Removed all use of __devinit/__devexit and init.h from headers. Any
attributes given in the prototype but not in the function definition have
been moved to the definition.
An exception is vortex_eq_free: I removed the __devexit attribute because
vortex_eq_free is called from vortex_core_shutdown, and
vortex_core_shutdown may be called from __devinit snd_vortex_create.
Compile tested with allyesconfig and allmodconfig.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
kconfig: fix typo in change count initialization
kconfig: recenter menuconfig
kconfig: revert conf behaviour change
kconfig: fix default value for choice input
kbuild: fix NULL dereference in scripts/mod/modpost.c
kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files.
kbuild: rebuild initramfs if content of initramfs changes
kbuild: properly pass options to hostcc when doing make O=..
kbuild: modules_install for external modules must not remove existing modules
kbuild: fix make dir/
ver_linux: don't print reiser4progs version if none found
kbuild: mips: fix sed regexp to generate asm-offset.h
kbuild: fix building single targets with make O=.. single-target
kbuild: use relative path to -I
kbuild: fix unneeded rebuilds in drivers/net/chelsio after moving source tree
kbuild: fix unneeded rebuilds in drivers/media/video after moving source tree
kbuild: fix garbled text in modules.txt
Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Prefetch mmap_sem in ia64_do_page_fault()
[IA64] Failure to resume after INIT in user space
[IA64] Pass more data to the MCA/INIT notify_die hooks
[IA64] always map VGA framebuffer UC, even if it supports WB
[IA64] fix bug in ia64 __mutex_fastpath_trylock
[IA64] for_each_possible_cpu: ia64
[IA64] update HP CSR space discovery via ACPI
[IA64] Wire up new syscalls {set,get}_robust_list
[IA64] 'msg' may be used uninitialized in xpc_initiate_allocate()
[IA64] Wire up new syscall sync_file_range()
[PATCH] x86_64: inline function prefix with __always_inline in vsyscall
In vsyscall function do_vgettimeofday(), some functions are declared as
inlined, which is a hint for gcc to compile the function inlined but it
not forced. Sometimes compiler does not compile the function as
inlined, so here inline is replaced by __always_inline prefix.
It does not happen in gcc compiler actually, but it possibly happens.
Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] x86-64/i386: Don't process APICs/IO-APICs in ACPI when APIC is disabled.
When nolapic was passed or the local APIC was disabled
for another reason ACPI would still parse the IO-APICs
until these were explicitely disabled with noapic.
Usually this resulted in a non booting configuration unless
"nolapic noapic" was used.
I also disabled the local APIC parsing in this case, although
that's only cosmetic (suppresses a few printks)
This hopefully makes nolapic work in all cases.
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
[PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_*
[PATCH] splice: warning fix
[PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups
[PATCH] splice: comment styles
[PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder
[PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations
[PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations
[PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups
[PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros
[PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read
[PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support
[PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets
[PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction
[PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead()
[PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping
[PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read()
[PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to
[PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference
[PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed
Since the arrays are declared as in_urbs[N_IN_URB]
and out_urbs[N_OUT_URB], both for loops go one
over the end of the array. This fixes coverity id #555.
[PATCH] fbdev: Use logo with depth of 4 or less for static pseudocolor
Since the visual STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR has a read-only colormap, use logos
with 16 colors only since these logos use the console palette. This has a
higher likelihood that the logo will display correctly.
[PATCH] vesafb: Fix incorrect logo colors in x86_64
Bugzilla Bug 6299:
A pixel size of 8 bits produces wrong logo colors in x86_64.
The driver has 2 methods for setting the color map, using the protected
mode interface provided by the video BIOS and directly writing to the VGA
registers. The former is not supported in x86_64 and the latter is enabled
only in i386.
Fix by enabling the latter method in x86_64 only if supported by the BIOS.
If both methods are unsupported, change the visual of vesafb to
STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR.
Andrew Morton [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:55:47 +0000 (22:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] sparc32 vga support
sparc32 lacks vga.h, so lots of fbdev drivers won't compile. There are no
sparc32 systems with PCI slots, so it's a bit moot.
The patch gives sparc32 a copy of the sparc64 vga.h. It fixes sparc32
allmodconfig without mucking up fbdev Kconfig and gives us wider compile
coverage.
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: grant delegations more frequently
Keep unused openowners around for at least one lease period, to avoid the need
for as many open confirmations and to allow handing out more delegations.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: limit number of delegations handed out.
It's very easy for the server to DOS itself by just giving out too many
delegations.
For now we just solve the problem with a dumb hard limit. Eventually we'll
want a smarter policy.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We should be shutting down rpciod for the callback channel when we shut down
the server.
Also note that we do rpciod_up() and create the callback client *before*
setting cb_set--the cb_set only determines whether the initial null was
succesful. So cb_set is not a reliable determiner of whether we need to clean
up, only cb_client is.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We need to make sure the laundromat work doesn't reschedule itself just when
we try to cancel it. Also, we shouldn't be waiting for it to finish running
while holding the state lock, as that's a potential deadlock.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
J. Bruce Fields [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:55:36 +0000 (22:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] knfsd: svcrpc: WARN() instead of returning an error from svc_take_page
Every caller of svc_take_page ignores its return value and assumes it
succeeded. So just WARN() instead of returning an ignored error. This would
have saved some time debugging a recent nfsd4 problem.
If there are still failure cases here, then the result is probably that we
overwrite an earlier part of the reply while xdr-encoding.
While the corrupted reply is a nasty bug, it would be worse to panic here and
create the possibility of a remote DOS; hence WARN() instead of BUG().
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We're using svc_take_page here to get another page for the tail in case one
wasn't already allocated. But there isn't always guaranteed to be another
page available.
Also fix a typo that made us check the tail buffer for space when we meant to
be checking the head buffer.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix corruption on readdir encoding with 64k pages
Fix corruption on readdir encoding with 64k pages.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix corruption of returned data when using 64k pages
In v4 we grab an extra page just for the padding of returned data. The
formula that the rpc server uses to allocate pages for the response doesn't
take into account this extra page.
Instead of adjusting those formulae, we adopt the same solution as v2 and v3,
and put the "tail" data in the same page as the "head" data.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: remove nfsd_setuser from putrootfh
Since nfsd_setuser() is already called from any operation that uses the
current filehandle (because it's called from fh_verify), there's no reason to
call it from putrootfh.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: nfsd_setuser doesn't really need to modify rqstp->rq_cred.
In addition to setting the processes filesystem id's, nfsd_setuser also
modifies the value of the rq_cred which stores the id's that originally came
from the rpc call, for example to reflect root squashing.
There's no real reason to do that--the only case where rqstp->rq_cred is
actually used later on is in the NFSv4 SETCLIENTID/SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM
operations, and there the results are the opposite of what we want--those two
operations don't deal with the filesystem at all, they only record the
credentials used with the rpc call for later reference (so that we may require
the same credentials be used on later operations), and the credentials
shouldn't vary just because there was or wasn't a previous operation in the
compound that referred to some export
This fixes a bug which caused mounts from Solaris clients to fail.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Export a directory that does not exist:
exportfs -orw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check client:/home/NFS4
Try to mount from client with nfs4. Mount hangs (I'm not sure why -
that's another issue).
While client is hung, back on server
mkdir /home/NFS4
The server panics in dput. I traced the problem back to svc_export_parse()
calling path_release() even though path_lookup() failed (it happens to fill in
the nameidata structure with a negative dentry - so the test after out:
succeeds).
After patching, an recreating the problem, the client mount still takes some
time before finally exiting with a message "couldn't read superblock".
Here is a simple patch to resolve this issue:
Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We should be using the length from the second vfs_getxattr, in case it
changed. (Note: there's still a small race here; we could end up returning
-ENOMEM if the length increased between the first and second call. I don't
know whether it's worth spending a lot of effort to fix that.)
This makes XFS ACLs usable on NFS exports, which they currently aren't, since
XFS appears to be returning a too-large value for vfs_getxattr() when it's
passed a NULL buffer. So there's probably an XFS bug here too, though since
getxattr with a NULL buffer is usually used to decide how much memory to
allocate, it may be a fairly harmless bug in most cases.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We're returning -1 in a few places in the NFSv4<->POSIX acl translation code
where we could return a reasonable error.
Also allows some minor simplification elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: Wrong error handling in nfs4acl
this fixes coverity id #3. Coverity detected dead code, since the == -1
comparison only returns 0 or 1 to error. Therefore the if ( error < 0 )
statement was always false. Seems that this was an if( error = nfs4... )
statement some time ago, which got broken during cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:55:23 +0000 (22:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c: make a struct static
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the fl_lmops field to identify which locks are ours, instead of trying to
look them up in our private hash. This is safer and more efficient.
Earlier versions of this patch used a lock flag instead, but Trond pointed out
that adding a new flag for each lock manager wasn't going to scale well, and
suggested this approach instead; a separate patch converts lockd to using
fl_lmops in the same way.
In the NFSv4 case this looks like a bit of a hack, since the NFSv4 server
isn't currently actually defining a lock_manager_operations struct, so we end
up defining one *just* to serve as a cookie to identify our locks.
But it works, and we actually do expect to start using the
lock_manager_operations at some point anyway.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] knfsd: Correct reserved reply space for read requests.
NFSd makes sure there is enough space to hold the maximum possible reply
before accepting a request. The units for this maximum is (4byte) words.
However in three places, particularly for read request, the number given is
a number of bytes.
This means too much space is reserved which is slightly wasteful.
This is the sort of patch that could uncover a deeper bug, and it is not
critical, so it would be best for it to spend a while in -mm before going
in to mainline.
(akpm: target 2.6.17-rc2, 2.6.16.3 (approx))
Discovered-by: "Eivind Sarto" <ivan@kasenna.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: make some variables non-atomic
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Replace some atomic_t variables in the Gigaset drivers by non-atomic ones,
using spinlocks instead to assure atomicity, as proposed in discussions on the
linux-kernel mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Improve error reporting of the Gigaset drivers, by using the
dev_err/dev_warn/dev_info macros from device.h instead of err/warn/info from
usb.h whereever possible.
Also rename the private dbg macro to gig_dbg in order to avoid confusion with
the macro of the same name in usb.h.
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Source code formatting cleanups for the Siemens Gigaset drivers, such as line
length, comments, removal of unused declarations, and typo corrections. It
does not introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The previous patch removed limiting the number of outstanding requests. This
patch adds a much simpler limiting, that is also compatible with file locking
operations.
A task may have at most one synchronous request allocated. So these requests
need not be otherwise limited.
However the number of background requests (release, forget, asynchronous
reads, interrupted requests) can grow indefinitely. This can be used by a
malicous user to cause FUSE to allocate arbitrary amounts of unswappable
kernel memory, denying service.
For this reason add a limit for the number of background requests, and block
allocations of new requests until the number goes bellow the limit.
Also use this mechanism to block all requests until the INIT reply is
received.
FUSE allocated most requests from a fixed size pool filled at mount time.
However in some cases (release/forget) non-pool requests were used. File
locking operations aren't well served by the request pool, since they may
block indefinetly thus exhausting the pool.
This patch removes the request pool and always allocates requests on demand.
This is in preparation for removing the global spinlock in favor of a
per-mount one.
The only critical part is the interaction between fuse_dev_release() and
fuse_fill_super(): fuse_dev_release() must see the assignment to
file->private_data, otherwise it will leak the reference to fuse_conn.
This is ensured by the fput() operation, which will synchronize the assignment
with other CPU's that may do a final fput() soon after this.
Also redundant locking is removed from fuse_fill_super(), where exclusion is
already ensured by the BKL held for this function by the VFS.
Jeff Dike [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:52 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] fuse: add O_ASYNC support to FUSE device
This adds asynchronous notification to FUSE - a FUSE server can request
O_ASYNC on a /dev/fuse file descriptor and receive SIGIO when there is input
available.
One subtlety - fuse_dev_fasync, which is called when O_ASYNC is requested,
does no locking, unlink the other methods. I think it's unnecessary, as the
fuse_conn.fasync list is manipulated only by fasync_helper and kill_fasync,
which provide their own locking. It would also be wrong to use the fuse_lock,
as it's a spin lock and fasync_helper can sleep. My one concern with this is
the fuse_conn going away underneath fuse_dev_fasync - sys_fcntl takes a
reference on the file struct, so this seems not to be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
During heavy parallel filesystem activity it was possible to Oops the kernel.
The reason is that read_cache_pages() could skip pages which have already been
inserted into the cache by another task. Occasionally this may result in zero
pages actually being sent, while fuse_send_readpages() relies on at least one
page being in the request.
So check this corner case and just free the request instead of trying to send
it.
Move the "24hr: yes" proc output from drivers to rtc proc code. This is
required because the time value in the proc output is always in 24hr mode
regardless of the driver.
- removed a duplicate error message
- bumped driver version
- removed some debugging messages in excess
- refined the formatting
- adjusted copyright notice
Kumar Gala [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:39 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] RTC subsystem: DS1672 oscillator handling
* Always enable the oscillator when we set the time
* If the oscillator is disable when we probe the RTC report back a warning
to the user
* Added sysfs attribute to represent the state of the oscillator
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:37 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] Overrun in cdrom/aztcd.c
This fixes coverity bug id #473. After the for loop i==16 if we didn't find a
cdrom. So we should check for i==16 first before checking the array element.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:36 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] Wrong out of range check in drivers/char/applicom.c
This fixes coverity bug id #469. The out of range check didnt work as
intended, as seen by the printk(), which states that boardno has to be 1 <=
boardno <= MAX_BOARD.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:34 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] 3ware: kmap_atomic() fix
We must disable local IRQs while holding KM_IRQ0 or KM_IRQ1. Otherwise, an
IRQ handler could use those kmap slots while this code is using them,
resulting in memory corruption.
Thanks to Nick Orlov <bugfixer@list.ru> for reporting.
Cc: <linuxraid@amcc.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:32 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] hdaps: use ENODEV
Use ENODEV when the hdaps hardware isn't there, not ENXIO.
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The event handler mechanism in the IPMI driver had a limit on the number of
received events, but the counts were not being updated. Update the counts
to impose a limit. This is not a critical fix, as this function (the
sending of the events) has to be turned on by the user, anyway. This
avoids problems if they forget to turn it back off.
[PATCH] inotify: check for NULL inode in inotify_d_instantiate
The spufs file system creates files in a directory before instantiating the
directory itself, which causes a NULL pointer access in
inotify_d_instantiate since c32ccd87bfd1414b0aabfcd8dbc7539ad23bcbaa.
I'd like to keep this behavior since it means that the user will not have
access to files in the directory before I know that I succeed in creating
everything in it. This patch adds a simple check for the inode to keep
that working.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kdump: enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by default
Everybody seems to be using /proc/vmcore as a method to access the kernel
crash dump. Hence probably it makes sense to enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by
default if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected. This makes kdump configuration
further easier for a user.
[PATCH] module support: record in vermagic ability to unload a module
An UML user reported (against 2.6.13.3/UML) he got kernel Oopses when
trying to rmmod (on a kernel with module unloading enabled) a module
compiled with module unloading disabled. As crashing is a very correct
thing to do in that case, a solution is altering the vermagic string to
include this too.
Possibly, however, the code should not crash in this case, even if the
module didn't support unloading - it should simply abort the module
removal. In this case, fixing that bug would be a better solution. I've
not investigated though.
(akpm: a bit marginal - root screwed up and shot himself in the foot).
Cc: Hayim Shaul <hayim@post.tau.ac.il> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 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>
David Howells [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:26 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] Keys: Improve usage of memory barriers and remove IRQ disablement
Remove an unnecessary memory barrier (implicit in rcu_dereference()) from
install_session_keyring().
install_session_keyring() is also rearranged a little to make it slightly
more efficient.
As install_*_keyring() may schedule (in synchronize_rcu() or
keyring_alloc()), they may not be entered with interrupts disabled - and so
there's no point saving the interrupt disablement state over the critical
section.
exec_keys() will also be invoked with interrupts enabled, and so that doesn't
need to save the interrupt state either.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Howells [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:24 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] Improve data-dependency memory barrier example in documentation
In the memory barrier document, improve the example of the data dependency
barrier situation by:
(1) showing the initial values of the variables involved; and
(2) repeating the instruction sequence description, this time with the data
dependency barrier actually shown to make it clear what the revised
sequence actually is.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Howells [Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:54:23 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix memory barrier docs wrt atomic ops
Fix the memory barrier documentation to attempt to describe atomic ops
correctly.
atomic_t ops that return a value _do_ imply smp_mb() either side, and so
don't actually require smp_mb__*_atomic_*() special barriers.
Also explains why special barriers exist in addition to normal barriers.
Further fix the memory barrier documents to portray bitwise operation
memory barrier effects correctly following Nick Piggin's comments.
It makes the point that any atomic op that both modifies some state in
memory and returns information on that state implies memory barriers on
both sides.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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