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Fourth cut of patch to provide the call_rcu_sched(). This is again to
synchronize_sched() as call_rcu() is to synchronize_rcu().
Should be fine for experimental and -rt use, but not ready for inclusion.
With some luck, I will be able to tell Andrew to come out of hiding on
the next round.
Passes multi-day rcutorture sessions with concurrent CPU hotplugging.
Fixes since the first version include a bug that could result in
indefinite blocking (spotted by Gautham Shenoy), better resiliency
against CPU-hotplug operations, and other minor fixes.
Fixes since the second version include reworking grace-period detection
to avoid deadlocks that could happen when running concurrently with
CPU hotplug, adding Mathieu's fix to avoid the softlockup messages,
as well as Mathieu's fix to allow use earlier in boot.
Fixes since the third version include a wrong-CPU bug spotted by
Andrew, getting rid of the obsolete synchronize_kernel API that somehow
snuck back in, merging spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in a
few places, commenting the code that checks for quiescent states based
on interrupting from user-mode execution or the idle loop, removing
some inline attributes, and some code-style changes.
Known/suspected shortcomings:
o I still do not entirely trust the sleep/wakeup logic. Next step
will be to use a private snapshot of the CPU online mask in
rcu_sched_grace_period() -- if the CPU wasn't there at the start
of the grace period, we don't need to hear from it. And the
bit about accounting for changes in online CPUs inside of
rcu_sched_grace_period() is ugly anyway.
o It might be good for rcu_sched_grace_period() to invoke
resched_cpu() when a given CPU wasn't responding quickly,
but resched_cpu() is declared static...
This patch also fixes a long-standing bug in the earlier preemptable-RCU
implementation of synchronize_rcu() that could result in loss of
concurrent external changes to a task's CPU affinity mask. I still cannot
remember who reported this...
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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rcu_batches_completed and rcu_patches_completed_bh are both declared
in rcuclassic.h and rcupreempt.h. This patch removes the extra
prototypes for them from rcupdate.h.
rcu_batches_completed_bh is defined as a static inline in the rcupreempt.h
header file. Trying to export this as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL causes linking problems
with the powerpc linker. There's no need to export a static inlined function.
Modules must be compiled with the same type of RCU implementation as the
kernel they are for.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c/max6875: Really prevent 24RF08 corruption
i2c-amd756: Fix functionality flags
i2c: Kill the old driver matching scheme
i2c: Convert remaining new-style drivers to use module aliasing
i2c: Switch pasemi to the new device/driver matching scheme
i2c: Clean up Blackfin BF527 I2C device declarations
i2c-nforce2: Disable the second SMBus channel on the DFI Lanparty NF4 Expert
i2c: New co-maintainer
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The *_ISA type defines are quite generic and cause namespace conflicts
(e.g. with `AMIGAHW_DECLARE(GG2_ISA)' in <asm/amigahw.h>) for some kernel
configurations. Use ISA_TYPE_* to avoid such conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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UIO needs m68k_mmutype:
ERROR: "m68k_mmutype" [drivers/uio/uio.ko] undefined!
(noticed by Christian T. Steigies)
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use `__builtin_trap()' instead of `asm volatile("illegal")' in the m68k BUG()
macros (as suggested by Andrew Pinski), to kill warnings in code that assumes
BUG() does not return.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Convert access_ok() from a macro to an inline function, so the compiler no
longer complains about unused variables:
fs/read_write.c: In function 'rw_copy_check_uvector':
fs/read_write.c:556: warning: unused variable 'buf'
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the old driver_name/type scheme for i2c driver matching. Only the
standard aliasing model will be used from now on.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] pxa: spitz wants PXA27x UDC definitions
[ARM] pxa: fix pxafb build when cpufreq is enabled
[ARM] fix parenthesis in include/asm-arm/arch-omap/control.h
[ARM] colibri: fix support for DM9000 ethernet device
[ARM] arm/kernel/arthur.c: add MODULE_LICENSE
[ARM] 5037/1: Orion: fix DNS323/Kurobox Pro PCI initialisation
[ARM] 5034/1: fix arm{925,926,940,946} dma_flush_range() in WT mode
[ARM] export copy_page
[ARM] 5026/1: locomo: add .settype for gpio and several small fixes
ARM: OMAP: Fixed comments on global PRM register usage
ARM: OMAP: Add PARENT_CONTROLS_CLOCK flag to dpll5_m2_ck
ARM: OMAP: PRCM fixes to ssi clock handling
ARM: OMAP: Add fuctional clock enabler for iva2
ARM: OMAP: Fix 34xx to use correct shift values for gpio2-6 fclks
ARM: OMAP: Keymap fix for palmte and palmz71
ARM: OMAP: Fix Unbalanced enable for IRQ in omap mailbox
ARM: OMAP: DMA: Fix incorrect channel linking
ARM: OMAP: Warn on disabling clocks with no users
ARM: OMAP: Add calls to omap2_set_globals_*()
ARM: OMAP: Update MMC header to fix compile
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6
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Parenthesis fix in include/asm-arm/arch-omap/control.h
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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irqs.h:
* rename IRQ_LOCOMO_SPI_OVRN to IRQ_LOCOMO_SPI_REND
locomo.h:
* add some definition for locomo spi controller
* correct some errors
locomo.c:
* correct some errors
* add set_type for locomo gpio irq chip
Signed-off-by: Thomas Kunze <thommycheck@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] macintosh: Replace deprecated __initcall with device_initcall
[POWERPC] cell: Fix section mismatches in io-workarounds code
[POWERPC] spufs: Fix compile error
[POWERPC] Fix uninitialized variable bug in copy_{to|from}_user
[POWERPC] Add null pointer check to of_find_property
[POWERPC] vmemmap fixes to use smaller pages
[POWERPC] spufs: Fix pointer reference in find_victim
[POWERPC] 85xx: SBC8548 - Add flash support and HW Rev reporting
[POWERPC] 85xx: Fix some sparse warnings for 85xx MDS
[POWERPC] 83xx: Enable DMA engine on the MPC8377 MDS board.
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: fix second serial port
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for NOR and NAND flashes
[POWERPC] 85xx: Add 8568 PHY workarounds to board code
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet
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Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what
you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and
ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual
address from there).
So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to
add a cast.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] fix personality(PER_LINUX32) performance issue
[IA64] Properly unregister legacy interrupts
[IA64] Remove NULL pointer check for argument never passed as NULL.
[IA64] trivial cleanup for perfmon.c
[IA64] trivial cleanup for entry.S
[IA64] fix interrupt masking for pending works on kernel leave
[IA64] allow user to force_pal_cache_flush
[IA64] Don't reserve crashkernel memory > 4 GB
[IA64] machvec support for SGI UV platform
[IA64] Add header files for SGI UV platform
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] show_interrupts: prevent cpu hotplug when walking cpu_online_map.
[S390] smp: __smp_call_function_map vs cpu_online_map fix.
[S390] tape: Use ccw_dev_id to build cdev_id.
[S390] dasd: fix timeout handling in interrupt handler
[S390] s390dbf: Use const char * for dbf name.
[S390] dasd: Use const in busid functions.
[S390] blacklist.c: removed duplicated include
[S390] vmlogrdr: module initialization function should return negative errors
[S390] sparsemem vmemmap: initialize memmap.
[S390] Remove last traces of cio_msg=.
[S390] cio: Remove CCW_CMD_SUSPEND_RECONN in front of CCW_CMD_SET_PGID.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6:
arch/parisc/kernel/perf_asm.S: build fix
parisc: remove -traditional from assembler flags
parisc: use conditional macro for 64-bit wide ops
parisc: Remove ioctl.h content picked up from <asm-generic/ioctl.h>.
arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c: use time_* macros
parisc: remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem()
drivers/parisc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
parisc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
parisc: new termios definitions
parisc: fix trivial section name warnings
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This work enables us to remove -traditional from $AFLAGS on
parisc.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
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Now that <asm-generic/ioctl.h> allows overriding of the most commonly
changed macro values, take advantage of that.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
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We should use const char * for passing the name of the debug feature
around since it will not be changed.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
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Calls to copy_to_user() or copy_from_user() can fail when copying N
bytes, where N is a constant less than 8, but not 1, 2, 4, or 8,
because 'ret' is not initialized and is only set if the size is 1,
2, 4 or 8, but is tested after the switch statement for any constant
size <= 8. This fixes it by initializing 'ret' to 1, causing the
code to fall through to the __copy_tofrom_user call for sizes other
than 1, 2, 4 or 8.
Signed-off-by: Dave Scidmore <dscidmore@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the
address space, and to configure the page size of that region
dynamically at boot.
The problem with the current approach of always using 16M pages is that
it's not well suited to machines that have small amounts of memory such
as small partitions on pseries, or PS3's.
In fact, on the PS3, failure to allocate the 16M page backing vmmemmap
tends to prevent hotplugging the HV's "additional" memory, thus limiting
the available memory even more, from my experience down to something
like 80M total, which makes it really not very useable.
The logic used by my match to choose the vmemmap page size is:
- If 16M pages are available and there's 1G or more RAM at boot,
use that size.
- Else if 64K pages are available, use that
- Else use 4K pages
I've tested on a POWER6 (16M pages) and on an iSeries POWER3 (4K pages)
and it seems to work fine.
Note that I intend to change the way we organize the kernel regions &
SLBs so the actual region will change from 0xf back to something else at
one point, as I simplify the SLB miss handler, but that will be for a
later patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
9p: fix error path during early mount
9p: make cryptic unknown error from server less scary
9p: fix flags length in net
9p: Correct fidpool creation failure in p9_client_create
9p: use struct mutex instead of struct semaphore
9p: propagate parse_option changes to client and transports
fs/9p/v9fs.c (v9fs_parse_options): Handle kstrdup and match_strdup failure.
9p: Documentation updates
add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Use a TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK
lmb: Make lmb debugging more useful.
lmb: Fix inconsistent alignment of size argument.
sparc: Fix mremap address range validation.
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There is a defect in mprotect, which lets the user change the page cache
type bits by-passing the kernel reserve_memtype and free_memtype
wrappers. Fix the problem by not letting mprotect change the PAT bits.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Current module loader lookups ".data.percpu" ELF section to perform
per_cpu relocation. But DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() uses another
section (".data.percpu.shared_aligned"), currently only handled in
vmlinux.lds, not by module loader.
To correct this problem, instead of adding logic into module loader, or
using at build time a module.lds file for all arches to group
".data.percpu.shared_aligned" into ".data.percpu", just use ".data.percpu"
for modules.
Alignment requirements are correctly handled by ld and module loader.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it.
Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is
done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value.
Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many
places in the tree that will be consolidated.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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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I noticed this because alpha was broken due to the recent commit commit
bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 ("avoid overflows in
kernel/time.c"). Most arches do something like this in their
asm/param.h:
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# define HZ CONFIG_HZ
#else
# define HZ 100
#endif
A few arches though (namely alpha/h8300/um/v850/xtensa) either do no set
HZ at all for !__KERNEL__, or they set it wrongly. This should bring all
arches in line by setting up HZ for userspace.
Without this currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha:
perl.c: In function 'perl_construct':
perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this function)
-> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.0-10;arch=alpha;stamp=1210252894
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ HZ on alpha is 1024 for historical reasons. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There was some cleanup issues during early mount which would trigger
a kernel bug for certain types of failure. This patch reorganizes the
cleanup to get rid of the bad behavior.
This also merges the 9pnet and 9pnet_fd modules for the purpose of
configuration and initialization. Keeping the fd transport separate
from the core 9pnet code seemed like a good idea at the time, but in
practice has caused more harm and confusion than good.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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The kernel-doc comments of much of the 9p system have been in disarray since
reorganization. This patch fixes those problems, adds additional documentation
and a template book which collects the 9p information.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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more robust
match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.
There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.
The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().
The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.
We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. PATH_MAX is 4096. As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.
Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct. It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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This patch adds the basic IA64 machvec infrastructure to support
the SGI "UV" platform.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Add new UV-specific header files.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Disable Virtual DMA support for now (it causes system hangs).
Thanks to TAKADA Yoshihito for the help with debugging the problem.
Reported-by: TAKADA Yoshihito <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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SELECT_MASK() can now become static.
[bart: remove space between function name and open parenthesis]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
Driver core: struct class remove children list
block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (22 commits)
USB: atmel_usba_udc fixes, mostly disconnect()
USB: pxa27x_udc: minor fixes
usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos
USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb
USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant
USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface
USB: serial gadget: descriptor cleanup
USB: serial gadget: simplify endpoint handling
USB: serial gadget: remove needless data structure
USB: serial gadget: cleanup/reorg
usb: fix compile warning in isp1760
USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in 'option' driver
USB: Fix unusual_devs.h ordering
USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem in option driver
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem
usb: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings found by sparse
USB: isp1760: fix printk format
USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to option driver
USB: add association.h
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because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.
This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (73 commits)
net: Fix typo in net/core/sock.c.
ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device.
netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange
netfilter: ctnetlink: dump conntrack ID in event messages
irda: Fix a misalign access issue. (v2)
sctp: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
cipso: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.
tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers
tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery
New maintainer for Intel ethernet adapters
DM9000: Use delayed work to update MII PHY state
DM9000: Update and fix driver debugging messages
DM9000: Add __devinit and __devexit attributes to probe and remove
sky2: fix simple define thinko
[netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support
[netdrvr] sfc: Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX
[netdrvr] sfc: Fix code formatting
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove garbage from comment
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There is a possible data race in the page table walking code. After the split
ptlock patches, it actually seems to have been introduced to the core code, but
even before that I think it would have impacted some architectures (powerpc
and sparc64, at least, walk the page tables without taking locks eg. see
find_linux_pte()).
The race is as follows:
The pte page is allocated, zeroed, and its struct page gets its spinlock
initialized. The mm-wide ptl is then taken, and then the pte page is inserted
into the pagetables.
At this point, the spinlock is not guaranteed to have ordered the previous
stores to initialize the pte page with the subsequent store to put it in the
page tables. So another Linux page table walker might be walking down (without
any locks, because we have split-leaf-ptls), and find that new pte we've
inserted. It might try to take the spinlock before the store from the other
CPU initializes it. And subsequently it might read a pte_t out before stores
from the other CPU have cleared the memory.
There are also similar races in higher levels of the page tables. They
obviously don't involve the spinlock, but could see uninitialized memory.
Arch code and hardware pagetable walkers that walk the pagetables without
locks could see similar uninitialized memory problems, regardless of whether
split ptes are enabled or not.
I prefer to put the barriers in core code, because that's where the higher
level logic happens, but the page table accessors are per-arch, and open-coding
them everywhere I don't think is an option. I'll put the read-side barriers
in alpha arch code for now (other architectures perform data-dependent loads
in order).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all
architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all
other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This will be used by the wireless usb code, as well as potentially other
USB code.
Originally based on some .c code written by Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
<inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Replace u16ho with put/get_unaligned functions
Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
[ALSA] ASoC: Fix wrong enum count for jack_function in N810 machine driver
[ALSA] ASoC: build fix for snd_soc_info_bool_ext
[ALSA] ASoC: Fix TLV320AIC3X mono line output interconnect
[ALSA] soc - fsl_ssi.c fix "BUG: scheduling while atomic"
[ALSA] emux midi synthesizer doesn't honor SOFT_PEDAL-release event
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Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests. In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it. Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption. There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.
To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When mm destruction happens, we should pass mm_update_next_owner() the old mm.
But unfortunately new mm is passed in exec_mmap().
Thus, kernel panic is possible when a multi-threaded process uses exec().
Also, the owner member comment description is wrong. mm->owner does not
necessarily point to the thread group leader.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Cc: "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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They aren't used. They were briefly used as part of some other patches to
provide an alternative format for displaying some /proc and /sys cpumasks.
They probably should have been removed when those other patches were dropped,
in favor of a different solution.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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