- 11 Apr, 2012 4 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediaLinus Torvalds authored
Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - dvb core: there is a regression found when used with xine. For whatever unknown reason, xine (and xine-lib clients) wants that the frontend to tell what frequency he is using even before the PLL lock (or at least, it expects a non-zero frequency). On DVB, the frequency is only actually known after a frequency zig-zag seek, done by the DVB core. Anyway, the fix was trivial. That solves Fedora BZ#808871. - ivtv: fix a regression when selecting the language channel - uvc: fix a race-related crash - it913x: fixes firmware loading - two trivial patches (a dependency issue at a radio driver at sound Kconfig, and a warning fix on dvb). * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: [media] uvcvideo: Fix race-related crash in uvc_video_clock_update() [media] Drivers/media/radio: Fix build error [media] dvb_frontend: fix compiler warning [media] it913x: fix firmware loading errors [media] ivtv: Fix AUDIO_(BILINGUAL_)CHANNEL_SELECT regression [media] dvb_frontend: regression fix: userspace ABI broken for xine
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
Pull GFS2 fixes from Steven Whitehouse * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixes: GFS2: Allow caching of rindex glock GFS2: Make sure rindex is uptodate before starting transactions GFS2: use depends instead of select in kconfig GFS2: put glock reference in error patch of read_rindex_entry
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Linus Torvalds authored
This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user() by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at a time. Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason). Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it adds, due to the de-duplication. Also, we no longer export (or define) the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and the user address space checks are built in to the new code. Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the address space. Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
keyctl_session_to_parent(task) sets ->replacement_session_keyring, it should be processed and cleared by key_replace_session_keyring(). However, this task can fork before it notices TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and the new child gets the bogus ->replacement_session_keyring copied by dup_task_struct(). This is obviously wrong and, if nothing else, this leads to put_cred(already_freed_cred). change copy_creds() to clear this member. If copy_process() fails before this point the wrong ->replacement_session_keyring doesn't matter, exit_creds() won't be called. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 Apr, 2012 9 commits
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Kees Cook authored
This fixes builds where CONFIG_AUDIT is not defined and CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK=y. This got introduced by the stack-usage reducation commit 48c62af6 ("LSM: shrink the common_audit_data data union"). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengineLinus Torvalds authored
Pull dmaengine fixes from Dan Williams: 1/ regression fix for Xen as it now trips over a broken assumption about the dma address size on 32-bit builds 2/ new quirk for netdma to ignore dma channels that cannot meet netdma alignment requirements 3/ fixes for two long standing issues in ioatdma (ring size overflow) and iop-adma (potential stack corruption) * tag 'dmaengine-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine: netdma: adding alignment check for NETDMA ops ioatdma: DMA copy alignment needed to address IOAT DMA silicon errata ioat: ring size variables need to be 32bit to avoid overflow iop-adma: Corrected array overflow in RAID6 Xscale(R) test. ioat: fix size of 'completion' for Xen
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull sparc fixes from David Miller: 1) Build fix for LEON, from Sam Ravnborg. 2) Make the sparc side changes that go along with the infrastructure to retry faults when blocking on a disk transfer. From Kautuk Consul. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: sparc32,leon: fix leon build sparc/mm/fault_32.c: Port OOM changes to do_sparc_fault sparc/mm/fault_64.c: Port OOM changes to do_sparc64_fault
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulatorLinus Torvalds authored
Pull a regulator build fix from Mark Brown: "Fix a build warning in the anatop driver for 3.4 This is a trivial rename to stop the build system complaining that we're referencing things we shouldn't be." * tag 'regulator-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator: regulator: anatop: fix 'anatop_regulator' name collision
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/umlLinus Torvalds authored
Pull UML fixes from Richard Weinberger. * 'for-3.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: um: uml_setup_stubs': warning: unused variable 'pages' um: Use asm-generic/switch_to.h um: Disintegrate asm/system.h um: switch cow_user.h to htobe{32,64}/betoh{32,64} um: several x86 hw-dependent crypto modules won't build on uml um: fix linker script generation
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Kristen Carlson Accardi authored
Don't call i2c_enable on resume because it causes a spurious interrupt. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bob Peterson authored
This patch allows caching of the rindex glock. We were previously setting the GL_NOCACHE bit when the glock was released. That forced the rindex inode to be invalidated, which caused us to re-read rindex at the next access. However, it caused the glock to be unnecessarily bounced around the cluster. This patch allows the glock to remain cached, but it still causes the rindex to be re-read once it has been written to by gfs2_grow. Ben and I have tested single-node gfs2_grow cases and I've tested clustered gfs2_grow cases on my four-node cluster. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Frank Rowand authored
Commit f02e8a65 ("module: Sort exported symbols") sorts symbols placing each of them in its own elf section. This sorting and merging into the canonical sections are done by the linker. Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux.o (which is not linked yet) and all modules object files (which aren't linked yet). These aren't sanitized by the linker yet. That breaks modpost that can't detect license properly for modules. This patch makes modpost aware of the new exported symbols structure. [ This above is a slightly corrected version of the explanation of the problem, copied from commit 62a26356 ("modpost: Fix modpost's license checking V3"). That commit fixed the problem for module object files, but not for vmlinux.o. This patch fixes modpost for vmlinux.o. ] Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes authored
The task handoff notifier leaks task_struct since it never gets freed after the callback returns NOTIFY_OK, which means it is responsible for doing so. It turns out the lowmemorykiller actually doesn't need this notifier at all. It's used to prevent unnecessary killing by waiting for a thread to exit as a result of lowmem_shrink(), however, it's possible to do this in the same way the kernel oom killer works by setting TIF_MEMDIE and avoid killing if we're still waiting for it to exit. The kernel oom killer will already automatically set TIF_MEMDIE for threads that are attempting to allocate memory that have a fatal signal. The thread selected by lowmem_shrink() will have such a signal after the lowmemorykiller sends it a SIGKILL, so this won't result in an unnecessary use of memory reserves for the thread to exit. This has the added benefit that we don't have to rely on CONFIG_PROFILING to prevent needlessly killing tasks. Reported-by: Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.ru> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 Apr, 2012 12 commits
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Boaz Harrosh authored
Fix the following gcc complain arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c: In function 'uml_setup_stubs': arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c:106:16: warning: unused variable 'pages' [-Wunused-variable] Signed-Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Richard Weinberger authored
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Richard Weinberger authored
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> CC: dhowells@redhat.com
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Al Viro authored
... rather than open-coding the 64bit versions. endian.h has those guys. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
while we can't just use -U$(SUBARCH), we still need to kill idiotic define (implicit -Di386=1), both for SUBARCH=i386 and SUBARCH=x86/CONFIG_64BIT=n builds. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Laurent Pinchart authored
The driver frees the clock samples buffer before stopping the video buffers queue. If a DQBUF call arrives in-between, uvc_video_clock_update() will be called with a NULL clock samples buffer, leading to a crash. This occurs very frequently when using the webcam with the flash browser plugin. Move clock initialization/cleanup to uvc_video_enable() in order to free the clock samples buffer after the queue is stopped. Make sure the clock is reset at resume time to avoid miscalculating timestamps. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Hans Verkuil authored
On Sunday, April 01, 2012 21:09:34 Tracey Dent wrote: > radio-maxiradio depends on SND_FM801_TEA575X_BOOL to build or will > result in an build error such as: > > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1) > ERROR: "snd_tea575x_init" [drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.ko] undefined! > ERROR: "snd_tea575x_exit" [drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.ko] undefined! > WARNING: modpost: Found 6 section mismatch(es). > To see full details build your kernel with: > 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 > > Select CONFIG_SND_TEA575X to fixes problem and enable > the driver to be built as desired. > > v2: > instead of selecting CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X_BOOL, select > CONFIG_SND_TEA575X, which in turns selects CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X_BOOL > and any other dependencies for it to build. No, this is the correct patch: RADIO_MAXIRADIO should be treated just like RADIO_SF16FMR2, I just didn't realize at the time that it had to be added as a SND_TEA575X dependency. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Tested-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Hans Petter Selasky authored
has_get_frontend() should return a boolean, not a pointer. Signed-off-by: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Malcolm Priestley authored
On some systems the device does not respond or give obscure values after cold, warm or firmware reboot. This patch retries to get chip version and type 5 times. If it fails it applies chip version 0x1 and type 0x9135. This patch does not fix warm cycle problems from other operating systems and indeed the reverse applies. Users should power off cold boot. Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Hans Verkuil authored
When I converted ivtv to the new decoder API I introduced a regression in the support of the old channel select API. Thanks to Martin Dauskardt for reporting this. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Chris Rankin authored
The commit e399ce77 has broken the DVB ABI for xine: The problem is that xine is expecting every event after a successful FE_SET_FRONTEND ioctl to have a non-zero frequency parameter, regardless of whether the tuning process has LOCKed yet. What used to happen is that the events inherited the initial tuning parameters from the FE_SET_FRONTEND call. However, the fepriv->parameters_out struct is now not initialised until the status contains the FE_HAS_LOCK bit. You might argue that this behaviour is intentional, except that if an application other than xine uses the DVB adapter and manages to set the parameters_out.frequency field to something other than zero, then xine no longer has any problems until either the adapter is replugged or the kernel modules reloaded. This can only mean that the fepriv->parameters_out struct still contains the (stale) tuning information from the previous application. Signed-off-by: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # for kernel version 3.3 Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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- 08 Apr, 2012 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 07 Apr, 2012 13 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmapLinus Torvalds authored
Pull two more small regmap fixes from Mark Brown: - Now we have users for it that aren't running Android it turns out that regcache_sync_region() is much more useful to drivers if it's exported for use by modules. Who knew? - Make sure we don't divide by zero when doing debugfs dumps of rbtrees, not visible up until now because everything was providing at least some cache on startup. * tag 'regmap-3.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap: regmap: prevent division by zero in rbtree_show regmap: Export regcache_sync_region()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull a few KVM fixes from Avi Kivity: "A bunch of powerpc KVM fixes, a guest and a host RCU fix (unrelated), and a small build fix." * 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: Resolve RCU vs. async page fault problem KVM: VMX: vmx_set_cr0 expects kvm->srcu locked KVM: PMU: Fix integer constant is too large warning in kvm_pmu_set_msr() KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Fix preemption KVM: PPC: Save/Restore CR over vcpu_run KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save and restore CR in __kvmppc_vcore_entry KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix kvm_alloc_linear in case where no linears exist KVM: PPC: Book3S: Compile fix for ppc32 in HIOR access code
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git://github.com/pmundt/linux-shLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SuperH fixes from Paul Mundt. * tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh: sh: fix clock-sh7757 for the latest sh_mobile_sdhi driver serial: sh-sci: use serial_port_in/out vs sci_in/out. sh: vsyscall: Fix up .eh_frame generation. sh: dma: Fix up device attribute mismatch from sysdev fallout. sh: dwarf unwinder depends on SHcompact. sh: fix up fallout from system.h disintegration.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-securityLinus Torvalds authored
Pull security layer fixlet from James Morris. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: sysctl: fix write access to dmesg_restrict/kptr_restrict
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ACPI & Power Management patches from Len Brown: "Two fixes for cpuidle merge-window changes, plus a URL fix in MAINTAINERS" * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux: MAINTAINERS: Update git url for ACPI cpuidle: Fix panic in CPU off-lining with no idle driver ACPI processor: Use safe_halt() rather than halt() in acpi_idle_play_dead()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pendingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger: "Pull two tcm_fc fabric related fixes for -rc2: Note that both have been CC'ed to stable, and patch #1 is the important one that addresses a memory corruption bug related to FC exchange timeouts + command abort. Thanks again to MDR for tracking down this issue!" * '3.4-rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: tcm_fc: Do not free tpg structure during wq allocation failure tcm_fc: Add abort flag for gracefully handling exchange timeout
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Mark Rustad authored
Avoid freeing a registered tpg structure if an alloc_workqueue call fails. This fixes a bug where the failure was leaking memory associated with se_portal_group setup during the original core_tpg_register() call. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Acked-by: Kiran Patil <Kiran.patil@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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Mark Rustad authored
Add abort flag and use it to terminate processing when an exchange is timed out or is reset. The abort flag is used in place of the transport_generic_free_cmd function call in the reset and timeout cases, because calling that function in that context would free memory that was in use. The aborted flag allows the lifetime to be managed in a more normal way, while truncating the processing. This change eliminates a source of memory corruption which manifested in a variety of ugly ways. (nab: Drop unused struct fc_exch *ep in ft_recv_seq) Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Acked-by: Kiran Patil <Kiran.patil@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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Len Brown authored
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Igor Murzov authored
Signed-off-by: Igor Murzov <e-mail@date.by> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tileLinus Torvalds authored
Pull arch/tile bug fixes from Chris Metcalf: "This includes Paul Gortmaker's change to fix the <asm/system.h> disintegration issues on tile, a fix to unbreak the tilepro ethernet driver, and a backlog of bugfix-only changes from internal Tilera development over the last few months. They have all been to LKML and on linux-next for the last few days. The EDAC change to MAINTAINERS is an oddity but discussion on the linux-edac list suggested I ask you to pull that change through my tree since they don't have a tree to pull edac changes from at the moment." * 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (39 commits) drivers/net/ethernet/tile: fix netdev_alloc_skb() bombing MAINTAINERS: update EDAC information tilepro ethernet driver: fix a few minor issues tile-srom.c driver: minor code cleanup edac: say "TILEGx" not "TILEPro" for the tilegx edac driver arch/tile: avoid accidentally unmasking NMI-type interrupt accidentally arch/tile: remove bogus performance optimization arch/tile: return SIGBUS for addresses that are unaligned AND invalid arch/tile: fix finv_buffer_remote() for tilegx arch/tile: use atomic exchange in arch_write_unlock() arch/tile: stop mentioning the "kvm" subdirectory arch/tile: export the page_home() function. arch/tile: fix pointer cast in cacheflush.c arch/tile: fix single-stepping over swint1 instructions on tilegx arch/tile: implement panic_smp_self_stop() arch/tile: add "nop" after "nap" to help GX idle power draw arch/tile: use proper memparse() for "maxmem" options arch/tile: fix up locking in pgtable.c slightly arch/tile: don't leak kernel memory when we unload modules arch/tile: fix bug in delay_backoff() ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen Pull xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Two fixes for regressions: * one is a workaround that will be removed in v3.5 with proper fix in the tip/x86 tree, * the other is to fix drivers to load on PV (a previous patch made them only load in PVonHVM mode). The rest are just minor fixes in the various drivers and some cleanup in the core code." * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen/pcifront: avoid pci_frontend_enable_msix() falsely returning success xen/pciback: fix XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix result xen/smp: Remove unnecessary call to smp_processor_id() xen/x86: Workaround 'x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries' xen: only check xen_platform_pci_unplug if hvm
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MMC fixes from Chris Ball: - Disable use of MSI in sdhci-pci, which caused multiple chipsets to stop working in 3.4-rc1. I'll wait to turn this on again until we have a chipset whitelist for it. - Fix a libertas SDIO powered-resume regression introduced in 3.3; thanks to Neil Brown and Rafael Wysocki for this fix. - Fix module reloading on omap_hsmmc. - Stop trusting the spec/card's specified maximum data timeout length, and use three seconds instead. Previously we used 300ms. Also cleanups and fixes for s3c, atmel, sh_mmcif and omap_hsmmc. * tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc: (28 commits) mmc: use really long write timeout to deal with crappy cards mmc: sdhci-dove: Fix compile error by including module.h mmc: Prevent 1.8V switch for SD hosts that don't support UHS modes. Revert "mmc: sdhci-pci: Add MSI support" Revert "mmc: sdhci-pci: add quirks for broken MSI on O2Micro controllers" mmc: core: fix power class selection mmc: omap_hsmmc: fix module re-insertion mmc: omap_hsmmc: convert to module_platform_driver mmc: omap_hsmmc: make it behave well as a module mmc: omap_hsmmc: trivial cleanups mmc: omap_hsmmc: context save after enabling runtime pm mmc: omap_hsmmc: use runtime put sync in probe error patch mmc: sdio: Use empty system suspend/resume callbacks at the bus level mmc: bus: print bus speed mode of UHS-I card mmc: sdhci-pci: add quirks for broken MSI on O2Micro controllers mmc: sh_mmcif: Simplify calculation of mmc->f_min mmc: sh_mmcif: mmc->f_max should be half of the bus clock mmc: sh_mmcif: double clock speed mmc: block: Remove use of mmc_blk_set_blksize mmc: atmel-mci: add support for odd clock dividers ...
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- 06 Apr, 2012 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
I have a new optimized x86 "strncpy_from_user()" that will use these same helper functions for all the same reasons the name lookup code uses them. This is preparation for that. This moves them into an architecture-specific header file. It's architecture-specific for two reasons: - some of the functions are likely to want architecture-specific implementations. Even if the current code happens to be "generic" in the sense that it should work on any little-endian machine, it's likely that the "multiply by a big constant and shift" implementation is less than optimal for an architecture that has a guaranteed fast bit count instruction, for example. - I expect that if architectures like sparc want to start playing around with this, we'll need to abstract out a few more details (in particular the actual unaligned accesses). So we're likely to have more architecture-specific stuff if non-x86 architectures start using this. (and if it turns out that non-x86 architectures don't start using this, then having it in an architecture-specific header is still the right thing to do, of course) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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