- 29 Mar, 2004 10 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
From: mike.miller@hp.com If no device is attached we now return -ENXIO instead of some bogus numbers. Prevents applications from trying to access non-existent disks. Also adds HDIO_GETGEO_BIG IOCTL that fdisk uses.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: <mike.miller@hp.com> This change is required to support the new MSA30 storage enclosure. If you do a SCSI inquiry to a SATA disk bad things happen. This patch prevents the inquiry from going to SATA disks.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> sound/oss/opl3sa2.c:163: warning: `opl3sa2_lock' defined but not used
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> ptrace/access_process_vm was passing current to get_user_pages as task, but it should have been clearly the child task instead. This fixes the fault accounting in ptrace and the vsyscall debugging on x86-64 (it needs the correct task_struct to map the vsyscall pages)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> sound/oss/cmpci.c: In function `cm_release_mixdev': sound/oss/cmpci.c:1465: warning: unused variable `s'
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Hit a couple of (cpu hotplug) races in slab allocator during my tests. Mostly it was because of continuous loading/unloading fs/minix/minix.ko while simultaneously doing offline/online of CPUs. As part of its init and exit routines, minix.ko create/destroys caches, which lead to several oopses. 1. kmem_cache_create In brief, kmem_cache_create does: a) calls enable_cpucache to create per-cpu cache for all online CPUs. b) adds the cache to the global list of caches These two are not done atomically and thats what causes problems. For ex: lets say that at the time of step a) CPU1 is not online. Hence no per-cpu cache is created for CPU1 (cachep->array[1] is NULL). However CPU1 is not completely dead in the sense that CPU_DEAD processing for it is not yet over. By the time CPU_DEAD processing starts for CPU1, step b) is complete. So cpuup_callback finds this cache and tries freeing it's per-cpu cache associated with CPU1. In the process it dereferences a NULL pointer and dies. 2. kmem_cache_destroy In brief, kmem_cache_destroy does: a) deletes the cache from the global list of caches b) Drain per-cpu cache (drain_cpu_caches), which basically uses smp_call_function to run do_drain on all online CPUs. One possible race is let's say that CPU1 is coming up. By the time CPU_UP_PREPARE is processed for CPU1, step a) is complete. Hence cpuup_callback does not allocate any per-cpu cache for the cache that is being destroyed. However by the time step b) is run, CPU1 is completely online (taking interrupts). It receives the IPI and tries draining it per-cpu cache (which is NULL) and dies there. I think we need to serialize kmem_cache_create/destroy against CPU hotplug to prevent these problems. Patch below does that by taking CPU Hotplug sem (which is OK since kmem_cache_create/destroy are not very frequently used?).
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> The following fixes a problem where a SCHED_FIFO task would on occasion be moved to the end of its runqueue when returned to from a preemption. Cause was due to some SCHED_OTHER code in schedule() which was being run for tasks of every policy.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> This helps raid5 work on at least 1 very large array.. Thanks to Evan Felix <evan.felix@pnl.gov>
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Andrew Morton authored
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http://linux-watchdog.bkbits.net/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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- 28 Mar, 2004 12 commits
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Alain Knaff authored
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
From: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> rmmod'ing pmac_zilog currently oopses because uart_unregister_driver(), which nullifies drv->tty_driver, is called before uart_remove_one_port(), which uses said drv->tty_driver. The comment at top of uart_unregister_driver() specifically says we have to have removed all our ports via uart_remove_one_port() before.
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Armin Schindler authored
From: Frank A. Uepping This fixes capiminor_alloc() to assign the lowest free minor for a new capi_tty. Thanks to Frank A. Uepping and Tim Woods.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The syscall return path on ppc64 checks if the error is between -LAST_ERRNO and 0, if it is, does the usual inversion along with setting a CR bit indicating to glibc that an error occured. However, we had an interesting bug where we used a 32 bits logica (unsigned) comparison, thus possibly doing false positives for valid 64 bits unsigned values whose low 32 bits happen to be in the error range. Fix that.
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Felipe Alfaro Solana authored
Just as there is documentation for BINFMT_MISC and Java bytecodes support, I thought it could be interesting to add documentation on how to add BINFMT_MISC support for directly running .NET ".exe" binaries using the Mono CLR.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This patch fixes more cases of possible preempt issue when testing MSR for FP or VEC bits and then doing giveup_fpu or giveup_altivec that I missed in my previous round of fixes (bk get helps before grepping ;) I also change the single step and program check exceptions to not re-enable interrupts right away on C code entry, it was useless and would cause interesting issues with preempt & xmon
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Roman Zippel authored
A few asm/types.h test a config variable without including <linux/config.h> first, which can e.g. cause different sector_t definitions. HFS fell victim to that and broke on ppc with CONFIG_LBD enabled. I scanned all asm/types.h and added <linux/config.h> as necessary.
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Neil Brown authored
- make sure cd->buffer is always inside a page - previously if an entry fit perfectly in the remainder of a page, cd->buffer would end up pointing past the end of that page. - make sure num_entry_words is always correct, even on the error path.
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Olof Johansson authored
This increases the DART table to use the full size. We allocate a full 16MB page anyway, so there's no difference in memory consumption. Thanks to Ben for spotting this, it was left over from debugging...
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Olof Johansson authored
This fixes a bug in the iommu allocator that causes it to behave strangely when a fair size of the table is allocated. Thanks to Andrew Gallatin for finding this.
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This patch from Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> fixes a bug in the current USB code that causes khubd to hang when a device is removed from the system, thereby preventing any future USB device changes (like adding or removing other devices) from happening. Both Andrew and I can easily duplicate this bug against the current -bk tree. It's not a perfect fix, but it works for now, and I will spend the next week working on restructuring the code so this is handled properly.
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- 27 Mar, 2004 18 commits
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Wim Van Sebroeck authored
Version 0.16 of pcwd.c - Changes that were made are: * Changed the driver so that it uses an internal timer to do the actual watchdog pinging. This way the watchdog's emulated 'heartbeat' is usuable as a module parameter. The watchdog's heartbeat can now vary from 2 till 7200 seconds Tested on pcwd card with temperature option
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David S. Miller authored
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Wim Van Sebroeck authored
Version 0.15 of pcwd.c - Changes that were made are: * Rewrote code for exchanging commands with the ISA-PC Watchdog card * Restructured + rewrote the init and exit code * Added option_switches info * Use the option_switches info to find out what the cards heartbeat is * Added notifier support Tested on pcwd card with temperature option
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
It has been dead since kernel 2.5.18.
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
TiVo IDE support was never merged only this option was (in 2.4.0-test2), sigh.
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
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Anton Blanchard authored
filldir and getdents should check return values of put_user etc. The generic code has been fixed but the ppc64 compat versions have not.
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Matthew Wilcox authored
This replaces six duplicated implementations of various quality of sys32_mount with a shiny new compat_sys_mount(). It's been tested on parisc64 and sparc64 and fixes a bug exposed by the latest revision of Debian's initscripts. Thanks to Arnd Bergmann and Dave Miller for their suggestions, fixes and testing. Please apply.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Remove include of <asm/setup.h> from cmdlinepart.c. This is not be needed for i386 (it builds fine with this patch), and ia64 doesn't supply a setup.h. asm/setup.h contains a hodge-podge of stuff with no real consistency between architectures. It appears to be included mainly by arch-specific drivers: acsi (Atari disks) amiflop (Amiga floppy) z2ram (ZorroII ram disk) amiserial (Amiga serial) ... and under arch-specific #ifdefs: fbcon (under __mc68000__ or CONFIG_APUS) fonts (ditto) logo (CONFIG_M68K) ...
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> The problem is that we don't clear out the efi_time_t buffer before asking EFI to fill it in. EFI doesn't always write the entire buffer (in particular, the alarm time only supports one second resolution, so the nanosecond field is often untouched). The effect is that 'cat /proc/driver/efirtc' shows garbage in the nanoseconds part of the alarm time, and sometimes artifacts like bogus alarm date and junk after the actual end of the text.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> This patch fixes a bug where the return value for a permission call is not checked. The bug was introduced when I added some code in the following changeset: <http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/security/selinux/hooks.c@1.19?nav=index.html|src/|src/security|src/security/selinux|hist/security/selinux/hooks.c> Code was added after this line: err = avc_has_perm(isec->sid, node_sid, SECCLASS_NODE, node_perm, NULL, &ad); without adding an explicit check of 'err', which was previously returned from the function rather than being checked. i.e. it would drop through to: out: return err; } With the new code added, err can (and typically would) be overwritten with a successful value, causing the permission check to not deny permission if needed. The intended denial would have been logged. The patch below fixes this problem.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> This patch ensures that cpu_khz is adjusted on cpufreq notifications even when the tsc timesource is not in use. It fixes the mostly cosmetic issue when using the ACPI PM timesource of /proc/cpuinfo not being properly updated when cpu frequency was lowered.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> System call speedup part 2.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> The purpose of this is to speed up system calls on s390. I managed to squeeze about 65 cycles from each system call. This improved e.g. getpid() from 232 to 157 cycles. As a nice side-effect it simplified the uaccess functions considerably.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> s390 tape driver changes: - Prevent offline while device is in use. - Do not use bus_id string in debug feature messages. - Check for IS_ERR(irb) error conditions in interrupt handler. - Fix removing tape discipline modules.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> s390 network driver changes: - ctc/lcs/qeth: prevent a ccw-device to be grouped multiple times. - icuv: clear correct field in iucv_register_program if no userid is specified. - lcs: fix online/offline cycle again. - lcs: fix ungrouping of lcs group device. The channels of the lcs card should be offline afterwards. - lcs: don't do netif_stop_queue if no tx buffer is available, just return -EBUSY and drop the packets.
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