be denied timer
interrupts for over 10s, it could happen and any softlockup message would
be completely spurious.

Earlier I proposed that sched_clock() return time in unstolen nanoseconds,
which is how Xen and VMI currently implement it.  If the softlockup
watchdog uses sched_clock() to measure time, it would automatically ignore
stolen time, and therefore only report when the guest itself locked up.
When running native, sched_clock() returns real-time nanoseconds, so the
behaviour would be unchanged.

Note that sched_clock() used this way is inherently per-cpu, so this patch
makes sure that the per-processor watchdog thread initialized its own
timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
john stultz
8524070b79 Move timekeeping code to timekeeping.c
Move the timekeeping code out of kernel/timer.c and into
kernel/time/timekeeping.c.  I made no cleanups or other changes in transit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
329c8d84ca time: SMP friendly alignment of struct clocksource
struct clocksource is a critical data structure.

Most of its fields are read only, some of them are heavily modified at each
timer interrupt.

It makes sense to separate those fields and make sure they all share one
cache line, or at least the minimum for machines with small cache lines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
Ahmed S. Darwish
f75d222b83 IRQ: check for PERCPU flag only when adding first irqaction
An irqaction structure won't be added to an IRQ descriptor irqaction list if
it doesn't agree with other irqactions on the IRQF_PERCPU flag.  Don't check
for this flag to change IRQ descriptor `status' for every irqaction added to
the list, Doing the check only for the first irqaction added is enough.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:06 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
3367b994fe <linux/sysdev.h> needs to include <linux/module.h>
sysdev.h uses THIS_MODULE so should include <linux/module.h>.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Venki Pallipadi
28287033e1 Add a new deferrable delayed work init
Add a new deferrable delayed work init.  This can be used to schedule work
that are 'unimportant' when CPU is idle and can be called later, when CPU
eventually comes out of idle.

Use this init in cpufreq ondemand governor.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Venki Pallipadi
6e453a6751 Add support for deferrable timers
Introduce a new flag for timers - deferrable: Timers that work normally
when system is busy.  But, will not cause CPU to come out of idle (just to
service this timer), when CPU is idle.  Instead, this timer will be
serviced when CPU eventually wakes up with a subsequent non-deferrable
timer.

The main advantage of this is to avoid unnecessary timer interrupts when
CPU is idle.  If the routine currently called by a timer can wait until
next event without any issues, this new timer can be used to setup timer
event for that routine.  This, with dynticks, allows CPUs to be lazy,
allowing them to stay in idle for extended period of time by reducing
unnecesary wakeup and thereby reducing the power consumption.

This patch:

Builds this new timer on top of existing timer infrastructure.  It uses
last bit in 'base' pointer of timer_list structure to store this deferrable
timer flag.  __next_timer_interrupt() function skips over these deferrable
timers when CPU looks for next timer event for which it has to wake up.

This is exported by a new interface init_timer_deferrable() that can be
called in place of regular init_timer().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Privatise a #define]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
David Brownell
da67529642 layered parport code uses parport->dev
Update some of the layered parport_driver code to use parport->dev:

	- i2c-parport (parent of i2c_adapter)
	- spi_butterfly (parent of spi_master, allowing cruft removal)
	- lp (creating class_device)
	- ppdev (parent of parportN device)
	- tipar (creating class_device)

There are still drivers that should be updated, like some of the input
drivers; but they won't be any worse off than they are today.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Jean Delvare
a7d801afc3 legacy PC parports support parport->dev
Give legacy parallel ports a platform device in the device tree.

This is a quick and dirty implementation; it doesn't actually convert the
legacy parport code to the device driver model (by splitting out probing from
device creation).  But at least parallel port device drivers will finally have
a device to work with.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00