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    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Typo after 8250_cs update (SERIAL) · 508e50ca
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
      
      s/GetConfiguration/GetConfigurationInfo/
      508e50ca
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      [PATCH] export flush_tlb_all for drm modules · 8a8197fa
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>
      
      This adds an export for flush_tlb_all to i386_ksyms.c.  The drm modules
      miss this, when compiling for SMP.
      
      I changed Jan's patch to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
      8a8197fa
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] htree: set the dir index bit in the right place · 0509a1c2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
      
      Don't set the directory's index flag until we know that we're doing ahead
      with the directory modification.
      0509a1c2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] NCR53C9x compile fix · 76046ffa
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      
      NCR53C9x SCSI: Fix compilation after breakage in 2.5.71
      76046ffa
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] correct mail addresses for visws support · 234b111c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
      
      this trivial patch changes mailing list address for visws subarch support
      along with some occurences of my old email addresses.
      234b111c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ext3: fix memory leak · 508fc350
      Andrew Morton authored
      We need to unconditionally brelse() the buffer in there, because
      journal_remove_journal_head() leaves a ref behind.
      
      release_buffer_page() does that.  Call it all the time because we can usually
      strip the buffers and free the page even if it was not marked buffer_freed().
      
      Mainly affects data=journal mode
      508fc350
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ext3: fix page lock vs journal_start ranking bug · 30276fd6
      Andrew Morton authored
      ext3_block_truncate_page() is calling grab_cache_page() inside a JBD
      transaction.  This is wrong, because transactions nest inside lock_page().
      
      The deadlock is against shrink_list->ext3_journalled_writepage->journal_start.
      
      This was not noticed before because we never used to journal writepage() data
      in journalled-data mode.  And because the deadlock against
      generic_file_write() is covered up by i_sem.
      
      Rework things so that we lock the page prior to starting a transaction.
      30276fd6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] compat_sys_old_getrlimit() depends on · b70732ef
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
      
      compat_sys_old_getrlimit() depends on sys_old_getrlimit() and the patch
      below updates the guarding #ifdef accordingly.
      b70732ef
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] normalise node load for NUMA · 325a2824
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
      
      This patch ensures that when node loads are compared, the load value is
      normalised.  Without this, load balance across nodes of dissimilar cpu
      counts can cause unfairness and sometimes lower overall performance.
      
      For example, a 2 node system with 4 cpus in the first node and 2 cpus in
      the second.  A workload with 6 running tasks would have 3 tasks running on
      one node and 3 on the other, leaving one cpu idle in the first node and two
      tasks sharing a cpu in the second node.  The patch would ensure that 4
      tasks run in the first node and 2 in the second.
      
      I ran some kernel compiles comparing this patch on a 2 node 4 cpu/2 cpu
      system to show the benefits.  Without the patch I got 140 second elapsed
      time.  With the patch I get 132 seconds (6% better).
      
      Although it is not very common to have nodes with dissimilar cpu counts, it
      is already happening.  PPC64 systems with partitioning have this happen,
      and I expect it to be more common on ia32 as partitioning becomes more
      common.
      325a2824
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Column counting fix in n_tty.c · 4f758d8f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
      
      Here's a column counting bug that was lurking in a corner of n_tty.c.
      4f758d8f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] workaround for smb_proc_getattr oops · 1a5cf580
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
      
      smbfs tends to oops over a null server->ops->getattr in smb_proc_getattr().
      
      Urban says:
      
       In 2.5 the server->ops is initialized when smbfs gets a connection, to
       match whatever the server is capable of or not. This happens after the
       mount syscall so smbfs is then mounted but not usable.
      
       Not sure if smb_lookup is always called before any other operation that
       uses server->ops. If it is then it would be enough to have a test there.
      
       Otherwise I will just change all users of server->ops to verify the
       pointer first and return -EIO or something.
      
      Al Viro says (paraphrasing)
      
       ugh, we need mount2().
      
      It doesn't look to me like we'll be getting mount2() in the 2.6 timeframe.
      Zwane's patch implement's Urban's workaround.
      1a5cf580
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] dentry->d_count fixes: hpfs · 06171a48
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
      
      - hpfs_unlink() can race with lockless d_lookup(), as we can have situations
        where d_lookup() has successfully looked-up a dentry and at the sametime
        hpfs_unlink()--->d_drop() has dropped it. Taking the per dentry lock
        before checking the d_count in hpfs_unlink() solves this race condition.
      06171a48
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] dentry->d_count fixes: nfs_unlink · e59317b4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
      
      - nfs_unlink() can race with lockless d_lookup() as d_lookup() can
        successfully lookup a dentry for which nfs_unlink() can assume that no one
        else is using and can go ahead and do nfs_safe_remove() on it. By using
        per dentry lock, it is solved as we d_lookup() will fail the lookup for
        unhashed dentries.
      e59317b4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] dentry->d_count fixes: d_invalidate · 67ae67d5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
      
      - d_invalidate() can incorrectly return success instead of returning -EBUSY
        as we can have situations where lockless d_lookup has found a dentry
        successfully before d_invalidate drops it
      67ae67d5
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] get_unmapped_area() speedup · 91bf7a38
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ingo Molnar
      
      Apparently our thread-creation performance has gone down the tubes again,
      because the mm.free_area_cache search heuristic broke.
      
      The initial, more naive hole-cache patch helped the testcode in the
      beginning.  Then after some point glibc started creating a 'small hole' in
      the vmas, which hole was _below_ the thread stacks, and which hole thus
      prevented the intended operation of the cache.
      
      The new code solves the problem by relaxing the 'smallest address hole cache'
      rule a bit, the cache is now not re-set at every get_unmapped_area() time,
      it's only re-set during unmaps.  It's also re-set if there are no allocatable
      mappings at all - ie.  correctness is not affected.
      91bf7a38
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] common name for the kernel DSO · 212d286c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
      
      Give the ia32 vsyscall DSO the same name as ia64's.
      212d286c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] AT_SECURE auxv entry · 177be0a4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch adds an AT_SECURE auxv entry to pass a boolean flag indicating
      whether "secure mode" should be enabled (i.e.  sanitize the environment,
      initial descriptors, etc) and allows each security module to specify the
      flag value via a new hook.
      
      New userland can then simply obey this flag when present rather than
      applying other methods of deciding (sample patch for glibc-2.3.2 can be
      found at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sds/glibc-secureexec.patch).
      
      This change enables security modules like SELinux to request secure mode
      upon changes to other security attributes (e.g.  capabilities,
      roles/domains, etc) in addition to uid/gid changes or even to completely
      override the legacy logic.
      
      The legacy decision algorithm is preserved in the default hook functions
      for the dummy and capability security modules.
      
      Credit for the idea of adding an AT_SECURE auxv entry goes to Roland
      McGrath.
      177be0a4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] misc fixes · b10b09be
      Andrew Morton authored
      - unused var warning in pnp_add_irq_resource()
      
      - unused var in fd_mcs.c (Adrian Bunk)
      
      - remove dead code in i810_main.c (a u8 cannot exceed 255) (Adrian Bunk)
      
      - don't truncate dma_addr_t's in gdth.c (Jes Sorensen)
      
      - vgastate.c needs vmalloc.h (Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>)
      
      - revert bogus test from rd_open() - it was a 2.4 forward-port, and 2.5
        doesn't need it.  (The gendisks aren't registered, we cannot get there
        anyway).
      b10b09be
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] setscheduler needs to force a reschedule · 71c19018
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
      
      Basically, the problem is that setscheduler() does not set need_resched
      when needed.  There are two basic cases where this is needed:
      
      	- the task is running, but now it is no longer the highest
      	  priority task on the rq
      	- the task is not running, but now it is the highest
      	  priority task on the rq
      
      In either case, we need to set need_resched to invoke the scheduler.
      71c19018