- 11 Apr, 2008 4 commits
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Paul Mundt authored
Noticed this when grepping for fast mode module params, the i2c-ibm_iic driver was using a non-existent variable for MODULE_PARM_DESC. Fix it up to reflect what it's actually supposed to be describing. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
It's really a pretty ugly thing to need, and some day it will hopefully be obviated by teaching gcc about the magic calling conventions for the low-level system call code, but in the meantime we can at least add big honking comments about why we need these insane and strange macros. I took my comments from my version of the macro, but I ended up deciding to just pick Roland's version of the actual code instead (with his prettier syntax that uses vararg macros). Thus the previous two commits that actually implement it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
Use asmlinkage_protect in sys_io_getevents, because GCC for i386 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n can decide to clobber an argument word on the stack, i.e. the user struct pt_regs. Here the problem is not a tail call, but just the compiler's use of the stack when it inlines and optimizes the body of the called function. This seems to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent. Other optimizations can do it too. Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all the manifestations of this issue that crop up. More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 Apr, 2008 17 commits
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Venki Pallipadi authored
This patch also resolves hangs on boot: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093 The bug was causing once-in-few-reboots 10-15 sec wait during boot on certain laptops. Earlier commit 40d6a146 added smp_call_function in cpu_idle_wait() to kick cpus that are in tickless idle. Looking at cpu_idle_wait code at that time, code seemed to be over-engineered for a case which is rarely used (while changing idle handler). Below is a simplified version of cpu_idle_wait, which just makes a dummy smp_call_function to all cpus, to make them come out of old idle handler and start using the new idle handler. It eliminates code in the idle loop to handle cpu_idle_wait. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Harvey Harrison authored
Shift of a LE value seems strange, probably meant to shift the cpu-order variable as in the prvious section of the switch statement. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Don't make smp_{r,w,}mb() interpolate a MEMBAR instruction when CONFIG_SMP=n as SMP memory barries on UP systems should interpolate a compiler barrier only. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Make NOMMU-mode work with base addresses other than 0xC0000000 by: (1) Giving the code that sets up the protection registers the right address in __sdram_base. Rather than being hard coded to 0xC0000000, the value of __page_offset is obtained from the linker script. (2) Eliminate the check in __switch_to() that verifies the current thread info is in the 0xCxxxxxxx region. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Use traps 120-126 to emulate atomic cmpxchg32, xchg32, and XOR-, OR-, AND-, SUB- and ADD-to-memory operations for userspace. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Move STACK_TOP_MAX up so that we don't try moving the stack above it as that causes setup_arg_pages() to malfunction. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Handle update_mmu_cache() being called when current->mm is NULL. We cache static TLB mappings for the current page table in DAMPR4 and DAMPR5 on the theory that the next data lookup is likely to be in the same general region, and thus is likely to be mapped by the same page table. However, we can't get this information if we can't access the appropriate mm_struct. If current->mm is NULL, we just clear the cache in the knowledge that the TLB miss handlers will load it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: [XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistent [XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problem [XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.h
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cfq-iosched: do not leak ioc_data across iosched switches splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()
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Roman Zippel authored
Some time ago while attempting to handle invalid link counts, I botched the unlink of links itself, so this patch fixes this now correctly, so that only the link count of nodes that don't point to links is ignored. Thanks to Vlado Plaga <rechner@vlado-do.de> to notify me of this problem. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabio Checconi authored
When switching scheduler from cfq, cfq_exit_queue() does not clear ioc->ioc_data, leaving a dangling pointer that can deceive the following lookups when the iosched is switched back to cfq. The pattern that can trigger that is the following: - elevator switch from cfq to something else; - module unloading, with elv_unregister() that calls cfq_free_io_context() on ioc freeing the cic (via the .trim op); - module gets reloaded and the elevator switches back to cfq; - reallocation of a cic at the same address as before (with a valid key). To fix it just assign NULL to ioc_data in __cfq_exit_single_io_context(), that is called from the regular exit path and from the elevator switching code. The only path that frees a cic and is not covered is the error handling one, but cic's freed in this way are never cached in ioc_data. Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Eric Sandeen authored
Since older kernels may look in the sb_bad_features2 slot for flags, rather than zeroing it out on fixup, we should make it equal to the sb_features2 value. Also, if the ATTR2 flag was not found prior to features2 fixup, it was not set in the mount flags, so re-check after the fixup so that the current session will use the feature. Also fix up the comments to reflect these changes. SGI-PV: 980085 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30778a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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David Chinner authored
Due to the xfs_dsb_t structure not being 64 bit aligned, the last field of the on-disk superblock can vary in location This causes problems when the filesystem gets moved to a different platform, or there is a 32 bit userspace and 64 bit kernel. This patch detects the defect at mount time, logs a warning such as: XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem in dmesg and corrects the problem so that everything is OK. it also blacklists the bad field in the superblock so it does not get used for something else later on. SGI-PV: 977636 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30539a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Eric Sandeen authored
Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some which are completely unused. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
There's a quirky loop in generic_file_splice_read() that could go on indefinitely, if the file splice returns 0 permanently (and not just as a temporary condition). Get rid of the loop and pass back -EAGAIN correctly from __generic_file_splice_read(), so we handle that condition properly as well. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type. The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when executing this code. This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the original section. Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel. ;-) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: SELinux: don't BUG if fs reuses a superblock
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- 09 Apr, 2008 19 commits
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Eric Paris authored
I (wrongly) assumed that nfs_xdev_get_sb() would not ever share a superblock and so cloning mount options would always be correct. Turns out that isn't the case and we could fall over a BUG_ON() that wasn't a BUG at all. Since there is little we can do to reconcile different mount options this patch just leaves the sb alone and the first set of options wins. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: ata/sata_fsl: Remove unused variable in sata_fsl_probe pata_sil680: Fix build on arch/ppc
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Johann Felix Soden authored
In sata_fsl_probe memory is allocated but never used or deallocated. Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404 Thanks to Daniel Marjamäki for the bug report. Reported-by: Daniel Marjamäki <danielm77@spray.se> Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Commit 0f436eff breaks build on arch/ppc as it doesn't implement the machine_is() macro. This fixes it by using CONFIG_PPC_MERGE instead which represents arch/powerpc only, while CONFIG_PPC is set for both. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: SUNRPC: Fix a memory leak in rpc_create() fix bug - executing FDPIC ELF on NFS mount triggers BUG() at mm/nommu.c:862:/do_mmap_private() NFS: initialize flags field in nfs_open_context SUNRPC: don't call flush_dcache_page() with an invalid pointer
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Dmitry Adamushko authored
cfi_amdstd_sync() and cfi_staa_sync() call schedule() without changing task's state appropriately. In case of e.g. chip->state == FL_ERASING, cfi_*_sync() will be busy-looping either redundantly for a fixed interval of time (for SCHED_NORMAL tasks) or possibly endlessly (for RT tasks and UP). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Hennerich authored
Remove unused label, and associated compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Brownell authored
Update SPI documentation to clarify some areas of recent confusion: clock polarity takes effect when chipselect goes active; and zero length buffers are OK in certain cases. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vitja Makarov authored
Fix bug in SPI probe: first initialize peripheral pins, and just after register spi master device. This fixes problems with SPI drivers built-in kernel. Singed-off-by: Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Frysinger authored
Fix breakage cause by overzealous line wrapping; there should be only one format string. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alok Kataria authored
Fixes a BUG in ACPI hotplugging. processor_device_array[pr->id] needs to be set to NULL when removing a CPU. Else the "buggy BIOS check" in acpi_processor_start mistakenly fires when a CPU is removed from the system and then later re-added. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Arai <arai@vmware.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
snd_es1968_ac97_read() calls snd_es1968_ac97_wait() first outside a locked area, and later, while holding a lock. snd_es1968_ac97_wait() has a polling loop with a cond_resched() inside it.. which sleeps, so the second call is invalid. This patch adds a version of the wait function that just pure polls. While this is not very elegant in principle, it's very likely the easiest thing to do here, we already checked if the chip was ready (while yielding) just before, so it is very unlikely to take a long time here. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
This should be N_NORMAL_MEMORY. N_NORMAL_MEMORY is "true" if a node has memory for the kernel. N_HIGH_MEMORY is "true" if a node has memory for HIGHMEM. (If CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n, always "true") This check is used for testing whether we can use kmalloc_node() on a node. Then, if there is a node which only contains HIGHMEM, the system will call kmalloc_node() which doesn't contain memory for the kernel. If it happens under SLUB, the kernel will panic. I think this only happens on x86_32-numa. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Krzysztof Helt authored
thermal_zone_device_register() uses the ERR_PTR macro on its return values. A correct check is to use the IS_ERR() macro. The 2.6.25 kernels panic on Compaq AP550 without this patch as it has more then 10 (THERMAL_MAX_TRIPS) trip points (there are 12). Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pete Zaitcev authored
When __blk_end_request returns nonzero, it means that the request was not completely processed and some BIOs are still attached. Since we have dequeued it by that time, it means leaking requests and hanging processes, which is why BUG() was in there. In ub this happens if a packet request ends normally, but with residue (e.g. when scsi_id issues INQUIRY). The fix is to make sure that arguments passed to __blk_end_request are correct: the full request length and not just transferred length. The transferred length is indicated to applications by adjusting rq->data_len with old, unchanged code outside of this patch. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chuck Lever authored
Commit 510deb0d was supposed to move the xprt_create_transport() call in rpc_create(), but neglected to remove the old call site. This resulted in a transport leak after every rpc_create() call. This leak is present in 2.6.24 and 2.6.25. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Bryan Wu authored
NFS needs a NOMMU version mmap function to support uClinux on NOMMU machine http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=141&tracker_item_id=3992Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Jeff Layton authored
The nfs_open_context struct had a "flags" field added recently, but the allocator isn't initializing it. It also looks like the allocator isn't initializing the mode or list either, but they seem to be overwritten by the caller, so that's less of an issue. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Trond Myklebust authored
Fix a problem in _copy_to_pages(), whereby it may call flush_dcache_page() with an invalid pointer due to the fact that 'pgto' gets incremented beyond the end of the page array. Fix is to exit the loop without this unnecessary increment of pgto. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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