- 11 Apr, 2008 16 commits
-
-
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC]: Fix several regset and ptrace bugs.
-
Davide Libenzi authored
Michael Kerrisk found out that signalfd was not reporting back user data pushed using sigqueue: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/9397cab8551e3123 The following patch makes signalfd report back the ssi_ptr and ssi_int members of the signalfd_siginfo structure. Signed-off-by:
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Acked-by:
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-
Bjorn Helgaas authored
Increase the PNP "number of devices" limit. We currently use an unsigned char, which limits us to 256 devices per protocol. This patch changes that to an unsigned int. Not all backends can take advantage of this: we limit ISAPNP to 10 devices in isapnp_cfg_begin(), and PNPBIOS is limited to 256 devices because the BIOS interfaces use a one-byte device node number. But there is no limit on the number of PNPACPI devices we may have. Large HP Integrity machines have more than 256, which causes the current "unsigned char number" to wrap around. This causes errors like this: pnp: PnP ACPI init kobject_add failed for 00:00 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Call Trace: [<a000000100010720>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 [<a0000001000107b0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60 [<a0000001001dbdf0>] kobject_add+0x290/0x2c0 [<a0000001002bfd40>] device_add+0x160/0x860 [<a0000001002c0470>] device_register+0x30/0x60 [<a00000010026ba70>] __pnp_add_device+0x130/0x180 [<a00000010026bb70>] pnp_add_device+0xb0/0xe0 [<a0000001007f2730>] pnpacpi_add_device+0x510/0x5a0 [<a0000001007f2810>] pnpacpi_add_device_handler+0x50/0x80 This patch increases the limit to fix this PNPACPI problem. It should not have any adverse effect on ISAPNP or PNPBIOS because their limits are still enforced in the backends. Signed-off-by:Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Dan Williams authored
If a failure is detected after a parity check operation has been initiated, but before it completes handle_parity_checks5 will never quiesce operations on the stripe. Explicitly handle this case by "canceling" the parity check, i.e. clear the STRIPE_OP_CHECK flags and queue the stripe on the handle list again to refresh any non-uptodate blocks. Kernel versions >= 2.6.23 are susceptible. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Mike Pagano authored
This patch adds the missing include directive <linux/scatterlist.h> to the cciss.c source file. This was discovered by our release team when building the kernel for the Alpha architecture. Errors were found as references to functions 'sg_init_table' and 'sg_page' do not exist without the include for Alpha. Signed-off-by:
Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Kay Sievers authored
Since 43cc71ee, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable RTC platform drivers, to re-enable module auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers, minor fix] Signed-off-by:
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
-
Kay Sievers authored
Since 43cc71ee, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable watchdog drivers, to re-enable auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers; registration fixes] Signed-off-by:
-
Kay Sievers authored
Since 43cc71ee, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable USB HCDs, to allow re-enable auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers; registration fixes] Signed-off-by:
-
Kay Sievers authored
Since 43cc71ee, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable usb peripheral drivers, to re-eable module auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: registration fixes] Signed-off-by:
-
Kay Sievers authored
Since 43cc71ee, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable SPI platform drivers, to allow module auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers: registration fixes] Signed-off-by:
-
Davide Libenzi authored
Jeff Roberson discovered a race when using kaio eventfd based notifications. When it occurs it can lead tomissed wakeups and hung userspace. This patch fixes the race by moving the notification inside the spinlocked section of kaio. The operation is safe since eventfd spinlock and kaio one are unrelated. Signed-off-by:
-
Randy Dunlap authored
rtc-s35390a uses BITREVERSE functions so it needs to select that config symbol to ensure that the functions are built. drivers/built-in.o: In function `s35390a_set_datetime': linux-2.6.25-rc8-git7/drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c:144: undefined reference to `byte_rev_table' drivers/built-in.o: In function `s35390a_get_datetime': linux-2.6.25-rc8-git7/drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c:163: undefined reference to `byte_rev_table' Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by:
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
-
Paul Menage authored
Extend the /proc/<pid>/cgroup file to include the appropriate hierarchy ID on each line. Currently this ID isn't really needed since a hierarchy can be completely identified by the set of subsystems bound to it, but this is likely to change in the near future in order to support stateless subsystems and merging/rebinding of subsystems. Getting this change into 2.6.25 reduces the need for an API change later. Signed-off-by:
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Linus Torvalds authored
It's really a pretty ugly thing to need, and some day it will hopefully be obviated by teaching gcc about the magic calling conventions for the low-level system call code, but in the meantime we can at least add big honking comments about why we need these insane and strange macros. I took my comments from my version of the macro, but I ended up deciding to just pick Roland's version of the actual code instead (with his prettier syntax that uses vararg macros). Thus the previous two commits that actually implement it. Signed-off-by: -
Roland McGrath authored
Use asmlinkage_protect in sys_io_getevents, because GCC for i386 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n can decide to clobber an argument word on the stack, i.e. the user struct pt_regs. Here the problem is not a tail call, but just the compiler's use of the stack when it inlines and optimizes the body of the called function. This seems to avoid it. Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Roland McGrath authored
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent. Other optimizations can do it too. Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all the manifestations of this issue that crop up. More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not. Signed-off-by:
-
- 10 Apr, 2008 18 commits
-
-
Venki Pallipadi authored
This patch also resolves hangs on boot: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093 The bug was causing once-in-few-reboots 10-15 sec wait during boot on certain laptops. Earlier commit 40d6a146 added smp_call_function in cpu_idle_wait() to kick cpus that are in tickless idle. Looking at cpu_idle_wait code at that time, code seemed to be over-engineered for a case which is rarely used (while changing idle handler). Below is a simplified version of cpu_idle_wait, which just makes a dummy smp_call_function to all cpus, to make them come out of old idle handler and start using the new idle handler. It eliminates code in the idle loop to handle cpu_idle_wait. Signed-off-by:
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Harvey Harrison authored
Shift of a LE value seems strange, probably meant to shift the cpu-order variable as in the prvious section of the switch statement. Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by:
-
David Howells authored
Don't make smp_{r,w,}mb() interpolate a MEMBAR instruction when CONFIG_SMP=n as SMP memory barries on UP systems should interpolate a compiler barrier only. Signed-off-by:David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
-
David Howells authored
Make NOMMU-mode work with base addresses other than 0xC0000000 by: (1) Giving the code that sets up the protection registers the right address in __sdram_base. Rather than being hard coded to 0xC0000000, the value of __page_offset is obtained from the linker script. (2) Eliminate the check in __switch_to() that verifies the current thread info is in the 0xCxxxxxxx region. Signed-off-by: -
David Howells authored
Use traps 120-126 to emulate atomic cmpxchg32, xchg32, and XOR-, OR-, AND-, SUB- and ADD-to-memory operations for userspace. Signed-off-by:
-
David Howells authored
Move STACK_TOP_MAX up so that we don't try moving the stack above it as that causes setup_arg_pages() to malfunction. Signed-off-by:
-
David Howells authored
Handle update_mmu_cache() being called when current->mm is NULL. We cache static TLB mappings for the current page table in DAMPR4 and DAMPR5 on the theory that the next data lookup is likely to be in the same general region, and thus is likely to be mapped by the same page table. However, we can't get this information if we can't access the appropriate mm_struct. If current->mm is NULL, we just clear the cache in the knowledge that the TLB miss handlers will load it. Signed-off-by:
-
git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: [XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistent [XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problem [XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.h
-
git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cfq-iosched: do not leak ioc_data across iosched switches splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()
-
Roman Zippel authored
Some time ago while attempting to handle invalid link counts, I botched the unlink of links itself, so this patch fixes this now correctly, so that only the link count of nodes that don't point to links is ignored. Thanks to Vlado Plaga <rechner@vlado-do.de> to notify me of this problem. Signed-off-by:
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
-
Fabio Checconi authored
When switching scheduler from cfq, cfq_exit_queue() does not clear ioc->ioc_data, leaving a dangling pointer that can deceive the following lookups when the iosched is switched back to cfq. The pattern that can trigger that is the following: - elevator switch from cfq to something else; - module unloading, with elv_unregister() that calls cfq_free_io_context() on ioc freeing the cic (via the .trim op); - module gets reloaded and the elevator switches back to cfq; - reallocation of a cic at the same address as before (with a valid key). To fix it just assign NULL to ioc_data in __cfq_exit_single_io_context(), that is called from the regular exit path and from the elevator switching code. The only path that frees a cic and is not covered is the error handling one, but cic's freed in this way are never cached in ioc_data. Signed-off-by:Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
-
Eric Sandeen authored
Since older kernels may look in the sb_bad_features2 slot for flags, rather than zeroing it out on fixup, we should make it equal to the sb_features2 value. Also, if the ATTR2 flag was not found prior to features2 fixup, it was not set in the mount flags, so re-check after the fixup so that the current session will use the feature. Also fix up the comments to reflect these changes. SGI-PV: 980085 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30778a Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by:
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
-
David Chinner authored
Due to the xfs_dsb_t structure not being 64 bit aligned, the last field of the on-disk superblock can vary in location This causes problems when the filesystem gets moved to a different platform, or there is a 32 bit userspace and 64 bit kernel. This patch detects the defect at mount time, logs a warning such as: XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem in dmesg and corrects the problem so that everything is OK. it also blacklists the bad field in the superblock so it does not get used for something else later on. SGI-PV: 977636 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30539a Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
-
Eric Sandeen authored
Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some which are completely unused. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a Signed-off-by:
Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Jens Axboe authored
There's a quirky loop in generic_file_splice_read() that could go on indefinitely, if the file splice returns 0 permanently (and not just as a temporary condition). Get rid of the loop and pass back -EAGAIN correctly from __generic_file_splice_read(), so we handle that condition properly as well. Signed-off-by: -
David S. Miller authored
1) ptrace should pass 'current' to task_user_regset_view() 2) When fetching general registers using a 64-bit view, and the target is 32-bit, we have to convert. 3) Skip the whole register window get/set code block if the user isn't asking to access anything in there. Otherwise we have problems if the user doesn't have an address space setup. Fetching ptrace register is still valid at such a time, and ptrace does not try to access the register window area of the regset. Signed-off-by:David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-
Steven Rostedt authored
gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type. The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when executing this code. This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the original section. Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel. ;-) Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
-
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: SELinux: don't BUG if fs reuses a superblock
-
- 09 Apr, 2008 6 commits
-
-
Eric Paris authored
I (wrongly) assumed that nfs_xdev_get_sb() would not ever share a superblock and so cloning mount options would always be correct. Turns out that isn't the case and we could fall over a BUG_ON() that wasn't a BUG at all. Since there is little we can do to reconcile different mount options this patch just leaves the sb alone and the first set of options wins. Signed-off-by:
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by:
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
-
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: ata/sata_fsl: Remove unused variable in sata_fsl_probe pata_sil680: Fix build on arch/ppc
-
Johann Felix Soden authored
In sata_fsl_probe memory is allocated but never used or deallocated. Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404 Thanks to Daniel Marjamäki for the bug report. Reported-by:
Daniel Marjamäki <danielm77@spray.se> Signed-off-by:
Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
-
Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Commit 0f436eff breaks build on arch/ppc as it doesn't implement the machine_is() macro. This fixes it by using CONFIG_PPC_MERGE instead which represents arch/powerpc only, while CONFIG_PPC is set for both. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
-
git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: SUNRPC: Fix a memory leak in rpc_create() fix bug - executing FDPIC ELF on NFS mount triggers BUG() at mm/nommu.c:862:/do_mmap_private() NFS: initialize flags field in nfs_open_context SUNRPC: don't call flush_dcache_page() with an invalid pointer
-
Dmitry Adamushko authored
cfi_amdstd_sync() and cfi_staa_sync() call schedule() without changing task's state appropriately. In case of e.g. chip->state == FL_ERASING, cfi_*_sync() will be busy-looping either redundantly for a fixed interval of time (for SCHED_NORMAL tasks) or possibly endlessly (for RT tasks and UP). Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
-
