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2007-12-23tty: fix logic change introduced by wait_event_interruptible_timeout()Cory T. Tusar
Commit 5a52bd4a2dcb570333ce6fe2e16cd311650dbdc8 introduced a subtle logic change in tty_wait_until_sent(). The original version would only error out of the 'do { ... } while (timeout)' loop if signal_pending() evaluated to true; a timeout or break due to an empty buffer would fall out of the loop and into the tty->driver->wait_until_sent handling. The current implementation will error out on either a pending signal or an empty buffer, falling through to the tty->driver->wait_until_sent handling only on a timeout. The ->wait_until_sent() will not be reached if the buffer empties before timeout jiffies have elapsed. This behavior differs from that prior to commit 5a52bd4a2dcb570333ce6fe2e16cd311650dbdc8. I turned this up while using a little serial download utility to bootstrap an ARM-based eval board. The util worked fine on 2.6.22.x, but consistently failed on 2.6.23.x. Once I'd determined that, I narrowed things down with git bisect, and found the above difference in logic in tty_wait_until_sent() by inspection. This change reverts the logic flow in tty_wait_until_sent() to match that prior to the aforementioned commit. Signed-off-by: Cory T. Tusar <ctusar@videon-central.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected add stable_api_nonsense.txt in korean HOWTO: change addresses of maintainer and lxr url for Korean HOWTO Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files HOWTO: Change man-page maintainer address for Japanese HOWTO tipar: remove obsolete module kobject: fix the documentation of how kobject_set_name works
2007-12-17tipar: remove obsolete moduleRomain Liévin
tipar: remove obsolete module The tipar character driver was used to implement bit-banging access to Texas Instruments parallel link cable. A user-land method now exists thru PPDEV & PARPORT. Signed-off-by: Romain Liévin <roms@lpg.ticalc.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] add Nano 7240 driver [WATCHDOG] ipmi: add the standard watchdog timeout ioctls [WATCHDOG] IT8212F watchdog driver [WATCHDOG] Sbus: cpwatchdog, remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED [WATCHDOG] bfin_wdt, remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED [WATCHDOG] Stop looking for device as soon as one is found [WATCHDOG] at32ap700x_wdt: add support for boot status and add fix for silicon errata
2007-12-06Pull apm-freeze-fix into release branchLen Brown
2007-12-05gpio_cs5535: disable AUX on outputBen Gardner
The AMD CS5535/CS5536 GPIO has two alternate output modes: AUX-1 and AUX-2. When either AUX is enabled, the cs5535_gpio driver cannot control the output. Some BIOS code for the Geode processor enables AUX-1 for GPIO-1, which configures it as the PC BEEP output. This patch will disable AUX-1 and AUX-2 when the user enables output. Signed-of-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29TPM: fix TIS device driver locality requestMarcel Selhorst
During the initialization of the TPM TIS driver, the necessary locality has to be requested earlier in the init-process. Depending on the used TPM chip, this leads to wrong information. For example: Lenovo X61s with Atmel TPM: tpm_tis 00:0a: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0xFFFF, rev-id 255) But correct is: tpm_tis 00:0c: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x3203, rev-id 9) This short patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-28allow LEGACY_PTYS to be set to 0Kay Sievers
The count of legacy pty devices can be set by a kernel commandline parameter. For the distro kernel, we would like to disable all pty's by default, but keep the opportunity to request devices on the kernel commandline. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28[WATCHDOG] ipmi: add the standard watchdog timeout ioctlsCorey Minyard
Add the standard IOCTLs to the IPMI driver for setting and getting the pretimeout. Tested by Benoit Guillon. Signed off by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: Benoit Guillon <guillon@thalescomputers.fr> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-27Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: adds the context menu key (HUT GenDesc 0x84) Input: add definitions for frame forward and frame back keys Input: bf54x-keys - keypad does not exist on BF544 parts Input: gpio-keys - request and configure GPIOs Input: i8042 - add i8042.noloop quirk for MS Virtual Machine Sonypi: use synchronize_irq instead of sycnronize_sched sonypi: fit input devices into sysfs tree sony-laptop: fit input devices into sysfs tree
2007-11-21Sonypi: use synchronize_irq instead of sycnronize_schedDmitry Torokhov
We know exactly what IRQ we are using, so synchronize_irq() suits much better. Plus synchronize_sched() will not work for us in -rt kernels. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
2007-11-21sonypi: fit input devices into sysfs treeDmitry Torokhov
Properly set up parent on input devices registered by sonypi. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
2007-11-20Freezer: Fix APM emulation breakageRafael J. Wysocki
The APM emulation is currently broken as a result of commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 "Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default" that removed the PF_NOFREEZE annotations from apm_ioctl() without adding the appropriate freezer hooks. Fix it and remove the unnecessary variable flags from apm_ioctl(). Special thanks to Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> for pointing out the problem. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET]: rt_check_expire() can take a long time, add a cond_resched() [ISDN] sc: Really, really fix warning [ISDN] sc: Fix sndpkt to have the correct number of arguments [TCP] FRTO: Clear frto_highmark only after process_frto that uses it [NET]: Remove notifier block from chain when register_netdevice_notifier fails [FS_ENET]: Fix module build. [TCP]: Make sure write_queue_from does not begin with NULL ptr [TCP]: Fix size calculation in sk_stream_alloc_pskb [S2IO]: Fixed memory leak when MSI-X vector allocation fails [BONDING]: Fix resource use after free [SYSCTL]: Fix warning for token-ring from sysctl checker [NET] random : secure_tcp_sequence_number should not assume CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR [IWLWIFI]: Not correctly dealing with hotunplug. [TCP] FRTO: Plug potential LOST-bit leak [TCP] FRTO: Limit snd_cwnd if TCP was application limited [E1000]: Fix schedule while atomic when called from mii-tool. [NETX]: Fix build failure added by 2.6.24 statistics cleanup. [EP93xx_ETH]: Build fix after 2.6.24 NAPI changes. [PKT_SCHED]: Check subqueue status before calling hard_start_xmit
2007-11-14rtc: fall back to requesting only the ports we actually useBjorn Helgaas
Firmware like PNPBIOS or ACPI can report the address space consumed by the RTC. The actual space consumed may be less than the size (RTC_IO_EXTENT) assumed by the RTC driver. The PNP core doesn't request resources yet, but I'd like to make it do so. If/when it does, the RTC_IO_EXTENT request may fail, which prevents the RTC driver from loading. Since we only use the RTC index and data registers at RTC_PORT(0) and RTC_PORT(1), we can fall back to requesting just enough space for those. If the PNP core requests resources, this results in typical I/O port usage like this: 0070-0073 : 00:06 <-- PNP device 00:06 responds to 70-73 0070-0071 : rtc <-- RTC driver uses only 70-71 instead of the current: 0070-0077 : rtc <-- RTC_IO_EXTENT == 8 Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.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>
2007-11-14rtc: release correct region in error pathBjorn Helgaas
The misc_register() error path always released an I/O port region, even if the region was memory-mapped (only mips uses memory-mapped RTC, as far as I can see). Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> 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>
2007-11-14cm40x0_cs.c: fix debug macrosPascal Terjan
When PCMCIA_DEBUG is set, cm40x0_cs.c and cm4000_cs.c don't build because the definition of reader_to_dev uses a non-existent handle field of the struct pcmcia_device in the call to handle_to_dev. As handle_to_dev works on struct pcmcia_device, the fix is quite trivial. Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com> Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-13[NET] random : secure_tcp_sequence_number should not assume CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAREric Dumazet
All 32 bits machines but i386 dont have CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR. On these machines, ktime.tv64 is more than 4 times the (correct) result given by ktime_to_ns() Again on these machines, using ktime_get_real().tv64 >> 6 give a 32bits rollover every 64 seconds, which is not wanted (less than the 120 s MSL) Using ktime_to_ns() is the portable way to get nsecs from a ktime, and have correct code. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07[TTY]: Fix network driver interactions with TCGET/SET calls.Alan Cox
Dave Miller noted various cases where line disciplines for things like ppp go poking around in termios themselves in ways that broke with the new termios code. Rather than have them all learning about termios internals provide proper methods for this - tty_mode_ioctl() This handles all the terminal mode handling for speed/carrier etc and none of the methods are ldisc dependant so they can be called by any user - tty_perform_flush() This extracts the flush functionality and enables pppd the ppp layer to share it cleanly. The existing n_tty_ioctl code is refactored in this patch to provide the new functions and to call them itself appropriately. This patch has no (intended) behaviour changes and simply prepares for the other fixes. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-06drm: DRM: fix memset size errorLi Zefan
The size passing to memset is wrong. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-11-06drm: remove remnants of DRM_COPY_FROM/TO_USER_IOCTLDave Airlie
This is a bug in the savage driver since I introduced these changes. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-11-06drm: remove second forward decleration of drm device struct.Dave Airlie
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2007-11-05virtio/virtcons: fix section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap
Make virtcons_probe() __devinit. Fixes this section warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14c10b): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:hvc_alloc (between 'virtcons_probe' and 'ac_register_board') 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>
2007-11-05drm/sis: missing mutex unlock in error path.Roel Kluin
airlied: separated this out from a patch on lkml. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2007-11-05radeon: set the address to access the GART table on the CPU side correctlyDave Airlie
This code relied on the CPU and GPU address for the aperture being the same, On some r5xx hardware I was playing with I noticed that this isn't always true. This fixes issues seen on some r400 cards. (bugs.freedesktop.org 9957) Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-10-30x86 gart: rename CONFIG_IOMMU to CONFIG_GART_IOMMUJoerg Roedel
This patch renames the IOMMU config option to GART_IOMMU because in fact it means the GART and not general support for an IOMMU on x86. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-29x86 merge fallout: umlAl Viro
Don't undef __i386__/__x86_64__ in uml anymore, make sure that (few) places that required adjusting the ifdefs got those. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-23drivers/char/riscom8: clean up irq handlingJeff Garzik
Make irq handling more efficient, by passing board pointer via request_irq() to our irq handler's dev_id argument. This eliminates a table lookup upon each interrupt, and eliminates an associated global variable (the table). Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23char/pcmcia/synclink_cs: trim trailing whitespaceJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23drivers/char/ip2: separate polling and irq-driven work entry pointsJeff Garzik
Polling currently calls the irq handler, which loops through all the boards, calling the work function for all polling boards with work. irq handling loops through all the boards, finding the specific board that applies to us, and calling the work just for that one board. The two logics are sufficiently different to warrant different functions, rather than being slack and calling the same function in two different ways. This serves to make the interrupt handler a -lot- more efficient. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23drivers/char/ip2: split out irq core logic into separate functionJeff Garzik
No changes besides code movement and glue. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23Eliminate pointless casts from void* in a few driver irq handlers.Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23[PARPORT] Remove unused 'irq' argument from parport irq functionsJeff Garzik
None of the drivers with a struct pardevice's ->irq_func() hook ever used the 'irq' argument passed to it, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguestLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (45 commits) Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher Loading bzImage directly. Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S Update lguest documentation to reflect the new virtual block device name. generalize lgread_u32/lgwrite_u32. Example launcher handle guests not being ready for input Update example launcher for virtio Lguest support for Virtio Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure. Remove old lguest bus and drivers. Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation Module autoprobing support for virtio drivers. Virtio console driver Block driver using virtio. Net driver using virtio Virtio interface Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux. Allow guest to specify syscall vector to use. Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming. Pagetables to use normal kernel types ...
2007-10-23Char: cyclades, fix potential NULL dereferenceJiri Slaby
ztxdone is jumped to even if tty is NULL and tty_wakeup placed after this label doesn't expect NULLed parameter, so this will cause an oops in some situations (why they scheduled a wakeup there before remove bottom half processing patch?). wakeup only in the case when we have non-null tty struct. Spotted by Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-23Remove old lguest bus and drivers.Rusty Russell
This gets rid of the lguest bus, drivers and DMA mechanism, to make way for a generic virtio mechanism. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Virtio console driverRusty Russell
This is an hvc-based virtio console driver. It's suboptimal becuase hvc expects to have raw access to interrupts and virtio doesn't assume that, so it currently polls. There are two solutions: expose hvc's "kick" interface, or wean off hvc. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-20Documentation: Remove references to dead "cyclades=" boot optionRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanupsJan Engelhardt
* Convert files to UTF-8. * Also correct some people's names (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file. Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss', which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to 7bit.) * Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen) * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".Robert P. J. Day
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and "[un]necessary". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19Use helpers to obtain task pid in printksPavel Emelyanov
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in the kernel. The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19get rid of input BIT* duplicate definesJiri Slaby
get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting). BIT macro will be globally defined (1<<x) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: <perex@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: <vernux@us.ibm.com> Cc: <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19remove asm/bitops.h includesJiri Slaby
remove asm/bitops.h includes including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header directly. Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> 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>
2007-10-19pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to userPavel Emelyanov
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids. The idea is: - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call; - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids; - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this task's namespace the global one is to be used; - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()Serge E. Hallyn
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into is_global_init() and is_container_init(). A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1. A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace, compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes. Changelog: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1: - Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance and remove dependence on the task_pid(). 2.6.21-mm2-pidns2: - [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc, ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init(). This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a bug rather than force a kernel panic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19pid namespaces: round up the APIPavel Emelianov
The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking at the code for a long time. The proposals are to * equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to represent that fact, * and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making the common prefix of the same name. For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Console events and accessibilitySamuel Thibault
Some external modules like Speakup need to monitor console output. This adds a VT notifier that such modules can use to get console output events: allocation, deallocation, writes, other updates (cursor position, switch, etc.) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix headers_check] Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Console keyboard events and accessibilitySamuel Thibault
Some blind people use a kernel engine called Speakup which uses hardware synthesis to speak what gets displayed on the screen. They use the PC keyboard to control this engine (start/stop, accelerate, ...) and also need to get keyboard feedback (to make sure to know what they are typing, the caps lock status, etc.) Up to now, the way it was done was very ugly. Below is a patch to add a notifier list for permitting a far better implementation, see ChangeLog above for details. You may wonder why this can't be done at the input layer. The problem is that what people want to monitor is the console keyboard, i.e. all input keyboards that got attached to the console, and with the currently active keymap (i.e. keysyms, not only keycodes). This adds a keyboard notifier that such modules can use to get the keyboard events and possibly eat them, at several stages: - keycodes: even before translation into keysym. - unbound keycodes: when no keysym is bound. - unicode: when the keycode would get translated into a unicode character. - keysym: when the keycode would get translated into a keysym. - post_keysym: after the keysym got interpreted, so as to see the result (caps lock, etc.) This also provides access to k_handler so as to permit simulation of keypresses. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: mv watchdog tree under drivers
2007-10-18IPMI: add 0.9 supportCorey Minyard
Add support for IPMI 0.9 systems to the IPMI driver. Just handle a shorter get device ID command with less information. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: Stian Jordet <liste@jordet.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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