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2006-06-25[PATCH] IDE CD end-of media error fixAlan Cox
This is a patch from Alan that fixes a real ide-cd.c regression causing bogus "Media Check" failures for perfectly valid Fedora install ISOs, on certain CD-ROM drives. This is a forward port to 2.6.16 (from RHEL) of the minimal changes for the end of media problem. It may not be sufficient for some controllers (promise notably) and it does not touch the locking so the error path locking is as horked as in mainstream. From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> I have ported the patch to 2.6.17-rc4 and tested it by provoking end-of-media IO errors with an unaligned ISO image. Unlike the vanilla kernel, the patched kernel interpreted the error condition correctly with 512 byte granularity: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown ATAPI device hdc: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00) The failed "Read 10" packet command was: "28 00 00 04 fb 78 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1306080 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 163260 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 163261 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 163262 the unpatched kernel produces an incorrect error dump: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1306080 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 163260 hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1306088 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 163261 hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1306096 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 163262 I do not have the right type of CD-ROM drive to reproduce the end-of-media data corruption bug myself, but this same patch in RHEL solved it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] list.h doc: change "counter" to "cursor"Randy Dunlap
Use loop "cursor" instead of loop "counter" for list iterator descriptions. They are not counters, they are pointers or positions. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] fix list.h kernel-docRandy Dunlap
kernel-doc: Put all short function descriptions on one line or if they are too long, omit the short description & add a Description: section for them. Change some list iterator descriptions to use "current" point instead of "existing" point. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] kernel/sys.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- proper prototypes for the following functions: - ctrl_alt_del() (in include/linux/reboot.h) - getrusage() (in include/linux/resource.h) - make the following needlessly global functions static: - kernel_restart_prepare() - kernel_kexec() [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Make printk work for really early debuggingMichael Ellerman
Currently printk is no use for early debugging because it refuses to actually print anything to the console unless cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) is true. The stated explanation is that console drivers may require per-cpu resources, or otherwise barf, because the system is not yet setup correctly. Fair enough. However some console drivers might be quite happy running early during boot, in fact we have one, and so it'd be nice if printk understood that. So I added a flag (which I would have called CON_BOOT, but that's taken) called CON_ANYTIME, which indicates that a console is happy to be called anytime, even if the cpu is not yet online. Tested on a Power 5 machine, with both a CON_ANYTIME driver and a bogus console driver that BUG()s if called while offline. No problems AFAICT. Built for i386 UP & SMP. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] fs/ufs/inode.c: make 2 functions staticAdrian Bunk
Make two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: make fsck -f happyEvgeniy Dushistov
ufs super block contains some statistic about file systems, like amount of directories, free blocks, inodes and so on. UFS1 hold this information in one location and uses 32bit integers for such information, UFS2 hold statistic in another location and uses 64bit integers. There is transition variant, if UFS1 has type 44BSD and flags field in super block has some special value this mean that we work with statistic like UFS2 does. and this also means that nobody care about old(UFS1) statistic. So if start fsck against such file system, after usage linux ufs driver, it found error: at now only UFS1 like statistic is updated. This patch should fix this. Also it contains some minor cleanup: CodingSytle and remove unused variables. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: one way to access super blockEvgeniy Dushistov
Super block of UFS usually has size >512, because of fragment size may be 512, this cause some problems. Currently, there are two methods to work with ufs super block: 1) split structure which describes ufs super blocks into structures with size <=512 2) use one structure which describes ufs super block, and hope that array of "buffer_head" which holds "super block", has such construction: bh[n]->b_data + bh[n]->b_size == bh[n + 1]->b_data The second variant may cause some problems in the future, and usage of two variants cause unnecessary code duplication. This patch remove the second variant. Also patch contains some CodingStyle fixes. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: little directory lookup optimizationEvgeniy Dushistov
This patch make little optimization of ufs_find_entry like "ext2" does. Save number of page and reuse it again in the next call. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: easy debugEvgeniy Dushistov
Currently to turn on debug mode "user" has to edit ~10 files, to turn off he has to do it again. This patch introduce such changes: 1)turn on(off) debug messages via ".config" 2)remove unnecessary duplication of code 3)make "UFSD" macros more similar to function 4)fix some compiler warnings Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: wrong type castEvgeniy Dushistov
There are two ugly macros in ufs code: #define UCPI_UBH ((struct ufs_buffer_head *)ucpi) #define USPI_UBH ((struct ufs_buffer_head *)uspi) when uspi looks like struct { struct ufs_buffer_head ; } and USPI_UBH has some sence, ucpi looks like struct { struct not_ufs_buffer_head; } To prevent bugs in future, this patch convert macros to inline function and fix "ucpi" structure. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: directory and page cache: from blocks to pagesEvgeniy Dushistov
Change function in fs/ufs/dir.c and fs/ufs/namei.c to work with pages instead of straight work with blocks. It fixed such bugs: * for i in `seq 1 1000`; do touch $i; done - crash system * mkdir create directory without "." and ".." entries Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ufs: change block number on the flyEvgeniy Dushistov
First of all some necessary notes about UFS by it self: To avoid waste of disk space the tail of file consists not from blocks (which is ordinary big enough, 16K usually), it consists from fragments(which is ordinary 2K). When file is growing its tail occupy 1 fragment, 2 fragments... At some stage decision to allocate whole block is made and all fragments are moved to one block. How this situation was handled before: ufs_prepare_write ->block_prepare_write ->ufs_getfrag_block ->... ->ufs_new_fragments: bh = sb_bread bh->b_blocknr = result + i; mark_buffer_dirty (bh); This is wrong solution, because: - it didn't take into consideration that there is another cache: "inode page cache" - because of sb_getblk uses not b_blocknr, (it uses page->index) to find certain block, this breaks sb_getblk. How this situation is handled now: we go though all "page inode cache", if there are no such page in cache we load it into cache, and change b_blocknr. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Rewritten backlight infrastructure for portable Apple computersMichael Hanselmann
This patch contains a total rewrite of the backlight infrastructure for portable Apple computers. Backward compatibility is retained. A sysfs interface allows userland to control the brightness with more steps than before. Userland is allowed to upload a brightness curve for different monitors, similar to Mac OS X. [akpm@osdl.org: add needed exports] Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] page migration: Support a vma migration functionChristoph Lameter
Hooks for calling vma specific migration functions With this patch a vma may define a vma->vm_ops->migrate function. That function may perform page migration on its own (some vmas may not contain page structs and therefore cannot be handled by regular page migration. Pages in a vma may require special preparatory treatment before migration is possible etc) . Only mmap_sem is held when the migration function is called. The migrate() function gets passed two sets of nodemasks describing the source and the target of the migration. The flags parameter either contains MPOL_MF_MOVE which means that only pages used exclusively by the specified mm should be moved or MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL which means that pages shared with other processes should also be moved. The migration function returns 0 on success or an error condition. An error condition will prevent regular page migration from occurring. On its own this patch cannot be included since there are no users for this functionality. But it seems that the uncached allocator will need this functionality at some point. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] mm: remove VM_LOCKED before remap_pfn_range and drop VM_SHMChristoph Lameter
Remove VM_LOCKED before remap_pfn range from device drivers and get rid of VM_SHM. remap_pfn_range() already sets VM_IO. There is no need to set VM_SHM since it does nothing. VM_LOCKED is of no use since the remap_pfn_range does not place pages on the LRU. The pages are therefore never subject to swap anyways. Remove all the vm_flags settings before calling remap_pfn_range. After removing all the vm_flag settings no use of VM_SHM is left. Drop it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] remove for_each_cpu()Andrew Morton
Convert a few stragglers over to for_each_possible_cpu(), remove for_each_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-24Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (25 commits) [ARM] 3648/1: Update struct ucontext layout for coprocessor registers [ARM] Add identifying number for non-rt sigframe [ARM] Gather common sigframe saving code into setup_sigframe() [ARM] Gather common sigframe restoration code into restore_sigframe() [ARM] Re-use sigframe within rt_sigframe [ARM] Merge sigcontext and sigmask members of sigframe [ARM] Replace extramask with a full copy of the sigmask [ARM] Remove rt_sigframe puc and pinfo pointers [ARM] 3647/1: S3C24XX: add Osiris to the list of simtec pm machines [ARM] 3645/1: S3C2412: irq support for external interrupts [ARM] 3643/1: S3C2410: Add new usb clocks [ARM] 3642/1: S3C24XX: Add machine SMDK2413 [ARM] 3641/1: S3C2412: Fixup gpio register naming [ARM] 3640/1: S3C2412: Use S3C24XX_DCLKCON instead of S3C2410_DCLKCON [ARM] 3639/1: S3C2412: serial port support [ARM] 3638/1: S3C2412: core clocks [ARM] 3637/1: S3C24XX: Add mpll clock, and set as fclk parent [ARM] 3636/1: S3C2412: Add selection of CPU_ARM926 [ARM] 3635/1: S3C24XX: Add S3C2412 core cpu support [ARM] 3633/1: S3C24XX: s3c2410 gpio bugfix - wrong pin nos ...
2006-06-24Add some basic resume trace facilitiesLinus Torvalds
Considering that there isn't a lot of hw we can depend on during resume, this is about as good as it gets. This is x86-only for now, although the basic concept (and most of the code) will certainly work on almost any platform. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-24[ARM] 3639/1: S3C2412: serial port supportBen Dooks
Patch from Ben Dooks Serial port support for the on-board UART blocks on the Samsung S3C2412 and S3C2413 UARTs. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-23Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (258 commits) [libata] conversion to new debug scheme, part 1 of $N [PATCH] libata: Add ata_scsi_dev_disabled [libata] Add host lock to struct ata_port [PATCH] libata: implement per-dev EH action mask eh_info->dev_action[] [PATCH] libata-dev: move the CDB-intr DMA blacklisting [PATCH] ahci: disable NCQ support on vt8251 [libata] ahci: add JMicron PCI IDs [libata] sata_nv: add PCI IDs [libata] ahci: Add NVIDIA PCI IDs. [PATCH] libata: convert several bmdma-style controllers to new EH, take #3 [PATCH] sata_via: convert to new EH, take #3 [libata] sata_nv: s/spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock/ in irq handler [PATCH] sata_nv: add hotplug support [PATCH] sata_nv: convert to new EH [PATCH] sata_nv: better irq handlers [PATCH] sata_nv: simplify constants [PATCH] sata_nv: kill struct nv_host_desc and nv_host [PATCH] sata_nv: kill not-working hotplug code [libata] Update docs to reflect current driver API [PATCH] libata: add host_set->next for legacy two host_sets case, take #3 ...
2006-06-23Auto-update from upstreamTony Luck
2006-06-23[PATCH] rbtree: support functions used by the io schedulersJens Axboe
They all duplicate macros to check for empty root and/or node, and clearing a node. So put those in rbtree.h. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Rearrange a few struct request membersJens Axboe
This saves 8 bytes of data in 64-bit archs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Get rid of struct request request_pm_state memberJens Axboe
The IDE power management can just use the ->end_io_data member to store it's data. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flagJens Axboe
A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async, and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ, this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling. Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync by using WRITE_SYNC instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] blktrace_api.h: endian annotationsAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-06-23Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices. [NET]: fix net-core kernel-doc [TCP]: Move inclusion of <linux/dmaengine.h> to correct place in <linux/tcp.h> [IPSEC]: Handle GSO packets [NET]: Added GSO toggle [NET]: Add software TSOv4 [NET]: Add generic segmentation offload [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff [NET]: Prevent transmission after dev_deactivate [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Fix default source address selection without CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY [IPV6]: Fix source address selection. [NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad
2006-06-23Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (65 commits) ACPI: suppress power button event on S3 resume ACPI: resolve merge conflict between sem2mutex and processor_perflib.c ACPI: use for_each_possible_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu() ACPI: delete newly added debugging macros in processor_perflib.c ACPI: UP build fix for bugzilla-5737 Enable P-state software coordination via _PDC P-state software coordination for speedstep-centrino P-state software coordination for acpi-cpufreq P-state software coordination for ACPI core ACPI: create acpi_thermal_resume() ACPI: create acpi_fan_suspend()/acpi_fan_resume() ACPI: pass pm_message_t from acpi_device_suspend() to root_suspend() ACPI: create acpi_device_suspend()/acpi_device_resume() ACPI: replace spin_lock_irq with mutex for ec poll mode ACPI: Allow a WAN module enable/disable on a Thinkpad X60. sem2mutex: acpi, acpi_link_lock ACPI: delete unused acpi_bus_drivers_lock sem2mutex: drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c ACPI add ia64 exports to build acpi_memhotplug as a module ACPI: asus_acpi_init(): propagate correct return value ... Manual resolve of conflicts in: arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c include/acpi/processor.h
2006-06-23[PATCH] JBD: split checkpoint listsJan Kara
Split the checkpoint list of the transaction into two lists. In the first list we keep the buffers that need to be submitted for IO. In the second list are kept buffers that were already submitted and we just have to wait for the IO to complete. This should simplify a handling of checkpoint lists a bit and can eventually be also a performance gain. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] adjust handle_IRR_event() return typeJan Beulich
Correct the return type of handle_IRQ_event() (inconsistency noticed during Xen development), and remove redundant declarations. The return type adjustment required breaking out the definition of irqreturn_t into a separate header, in order to satisfy current include order dependencies. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] list: introduce list_replace() helperOleg Nesterov
list_replace() is similar to list_replace_rcu(), but unlike list_replace_rcu() it could be used when list_empty(old) == 1 doesn't use barriers Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] SGI IOC4: Detect IO card variantBrent Casavant
There are three different IO cards which an SGI IOC4 controller may find itself on. One of these variants does not bring out the IDE and serial signals, so we need to disable attaching the corresponding IOC4 subdrivers to such cards. Cleans up message clutter emitted during device probing. Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modulesPaul E. McKenney
Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] strstrip() APIPekka Enberg
Add a new strstrip() function to lib/string.c for removing leading and trailing whitespace from a string. Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Process Events: License ChangeMatt Helsley
Change the license on the process event structure passed between kernel and userspace. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Acked-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Process Events - Header CleanupMatt Helsley
Move connector header include to precisely where it's needed. Remove unused time.h header file as well. This was leftover from previous iterations of the process events patches. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Cc: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] remove unlikely() in might_sleep_if()Hua Zhong
The likely() profiling tools show that __alloc_page() causes a lot of misses: ! 132 119193 __alloc_pages():mm/page_alloc.c@937 Because most __alloc_page() calls are not atomic. Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] percpu counter data type changes to suppport more than 2**31 ext3 ↵Mingming Cao
free blocks counter The percpu counter data type are changed in this set of patches to support more users like ext3 who need more than 32 bit to store the free blocks total in the filesystem. - Generic perpcu counters data type changes. The size of the global counter and local counter were explictly specified using s64 and s32. The global counter is changed from long to s64, while the local counter is changed from long to s32, so we could avoid doing 64 bit update in most cases. - Users of the percpu counters are updated to make use of the new percpu_counter_init() routine now taking an additional parameter to allow users to pass the initial value of the global counter. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] ptrace: document the locking rulesEric W. Biederman
After a lot of reading the code and thinking about how it behaves I have managed to figure out what the current ptrace locking rules are. The current code is in much better that it appears at first glance. The troublesome code paths are actually the code paths that violate the current rules. ptrace uses simple exclusive access as it's locking. You can only touch task->ptrace if the task is stopped and you are the ptracer, or if the task is running and are the task itself. Very simple, very easy to maintain. It just needs to be documented so people know not to touch ptrace from elsewhere. Currently we do have a few pieces of code that are in violation of this rule. Particularly the core dump code, and ptrace_attach. But so far the code looks fixable. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] module.h: updated comments with a new licenseXose Vazquez Perez
"Dual MIT/GPL" is also accepted (kernel/module.c), so updated comments. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] fs/locks.c: make posix_locks_deadlock() staticAdrian Bunk
We can now make posix_locks_deadlock() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] vfs: add lock owner argument to flush operationMiklos Szeredi
Pass the POSIX lock owner ID to the flush operation. This is useful for filesystems which don't want to store any locking state in inode->i_flock but want to handle locking/unlocking POSIX locks internally. FUSE is one such filesystem but I think it possible that some network filesystems would need this also. Also add a flag to indicate that a POSIX locking request was generated by close(), so filesystems using the above feature won't send an extra locking request in this case. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] read_mapping_page for address spacePekka Enberg
Add read_mapping_page() which is used for callers that pass mapping->a_ops->readpage as the filler for read_cache_page. This removes some duplication from filesystem code. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Add a sysfs file to determine if a kexec kernel is loadedJeff Moyer
Create two files in /sys/kernel, kexec_loaded and kexec_crash_loaded. Each file contains a simple boolean value indicating whether the relevant kernel has been loaded into memory. The motivation for this is geared around support. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] m68k: Remove some unused definitions in zorro.hRoman Zippel
These definitions have long been superseded by asm-offsets.h Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] swsusp: add architecture special saveable pages supportShaohua Li
1. Add architecture specific pages save/restore support. Next two patches will use this to save/restore 'ACPI NVS' pages. 2. Allow reserved pages 'nosave'. This could avoid save/restore BIOS reserved pages. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] x86: kernel irq balance doesn't workZhang Yanmin
On i386, kernel irq balance doesn't work. 1) In function do_irq_balance, after kernel finds the min_loaded cpu but before calling set_pending_irq to really pin the selected_irq to the target cpu, kernel does a cpus_and with irq_affinity[selected_irq]. Later on, when the irq is acked, kernel would calls move_native_irq=>desc->handler->set_affinity to change the irq affinity. However, every function pointed by hw_interrupt_type->set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask) always changes irq_affinity[irq] to cpumask. Next time when recalling do_irq_balance, it has to do cpu_ands again with irq_affinity[selected_irq], but irq_affinity[selected_irq] already becomes one cpu selected by the first irq balance. 2) Function balance_irq in file arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c has the same issue. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()Hiro Yoshioka
Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user(). Some performance data are Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples) 2.6.12.4.orig 1921587 2.6.12.4.nt 1599424 1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction) BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE (L3 cache miss) 2.6.12.4.orig 57427 2.6.12.4.nt 20858 20858/57427=36.32% (63.7% reduction) L3 cache miss reduction of __copy_from_user_ll samples % 37408 65.1412 vmlinux __copy_from_user_ll 23 0.1103 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache 23/37408=0.061% (99.94% reduction) Top 5 of 2.6.12.4.nt Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000 samples % app name symbol name 128392 8.0274 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache 64206 4.0143 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head 59746 3.7355 vmlinux do_get_write_access 47674 2.9807 vmlinux journal_put_journal_head 46021 2.8774 vmlinux journal_dirty_metadata pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/summary.out Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x3f (multiple flags) count 3000 samples % app name symbol name 69755 4.2861 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache 55685 3.4215 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head 52371 3.2179 vmlinux __find_get_block 45504 2.7960 vmlinux journal_put_journal_head 36005 2.2123 vmlinux journal_stop pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/summary.out Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x200 (read 3rd level cache miss) count 3000 samples % app name symbol name 1147 5.4994 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head 881 4.2240 vmlinux journal_dirty_data 872 4.1809 vmlinux blk_rq_map_sg 734 3.5192 vmlinux journal_commit_transaction 617 2.9582 vmlinux radix_tree_delete pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/summary.out iozone results are original 2.6.12.4 CPU time = 207.768 sec cache aware CPU time = 184.783 sec (three times run) 184.783/207.768=88.94% (11.06% reduction) original: pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191720/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 45.997 CPU time 64.527 CPU utilization 140.28 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191741/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 46.878 CPU time 71.933 CPU utilization 153.45 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191743/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 45.152 CPU time 71.308 CPU utilization 157.93 % cache awre: pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.842 CPU time 62.465 CPU utilization 139.30 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.718 CPU time 59.273 CPU utilization 132.55 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.367 CPU time 63.045 CPU utilization 142.10 % Signed-off-by: Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] SELinux: add task_movememory hookDavid Quigley
This patch adds new security hook, task_movememory, to be called when memory owened by a task is to be moved (e.g. when migrating pages to a this hook is identical to the setscheduler implementation, but a separate hook introduced to allow this check to be specialized in the future if necessary. Since the last posting, the hook has been renamed following feedback from Christoph Lameter. Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>