Under heavy load, hot metadata pages are often locked by non-committed
transactions, making them difficult to flush to disk.  This prevents
the sync point from advancing past a transaction that had modified the
page.

There is a point during the sync barrier processing where all
outstanding transactions have been committed to disk, but no new
transaction have been allowed to proceed.  This is the best time
to write the metadata.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

A failure in dbAlloc caused a directory's i_blocks to be incorrectly
incremented, causing jfs_fsck to find the inode to be corrupt.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

If a metadata page is kept active, it is possible that the sync barrier logic
continues to trigger, even if all active transactions have been phyically
written to the journal.  This can cause a hang, since the completion of the
journal I/O is what unsets the sync barrier flag to allow new transactions
to be created.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

These two bits were accesses non-atomically from assembler
code.  So, in order to eliminate any potential races resulting
from that, move these pieces of state into two bytes elsewhere
in struct thread_info.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It is only used by some localized code in irq.c, and also
delete enable_prom_timer() as that is totally unused.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

rwsem_atomic_update and rwsem_atomic_add can be implemented
straightly using atomic_*() routines.

Also, rwsem_cmpxchgw() is totally unused, kill it.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Noticed this while comparing sparc64's bitops.h to ppc64's.
We can cast the volatile memory argument to be non-volatile.

While we're here, __inline__ --> inline.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It needs to happen before any header includes because nowadays
some things implicitly include asm/unistd.h which ends up being
before the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ define gets done.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use wait-queue directly instead of the deprecated sleep_on()
function. This required adding a local wait-queue. Also use new (added in
separate patch to K-J) usecs to jiffies function to convert value.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee
the task delays as expected. Change the units of poll_interval to
msecs as it is only used in this delay.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use msleep_interruptible() instead of
schedule_timeout() to guarantee the task delays as expected.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

I can't see any effect of this option outside the i386-specific APM code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use the reserved by never used NETLINK_SKIP value instead.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real

This patch replaces the sizeof()'s %d specifier by %ld on a S3C2410 DMA
printk.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4534Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

It is no longer valid to not replace instructions, since we depend on
different behaviour depending on CPU capabilities.

If you need to limit the capabilities of the replacements (because the
boot CPU has features that non-boot CPU's do not have, for example), you
need to explicitly disable those capabilities that are not shared across
all CPU's.

For example, if your boot CPU has FXSR, but other CPU's in your system
do not, you need to use the "nofxsr" kernel command line, not disable
instruction replacement per se.

This one ends up using an inline asm format that claims to read memory
and then clobber it (rather than just write it directly), which made it
easier to use the existing "alternative_input()" infrastructure support.

Now the fxsave code matches the fxrstor.

More unusable TCF_META_* match types that need to get eliminated
before 2.6.13 goes out the door.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

It's really just a single instruction, conditional on whether the CPU
supports FXSR or not, so implement it as such instead of making it a
function that queries FXSR dynamically.

This means that the instruction just gets automatically rewritten to the
correct one at boot-time.

I broke this in the patch that consolidated MAC logging.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fixes a crash when unloading ip_conntrack.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The portptr pointing to the port in the conntrack tuple is declared static,
which could result in memory corruption when two packets of the same
protocol are NATed at the same time and one conntrack goes away.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Already fixed in ip_queue, ip6_queue was missed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

These days %gs is normally the TLS segment, so it's no longer zero.  As
a result, we shouldn't just assume that %fs/%gs tend to be zero
together, but test them independently instead.

Also, fix setting of debug registers to use the "next" pointer instead
of "current".  It so happens that the scheduler will have set the new
current pointer before calling __switch_to(), but that's just an
implementation detail.

It won't exist any longer when we shrink the SKB in 2.6.14,
and we should kill this off before anyone in userspace starts
using it.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Loic Le Loarer <loic.le-loarer+lk@polytechnique.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>