binutils prior to 2.17 can't deal with the currently possible
situation of a new segment following the per-CPU segment, but
that new segment being empty - objcopy misplaces the .bss (and
perhaps also the .brk) sections outside of any segment.

However, the current ordering of sections really just appears
to be the effect of cumulative unrelated changes; re-ordering
things allows to easily guarantee that the segment following
the per-CPU one is non-empty, and at once eliminates the need
for the bogus data.init2 segment.

Once touching this code, also use the various data section
helper macros from include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

-v2: fix !SMP builds.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A94085D02000078000119A5@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This line looks suspicious, because if this is true, then the
'flags' parameter of function reserve_bootmem_generic() will be
unused when !CONFIG_NUMA. I don't think this is what we want.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090821083709.5098.52505.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The absence of vmlinux.lds here keeps .vmlinux.lds.cmd from being
included, which in turn leads to it and all its dependents always
getting rebuilt independent of whether they are already up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8D84670200007800010D31@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Make sure the stack-protector segment registers are properly set up
before calling any functions which may have stack-protection compiled
into them.

[ Impact: prevent Xen early-boot crash when stack-protector is enabled ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

load_percpu_segment() is used to set up the per-cpu segment registers,
which are also used for -fstack-protector.  Make sure that the
load_percpu_segment() function doesn't have stackprotector enabled.

[ Impact: allow percpu setup before calling stack-protected functions ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

Commit 0e83815b changed the
section the initial_code variable gets allocated in, in an
attempt to address a section conflict warning. This, however
created a new section conflict when building without
HOTPLUG_CPU. The apparently only (reasonable) way to address
this is to always use __REFDATA.

Once at it, also fix a second section mismatch when not using
HOTPLUG_CPU.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8AE7CD020000780001054B@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Max Vozeler reported:
>  Bug 13877 -  bogl-term broken with CONFIG_X86_PAT=y, works with =n
>
>  strace of bogl-term:
>  814   mmap2(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0)
>				 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>  814   write(2, "bogl: mmaping /dev/fb0: Resource temporarily unavailable\n",
>	       57) = 57

PAT code maps the ISA memory range as WB in the PAT attribute, so that
fixed range MTRR registers define the actual memory type (UC/WC/WT etc).

But the upper level is_new_memtype_allowed() API checks are failing,
as the request here is for UC and the return tracked type is WB (Tracked type is
WB as MTRR type for this legacy range potentially will be different for each
4k page).

Fix is_new_memtype_allowed() by always succeeding the ISA address range
checks, as the null PAT (WB) and def MTRR fixed range register settings
satisfy the memory type needs of the applications that map the ISA address
range.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Max Vozeler <xam@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

An older test-box started hanging at the following point during
bootup:

 [    0.022996] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
 [    0.024996] Initializing cgroup subsys debug
 [    0.025996] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
 [    0.026995] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
 [    0.027995] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
 [    0.028995] mce: CPU supports 5 MCE banks

I've bisected it down to commit 4efc0670 ("x86, mce: use 64bit
machine check code on 32bit"), which utilizes the MCE code on
32-bit systems too.

The problem is caused by this detail in my config:

  # CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL is not set

This disables the quirks in mce_cpu_quirks() but still enables
MCE support - which then hangs due to the missing quirk
workaround needed on this CPU:

	if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model < 0x1A && banks > 0)
		mce_banks[0].init = 0;

The safe solution is to not initialize MCEs if we dont know on
what CPU we are running (or if that CPU's support code got
disabled in the config).

Also be a bit more defensive on 32-bit systems: dont do a
boot-time dump of pending MCEs not just on the specific system
that we found a problem with (Pentium-M), but earlier ones as
well.

Now this problem is probably not common and disabling CPU
support is rare - but still being more defensive in something
we turned on for a wide range of CPUs is prudent.

Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: Message-ID: <4A88E3E4.40506@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On my legacy Pentium M laptop (Acer Extensa 2900) I get bogus MCE on a cold
boot with CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE enabled, i.e. (after decoding it with mcelog):

MCE 0
HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
Please contact your hardware vendor
CPU 0 BANK 1 MCG status:
MCi status:
Error overflow
Uncorrected error
Error enabled
Processor context corrupt
MCA: Data CACHE Level-1 UNKNOWN Error
STATUS f200000000000195 MCGSTATUS 0

[ The other STATUS values observed: f2000000000001b5 (... UNKNOWN error)
  and f200000000000115 (... READ Error).

  To verify that this is not a CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE bug I also modified
  the CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE code (which doesn't log any MCEs) to dump
  content of STATUS MSR before it is cleared during initialization. ]

Since the bogus MCE results in a kernel taint (which in turn disables
lockdep support) don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs
by default ("mce=bootlog" boot parameter can be be used to get the old
behavior).
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() has been marked __init,
the struct apic_x2apic_uv_x has been marked __refdata.

The aim is to address the following section mismatch messages:

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/apic/built-in.o(.data+0x1368): Section mismatch in reference from the variable apic_x2apic_uv_x to the function .cpuinit.text:uv_wakeup_secondary()
The variable apic_x2apic_uv_x references
the function __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x68e8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable apic_x2apic_uv_x to the function .cpuinit.text:uv_wakeup_secondary()
The variable apic_x2apic_uv_x references
the function __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.text+0x7b36f): Section mismatch in reference from the function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() to the function .init.text:early_ioremap()
The function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() references
the function __init early_ioremap().
This is often because uv_acpi_madt_oem_check lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of early_ioremap is wrong.

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.text+0x7b38d): Section mismatch in reference from the function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() to the function .init.text:early_iounmap()
The function uv_acpi_madt_oem_check() references
the function __init early_iounmap().
This is often because uv_acpi_madt_oem_check lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of early_iounmap is wrong.

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.data+0x8668): Section mismatch in reference from the variable apic_x2apic_uv_x to the function .cpuinit.text:uv_wakeup_secondary()
The variable apic_x2apic_uv_x references
the function __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Potenza <lpotenza@inwind.it>
LKML-Reference: <200908161855.48302.lpotenza@inwind.it>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

0d01f314 "x86, mce: therm_throt
- change when we print messages" removed redundant
announcements of "Temperature/speed normal".

They're not worth logging and remove their accompanying
"Machine check events logged" messages as well from the
console.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0908161544100.7929@sister.anvils>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The SGI UV Broadcast Assist Unit is used to send TLB shootdown
messages to remote nodes of the system.  The header of the
message must contain the subnode id of the block in the
receiving hub that handles such messages.  It should always be
0x10, the id of the "LB" block.

It had previously been documented as a "must be zero" field.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <E1Mc1x7-0005Ce-6t@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

free_irq() can remove an irqaction while the corresponding interrupt
is in progress, but free_irq() sets action->thread to NULL
unconditionally, which might lead to a NULL pointer dereference in
handle_IRQ_event() when the hard interrupt context tries to wake up
the handler thread.

Prevent this by moving the thread stop after synchronize_irq(). No
need to set action->thread to NULL either as action is going to be
freed anyway.

This fixes a boot crash reported against preempt-rt which uses the
mainline irq threads code to implement full irq threading.

[ tglx: removed local irqthread variable ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_counter: Report the cloning task as parent on perf_counter_fork()
  perf_counter: Fix an ipi-deadlock
  perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff
  perf_counter: Fix swcounter context invariance
  perf report: Don't show unresolved DSOs and symbols when -S/-d is used
  perf tools: Add a general option to enable raw sample records
  perf tools: Add a per tracepoint counter attribute to get raw sample
  perf_counter: Provide hw_perf_counter_setup_online() APIs
  perf list: Fix large list output by using the pager
  perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback
  perf record: Add missing -C option support for specifying profile cpu
  perf tools: Fix dso__new handle() to handle deleted DSOs
  perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
  perf report: Show the tid too in -D
  perf record: Fix .tid and .pid fill-in when synthesizing events
  perf_counter, x86: Fix generic cache events on P6-mobile CPUs
  perf_counter, x86: Fix lapic printk message

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Fix handling of bad requeue syscall pairing
  futex: Fix compat_futex to be same as futex for REQUEUE_PI
  locking, sched: Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classes
  futex: Update futex_q lock_ptr on requeue proxy lock

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix oops in identify_cpu() on CPUs without CPUID
  x86: Clear incorrectly forced X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM flag
  x86, mce: therm_throt - change when we print messages
  x86: Add reboot quirk for every 5 series MacBook/Pro

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (22 commits)
  ocfs2: Fix possible deadlock when extending quota file
  ocfs2: keep index within status_map[]
  ocfs2: Initialize the cluster we're writing to in a non-sparse extend
  ocfs2: Remove redundant BUG_ON in __dlm_queue_ast()
  ocfs2/quota: Release lock for error in ocfs2_quota_write.
  ocfs2: Define credit counts for quota operations
  ocfs2: Remove syncjiff field from quota info
  ocfs2: Fix initialization of blockcheck stats
  ocfs2: Zero out padding of on disk dquot structure
  ocfs2: Initialize blocks allocated to local quota file
  ocfs2: Mark buffer uptodate before calling ocfs2_journal_access_dq()
  ocfs2: Make global quota files blocksize aligned
  ocfs2: Use ocfs2_rec_clusters in ocfs2_adjust_adjacent_records.
  ocfs2: Fix deadlock on umount
  ocfs2: Add extra credits and access the modified bh in update_edge_lengths.
  ocfs2: Fail ocfs2_get_block() immediately when a block needs allocation
  ocfs2: Fix error return in ocfs2_write_cluster()
  ocfs2: Fix compilation warning for fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
  ocfs2: Initialize count in aio_write before generic_write_checks
  ocfs2: log the actual return value of ocfs2_file_aio_write()
  ...

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: allow upper limit for resync/reshape to be set when array is read-only
  md/raid5: Properly remove excess drives after shrinking a raid5/6
  md/raid5: make sure a reshape restarts at the correct address.
  md/raid5: allow new reshape modes to be restarted in the middle.
  md: never advance 'events' counter by more than 1.
  Remove deadlock potential in md_open

* 'sh/for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: fix i2c init order on ap325rxa V2
  sh: fix i2c init order on Migo-R V2
  sh: convert processor device setup functions to arch_initcall()

kernel_sendpage() does the proper default case handling for when the
socket doesn't have a native sendpage implementation.

Now, arguably this might be something that we could instead solve by
just specifying that all protocols should do it themselves at the
protocol level, but we really only care about the common protocols.
Does anybody really care about sendpage on something like Appletalk? Not
likely.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Julien TINNES <julien@cr0.org>
Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A bug in (9f498cc5: perf_counter: Full task tracing) makes
profiling multi-threaded apps it go belly up.

[ output as: (PID:TID):(PPID:PTID) ]

 # ./perf report -D | grep FORK
0x4b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3237):(3236:3236)
0xa10 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3238):(3236:3236)
0xa70 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3239):(3236:3236)
0xad0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3240):(3236:3236)
0xb18 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3241):(3236:3236)

Shows us that the test (27d028de perf report: Update for the new
FORK/EXIT events) in builtin-report.c:

        /*
         * A thread clone will have the same PID for both
         * parent and child.
         */
        if (thread == parent)
                return 0;

Will clearly fail.

The problem is that perf_counter_fork() reports the actual
parent, instead of the cloning thread.

Fixing that (with the below patch), yields:

 # ./perf report -D | grep FORK
0x4c8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1590):(1589:1589)
0xbd8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1591):(1590:1590)
0xc80 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1592):(1590:1590)
0x3338 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1593):(1590:1590)
0x66b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1594):(1590:1590)

Which both makes more sense and doesn't confuse perf report
anymore.
Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250172882.5241.62.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_pending_counter() is called from IRQ context and will call
perf_counter_disable(), however perf_counter_disable() uses
smp_call_function_single() which doesn't fancy being used with
IRQs disabled due to IPI deadlocks.

Fix this by making it use the local __perf_counter_disable()
call and teaching the counter_sched_out() code about pending
disables as well.

This should cover the case where a counter migrates before the
pending queue gets processed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.244097721@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Replace PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and introduce
PERF_FORMAT_GROUP to deal with group reads in a more generic
way.

This allows you to get group reads out of read() as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.117411814@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_swcounter_is_counting() uses a lock, which means we cannot
use swcounters from NMI or when holding that particular lock,
this is unintended.

The below removes the lock, this opens up race window, but not
worse than the swcounters already experience due to RCU
traversal of the context in perf_swcounter_ctx_event().

This also fixes the hard lockups while opening a lockdep
tracepoint counter.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250149915.10001.66.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We're interested in just those symbols/DSOs, so filter out the
unresolved ones.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090812211957.GE3495@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While we can enable the perf sample records per tracepoint
counter, we may also want to enable this option for every
tracepoint counters to open, so that we don't need to add a
:record flag for all of them.

Add the -R, --raw-samples options for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a new flag field while opening a tracepoint perf counter:

	-e tracepoint_subsystem:tracepoint_name:flags

This is intended to be generic although for now it only supports the
r[e[c[o[r[d]]]]] flag:

	./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:record
	./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:r

will have the same effect: enabling the raw samples record for
the given tracepoint counter.

In the future, we may want to support further flags, separated
by commas.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide weak aliases for hw_perf_counter_setup_online(). This is
used by the BTS patches (for v2.6.32), but it interacts with
fixes so propagate this upstream. (it has no effect as of yet)

Also export perf_counter_output() to architecture code.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When /sys/kernel/debug is mounted the list can be imense, so
use the pager like the other tools.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090812174459.GB3495@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Convert the AP325RXA board code to register devices at
arch_initcall() time instead of device_initcall(). This
fix unbreaks pcf8563 RTC driver support.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Convert the Migo-R board code to register devices at
arch_initcall() time instead of __initcall(). This fix
unbreaks migor_ts touch screen driver support.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Convert the processor platform device setup
functions from __initcall() and sometimes
device_initcall() to arch_initcall().

This makes sure that the platform devices are
registered a bit earlier so the devices are
available when drivers register using initcall
levels earlier than device_initcall().

A good example is platform devices needed by
i2c-sh_mobile.c which registers a bit earlier
using subsys_initcall().
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Normally we only allow the upper limit for a reshape to be decreased
when the array not performing a sync/recovery/reshape, otherwise there
could be races.  But if an array is part-way through a reshape when it
is assembled the reshape is started immediately leaving no window
to set an upper bound.

If the array is started read-only, the reshape will be suspended until
the array becomes writable, so that provides a window during which it
is perfectly safe to reduce the upper limit of a reshape.

So: allow the upper limit (sync_max) to be reduced even if the reshape
thread is running, as long as the array is still read-only.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

We were removing the drives, from the array, but not
removing symlinks from /sys/.... and not marking the device
as having been removed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

This "if" don't allow for the possibility that the number of devices
doesn't change, and so sector_nr isn't set correctly in that case.
So change '>' to '>='.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

md/raid5 doesn't allow a reshape to restart if it involves writing
over the same part of disk that it would be reading from.
This happens at the beginning of a reshape that increases the number
of devices, at the end of a reshape that decreases the number of
devices, and continuously for a reshape that does not change the
number of devices.

The current code is correct for the "increase number of devices"
case as the critical section at the start is handled by userspace
performing a backup.

It does not work for reducing the number of devices, or the
no-change case.
For 'reducing', we need to invert the test.  For no-change we cannot
really be sure things will be safe, so simply require the array
to be read-only, which is how the user-space code which carefully
starts such arrays works.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When assembling arrays, md allows two devices to have different event
counts as long as the difference is only '1'.  This is to cope with
a system failure between updating the metadata on two difference
devices.

However there are currently times when we update the event count by
2.  This was done to keep the event count even when the array is clean
and odd when it is dirty, which allows us to avoid writing common
update to spare devices and so allow those spares to go to sleep.

This is bad for the above reason.  So change it to never increase by
two.  This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain, but that is only a
small cost.  The spares will get a few more updates but that will
still be spared (;-) most updates and can still go to sleep.

Prior to this patch there was a small chance that after a crash an
array would fail to assemble due to the overly large event count
mismatch.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Remove double removal of blktrace directory