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2006-02-10[PATCH] x86: don't initialise cpu_possible_map to all onesAndrew Morton
Initialising cpu_possible_map to all-ones with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU means that a) All for_each_cpu() loops will iterate across all NR_CPUS CPUs, rather than over possible ones. That can be quite expensive. b) Soon we'll be allocating per-cpu areas only for possible CPUs. So with CPU_MASK_ALL, we'll be wasting memory. I also switched voyager over to not use CPU_MASK_ALL in the non-CPU-hotplug case. Should be OK.. I note that parisc is also using CPU_MASK_ALL. Suggest that it stop doing that. Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-10[PATCH] kexec: fix in free initrd when overlapped with crashkernel regionHaren Myneni
It is possible that the reserved crashkernel region can be overlapped with initrd since the bootloader sets the initrd location. When the initrd region is freed, the second kernel memory will not be contiguous. The Kexec_load can cause an oops since there is no contiguous memory to write the second kernel or this memory could be used in the first kernel itself and may not be part of the dump. For example, on powerpc, the initrd is located at 36MB and the crashkernel starts at 32MB. The kexec_load caused panic since writing into non-allocated memory (after 36MB). We could see the similar issue even on other archs. One possibility is to move the initrd outside of crashkernel region. But, the initrd region will be freed anyway before the system is up. This patch fixes this issue and frees only regions that are not part of crashkernel memory in case overlaps. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-09[NETLINK]: Fix a severe bugAlexey Kuznetsov
netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink. Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket, so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be, and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock of rtnetlink. Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional argument to netlink_attachskb(). A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases: 1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot wait for buffer space. 2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered to some recipients. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-09[PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulationOleg Nesterov
Clear unblockable signals beforehand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-08Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
2006-02-08[SERIAL] 8250_pci: add new PCI serial card supportYoichi Yuasa
This patch adds new PCI serial card support. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird
2006-02-08[PATCH] block: implement elv_insert and use it (fix ordcolor flipping bug)Tejun Heo
q->ordcolor must only be flipped on initial queueing of a hardbarrier request. Constructing ordered sequence and requeueing used to pass through __elv_add_request() which flips q->ordcolor when it sees a barrier request. This patch separates out elv_insert() from __elv_add_request() and uses elv_insert() when constructing ordered sequence and requeueing. elv_insert() inserts the given request at the specified position and does nothing else. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-08[PATCH] sn3 iomem annotations and fixesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08[PATCH] drivers/media/video __user annotations and fixesAl Viro
* compat_alloc_user_space() returns __user pointer * copying between two userland areas is copy_in_user(), not copy_from_user() * dereferencing userland pointers is bad * so's get_user() from local variables ... plus usual __user annotations Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07[PATCH] __user annotations of video_spu_paletteAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07[PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes.Al Viro
A bunch of asm/bug.h includes are both not needed (since it will get pulled anyway) and bogus (since they are done too early). Removed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-07[PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare namespaceJANAK DESAI
If the namespace structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] mm: compound release fixNick Piggin
Compound pages on SMP systems can now often be freed from pagetables via the release_pages path. This uses put_page_testzero which does not handle compound pages at all. Releasing constituent pages from process mappings decrements their count to a large negative number and leaks the reference at the head page - net result is a memory leak. The problem was hidden because the debug check in put_page_testzero itself actually did take compound pages into consideration. Fix the bug and the debug check. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] Fix build failure in recent pm_prepare_* changes.Rafael J. Wysocki
Fix compilation problem in PM headers. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07Merge branch 'work-fixes'Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-02-07V4L/DVB (3300): Add standard for South Korean NTSC-M using A2 audio.Hans Verkuil
South Korea uses NTSC-M but with A2 audio instead of BTSC. Several audio chips need this information in order to set the correct audio processing registers. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mauro_chehab@yahoo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-02-06[PATCH] I2C: Resurrect i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data.Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-02-05Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-05[PATCH] jbd: fix transaction batchingAndrew Morton
Ben points out that: When writing files out using O_SYNC, jbd's 1 jiffy delay results in a significant drop in throughput as the disk sits idle. The patch below results in a 4-5x performance improvement (from 6.5MB/s to ~24-30MB/s on my IDE test box) when writing out files using O_SYNC. So optimise the batching code by omitting it entirely if the process which is doing a sync write is the same as the one which did the most recent sync write. If that's true, we're unlikely to get any other processes joining the transaction. (Has been in -mm for ages - it took me a long time to get on to performance testing it) Numbers, on write-cache-disabled IDE: /usr/bin/time -p synctest -n 10 -uf -t 1 -p 1 dir-name Unpatched: 40 seconds Patched: 35 seconds Batching disabled: 35 seconds This is the problematic single-process-doing-fsync case. With multiple fsyncing processes the numbers are AFACIT unaltered by the patch. Aside: performance testing and instrumentation shows that the transaction batching almost doesn't help (testing with synctest -n 1 -uf -t 100 -p 10 dir-name on non-writeback-caching IDE). This is because by the time one process is running a synchronous commit, a bunch of other processes already have a transaction handle open, so they're all going to batch into the same transaction anyway. The batching seems to offer maybe 5-10% speedup with this workload, but I'm pretty sure it was more important than that when it was first developed 4-odd years ago... Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] reiserfs_get_acl() build fixAndrew Morton
With CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y, CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=n: fs/reiserfs/xattr.c: In function `reiserfs_check_acl': fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:1330: called object is not a function Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] pktcdvd: Allow larger packetsPhillip Susi
The pktcdvd driver uses a compile time macro constant to define the maximum supported packet length. I changed this from 32 sectors to 128 sectors because that allows over 100 MB of additional usable space on a 700 MB cdrw, and increases throughput. Note that you need a modified cdrwtool program that can format a CDRW disc with larger packets to benefit from this change. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] pktcdvd: Don't waste kernel memoryPeter Osterlund
Allocate memory for read-gathering at open time, when it is known just how much memory is needed. This avoids wasting kernel memory when the real packet size is smaller than the maximum packet size supported by the driver. This is always the case when using DVD discs. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] pktcdvd: Fix overflow for discs with large packetsPhillip Susi
The pktcdvd driver was using an 8 bit field to store the packet length obtained from the disc track info. This causes it to overflow packet length values of 128KB or more. I changed the field to 32 bits to fix this. The pktcdvd driver defaulted to its maximum allowed packet length when it detected a 0 in the track info field. I changed this to fail the operation and refuse to access the media. This seems more sane than attempting to access it with a value that almost certainly will not work. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04[NETFILTER]: Prepare {ipt,ip6t}_policy match for x_tables unificationPatrick McHardy
The IPv4 and IPv6 version of the policy match are identical besides address comparison and the data structure used for userspace communication. Unify the data structures to break compatiblity now (before it is released), so we can port it to x_tables in 2.6.17. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04[NETFILTER]: iptables: fix typos in ipt_connbytes.hYasuyuki Kozakai
Fix some typos that make iptables userspace compilation fail. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-03[PATCH] SELinux: fix size-128 slab leakStephen Smalley
Remove private inode tests from security_inode_alloc and security_inode_free, as we otherwise end up leaking inode security structures for private inodes. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
2006-02-03Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmcLinus Torvalds
2006-02-03Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://oss.oracle.com/home/sourcebo/git/ocfs2Linus Torvalds
2006-02-03configfs: Add permission and ownership to configfs objects.Joel Becker
configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the items and attributes. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03[PATCH] drivers/ide/ide-io.c: make __ide_end_request() staticAdrian Bunk
Since there's no longer any external user, we can make __ide_end_request() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] stop CompactFlash devices being marked as removableRichard Purdie
This patch stops CompactFlash devices being marked as removable. They are not removable (as defined by Linux) as the media and device are inseparable. When a card is removed, the whole device is removed from the system and never sits in a media-less state. This stops some nasty udev device creation/destruction loops. Further, once this change is made, there is no need for ide to can be removed from ide_drive_t. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] new tty buffering locking fixPaul Fulghum
Change locking in the new tty buffering facility from using tty->read_lock, which is currently ignored by drivers and thus ineffective. New locking uses a new tty buffering specific lock enforced centrally in the tty buffering code. Two drivers (esp and cyclades) are updated to use the tty buffering functions instead of accessing tty buffering internals directly. This is required for the new locking to work. Minor checks for NULL buffers added to tty_prepare_flip_string/tty_prepare_flip_string_flags Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Compilation of kexec/kdump brokenFernando Luis Vazquez Cao
The compilation of kexec/kdump seems to be broken for x86_64. Remove the dependency of kexec on CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION. Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Fix comment to synchronize_sched()Paul E. McKenney
Fix to broken comment to synchronize_rcu() noted by Keith Owens. Also add sentence noting that synchronize_sched() and synchronize_rcu() are not necessarily identical. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] quota: remove unused sync_dquots_dev()Herbert Poetzl
The already removed sync_dquots_dev(dev,type) is still defined in the no-quota case. Signed-off-by: Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] I2O: fix and workaround for Motorola/Freescale controllerMarkus Lidel
- This controller violates the I2O spec for the I/O registers. The patch contains a workaround which moves the registers to the proper location. (originally author: Matthew Starzewski) - If a message frame is beyond the mapped address range a error is returned. Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] parport: add parallel port support for SGI O2Arnaud Giersch
Add support for the built-in parallel port on SGI O2 (a.k.a. IP32). Define a new configuration option: PARPORT_IP32. The module is named parport_ip32. Hardware support for SPP, EPP and ECP modes along with DMA support when available are currently implemented. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] ufs: fix char vs. __s8 clash in ufsAndreas Schwab
Fix this warning: fs/ufs/super.c: In function ‘ufs_fill_super’: fs/ufs/super.c:858: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type which happens because __s8 != char. These macros are used for struct ufs_super_block.fs_clean which is declared as __s8. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] make "struct d_cookie" depend on CONFIG_PROFILINGMarcelo Tosatti
Shrinks "struct dentry" from 128 bytes to 124 on x86, allowing 31 objects per slab instead of 30. Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] ufs: fix hang during `rm'Evgeniy Dushistov
This fixes the code like this: bh = sb_find_get_block (sb, tmp + j); if ((bh && DATA_BUFFER_USED(bh)) || tmp != fs32_to_cpu(sb, *p)) { retry = 1; brelse (bh); goto next1; } bforget (bh); sb_find_get_block() ordinarily returns a buffer_head with b_count>=2, and this code assume that in case if "b_count>1" buffer is used, so this caused infinite loop. (akpm: that is-the-buffer-busy code is incomprehensible. Good riddance. Use of block_truncate_page() seems sane). Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] ufs: fix oops with `ufs1' typeEvgeniy Dushistov
"rm" command, on file system with "ufs1" type cause system hang up. This is, in fact, not so bad as it seems to be, because of after that in "kernel control path" there are 3-4 places which may cause "oops". So the first patch fix oopses, and the second patch fix "kernel hang up". "oops" appears because of reading of group's summary info partly wrong, and access to not first group's summary info cause "oops". Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] list.h: don't evaluate macro args multiple timesZach Brown
I noticed that list.h init functions were evaluating macro arguments multiple times and thought it might be nice to protect the unsuspecting caller. Converting the macros to inline functions seems to reduce code size, too. A i386 defconfig build with gcc 3.3.3 from fc4: text data bss dec hex filename 3573148 565664 188828 4327640 4208d8 vmlinux.before 3572177 565664 188828 4326669 42050d vmlinux add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 11/144 up/down: 88/-1016 (-928) There was no difference in checkstack output. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] fix generic_fls64()Akinobu Mita
Noticed by Rune Torgersen. Fix generic_fls64(). tcp_cubic is using fls64(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Fix build failure in recent pm_prepare_* changes.Dave Jones
kernel/power/power.h:49: error: static declaration of 'pm_prepare_console' follows non-static declaration include/linux/suspend.h:46: error: previous declaration of 'pm_prepare_console' was here kernel/power/power.h:50: error: static declaration of 'pm_restore_console' follows non-static declaration include/linux/suspend.h:47: error: previous declaration of 'pm_restore_console' was here Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵Trond Myklebust
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
2006-02-02[SERIAL] SIIG 8-port serial boards supportAndrey Panin
This patch adds support for SIIG 8-port boards. These boards have 4 ports in separate bars and another 4 ports in the single bar. Because of this strange port arrangement these cards need special setup function. Fortunately no other SIIG cards have more than 4 port, so this setup function could be used for them too. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-02[MMC] Add MMC command type flagsRussell King
Some hosts need to know the command type, so pass it via a set of flags in cmd->flags. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>