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  1. 26 Apr, 2004 40 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/tg3-2.6 · 5ca259f3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      5ca259f3
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kbuild: Improved external module support · 95065ad3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      
      The external module support recently introduced caused a number of problems:
      - To build an external module the Module.symvers file was needed
      - To create the Module.symvers file a module was required
      - If Module.symvers was missing kbuild boiled out with an error
      - If vmlinux was missing also the stage 2 of module build failed (make -k)
      - It was not documented what was needed to actually bauild a module
      
      The following patch addresses this by adding the following functionality:
      - Always generate the Module.symvers file
      - Ignore a missing Module.symvers file
      - Add a new target modules_prepare, it prepares the kernel for building
        external modules, and is also usefull with O=
      - And it adds some more comments to Makefile.modpost, so others may follow
        it with some luck
      - .modpost.cmd is no longer generated
      
      This should close all reports on issues with respect to building external
      modules with current kernel - which has been identified as kernel problems.
      95065ad3
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] doc: specifiying module parameters · e354a56d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      kernel-parameters.txt: add info on how to specify loadable module
      parameters vs.  built-in module parameters
      e354a56d
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] SELinux ptrace race fix · 96cc4727
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      Looking again at the SELinux ptrace check, I believe that there is an
      unrelated race due to the fact that the parent link is only updated after
      releasing the task lock in ptrace_attach (and this is necessary as task lock
      doesn't nest with write lock of tasklist_lock).
      
      The patch below changes SELinux to save the tracing process' SID upon a
      successful selinux_ptrace hook call and then use that SID in the ptrace check
      in apply_creds in order to avoid such races.  This allows us to preserve the
      fine-grained process-to-process ptrace check upon exec (vs.  the global
      CAP_SYS_PTRACE privilege => PT_PTRACE_CAP flag used by the capability module)
      while still avoiding races.
      96cc4727
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: remove duplicated mb() and comment from __cpu_up · c5fe7586
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
      
      This seems to have slipped in during a manual merge at some point.
      c5fe7586
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] SubmittingPatches diffing update. · e768ae0e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
      
      A kernel janitor recently got confused by the advice in SubmittingPatches
      and was sending patches with the wrong strip level, i think just about
      everyone would prefer standard patches.  Also mention various patch
      management scripts for batching up large deltas.
      e768ae0e
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Set module license in mcheck/non-fatal.c · 65782400
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      
      This patch sets the module license for mcheck/non-fatal.c.  The module
      doesn't work at all without this as one of the symbols it needs is only
      exported as GPL.
      65782400
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] remove Documentation/DocBook/parportbook.tmpl · f13fcc31
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      The partportbook is licensed under the GFDL and Linus agreed to remove
      all GFDL licensed files in
      http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.1/1968.html.
      
      I pinged the author the first time on the 2nd of april but still didn't get
      a reply, then send a patch to Linus to remove it last week but linus
      ignored it.  Here's the patch again:
      f13fcc31
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix fs/proc/task_nommu.c compile · c44d1974
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      this file has been broken for ages, but it seems few !CONFIG_MMU users use
      mainline at all.
      c44d1974
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc32: dma_unmap_page() fix · 52bfefbc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> (Arthur Othieno)
      
      Duplicate definition of dma_unmap_single() should actually be
      dma_unmap_page().
      
      (acked by Tom Rini)
      52bfefbc
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] nfs_writepage() retval fix · 3376cbf3
      Andrew Morton authored
      Both ->writepage() and ->writepages() should return 0 or a negative error
      code.  It shouldn't return the number of bytes which were written.
      
      From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      
         Redirty the page if all of the modified parts of the page weren't
         written out.
      3376cbf3
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] blkdev.h: functions no longer inline · cf259c1c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      These are EXPORTed SYMBOLs; 'inline' was removed from them in ll_rw_blk.c
      on 2002-11-25.
      cf259c1c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fs/proc/array.c: workaround for gcc-2.96 · 8d67bea6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      
      This patch is needed to work around gcc-2.96's limited ability to cope with
      long long intermediate expression types.  I don't know why the code
      compiled okay earlier and failed now.
      8d67bea6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc32: fix head_44x.S copyrights · 1c9cdbfc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
      
      A copyright change to properly show the lineage of this file.
      1c9cdbfc
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] doc: tips for S3 resume on radeon cards · 6356aaa9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      
      Stefan has pretty useful tips for getting S3 to work on radeon notebooks.
      This brings whole new class of systems to be usable for S3.
      6356aaa9
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ISDN Eicon driver: remove call to trap usermode helper · 4a99dc71
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
      
      This patch removes the function to call a usermode helper if the hardware
      and its firmware has a problem.  This feature is already implemented in the
      user utility and the driver does not need to care about it.
      4a99dc71
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] hugepage fixes · 6d576c06
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      mm/hugetlb.c is putting the destructor in head->lru.prev not head[1].mapping;
      fix below along with nuking huge_page_release(), which simply duplicates
      put_page().
      6d576c06
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] simplify put_page() · 65ea1aff
      Andrew Morton authored
      By requiring that compound pages implement destructors we can drop some code
      from put_page().
      65ea1aff
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] smb_writepage retval fix · c8c855b5
      Andrew Morton authored
      ->writepage() is supposed to return zero or a negative error code.  Returning
      the number of bytes written will confuse the VFS.
      c8c855b5
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] slab: use order 0 for vfs caches · 1b2569fb
      Andrew Morton authored
      We have interesting deadlocks when slab decides to use order-1 allocations for
      ext3_inode_cache.  This is because ext3_alloc_inode() needs to perform a
      GFP_NOFS 1-order allocation.
      
      Sometimes the 1-order allocation needs to free a huge number of pages (tens of
      megabytes) before a 1-order grouping becomes available.  But the GFP_NOFS
      allocator cannot free dcache (and hence icache) due to the deadlock problems
      identified in shrink_dcache_memory().
      
      So change slab so that it will force 0-order allocations for shrinkable VFS
      objects.  We can handle those OK.
      1b2569fb
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] isofs "default NLS charset not used" fix · b3f25c2b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Marek Szuba <scriptkiddie@wp.pl>
      
      Use the configured default NLS rather than hardwire it.
      b3f25c2b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix CONFIG_SYSFS=n compile warning · 81567845
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      81567845
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] dio_bio_reap() return value fix · 9aa8863f
      Andrew Morton authored
      This function doesn't correctly accumulate -EIO for its caller.
      9aa8863f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] task_lock() comment update · 81779415
      Andrew Morton authored
      81779415
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] s390: no timer interrupts in idle. · 1bd4c02c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      
      This patch add a system control that allows to switch off the jiffies timer
      interrupts while a cpu sleeps in idle.  This is useful for a system running
      with virtual cpus under z/VM.
      1bd4c02c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] efibootmgr location change · 30c1ec2b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
      
      I moved the home of the efibootmgr utility from domsch.com to
      linux.dell.com.  Note the move in drivers/firmware/Kconfig, also note
      version 0.5.0-test3 or above is necessary.
      30c1ec2b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] efivars fixes · 03d1c495
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
      
      Patch below fixes three small bugs in efivars.c as posted by Matt Tolentino
      last week and included in the latest -mm.  Aside from this small patch, I'm
      quite pleased with Matt T's work, thanks!
      
      - dummy() used for reading write-only sysfs files should return -ENODEV to
        indicate failure, not 0.
      
      - efivar_create() should return the number of bytes written on success, not
        zero.
      
      - efivar_delete() should return the number of bytes written on success, not
        zero.
      03d1c495
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] efivars: remove x86 references · 1079344c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
      
      Third efivars driver update patch that removes x86 references to the /proc
      version of the driver.
      1079344c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] efivars: add to drivers/firmware · d621c98a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
      
      Second efivars driver update patch that adds efivars into the drivers/firmware
      directory.
      d621c98a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] efivars: remove from arch/ia64 · 855647c4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
      
      I broke up the efivars driver update patch I had sent out quite a while ago
      into several smaller patches.  This includes several fixes and suggestions
      that were pointed out.  The patches are broken down as follows:
      
      1 - remove all traces of efivars from arch/ia64/
      2 - add new sysfs based efivars driver into
          drivers/firmware with accompanying Kconfig/Makefile
          changes to make it fully functional for ia64 again.
      3 - cleans up x86 references to the /proc version of
          the efivars driver.
      855647c4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] m68k bitops · b13496e8
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      
      M68k bitops updates (from Roman Zippel):
        - Optimize find_{first,next}_zero_bit()
        - Add missing implementations of find_{first,next}_bit()
      b13496e8
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] m68k: Amiga A2065 Ethernet KERN_* · 009c5ed6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      
      Amiga A2065 Ethernet: Add KERN_* prefixes to printk() messages
      009c5ed6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] prune_dcache comment fix · 5324408b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
      
      Clarify some things which were confusing poeple...
      5324408b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] slab alignment fixes · afcd93a4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      
      Below is a patch that redefines the kmem_cache_alloc `align' argument:
      
      - align not zero: use the specified alignment.  I think values smaller than
        sizeof(void*) will work, even on archs with strict alignment requirement (or
        at least: slab shouldn't crash.  Obviously the user must handle the
        alignment properly).
      
      - align zero:
      * debug on: align to sizeof(void*)
      * debug off, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN clear: align to sizeof(void*)
      * debug off, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN set: align to the smaller of
         - cache_line_size()
         - the object size, rounded up to the next power of two.
        Slab never honored cache align for tiny objects: otherwise the 32-byte
        kmalloc objects would use 128 byte objects.
      
      There is one additional point: right now slab uses ints for the bufctls.
      Using short would save two bytes for each object.  Initially I had used short,
      but davem objected.  IIRC because some archs do not handle short efficiently. 
      Should I allow arch overrides for the bufctls?  On i386, saving two bytes
      might allow a few additional anon_vma objects in each page.
      afcd93a4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] hugetlbpage: remove include linux/module.h · 01305153
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      
      The #include of linux/module.h in several arch/*/mm/hugetlbpage.c files for
      EXPORT_SYMBOL(hugetlb_total_pages) is now unneeded.
      01305153
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: prom.c fix for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n · 59e8d5c9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Doesn't compile with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n.  Be more careful with the
      conditionals.
      
      Spotted by Dave Boutcher...
      59e8d5c9
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: Move Initrd · e51a23c6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      This patch moves the initrd when "make_room" runs out of space, rather than
      stepping over it.  The problem with stepping over it is that it gets copied
      with the kernel when this happens, which wastes space.
      
      Also ensures that the initrd isn't where the kernel wants to be moved to: if
      it is, it gets moved out the way.
      e51a23c6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: Initrd Cleanup · 54c832af
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Clean up initrd handling.
      
      1) Expose initrd_start and initrd_end to prom.c (replacing its local
         initrd_start and initrd_len).
      
      2) Don't hand mem (aka klimit) through functions which don't need it.
      
      3) Add more debugging under DEBUG_PROM in case we broke anything.
      54c832af
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: Clean up prom functions in prom.c · 79293254
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      1) Define PROM_ERROR: checks for call_prom() < 0 are bogus (returns ulong)
      2) All OF access functions should be marked __init.
      3) prom_strtoul isn't used at all.
      79293254
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: Fix prom.c to boot on G5 after make_room fix · 8b66a490
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Ben Herrenschmidt made this actually boot.
      8b66a490