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Joern Engel
2b54aaef7a Claim maintainership for block2mtd and update email addresses
I have been prime author and maintainer of block2mtd from day one, but
neither MAINTAINERS nor the module source makes this fact clear.  And while
I'm at it, update my email addresses tree-wide, as the old address
currently bounces and change my name to "joern" as unicode will likely
continue to cause trouble until the end of this century.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Richard Kennedy
dcc85cb618 Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTING
Here's a couple of small additions to BUG-HUNTING.

1. point out that you can list code in gdb with only one command
	(gdb) l *(<symbol> + offset)

2. give a very brief hint how to decode module symbols in call traces

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Karsten Wiese
844fcc5396 make sys_poll() wait at least timeout ms
schedule_timeout(jiffies) waits for at least jiffies - 1.  Add 1 jiffie to
the timeout_jiffies calculated in sys_poll() to wait at least
timeout_msecs, like poll() manpage says.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Joe Peterson
54d2a37eda Fix IXANY and restart after signal (e.g. ctrl-C) in n_tty line discipline
Fix two N_TTY line discipline issues related to resuming a stopped TTY
(typically done with ctrl-S):

1) Fix handling of character that resumes a stopped TTY (with IXANY)

With "stty ixany", the TTY line discipline would lose the first character
after the stop, so typing, for example, "hi^Sthere" resulted in "hihere"
(the 't' would cause the resume after ^S, but it would then be thrown away
rather than processed as an input character).  This was inconsistent with
the behavior of other Unix systems.

2) Fix interrupt signal (e.g. ctrl-C) behavior in stopped TTYs

With "stty -ixany" (often the default), interrupt signals were ignored
in a stopped TTY until the TTY was resumed with the start char (typically
ctrl-Q), which was inconsistent with the behavior of other Unix systems.

Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Daniel Walker
1373bed34e docs: convert kref semaphore to mutex
Just converting this documentation semaphore reference, since we don't
want to promote semaphore usage.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
13f14b4d8b Use ilog2() in fs/namespace.c
We can use ilog2() in fs/namespace.c to compute hash_bits and hash_mask at
compile time, not runtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean it all up]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Andrew Morton
b41ecbebd4 debug_smp_processor_id() fixlets
- Account for debug_smp_processor_id()'s own preempt_disable() when
  displaying the preempt_count().

- 80 cols, not 800.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
1bf47346d7 kernel/sys.c: get rid of expensive divides in groups_sort()
groups_sort() can be quite long if user loads a large gid table.

This is because GROUP_AT(group_info, some_integer) uses an integer divide.
So having to do XXX thousand divides during one syscall can lead to very
high latencies.  (NGROUPS_MAX=65536)

In the past (25 Mar 2006), an analog problem was found in groups_search()
(commit d74beb9f33 ) and at that time I
changed some variables to unsigned int.

I believe that a more generic fix is to make sure NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK is
unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
6b2fb3c658 idle_regs() must be __cpuinit
Fix the following section mismatch with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x399a6): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.5:idle_regs (between 'fork_idle' and 'get_task_mm')

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
6c81c32f96 calibrate_delay() must be __cpuinit
calibrate_delay() must be __cpuinit, not __{dev,}init.

I've verified that this is correct for all users.

While doing the latter, I also did the following cleanups:
- remove pointless additional prototypes in C files
- ensure all users #include <linux/delay.h>

This fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1128d): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:calibrate_delay (between 'check_cx686_slop' and 'set_cx86_reorder')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x25102): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:calibrate_delay (between 'smp_callin' and 'cpu_coregroup_map')

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Richard Knutsson
eb38a996eb kernel/params.c: remove sparse-warning (different signedness)
Fixing:
  CHECK   kernel/params.c
kernel/params.c:329:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 8 (different signedness)
kernel/params.c:329:41:    expected int *num
kernel/params.c:329:41:    got unsigned int *

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
15ae02baf0 lib/extable.c: remove an expensive integer divide in search_extable()
Actual code let compiler generates idiv instruction on x86.

Using a right shift is OK here and readable as well.

Before patch
   10:   57                      push   %edi
   11:   56                      push   %esi
   12:   89 d6                   mov    %edx,%esi
   14:   53                      push   %ebx
   15:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
   17:   eb 22                   jmp    3b <search_extable+0x2b>
   19:   89 f0                   mov    %esi,%eax
   1b:   ba 02 00 00 00          mov    $0x2,%edx
   20:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
   22:   89 d7                   mov    %edx,%edi
   24:   c1 f8 03                sar    $0x3,%eax
   27:   99                      cltd
   28:   f7 ff                   idiv   %edi
   2a:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
   2d:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
...

After patch

00000010 <search_extable>:
   10:   53                      push   %ebx
   11:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
   13:   eb 18                   jmp    2d <search_extable+0x1d>
   15:   89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
   17:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
   19:   c1 f8 04                sar    $0x4,%eax
   1c:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
   1f:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Petr Cvek
f63fd7e299 parport_pc: detection for SuperIO IT87XX POST
Add detection for IT87XX SuperIO chip and disabling its POST feature, which
made noise on parallel port's pins.

Signed-off-by: Petr Cvek <petr.cvek@tul.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Nick Warne
a9000d037d ik8: add Dell UK 6400 Inspiron model (MM061)
Add the Dell UK 6400 Inspiron model (MM061) to allow the i8k module to load
correctly without using 'force=1'

Signed-off-by: "Nick Warne" <nick@ukfsn.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
b75cb06f72 partition: use DEFAULT_SGI_PARTITION for SGI_PARTION default
Use DEFAULT_SGI_PARTITION for SGI_PARTION default

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Christian Pellegrin
c01106e573 parport_serial: netmos 9855 fix
Fix wrong netmos 9855 serial port configuration.

On loading only one serial port was present and it wasn't working.  After
looking in the data sheet I realized that the base address was wrong.  For
further reference here is lspci and relevant dmesg output:

02:00.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9855 Multi-I/O
Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 02)
        Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Unknown device 0022
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at df00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at de00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at dd00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at db00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at da00 [size=16]

parport1: PC-style at 0xdd00 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport2: PC-style at 0xdf00 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
0000:02:00.0: ttyS0 at I/O 0xdb00 (irq = 19) is a 16550A
0000:02:00.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xda00 (irq = 19) is a 16550A

Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin <chripell@fsfe.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <thor@math.TU-Berlin.DE>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Martin Schitter <ms@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Luís P Mendes
dc999159bb parport: add support for the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI ExpressCard
Added pci device id for the Quatech SPPXP-100 ExpressCard - 0x278 - to
include/linux/pci_id.h

Modified drivers/parport/parport_pc.c to support the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI ExpressCard

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Luís P Mendes <luis.p.mendes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Nick Piggin
a8e3eff466 ext2: xip check fix
ext2 should not worry about checking sb->s_blocksize for XIP before the
sb's blocksize actually gets set.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Daniel Walker
cce992bcee Amiga serial driver: port_write_mutex fixup
The port_write_mutex was converted from a semaphore to a mutex,
but there was still this ifdef'd init_MUTEX reference remaining.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Daniel Walker
6c6080f74c stopmachine: semaphore to mutex
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Denis Cheng
bcf11cbecc fs/reiserfs/xattr.c: use LIST_HEAD instead of LIST_HEAD_INIT
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Denis Cheng
e381d1c460 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c: use LIST_HEAD instead of LIST_HEAD_INIT
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Daniel Walker
66656ebb5b docs: kernel-locking: Convert semaphore references
I converted some of the document to reflect mutex usage instead of
semaphore usage.  Since we shouldin't be promoting semaphore usage when
it's on it's way out..

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Joe Peterson
ec5b1157f8 tty: enable the echoing of ^C in the N_TTY discipline
Turn on INTR/QUIT/SUSP echoing in the N_TTY line discipline (e.g.  ctrl-C
will appear as "^C" if stty echoctl is set and ctrl-C is set as INTR).

Linux seems to be the only unix-like OS (recently I've verified this on
Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X) that does *not* behave this way, and I really
miss this as a good visual confirmation of the interrupt of a program in
the console or xterm.  I remember this fondly from many Unixs I've used
over the years as well.  Bringing this to Linux also seems like a good way
to make it yet more compliant with standard unix-like behavior.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Roland McGrath
1a669c2f16 Add arch_ptrace_stop
This adds support to allow asm/ptrace.h to define two new macros,
arch_ptrace_stop_needed and arch_ptrace_stop.  These control special
machine-specific actions to be done before a ptrace stop.  The new code
compiles away to nothing when the new macros are not defined.  This is the
case on all machines to begin with.

On ia64, these macros will be defined to solve the long-standing issue of
ptrace vs register backing store.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Jan Kara
941d2380e9 quota: improve inode list scanning in add_dquot_ref()
We restarted scan of sb->s_inodes list whenever we had to drop inode_lock
in add_dquot_ref().  This leads to overall quadratic running time and thus
add_dquot_ref() can take several minutes when called on a life filesystem.
We fix the problem by using the fact that inode cannot be removed from
s_inodes list while we hold a reference to it and thus we can safely
restart the scan if we don't drop the reference.  Here we use the fact that
inodes freshly added to s_inodes list are already guaranteed to have quotas
properly initialized and the ordering of inodes on s_inodes list does not
change so we cannot skip any inode.

Thanks goes to Nick <gentuu@gmail.com> for analyzing the problem and
testing the fix.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: iput(NULL) is legal]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Nick <gentuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Denis Cheng
bed9759b2e drivers/char: use LIST_HEAD instead of LIST_HEAD_INIT
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost
always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code
and looks better.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Nick Piggin
a18b630d1b uio: nopage
Convert uio from nopage to fault.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Nick Piggin
a1e096129b relay: nopage
Convert relay from nopage to fault.
Remove redundant vma range checks.
Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Paulo Marques
f2df3f65d0 kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols
When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names,
kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak
symbol.

This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols last
before feeding them to the kernel.  This way the kernel runtime isn't
changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.

Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too.  So,
even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail to
correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this.

Mathieu says:

  I created a module in LTTng that uses kallsyms to get the symbol
  corresponding to a specific system call address.  Unfortunately, all the
  unimplemented syscalls were all referring to the (same) weak symbol
  identifying an unrelated system call rather that sys_ni (or whatever
  non-weak symbol would be expected).  Kallsyms was dumbly returning the first
  symbol that matched.

  This patch makes sure kallsyms returns the non-weak symbol when there is
  one, which seems to be the expected result.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Looks-great-to: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Daniel Walker
a6752f3f53 unix98 allocated_ptys_lock semaphore to mutex
Convert the unix98 allocated_ptys_lock to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Daniel Walker
4749380ed6 drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c: remove write_sem
I couldn't find any users, so removing it..

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Daniel Walker
eb31005eaf drivers/char/tty_io.c: remove pty_sem
I couldn't find any users, so removing it..

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Daniel Drake
d156042f9f Documentation about unaligned memory access
Here's a document I wrote after figuring out what unaligned memory access
is all about.  I've tried to cover the information I was looking for when
trying to learn about this, without producing a hopelessly detailed/complex
spew.  I hope it is useful to others.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Nick Piggin
0d71bd5993 inotify: remove debug code
The inotify debugging code is supposed to verify that the
DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED scalability optimisation does not result in
notifications getting lost nor extra needless locking generated.

Unfortunately there are also some races in the debugging code.  And it isn't
very good at finding problems anyway.  So remove it for now.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Nick Piggin
d599e36a9e inotify: fix race
There is a race between setting an inode's children's "parent watched" flag
when placing the first watch on a parent, and instantiating new children of
that parent: a child could miss having its flags set by
set_dentry_child_flags, but then inotify_d_instantiate might still see
!inotify_inode_watched.

The solution is to set_dentry_child_flags after adding the watch.  Locking is
taken care of, because both set_dentry_child_flags and inotify_d_instantiate
hold dcache_lock and child->d_locks.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
eea63e0e8a SC26XX: New serial driver for SC2681 uarts
New serial driver for SC2681/SC2691 uarts.  Older SNI RM400 machines are
using these chips for onboard serial ports.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
f5d3f30d0a char: use SGI_HAS_DS1286 for SGI_DS1286 depends
Use SGI_HAS_DS1286 for SGI_DS1286 depends

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
5057c98a42 serial: use SGI_HAS_ZILOG for IP22_ZILOG depends
- Use SGI_HAS_ZILOG for IP22_ZILOG depends
- remove IP22 from description, because the driver works on more than
  IP22 SGI machines

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
b25b7819e5 Remove superfluous checks for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD from initramfs.c
Given that init/Makefile includes initramfs.c in the build only if
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is defined, there seems to be no point checking for
it yet again.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
d99c4f6b13 Remove rcu_assign_pointer() penalty for NULL pointers
The rcu_assign_pointer() primitive currently unconditionally executes a
memory barrier, even when a NULL pointer is being assigned.  This has lead
some to avoid using rcu_assign_pointer() for NULL pointers, which loses the
self-documenting advantages of rcu_assign_pointer() This patch uses
__builtin_const_p() to omit needless memory barriers for NULL-pointer
assignments at compile time with no runtime penalty, as discussed in the
following thread:

	http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg54852.html

Tested on x86_64 and ppc64, also compiled the four cases (NULL/non-NULL
and const/non-const) with gcc version 4.1.2, and hand-checked the
assembly output.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Qi Yong
ba6f867f11 kill an unused PTR_ERR in bdev_cache_init()
Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Matt Mackall
91f3f1e304 drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() cond_resched() needed
Reduce latency for large writes to /dev/[u]random

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Jeff Dike
5ab24c79af Fix __const_udelay declaration and definition mismatches
The declaration and implementation of __const_udelay use different
names for the parameter on a number of architectures:

include/asm-avr32/delay.h:15:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs);
arch/avr32/lib/delay.c:39:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)

include/asm-sh/delay.h:15:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs);
arch/sh/lib/delay.c:22:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)

include/asm-m32r/delay.h:15:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs);
arch/m32r/lib/delay.c:58:void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)

include/asm-x86/delay.h:16:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs);
arch/x86/lib/delay_32.c:82:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)
arch/x86/lib/delay_64.c:46:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)

The units of the parameter isn't usecs, so that name is definitely
wrong.  It's also not exactly loops, so I suppose xloops is an OK
name.

This patch changes these names from usecs to xloops.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Paul Fulghum
ed8485fb34 synclink_gt fix missed serial input signal changes
Fix missed serial input signal changes caused by rereading the serial
status register during interrupt processing.  Now processing is performed
on original status register value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
3dd1247f4d synclink: standardize format of linux header file include's with "<>"
Use the recommended form of "<>" to include linux header files, and
move those includes up to join the rest of the linux includes.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
9cfe015aa4 get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.

Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.

This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Richard Knutsson
774ed22c21 reiserfs: complement va_start() with va_end().
Complement va_start() with va_end().

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:05 -08:00
Dave Jones
11025e8552 via-rng: enable secondary noise source on CPUs where it is present
In the padlock spec:

"SRC Bits[9:8] Noise source select (I): These bits control the two noise
 sources on the processor that input bits to the accumulation buffers.
 On Nehemiah processors prior to stepping 8, these bits are reserved
 and undefined. The default RESET state is both bits = 0."

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:05 -08:00
Jan Kara
ece95912db inotify: send IN_ATTRIB events when link count changes
Currently, no notification event has been sent when inode's link count
changed.  This is inconvenient for the application in some cases:

Suppose you have the following directory structure

    foo/test
    bar/

and you watch test.  If someone does "mv foo/test bar/", you get event
IN_MOVE_SELF and you know something has happened with the file "test".
However if someone does "ln foo/test bar/test" and "rm foo/test" you get no
inotify event for the file "test" (only directories "foo" and "bar" receive
events).

Furthermore it could be argued that link count belongs to file's metadata and
thus IN_ATTRIB should be sent when it changes.

The following patch implements sending of IN_ATTRIB inotify events when link
count of the inode changes, i.e., when a hardlink to the inode is created or
when it is removed.  This event is sent in addition to all the events sent so
far.  In particular, when a last link to a file is removed, IN_ATTRIB event is
sent in addition to IN_DELETE_SELF event.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:05 -08:00