The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.24-rc1
eventually causes a "irq X: nobody cared" error after a while:

commit 99c9e0a1
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date:   Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400

    [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE

After this happens, the kernel disables the IRQ, causing the SCSI card
to stop working until the next reboot.  The problem is caused by the
interrupt handler returning IRQ_NONE instead of IRQ_HANDLED after
handling an interrupt-on-the-fly (INTF) condition.  The following patch
fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

This fixes a potential corruption bug where the truncation would cause
reading or writing to the wrong memory area on machines with >4GB of
main memory.

Cc: Stable Kernel Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

The following commit changed the pointer passed to request_irq(), but
failed to change the pointer passed to free_irq():

commit 99c9e0a1
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date:   Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400

    [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE

    ...

The result is that free_irq() doesn't actually take any action.  This
patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

If we get an error during the actual policy lookup we don't free the
original dst while the caller expects us to always free the original
dst in case of error.

This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The vlan module cleanup function starts with

	vlan_netlink_fini();
	vlan_ioctl_set(NULL);

The first call removes all the vlan devices and
the second one closes the vlan ioctl.

AFAIS there's a tiny race window between these two
calls - after rtnl unregistered all the vlans, but
the ioctl handler isn't set to NULL yet, user can
manage to call this ioctl and create one vlan device,
and that this function will later BUG_ON seeing
non-emply hashes.

I think, that we must first close the vlan ioctl
and only after this remove all the vlans with the
vlan_netlink_fini() call.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There are some return value comments for void functions.
Fixed it.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Packets can be left in the RX ring if the NAPI budget is reached.
This is caused by storing the latest rx index at the beginning of
bnx2_rx_int().  We may not process all the work up to this index
if the budget is reached and so some packets in the RX ring may rot
when we later check for more work using this stored rx index.

The fix is to not store this latest hw index and only store the
processed rx index.  We use a new function bnx2_get_hw_rx_cons()
to fetch the latest hw rx index.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

5709 Ax and Bx chips all need this workaround.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
(d30f53ae) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
its argument.  netif_rx_ni calls netif_rx, so the same problem occurs in
the files below.

I have left the updating of dev->last_rx after the calls to netif_rx_ni
because it seems time dependent, but moved the other field updates before.

This was found using the following semantic match.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression skb, e,e1;
@@

(
 netif_rx(skb);
|
 netif_rx_ni(skb);
)
  ... when != skb = e
(
  skb = e1
|
* skb
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
(d30f53ae) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
its argument.  The same problem occurs in some other drivers as well.

This was found using the following semantic match.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression skb, e,e1;
@@

(
 netif_rx(skb);
|
 netif_rx_ni(skb);
)
  ... when != skb = e
(
  skb = e1
|
* skb
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Recently, Wang Chen submitted a patch
(d30f53ae) to move a call to netif_rx(skb)
after a subsequent reference to skb, because netif_rx may call kfree_skb on
its argument.  The same problem occurs in some other drivers as well.

This was found using the following semantic match.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression skb, e,e1;
@@

(
 netif_rx(skb);
|
 netif_rx_ni(skb);
)
  ... when != skb = e
(
  skb = e1
|
* skb
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

RFC4303 introduces dummy packets with a nexthdr value of 59
to implement traffic confidentiality. Such packets need to
be dropped silently and the payload may not be attempted to
be parsed as it consists of random chunk.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

RFC4303 introduces dummy packets with a nexthdr value of 59
to implement traffic confidentiality. Such packets need to
be dropped silently and the payload may not be attempted to
be parsed as it consists of random chunk.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

According to Herbert, the ipv4_devconf_setall should be called
only when the ifa is added to the device. However, failed
ifa allocation may bring things into inconsistent state.

Move the call to ipv4_devconf_setall after the ifa allocation.

Fits both net-2.6 (with offsets) and net-2.6.25 (cleanly).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

RTCF_xxx flags, defined in include/linux/in_route.h) are available for
IPv4 route (rtable) entries only.  Use RTF_xxx flags instead, defined
in include/linux/ipv6_route.h, for IPv6 route entries (rt6_info).
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some versions of Xen 3.x set their magic number to "xen-3.[12]", so
relax the test to match them.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] Malta: Enable tickless and highres timers.
  [MIPS] Bigsur: Enable tickless and and highres timers.
  qemu: do not enable IP7 blindly
  [MIPS] Alchemy: Fix Au1x SD controller IRQ
  [MIPS] Don't byteswap writes to display when running bigendian

Ultimately to implement /proc perfectly we need an implementation of
d_revalidate because files and directories can be removed behind the back
of the VFS, and d_revalidate is the only way we can let the VFS know that
this has happened.

Unfortunately the linux VFS can not cope with anything in the path to a
mount point going away.  So a proper d_revalidate method that calls d_drop
also needs to call have_submounts which is moderately expensive, so you
really don't want a d_revalidate method that unconditionally calls it, but
instead only calls it when the backing object has really gone away.

proc generic entries only disappear on module_unload (when not counting the
fledgling network namespace) so it is quite rare that we actually encounter
that case and has not actually caused us real world trouble yet.

So until we get a proper test for keeping dentries in the dcache fix the
current d_revalidate method by completely removing it.  This returns us to
the current status quo.

So with CONFIG_NETNS=n things should look as they have always looked.

For CONFIG_NETNS=y things work most of the time but there are a few rare
corner cases that don't behave properly.  As the network namespace is
barely present in 2.6.24 this should not be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We have a wifi module connected to the spi bus and got sometimes FIFO
overrun errors on the spi bus.

After some investigation i found that the driver loads the TCR (transmit
count) register before the RCR (receive count).  When the transfer list is
not empty the atmel_spi_next_message is called while tx and rx are enabled.
 As soon as the TCR is loaded, hardware starts transfer and causes a rx
fifo overrun because the RCR is not loaded yet.

Load the RCR before the TCR.  After this patch the fifo overrun disapears
at out setup.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rini van Zetten <rini@arvoo.nl>
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>

Some bad email addresses are removed:

        linux-tr@linuxtr.net
        ehaase@inf.fu-berlin.de

Some are updated:

        linux@maxim.org.za to andrew@sanpeople.com
        linux-kernel@linux-mips.org to linux-mips@linux-mips.org
        jdike@karaya.com to jdike@addtoit.com

The PCMCIA entry is corrected to a web address

The ZR36120 VIDEO FOR LINUX DRIVER entry is removed
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The esp_reset_cleanup() function is called with the host lock held and
invokes starget_for_each_device() which wants to take it too.  Here is a
fix along the lines of shost_for_each_device()/__shost_for_each_device()
adding a __starget_for_each_device() counterpart which assumes the lock
has already been taken.

Eventually, I think the driver should get modified so that more work is
done as a softirq rather than in the interrupt context, but for now it
fixes a bug that causes the spinlock debugger to fire.

While at it, it fixes a small number of cosmetic problems with
starget_for_each_device() too.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix NULL dereference in umem.c
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There should be an of_node_put when breaking out of a loop that iterates
using for_each_compatible_node.

This was detected and fixed using the following semantic patch.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
identifier d;
type T;
expression e;
iterator for_each_compatible_node;
@@

T *d;
...
for_each_compatible_node(d,...)
  {... when != of_node_put(d)
       when != e = d
(
   return d;
|
+  of_node_put(d);
?  return ...;
)
...}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The follow_hugetlb_page() fix I posted (merged as git commit
5b23dbe8) missed one case.  If the pte is
present, but not writable and write access is requested by the caller to
get_user_pages(), the code will do the wrong thing.  Rather than calling
hugetlb_fault to make the pte writable, it notes the presence of the pte
and continues.

This simple one-liner makes sure we also fault on the pte for this case.
Please apply.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
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>

Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
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>

Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
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>

Some places where CLOCK_TICK_RATE may be used incorrectly:

arch/arm/mach-mx3/time.c:125:   __raw_writel((v / CLOCK_TICK_RATE) - 1, MXC_GPT_GPTPR);
drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c:103:     timer_margin = (((u64)heartbeat * CLOCK_TICK_RATE) & 0xffffffff);
drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c:105:     timer_margin = (((u64)heartbeat * CLOCK_TICK_RATE) >> 32);
drivers/watchdog/ks8695_wdt.c:64:       unsigned long tval = wdt_time * CLOCK_TICK_RATE;

I'm not sure whether this definition is used there, but adding parentheses
should be good anyway.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix kernel-doc comments in drivers/pcmcia/:

- ti113x.h does not contain kernel-doc, so don't use /** to begin a doc
  comment
- yenta_socket.c: remove /** on non-kernel-doc comments;
  escape the ':' in an "http:" comment so that it won't be treated as a
  section heading;
- cs.c: remove /** on non-kernel-doc comments & add function parameter info
- ds.c: fix function parameter info
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

revert

    commit 55d9fcf5
    Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
    Date:   Mon Jul 30 15:19:18 2007 -0600

        [SCSI] dpt_i2o: convert to SCSI hotplug model

         - Delete refereces to HOSTS_C
         - Switch to module_init/module_exit instead of detect/release
         - Don't pass around the host template and rename it to adpt_template
         - Switch from scsi_register/scsi_unregister to scsi_host_alloc,
           scsi_add_host, scsi_scan_host and scsi_host_put.

Because it caused (for unknown reasons) Andres' all-data-reads-as-zeroes
problem, reported at
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/083a9acff0330234

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Anders Henke <anders.henke@1und1.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

AOE forgot to initialise its queue's backing_dev_info, so kernels crash.
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9482)

Fix that and consoldate aoeblk_gdalloc()'s error handling.

Thanks be to Jon for reporting and testing.

Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jon Nelson" <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: OHCI 1.0 Isochronous Receive support

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Fix iosapic interrupt delivery mode for CPE
  [IA64] kprobe: make kreturn probe handler stack unwind correct
  [IA64] operator priority fix in acpi_map_lsapic()
  [IA64] Add missing "space" to concatenated strings
  [IA64] make full use of macro efi_md_size
  [IA64] rename _bss to __bss_start
  [IA64] SGI Altix : fix bug in sn_io_late_init()
  [IA64] iosapic cleanup
  [IA64] signal : fix missing error checkings
  [IA64] export copy_page() to modules
  [IA64] don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable
  [IA64] increase .data.patch offset

Third rendition of FireWire OHCI 1.0 Isochronous Receive support, using a
zer-copy method similar to OHCI 1.1 which puts the IR data payload directly
into the userspace buffer. The zero-copy implementation eliminates the
video artifacts, audio popping, and buffer underrun problems seen with
version 1 of this patch, as well as fixing a regression in OHCI 1.1 support
introduced by version 2 of this patch.

Successfully tested in OHCI 1.1 mode on the following chipsets:

- NEC uPD72847 (rev 01), OHCI 1.1 (PCI)
- Ti XIO2200(A) (rev 01), OHCI 1.1 (PCIe)
- Ti TSB41AB2 (rev 01), OHCI 1.1 (PCI on SB Audigy)
- Apple UniNorth 2 (rev 81), OHCI 1.1 (PowerBook G4 onboard)

Successfully tested in OHCI 1.0 mode on the following chipsets:

- Agere FW323 (rev 06), OHCI 1.0 (Mac Mini onboard)
- Agere FW323 (rev 06), OHCI 1.0 (PCI)
- Via VT6306 (rev 46), OHCI 1.0 (PCI)
- NEC OrangeLink (rev 01), OHCI 1.0 (PCI)
- NEC uPD72847 (rev 01), OHCI 1.1 (PCI)
- Ti XIO2200(A) (rev 01), OHCI 1.1 (PCIe)

The bulk of testing was done in an x86_64 system, but was also successfully
sanity-tested on other systems, including a PPC(32) PowerBook G4 and an i686
EPIA M10k. Crude benchmarking (watching top during capture) puts the cpu
utilization during capture on the EPIA's 1GHz Via C3 processor around 13%,
which is down from 30% with the v1 code.

Some implementation details:

To maintain the same userspace API as dual-buffer mode, we set up two
descriptors for every incoming packet. The first is an INPUT_MORE descriptor,
pointing to a buffer large enough to hold just the packet's iso headers,
immediately followed by an INPUT_LAST descriptor, pointing to a chunk of the
userspace buffer big enough for the packet's data payload. With this setup,
each incoming packet fills in these two descriptors in a manner that very
closely emulates dual-buffer receive, to the point where the bulk of the
handle_ir_* code is now identical between the two (and probably primed for
some restructuring to share code between them).

The only caveat I have at the moment is that neither of my OHCI 1.0 Via
VT6307-based FireWire controllers work particularly well with this code
for reasons I have yet to figure out.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6:
  [XFS] Fix xfs_ichgtime()s broken usage of I_SYNC
  [XFS] Make xfsbufd threads freezable
  [XFS] revert to double-buffering readdir
  [XFS] Fix broken inode cluster setup.
  [XFS] Clear XBF_READ_AHEAD flag on I/O completion.
  [XFS] Fixed a few bugs in xfs_buf_associate_memory()
  [XFS] 971064 Various fixups for xfs_bulkstat().
  [XFS] Fix dbflush panic in xfs_qm_sync.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/fix-kbuild:
  kbuild: fix building with O=.. options
  kbuild: fix building with redirected output.

This reverts commit fd6e7321, which
helped up things on MIPS, but was wrong for everything else.  As Ralf
Baechle puts it:

  "It seems the whole MIPS resource managment is complicated enough (out
   of necessity) that only a few people actually grok it.  Ioports being
   actually memory mapped on MIPS only makes the confusion worse, sigh."
Requested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

PowerMac and CHRP/BriQ platforms have quirks to switch some IDE
controllers from legacy mode to fully native mode. Those quirks
however will not work properly anymore due to a change to the
generic code to better handle legacy IDE resources.

This fixes it by moving those quirk to "early" quirks (so they
run before resources are probed for the devices) and clearing
all BARs after the conversion to force a reallocation of sane
values.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>