We are setting up sources for building external modules like this:
/usr/src/linux-obj> # create a .config file
/usr/src/linux-obj> make -C /usr/src/linux O=$PWD oldconfig
/usr/src/linux-obj> make -C /usr/src/linux O=$PWD prepare
/usr/src/linux-obj> make -C /usr/src/linux O=$PWD scripts
/usr/src/linux-obj> make -C /usr/src/linux O=$PWD clean
After that, external modules can be built with:
/usr/src/module> make -C /usr/src/linux-obj M=$PWD
This fails for ppc32 because the `make clean' removes the
arch/powerpc/include directory. This should be done in archmrproper
instead of in archclean.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Haren Myneni [Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:51:05 +0000 (01:51 -0800)]
[PATCH] kexec: fix in free initrd when overlapped with crashkernel region
It is possible that the reserved crashkernel region can be overlapped with
initrd since the bootloader sets the initrd location. When the initrd
region is freed, the second kernel memory will not be contiguous. The
Kexec_load can cause an oops since there is no contiguous memory to write
the second kernel or this memory could be used in the first kernel itself
and may not be part of the dump. For example, on powerpc, the initrd is
located at 36MB and the crashkernel starts at 32MB. The kexec_load caused
panic since writing into non-allocated memory (after 36MB). We could see
the similar issue even on other archs.
One possibility is to move the initrd outside of crashkernel region. But,
the initrd region will be freed anyway before the system is up. This patch
fixes this issue and frees only regions that are not part of crashkernel
memory in case overlaps.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:51:02 +0000 (01:51 -0800)]
[PATCH] sched: remove smpnice
I don't think the code is quite ready, which is why I asked for Peter's
additions to also be merged before I acked it (although it turned out that
it still isn't quite ready with his additions either).
Basically I have had similar observations to Suresh in that it does not
play nicely with the rest of the balancing infrastructure (and raised
similar concerns in my review).
The samples (group of 4) I got for "maximum recorded imbalance" on a 2x2
SMP+HT Xeon are as follows:
Hackbench raw performance is down around 15% with smpnice (but that in
itself isn't a huge deal because it is just a benchmark). However, the
samples show that the imbalance passed into move_tasks is increased by
about a factor of 10-30. I think this would also go some way to explaining
latency blips turning up in the balancing code (though I haven't actually
measured that).
We'll probably have to revert this in the SUSE kernel.
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[BRIDGE]: fix error handling for add interface to bridge
Refactor how the bridge code interacts with kobject system.
It should still use kobjects even if not using sysfs.
Fix the error unwind handling in br_add_if.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bridge netfilter code needs to handle the case where device is
removed from bridge while packet in process. In these cases the
bridge_parent can become null while processing.
This should fix: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5803
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[BRIDGE]: fix for RCU and deadlock on device removal
Change Bridge receive path to correctly handle RCU removal of device
from bridge. Also fixes deadlock between carrier_check and del_nbp.
This replaces the previous deleted flag fix.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alexey Kuznetsov [Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:40:58 +0000 (16:40 -0800)]
[NETLINK]: illegal use of pid in rtnetlink
When a netlink message is not related to a netlink socket,
it is issued by kernel socket with pid 0. Netlink "pid" has nothing
to do with current->pid. I called it incorrectly, if it was named "port",
the confusion would be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alexey Kuznetsov [Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:40:11 +0000 (16:40 -0800)]
[NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug
netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink.
Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket,
so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be,
and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock
of rtnetlink.
Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional
argument to netlink_attachskb().
A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed
to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even
have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases:
1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot
wait for buffer space.
2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered
to some recipients.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
"Sigh. Can everyone please stop assuming gcc can output to /dev/null?
On several platforms, ld tries to lseek in the output file, and fails
if it can't."
Kristian Slavov [Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:10:53 +0000 (16:10 -0800)]
[IPV6]: Address autoconfiguration does not work after device down/up cycle
If you set network interface down and up again, the IPv6 address
autoconfiguration does not work. 'ip addr' shows that the link-local
address is in tentative state. We don't even react to periodical router
advertisements.
During NETDEV_DOWN we clear IF_READY, and we don't set it back in
NETDEV_UP. While starting to perform DAD on the link-local address, we
notice that the device is not in IF_READY, and we abort autoconfiguration
process (which would eventually send router solicitations).
Acked-by: Juha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@verkkotelakka.net> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tony Lindgren [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:06:45 +0000 (22:06 +0000)]
[ARM] 3279/1: OMAP: 1/3 Fix low-level io init
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch adds the missing cache flushes to common low-level
init that are needed to access the IO region. These flushes
are normally done at the end of devicemaps_init(), but we
need to detect the OMAP core type early.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Kumar Gala [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:34:35 +0000 (21:34 +0000)]
[SERIAL] 8250 serial console update uart_8250_port ier
On some embedded PowerPC (MPC834x) systems an extra byte would some
times be required to flush data out of the fifo.
serial8250_console_write() was updating the IER in hardware without
also updating the copy in uart_8250_port. This causes issues functions
like serial8250_start_tx() and __stop_tx() to misbehave.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3283/1: S3C2400 - defines the number of serial ports
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
This patch defines the number of serial ports on the S3C2400.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:19:38 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
[ARM] 3311/1: clean up include/asm-arm/mutex.h
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Since:
if (unlikely(__res || __ex_flag))
produces worse code on ARM than:
if (unlikely(__res | __ex_flag))
I therefore made it more explicit:
__res |= __ex_flag;
if (unlikely(__res != 0))
so it is not seen as a typo again.
Also made everything static inline rather than macros for better readability
(both produce the same code after all).
And finally added missing \t from multi-line assembly code.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:19:37 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
[ARM] 3310/1: add a comment about the possible __kuser_cmpxchg transient false
negative
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The pre ARMv5 implementation can be aborted if an exception occurs in
the middle of it. Because of that, the ARMv6 implementation doesn't
re-attempt the operation on a failed strex either. Let's make this
transient nature of such a false positive more explicit in the
definition.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:19:37 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
[ARM] 3309/1: disable the pre-ARMv5 NPTL kernel helper in the non MMU case
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The cmpxchg emulation on pre-ARMv5 relies on user code executed from a
kernel address. If the operation cannot complete atomically, it is
aborted from the usr_entry macro by clearing the Z flag. This clearing
of the Z flag is done whenever the user pc is above TASK_SIZE.
However this "pc >= TASK_SIZE" test cannot work in the non MMU case.
Worse: the current code will corrupt the Z flag on every entry to the
kernel.
Let's disable it in the non MMU case for now. Using NPTL on non MMU
targets needs to be worked out anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:19:36 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
[ARM] 3308/1: old ABI compat: struct sockaddr_un
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
struct sockaddr_un loses its padding with EABI. Since the size of the
structure is used as a validation test in unix_mkname(), we need to
change the length argument to 110 whenever it is 112.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:09:08 +0000 (21:09 +0000)]
[ARM] 3307/1: old ABI compat: mark it experimental
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Although OABI_COMPAT works fine in most cases, it is still experimental
and could be for ever since it is nearly impossible to handle
everything, e.g. ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3302/1: make pci=firmware the default for ixp2000
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Most ixp2000 boards don't actually work if pci=firmware isn't used, so
the defconfig isn't really the right place to specify this. Instead of
specifying it in the defconfigs, make the relevant board code take care
of setting pci=firmware.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3301/1: remove unnecessary clock default from ixdp2801 defconfig
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
The ixdp2x01_clock is already 50MHz by default, so no need to
override it with 50MHz in the ixdp2801 defconfig as is done now,
which is confusing as well.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3300/1: make ixdp2x01 co-exist with other ixp2000 machine types
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
The ixdp2x01 pci init call doesn't check whether it's really running
on an ixdp2x01, making it impossible to compile one kernel that works
on both the ixdp2x01 and another ixp2000 board.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Ivan Kokshaysky [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:55:06 +0000 (11:55 +0300)]
[PATCH] alpha: set cpu_possible_map much earlier
All the percpu data structure walkers want cpu_possible_map to be
initialized early, but alpha instead populated "hwrpb_cpu_present_mask"
early in setup_smp(), and then initialized cpu_possible_map only much
later.
Thanks go to Heiko Carstens and Dipankar Sarma for noticing.
This fixes it and we can get rid of hwrpb_cpu_present_mask entirely.
Tejun Heo [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:01:31 +0000 (01:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] block: implement elv_insert and use it (fix ordcolor flipping bug)
q->ordcolor must only be flipped on initial queueing of a hardbarrier
request.
Constructing ordered sequence and requeueing used to pass through
__elv_add_request() which flips q->ordcolor when it sees a barrier
request.
This patch separates out elv_insert() from __elv_add_request() and uses
elv_insert() when constructing ordered sequence and requeueing.
elv_insert() inserts the given request at the specified position and
does nothing else.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:51:17 +0000 (07:51 -0800)]
ppc: fix up trivial Kconfig config selection
Quoth BenH:
"Ok, looks like I forgot to update the Kconfig for the new i2c driver,
it should select I2C_POWERMAC instead. Do you want a new patch or
can you just fix it there ?"
When issuing an SG_IO ioctl through sd that resulted in an unrecoverable
error, a nearly infinite retry loop was discovered. This is due to the
fact that the block layer SG_IO code is not setting up rq->retries. This
patch also fixes up the sg_scsi_ioctl path.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] powerpc: Thermal control for dual core G5s
This patch adds a windfarm module, windfarm_pm112, for the dual core G5s
(both 2 and 4 core models), keeping the machine from getting into
vacuum-cleaner mode ;) For proper credits, the patch was initially
written by Paul Mackerras, and slightly reworked by me to add overtemp
handling among others. The patch also removes the sysfs attributes from
windfarm_pm81 and windfarm_pm91 and instead adds code to the windfarm
core to automagically expose attributes for sensor & controls.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:24:20 +0000 (05:24 -0500)]
[PATCH] drivers/media/video __user annotations and fixes
* compat_alloc_user_space() returns __user pointer
* copying between two userland areas is copy_in_user(), not copy_from_user()
* dereferencing userland pointers is bad
* so's get_user() from local variables
Al Viro [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:27:59 +0000 (16:27 -0500)]
[PATCH] arm: fix dependencies for MTD_XIP
MTD_XIP depends on having working asm/mtd-xip.h; it's not just per-architecture
(arm-only, as current Kconfig would have it), but actually per-subarch as
well. Introduced a new symbol (ARCH_MTD_XIP) set by arch Kconfig; MTD_XIP
depends on it.
The PowerMac sound drivers used to rely on a "bug" of the i2c-keywest
driver that implemented I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA incorrectly, that is it did
what I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA should have done. The new i2c-powermac
driver that replaces keywest has this bug fixed, thus the sound drivers
must be fixed too.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 06:44:17 +0000 (01:44 -0500)]
[PATCH] nfsroot port= parameter fix [backport of 2.4 fix]
Direct backport of 2.4 fix that didn't get propagated to 2.6; original
comment follows:
<quote>
When I specify the NFS port for nfsroot (e.g.,
nfsroot=<dir>,port=2049), the
kernel uses the wrong port. In my case it tries to use 264 (0x108)
instead
of 2049 (0x801).
This patch adds the missing htons().
Eric
</quote>
Patch got applied in 2.4.21-pre6. Author: Eric Lammerts (<eric@lammerts.org>,
AFAICS).
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