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Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e905914f96 [PATCH] Implement kasprintf
Implement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf.  This allocates the
memory required for the formatted string, including the trailing '\0'.
Returns NULL on allocation failure.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f796937a06 [PATCH] Fix bounds check in vsnprintf, to allow for a 0 size and NULL buffer
This change allows callers to use a 0-byte buffer and a NULL buffer pointer
with vsnprintf, so it can be used to determine how large the resulting
formatted string will be.

Previously the code effectively treated a size of 0 as a size of 4G (on
32-bit systems), with other checks preventing it from actually trying to
emit the string - but the terminal \0 would still be written, which would
crash if the buffer is NULL.

This change changes the boundary check so that 'end' points to the putative
location of the terminal '\0', which is only written if size > 0.

vsnprintf still allows the buffer size to be set very large, to allow
unbounded buffer sizes (to implement sprintf, etc).

[akpm@osdl.org: fix long-vs-longlong confusion]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
891c668b90 [PATCH] LED: add LED heartbeat trigger
Add an LED trigger acts like a heart beat.  This can be used as a
replacement of CONFIG_HEARTBEAT code exists in some arch's timer code.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
fa9799e33d [PATCH] ktime/hrtimer: fix kernel-doc comments
Fix kernel-doc formatting in ktime.h and hrtimer.[ch] files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
9dc65576d6 [PATCH] reed-solomon: fix kernel-doc comments
Fix kernel-doc formatting in Reed-Solomon code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
c51d3dac32 [PATCH] kernel-doc: use Members for struct fields consistently
kernel-doc struct fields should be consistently called "Members", not
"Arguments", so switch man-mode output to use "Members" like all of the
other formats do.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
ecfb251a95 [PATCH] kernel-doc: don't use XML escapes in text or man output mode
For kernel-doc output modes of text and man, do not use XML escapes for
less-than, greater-than, and ampersand characters.  I.e., leave the text
and man output clean and readable.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Paul Fulghum
cc44a817f6 [PATCH] fix memory leak in rocketport rp_do_receive
Fix memory leak caused by incorrect use of tty buffer facility.  tty
buffers are allocated but never processed by call to tty_flip_buffer_push
so they accumulate on the full buffer list.  Current code uses the buffers
as a temporary storage for data before passing it directly to the line
discipline.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Ulrich Drepper
45c9b11a1d [PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat
When the linkat() syscall was added the flag parameter was added in the
last minute but it wasn't used so far.  The following patch should change
that.  My tests show that this is all that's needed.

If OLDNAME is a symlink setting the flag causes linkat to follow the
symlink and create a hardlink with the target.  This is actually the
behavior POSIX demands for link() as well but Linux wisely does not do
this.  With this flag (which will most likely be in the next POSIX
revision) the programmer can choose the behavior, defaulting to the safe
variant.  As a side effect it is now possible to implement a
POSIX-compliant link(2) function for those who are interested.

  touch file
  ln -s file symlink

  linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", 0)
    -> newlink is hardlink of symlink

  linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW)
    -> newlink is hardlink of file

The value of AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW is determined by the definition we already
use in glibc.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
584e1236bb [PATCH] add "select GPIO_VR41XX" for TANBAC_TB0229
TANBAC_TB0229 requires GPIO_VR41XX.  This patch adds "select GPIO_VR41XX"
for TANBAC_TB0229.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
fc75cdfa5b [PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix CPU_UP_CANCEL handling
If a cpu hotplug callback fails on CPU_UP_PREPARE, all callbacks will be
called with CPU_UP_CANCELED.  A few of these callbacks assume that on
CPU_UP_PREPARE a pointer to task has been stored in a percpu array.  This
assumption is not true if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails and the following calls to
kthread_bind() in CPU_UP_CANCELED will cause an addressing exception
because of passing a NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Frode Isaksen
04a3446c90 [PATCH] fs: sys_poll with timeout -1 bug fix
If you do a poll() call with timeout -1, the wait will be a big number
(depending on HZ) instead of infinite wait, since -1 is passed to the
msecs_to_jiffies function.

Signed-off-by: Frode Isaksen <frode.isaksen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
8bdd1d1250 [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread
- Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather than the
  deprecated kernel_threads.

- Update stop_machine to use the more efficient kthread_bind() before
  running task in place of set_cpus_allowed() after.

[akpm@osdl.org: remove now-wrong set_cpus_allowed()]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Al Viro
2b943cf09d [PATCH] fix %s in affs_fill_super()
%s is only valid if array is known to contain NUL or precision is given and
does not exceed the size of array.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
f82ccdb992 [PATCH] CCISS: tidy up product table indentation
Make each one fit on a line so it's easier to read.  I re-ordered
COMPAQ_CISSC/0x4091, which was out of order.  I double-checked these, but it
would be good if you'd also check them to make sure I didn't miss any.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
7c83283556 [PATCH] CCISS: run through Lindent
cciss is full of inconsistent style ("for (" vs.  "for(", lines that end with
whitespace, lines beginning with a mix of spaces & tabs, etc).

This patch changes only whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
e2019b58fa [PATCH] CCISS: remove parens around return values
Typical Linux style is "return -EINVAL", not "return(-EINVAL)".

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
d14c4ab58c [PATCH] CCISS: fix a few spelling errors
Fix a few spelling errors.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
5e8621e8bd [PATCH] CCISS: use ARRAY_SIZE without intermediates
It's easier to verify loop bounds if the array name is mentioned the for()
statement that steps through the array.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
40aabb5815 [PATCH] CCISS: announce cciss%d devices with PCI address/IRQ/DAC info
We already print "cciss: using DAC cycles" or similar for every adapter found:
why not just identify the device we're talking about and include other useful
information?

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>:

  Although this patch is correct, I would consider using dev_printk() rather
  than referencing pci_name() in printk() arguments.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
4e570309e8 [PATCH] CCISS: request all PCI resources
We should call pci_request_regions() to claim all resources the device
decodes.  Previously, we claimed only the I/O port range.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
c33ac89bc7 [PATCH] CCISS: disable device when returning failure
If something fails after we call pci_enable_device(), we should call
pci_disable_device() before returning the failure.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Rob Landley
e7b6905582 [PATCH] Initramfs docs update
New section on creating an external initramfs image using cpio (with
script), a warning about bad advice in the cpio man page, a bit of
debugging advice (hello world and rdinit=/bin/sh), and a few minor tweaks
to other parts of it.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
fa366ad5d7 [PATCH] kthread: convert smbiod
Update smbiod to use kthread instead of deprecated kernel_thread.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
c7b2eff059 [PATCH] kthread: update loop.c to use kthread
Update loop.c to use a kthread instead of a deprecated kernel_thread for
loop devices.

[akpm@osdl.org: don't change the thread's name]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
2f72100c01 [PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/crc*.c
Make kernel-doc corrections & additions to lib/crc*.c.  Add crc functions to
kernel-api.tmpl in DocBook.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
28e83baac2 [PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/cmdline.c
Add a new chapter for kernel-lib functions to kernel-api.tmpl.  Add
lib/cmdline.c to the new kernel-lib chapter.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6e1907ffdc [PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/bitmap.c
Make corrections/fixes to kernel-doc in lib/bitmap.c and include it in DocBook
template.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
099a71d995 [PATCH] Remove needless checks in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
coverity found two needless checks in vfs_inode.c (cid #1165 and #1164)
In both cases inode is always NULL when we goto error; either because it
is still initialized to NULL or is set to NULL explicitly. This patch
simply removes these checks to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
18cddac3d1 [PATCH] ide-floppy: fix debug-only syntax error
Fix debug-only printk syntax error.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
850622dfaf [PATCH] kernel-doc: warn on malformed function docs.
When the verbose (-v) option is used with scripts/kernel-doc, this option
reports when the kernel-doc format is malformed and apparently contains
function description lines before function parameters.  In these cases, the
kernel-doc script will print something like: Warning(filemap.c:335):
contents before sections

I have fixed the problems in mm/filemap.c and added lots of kernel-doc to
that file (posted to the linux-mm mailing list Mon.  2006-June-12).

The real goal (as requested by Andrew Morton) is to allow the short
function description to be more than one line long.  This patch is both a
kernel-doc checker and a tool en route to that goal.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
9c8ef5614d [PATCH] fuse: scramble lock owner ID
VFS uses current->files pointer as lock owner ID, and it wouldn't be
prudent to expose this value to userspace.  So scramble it with XTEA using
a per connection random key, known only to the kernel.  Only one direction
needs to be implemented, since the ID is never sent in the reverse
direction.

The XTEA algorithm is implemented inline since it's simple enough to do so,
and this adds less complexity than if the crypto API were used.

Thanks to Jesper Juhl for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
a4d27e75ff [PATCH] fuse: add request interruption
Add synchronous request interruption.  This is needed for file locking
operations which have to be interruptible.  However filesystem may implement
interruptibility of other operations (e.g.  like NFS 'intr' mount option).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
f9a2842e56 [PATCH] fuse: rename the interrupted flag
Rename the 'interrupted' flag to 'aborted', since it indicates exactly that,
and next patch will introduce an 'interrupted' flag for a

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
33649c91a3 [PATCH] fuse: ensure FLUSH reaches userspace
All POSIX locks owned by the current task are removed on close().  If the
FLUSH request resulting initiated by close() fails to reach userspace, there
might be locks remaining, which cannot be removed.

The only reason it could fail, is if allocating the request fails.  In this
case use the request reserved for RELEASE, or if that is currently used by
another FLUSH, wait for it to become available.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
7142125937 [PATCH] fuse: add POSIX file locking support
This patch adds POSIX file locking support to the fuse interface.

This implementation doesn't keep any locking state in kernel.  Unlocking on
close() is handled by the FLUSH message, which now contains the lock owner id.

Mandatory locking is not supported.  The filesystem may enfoce mandatory
locking in userspace if needed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
bafa96541b [PATCH] fuse: add control filesystem
Add a control filesystem to fuse, replacing the attributes currently exported
through sysfs.  An empty directory '/sys/fs/fuse/connections' is still created
in sysfs, and mounting the control filesystem here provides backward
compatibility.

Advantages of the control filesystem over the previous solution:

  - allows the object directory and the attributes to be owned by the
    filesystem owner, hence letting unpriviled users abort the
    filesystem connection

  - does not suffer from module unload race

[akpm@osdl.org: fix this fs for recent dhowells depredations]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix 64-bit printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
51eb01e735 [PATCH] fuse: no backgrounding on interrupt
Don't put requests into the background when a fatal interrupt occurs while the
request is in userspace.  This removes a major wart from the implementation.

Backgrounding of requests was introduced to allow breaking of deadlocks.
However now the same can be achieved by aborting the filesystem through the
'abort' sysfs attribute.

This is a change in the interface, but should not cause problems, since these
kinds of deadlocks never happen during normal operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
3e8c54fad8 [PATCH] fuse: use MISC_MAJOR
The following patches add POSIX file locking to the fuse interface.

Additional changes ralated to this are:

  - asynchronous interrupt of requests by SIGKILL no longer supported

  - separate control filesystem, instead of using sysfs objects

  - add support for synchronously interrupting requests

Details are documented in Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt throughout the
patches.

This patch:

Have fuse.h use MISC_MAJOR rather than a hardcoded '10'.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
David Howells
2b94895b92 [PATCH] Another couple of alterations to the memory barrier doc
Make another couple of alterations to the memory barrier document following
suggestions by Alan Stern and in co-operation with Paul McKenney:

 (*) Rework the point of introduction of memory barriers and the description
     of what they are to reiterate why they're needed.

 (*) Modify a statement about the use of data dependency barriers to note that
     other barriers can be used instead (as they imply DD-barriers).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
326f28e9ec [PATCH] More !tty cleanups in drivers/char
Another bunch of checks in the char drivers .put_char() and .write()
routines, where tty can never be NULL.  This patch removes these checks to
save some code.  Coverity choked at those with the following bug ids:

isicom.c  767, 766
specialix.c 773, 774
synclink_cs.c 779, 781
synclink_gt.c 784, 785
synclinkmp.c 784, 785

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
fa791f5bdf [PATCH] Update contact information in CREDITS
Update my contact information in CREDITS.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:18 -07:00
Ian Kent
f9022f6633 [PATCH] autofs4: need to invalidate children on tree mount expire
I've found a case where invalid dentrys in a mount tree, waiting to be
cleaned up by d_invalidate, prevent the expected expire.

In this case dentrys created during a lookup for which a mount fails or has
no entry in the mount map contribute to the d_count of the parent dentry.
These dentrys may not be invalidated prior to comparing the interanl usage
count of valid autofs dentrys against the dentry d_count which makes a
mount tree appear busy so it doesn't expire.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:18 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
a2f20c7c27 [PATCH] Clean up char/esp.c
coverity choked at another two !tty checks, in places where tty can
never be NULL. Since it removes some code we should remove
these checks. (Coverity ids #763,#762)

Signed-off-by Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:17 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
969dd061d8 [PATCH] Cyclades Cleanup
coverity choked at two !tty checks, in places where tty can never be NULL.
Since it removes some code we should remove these checks.  (Coverity ids
#763,#762)

[akpm@osdl.org: even cleaner!]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:17 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
2aa92581fb [PATCH] Link error when futexes are disabled on 64bit architectures
If futexes are disabled we fail to link on ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
165d6c78ee [PATCH] RCU documentation: self-limiting updates and call_rcu()
An update to the RCU documentation calling out the
self-limiting-update-rate advantages of synchronize_rcu(), and describing
how to use call_rcu() in a way that results in self-limiting updates.
Self-limiting updates are important to avoiding RCU-induced OOM in face of
denial-of-service attacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:17 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
76d42bd969 [PATCH] readahead: backoff on I/O error
Backoff readahead size exponentially on I/O error.

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> described the problem as:

[QUOTE]
Suppose there's a CD-rom with a scratch/etc, one sector is unreadable.
In order to "fix" it, one have to read it and write to another CD-rom,
or something.. or just ignore the error (if it's just a skip in a video
stream).  Let's assume the unreadable block is number U.

But current behavior is just insane.  An application requests block
number N, which is before U. Kernel tries to read-ahead blocks N..U.
Cdrom drive tries to read it, re-read it.. for some time.  Finally,
when all the N..U-1 blocks are read, kernel returns block number N
(as requested) to an application, successefully.

Now an app requests block number N+1, and kernel tries to read
blocks N+1..U+1.  Retrying again as in previous step.

And so on, up to when an app requests block number U-1.  And when,
finally, it requests block U, it receives read error.

So, kernel currentry tries to re-read the same failing block as
many times as the current readahead value (256 (times?) by default).

This whole process already killed my cdrom drive (I posted about it
to LKML several months ago) - literally, the drive has fried, and
does not work anymore.  Ofcourse that problem was a bug in firmware
(or whatever) of the drive *too*, but.. main problem with that is
current readahead logic as described above.
[/QUOTE]

Which was confirmed by Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>:

[QUOTE]
For ide-cd, it tends do only end the first part of the request on a
medium error. So you may see a lot of repeats :/
[/QUOTE]

With this patch, retries are expected to be reduced from, say, 256, to 5.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:17 -07:00
David Woodhouse
78dbe706e2 [PATCH] R3964: fix GFP_KERNEL allocations in timer function
In the error case, add_msg() gets called from timer functions, so should
be using GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL.

Ref: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6659.  Thanks to Christian
Werner <chw@ch-werner.de> for reporting, and for the initial fix.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:17 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
c836043e70 [PATCH] advansys section fixes
Priority: not critical.
Mark 3 functions __init.  Saves a little memory.
This makes these functions' calls to AdvWaitEEPCmd() (which is __init)
be clean (i.e., eliminates text -> init -> text call chain).

Fix multiple section mismatch warnings:
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7a22) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7a4e) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7a79) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7aa2) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7abb) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7ae0) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b0c) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b37) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b60) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b79) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b9e) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7bca) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7bf5) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7c1e) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7c37) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:16 -07:00