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407 Commits

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Martin Schwidefsky
cf8ba7a955 [S390] add hardware capability support (ELF_HWCAP).
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 18:48:35 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
d4ee453bcf [S390] Export uaccess as non-gpl symbol.
Commit c1821c2e97 introduced the
uaccess structure that is used to select the correct set of user
copy functions for the different execution modes (standard vs.
noexec vs. z9 optimized user copy). The uaccess symbol is exported
with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. This breaks all non-gpl modules that use
user copy. To make them work again change the export to
EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 18:48:25 +02:00
Jan Glauber
f67d136966 [S390] aes-s390 key length.
Register aes-s390 algorithms with the actual supported max keylen size

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 18:48:25 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
33464e3b57 [S390] get rid of kprobes notifier call chain.
And here's a port of the powerpc patch to get rid of the notifier
chain completely to s390.  It's ontop of Martins patch as that one
is in mainline already.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-04 18:48:24 +02:00
Rusty Russell
5a1b5898ee [NET]: Remove NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS, default to internal stats.
Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver
currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal
one the default.  If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now
get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-28 21:04:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
15c5403396 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (448 commits)
  [IPV4] nl_fib_lookup: Initialise res.r before fib_res_put(&res)
  [IPV6]: Fix thinko in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() changes.
  [IPV4]: Add multipath cached to feature-removal-schedule.txt
  [WIRELESS] cfg80211: Clarify locking comment.
  [WIRELESS] cfg80211: Fix locking in wiphy_new.
  [WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.
  [WEXT]: Misc code cleanups.
  [WEXT]: Reduce inline abuse.
  [WEXT]: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL statements where they belong.
  [WEXT]: Cleanup early ioctl call path.
  [WEXT]: Remove options.
  [WEXT]: Remove dead debug code.
  [WEXT]: Clean up how wext is called.
  [WEXT]: Move to net/wireless
  [AFS]: Eliminate cmpxchg() usage in vlocation code.
  [RXRPC]: Fix pointers passed to bitops.
  [RXRPC]: Remove bogus atomic_* overrides.
  [AFS]: Fix u64 printing in debug logging.
  [AFS]: Add "directory write" support.
  [AFS]: Implement the CB.InitCallBackState3 operation.
  ...
2007-04-27 09:26:46 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
39ce010d38 [S390] Clean up smp code in preparation for some larger changes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:47 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
9ff6f4577e [S390] Remove debugging junk.
arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c has some confusing debugging code left
over to allow compiling it as a module. In practice, it cannot be configured
as module and there is no need to keep that code.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:47 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
ecdcc0234b [S390] Switch etr from tasklet to workqueue.
The clock synchronization of the ETR code requires an smp_call_function
to synchronize all cpus. Calling smp_call_function from a tasklet is
illegal. Replace the tasklet with a job on the global workqueue.
ETR work is rare and can be postponed to a be done by a kernel thread.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:47 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
2fc2d1e9ff [S390] Processor degradation notification.
Generate uevents for all cpus if cpu capability changes. This can
happen e.g. because the cpus are overheating. The cpu capability can
be read via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/capability.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:46 +02:00
Jan Glauber
db77aa5f3d [S390] vtime: cleanup per_cpu usage.
Replace per_cpu(... , smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var()

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:46 +02:00
Jan Glauber
131a395c18 [S390] crypto: cleanup.
Cleanup code and remove obsolete documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:46 +02:00
Michael Holzheu
411ed32257 [S390] zfcpdump support.
s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI
disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first
32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is
booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved memory can be accessed from
Linux. This patch exports memory and registers of the crashed Linux to
userspace via a debugfs file. For more information refer to
Documentation/s390/zfcpdump.txt, which is included in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:44 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
be7962856d [S390] Improved kernel stack overflow checking.
Recent cvs versions of gcc have support for an improved stack overflow
checking that calculates the size of the guard size for each function.
If the compiler accepts -mstack-size without -mstack-guard then the
new stack check is available. We always want to use the new stack
checker.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:43 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
be5ec363e9 [S390] No execute support cleanup.
Simplify the signal_return function that checks for the two special
system calls sigreturn and rt_sigreturn. No need to do a page table
walk, a call to copy_from_user while disabled page faults will work
as well.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:43 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
10c1031f70 [S390] Minor fault path optimization.
The minor fault path has grown a lot in terms of cycles. In particular
the kprobes hook is very costly. Optimize the path to save a couple of
cycles. If kprobes is enabled more than 300 cycles can be avoided if
kprobes_running() is false.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:43 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
c0007f1a65 [S390] Use generic bug.
Generic bug implementation for s390. Will increase the value of the
console output on BUG() statements since registers r0-r5,r14 will
not be clobbered by a printk() call that was previously done before
the illegal instruction of BUG() was hit.
Also implements an architecture specific WARN_ON(). Output of that
could be increased but requires common code change.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:42 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
bb11e3bdba [S390] Improved oops output.
This patch adds two improvements to the oops output. First it adds an
additional line after the PSW which decodes the different fields of it.
Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding
the faulting PSW. The output of a test oops now looks like this:

kernel BUG at init/main.c:419
illegal operation: 0001 [#1]
CPU:    0    Not tainted
Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 0000000000464968, ksp: 00000000004be000)
Krnl PSW : 0700000180000000 00000000000120b6 (rest_init+0x36/0x38)
           R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:0 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000003 00000000004ba017 0000000000000022 0000000000000001
           000000000003a5f6 0000000000000000 00000000004be6a8 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 00000000004b8200 0000000000003a50 0000000000008000
           0000000000516368 000000000033d008 00000000000120b2 00000000004bdee0
Krnl Code: 00000000000120a6: e3e0f0980024       stg     %r14,152(%r15)
           00000000000120ac: c0e500014296       brasl   %r14,3a5d8
           00000000000120b2: a7f40001           brc     15,120b4
          >00000000000120b6: 0707               bcr     0,%r7
           00000000000120b8: eb7ff0500024       stmg    %r7,%r15,80(%r15)
           00000000000120be: c0d000195825       larl    %r13,33d108
           00000000000120c4: a7f13f00           tmll    %r15,16128
           00000000000120c8: a7840001           brc     8,120ca
Call Trace:
([<00000000000120b2>] rest_init+0x32/0x38)
 [<00000000004be614>] start_kernel+0x37c/0x410
 [<0000000000012020>] _ehead+0x20/0x80

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:42 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
03ff9a235a [S390] System call cleanup.
Remove system call glue for sys_clone, sys_fork, sys_vfork, sys_execve,
sys_sigreturn, sys_rt_sigreturn and sys_sigaltstack. Call do_execve from
kernel_execve directly, move pt_regs to the right place and branch to
sysc_return to start the user space program. This removes the last
in-kernel system call.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:42 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
6fc321fd7d [S390] cio/ipl: Clean interface between cio and ipl code.
Clean interface between cio and ipl code, so Peter stops complaining.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:38 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
29c380f5f0 [S390] memory detection: stop at first memory hole.
If both sclp and diag memory detection don't work stop at the first
memory hole. Otherwise the code might loop forever...

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 16:01:12 +02:00
David S. Miller
cb8c181f28 [S390]: Fix build on 31-bit.
Allow s390 to properly override the generic
__div64_32() implementation by:

1) Using obj-y for div64.o in s390's makefile instead
   of lib-y

2) Adding the weak attribute to the generic implementation.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:53 -07:00
Rusty Russell
c45d286e72 [NET]: Inline net_device_stats
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure
then write a get_stats() function to return them.  It would be nice if
this were done by default.

1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device".
2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one"
3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set.
4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if
   ->get_stats is set.

This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet
allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code.

Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:26 -07:00
David Wilder
b70842df77 [S390] kprobes: Align probe address.
Running a probe on s390 with a probe address that is not 4 byte aligned
results in a Kernel BUG.  The problem is that the stura instruction used
by swap_instruction requires the destination address to be 4 byte aligned.
As stura only writes 4 bytes, aligning to the next 4 byte aligned address
results in the breakpoint instruction being stored past the probe address.
The fix is to align the address backward (to the previous 4 byte aligned
address) and writing the two byte breakpoint instruction in the appropriate
bytes.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-26 20:43:46 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
fb1c171992 [S390] Wire up sys_utimes.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-19 13:19:07 +01:00
Michael Holzheu
fbb04f38cf [S390] reboot from and dump to SCSI under z/VM fails.
We used wrong length values for ipl and dump hardware structures.
Since z/VM checks the ipl parameters more accurately than LPAR,
the operations fail there.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-19 13:19:03 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
10c16a37e3 [S390] Wire up compat_sys_epoll_pwait.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-19 13:18:56 +01:00
Jean Delvare
20cb9e79b9 [S390] strlcpy is smart enough
strlcpy already accounts for the trailing zero in its length
computation, so there is no need to substract one to the buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-19 13:18:53 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
257c6e1ce8 [S390] memory detection: fix off by one bug.
diag 260 returns the address of the last addressable byte and not the
size of memory. Since we want the size we have to add 1 to the return
value.
Disable diag 260 for non z/Arch mode since it doesn't work there
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-19 13:18:50 +01:00
Al Viro
bb81e6050f [PATCH] appldata build fix
PGALLOC_DMA is defined only if we have CONFIG_ZONE_DMA

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-14 15:27:48 -07:00
Gerald Schaefer
482b05dd53 [S390] Fixed handling of access register mode faults.
Replaced check_user_space() + __check_access_register with the new
check_space(). The old functions made wrong assumptions about kernel
and user space when the kernel and user address spaces are switched
(kernel in home space, user in primary/secondary space).
Secondly the user process can switch to the accress register mode if
it is running in primary or secondary mode. In addition it can load
an arbitrary value to the access registers. If any other value than
0 for primary space or 1 for secondary space is loaded and memory
is accessed using the base register related to the access register,
the program should be terminated with a SIGSEGV. To achieve that the
DUALD pointer in the DUCT and the PSALD pointer in the PASTE need
to point to an array of 8 invalid access-list entries to get a
ALEN-translation exception if an invalid alet is used.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-05 23:35:54 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
9c9c17613a [S390] nss: disable kexec.
nss and kexec don't work together since kexec wants to write to the
read-only text section of the shared kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-05 23:35:45 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
c5dd858670 [S390] reipl: move dump_prefix_page out of text section.
Reipl doesn't work on older machines were s390_reset_machine() gets
called. The reason is that the text section is read-only but the
variable dump_prefix_page is there. Since s390_reset_machine() writes
to it we get a protection exception.
Therefore move dump_prefix_page to the bss section.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-05 23:35:43 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
25864162c1 [S390] smp: disable preemption in smp_call_function/smp_call_function_on
Avoid sprinkling a _lot_ of preempt_disable/preempt_enable pairs.
This would be necessary for e.g. the iucv driver. Also this way we
are more consistent with other architectures which disable
preemption at least for smp_call_function.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-05 23:35:41 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
f794c8279d [S390] kprobes breaks BUG_ON
The illegal operation handler calls the die notifier with DIE_BPT to
let kprobes pick up its breakpoint. If kprobes does not find its
breakpoint it returns NOTIFY_STOP instead of NOTIFY_DONE.
Since we use stop_machine_run on s390 to arm/disarm the kprobes
breakpoints the race that kprobe_handler tries to solve by checking
for the kprobes breakpoints does not exist. Removing the check makes
BUG_ON working again.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-05 23:35:38 +01:00
Michael Holzheu
4562c9fffc [S390] Replace $(ARCH) macros in Makefile
Since $(ARCH) is always "s390" we can replace it with "s390".

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:46 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
615b04b301 [S390] nss: Free unused memory in kernel image.
With CONFIG_SHARED_KERNEL the kernel text segment that might be in a
read only memory sections starts at 1MB. Memory between 0x12000 and
0x100000 is unused then. Free this, so we have appr. an extra MB
of memory available.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:37 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
229d9c6dfb [S390] bss section clearing.
Clear only memory from __bss_start to __bss_stop when clearing the bss
section. Not until _end, which currently happens to be the same.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:29 +01:00
Michael Holzheu
2b93293675 [S390] Remove BUG() statement
To avoid ugly warings for older gccs, we replace
BUG() with "return NULL", which is just as well.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:24 +01:00
Michael Holzheu
46b05d2617 [S390] New header file ipl.h
Setup.h has been misused for ipl related stuff in the past. We now move
everything, which has to do with ipl and reipl to a new header file named
"ipl.h".

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:21 +01:00
Michael Holzheu
72960a02c2 [S390] New get_cpu_id() inline assembly
Replace two stidp inline assemblies with one global implementation.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:18 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
6c732de2d3 [S390] etr: Add barrier() to etr_sync_cpu_start().
Force reading of *in_sync in while loop. Loops where the content that
is checked for is changed by a different cpu always should have some
sort of barrier() semantics.
Otherwise this might lead to very subtle bugs.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:15 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
118bcd31b3 [S390] Optional ZONE_DMA for s390.
Disable ZONE_DMA on 31-bit. All memory is addressable by all
devices and we do not need any special memory pool.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:12 +01:00
Jan Glauber
63db6e8d41 [S390] smp_call_function cleanup
Introduce __smp_call_function_map which calls a function on all cpus
given with a cpumask_t. Use it to implement smp_call_function and
smp_call_function_on. Replace smp_ext_bitcall_others with smp_ext_bitcall
and a for_each_cpu_mask loop. Use a cpumask_t instead of an atomic_t for
cpu counting and print a warning if preempt is on in
__smp_call_function_map().

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:06 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
bf6f6aa46f [S390] prevent softirqs if delay is called disabled
The new delay implementation uses the clock comparator and an external
interrupt even if it is called disabled for interrupts. To do this
all external interrupt source except clock comparator are switched of
before enabling external interrupts. The external interrupt at the
end of the delay period may not execute softirqs or we can end up in a
dead-lock.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:55:00 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
489c80ba8a [S390] update default configuration
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21 10:54:57 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
cc02d809cc [PATCH] clocksource: fixup is_continous changes on S390
Fixup the is_contionous replacement by a flag field.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:57 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
481f7337a1 [PATCH] sysctl: s390: remove unnecessary use of insert_at_head
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:57 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
feceb63ec5 [PATCH] sysctl: s390: move sysctl definitions to sysctl.h
We need to have the the definition of all top level sysctl directories
registers in sysctl.h so we don't conflict by accident and cause abi problems.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:57 -08:00