already take care of it.

This fixes kernel threads that _do_ block SIGKILL/STOP.

Spotted by davem.  Strange that it ever worked.  Don't know why the compiler
didn't warn...

This changes do_sigaction to avoid read_lock(&tasklist_lock) on every
call.  Only in the fairly uncommon cases where it's really needed will
it take that lock (which requires unlocking and relocking the siglock
for locking order).

I also changed the ERESTARTSYS added in my earlier patch to ERESTARTNOINTR.
That is an "instantaneous" case, and there is no reason to have it possibly
return EINTR if !SA_RESTART (which AFAIK sigaction never could before, and
it might not be kosher by POSIX); rollback is always better.

This patch removes all the comments on the SA_NOCLDWAIT definitions,
since SA_NOCLDWAIT is fully supported now.

This fixes the following common misspellings and their variants.

  consistant -> consistent
  dependant  -> dependent
  persistant -> persistent

Here is a cleanup moving the new pending thread signal check into
exit_notify.

I also made exit_notify and do_exit consistent in using the saved tsk
variable instead of current, as most of do_exit already does.

Add a missing include for those pesky S_IRUGO thingys.

This patch for bt819.c addresses buzilla bug #169 (compile error).

This patch to saa7185 to resolves buzilla bug #168 (compile error).  It
has been sent to l-k and has received no objections.

This fixes a bt856.c compile error.  The driver now compiles.  Its a
straightforward patch and have emailed l-k and no objections have been
reported.

The Stanford checker disclose that vxfs_read_fshead was missing any
unwinding in the error cases..

In struct char_dev the fields openers and sem are unused.
The file char_dev.c claims that it is called differently.

hm.  It seems that I sent this patch twice.

After resyncing with your tree I go through and try to reapply all the sent
patches, throwing out the ones which get a lot of rejects.  Just to make sure
that everything got through OK.

But it appears that that particular patch happily applied on top of itself,
so I assumed it was not applied...

I cleaned up sys_wait4; it was straightforward and I think a definite
improvement.  While at it, I noticed that one of the races I fixed in the
TASK_STOPPED case actually can happen earlier.  Between read_unlock and
write_lock_irq, another thread could reap the process and make P invalid,
so now I do get_task_struct before read_unlock and then the existing race
checks catch all scenarios.

Aside from the aforementioned race tweak, the code should be the same as
in the previous patch (that Ingo and I have tested more thoroughly)
modulo being moved into functions and some reformatting and comment
changes.

Oh, my old patch had one case where it failed to retake the read lock after
a race bailout that I just noticed reading over it.  That's fixed too.

These exit fixes were something I noticed incidentally and spent less time
on than the signals changes.  Another few passes of eyeballs over them are
certainly warranted.  (In particular, there are code paths like that one
that check for specific races that have probably never been seen in
practice, so those code paths have never run once.)

OK, here is the diff against 2.5.59-bk2, now up to 880 lines due to an
additional misspelling which crept in the -bk2 snapshot.

Fixes 'seperate' -> 'separate' and 'definate' -> 'definite'.

Kernal codrs cna't spel.

The CLEAR_BITMAP() macro in include/linux/types.h is broken and doesn't
round the bitmap size to the proper 'long' boundary.

This fixes it by creating a macro BITS_TO_LONGS that just rounds a
number of bits up to the closest number of unsigned longs.  This makes
the DECLARE & CLEAR _BITMAP macros more readable and fixes the bug.

This moves access of the host element to device since host has been
removed from struct scsi_cmnd.

this is the current threading patchset, which accumulated up during the
past two weeks. It consists of a biggest set of changes from Roland, to
make threaded signals work. There were still tons of testcases and
boundary conditions (mostly in the signal/exit/ptrace area) that we did
not handle correctly.

Roland's thread-signal semantics/behavior/ptrace fixes:

 - fix signal delivery race with do_exit() => signals are re-queued to the
   'process' if do_exit() finds pending unhandled ones. This prevents
   signals getting lost upon thread-sys_exit().

 - a non-main thread has died on one processor and gone to TASK_ZOMBIE,
   but before it's gotten to release_task a sys_wait4 on the other
   processor reaps it.  It's only because it's ptraced that this gets
   through eligible_child.  Somewhere in there the main thread is also
   dying so it reparents the child thread to hit that case.  This means
   that there is a race where P might be totally invalid.

 - forget_original_parent is not doing the right thing when the group
   leader dies, i.e. reparenting threads to init when there is a zombie
   group leader.  Perhaps it doesn't matter for any practical purpose
   without ptrace, though it makes for ppid=1 for each thread in core
   dumps, which looks funny. Incidentally, SIGCHLD here really should be
   p->exit_signal.

 - one of the gdb tests makes a questionable assumption about what kill
   will do when it has some threads stopped by ptrace and others running.

exit races:

1. Processor A is in sys_wait4 case TASK_STOPPED considering task P.
   Processor B is about to resume P and then switch to it.

   While A is inside that case block, B starts running P and it clears
   P->exit_code, or takes a pending fatal signal and sets it to a new
   value. Depending on the interleaving, the possible failure modes are:
        a. A gets to its put_user after B has cleared P->exit_code
           => returns with WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG==0
        b. A gets to its put_user after B has set P->exit_code anew
           => returns with e.g. WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG==SIGKILL

   A can spend an arbitrarily long time in that case block, because
   there's getrusage and put_user that can take page faults, and
   write_lock'ing of the tasklist_lock that can block.  But even if it's
   short the race is there in principle.

2. This is new with NPTL, i.e. CLONE_THREAD.
   Two processors A and B are both in sys_wait4 case TASK_STOPPED
   considering task P.

   Both get through their tests and fetches of P->exit_code before either
   gets to P->exit_code = 0.  => two threads return the same pid from
   waitpid.

   In other interleavings where one processor gets to its put_user after
   the other has cleared P->exit_code, it's like case 1(a).


3. SMP races with stop/cont signals

   First, take:

        kill(pid, SIGSTOP);
        kill(pid, SIGCONT);

   or:

        kill(pid, SIGSTOP);
        kill(pid, SIGKILL);

   It's possible for this to leave the process stopped with a pending
   SIGCONT/SIGKILL.  That's a state that should never be possible.
   Moreover, kill(pid, SIGKILL) without any repetition should always be
   enough to kill a process.  (Likewise SIGCONT when you know it's
   sequenced after the last stop signal, must be sufficient to resume a
   process.)

4. take:

        kill(pid, SIGKILL);     // or any fatal signal
        kill(pid, SIGCONT);     // or SIGKILL

    it's possible for this to cause pid to be reaped with status 0
    instead of its true termination status.  The equivalent scenario
    happens when the process being killed is in an _exit call or a
    trap-induced fatal signal before the kills.

plus i've done stability fixes for bugs that popped up during
beta-testing, and minor tidying of Roland's changes:

 - a rare tasklist corruption during exec, causing some very spurious and
   colorful crashes.

 - a copy_process()-related dereference of already freed thread structure
   if hit with a SIGKILL in the wrong moment.

 - SMP spinlock deadlocks in the signal code

this patchset has been tested quite well in the 2.4 backport of the
threading changes - and i've done some stresstesting on 2.5.59 SMP as
well, and did an x86 UP testcompile + testboot as well.

This small patch does 2 things.  It reworks the firmware/driver
versioning messages to make them more understandable, and it
fixes one case where the 64bit addressing changes caused
error/success to not be properly reported to the serveraid tools.

This large patch adds support for using 64bit addressing.

Special thanks goes to Mike Anderson who did the initial
versions of this patch.

This large patch reworks much of the adapter initialization
code.

It splits the scsi initialization code from the pci
initialization.  It adds support for working with some
future cards.  It also removes the use of multiple pci_driver
registrations and instead does its own adapter ordering.

This small patch fixes the length of the IPS_ENQ
struct.  It was too short which can cause the adapter
to write beyond the the end of the struct during
driver initialization and corrupt part of memory.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into raven.il.steeleye.com:/home/jejb/BK/scsi-for-linus-2.5

I just couldn't see the mess anymore..  Nuke the ifdefs and use sane
variable names.  Some more small nitpicks but no behaviour changes at
all.

From:  Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>

  Here are some help texts from 2.4.21-pre3 Configure.help which are
  needed in 2.5.59 drivers/scsi/Kconfig.

  Steven

From:  Marcus Alanen <maalanen@ra.abo.fi>

  Remove check_region in favour of request_region. Free resources
  properly on error path. Horribly subtle ioremap/iounmap lurks here I
  think, in qla1280_pci_config(), which the below patch should take care
  of.

  I'm wondering if there couldn't / shouldn't be a better way to
  allocate resources. Obviously lots of drivers have broken error paths.
  Is this even necessary?

  Marcus


  #
  # create_patch: qla1280_release_on_error_path-2002-12-08-A.patch
  # Date: Sun Dec  8 22:32:33 EET 2002
  #

It isn't used anywhere anymore

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

The Stanford Checker found a memleak.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

Patch from "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>

Fix "h_buffer_credits<0" assert failure during truncate.

The bug occurs when the "i_blocks" count in the file's inode overflows
past 2^31.  That works fine most of the time, because i_blocks is an
unsigned long, and should go up to 2^32; but there's a place in truncate
where ext3 calculates the size of the next transaction chunk for the
delete, and that mistakenly uses a signed long instead.  Because the
huge i_blocks gets cast to a negative value, ext3 does not reserve
enough credits for the transaction and the above error results.

This is usually only possible on filesystems corrupted for other
reasons, but it is reproducible if you create a single, non-sparse file
larger than 1TB on ext3 and then try to delete it.

Patch from Manfred Spraul.

Fixes a bug which was exposed by Zwane's hotplug CPU work.  The
cache_cache.array pointer is initially given a temp bootstrap area, which is
later converted over to the final value after the CPU is brought up.

But if slab is enhanced to permit cancellation of a CPU bringup, this pointer
ends up pointing at stale memory.  So reinitialise it by hand when
kmem_cache_init() is run.

Patch from Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

This enables spinlock debuggng on uniprocessor builds, under
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.

The reason I want this is that one day we'll need to pull out the debugging
support from the timer code which detects uninitialised timers.  And once
that has gone, uniprocessor developers and testers have no way of detecting
uninitialised timers - there will be mysterious deadlocks on SMP machines.
And there will surely be more uninitialised timers

The patch also removes the last pieces of the support for including
<asm/spinlock.h> directly.  Doesn't work since (IIRC) 2.3.x

- Not everyone uses 160-column xterms.

- Coding style consistency

If you attempt to perform a relocating 4k-aligned mremap and the new address
for the map lands on top of a hugepage VMA, do_mremap() will attempt to
perform a 4k-aligned unmap inside the hugetlb VMA.  The hugetlb layer goes
BUG.

Fix that by trapping the poorly-aligned unmap attempt in do_munmap().
do_remap() will then fall through without having done anything to the place
where it tests for a hugetlb VMA.

It would be neater to perform these checks on entry to do_mremap(), but that
would incur another VMA lookup.

Also, if you attempt to perform a 4k-aligned and/or sized munmap() inside a
hugepage VMA the same BUG happens.  This patch fixes that too.

This all means that an mremap attempt against a hugetlb area will fail, but
only after having unmapped the source pages.  That's a bit messy, but
supporting hugetlb mremap doesn't seem worth it, and completely disallowing
it will add overhead to normal mremaps.