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You wouldn't think that doing an ALIGN() macro that aligns something up
to a power-of-two boundary would be likely to have bugs, would you?
But hey, in the wonderful world of mixing integer types, you have to be
careful. This just makes sure that the alignment is interpreted in the
same type as the thing to be aligned.
Thanks to Roland Dreier, who noticed that the amso1100 driver got broken
by the previous fix (that just extended the mask to "unsigned long", but
was still broken in "unsigned long long" - it just happened to be the
same on 64-bit architectures).
See commit 4c8bd7eeee4c8f157fb61fb64b57500990b42e0e for the history of
bugs here...
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I still think using BUILD_BUG_ON() is unacceptable, especially given how
vague the error message was.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
[ And I already removed gthe BUILD_BUG_ON() in the previous commit ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This reverts commit ee3ce191e8eaa4cc15c51a28b34143b36404c4f5, since it
broke on at least ARM, MIPS and PA-RISC due to complicated header file
dependencies.
Conflicts in include/linux/spinlock.h (due to the "nested" variety
fixes) fixed up by hand.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Restoring old, correct comment for sk_filter_release, moving it to
where it should actually be, and changing new comment into proper
comment for sk_filter_rcu_free, where it actually makes sense.
The original fix submitted for this on Oct 23 mistakenly documented
the wrong function.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bonser <misterpib@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Introduce spin_lock_irqsave_nested(); implementation from:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/1/122
Patch from:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/13/258
[akpm@osdl.org: two compile fixes]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make it break or warn if you pass to spin_lock_irqsave() and friends
something different from "unsigned long flags;". Suprisingly large amount
of these was caught by recent commit
c53421b18f205c5f97c604ae55c6a921f034b0f6 and others.
Idea is largely from FRV typechecking. Suggestions from Andrew Morton.
All stupid typos in first version fixed.
Passes allmodconfig on i386, x86_64, alpha, arm as well as my usual config.
Note #1: checking with sparse is still needed, because a driver can save
and pass around flags or something. So far patch is very intrusive.
Note #2: techically, we should break only if
sizeof(flags) < sizeof(unsigned long),
however, the more pain for getting suspicious code into kernel,
the better.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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OpenVZ developers team has encountered the following problem in 2.6.19-rc6
kernel. After some seconds of running script
while [[ 1 ]]
do
find /proc -name mountstats | xargs cat
done
this Oops appears:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000010
printing eip:
c01a6b70
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: xt_length ipt_ttl xt_tcpmss ipt_TCPMSS iptable_mangle
iptable_filter xt_multiport xt_limit ipt_tos ipt_REJECT ip_tables x_tables
parport_pc lp parport sunrpc af_packet thermal processor fan button battery
asus_acpi ac ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore i2c_nforce2 i2c_core tg3 floppy
pata_amd
ide_cd cdrom sata_nv libata
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:[<c01a6b70>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.19-rc6 #2)
EIP is at mountstats_open+0x70/0xf0
eax: 00000000 ebx: e6247030 ecx: e62470f8 edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000 edi: c01a6b00 ebp: c33b83c0 esp: f4105eb4
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process cat (pid: 6044, ti=f4105000 task=f4104a70 task.ti=f4105000)
Stack: c33b83c0 c04ee940 f46a4a80 c33b83c0 e4df31b4 c01a6b00 f4105000 c0169231
e4df31b4 c33b83c0 c33b83c0 f4105f20 00000003 f4105000 c0169445 f2503cf0
f7f8c4c0 00008000 c33b83c0 00000000 00008000 c0169350 f4105f20 00008000
Call Trace:
[<c01a6b00>] mountstats_open+0x0/0xf0
[<c0169231>] __dentry_open+0x181/0x250
[<c0169445>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x50
[<c0169350>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
[<c01873d6>] seq_read+0xc6/0x300
[<c0169511>] get_unused_fd+0x31/0xc0
[<c01696d3>] do_sys_open+0x63/0x110
[<c01697a7>] sys_open+0x27/0x30
[<c01030bd>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79
=======================
Code: 45 74 8b 54 24 20 89 44 24 08 8b 42 f0 31 d2 e8 47 cb f8 ff 85 c0 89 c3
74 51 8d 80 a0 04 00 00 e8 46 06 2c 00 8b 83 48 04 00 00 <8b> 78 10 85 ff 74
03
f0 ff 07 b0 01 86 83 a0 04 00 00 f0 ff 4b
EIP: [<c01a6b70>] mountstats_open+0x70/0xf0 SS:ESP 0068:f4105eb4
The problem is that task->nsproxy can be equal NULL for some time during
task exit. This patch fixes the BUG.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3941/1: [Jornada7xx] - Addition to MAINTAINERS
[ARM] 3942/1: ARM: comment: consistent_sync should not be called directly
[ARM] ebsa110: fix warnings generated by asm/arch/io.h
[ARM] 3933/1: Source drivers/ata/Kconfig
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The Au1xx IDE controller driver doesn't compile:
CC drivers/ide/mips/au1xxx-ide.o
/linux-2.6.19-rc6-work/drivers/ide/mips/au1xxx-ide.c:480: error: conflicting types for 'auide_ddma_tx_callback'
include2/asm/mach-au1x00/au1xxx_ide.h:174: error: previous declaration of 'auide_ddma_tx_callback' was here
/linux-2.6.19-rc6-work/drivers/ide/mips/au1xxx-ide.c:486: error: conflicting types for 'auide_ddma_rx_callback'
include2/asm/mach-au1x00/au1xxx_ide.h:176: error: previous declaration of 'auide_ddma_rx_callback' was here
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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/*
* Note: Drivers should NOT use this function directly, as it will break
* platforms with CONFIG_DMABOUNCE.
* Use the driver DMA support - see dma-mapping.h (dma_sync_*)
*/
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix ucc_geth of_device discovery on mpc832x
[POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Add powerpc get/set_rtc_time interface to new generic rtc class"
[POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Enable generic rtc hook for the MPC8349 mITX"
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generic rtc class"
This reverts commit 7a69af63e788a324d162201a0b23df41bcf158dd.
As advised by David Brownell:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116387226902131&w=2
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The IGMPV3_EXP() macro doesn't correctly shift the normalization bit, so
time-out values are longer than they should be.
Thanks to Dirk Ooms for finding the problem in IGMPv3 - MLDv2 had a
similar problem that was already fixed a year ago. :-(
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is a quick hack to overcome the fact that SRCU currently does not
allow static initializers, and we need to sometimes initialize those
things before any other initializers (even "core" ones) can do so.
Currently we don't allow this at all for modules, and the only user that
needs is right now is cpufreq. As reported by Thomas Gleixner:
"Commit b4dfdbb3c707474a2254c5b4d7e62be31a4b7da9 ("[PATCH] cpufreq:
make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU breaks cpu frequency
notification users, which register the callback > on core_init
level."
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Switch to using irq_handler_t for interrupt function handler pointers.
Change name of m68knommu's irq_hanlder_t data structure so it doesn't
clash with the common type (include/linux/interrupt.h).
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove two warnings:
drivers/serial/8250_early.c:136: warning: unused variable 'mapsize'
include/linux/io.h:47: warning: passing argument 1 of '__readb' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch has removed one too many semicolon in crypto.h.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[TG3]: Disable TSO on 5906 if CLKREQ is enabled.
[TCP]: Fix up sysctl_tcp_mem initialization.
[NETFILTER]: ip6_tables: use correct nexthdr value in ipv6_find_hdr()
[NETFILTER]: ip6_tables: fixed conflicted optname for getsockopt
[NETFILTER]: Use pskb_trim in {ip,ip6,nfnetlink}_queue
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix byteorder of NFULA_SEQ_GLOBAL
[TG3]: Increase 5906 firmware poll time.
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This adds fat_getattr() for setting stat->blksize. (FAT uses the size
of cluster for proper I/O)
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Due to hardware errata, TSO must be disabled if the PCI Express clock
request is enabled on 5906. The chip may hang when transmitting TSO
frames if CLKREQ is enabled.
Update version to 3.69.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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66 and 67 for getsockopt on IPv6 socket is doubly used for IPv6 Advanced
API and ip6tables. This moves numbers for ip6tables to 68 and 69.
This also kills XT_SO_* because {ip,ip6,arp}_tables doesn't have so much
common numbers now.
The old userland tools keep to behave as ever, because old kernel always
calls functions of IPv6 Advanced API for their numbers.
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>
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All the infrastructure is already in place for this, so we only need
to allocate a syscall number and hook it up.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This adds the /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/topology/thread_siblings
files on powerpc. These files are already available on other
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix race in exit_idle
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix vgetcpu when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled
[PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boards
[PATCH] x86-64: setup saved_max_pfn correctly (kdump)
[PATCH] x86-64: Handle reserve_bootmem_generic beyond end_pfn
[PATCH] x86-64: shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix PTRACE_[SG]ET_THREAD_AREA regression with ia32 emulation.
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix partial page check to ensure unusable memory is not being marked usable.
Revert "[PATCH] MMCONFIG and new Intel motherboards"
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(David:)
If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.
But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
will call unmap_region() on it. That will eventually call down to the
non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range(). On ppc64, at least, that will
cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
same PUD. unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
entries. I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
have a machine to test it on.
(Hugh:)
prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks
virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from
unmapping before it fails further down. PowerPC should apply the same
prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do.
Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor
is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of
VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if
hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region
when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad
behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge
mappings into a separate region of the address space.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When another interrupt happens in exit_idle the exit idle notifier
could be called an incorrect number of times.
Add a test_and_clear_bit_pda and use it handle the bit
atomically against interrupts to avoid this.
Pointed out by Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The vgetcpu per CPU initialization previously relied on CPU hotplug
events for all CPUs to initialize the per CPU state. That only
worked only on kernels with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU enabled. On the
others some CPUs didn't get their state initialized properly
and vgetcpu wouldn't work.
Change the initialization sequence to instead run in a normal
initcall (which runs after the normal CPU bootup) and initialize
all running CPUs there. Later hotplug CPUs are still handled
with an hotplug notifier.
This actually simplifies the code somewhat.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because
they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support.
Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that
don't have HPET, but need a timer override.
We don't know yet how to handle this transparently,
but at least add a command line option to force the timer override
and let them boot.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[IPVS]: More endianness fixed.
[IPVS]: Compile fix for annotations in userland.
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If you call set_personality() with an expression such as:
set_personality(foo ? PERS_FOO1 : PERS_FOO2);
then this evaluates to:
((current->personality == foo ? PERS_FOO1 : PERS_FOO2) ? ...
which is obviously not the intended result. Add the missing parents
to ensure this gets evaluated as expected:
((current->personality == (foo ? PERS_FOO1 : PERS_FOO2)) ? ...
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix MSPEC driver to build for non SN2 enabled configs as the driver should
work in cached and uncached modes (no fetchop) on these systems. In
addition make MSPEC select IA64_UNCACHED_ALLOCATOR, which is required for
it and move it to arch/ia64/Kconfig to avoid warnings on non ia64
architectures running allmodconfig. Once the Kconfig code is fixed, we can
move it back.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- reorder 'struct vm_struct' to speedup lookups on CPUS with small cache
lines. The fields 'next,addr,size' should be now in the same cache line,
to speedup lookups.
- One minor cleanup in __get_vm_area_node()
- Bugfixes in vmalloc_user() and vmalloc_32_user() NULL returns from
__vmalloc() and __find_vm_area() were not tested.
[akpm@osdl.org: remove redundant BUG_ONs]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This change makes __beXX available to user-space applications, such as
ipvsadm, which include ip_vs.h
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch adds a variant of ht_create_irq __ht_create_irq that takes an
aditional parameter update that is a function that is called whenever we want
to write to a drivers htirq configuration registers.
This is needed to support the ipath_iba6110 because it's registers in the
proper location are not actually conected to the hardware that controlls
interrupt delivery.
[bos@serpentine.com: fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <olson@pathscale.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bryan.osullivan@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This refactoring actually optimizes the code a little by caching the value
that we think the device is programmed with instead of reading it back from
the hardware. Which simplifies the code a little and should speed things up a
bit.
This patch introduces the concept of a ht_irq_msg and modifies the
architecture read/write routines to update this code.
There is a minor consistency fix here as well as x86_64 forgot to initialize
the htirq as masked.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: <olson@pathscale.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some more errors from the IPMI send message command are retryable, but are not
being retried by the IPMI code. Make sure they get retried.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Frederic Lelievre <Frederic.Lelievre@ca.kontron.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the case where an open creates the file, we shouldn't be rechecking
permissions to open the file; the open succeeds regardless of what the new
file's mode bits say.
This patch fixes the problem, but only by introducing yet another parameter
to nfsd_create_v3. This is ugly. This will be fixed by later patches.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This is just commit 130fe05dbc0114609cfef9815c0c5580b42decfa ported to
x86-64, for all the same reasons. It cleans up the IO-APIC accesses in
order to then fix the ordering issues.
We move the accessor functions (that were only used by io_apic.c) out of
a header file, and use proper memory-mapped accesses rather than making
up our own "volatile" pointers.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3927/1: Allow show_mem() to work with holes in memory map.
[ARM] 3926/1: make timer led handle HZ != 100
[ARM] 3923/1: S3C24XX: update s3c2410_defconfig with new drivers
[ARM] 3922/1: S3C24XX: update s3c2410_defconfig to 2.6.19-rc4
[ARM] 3921/1: S3C24XX: remove bast_defconfig
[ARM] 3920/1: S3C24XX: Remove smdk2410_defconfig
[ARM] 3919/1: Fixed definition of some PXA270 CIF related registers
[ARM] 3918/1: ixp4xx irq-chip rework
[ARM] 3912/1: Make PXA270 advertise HWCAP_IWMMXT capability
[ARM] 3915/1: S3C2412: Add s3c2410_gpio_getirq() to general gpio.c
[ARM] 3917/1: Fix dmabounce symbol exports
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32:
AVR32: Add missing return instruction in __raw_writesb
AVR32: Wire up sys_epoll_pwait
AVR32: Fix thinko in generic_find_next_zero_le_bit()
AVR32: Get rid of board_early_init
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Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
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This patch takes the CTL_UNNUMBERD concept from NFS and makes it available to
all new sysctl users.
At the same time the sysctl binary interface maintenance documentation is
updated to mention and to describe what is needed to successfully maintain the
sysctl binary interface.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Since it is becoming clear that there are just enough users of the binary
sysctl interface that completely removing the binary interface from the kernel
will not be an option for foreseeable future, we need to find a way to address
the sysctl maintenance issues.
The basic problem is that sysctl requires one central authority to allocate
sysctl numbers, or else conflicts and ABI breakage occur. The proc interface
to sysctl does not have that problem, as names are not densely allocated.
By not terminating a sysctl table until I have neither a ctl_name nor a
procname, it becomes simple to add sysctl entries that don't show up in the
binary sysctl interface. Which allows people to avoid allocating a binary
sysctl value when not needed.
I have audited the kernel code and in my reading I have not found a single
sysctl table that wasn't terminated by a completely zero filled entry. So
this change in behavior should not affect anything.
I think this mechanism eases the pain enough that combined with a little
disciple we can solve the reoccurring sysctl ABI breakage.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NETLABEL]: Fix build failure.
[IPV6]: Give sit driver an appropriate module alias.
[IPV6]: Add ndisc_netdev_notifier unregister.
[NET]: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation
[PKTGEN]: TCI endianness fixes
[TG3]: Fix 2nd ifup failure on 5752M.
[NETFILTER] bug: skb->protocol is already net-endian
[NETFILTER] bug: nfulnl_msg_config_mode ->copy_range is 32bit
[NETFILTER] bug: NFULA_CFG_QTHRESH uses 32bit
[IPV6]: Fix ECN bug on big-endian
[IPX]: Annotate and fix IPX checksum
[IPX]: Trivial parts of endianness annotations
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When I added the entries for the robust futex syscall entries, I
forgot to bump NR_SYSCALLS. The current situation is error-prone
because NR_SYSCALLS lives in entry.S where the system call limit
checks are enforced. Move the definition to asm/unistd.h in order to
make this mistake much more difficult to make.
And wire up sys_migrate_pages since the powerpc folks implemented the
compat wrapper for us.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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__constant_htons(2<<4) is not a replacement for
htonl(2<<20).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Calculation of IPX checksum got buggered about 2.4.0. The old variant
mangled the packet; that got fixed, but calculation itself got buggered.
Restored the correct logics, fixed a subtle breakage we used to have even
back then: if the sum is 0 mod 0xffff, we want to return 0, not 0xffff.
The latter has special meaning for IPX (cheksum disabled). Observation
(and obvious fix) nicked from history of FreeBSD ipx_cksum.c...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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