Russ Ross [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:04:15 +0000 (03:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] 9p: fix marshalling bug in tcreate with empty extension field
Signed-off-by: Russ Ross <russross@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense. Modifications
to them are journalled and needs buffer heads to do that. Without this
patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers().
kernel/timer.c defines a (per-cpu) pointer to tvec_base_t, but initializes
it using { &a_tvec_base_t }, which sparse warns about; change this to just
&a_tvec_base_t.
[PATCH] freevxfs: Add missing lock_kernel() to vxfs_readdir
Commit 7b2fd697427e73c81d5fa659efd91bd07d303b0e in the historical GIT tree
stopped calling the readdir member of a file_operations struct with the big
kernel lock held, and fixed up all the readdir functions to do their own
locking. However, that change added calls to unlock_kernel() in
vxfs_readdir, but no call to lock_kernel(). Fix this by adding a call to
lock_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Horsley [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:04:12 +0000 (03:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt
I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd image on a
fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file is apparently obsolete.
Here is a patch which I hope will reduce future confusion for others.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It is entirely possible (though rare) that jiffies half-wraps around, while a
dentry/inode remains in the cache. This could mean that the dentry/inode is
not invalidated for another half wraparound-time.
To get around this problem, use 64-bit jiffies. The only problem with this is
that dentry->d_time is 32 bits on 32-bit archs. So use d_fsdata as the high
32 bits. This is an ugly hack, but far simpler, than having to allocate
private data just for this purpose.
Since 64-bit jiffies can be assumed never to wrap around, simple comparison
can be used, and a zero time value can represent "invalid".
An attribute and entry timeout of zero should mean, that the entity is
invalidated immediately after the operation. Previously invalidation only
happened at the next clock tick.
Roland McGrath [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:04:06 +0000 (03:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix
The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables. The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker. The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both. In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash". The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents. To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e. preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section. The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.
The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel. On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.
This patch addresses the problem in two ways.
First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.
Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced. This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland. There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries. The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has. If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steven Rostedt [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:04:03 +0000 (03:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] reference rt-mutex-design in rtmutex.c
In order to prevent Doc Rot, this patch adds a reference to the design
document for rtmutex.c in rtmutex.c. So when someone needs to update or
change the design of that file they will know that a document actually
exists that explains the design (helping them change it), and hopefully
that they will update the document if they too change the design.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tim Chen [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:04:02 +0000 (03:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] Reducing local_bh_enable/disable overhead in irqtrace
The recent changes from irqtrace feature has added overheads to
local_bh_disable and local_bh_enable that reduces UDP performance across
x86_64 and IA64, even though IA64 does not support the irqtrace feature.
Patch in question is
Prior to this patch, local_bh_disable was a short macro. Now it is a
function which calls __local_bh_disable with added irq flags save and
restore. The irq flags save and restore were also added to
local_bh_enable, probably for injecting the trace irqs code.
This overhead is on the generic code path across all architectures. On a
IA_64 test machine (Itanium-2 1.6 GHz) running a benchmark like netperf's
UDP streaming test, the added overhead results in a drop of 3% in
throughput, as udp_sendmsg calls the local_bh_enable/disable several times.
Other workloads that have heavy usages of local_bh_enable/disable could
also be affected. The patch ideally should not have affected IA-64
performance as it does not have IRQ tracing support. A significant portion
of the overhead is in the added irq flags save and restore, which I think
is not needed if IRQ tracing is unused. A suggested patch is attached
below that recovers the lost performance. However, the "ifdef"s in the
patch are a bit ugly.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ufs: remove incorrect unlock_kernel from failure path in ufs_symlink()
ufs_symlink, in one of its error paths, calls unlock_kernel without ever
having called lock_kernel(); fix this by creating and jumping to a new
label out_notlocked rather than the out label used after calling
lock_kernel().
[PATCH] efs: add entry for EFS filesystem to MAINTAINERS as Orphan
The EFS filesystem does not have an entry in MAINTAINERS; add one, giving
the EFS filesystem and listing the status as Orphan, per the note on that
page saying "I'm no longer actively maintaining EFS".
[PATCH] efs: Remove incorrect unlock_kernel from failure path in efs_symlink_readpage()
If efs_symlink_readpage hits the -ENAMETOOLONG error path, it will call
unlock_kernel without ever having called lock_kernel(); fix this by
creating and jumping to a new label fail_notlocked rather than the fail
label used after calling lock_kernel().
[PATCH] Remove incorrect unlock_kernel from allocation failure path in coda_open()
Commit 398c53a757702e1e3a7a2c24860c7ad26acb53ed (in the historical GIT
tree) moved the lock_kernel() in coda_open after the allocation of a
coda_file_info struct, but left an unlock_kernel() in the allocation
failure error path; remove it.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Acked-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ondrej Zary [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:55 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix swsusp with PNP BIOS
swsusp is unable to suspend my machine (DTK FortisPro TOP-5A notebook) with
kernel 2.6.17.5 because it's unable to suspend PNP device 00:16 (mouse).
The problem is in PNP BIOS. pnp_bus_suspend() calls pnp_stop_dev() for the
device if the device can be disabled according to pnp_can_disable(). The
problem is that pnpbios_disable_resources() returns -EPERM if the device is
not dynamic (!pnpbios_is_dynamic()) but insert_device() happily sets
PNP_DISABLE capability/flag even if the device is not dynamic. So we try
to disable non-dynamic devices which will fail. This patch prevents
insert_device() from setting PNP_DISABLE if the device is not dynamic and
fixes suspend on my system.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
where inotify_umount_inodes() takes the
mutex_lock(&inode->inotify_mutex);
The BC relationship comes directly from inotify_find_update_watch():
s32 inotify_find_update_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih, struct inode *inode,
u32 mask)
{
...
mutex_lock(&inode->inotify_mutex);
mutex_lock(&ih->mutex);
The CD relationship comes from inotify_rm_wd:
inotify_rm_wd does
mutex_lock(&inode->inotify_mutex);
mutex_lock(&ih->mutex)
and then calls inotify_remove_watch_locked() which calls
notify_dev_queue_event() which does
mutex_lock(&dev->ev_mutex);
(this strictly is a BCD relationship)
The DA relationship comes from the most interesting part:
inotify_dev_queue_event schedules a kernel_event which does a
kmem_cache_alloc( , GFP_KERNEL) which may try to shrink slabs, including
the inode cache .. which then takes iprune_mutex.
And voila, there is an AB, a BC, a CD relationship (even a direct BCD),
and also now a DA relationship -> a circular type AB-BA deadlock but
involving 4 locks.
The solution is simple: kernel_event() is NOT allowed to use GFP_KERNEL,
but must use GFP_NOFS to not cause recursion into the VFS.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steven Rostedt [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:53 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add linux-mm mailing list for memory management in MAINTAINERS file
Since I didn't know about the linux-mm mailing list until I spammed all
those that had their names anywhere in the mm directory, I'm sending this
patch to add the linux-mm mailing list to the MAINTAINERS file.
Also, since mm is so broad, it doesn't have a single person to maintain it,
and thus no maintainer is listed. I also left the status as Maintained,
since it obviously is.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Olaf Hering [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:52 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] hide onboard graphics drivers on G5
Hide the video drivers for onboard graphics found in early PCI PowerMacs in
Apple G5 config files.
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.platinumfb_probe':
platinumfb.c:(.text+0x377a0): undefined reference to `.nvram_read_byte'
platinumfb.c:(.text+0x37830): undefined reference to `.nvram_read_byte'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.control_init':
controlfb.c:(.init.text+0x1938): undefined reference to `.nvram_read_byte'
controlfb.c:(.init.text+0x1968): undefined reference to `.nvram_read_byte'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.valkyriefb_init':
(.init.text+0x2300): undefined reference to `.nvram_read_byte'
drivers/built-in.o:(.init.text+0x239c): more undefined references to `.nvram_read_byte' follow
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Daniel Ritz [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:49 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] pcmcia: fix ioctl GET_CONFIGURATION_INFO for pcmcia_cards
Values displayed when by cardctl config are horribly wrong for 16bit cards.
this fixes it up by not using memcpy() since source and target struct are
very different.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Daniel Ritz [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:47 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] pcmcia: fix ioctl for GET_STATUS and GET_CONFIGURATION_INFO
the p_dev == NULL checks are wrong. the called functions handle a NULL
p_dev on their own. w/o this patch output of cardcctl status and cardctl
config is broken for cardbus cards or when the slot is empty.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
WARNING: drivers/video/console/mdacon.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'mdacon_startup' (at offset 0x123) and 'mdacon_init'
WARNING: drivers/video/console/mdacon.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'mdacon_startup' (at offset 0x18b) and 'mdacon_init'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The SGI IOC4 IDE device always shares an interrupt with other devices which
are part of IOC4. As such, IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ should always be enabled when
BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4 is enabled.
[PATCH] Add DocBook documentation for workqueue functions
kernel/workqueue.c was omitted from generating kernel documentation. This
adds a new section "Workqueues and Kevents" and adds documentation for some
of the functions.
Some functions in this file already had DocBook-style comments, now they
finally become visible.
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:40 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix kernel-api doc for kernel/resource.c
insert_resource() was unexported, so kernel-doc needs to be told to search
kernel/resource.c for internal functions instead of exported functions so that
it won't report an 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>
Jim Houston [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:39 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix cond_resched() fix
In cond_resched_lock() it calls __resched_legal() before dropping the spin
lock. __resched_legal() will always finds the preempt_count non-zero and
will prevent the call to __cond_resched().
The attached patch adds a parameter to __resched_legal() with the expected
preempt_count value.
So, due to underparenthesisation, this INDEX(i+1) is now a ... (TVR_BITS + i
+ 1 * TVN_BITS)) ...
So this bugfix changes behaviour. It worked before by sheer luck:
"If i was anything but 0, it was broken. But this was only used by
s390 and arm. Since it was for the next interrupt, could that next
interrupt be a problem (going into the second cascade)? But it was
probably seldom wrong. That is, this would fail if the next
interrupt was in the second cascade, and was wrapped. Which may
never of happened. Also if it did happen, it would have just missed
the interrupt.
If an interrupt was missed, and no one was there to miss it, was it
really missed :-)"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace __devinit* with __cpuinit* for cpu notifications
Few of the callback functions and notifier blocks that are associated with cpu
notifications incorrectly have __devinit and __devinitdata. They should be
__cpuinit and __cpuinitdata instead.
It makes no functional difference but wastes text area when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is
enabled and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not.
This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour across
all architectures that implement it.
It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured in
interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause a
panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at
all.
This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message
accordinly. I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is
too long, feedback welcome.
For powerpc it also unifies the 32bit and 64bit behaviour.
Fror x86_64, this patch only updates the console message, as ssleep() is
already not present.
Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Michal Feix [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:32 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] nbd: Abort request on data reception failure
When reading from nbd device, we need to receive all the data after
receiving reply packet from the server - otherwise such request will never
be ended.
If socket is closed right after accepting reply control packet and in the
middle of waiting for read data, nbd_read_stat() returns NULL and
nbd_end_request() is not called.
This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Feix <michal@feix.cz> Acked-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Michal Feix [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:31 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] nbd: Check magic before doing anything else
We should check magic sequence in reply packet before trying to find
request with it's request handle. This also solves the problem with
"Unexpected reply" message beeing logged, when packet with invalid magic is
received.
Signed-off-by: Michal Feix <michal@feix.cz> Acked-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The pkt_*_dev functions operate on not-this-blockdevice, and that is
sufficiently checked at setup time. As a result there is a natural
hierarchy, which needs nesting annotations
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Michal Schmidt [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:29 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] IDE: Touch NMI watchdog during resume from STR
When resuming from suspend-to-RAM, the NMI watchdog detects a lockup in
ide_wait_not_busy. Here's a screenshot of the trace taken by a digital
camera: http://www.uamt.feec.vutbr.cz/rizeni/pom/DSC03510-2.JPG
Let's touch the NMI watchdog in ide_wait_not_busy. The system then resumes
correctly from STR.
[akpm@osdl.org: modular build fix] Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bibo, mao [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:26 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] IA64: kprobe invalidate icache of jump buffer
Kprobe inserts breakpoint instruction in probepoint and then jumps to
instruction slot when breakpoint is hit, the instruction slot icache must
be consistent with dcache. Here is the patch which invalidates instruction
slot icache area.
Without this patch, in some machines there will be fault when executing
instruction slot where icache content is inconsistent with dcache.
Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kprobe-booster: disable in preemptible kernel
The kprobe-booster's safety check against preemption does not work well
now, because the preemption count has been modified by read_rcu_lock() in
atomic_notifier_call_chain() before we check it. So, I'd like to prevent
boosting kprobe temporarily if the kernel is preemptable.
Now we are searching for the good solution.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: Fix stale file handle problem with subtree_checking.
A recent commit (7fc90ec93a5eb71f4b08403baf5ba7176b3ec6b1) moved the
call to nfsd_setuser out of the 'find a dentry for a filehandle' branch
of fh_verify so that it would always be called.
This had the unfortunately side-effect of moving *after* the call to
decode_fh, so the prober fsuid was not set when nfsd_acceptable was called,
the 'permission' check did the wrong thing.
This patch moves the nfsd_setuser call back where it was, and add as call
in the other branch of the if.
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Korsgaard [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:12 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix ppc32 zImage inflate
The recent zlib update (commit 4f3865fb57a04db7cca068fed1c15badc064a302)
broke ppc32 zImage decompression as it tries to decompress to address zero
and the updated zlib_inflate checks that strm->next_out isn't a null
pointer.
This little patch fixes it.
[rpurdie@rpsys.net: add comment] Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] delay accounting: temporarily enable by default
Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing
without requiring special measures.
Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param.
This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing. It
can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users
shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting. Or
it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common
enough to warrant keeping the feature on.
[PATCH] taskstats: free skb, avoid returns in send_cpu_listeners
Add a missing freeing of skb in the case there are no listeners at all.
Also remove the returning of error values by the function as it is unused
by the sole caller.
[PATCH] make taskstats sending completely independent of delay accounting on/off status
Complete the separation of delay accounting and taskstats by ignoring the
return value of delay accounting functions that fill in parts of taskstats
before it is sent out (either in response to a command or as part of a task
exit).
Also make delayacct_add_tsk return silently when delay accounting is turned
off rather than treat it as an error.
David Brownell [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:08 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] genirq: {en,dis}able_irq_wake() need refcounting too
IRQs need refcounting and a state flag to track whether the the IRQ should
be enabled or disabled as a "normal IRQ" source after a series of calls to
{en,dis}able_irq(). For shared IRQs, the IRQ must be enabled so long as at
least one driver needs it active.
Likewise, IRQs need the same support to track whether the IRQ should be
enabled or disabled as a "wakeup event" source after a series of calls to
{en,dis}able_irq_wake(). For shared IRQs, the IRQ must be enabled as a
wakeup source during sleep so long as at least one driver needs it. But
right now they _don't have_ that refcounting ... which means sharing a
wakeup-capable IRQ can't work correctly in some configurations.
This patch adds the refcount and flag mechanisms to set_irq_wake() -- which
is what {en,dis}able_irq_wake() call -- and minimal documentation of what
the irq wake mechanism does.
Drivers relying on the older (broken) "toggle" semantics will trigger a
warning; that'll be a handful of drivers on ARM systems.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Process Events: Fix biarch compatibility issue. use __u64 timestamp
Events sent by Process Events Connector from a 64-bit kernel are not binary
compatible with a 32-bit userspace program because the "timestamp" field
(struct timespec) is not arch independent. This affects the fields that
follow "timestamp" as they will be be off by 8 bytes.
This is a problem for 32-bit userspace programs running with 64-bit kernels
on ppc64, s390, x86-64.. any "biarch" system.
Matt had submitted a different solution to lkml as an RFC earlier. We have
since switched to a solution recommended by Evgeniy Polyakov.
This patch fixes the problem by changing the timestamp to be a __u64, which
stores the number of nanoseconds.
Tested on a x86_64 system with both 32 bit application and 64 bit
application and on a i386 system.
Neil Brown [Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:01 +0000 (03:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] ext3: avoid triggering ext3_error on bad NFS file handle
The inode number out of an NFS file handle gets passed eventually to
ext3_get_inode_block() without any checking. If ext3_get_inode_block()
allows it to trigger an error, then bad filehandles can have unpleasant
effect - ext3_error() will usually cause a forced read-only remount, or a
panic if `errors=panic' was used.
So remove the call to ext3_error there and put a matching check in
ext3/namei.c where inode numbers are read off storage.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix off-by-one error] Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3734/1: Fix the unused variable warning in __iounmap()
[ARM] 3737/1: Export ARM copy/clear_user_page symbols
[ARM] 3736/1: xscale: don't mis-report 80219 as an iop32x
[ARM] 3733/2: S3C24XX: Remove old IDE registers in Anubis
[ARM] 3732/1: S3C24XX: tidy syntax in osiris and anubis machines
[ARM] Fix SMP booting
[ARM] 3731/1: Allow IRQ definitions of IQ80331 and IQ80332 to co-exist
[ARM] 3730/1: ep93xx: enable usb ohci driver in the defconfig
[ARM] Fix cats build
It was broken before. But having it is important as possible hardware
bug workaround.
And previously there was no way to force swiotlb if there is another IOMMU.
Side effect is that iommu=force won't force swiotlb anymore even if there
isn't another IOMMU.
Calgary hits a NULL pointer dereference when booting in a multi-chassis
NUMA system. See Redhat bugzilla number 198498, found by Konrad
Rzeszutek (konradr@redhat.com).
There are many issues that had to be resolved to fix this problem.
Firstly when I originally wrote the code to handle NUMA systems, I
had a large misunderstanding that was not corrected until now. That was
that I thought the "number of nodes online" referred to number of
physical systems connected. So that if NUMA was disabled, there
would only be 1 node and it would only show that node's PCI bus.
In reality if NUMA is disabled, the system displays all of the
connected chassis as one node but is only ignorant of the delays
in accessing main memory. Therefore, references to num_online_nodes()
and MAX_NUMNODES are incorrect and need to be set to the maximum
number of nodes that can be accessed (which are 8). I created a
variable, MAX_NUM_CHASSIS, and set it to 8 to fix this.
Secondly, when walking the PCI in detect_calgary, the code only
checked the first "slot" when looking to see if a device is present.
This will work for most cases, but unfortunately it isn't always the
case. In the NUMA MXE drawers, there are USB devices present on the
3rd slot (with slot 1 being empty). So, to work around this, all
slots (up to 8) are scanned to see if there are any devices present.
Lastly, the bus is being enumerated on large systems in a different
way the we originally thought. This throws the ugly logic we had
out the window. To more elegantly handle this, I reorganized the
kva array to be sparse (which removed the need to have any bus number
to kva slot logic in tce.c) and created a secondary space array to
contain the bus number to phb mapping.
With these changes Calgary boots on an x460 with 4 nodes with and
without NUMA enabled.
George G. Davis [Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:29:27 +0000 (08:29 +0100)]
[ARM] 3737/1: Export ARM copy/clear_user_page symbols
Patch from George G. Davis
As reported by various folks on the ARM Linux kernel mailing list,
the video-buf.ko driver has undefined references on all ARM machines
which use it as observed during `make modules`:
Similar warnings exist for all ARM machines which use this driver.
So this change adds the missing EXPORT_SYMBOLs to allow using this
driver as a module.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3736/1: xscale: don't mis-report 80219 as an iop32x
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
The IOP 80219 xscale CPU is a stripped down version of the IOP32x.
But the fact that the 80219 and IOP32x are very similar doesn't mean
that they need to share a cpu table entry. It's also somewhat confusing
for the end user to see the 80219 reported as an IOP32x, so this patch
splits the IOP32x cpu table entry to make a separate entry for the
80219.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[PATCH] myri10ge - Always do a dummy RDMA after loading the firmware
Always do a dummy RDMA after loading the firmware to work around
buggy PCIe chipsets which do not implement resending properly.
This is so cheap as to be almost free, and should never have been
conditional on the tx boundary != 4096.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Fix robust PI-futexes to be properly unlocked on unexpected exit.
For this to work the kernel has to know whether a futex is a PI or a
non-PI one, because the semantics are different. Since the space in
relevant glibc data structures is extremely scarce, the best solution is
to encode the 'PI' information in bit 0 of the robust list pointer.
Existing (non-PI) glibc robust futexes have this bit always zero, so the
ABI is kept. New glibc with PI-robust-futexes will set this bit.
Further fixes from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix pi_state->list handling bugs: list handling mishap, locking error.
Plus add more debug checks and fix a few style issues i noticed while
debugging this.
The dwarf2 unwinder currently often gets stuck because a lot
of assembly code doesn't have proper dwarf2 annotiation yet.
This currently often happens with __down. Should fix this by
adding proper dwarf2 annotation to all inline assembly. However
until that's done we need a quick fix for 2.6.18 to avoid
incomplete backtraces.
So when this happens dump the rest of the stack with the old unwinder
instead of silently not dumping it. There was already a optional
"both" mode that dumped both, but that was too ugly.
I also clarified the headers for the different backtraces a bit.
Also add a clear error message for missing dwarf2
annotation that people can work on.
And I removed a dead variable left over from Ingo's changes.
bibo mao [Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:44:48 +0000 (14:44 +0200)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Enlarge debug stack for nested kprobes
In x86_64 platform, INT1 and INT3 trap stack is IST stack called DEBUG_STACK,
when INT1/INT3 trap happens, system will switch to DEBUG_STACK by hardware.
Current DEBUG_STACK size is 4K, when int1/int3 trap happens, kernel will
minus current DEBUG_STACK IST value by 4k. But if int3/int1 trap is nested,
it will destroy other vector's IST stack. This patch modifies this, it sets
DEBUG_STACK size as 8K and allows two level of nested int1/int3 trap.
Kprobe DEBUG_STACK may be nested, because kprobe handler may be probed
by other kprobes.
Thanks jbeulich for pointing out error in the first patch.
[AK: nested kprobes are pretty dubious. Hopefully one nest
will be enough. This will cost 8K per CPU (4K more than before)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Don't clobber r8-r11 in int 0x80 handler
When int 0x80 is called from long mode r8-r11 would leak out of the
kernel (or rather they would be filled with some values from
the kernel stack). I don't think it's a security issue because
the values come from the fixed stack frame which should be near
always user registers from a previous interrupt.
Still better fix it.
Longer term the register save macros need to be cleaned up
to avoid such mistakes in the future.
Original analysis from Richard Brunner, fix by me.
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Add user_mode checks to profile_pc for oprofile
Fixes a obscure user space triggerable crash during oprofiling.
Oprofile calls profile_pc from NMIs even when user_mode(regs) is not true and
the program counter is inside the kernel lock section. This opens
a race - when a user program jumps to a kernel lock address and
a NMI happens before the illegal page fault exception is raised
and the program has a unmapped esp or ebp then the kernel could
oops. NMIs have a higher priority than exceptions so that could
happen.
Add user_mode checks to i386/x86-64 profile_pc to prevent that.
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