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Robert P. J. Day
842f968f3f [PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence()
Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete
smp_commence() call.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 11:18:05 -08:00
Nick Piggin
72ed3d0358 [PATCH] buffer: memorder fix
unlock_buffer(), like unlock_page(), must not clear the lock without
ensuring that the critical section is closed.

Mingming later sent the same patch, saying:

  We are running SDET benchmark and saw double free issue for ext3 extended
  attributes block, which complains the same xattr block already being freed (in
  ext3_xattr_release_block()).  The problem could also been triggered by
  multiple threads loop untar/rm a kernel tree.

  The race is caused by missing a memory barrier at unlock_buffer() before the
  lock bit being cleared, resulting in possible concurrent h_refcounter update.
  That causes a reference counter leak, then later leads to the double free that
  we have seen.

  Inside unlock_buffer(), there is a memory barrier is placed *after* the lock
  bit is being cleared, however, there is no memory barrier *before* the bit is
  cleared.  On some arch the h_refcount update instruction and the clear bit
  instruction could be reordered, thus leave the critical section re-entered.

  The race is like this: For example, if the h_refcount is initialized as 1,

  cpu 0:                                   cpu1
  --------------------------------------   -----------------------------------
  lock_buffer() /* test_and_set_bit */
  clear_buffer_locked(bh);
                                          lock_buffer() /* test_and_set_bit */
  h_refcount = h_refcount+1; /* = 2*/     h_refcount = h_refcount + 1; /*= 2 */
                                          clear_buffer_locked(bh);
  ....                                    ......

  We lost a h_refcount here. We need a memory barrier before the buffer head lock
  bit being cleared to force the order of the two writes.  Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 11:15:24 -08:00
Rob Landley
c742b53114 [PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt
Documentation for lib/rbtree.c.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:35 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
82ddcb0405 [PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros
Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical
(and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files.

based on a page at robert love's blog:

	http://rlove.org/log/2005102601

extend the set of shortcut macros defined in compiler-gcc.h with the
following:

#define __packed                       __attribute__((packed))
#define __weak                         __attribute__((weak))
#define __naked                        __attribute__((naked))
#define __noreturn                     __attribute__((noreturn))
#define __pure                         __attribute__((pure))
#define __aligned(x)                   __attribute__((aligned(x)))
#define __printf(a,b)                  __attribute__((format(printf,a,b)))

Once these are in place, it's up to subsystem maintainers to decide if they
want to take advantage of them.  there is already a strong precedent for
using shortcuts like this in the source tree.

The ones that might give people pause are "__aligned" and "__printf", but
shortcuts for both of those are already in use, and in some ways very
confusingly.  note the two very different definitions for a macro named
"ALIGNED":

  drivers/net/sgiseeq.c:#define ALIGNED(x) ((((unsigned long)(x)) + 0xf) & ~(0xf))
  drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c:#define ALIGNED(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))

also:

  include/acpi/platform/acgcc.h:
    #define ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE(c) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, c, c+1)))

Given the precedent, then, it seems logical to at least standardize on a
consistent set of these macros.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:35 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev
e3e8a75d2a [PATCH] Extract and use wake_up_klogd()
Remove hack with printing space to wake up klogd.  Use explicit
wake_up_klogd().

See earlier discussion
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/75f496668409f58d/1a8f28983a51e1ff?lnk=st&q=wake_up_klogd+group%3Afa.linux.kernel&rnum=2#1a8f28983a51e1ff

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev
cefc8be824 [PATCH] Consolidate bust_spinlocks()
Part of long forgotten patch
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/e98e941ce1cf29f6?dmode=source
Since then, m32r grabbed two copies.

Leave s390 copy because of important absence of CONFIG_VT, but remove
references to non-existent timerlist_lock.  ia64 also loses timerlist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
c530cba649 [PATCH] Remove the last reference to rwlock_is_locked() macro.
Remove the lone, remaining reference to the long-deceased
rwlock_is_locked() macro.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
731b9a5498 [PATCH] remove ext[34]_inc_count and _dec_count
- Naming is confusing, ext3_inc_count manipulates i_nlink not i_count
- handle argument passed in is not used
- ext3 and ext4 already call inc_nlink and dec_nlink directly in other places

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
2988a7740d [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
Return -ENOENT from ext[34]_link if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is
0.  Doing otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list,
because we'd wind up with an inode with a non-zero link count on the list,
and it will never get properly cleaned up & removed from the orphan list
before it is freed.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
967bb77c69 [PATCH] seq_file conversion: toshiba.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
2e7842b887 [PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs
Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or
ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by a
kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating
inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666,
and mkdir creates directories as 0777.

This appears to have worked right until 2.6.11, when a fix to the default
mode on symlinks (always 0777) assumed VFS applies umask: which it does,
unless the mount is marked for ACLs; but ext[234] set MS_POSIXACL in
s_flags according to s_mount_opt set according to def_mount_opts.

We could revert to the 2.6.10 ext[234]_init_acl (adding an S_ISLNK test);
but other filesystems only set MS_POSIXACL when ACLs are configured.  We
could fix this at another level; but it seems most robust to avoid setting
the s_mount_opt flag in the first place (at the expense of more ifdefs).

Likewise don't set the XATTR_USER flag when built without XATTR support.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
9bbf81e483 [PATCH] seq_file conversion: coda
Compile-tested.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
85cc9b1144 [PATCH] sn2: use static ->proc_fops
fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries.patch doesn't want dynamically
allocated ->proc_fops, because it will set it to NULL at module unload time.

Regardless of module status, switch to statically allocated ->proc_fops which
leads to simpler code without wrappers.

AFAICS, also fix the following bug: "sn_force_interrupt" proc entry set
->write for itself, but was created with 0444 permissions. Change to 0644.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Jeff Moyer
38584c14bb [PATCH] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0
Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device
file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings.  However,
the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying a raw device
with minor number 0:

$ sudo ./raw /dev/raw/raw0 /dev/VolGroup00/swap
/dev/raw/raw0:  bound to major 253, minor 2
$ ls -l /dev/rawctl
ls: /dev/rawctl: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /dev/raw/raw0
crw------- 1 root root 162, 0 Jan 12 10:51 /dev/raw/raw0
$ sudo ./raw -qa
Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory)

As you can see, this prevents any further raw operations from
succeeding.  The fix (from Steve Fernandez) is quite simple--do not
allow the allocation of minor number 0.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Fernandez <sfernand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
11f57cedcf [PATCH] audit: fix audit_filter_user_rules() initialization bug
gcc emits this warning:

 kernel/auditfilter.c: In function 'audit_filter_user':
 kernel/auditfilter.c:1611: warning: 'state' is used uninitialized in this function

I tend to agree with gcc - there are a couple of plausible exit paths from
audit_filter_user_rules() where it does not set 'state', keeping the
variable uninitialized.  For example if a filter rule has an AUDIT_POSSIBLE
action.  Initialize to 'wont audit'.  Fix whitespace damage too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
ead6596b9e [PATCH] ext4: refuse ro to rw remount of fs with orphan inodes
In the rare case where we have skipped orphan inode processing due to a
readonly block device, and the block device subsequently changes back to
read-write, disallow a remount,rw transition of the filesystem when we have an
unprocessed orphan inodes as this would corrupt the list.

Ideally we should process the orphan inode list during the remount, but that's
trickier, and this plugs the hole for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
ea9a05a133 [PATCH] ext3: refuse ro to rw remount of fs with orphan inodes
In the rare case where we have skipped orphan inode processing due to a
readonly block device, and the block device subsequently changes back to
read-write, disallow a remount,rw transition of the filesystem when we have an
unprocessed orphan inodes as this would corrupt the list.

Ideally we should process the orphan inode list during the remount, but that's
trickier, and this plugs the hole for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
bfb58478fe [PATCH] cleanup linux/byteorder/swabb.h
- no longer a userspace header
- add #include <linux/types.h> for in-kernel compilation

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
Matthias Fuchs
a9cccd3437 [PATCH] serial: support for new board
Add support for the CPCI-ASIO4 quad port CompactPCI UART board from
electronic system design gmbh.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:33 -08:00
Thomas Hoehn
482120084d [PATCH] Perle multimodem card (PCI-RAS) detection
Get the Perle quad-modem PCI card (PCI-RAS4) detected by serial driver.  It
may also get the PCI-RAS8 running, but can't guarantee as I didn't had one for
testing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hoehn <thomas.hoehn@avocent.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
2007-02-11 10:51:33 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
a21217daae [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix some odd spacing issues
- in man and text mode output, if the function return type is empty (like it
  is for macros), don't print the return type and a following space; this
  fixes an output malalignment;

- in the function short description, strip leading, trailing, and multiple
  embedded spaces (to one space); this makes function name/description output
  spacing consistent;

- fix a comment typo;

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
6e8c818829 [PATCH] docbook: add edd firmware interfaces
Cleanup kernel-doc notation in drivers/firmware/edd.c.

Add edd.c to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
David Brownell
7be2c7c96a [PATCH] RTC framework driver for CMOS RTCs
This is an "RTC framework" driver for the "CMOS" RTCs which are standard on
PCs and some other platforms.  That's MC146818 compatible silicon.
Advantages of this vs.  drivers/char/rtc.c (use one _or_ the other, only
one will be able to claim the RTC irq) include:

 - This leverages both the new RTC framework and the driver model; both
   PNPACPI and platform device modes are supported.  (A separate patch
   creates a platform device on PCs where PNPACPI isn't configured.)

 - It supports common extensions like longer alarms.  (A separate patch
   exports that information from ACPI through platform_data.)

 - Likewise, system wakeup events use "real driver model support", with
   policy control via sysfs "wakeup" attributes and and using normal rtc
   ioctls to manage wakeup.  (Patch in the works.  The ACPI hooks are
   known; /proc/acpi/alarm can vanish.  Making it work with EFI will
   be a minor challenge to someone with e.g. a MiniMac.)

It's not yet been tested on non-x86 systems, without ACPI, or with HPET.
And the RTC framework will surely have teething pains on "mainstream"
PC-based systems (though must embedded Linux systems use it heavily), not
limited to sorting out the "/dev/rtc0" issue (udev easily tweaked).  Also,
the ALSA rtctimer code doesn't use the new RTC API.

Otherwise, this should be a no-known-regressions replacement for the old
drivers/char/rtc.c driver, and should help the non-embedded distros (and
the new timekeeping code) start to switch to the framework.

Note also that any systems using "rtc-m48t86" are candidates to switch over
to this more functional driver; the platform data is different, and the way
bytes are read is different, but otherwise those chips should be compatible.

[akpm@osdl.org: sparc32 fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
f1f8810cf4 [PATCH] local_t: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Kyle McMartin
d4d23add3a [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo
I noticed that almost all architectures implemented exactly the same
sys32_sysinfo...  except parisc, where a bug was to be found in handling of
the uptime.  So let's remove a whole whack of code for fun and profit.
Cribbed compat_sys_sysinfo from x86_64's implementation, since I figured it
would be the best tested.

This patch incorporates Arnd's suggestion of not using set_fs/get_fs, but
instead extracting out the common code from sys_sysinfo.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
72fd4a35a8 [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:

  * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
  * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
  * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
  * reword some text for clarity

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
262086cf5b [PATCH] Discuss a couple common errors in kernel-doc usage.
Explain a couple of the most common errors in kernel-doc usage.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Alan Cox
78137e3b34 [PATCH] tty: improve encode_baud_rate logic
Mostly so people can see the work in progress.  This enhances the encode
function which isn't currently used in the base tree but is when using some of
the testing tty patches.

This resolves a problem with some hardware where applications got confusing
information from the tty ioctls.  Correct but confusing.

In some situations asking for, say, 9600 baud actually gets you 9595 baud or
similar near-miss values.  With the old code this meant that a request for
B9600 got a return of BOTHER, 9595 which programs interpreted as a failure.

The new code now works on the following basis

- If you ask for specific rate via BOTHER, you get a precise return

- If you ask for a standard Bfoo rate and the result is close you get a Bfoo
  return

- If you ask for a standard Bfoo rate and get something way off you get a
  BOTHER/rate return

This seems to fix up the cases I've found where this broke compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
996a07bcb6 [PATCH] kernel-doc: allow more whitespace
Allow whitespace in pointer-to-function
	[accept "(* done)", not just "(*done)"].

Allow tabs (spaces are already allowed) between "#define" and a macro name.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
78831ba682 [PATCH] sysrq: alphabetize command keys doc
Alphabetize the sysrq command keys list.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b653d081c1 [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
891dcd2f7a [PATCH] kernel-doc: allow a little whitespace
In kernel-doc syntax, be a little flexible:  allow whitespace between
a function parameter name and the colon that must follow it, such as:
	@pdev : PCI device to unplug

(This allows lots of megaraid kernel-doc to work without tons of
editing.)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
3de3af130b [PATCH] Remove unnecessary memset(0) calls after kzalloc() calls.
Delete the few remaining unnecessary calls to memset(0) after a call to
kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Andrew Morton
100bb9349e [PATCH] proc_misc warning fix
fs/proc/proc_misc.c: In function 'proc_misc_init':
fs/proc/proc_misc.c:764: warning: unused variable 'entry'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Andrew Morton
cb799b8988 [PATCH] sysctl warning fix
kernel/sysctl.c:2816: warning: 'sysctl_ipc_data' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
5aab0ad5ed [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 3rd round
Schedule obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same
hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/305

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-By: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Rolf Eike Beer
77adbfbf4c [PATCH] Add const for time{spec,val}_compare arguments
The arguments are really const.  Mark them const to allow these functions
being called from places where the arguments are const without getting
useless compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Olaf Hering
a470e18f53 [PATCH] msdos partitions: fix logic error in AIX detection
Correct the AIX magic check to let 'echo > /dev/sdb' actually work.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Olaf Hering
4419d1ac7d [PATCH] relax check for AIX in msdos partition table
The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one
machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117

The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes
of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it,
then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC.

The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix
is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4
bytes.

The whole partition info for primary partitions is in this block:

  dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be ))

All other data do not matter, beside the 0x55aa marker at the end of the
first block.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
aa58d61d18 [PATCH] Get rid of "double zeroing" of allocated pages
Simplify the few instances where a call to "get_zeroed_page()" is closely
followed by an unnecessary call to memset() to clear that page.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Corey Minyard
78ba2faf71 [PATCH] IPMI: Fix some RCU problems
Fix some RCU problem pointed out by Paul McKenney of IBM.  These are:

The wholesale move of the command receivers list into a new list was not
safe because the list will point to the new tail during a traversal, so the
traversal will never end on a reader if this happens during a read.

Memory barriers were needed to handle proper ordering of the setting of the
IPMI interface as valid.  Readers might not see proper ordering of data
otherwise.

In ipmi_smi_watcher_register(), the use of the _rcu suffix on the list is
unnecessary.

This require the list_splice_init_rcu() patch previously posted.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Corey Minyard
3678d62f02 [PATCH] add an RCU version of list splicing
This patch is in support of the IPMI driver.  I have tested this with the
IPMI driver changes coming in the next patch.

Add a list_splice_init_rcu() function to splice an RCU-protected list into
another list.  This takes the sync function as an argument, so one would do
something like:

	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
	list_splice_init_rcu(&source, &dest, synchronize_rcu);

The idea being to keep the RCU API proliferation down to a dull roar.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Tilman Schmidt
16cf5b39b8 [PATCH] fix sparse warnings from {asm,net}/checksum.h
Rename the variable "sum" in the __range_ok macros to avoid name collisions
causing lots of "symbol shadows an earlier one" warnings by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Helge Deller
3db5db4fcd [PATCH] use cycle_t instead of u64 in struct time_interpolator
The 32bit and 64bit PARISC Linux kernels suffers from the problem, that the
gettimeofday() call sometimes returns non-monotonic times.

The easiest way to fix this, is to drop the PARISC-specific implementation
and switch over to the generic TIME_INTERPOLATION framework.

But in order to make it even compile on 32bit PARISC, the patch below which
touches the generic Linux code, is mandatory.

More information and the full patch with the parisc-specific changes is included in this thread: http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2006-December/031003.html

As far as I could see, this patch does not change anything for the existing
architectures which use this framework (IA64 and SPARC64), since "cycles_t"
is defined there as unsigned 64bit-integer anyway (which then makes this
patch a no-change for them).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Andrew Morton
fc0ecff698 [PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()
Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to
invalidate_mapping_pages().

Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Anton Altaparmakov
54bc485522 [PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules
It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not
invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages()
because of its range specification ability...

akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an
inlined wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:30 -08:00
Pavel Pisa
5449bc9415 [PATCH] DocBook/HTML: correction of recursive A tags in HTML output
The malformed HTML was generated after switch to XSLTPROC
from SGML tools. The reference title

  <refentrytitle><phrase id="API-struct-x">struct x</phrase></refentrytitle>

is converted into two recursive <a> tags

  <a href="re02.html"><span><a id="API-struct-x"></a>struct x</span></a>

There is more possible solutions for this problem.
One can be found at

  http://darkk.livejournal.com/

The proposed solution is based on suggestion provided by Jiri Kosek.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:30 -08:00
Pavel Pisa
460e79c30b [PATCH] DocBook/HTML: Generate chapter/section level TOCs for functions
Simple increase of section TOC level generation significantly enhances
navigation experience through generated kernel API documentation.

This change restores back state from SGML tools time.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:30 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
a784bf7c19 [PATCH] Char: moxa, pci probing
Alter the driver to use the pci probing.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:30 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
9cde5bf027 [PATCH] Char: moxa, pci_probing prepare
- change pci conf prototype and rename it to moxa_pci_probe
- move some code to moxa_pci_probe
- create moxa_pci_remove

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:30 -08:00