- 13 Oct, 2003 4 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
This is the minimal change to make "mlockall()" not complain about the occasional PROT_NONE area. PROT_NONE is commonly used on x86-64, and is no reason to not lock in the rest of the mappings into memory.
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Sun-3: Add missing include (needed because of __attribute_used__ in <linux/init.h>)
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
M68k: Export missing symbol csum_partial
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David Woodhouse authored
- add disallow_signal() to complement allow_signal(), rather than having different subsystems try to do it by hand. - add a version of dequeue_signal() which does the necessary locking on its own, again to avoid having modules have to care. - let allow_signal() to actually allow signals other than SIGKILL. Currently they get either converted to SIGKILL or silently dropped, according to whether your kernel thread happens to have sa_handler set for the signal in question. (Barf alert: we do this by just installing a dummy handler) - make jffs2 use the cleaned up infrastructure
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- 12 Oct, 2003 6 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
From Pavel Machek. Make software suspend compile again on x86-64
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Linus Torvalds authored
It can have gotten set by a stray interrupt if there were no handlers while the IRQ was disabled, and we shouldn't confuse other parts (ie this is another safety-net for the issues that Al Viro brought up about disable_irq() deadlocks when no handlers exist).
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Matthew Dharm authored
This fixes a bug which was introduced when the code was switched to use atomic_read()s. The bug prevents hot-unplugging of SCSI (or emulated SCSI) devices from working. From Patrick Mansfield.
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Linus Torvalds authored
They can happen on x86 as a result of interrupts in BIOS calls. Noted by Manfred Spraul.
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http://lia64.bkbits.net/to-linus-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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bk://ppc.bkbits.net/for-linus-ppcLinus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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- 13 Oct, 2003 1 commit
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Paul Mackerras authored
into samba.org:/stuff/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc
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- 12 Oct, 2003 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-rmkLinus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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Russell King authored
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- 11 Oct, 2003 25 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
jiffies based values to ms. This fix crazy key repeat on ADB based PowerMacs
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
use a NULL "driver" pointer and actually try to call it after casting it !
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
properly with HZ != 100, causing tb_to_us to be wrong and gettimeofday() to return strangely "off" results
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
core99 dual G4s).
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
registers exist on common CPUs and without those definitions, SMP won't build
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
without this, you get no display on machines with those cards
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
so that the kernel boots at least on POWER4 and G5 CPUs
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
(missing from a previous cset)
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
of "standard" configs on oldworld macs
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
the coff image to randomly fail
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David Woodhouse authored
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David Woodhouse authored
- Implement write-buffer flushing by garbage collection instead of padding. - Implement selective write-buffer flushing on fsync(). - Implement error recovery on write-buffer flush. - Fix remove_suid(). Writing to a suid file didn't previously mark the file non-suid. - Fix handling of full file systems, to avoid unlink() returning -ENOSPC. - Fix assorted memory leaks. - Improve garbage collection efficiency by merging fewer pages.
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http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net/linux-acpi-release-2.6.0Linus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/sparc-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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Venkatesh Pallipadi authored
There is a bug in cpufreq call back funtion in timer_tsc routines, that can result in system deadlock. The issue is: grabbing the write_lock on xtime_lock without disabling the interrupts. So,=20 if we happen to get a timer interrupt while we are in this code, system will go into a deadlock. This bug only effects the kernels that have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ enabled.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
into kernel.crashing.org:/home/benh/kernels/for-linus-ppc
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Ingo Molnar authored
This fixes two del_timer_sync() races that are still in the timer code. The first race was actually triggered in a 2.4 backport of the 2.6 timer code. The second race was never triggered - it is mostly theoretical on a standalone kernel. (It's more likely in any virtualized or otherwise preemptable environment.) Both races happen when self-rearming timers are used. One mainstream example is kernel/itimer.c. The effect of the races is that del_timer_sync() lets a timer running instead of synchronizing with it, causing logic bugs (and crashes) in the affected kernel code. One typical incarnation of the race is a double add_timer(). race #1: this code in __run_timers() is running on CPU0: list_del(&timer->entry); timer->base = NULL; [*] set_running_timer(base, timer); spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock); [**] fn(data); spin_lock_irq(&base->lock); CPU0 gets stuck at the [*] code-point briefly - after the timer->base has been set to NULL, but before the base->running_timer pointer has been set up. This is a fundamentally volatile scenario, as there's _zero_ knowledge in the data structures that this timer is about to be executed! Now CPU1 comes along and calls del_timer_sync(). It will find nothing - neither timer->base nor base->running_timer will cause it to synchronize. It will return and report that the timer has been deleted - shortly afterwards CPU1 continues to execute the timer fn, which will cause crashes. This particular race is easy to fix by reordering the timer->base clearing with set_running_timer(), and putting a wmb() between them, but there's more races: race #2 The checking of del_timer_sync() for 'pending or running timer' is fundamentally unrobust. Eg. if CPU0 gets stuck at the [***] point below: base = &per_cpu(tvec_bases, i); if (base->running_timer == timer) { while (base->running_timer == timer) { cpu_relax(); preempt_check_resched(); } [***] break; } } smp_rmb(); if (timer_pending(timer)) goto del_again; then del_timer_sync() has already decided that this timer is not running (we just finished loop-waiting for it), but we have not done the timer_pending() check yet. If the timer has re-armed itself, and if the timer expires on CPU1 (this needs a long delay on CPU0 but that's not hard to achieve eg. in UML or with kernel preemption enabled), then CPU1 could start to expire the timer and gets to the [**] point in __run_timers (see above), then CPU1 gets stalled and CPU0 is unstalled, then the timer_pending() check in del_timer_sync() will not notice the running timer, and del_timer_sync() returns - while CPU1 is just about to run the timer! Fixing this second race is hard - it involves a heavy race-check operation that has to lock all bases, and has to re-check the base->running_timer value, and timer_pending condition atomically. This fix also fixes the first race, due to forcing del_timer_sync() to always observe the timer state atomically, so the [*] code point will always synchronize with del_timer_sync(). The patch is ugly but safe, and it has fixed the crashes in the 2.4 backport. I tested the patch on 2.6.0-test7 with some heavy itimer use and it works fine. Removing self-arming timers safely is the sole purpose of del_timer_sync(), so there's no way around this overhead i think. I believe we should ultimately fix all major del_timer_sync() users to not use self-arming timers - having del_timer_sync() in the thread-exit path is now a considerable source of SMP overhead. But this is out of the scope of current 2.6 fixes of course, and we have to support self-arming timers as well.
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David S. Miller authored
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Noah J. Misch authored
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Stephen Hemminger authored
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Stephen Hemminger authored
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Julian Anastasov authored
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David S. Miller authored
into nuts.ninka.net:/disk1/davem/BK/sparc-2.5
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- 10 Oct, 2003 1 commit
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bk://ppc@ppc.bkbits.net/for-linus-ppcBenjamin Herrenschmidt authored
into kernel.crashing.org:/home/benh/kernels/for-linus-ppc
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