random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799

and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:

> 8f4d37ec is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
>    sched: high-res preemption tick

Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:

> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.

Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.

Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().

However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.

Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...

Mihai reported test success as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed.  It is
declared if CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED, but only used if CONFIG_SMP.

This is a consequence of patch 1f11eb6a plus
patch 1100ac91.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

  * Remove 16k stack requirements in isolated_cpu_setup when NR_CPUS=4096.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

the removal of -mno-spe in the !ftrace case was not intended.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  [PATCH] ocfs2: fix oops in mmap_truncate testing
  configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failure
  configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
  configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail
  configfs: Fix deadlock with racing rmdir() and rename()
  configfs: Make configfs_new_dirent() return error code instead of NULL
  configfs: Protect configfs_dirent s_links list mutations
  configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
  ocfs2: Don't snprintf() without a format.
  ocfs2: Fix CONFIG_OCFS2_DEBUG_FS #ifdefs
  ocfs2/net: Silence build warnings on sparc64
  ocfs2: Handle error during journal load
  ocfs2: Silence an error message in ocfs2_file_aio_read()
  ocfs2: use simple_read_from_buffer()
  ocfs2: fix printk format warnings with OCFS2_FS_STATS=n
  [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Instrument fs cluster locks
  [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_STATS config option

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-fixes-2.6:
  pcmcia: ide-cs: Remove outdated comment
  pcmcia: fix cisinfo_t removal
  pcmcia: fix return value in cm4000_cs.c

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion
  x86: fix numaq_tsc_disable
  x86: fix kernel_physical_mapping_init() for large x86 systems

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: do not trace library functions
  ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions
  ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMP
  ftrace: fix merge buglet

asm-x86/e820.h is included from userspace.  'x86: make e820.c to have
common functions' (b79cd8f1) broke it:

	make -C Documentation/lguest
	cc -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include
lguest.c  -lz -o lguest
	In file included from ../../include/asm-x86/bootparam.h:8,
	                 from lguest.c:45:
	../../include/asm/e820.h:66: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
	../../include/asm/e820.h:67: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
	../../include/asm/e820.h:68: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
	../../include/asm/e820.h:72: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’
or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘e820_update_range’
	...
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

fix:

 arch/x86/kernel/numaq_32.c: In function ‘numaq_tsc_disable’:
 arch/x86/kernel/numaq_32.c:99: warning: ‘return’ with a value, in function returning void
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix calls of smp_call_function*() in arch/ia64/kvm for recent API
changes.

    CC [M]  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.o
  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c: In function 'handle_global_purge':
  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c:398: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function_single'
  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c: In function 'kvm_vcpu_kick':
  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c:1696: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function_single'
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'ptrace-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace

* 'ptrace-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace:
  fix dangling zombie when new parent ignores children
  do_wait: return security_task_wait() error code in place of -ECHILD
  ptrace children revamp
  do_wait reorganization

Also fix unwanted rebuilds of the firmware/ihex2fw tool by including
the .ihex2fw.cmd file when present.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] dasd: use -EOPNOTSUPP instead of -ENOTSUPP
  [S390] qdio: new qdio driver.
  [S390] cio: Export chsc_error_from_response().
  [S390] vmur: Fix return code handling.
  [S390] Fix stacktrace compile bug.
  [S390] Increase default warning stacksize.
  [S390] dasd: Fix cleanup in dasd_{fba,diag}_check_characteristics().
  [S390] chsc headers userspace cleanup
  [S390] dasd: fix unsolicited SIM handling.
  [S390] zfcpdump: Make SCSI disk dump tool recognize storage holes

The patch named "powerpc/mpc5121: Add clock driver", also contained
an unrelated and bogus change to the top-level makefile.  This patch
backs out the bad bit.

SHA1 of offending patch: 137e9590)
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Repented-by: John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
[ Heh. Normally I pick these out from the diffstats, but I guess
  I've grown to trust the ppc tree too much ;)   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions.

We've already got a sizable list of exceptions:

 ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
 # Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
 # Also do not profile any debug utilities
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg
 endif

... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed
up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing
hard to debug lockups.

So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by
default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes
anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

do not trace scheduler functions - it's still a bit fragile
and can lock up with:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jul_17_13_34_52_CEST_2008Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id()
and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup:

  calling  anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130
  initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
  calling  acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
  [ hard hang ]

So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

return value -ENOTSUPP is not valid in userspace context, use
-EOPNOTSUPP instead
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

List of major changes:
- split qdio driver into several files
- seperation of thin interrupt code
- improved handling for multiple thin interrupt devices
- inbound and outbound processing now always runs in tasklet context
- significant less tasklet schedules per interrupt needed
- merged qebsm with non-qebsm handling
- cleanup qdio interface and added kerneldoc
- coding style
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

Make chsc_error_from_response() available to chsc callers outside
of chsc.c (namely qdio) to avoid duplicating error checking code.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

Use -EOPNOTSUPP instead of -ENOTSUPP.
Signed-off-by: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Add missing module.h include to fix this:

  CC      arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.o
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Compiling a kernel with allmodconfig or allyesconfig results in tons
of gcc warnings, because the default maximum stacksize from which on
gcc will emit a warning is just 256 bytes.
Increase this to 2048, so these warnings don't distract from the real
warnings that we need to watch at.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Kernel headers shouldn't expose functions to userspace.

Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Add missing schedule_bh and check that there is 32 bit sense data.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

The kernel part of zfcpdump establishes a new debugfs file zcore/memmap
which exports information on memory layout (start address and length of each
memory chunk) to its userspace counterpart.
Signed-off-by: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

-tip testing found a bootup hang here:

  initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
  calling  acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57

the bootup should have continued with:

  initcall acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57 returned 0 after 45 msecs

but it hung hard there instead.

bisection led to this commit:

| commit 5806b81a
| Merge: d14c8a68... 6712e299...
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date:   Mon Jul 14 16:11:52 2008 +0200
|     Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus

turns out that i made this mistake in the merge:

  ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
  # Do not profile debug utilities
  CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_64.o = -pg
  CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_32.o = -pg

those two files got unified meanwhile - so the dont-profile annotation
got lost. The proper rule is:

  CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc.o = -pg

i guess this could have been caught sooner if the CFLAGS_REMOVE* kbuild
rule aborted the build if it met a target that does not exist anymore?
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This fixes an arcane bug that we think was a regression introduced
by commit b2b2cbc4.  When a parent
ignores SIGCHLD (or uses SA_NOCLDWAIT), its children would self-reap
but they don't if it's using ptrace on them.  When the parent thread
later exits and ceases to ptrace a child but leaves other live
threads in the parent's thread group, any zombie children are left
dangling.  The fix makes them self-reap then, as they would have
done earlier if ptrace had not been in use.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

This reverts the effect of commit f2cc3eb1
"do_wait: fix security checks".  That change reverted the effect of commit
73243284.  The rationale for the original
commit still stands.  The inconsistent treatment of children hidden by
ptrace was an unintended omission in the original change and in no way
invalidates its purpose.

This makes do_wait return the error returned by security_task_wait()
(usually -EACCES) in place of -ECHILD when there are some children the
caller would be able to wait for if not for the permission failure.  A
permission error will give the user a clue to look for security policy
problems, rather than for mysterious wait bugs.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

ptrace no longer fiddles with the children/sibling links, and the
old ptrace_children list is gone.  Now ptrace, whether of one's own
children or another's via PTRACE_ATTACH, just uses the new ptraced
list instead.

There should be no user-visible difference that matters.  The only
change is the order in which do_wait() sees multiple stopped
children and stopped ptrace attachees.  Since wait_task_stopped()
was changed earlier so it no longer reorders the children list, we
already know this won't cause any new problems.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

This breaks out the guts of do_wait into three subfunctions.
The control flow is less nonobvious without so much goto.
do_wait_thread and ptrace_do_wait contain the main work of the outer loop.
wait_consider_task contains the main work of the inner loop.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

Before accessing the device data structure in hardware handlers,
make sure it is a indeed a sdev device.

Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> found the bug on Jul 16, 2008,
and later tested/verified the following fix.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
  Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
  PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
  x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
  PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
  PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
  x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
  Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
  PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
  PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
  PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
  ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
  PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
  PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
  PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
  PCI: handle pci_name() being const
  PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
  PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
  PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.

This reverts commit 809d9a8f.

This one isn't quite ready for prime time.  It needs more testing and
additional feedback from the ACPI guys.

This patch fixes a mmap_truncate bug which was found by ocfs2 test suite.

In an ocfs2 cluster more than 1 node, run program mmap_truncate, which races
mmap writes and truncates from multiple processes. While the test is
running, a stat from another node forces writeout, causing an oops in
ocfs2_get_block() because it sees a buffer to write which isn't allocated.

This patch fixed the bug by clear dirty and uptodate bits in buffer, leave
the buffer unmapped and return.

Fix is suggested by Mark Fasheh, and I code up the patch.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc: (68 commits)
  sdio_uart: Fix SDIO break control to now return success or an error
  mmc: host driver for Ricoh Bay1Controllers
  sdio: sdio_io.c Fix sparse warnings
  sdio: fix the use of hard coded timeout value.
  mmc: OLPC: update vdd/powerup quirk comment
  mmc: fix spares errors of sdhci.c
  mmc: remove multiwrite capability
  wbsd: fix bad dma_addr_t conversion
  atmel-mci: Driver for Atmel on-chip MMC controllers
  mmc: fix sdio_io sparse errors
  mmc: wbsd.c fix shadowing of 'dma' variable
  MMC: S3C24XX: Refuse incorrectly aligned transfers
  MMC: S3C24XX: Add maintainer entry
  MMC: S3C24XX: Update error debugging.
  MMC: S3C24XX: Add media presence test to request handling.
  MMC: S3C24XX: Fix use of msecs where jiffies are needed
  MMC: S3C24XX: Add MODULE_ALIAS() entries for the platform devices
  MMC: S3C24XX: Fix s3c2410_dma_request() return code check.
  MMC: S3C24XX: Allow card-detect on non-IRQ capable pin
  MMC: S3C24XX: Ensure host->mrq->data is valid
  ...

Manually fixed up bogus executable bits on drivers/mmc/core/sdio_io.c
and include/linux/mmc/sdio_func.h when merging.

* 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: include to compilation
  UBIFS: add new flash file system
  UBIFS: add brief documentation
  MAINTAINERS: add UBIFS section
  do_mounts: allow UBI root device name
  VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
  VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes