- 18 Aug, 2010 40 commits
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David Howells authored
Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h to have various consts applied to its pointers. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fs: brlock vfsmount_lock fs: scale files_lock lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks tty: fix fu_list abuse fs: cleanup files_lock locking fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock apparmor: use task path helpers fs: dentry allocation consolidation fs: fix do_lookup false negative mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries hostfs ->follow_link() braino hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy remove SWRITE* I/O types kill BH_Ordered flag vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl cramfs: only unlock new inodes fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
This fixes a build breakage introduced by commit 4c2ef25f ("mmc: fix all hangs related to mmc/sd card insert/removal during suspend/resume") Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings perf annotate tui: Fix exit and RIGHT keys handling tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len) tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: emu10k1 - delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter) ALSA: hda - Fix ALC680 base model capture ASoC: Remove DSP mode support for WM8776 ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Vostro 1220 ALSA: riptide - Fix detection / load of firmware files
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommuLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu: m68knommu: include sched.h in ColdFire/SPI driver m68knommu: formatting of pointers in printk() m68knommu: arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h fix for nommu
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions. md: Notify sysfs when RAID1/5/10 disk is In_sync. Update recovery_offset even when external metadata is used.
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git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers of: Fix missing includes ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Jaroslav Kysela authored
With some hardware combinations, the PCM interrupts are acknowledged before the period boundary from the emu10k1 chip. The midlevel PCM code gets confused and the playback stream is interrupted. It seems that the interrupt processing shift by 2 samples is enough to fix this issue. This default value does not harm other, non-affected hardware. More information: Kernel bugzilla bug#16300 [A copmile warning fixed by tiwai] Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock Use a brlock for the vfsmount lock. It must be taken for write whenever modifying the mount hash or associated fields, and may be taken for read when performing mount hash lookups. A new lock is added for the mnt-id allocator, so it doesn't need to take the heavy vfsmount write-lock. The number of atomics should remain the same for fastpath rlock cases, though code would be slightly slower due to per-cpu access. Scalability is not not be much improved in common cases yet, due to other locks (ie. dcache_lock) getting in the way. However path lookups crossing mountpoints should be one case where scalability is improved (currently requiring the global lock). The slowpath is slower due to use of brlock. On a 64 core, 64 socket, 32 node Altix system (high latency to remote nodes), a simple umount microbenchmark (mount --bind mnt mnt2 ; umount mnt2 loop 1000 times), before this patch it took 6.8s, afterwards took 7.1s, about 5% slower. Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: scale files_lock Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists, protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists (although this is very slow). One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list. However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N cachelines than with 1. A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case. Testing results: On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it. Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%) kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%) dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%) So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time. It remains within the same node 95% of the time. Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile. throughput 2.6.34-rc2 24.5 +patch 24.9 us sys idle IO wait (in %) 2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25 +patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75 So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and slightly higher throughput. Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks. That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory accesses required so it will be slightly slower. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to: - Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data. - Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data). Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use case. Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
tty: fix fu_list abuse tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling. If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose). This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean". Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug. The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors. This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers. [ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether that will ever be worth implementing. ] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: cleanup files_lock locking Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash Optimize lookup for create operations, where no dentry should often be common-case. In cases where it is not, such as unlink, the added overhead is much smaller than the removed. Also, move comments about __d_lookup racyness to the __d_lookup call site. d_lookup is intuitive; __d_lookup is what needs commenting. So in that same vein, add kerneldoc comments to __d_lookup and clean up some of the comments: - We are interested in how the RCU lookup works here, particularly with renames. Make that explicit, and point to the document where it is explained in more detail. - RCU is pretty standard now, and macros make implementations pretty mindless. If we want to know about RCU barrier details, we look in RCU code. - Delete some boring legacy comments because we don't care much about how the code used to work, more about the interesting parts of how it works now. So comments about lazy LRU may be interesting, but would better be done in the LRU or refcount management code. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small. Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a real parallelism increase. Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical path lookup fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
apparmor: use task path helpers Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: dentry allocation consolidation There are 2 duplicate copies of code in dentry allocation in path lookup. Consolidate them into a single function. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin authored
fs: fix do_lookup false negative In do_lookup, if we initially find no dentry, we take the directory i_mutex and re-check the lookup. If we find a dentry there, then we revalidate it if needed. However if that revalidate asks for the dentry to be invalidated, we return -ENOENT from do_lookup. What should happen instead is an attempt to allocate and lookup a new dentry. This is probably not noticed because it is rare. It is only reached if a concurrent create races in first (in which case, the dentry probably won't be invalidated anyway), or if the racy __d_lookup has failed due to a false-negative (which is very rare). Fix this by removing code and have it use the normal reval path. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored
Limit the maximum number of mb_cache entries depending on the number of hash buckets: if the only limit to the number of cache entries is the available memory the hash chains can grow very long, taking a long time to search. At least partially solves https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22771. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
we want the assignment to err done inside the if () to be visible after it, so (re)declaring err inside if () body is wrong. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
... not harmless in this case - we have a string in the end of buffer already. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/urgent
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NeilBrown authored
commit 7b6d91da changed the behaviour of a few variables in raid1 and raid10 from flags to bit-sets, but left them as type 'bool' so they did not work. Change them (back) to unsigned long. (historical note: see 1ef04fef) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> and many others
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Christoph Hellwig authored
These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock. Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers. Note that the ll_rw_block code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which this patch fixes. In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for compound buffers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Instead of abusing a buffer_head flag just add a variant of sync_dirty_buffer which allows passing the exact type of write flag required. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Jan Kara authored
generic_acl_set didn't update the ctime of the file when its permission was changed. Steps to reproduce: # touch aaa # stat -c %Z aaa 1275289822 # setfacl -m 'u::x,g::x,o::x' aaa # stat -c %Z aaa 1275289822 <- unchanged But, according to the spec of the ctime, vfs must update it. Port of ext3 patch by Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>. CC: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Alexander Shishkin authored
Commit 77b8a75f introduced a warning at fs/inode.c:692 unlock_new_inode(), caused by unlock_new_inode() being called on existing inodes as well. This patch changes setup_inode() to only call unlock_new_inode() for I_NEW inodes. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
reiserfs_evict_inode calls end_writeback two times hitting kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:298 becase inode->i_state is I_CLEAR already. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Ernst Schwab authored
Added comments in kernel-doc notation for previously added struct fields. Signed-off-by: Ernst Schwab <eschwab@online.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Greg Ungerer authored
Using the coldfire qspi driver, I get the following error: drivers/spi/coldfire_qspi.c: In function 'mcfqspi_irq_handler': drivers/spi/coldfire_qspi.c:166: error: 'TASK_NORMAL' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/spi/coldfire_qspi.c:166: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once It is solved by adding the following include to coldfire_sqpi.c: #include <linux/sched.h> Fix suggested by Jate Sujjavanich <jsujjavanich@syntech-fuelmaster.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
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Kulikov Vasiliy authored
arch/m68knommu/kernel/process.c: formatting of pointers in printk() Use %p instead of %08x in printk(). Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
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Jate Sujjavanich authored
The arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h produces errors when the IDE driver is compiled for my 523x uClinux system under kernel. The header makes some redefines of operators not defined in the arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h header. There are no separate mmio and iospace defines. Signed-off-by: Jate Sujjavanich <jsujjavanich@syntech-fuelmaster.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
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NeilBrown authored
md_check_recovery expects ->spare_active to return 'true' if any spares were activated, but none of them do, so the consequent change in 'degraded' is not notified through sysfs. So count the number of spares activated, subtract it from 'degraded' just once, and return it. Reported-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Adrian Drzewiecki authored
When RAID1 is done syncing disks, it'll update the state of synced rdevs to In_sync. But it neglected to notify sysfs that the attribute changed. So any programs that are waiting for an rdev's state to change will not be woken. (raid5/raid10 added by neilb) Signed-off-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
The update of ->recovery_offset in sync_sbs is appropriate even then external metadata is in use. However sync_sbs is only called when native metadata is used. So move that update in to the top of md_update_sb (which is the only caller of sync_sbs) before the test on ->external. This moves the update out of ->write_lock protection, but those fields only need ->reconfig_mutex protection which they still have. Also move the test on ->persistent up to where ->external is set as for metadata update purposes they are the same. Clear MD_CHANGE_DEVS and MD_CHANGE_CLEAN as they can only be confusing if ->external is set or ->persistent isn't. Finally move the update of ->utime down as it is only relevent (like the ->events update) for native metadata. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reported-by: "Kwolek, Adam" <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: AppArmor: fix task_setrlimit prototype
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdbLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: vt,console,kdb: preserve console_blanked while in kdb vt: fix regression warnings from KMS merge arm,kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used kgdb: add missing __percpu markup in arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c kdb: fix compile error without CONFIG_KALLSYMS
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