There is a code path that passed size to ext2_xattr_set
(ext3_xattr_set_handle) before initializing it. The callees don't use the
value in that case, but gcc cannot tell. Always initialize size to get rid
of the warnings.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:04:11 +0000 (03:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC config cleanup
The AMD76x chipsets aren't used in 64-bit, so don't offer the driver to the
user.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix the problem in kernel 2.6.15.1 (and early versions) that OProfile on
x86_64 does not correctly collect the stack traces for kernel functions.
The original code in valid_kernel_stack() in arch/i386/oprofile/backtrace.c
assumes that the frame pointer (headaddr) should be greater than stack
(i.e., regs).
This assumption is wrong for x86_64 because NMIs in x86_64 use a seperate
stack different from the kernel stack. Therefore, the variable stack now
points to some location on the NMI stack, which turns out to be at a higher
address than the frame pointer (headaddr) on the kernel stack. The correct
comparison here should be between headaddr and regs->rsp for x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Tong Li <tong.n.li@intel.com> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sb_find_get_block() ordinarily returns a buffer_head with b_count>=2, and
this code assume that in case if "b_count>1" buffer is used, so this caused
infinite loop.
(akpm: that is-the-buffer-busy code is incomprehensible. Good riddance. Use
of block_truncate_page() seems sane).
"rm" command, on file system with "ufs1" type cause system hang up. This
is, in fact, not so bad as it seems to be, because of after that in "kernel
control path" there are 3-4 places which may cause "oops".
So the first patch fix oopses, and the second patch fix "kernel hang up".
"oops" appears because of reading of group's summary info partly wrong, and
access to not first group's summary info cause "oops".
Andrew Morton [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:04:04 +0000 (03:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] sx.c printk warning fixes
drivers/char/sx.c: In function `sx_set_real_termios':
drivers/char/sx.c:934: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2)
drivers/char/sx.c:961: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2)
drivers/char/sx.c:976: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:04:03 +0000 (03:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] quota_v2: printk warning fixes
fs/quota_v2.c: In function `v2_check_quota_file':
fs/quota_v2.c:39: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 2)
fs/quota_v2.c:39: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 3)
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:04:02 +0000 (03:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] parport_serial: printk warning fix
drivers/parport/parport_serial.c: In function `parport_register':
drivers/parport/parport_serial.c:334: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 3)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:58 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] sx.c warning fixes
drivers/char/sx.c: In function `sx_set_real_termios':
drivers/char/sx.c:934: warning: int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 2)
drivers/char/sx.c:961: warning: unsigned int format, tcflag_t arg (arg 2)
drivers/char/sx.c:976: warning: unsigned int format, tcflag_t arg (arg 2)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Zach Brown [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:56 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] list.h: don't evaluate macro args multiple times
I noticed that list.h init functions were evaluating macro arguments
multiple times and thought it might be nice to protect the unsuspecting
caller. Converting the macros to inline functions seems to reduce code
size, too. A i386 defconfig build with gcc 3.3.3 from fc4:
text data bss dec hex filename 3573148 565664 188828 4327640 4208d8 vmlinux.before 3572177 565664 188828 4326669 42050d vmlinux
Keith Owens [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:53 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries
When one module exports a function symbol and another module uses that
symbol then kallsyms shows the symbol twice. Once from the consumer with a
type of 'U' and once from the provider with a type of 't' or 'T'. On most
architectures, both entries have the same address so it does not matter
which one is returned by kallsyms_lookup_name(). But on architectures with
function descriptors, the 'U' entry points to the descriptor, not to the
code body, which is not what we want.
IA64 # grep -w qla2x00_remove_one /proc/kallsyms a000000208c25ef8 U qla2x00_remove_one [qla2300] <= descriptor a000000208bf44c0 t qla2x00_remove_one [qla2xxx] <= function body
Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries in modules.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Heiko Carstens [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:52 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: fix compat syscall wrapper
Patch 9ad11ab48b1ad618bf47076e9e579f267f5306c2 changes the type of the first
argument of some compat syscalls from int to unsigned int. Add these changes
to the s390 compat wrapper as well.
Heiko Carstens [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:51 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: compile fix: missing defines in asm-s390/io.h
Compile fix: add missing __raw_read* and __raw_write* defines to
include/asm-s390/io.h.
These are mandatory since patch c27a0d75b33c030965cc97d3d7f571107a673fb4
was merged.
The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed
information about certain problems in the DASD I/O. This information can be
used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thibaut VARENE [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:48 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide: restore support for AEC6280M cards in aec62xx.c
This patch adds missing initialization sequence, necessary to get the
"Macintosh" version of AEC6280 cards to work in Linux. Without this patch,
the driver hangs for several minutes trying to initialize the card and the
kernel is left in an unstable state. This patch has been tested fine on
ppc and i386.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CC drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.o
drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.c: In function `dc21285_copy_to_32':
drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.c:113: error: invalid lvalue in increment
drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.c: In function `dc21285_copy_to_16':
drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.c:124: error: invalid lvalue in increment
drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.c: In function `dc21285_copy_to_8':
drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.c:134: error: invalid lvalue in increment
make[3]: *** [drivers/mtd/maps/dc21285.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:44 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix build failure in recent pm_prepare_* changes.
kernel/power/power.h:49: error: static declaration of 'pm_prepare_console' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/suspend.h:46: error: previous declaration of 'pm_prepare_console' was here
kernel/power/power.h:50: error: static declaration of 'pm_restore_console' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/suspend.h:47: error: previous declaration of 'pm_restore_console' was here
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Kprobes: Fix deadlock in function-return probes
When two function-return probes are inserted on kfree()[1] and the second
on say, sys_link()[2], and later [2] is unregistered, we have a deadlock as
kfree is called with the kretprobe_lock held and the function-return probe
on kfree will also try to grab the same lock.
However, we can move the kfree() during unregistration to outside the
spinlock as we are sure that no instances from the free list will be used
after synchronized_sched() returns during the unregistration process.
Thanks to Masami Hiramatsu for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:41 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: Assorted little md fixes
- version-1 superblock
+ The default_bitmap_offset is in sectors, not bytes.
+ the 'size' field in the superblock is in sectors, not KB
- raid0_run should return a negative number on error, not '1'
- raid10_read_balance should not return a valid 'disk' number if
->rdev turned out to be NULL
- kmem_cache_destroy doesn't like being passed a NULL.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linas Vepstas [Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:03:38 +0000 (03:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] Clean up Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
Edits to the driver-model documentation for grammar, clarity and content.
These docs haven't been updated in years, and some of the technical content
and discussion has become stale; this patch updates these. In addition,
some of the language is awkward. Fix this.
(I'm trying to cleanup the other files in this directory also,
patches for these will come a bit later).
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stefan Bader [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:28:07 +0000 (14:28 -0800)]
[PATCH] device-mapper log bitset: fix big endian find_next_zero_bit
This is a fix to the device-mapper-log-bitset-fix-endian patch that
switched to ext2_* versions of the set and clear bit functions. The
find_next_zero_bit function also has to be the ext2 one. Otherwise the
mirror target tries to recover non-existent regions beyond the end of
device.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:28:05 +0000 (14:28 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: Don't remove bitmap from md array when switching to read-only
While a read-only array doesn't not really need a bitmap, we should
not remove the bitmap when switching an array to read-only because
a/ There is no code to re-add the bitmap which switching to read-write,
b/ There is insufficient locking - the bitmap could be accessed while it is
being removed.
Cc: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:28:03 +0000 (14:28 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: Fix device-size updates in md
As 'array_size' is a 'sector_t', it may overflow inappropriately when shifted
10 bits. So We should cast it to a loff_t first.
There are two places with this problem, but the second (in update_raid_disks)
isn't needed so just remove it:
The only personality that handles ->reshape currently is raid1,
and it doesn't change the size of the array.
When added for raid5/6, reshape again won't change the size of the array,
at least not straight away.
This code might be need for reshaping 'linear' but linear->shape,
if implemented, should probably do the i_size_write itself.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeremy Higdon [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 08:00:46 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix sgiioc4 DMA timeout problem with 64KiB s/g elements.
Problem caused by the fact that the code used to only pick the low 16
bits of the bytecount. That may be how some controllers act on it (byte
count of 0 means 0x10000), but not for this particular hardware.
Dave Airlie [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 08:37:46 +0000 (19:37 +1100)]
sem2mutex: drivers/char/drm/
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Most of the 64 bit architectures will zero extend the first argument to
compat_sys_{openat,newfstatat,futimesat} which will fail if the 32 bit
syscall was passed AT_FDCWD (which is a small negative number). Declare
the first argument to be an unsigned int which will force the correct
sign extension when the internal functions are called in each case.
Also, do some small white space cleanups in fs/compat.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Trond Myklebust [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:19:27 +0000 (12:19 -0500)]
SUNRPC: Move upcall out of auth->au_ops->crcreate()
This fixes a bug whereby if two processes try to look up the same auth_gss
credential, they may end up creating two creds, and triggering two upcalls
because the upcall is performed before the credential is added to the
credcache.
Trond Myklebust [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:18:44 +0000 (12:18 -0500)]
SUNRPC: rpc_timeout_upcall_queue should not sleep
The function rpc_timeout_upcall_queue runs from a workqueue, and hence
sleeping is not recommended. Convert the protection of the upcall queue
from being mutex-based to being spinlock-based.
Trond Myklebust [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:18:36 +0000 (12:18 -0500)]
SUNRPC: Fix a lock recursion in the auth_gss downcall
When we look up a new cred in the auth_gss downcall so that we can stuff
the credcache, we do not want that lookup to queue up an upcall in order
to initialise it. To do an upcall here not only redundant, but since we
are already holding the inode->i_mutex, it will trigger a lock recursion.
This patch allows rpcauth cache searches to indicate that they can cope
with uninitialised credentials.
Trond Myklebust [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:18:25 +0000 (12:18 -0500)]
NLM: Ensure that nlmclnt_cancel_callback() doesn't loop forever
If the server returns NLM_LCK_DENIED_NOLOCKS, we currently retry the
entire NLM_CANCEL request. This may end up looping forever unless the
server changes its mind (why would it do that, though?).
Ensure that we limit the number of retries (to 3).
Trond Myklebust [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:18:22 +0000 (12:18 -0500)]
NLM: Fix arguments to NLM_CANCEL call
The OpenGroup docs state that the arguments "block", "exclusive" and
"alock" must exactly match the arguments for the lock call that we are
trying to cancel.
Currently, "block" is always set to false, which is wrong.
[PATCH] fbcon: Fix screen artifacts when moving cursor
When moving the cursor by writing to /dev/vcs*, the old cursor image is not
erased. Fix by hiding the cursor first before moving the cursor to the new
position.
Jeff Mahoney [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:51 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: reiserfs: check for files > 2GB on 3.5.x disks
When a filesystem has been converted from 3.5.x to 3.6.x, we need an extra
check during file write to make sure we are not trying to make a 3.5.x file
> 2GB.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chris Mason [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:50 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: reiserfs fix journal accounting in journal_transaction_should_end
reiserfs: journal_transaction_should_end should increase the count of
blocks allocated so the transaction subsystem can keep new writers from
creating a transaction that is too large.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chris Mason [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:49 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: reiserfs hang and performance fix for data=journal mode
In data=journal mode, reiserfs writepage needs to make sure not to trigger
transactions while being run under PF_MEMALLOC. This patch makes sure to
redirty the page instead of forcing a transaction start in this case.
Also, calling filemap_fdata* in order to trigger io on the block device can
cause lock inversions on the page lock. Instead, do simple batching from
flush_commit_list.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chris Mason [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:48 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: zero b_private when allocating buffer heads
The b_private field in buffer heads needs to be zero filled when the
buffers are allocated. Thanks to Nathan Scott for finding this. It was
causing problems on systems with both XFS and reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chris Mason [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:47 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] resierfs: fix reiserfs_invalidatepage race against data=ordered
After a transaction has closed but before it has finished commit, there is
a window where data=ordered mode requires invalidatepage to pin pages
instead of freeing them. This patch fixes a race between the
invalidatepage checks and data=ordered writeback, and it also adds a check
to the reiserfs write_ordered_buffers routines to write any anonymous
buffers that were dirtied after its first writeback loop.
That bug works like this:
proc1: transaction closes and a new one starts
proc1: write_ordered_buffers starts processing data=ordered list
proc1: buffer A is cleaned and written
proc2: buffer A is dirtied by another process
proc2: File is truncated to zero, page A goes through invalidatepage
proc2: reiserfs_invalidatepage sees dirty buffer A with reiserfs
journal head, pins it
proc1: write_ordered_buffers frees the journal head on buffer A
At this point, buffer A stays dirty forever
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the generic_permission code with a proper wrapper and callback instead
of having a local copy.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This function is completely unused since the xattr permission checking
changes. Remove it and fold __reiserfs_permission into
reiserfs_permission.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diego Calleja [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:44 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: missing kmalloc failure check
According to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5778
fs/reiserfs/file.c is missing this check.
Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Horst Hummel [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:37 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: dasd wait for clear i/o interrupt
The sleep_on function clears a running cqr without waiting for the related
interrupt. This can lead to a panic at the time the interrupt is processed
because the related memory might already be freed. Wait for clear-interrupt
and de-queue cqr prior to return.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Horst Hummel [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:36 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: dasd open counter
The open_count is increased for every opener, that includes the blkdev_get in
dasd_scan_partitions. This tampers the open_count in BIODASDINFO. Hide the
internal open from user-space.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] s390: ccw_device_probe_console return value
The return code of ccw_device_probe_console() is not properly handled. It
should only return a valid ccw device pointer or a error value converted by
ERR_PTR. Fix the console driver code to check with IS_ERR instead against
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Glauber [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:34 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: hangcheck timer support
Remove useless s390 define from hangcheck-timer, remove wrong definition of a
TOD second and other s390 ifdefs. Use monotonic_clock instead.
Add hangcheck-timer option, copied from drivers/char/Kconfig. This is ugly
but unless we have a big Kconfig cleanup we cannot include
drivers/char/Kconfig...
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Glauber [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:32 +0000 (03:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: overflow in sched_clock
The least significant bit of the TOD clock value returned by get_clock
is the 4096th part of a microsecond. To get to nanoseconds the value
needs to be divided by 4096 and multiplied with 1000.
The current method multiplies first and then shifts the value to make the
result as precise as possible. The disadvantage is that the multiplication
with 1000 will overflow shortly after 52 days. sched_clock is used by the
scheduler for time stamp deltas, if an overflow occurs between two time stamps
the scheduler will get confused.
With the patch the problem occurs only after approx. one year, so the chance
to run into this overflow is extremly low.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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