Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:03 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
highres/dyntick: prevent xtime lock contention
While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to
one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during
development.
Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due
to several CPUs trying to update jiffies.
Add the single CPU assignement back. In the dyntick case this needs to be
handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the
assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active.
Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Cameron [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:02 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
cciss: include scsi/scsi.h unconditionally
Make cciss unconditionally include scsi/scsi.h, because of the use of
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN and SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:57 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
EFI: warn only for pre-1.00 system tables
We used to warn unless the EFI system table major revision was exactly 1.
But EFI 2.00 firmware is starting to appear, and the 2.00 changes don't
affect anything in Linux.
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:51 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
kernel-doc: html mode struct highlights
Johannes Berg reported that struct names are not highlighted
(bold, italic, etc.) in html kernel-doc output. (Also not in
text-mode output, but I don't see that changing.)
This patch adds the following:
- highlight struct names in html output mode
- highlight environment var. names in html output mode
- indent struct fields in the original struct layout
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeffrey Layton [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:48 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
make iunique use a do/while loop rather than its obscure goto loop
A while back, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be
cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that,
turning the strange goto loop into a do/while.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Johansen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:44 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
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>
John Johansen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:41 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
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>
David Brownell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:39 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
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>
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>
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>
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>
"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>
Akinobu Mita [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:18 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
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>
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>
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.
Pavel Emelianov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:10 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
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>
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>
Borislav Petkov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:05 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
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>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:56 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:43 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:39 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
David Brownell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:35 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
kalash nainwal [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:31 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
(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?)
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>
Simon Horman [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:22 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
Ken Chen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:20 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
Russell King [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:17 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
John Feeney [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:12 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
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>
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>
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>
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>
Venki Pallipadi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:47 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
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>
Venki Pallipadi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:44 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
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>
Jean Delvare [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:40 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
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>
David Brownell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:35 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
parport->dev driver model support
Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the
underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement of
sysfs child nodes, which can affect things like power management.
This patch adds a field to "struct parport" pointing to that device node, and
updates non-legacy port drivers to initialize that device pointer. That field
replaces the analagous PCI-only support in parport_pc.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Delete the unused header file include/linux/awe_voice.h, as well as
its corresponding Kbuild entry.
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>
Currently cpuset_exit() changes the exiting task's ->cpuset pointer w/o
taking task_lock(). This can lead to ugly races between attach_task and
cpuset_exit. Details of the races are described at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/24/132.
Patch below closes those races.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:22 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
make remove_inode_dquot_ref() static
remove_inode_dquot_ref() can now become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:20 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
fix sscanf %n match at end of input string
I was playing with some code that sometimes got a string where a %n
match should have been done where the input string ended, for example
like this:
sscanf("abc123", "abc%d%n", &a, &n); /* doesn't work */
sscanf("abc123a", "abc%d%n", &a, &n); /* works */
However, the scanf function in the kernel doesn't convert the %n in that
case because it has already matched the complete input after %d and just
completely stops matching then. This patch fixes that.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:59 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
reiserfs: proc support requires PROC_FS
REISER_FS /proc option needs to depend on PROC_FS.
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_super':
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:134: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'max_hash_collisions'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:134: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'breads'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:135: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'bread_miss'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:135: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'search_by_key'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:136: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'search_by_key_fs_changed'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:136: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'search_by_key_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:137: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'insert_item_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:137: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'paste_into_item_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:138: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'cut_from_item_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:139: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'delete_solid_item_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:139: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'delete_item_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:140: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'leaked_oid'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:140: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'leaves_removable'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_per_level':
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:184: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'balance_at'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:185: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'sbk_read_at'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:186: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'sbk_fs_changed'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:187: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'sbk_restarted'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:188: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'free_at'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:189: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'items_at'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:190: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'can_node_be_removed'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:191: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'lnum'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:192: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'rnum'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:193: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'lbytes'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:194: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'rbytes'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:195: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'get_neighbors'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:196: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'get_neighbors_restart'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:197: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'need_l_neighbor'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:197: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'need_r_neighbor'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_bitmap':
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:224: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'free_block'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:225: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:226: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:227: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:228: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:229: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:230: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:230: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_journal':
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:384: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:385: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:386: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:387: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:388: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:389: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:390: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:391: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:392: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:393: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:394: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:395: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:395: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:395: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'reiserfs_proc_info_init':
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:504: warning: implicit declaration of function '__PINFO'
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:504: error: request for member 'lock' in something not a structure or union
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'reiserfs_proc_info_done':
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:544: error: request for member 'lock' in something not a structure or union
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:545: error: request for member 'exiting' in something not a structure or union
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:546: error: request for member 'lock' in something not a structure or union
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>
While researching the tty layer pid leaks I found a weird case in selinux when
we drop a controlling tty because of inadequate permissions we don't do the
normal hangup processing. Which is a problem if it happens the session leader
has exec'd something that can no longer access the tty.
We already have code in the kernel to handle this case in the form of the
TIOCNOTTY ioctl. So this patch factors out a helper function that is the
essence of that ioctl and calls it from the selinux code.
This removes the inconsistency in handling dropping of a controlling tty and
who knows it might even make some part of user space happy because it received
a SIGHUP it was expecting.
In addition since this removes the last user of proc_set_tty outside of
tty_io.c proc_set_tty is made static and removed from tty.h
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At some point I got confused and thought put_pid could not be called while a
spin lock was held. While it may be nice to avoid that to reduce lock hold
times put_pid can be safely called while we hold a spin lock.
This patch removes all of the complications from the code introduced by my
misunderstanding, making the code a little more readable.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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>
All of the users of proc_clear_tty are compiled into the kernel so exporting
this symbol appears gratuitous.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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>
Gerd Hoffmann [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:49 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console
The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the
CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major
problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore
any other console devices (unless explicitly specified on the kernel
command line).
This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot
console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will
become the default console instead. This way the unregister call for the
boot console in the register_console() function actually triggers and the
handover from the boot console to the real console device works smoothly.
Added a printk for the handover, so you know which console device the
output goes to when the boot console stops printing messages.
The disable_early_printk() call is obsolete with that patch, explicitly
disabling the early console isn't needed any more as it works automagically
with that patch.
I've walked through the tree, dropped all disable_early_printk() instances
found below arch/ and tagged the consoles with CON_BOOT if needed. The
code is tested on x86, sh (thanks to Paul) and mips (thanks to Ralf).
Changes to last version: Rediffed against -rc3, adapted to mips cleanups by
Ralf, fixed "udbg-immortal" cmd line arg on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@exsuse.de> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> 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>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:46 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
/proc/*/oom_score oops re badness
Eternal quest to make
while true; do cat /proc/fs/xfs/stat >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done
while true; do find /proc -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs cat >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done
while true; do modprobe xfs; rmmod xfs; done
work reliably continues and now kernel oopses in the following way:
BUG: unable to handle ... at virtual address 6b6b6b6b
EIP is at badness
process: cat
proc_oom_score
proc_info_read
sys_fstat64
vfs_read
proc_info_read
sys_read
Failing code is prefetch hidden in list_for_each_entry() in badness().
badness() is reachable from two points. One is proc_oom_score, another
is out_of_memory() => select_bad_process() => badness().
Second path grabs tasklist_lock, while first doesn't.
Nick Piggin [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:43 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
futex: restartable futex_wait
LTP test sigaction_16_24 fails, because it expects sem_wait to be restarted
if SA_RESTART is set. sem_wait is implemented with futex_wait, that
currently doesn't support being restarted. Ulrich confirms that the call
should be restartable.
Implement a restart_block method to handle the relative timeout, and allow
restarts.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.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>
Rusty Russell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:42 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
futex: get_futex_key, get_key_refs and drop_key_refs
lguest uses the convenient futex infrastructure for inter-domain I/O, so
expose get_futex_key, get_key_refs (renamed get_futex_key_refs) and
drop_key_refs (renamed drop_futex_key_refs). Also means we need to expose the
union that these use.
No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Len Sorensen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:33 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
Subject: jsm driver fix for linuxpps support
The jsm driver doesn't currently use the uart_handle_*_change helper
functions, which are the obvious place for things like linuxpps to tie
into (which it now does of course), and as a result the jsm driver can
not be used with linuxpps and anything else that ties into the
serial_core helper functions. This patch adds calls to these helper
functions whenever the value they manage changes. That actual storage
of the state is not modified since the jsm driver caches the current
settings (The 8250 driver reads them everytime a user asks for the
state), and only updates them whenever they change.
Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: Scott H Kilau <Scott_Kilau@digi.com> Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Len Sorensen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:30 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
Small fixes for jsm driver
The jsm driver fails when you try to use the TIOCSSERIAL ioctl. The reason
is that the driver never sets uart_port.uartclk, causing the data received
using TIOCGSERIAL to not match the internal state of the driver. This
patch fixes this problem by settings the uartclk to the value used by the
serial_core (16 times the baud base).
Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: Scott H Kilau <Scott_Kilau@digi.com> Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Klaus Kudielka [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:25 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
fix cyclades.h for x86_64 (and probably others)
At least on x86_64 the present cyclades.h is broken due to the wrong size
of uclong. This affects, of course, both the kernel and the user-level
utilities. The symptom is that cyzload refuses to load the firmware. I
also managed to freeze the machine when unloading the module.
The patch below fixes this in an architecture-independent way. I have
tested it with 2.6.19 and the driver works fine again with a Cyclades-Z on
an Athlon 64 X2.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kprobes doesn't scribble the kprobe.symbol_name field. Its only set by the
module when registering the probe. Modules that exercise good hygiene
using the "const" qualifier will see warnings...
warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Make struct kprobe.symbol_name const char *
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:21 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
tty: i386/x86_64 arbitary speed support
Adds the needed TCGETS2/TCSETS2 ioctl calls, structures, defines and the like.
Tested against the test suite and passes. Other platforms should need
roughly the same change.
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>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:26:18 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes
1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method
called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
special filesystems. It is called without locks.
Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);
2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations
3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
/proc/pid/fd/...
4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
/proc/pid/fd/...
A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :
3.090 s instead of 3.450 s
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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