- 03 Apr, 2009 38 commits
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Shen Feng authored
Now /proc/sys is described in many places and much information is redundant. This patch updates the proc.txt and move the /proc/sys desciption out to the files in Documentation/sysctls. Details are: merge - 2.1 /proc/sys/fs - File system data - 2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem - 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface with Documentation/sysctls/fs.txt. remove - 2.2 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats since it's not better then the Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt. merge - 2.3 /proc/sys/kernel - general kernel parameters with Documentation/sysctls/kernel.txt remove - 2.5 /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters since it's obsolete the sysfs is used now. remove - 2.6 /proc/sys/sunrpc - Remote procedure calls since it's not better then the Documentation/sysctls/sunrpc.txt move - 2.7 /proc/sys/net - Networking stuff - 2.9 Appletalk - 2.10 IPX to newly created Documentation/sysctls/net.txt. remove - 2.8 /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings since it's not better then the Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. add - Chapter 3 Per-Process Parameters to descibe /proc/<pid>/xxx parameters. Signed-off-by:
Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Henrik Austad authored
When using 'make pdfdocs', auto-generated files should be ignored Signed-off-by:
Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roel Kluin authored
hppfs_read_file() may return (ssize_t) -ENOMEM, or -EFAULT. When stored in size_t 'count', these errors will not be noticed, a large value will be added to *ppos. Signed-off-by:
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Sometimes block_write_begin() can map buffers in a page but later we fail to copy data into those buffers (because the source page has been paged out in the mean time). We then end up with !uptodate mapped buffers. To add a bit more to the confusion, block_write_end() does not commit any data (and thus does not any mark buffers as uptodate) if we didn't succeed with copying all the data. Commit f4fc66a8 (ext3: convert to new aops) missed these cases and thus we were inserting non-uptodate buffers to transaction's list which confuses JBD code and it reports IO errors, aborts a transaction and generally makes users afraid about their data ;-P. This patch fixes the problem by reorganizing ext3_..._write_end() code to first call block_write_end() to mark buffers with valid data uptodate and after that we file only uptodate buffers to transaction's lists. We also fix a problem where we could leave blocks allocated beyond i_size (i_disksize in fact) because of failed write. We now add inode to orphan list when write fails (to be safe in case we crash) and then truncate blocks beyond i_size in a separate transaction. Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by:
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Bryan Donlan authored
ext3_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext[234]_lookup(), this -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the part of the admin. The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls -l said link. This patch thus changes ext3_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE from ext3_iget(), as ext3 does for other filesystem metadata corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is detected. Signed-off-by:
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yongjun authored
Use unsigned instead of int for the parameter which carries a blocksize. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
On 32-bit system with CONFIG_LBD getblk can fail because provided block number is too big. Make JBD gracefully handle that. Signed-off-by:
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Cyrus Massoumi authored
Reformat ext3/ioctl.c to make it look more like ext4/ioctl.c and remove the BKL around ext3_ioctl(). Signed-off-by:
Cyrus Massoumi <cyrusm@gmx.net> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by:
Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Erik Ekman authored
- Error code from kthread_run() is now returned in pnpbios_thread_init() - Remove variable which always was 0. Signed-off-by:
Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Erik Ekman authored
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c: In function 'pnpbios_thread_init': drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c:578: warning: unused variable 'task' Signed-off-by:
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Michael Buesch authored
Change spi-gpio so that it is possible to drive SPI communications over GPIO without the need for a chipselect signal. This is useful in very small setups where there's only one slave device on the bus. This patch does not affect existing setups. I use this for a tiny communication channel between an embedded device and a microcontroller. There are not enough GPIOs available for chipselect and it's not needed anyway in this case. Signed-off-by:
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
We want to phase out the GPIO "autorequest" mechanism in gpiolib and require all callers to use gpio_request(). - Update feature-removal-schedule - Update the documentation now - Convert the relevant pr_warning() in gpiolib to a WARN() so folk using this mechanism get a noisy stack dump Some drivers and board init code will probably need to change. Implementations not using gpiolib will still be fine; they are already required to implement gpio_{request,free}() stubs. Signed-off-by:David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Silverstone authored
Allow GPIOs in GPIOLIB chips to be named. This name is then used when the GPIO is exported to sysfs, although it could be used elsewhere if deemed useful. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@simtec.co.uk> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Glockner authored
Compared to the other supported chips, the m41t62 uses a different register to set the square wave frequency. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Glockner <dg@emlix.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Rapoport authored
The v3020 RTC can be connected to GPIOs as well as to memory-like interface. Add ability to use GPIO bit-bang for v3020 read-write access. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one in error path] Signed-off-by:
Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Acked-by:
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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Simon Kitching authored
initramfs uses printk without a linefeed, then does some work, then uses printk to finish the message off. However if some other code does a printk in between, then the messages get mixed together. Better for each message to be an independent line... Example of problem that this fixes: checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1 Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 it is Signed-off-by:Simon Kitching <skitching@apache.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
First argument unused since 2.3.11. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
- Define new setup() hook to export the accessor - Implement accessor methods Moves some error checking out of the sysfs interface code into the layer below it, which is now shared by both sysfs and memory access code. Signed-off-by:
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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Kevin Hilman authored
In the case of at24, the platform code registers a 'setup' callback with the at24_platform_data. When the at24 driver detects an EEPROM, it fills out the read and write functions of the memory_accessor and calls the setup callback passing the memory_accessor struct. The platform code can then use the read/write functions in the memory_accessor struct for reading and writing the EEPROM. Signed-off-by:
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Kevin Hilman authored
Add an interface by which other kernel code can read/write persistent memory such as I2C or SPI EEPROMs, or devices which provide NVRAM. Use cases include storage of board-specific configuration data like Ethernet addresses and sensor calibrations. Original idea, review and improvement suggestions by David Brownell. Acked-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
It is a fairly common operation to have a pointer to a work and to need a pointer to the delayed work it is contained in. In particular, all delayed works which want to rearm themselves will have to do that. So it would seem fair to offer a helper function for this operation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Fix the following warnings: arch/um/kernel/syscall.c: In function 'kernel_execve': arch/um/kernel/syscall.c:130: warning: passing argument 1 of 'um_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type arch/um/kernel/syscall.c:130: warning: passing argument 2 of 'um_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type arch/um/kernel/syscall.c:130: warning: passing argument 3 of 'um_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Fix the following link error: arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x11c): undefined reference to `ptregs_fork' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x140): undefined reference to `ptregs_execve' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x2cc): undefined reference to `ptregs_iopl' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x2d8): undefined reference to `ptregs_vm86old' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x2f0): undefined reference to `ptregs_sigreturn' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x2f4): undefined reference to `ptregs_clone' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x3ac): undefined reference to `ptregs_vm86' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x3c8): undefined reference to `ptregs_rt_sigreturn' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x3fc): undefined reference to `ptregs_sigaltstack' arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x40c): undefined reference to `ptregs_vfork' This was introduced by commit 253f29a4, "x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it" Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Fix the following compile error: arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c: In function 'uml_inetaddr_event': arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c:760: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open' This was introduced by commit 8bb95b39, "uml: convert network device to netdevice ops". Signed-off-by:
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Scott James Remnant authored
The missing device table means that the floppy module is not auto-loaded, even when the appropriate PNP device (0700) is found. We don't actually use the table in the module, since the device doesn't have a struct pnp_driver, but it's sufficient to cause an alias in the module that udev/modprobe will use. Signed-off-by:
Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Acked-by:
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
Check bh->b_blocknr only if BH_Mapped is set. akpm: I doubt if b_blocknr is ever uninitialised here, but it could conceivably cause a problem if we're doing a lookup for block zero. Signed-off-by:
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
A new "address_space flag"--AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS--was defined to use the next available AS flag while the Unevictable LRU was under development. The Unevictable LRU was using the same flag and "no one" noticed. Current mainline, since 2.6.28, has same value for two symbolic flag names. So, define a unique flag value for AS_UNEVICTABLE--up close to the other flags, [at the cost of an additional #ifdef] so we'll notice next time. Note that #ifdef is not actually required, if we don't mind having the unused flag value defined. Replace #defines with an enum. Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.x] Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
Include fiemap.h in header-y; it defines the interface for the FS_IOC_FIEMAP file mapping ioctl. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Ellerman authored
Add a MAINTAINERS entry for the hypervisor virtual console driver. Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by:
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
The calculation of the value nr in do_xip_mapping_read is incorrect. If the copy required more than one iteration in the do while loop the copies variable will be non-zero. The maximum length that may be passed to the call to copy_to_user(buf+copied, xip_mem+offset, nr) is len-copied but the check only compares against (nr > len). This bug is the cause for the heap corruption Carsten has been chasing for so long: *** glibc detected *** /bin/bash: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x00000000800e39f0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6[0x200000b9b44] /lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8e)[0x200000bdade] /bin/bash(free_buffered_stream+0x32)[0x80050e4e] /bin/bash(close_buffered_stream+0x1c)[0x80050ea4] /bin/bash(unset_bash_input+0x2a)[0x8001c366] /bin/bash(make_child+0x1d4)[0x8004115c] /bin/bash[0x8002fc3c] /bin/bash(execute_command_internal+0x656)[0x8003048e] /bin/bash(execute_command+0x5e)[0x80031e1e] /bin/bash(execute_command_internal+0x79a)[0x800305d2] /bin/bash(execute_command+0x5e)[0x80031e1e] /bin/bash(reader_loop+0x270)[0x8001efe0] /bin/bash(main+0x1328)[0x8001e960] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x100)[0x200000592a8] /bin/bash(clearerr+0x5e)[0x8001c092] With this bug fix the commit 0e4a9b59 "ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes" can be removed again. Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
Align rekey_work. Even though it's infrequent, we may as well line it up. Signed-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by:
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
Even though vmstat_work is marked deferrable, there are still benefits to aligning it. For certain applications we want to keep OS jitter as low as possible and aligning timers and work so they occur together can reduce their overall impact. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Layton authored
The dirtied_when value on an inode is supposed to represent the first time that an inode has one of its pages dirtied. This value is in units of jiffies. It's used in several places in the writeback code to determine when to write out an inode. The problem is that these checks assume that dirtied_when is updated periodically. If an inode is continuously being used for I/O it can be persistently marked as dirty and will continue to age. Once the time compared to is greater than or equal to half the maximum of the jiffies type, the logic of the time_*() macros inverts and the opposite of what is needed is returned. On 32-bit architectures that's just under 25 days (assuming HZ == 1000). As the least-recently dirtied inode, it'll end up being the first one that pdflush will try to write out. sync_sb_inodes does this check: /* Was this inode dirtied after sync_sb_inodes was called? */ if (time_after(inode->dirtied_when, start)) break; ...but now dirtied_when appears to be in the future. sync_sb_inodes bails out without attempting to write any dirty inodes. When this occurs, pdflush will stop writing out inodes for this superblock. Nothing can unwedge it until jiffies moves out of the problematic window. This patch fixes this problem by changing the checks against dirtied_when to also check whether it appears to be in the future. If it does, then we consider the value to be far in the past. This should shrink the problematic window of time to such a small period (30s) as not to matter. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by:
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
filp->f_flags is unsigned, so use that type for the local copy. Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
clear_inode() will switch inode state from I_FREEING to I_CLEAR, and do so _outside_ of inode_lock. So any I_FREEING testing is incomplete without a coupled testing of I_CLEAR. So add I_CLEAR tests to drop_pagecache_sb(), generic_sync_sb_inodes() and add_dquot_ref(). Masayoshi MIZUMA discovered the bug in drop_pagecache_sb() and Jan Kara reminds fixing the other two cases. Masayoshi MIZUMA has a nice panic flow: ===================================================================== [process A] | [process B] | | | prune_icache() | drop_pagecache() | spin_lock(&inode_lock) | drop_pagecache_sb() | inode->i_state |= I_FREEING; | | | spin_unlock(&inode_lock) | V | | | spin_lock(&inode_lock) | V | | | dispose_list() | | | list_del() | | | clear_inode() | | | inode->i_state = I_CLEAR | | | | | V | | | if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE)) | | | continue; <==== NOT MATCH | | | | | | (DANGER from here on! Accessing disposing inode!) | | | | | | __iget() | | | list_move() <===== PANIC on poisoned list !! V V | (time) ===================================================================== Reported-by:Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch: (1) Make mmap_pages_allocated an atomic_long_t, just in case this is used on a NOMMU system with more than 2G pages. Makes no difference on a 32-bit system. (2) Report vma->vm_pgoff * PAGE_SIZE as a 64-bit value, not a 32-bit value, lest it overflow. (3) Move the allocation of the vm_area_struct slab back for fork.c. (4) Use KMEM_CACHE() for both vm_area_struct and vm_region slabs. (5) Use BUG_ON() rather than if () BUG(). (6) Make the default validate_nommu_regions() a static inline rather than a #define. (7) Make free_page_series()'s objection to pages with a refcount != 1 more informative. (8) Adjust the __put_nommu_region() banner comment to indicate that the semaphore must be held for writing. (9) Limit the number of warnings about munmaps of non-mmapped regions. Reported-by:David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
nvidiafb recognizes geforcego 7300 chip as mobile Signed-off-by:
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
This fixes a build failure with generic debug pagealloc: mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'set_page_poison': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:8: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags' mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'clear_page_poison': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:13: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags' mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'page_poison': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:18: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags' mm/debug-pagealloc.c: At top level: mm/debug-pagealloc.c:120: error: redefinition of 'kernel_map_pages' include/linux/mm.h:1278: error: previous definition of 'kernel_map_pages' was here mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'kernel_map_pages': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:122: error: 'debug_pagealloc_enabled' undeclared (first use in this function) by fixing - debug_flags should be in struct page - define DEBUG_PAGEALLOC config option for all architectures Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Reported-by:
Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 01 Apr, 2009 2 commits
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
"struct tty_driver *" lies in m->private not in v which is SEQ_TOKEN_START which is 1 which is enough to trigger NULL dereference next line: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000ad IP: [<c040d689>] uart_proc_show+0xe/0x2b0 Noticed by Linus. Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (29 commits) [IA64] BUG to BUG_ON changes [IA64] Fix typo/thinko in arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/sn2_smp.c ia64: remove some warnings. ia64/xen: fix the link error. ia64/pv_ops/bp/xen: implemented binary patchable pv_cpu_ops. ia64/pv_ops/binary patch: define paravirt_dv_serialize_data() and suppress false positive warning. ia64/pv_ops/bp/module: support binary patching for kernel module. ia64/pv_ops: implement binary patching optimization for native. ia64/pv_op/binarypatch: add helper functions to support binary patching for paravirt_ops. ia64/pv_ops/xen/gate.S: xen gate page paravirtualization ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualize gate.S. ia64/pv_ops: move down __kernel_syscall_via_epc. ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen specific gate page. ia64/pv_ops: gate page paravirtualization. ia64/pv_ops/xen/pv_time_ops: implement sched_clock. ia64/pv_ops/pv_time_ops: add sched_clock hook. ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize read/write ar.itc and ar.itm ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualize mov = ar.itc. ia64/pv_ops/pvchecker: support mov = ar.itc paravirtualization ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualize fsys.S. ...
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