[PATCH] Documentation: remove super-{nr, max} to reflect fs/super.c
The patch updates the documentation for /proc. super-nr and super-max have
been dropped from the kernel since 2.4.9 due to minor numbering issues.
This change was not documented in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Martin Waitz [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:27 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files.
xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and
XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex. This is much faster than
using jadetex for everything. This patch also reduces the number of
kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pavel Pisa [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:25 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation
I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our
university students again. The documentation could be extended for more
sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I
have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0
time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel
compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to
some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well.
So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are
not too much skewed.
I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved
by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the
comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do
not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some
#ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc.
You can see result of the modified documentation build at
http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz
Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated
documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more
section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick
cleanup work.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Clean-up and bug fix for tdfxfb framebuffer size detection
Attached is a patch against 2.6.11.7 which tidies up the tdfxfb framebuffer
size detection code a little and fixes the broken support for Voodoo4/5
cards. (I haven't tested this on a Voodoo5, however, because I don't have
the hardware).
Signed-off-by: Richard Drummond <evilrich@rcdrummond.net> Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Better PLL frequency matching for tdfxfb driver
Improve the PLL frequency matching in the tdfxfb driver. Instead of
requiring 64260 iterations to obtain the closest supported PLL frequency,
this code does it with the same degree of accuracy in at most 768
iterations.
Signed-off-by: Richard Drummond <evilrich@rcdrummond.net> Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for the framebuffer on the freescale i.MX SOC
architecture. The driver has been tested on the mx1ads board, the pimx1 board
and another custom board with different displays.
- Add 'vram' option to specify amount of video RAM to remap
- Limit remap size to 64 MIB
- Use info->screen_size for remapped RAM
- Fix misplaced label in failure path
This patch adds to the fbdev interface a set_cmap callback that allow the
driver to "batch" palette changes. This is useful for drivers like
radeonfb which might require lenghtly workarounds on palette accesses, thus
allowing to factor out those workarounds efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mingming Cao [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:20 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] ext3: remove unnecessary race then retry in ext3_get_block
The extra race-with-truncate-then-retry logic around
ext3_get_block_handle(), which was inherited from ext2, becomes unecessary
for ext3, since we have already obtained the ei->truncate_sem in
ext3_get_block_handle() before calling ext3_alloc_branch(). The
ei->truncate_sem is already there to block concurrent truncate and block
allocation on the same inode. So the inode's indirect addressing tree
won't be changed after we grab that semaphore.
We could, after get the semaphore, re-verify the branch is up-to-date or
not. If it has been changed, then get the updated branch. If we still
need block allocation, we will have a safe version of the branch to work
with in the ext3_find_goal()/ext3_splice_branch().
The code becomes more readable after remove those retry logic. The patch
also clean up some gotos in ext3_get_block_handle() to make it more
readable.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
comp_short_keys() massaged into sane form, which kills the last place where
pointer to in_core_key (or any object containing such) would be cast to or
from something else. At that point we are free to change layout of
in_core_key - nothing depends on it anymore.
So we drop the mess with union in there and simply use (unconditional) __u64
k_offset and __u8 k_type instead; places using in_core_key switched to those.
That gives _far_ better code than current mess - on all platforms.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:18 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] reiserfs endianness: fix endianness bugs
fixes for a couple of bugs exposed by the above: le32_to_cpu() used on 16bit
value and missing conversion in comparison of host- and little-endian values.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
struct reiserfs_key cloned; (currently) identical struct in_core_key added.
Places that expect host-endian data in reiserfs_key switched to in_core_key.
Basically, we get annotation of reiserfs_key users and keep the resulting tree
obviously equivalent to original.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ian Kent [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:17 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] autofs4: tree race fix
For tree mount maps, a call to chdir or chroot, to a directory above the
moint point directories at a certain time during the expire results in the
expire incorrectly thinking the tree is not busy. This patch adds a check
to see if the filesystem above the tree mount points is busy and also locks
the filesystem during the tree mount expire to prevent the race.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Colin Leroy [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:16 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] hfs, hfsplus: don't leak s_fs_info and fix an oops
This patch fixes the leak of sb->s_fs_info in both the HFS and HFS+
modules. In addition to this, it fixes an oops happening when trying to
mount a non-hfsplus filesystem using hfsplus. This patch is from Roman
Zippel, based off patches sent by myself.
Signed-off-by: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:16 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: optimize io_submit_one()
This patch optimizes io_submit_one to call aio_run_iocb() directly if
ctx->run_list is empty. When the list is empty, the operation of adding to
the list, then call to __aio_run_iocbs() is unnecessary because these
operations are done in one atomic step. ctx->run_list always has only one
element in this case. This optimization speeds up industry standard db
transaction processing benchmark by 0.2%.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: clean up debug code
Clean up code that was previously used for debug purpose. Remove aio_run,
aio_wakeups, iocb->ki_queued and iocb->ki_kicked. Also clean up unused
variable count in __aio_run_iocbs() and debug code in read_events().
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: ring wrapping simplification
Since the tail pointer in aio_ring structure never wrap ring size more than
once, so a simple compare is sufficient to wrap the index around. This avoid
a more expensive mod operation.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: remove superfluous kiocb member initialization
This patch removes superfluous kiocb member initialization in the AIO
allocation and deallocation path. For example, in really_put_req(),
right before kiocb is returned to slab, 5 variables are reset to NULL.
The same variables will be initialized at the kiocb allocation time,
so why bother reset them knowing that they will be set to valid data
at alloc time? Another example: ki_retry is initialized in __aio_get_req,
but is initialized again in io_submit_one.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Makefile: fix for compatibility with *emacs ctags
I've noticed that, starting from linux-2.6.12-rc1, in the top Makefile the
"cmd_tags" variable has been changed in a way incompatible with *emacs
ctags. Since the "--extra" option exists only in "exuberant ctags", it
should be included in the CTAGSF shell variable.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Yum Rayan [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:14 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] serial_cs: Reduce stack usage in serial_event()
This patch reduces the stack usage of the function serial_event() in
serial_cs from 2212 to 228. I used a patched version of gcc 3.4.3 on i386
with -fno-unit-at-a-time disabled.
This patch is only compile tested.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:13 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] new valid_signal() function
This patch adds a new function valid_signal() that tests if its argument is
a valid signal number.
The reasons for adding this new function are:
- some code currently testing _NSIG directly has off-by-one errors.
Using this function instead avoids such errors.
- some code currently tests unsigned signal numbers for <0 which is
pointless and generates warnings when building with gcc -W. Using this
function instead avoids such warnings.
I considered various places to add this function but eventually settled on
include/linux/signal.h as the most logical place for it. If there's some
reason this is a bad choice then please let me know (hints as to a better
location are then welcome of course).
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:12 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: fix a deadlock
Correct an issue with the IPMI message layer taking a lock and calling
lower layer driver. If an error occrues at the lower layer the lock can be
taken again causing a deadlock. The lock is released before calling the
lower layer.
Signed-off-by: David Griego <dgriego@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:11 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: enable interrupts on the BT driver
Enable interrupts for a BT interface. There is a specific register that
needs to be set up to enable interrupts that also must be modified to clear
the irq.
Also, don't reset the BMC on a BT interface. That's probably not a good
idea as the BMC may be performing other important functions and a reset
should only be a last resort. Also, that register is also used to
enable/disable interrupts to the BT; modifying it may screw up the
interrupts.
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:10 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad ACPI data
If the ACPI register bit width is zero (an invalid value) assume it is the
default spacing. This avoids some coredumps on invalid data and makes some
systems work that have broken ACPI data.
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:10 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad IPMI DMI data
Ignore the bottom bit of the base address from the DMI data. It is
supposed to be set to 1 if it is I/O space. Few systems do this, but this
enables the ones that do set it to work properly.
Jesper Juhl [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:08 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups
There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two
functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding
access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for
access_ok - deprecate those.
There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out
code, fix those up to use access_ok.
After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally
removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release
or two.
Bill Nottingham [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:07 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] vgacon: set vc_hi_font_mask correctly
When allocating a new VC with vgacon_init(), the font is shared across all
the VGA consoles. However, the font mask was always set to the default
value of zero in visual_init(), even if we were using 512 character fonts
at the time.
Moreover, code in vgacon.c:vga_do_font_op() didn't reset the mask if the
console driver thinks it's already in 512 character mode. This means that
to *fix* it, you'd actually have to take the console out of 512 character
mode and then set it back.
The attached sets vc_hi_font_mask in vgacon_init() for any new consoles
opened if the vgacon driver is already in 512 character mode, solving this.
This bug goes back to 2.4.18 at least, probably earlier.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Kara [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:07 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix rewriting on a full reiserfs filesystem
Allow rewriting of a file and extending a file upto the end of the
allocated block on a full filesystem.
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] nbd: Don't create all MAX_NBD devices by default all the time
This patches adds the "nbds_max" parameter to the nbd kernel module, which
limits the number of nbds allocated. Previously, always all 128 entries
were allocated unconditionally, which used to waste resources and
needlessly flood the hotplug system with events. (Defaults to 16 now.)
Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Joe Korty [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:06 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE version 2
Add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE to all architectures. This is to
support the upcoming patches for robust mutexes.
We normally don't reserve parts of the name/number space for external
patches, but robust mutexes are sufficiently popular and important to
justify it in this case.
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jens Axboe [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:06 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] noop-iosched: kill O(N) merge scan
Profiling hit rates on merging shows that the last merge hint works
extremely well for most work loads. So lets kill the linear merge scan in
noop-iosched, so it provides O(1) run time for any operation.
Peter Missel [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:05 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] LifeView FlyTV Platinum FM: GPIO usage
This is take two of a patch that should have appeared two days ago, before
yesterday's "remote control" patch for the same card.
This patch sets unconnected GPIO to Output to keep them from floating (just
good driver writing practice, being nice to the chip), and uses GPIO16 to
switch TV vs. FM - this pin switches inputs onto the tuner, as well as the
audio output from the tuner into the 7135 SIF input. Consequently, FM
radio support is being un-commented because it's now working (sort of, see
below).
These two patches get the card almost fully operational; there appears to
be a bug in tda8290.c remaining that puts an offset onto the tuned
frequency in FM radio mode. We're investigating.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Missel [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:05 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] LifeView FlyTV Platinum FM: Remote Control support
Subject says it ... this card's IR microcontroller design and attachment
are compatible to the company's previous designs, so the patch was as
simple as it gets.
DESC
LifeView FlyTV Platinum FM: GPIO usage
EDESC
From: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
This is take two of a patch that should have appeared two days ago, before
yesterday's "remote control" patch for the same card.
This patch sets unconnected GPIO to Output to keep them from floating (just
good driver writing practice, being nice to the chip), and uses GPIO16 to
switch TV vs. FM - this pin switches inputs onto the tuner, as well as the
audio output from the tuner into the 7135 SIF input. Consequently, FM
radio support is being un-commented because it's now working (sort of, see
below).
These two patches get the card almost fully operational; there appears to
be a bug in tda8290.c remaining that puts an offset onto the tuned
frequency in FM radio mode. We're investigating.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] reiserfs: make resize option auto-get new device size
It's trivial for the resize option to auto-get the underlying device size,
while it's harder for the user. I've copied the code from jfs.
Since of the different reiserfs option parser (which does not use the
superior match_token used by almost every other filesystem), I've had to
use the "resize=auto" and not "resize" option to specify this behaviour.
Changing the option parser to the kernel one wouldn't be bad but I've no
time to do this cleanup in this moment.
Btw, the mount(8) man page should be updated to include this option. Cc
the relevant people, please (I hope I cc'ed the right people).
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Cc: <reiserfs-list@namesys.com> Cc: <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier
"Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new
synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The synchronize_kernel() primitive is used for quite a few different purposes:
waiting for RCU readers, waiting for NMIs, waiting for interrupts, and so on.
This makes RCU code harder to read, since synchronize_kernel() might or might
not have matching rcu_read_lock()s. This patch creates a new
synchronize_rcu() that is to be used for RCU readers and a new
synchronize_sched() that is used for the rest. These two new primitives
currently have the same implementation, but this is might well change with
additional real-time support. Both new primitives are GPL-only, the old
primitive is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
The gpl exports need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a
measured manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine.
Changing these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not-
fine. Here is my earlier proposal:
See below for a patch that puts the exports back, along with an updated
version of my earlier patch that starts the process of moving them to GPL.
I will also be following this message with RFC patches that introduce two
(EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) interfaces to replace synchronize_kernel(), which then
becomes deprecated.
Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Daniel Drake [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:03 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts for /proc/<PID>/task
The current logic assumes that a /proc/<PID>/task directory should have a
hardlink count of 3, probably counting ".", "..", and a directory for a
single child task.
It's fairly obvious that this doesn't work out correctly when a PID has
more than one child task, which is quite often the case.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Daniel Drake [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:03 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts
The pid directories in /proc/ currently return the wrong hardlink count - 3,
when there are actually 4 : ".", "..", "fd", and "task".
This is easy to notice using find(1):
cd /proc/<pid>
find
In the output, you'll see a message similar to:
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your
filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have
been searched.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86031
I also noticed that CONFIG_SECURITY can add a 5th: attr, and performed a
similar fix on the task directories too.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stas Sergeev [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:02 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] move SA_xxx defines to linux/signal.h
The attached patch moves the IRQ-related SA_xxx flags (namely, SA_PROBE,
SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM and SA_SHIRQ) from all the arch-specific headers to
linux/signal.h. This looks like a left-over after the irq-handling code
was consolidated. The code was moved to kernel/irq/*, but the flags are
still left per-arch.
Right now, adding a new IRQ flag to the arch-specific header, like this
patch does:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/alsa/alsa-driver/utils/patches/pcsp-kernel-2.6.10-03.diff?rev=1.1
no longer works, it breaks the compilation for all other arches, unless you
add that flag to all the other arch-specific headers too. So I think such
a clean-up makes sense.
Matt Mackall [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:00 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimits
Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt
priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by
Chris Wright.
The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice) priorities
a task can set. The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by
default. A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed. A value of
100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed. CAP_SYS_NICE is
blanket permission.
(akpm: see http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for
tips on integrating this with PAM).
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Horst Hummel [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:58:59 +0000 (08:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] s390: don't pad cdl blocks for write requests
The first blocks on a cdl formatted dasd device are smaller than the blocksize
of the device. Read requests are padded with a 'e5' pattern. Write requests
should not pad the (user) buffer with 'e5' because a write request is not
allowed to modify the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] s390: enable write barriers in the dasd driver
The DASD device driver never reorders the I/O requests and relies on the
hardware to write all data to nonvolatile storage before signaling a
successful write. Hence, the only thing we have to do to support write
barriers is to set the queue ordered flag.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Horst Hummel [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:58:59 +0000 (08:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] s390: dasd readonly attribute
The independent read-only flags in devmap, dasd_device and gendisk are not
kept in sync. Use one bit per feature in the dasd driver and keep that bit in
sync with the gendisk bit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
An arbitrary guest must not be allowed to trigger cmm actions. Only one
specific guest namely the one that serves as the resource monitor may send cmm
messages. Add a parameter that allows to specify the guest that may send
messages. z/VMs resource manager has the name 'VMRMSVM' which is the default.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Heiko Carstens [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:58:57 +0000 (08:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] s390: fix memory holes and cleanup setup_arch
The memory setup didn't take care of memory holes and this makes the memory
management think there would be more memory available than there is in
reality. That causes the OOM killer to kill processes even if there is enough
memory left that can be written to the swap space.
The patch fixes this by using free_area_init_node with an array of memory
holes instead of free_area_init. Further the patch cleans up the code in
setup.c by splitting setup_arch into smaller pieces.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix overflow in calculation of the new tod value in stop_hz_timer and fix
wrong virtual timer list idle time in case the virtual timer is already
expired in stop_cpu_timer.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the set_disk_ro() API when the backing file is read-only, to mark the disk
read-only, during the ->open(). The current hack does not work when doing a
mount -o remount.
Also, mark explicitly the code paths which should no more be triggerable (I've
removed the WARN_ON(1) things). They should actually become BUG()s probably
but I'll avoid that since I'm not so sure the change works so well. I gave it
only some limited testing.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use this:
.set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_nobuffers,
We already dropped the inclusion of <linux/buffer_head.h>, and we don't have a
backing block device for this FS.
"Without having looked at it, I'm sure that hostfs does not use buffer_heads.
So setting your ->set_page_dirty a_op to point at __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
is a reasonable thing to do - it'll provide a slight speedup."
This speedup is one less spinlock held and one less conditional branch, which
isn't bad.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
projects / linux-beck.git / log