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* [PATCH] Remove unused kernel config option ZISOFS_FSRobert P. J. Day2007-02-111-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | Remove the kernel config option ZISOFS_FS, since it appears that the actual option is simply ZISOFS. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Remove references to obsolete kernel config option DEBUG_RWSEMSRobert P. J. Day2007-02-111-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove the few references to the obsolete kernel config option DEBUG_RWSEMS. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Remove dead kernel config option AEDSP16_MPU401.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-111-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | Remove the dead kernel config option AEDSP16_MPU401. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <mindspring.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Replace regular code with appropriate calls to container_of()Robert P. J. Day2007-02-115-10/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace a small number of expressions with a call to the "container_of()" macro. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] cleanup include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.hAdrian Bunk2007-02-111-5/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | - #ifdef guard this header for multiple inclusion - adjust the #include's to what is actually required by this header - remove an unneeded #ifdef - #endif comments 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>
* [PATCH] cleanup include/linux/xattr.hAdrian Bunk2007-02-112-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | - reduce the userspace visible part - fix the 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>
* [PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence()Robert P. J. Day2007-02-111-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] buffer: memorder fixNick Piggin2007-02-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txtRob Landley2007-02-111-0/+192
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macrosRobert P. J. Day2007-02-114-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Extract and use wake_up_klogd()Kirill Korotaev2007-02-113-11/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Consolidate bust_spinlocks()Kirill Korotaev2007-02-118-135/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Remove the last reference to rwlock_is_locked() macro.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-111-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] remove ext[34]_inc_count and _dec_countEric Sandeen2007-02-112-36/+6
| | | | | | | | | | - 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>
* [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlinkEric Sandeen2007-02-112-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] seq_file conversion: toshiba.cAlexey Dobriyan2007-02-111-10/+25
| | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLsHugh Dickins2007-02-113-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] seq_file conversion: codaAlexey Dobriyan2007-02-111-37/+39
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] sn2: use static ->proc_fopsAlexey Dobriyan2007-02-111-43/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0Jeff Moyer2007-02-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] audit: fix audit_filter_user_rules() initialization bugIngo Molnar2007-02-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] ext4: refuse ro to rw remount of fs with orphan inodesEric Sandeen2007-02-111-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] ext3: refuse ro to rw remount of fs with orphan inodesEric Sandeen2007-02-111-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] cleanup linux/byteorder/swabb.hAdrian Bunk2007-02-112-10/+4
| | | | | | | | | - 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>
* [PATCH] serial: support for new boardMatthias Fuchs2007-02-112-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Perle multimodem card (PCI-RAS) detectionThomas Hoehn2007-02-113-2/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix some odd spacing issuesRandy Dunlap2007-02-111-4/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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>
* [PATCH] docbook: add edd firmware interfacesRandy Dunlap2007-02-112-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC framework driver for CMOS RTCsDavid Brownell2007-02-114-1/+760
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] local_t: DocumentationMathieu Desnoyers2007-02-111-0/+163
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfoKyle McMartin2007-02-1118-453/+112
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-1133-116/+105
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Discuss a couple common errors in kernel-doc usage.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-111-4/+33
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] tty: improve encode_baud_rate logicAlan Cox2007-02-111-15/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] kernel-doc: allow more whitespaceRandy Dunlap2007-02-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] sysrq: alphabetize command keys docRandy Dunlap2007-02-111-22/+22
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settingsAlexey Dobriyan2007-02-1115-25/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] kernel-doc: allow a little whitespaceRandy Dunlap2007-02-112-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Remove unnecessary memset(0) calls after kzalloc() calls.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-113-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] proc_misc warning fixAndrew Morton2007-02-111-7/+12
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] sysctl warning fixAndrew Morton2007-02-111-0/+2
| | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 3rd roundAdrian Bunk2007-02-113-2/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Add const for time{spec,val}_compare argumentsRolf Eike Beer2007-02-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] msdos partitions: fix logic error in AIX detectionOlaf Hering2007-02-111-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] relax check for AIX in msdos partition tableOlaf Hering2007-02-112-1/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Get rid of "double zeroing" of allocated pagesRobert P. J. Day2007-02-113-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] IPMI: Fix some RCU problemsCorey Minyard2007-02-111-7/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] add an RCU version of list splicingCorey Minyard2007-02-111-0/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] fix sparse warnings from {asm,net}/checksum.hTilman Schmidt2007-02-115-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] use cycle_t instead of u64 in struct time_interpolatorHelge Deller2007-02-112-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
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