- 17 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Grant Grundler authored
local_t is a variant of atomic_t and has related ops to match. Add reference for local_t documentation to atomic_ops.txt. Signed-off-by:
Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to local_ops.txt. "Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful." Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Since CONFIG_RAMFS is currently hard-selected to "y", and since Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt reads as follows: "The amount of code required to implement ramfs is tiny, because all the work is done by the existing Linux caching infrastructure. Basically, you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem. Because of this, ramfs is not an optional component removable via menuconfig, since there would be negligible space savings." It seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry. Signed-off-by:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "disk" was NULL. Since "disk" being NULL seems impossible at this point this patch removes the NULL check. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by:
Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used. Signed-off-by:Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
kernel/sys_ni.c can't #include <linux/syscalls.h> due to cond_syscall(), but let's tell gcc to not warn with -Wmissing-prototypes. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted that we'd have already oops'ed if "tty" was NULL. Since "tty" can't be NULL when we reach this line of code this patch removes the NULL check. Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>. This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h. Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
mm.h doesn't use directly anything from mutex.h and backing-dev.h, so remove them and add them back to files which need them. Cross-compile tested on many configs and archs. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Steve Cameron authored
This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" field of the request structure upon completion of requests. Previously, it just put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation of this as the uptodate parameter to one of the functions in the block layer, being a block device. For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not sufficient, and we noticed that, for example, sg_turs from sg3_utils did not correctly detect problems due to cciss having set rq->errors incorrectly. Signed-off-by:
Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Acked-by:
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Paul Clements authored
Allow NBD I/O to be cancelled when a network outage occurs. Previously, I/O would just hang, and if enough I/O was hung in nbd, the system (at least user-level) would completely hang until a TCP timeout (default, 15 minutes) occurred. The patch introduces a new ioctl NBD_SET_TIMEOUT that allows a transmit timeout value (in seconds) to be specified. Any network send that exceeds the timeout will be cancelled and the nbd connection will be shut down. I've tested with various timeout values and 6 seconds seems to be a good choice for the timeout. If the NBD_SET_TIMEOUT ioctl is not called, you get the old (I/O hang) behavior. Signed-off-by:
Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Clements authored
This fixes errors with utilities (such as LVM's vgscan) that try to scan all devices. Previously this would generate read errors when uninitialized nbd devices were scanned: # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Input/output error /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error /dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error From now on, uninitialized nbd devices will have size zero, which prevents these errors. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
I would suggest this change to make CodingStyle properly reflect the style used by the kernel, rather than the current wording which is wishful thinking and misleading, and comes from the same school of thought that gets off on prescriptive grammar, latin and comp.std.c Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
AUTO_DMA and FLOPPY_MOTOR_MASK in include/asm-*/floppy.h are dead symbols - remove them. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
The floppy driver is already written to be able to operate in virtual DMA mode. Thus it can easily be adjusted to tolerate failure from fd_request_dma() as long as virtual DMA mode is not disallowed. Signed-off-by:
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Avi Kivity authored
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k). On those archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt). So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by everyone. Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
No longer used. TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE will also go soon but needs a couple of other cleanups first Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are really used if futexes are on. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored
Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros. Old vmcoreinfo macros were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is impossible to grep for them. So these names should be changed. This discussion is the following: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.htmlSigned-off-by:
Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored
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Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored
[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data. The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint. So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch to let the kernel output them. makedumpfile site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/Signed-off-by:
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Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html - vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that the compiler can check its use. - vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t. - Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec. - Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE. Signed-off-by:
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Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system. makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump. It creates a small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging information. These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is hard to install it into each system. To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml. As the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html) Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html) And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models. (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html) Signed-off-by:
Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Signed-off-by:
Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Fix this lot: fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `decompress_exec': fs/binfmt_flat.c:293: warning: label `out' defined but not used fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_file': fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3) fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 4) fs/binfmt_flat.c:518: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast fs/binfmt_flat.c:549: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast fs/binfmt_flat.c:601: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_binary': fs/binfmt_flat.c:116: warning: 'dummy' might be used uninitialized in this function Acked-by:
Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Frysinger authored
Simply fill out the bits in checkstack.pl for Blackfin. I thought I already sent this, but I don't see it in -mm anywhere ... Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says: * If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple * threads, make sure we take it before changing the action. I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case, bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction. Kill this special case. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() yields waiting for ->group_leader to be a zombie. This deadlocks if an rt-prio execer shares the same cpu with ->group_leader. Change the code to use ->group_exit_task/notify_count mechanics. This patch certainly uglifies the code, perhaps someone can suggest something better. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Now that we don't pre-allocate the new ->sighand, we can kill the first fast path, it doesn't make sense any longer. At best, it can save one "list_empty()" check but leads to the code duplication. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() pre-allocates newsighand to make sure that exec() can't fail after killing all sub-threads. Imho, this buys nothing, but complicates the code: - this is (mostly) needed to handle CLONE_SIGHAND without CLONE_THREAD tasks, this is very unlikely (if ever used) case - unless we already have some serious problems, GFP_KERNEL allocation should not fail - ENOMEM still can happen after de_thread(), ->sighand is not the last object we have to allocate Change the code to allocate the new ->sighand on demand. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
There is no any reason to do recalc_sigpending() after changing ->sighand. To begin with, recalc_sigpending() does not take ->sighand into account. This means we don't need to take newsighand->siglock while changing sighands. rcu_assign_pointer() provides a necessary barrier, and if another process reads the new ->sighand it should either take tasklist_lock or it should use lock_task_sighand() which has a corresponding smp_read_barrier_depends(). Signed-off-by:
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Fix f_version type: should be u64 instead of long There is a type inconsistency between struct inode i_version and struct file f_version. fs.h: struct inode u64 i_version; and struct file unsigned long f_version; Users do: fs/ext3/dir.c: if (filp->f_version != inode->i_version) { So why isn't f_version a u64 ? It becomes a problem if versions gets higher than 2^32 and we are on an architecture where longs are 32 bits. This patch changes the f_version type to u64, and updates the users accordingly. It applies to 2.6.23-rc2-mm2. Signed-off-by: -
Jeff Moyer authored
Some months back I proposed changing the schedule() call in read_events to an io_schedule(): http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.aio.general/2006-10/msg00024.html This was rejected as there are AIO operations that do not initiate disk I/O. I've had another look at the problem, and the only AIO operation that will not initiate disk I/O is IOCB_CMD_NOOP. However, this command isn't even wired up! Given that it doesn't work, and hasn't for *years*, I'm going to suggest again that we do proper I/O accounting when using AIO. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Repost of http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/472 made available by request. The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU. This patch changes rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface (relying on interrupts, preemption, daemons, and rcutorture's reader thread's rock-bottom scheduling priority to provide useful entropy), and also adds and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make that interface available to GPLed kernel modules such as rcutorture. Passes several hours of rcutorture. [ego@in.ibm.com: Use raw_smp_processor_id() in rcu_random()] Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant. However, I used NR_CPUS, which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your kernel config. This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we spread it as evenly as possible on every machine. Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention. Signed-off-by:
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Wright authored
Lomesh reported poll returning EINTR during suspend/resume cycle. This is caused by the STOP/CONT cycle that the freezer uses, generating a pending signal for what in effect is an ignored signal. In general poll is a little eager in returning EINTR, when it could try not bother userspace and simply restart the syscall. Both select and ppoll do use ERESTARTNOHAND to restart the syscall. Oleg points out that simply using ERESTARTNOHAND will cause poll to restart with original timeout value. which could ultimately lead to process never returning to userspace. Instead use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK, and restart poll with updated timeout value. Inspired by Manfred's use ERESTARTNOHAND in poll patch. [bunk@kernel.org: do_restart_poll() can become static] Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh.agarwal@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Allow disabling DNOTIFY with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n. I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run into any problem. Is there any popular application left that breaks without dnotify support in the kernel? Note that this patch does not remove dnotify support, it still defaults to "y", and the help text recommends enabling it. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
simple_commit_write() can now become static. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
- remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock - remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - xtime - xtime_lock Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058 first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry, etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page. This is under the BKL, printk-storming as well. This can lock up the machine for a very long time. Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back under control. Make the message a bit more informative while we're here. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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vignesh babu authored
Replace n & (n - 1) with is_power_of_2(n) Signed-off-by:
vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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