- 17 May, 2010 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
This addresses the following compiler warning: kernel/stop_machine.c: In function 'cpu_stop_cpu_callback': kernel/stop_machine.c:297: warning: unused variable 'work' Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <tip-3fc1f1e2@git.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 May, 2010 1 commit
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Changli Gao authored
epoll should not touch flags in wait_queue_t. This patch introduces a new function __add_wait_queue_exclusive(), for the users, who use wait queue as a LIFO queue. __add_wait_queue_tail_exclusive() is introduced too instead of add_wait_queue_exclusive_locked(). remove_wait_queue_locked() is removed, as it is a duplicate of __remove_wait_queue(), disliked by users, and with less users. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1273214006-2979-1-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 May, 2010 1 commit
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Li Zefan authored
This comment should have been removed together with uids_mutex when removing user sched. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4BE77C6B.5010402@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 09 May, 2010 8 commits
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Pavel Machek pointed out that not all CPUs have an efficient idle at high frequency. Specifically, older Intel and various AMD cpus would get a higher powerusage when copying files from USB. Mike Chan pointed out that the same is true for various ARM chips as well. Thomas Renninger suggested to make this a sysfs tunable with a reasonable default. This patch adds a sysfs tunable for the new behavior, and uses a very simple function to determine a reasonable default, depending on the CPU vendor/type. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082651.46914d04@infradead.org> [ minor tidyup ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
The ondemand cpufreq governor uses CPU busy time (e.g. not-idle time) as a measure for scaling the CPU frequency up or down. If the CPU is busy, the CPU frequency scales up, if it's idle, the CPU frequency scales down. Effectively, it uses the CPU busy time as proxy variable for the more nebulous "how critical is performance right now" question. This algorithm falls flat on its face in the light of workloads where you're alternatingly disk and CPU bound, such as the ever popular "git grep", but also things like startup of programs and maildir using email clients... much to the chagarin of Andrew Morton. This patch changes the ondemand algorithm to count iowait time as busy, not idle, time. As shown in the breakdown cases above, iowait is performance critical often, and by counting iowait, the proxy variable becomes a more accurate representation of the "how critical is performance" question. The problem and fix are both verified with the "perf timechar" tool. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100509082606.3d9f00d0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
For the ondemand cpufreq governor, it is desired that the iowait time is microaccounted in a similar way as idle time is. This patch introduces the infrastructure to account and expose this information via the get_cpu_iowait_time_us() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NO_HZ=n build] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082523.284feab6@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Now that the only user of ts->idle_lastupdate is update_ts_time_stats(), the entire field can be eliminated. In update_ts_time_stats(), idle_lastupdate is first set to "now", and a few lines later, the only user is an if() statement that assigns a variable either to "now" or to ts->idle_lastupdate, which has the value of "now" at that point. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082439.2fab0b4f@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch folds the updating of the last_update_time into the update_ts_time_stats() function, and updates the callers. This allows for further cleanups that are done in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082403.60072967@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Right now, get_cpu_idle_time_us() only reports the idle statistics upto the point the CPU entered last idle; not what is valid right now. This patch adds an update of the idle statistics to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), so that calling this function always returns statistics that are accurate at the point of the call. This includes resetting the start of the idle time for accounting purposes to avoid double accounting. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082323.2d2f1945@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Currently, two places update the idle statistics (and more to come later in this series). This patch creates a helper function for updating these statistics. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082245.163e67ed@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment describing it; add a kerneldoc comment Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082208.7cb721f0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 08 May, 2010 2 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
When !CONFIG_SMP, cpu_stop functions weren't defined at all which could lead to build failures if UP code uses cpu_stop facility. Add dummy cpu_stop implementation for UP. The waiting variants execute the work function directly with preempt disabled and stop_one_cpu_nowait() schedules a workqueue work. Makefile and ifdefs around stop_machine implementation are updated to accomodate CONFIG_SMP && !CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE case. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 07 May, 2010 3 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1272997616.1642.207.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Paul E. McKenney authored
If synchronize_sched_expedited() is ever to be called from within kernel/sched.c in a !SMP PREEMPT kernel, the !SMP implementation needs a barrier(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 06 May, 2010 5 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The memory barriers must be in the SMP case, not in the !SMP case. Also add a barrier after the atomic_inc() in order to ensure that other CPUs see post-synchronize_sched_expedited() actions as following the expedited grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
The paranoid check which verifies that the cpu_stop callback is actually called on all online cpus is completely superflous. It's guaranteed by cpu_stop facility and if it didn't work as advertised other things would go horribly wrong and trying to recover using synchronize_sched() wouldn't be very meaningful. Kill the paranoid check. Removal of this feature is done as a separate step so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is scheduled is slightly messy. This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks - migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary. synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop. synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared resources along with the mutex are dropped. synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked, cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen; otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong theree. Because the internal execution state is no longer visible, rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed. This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to "migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes. With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and sched migration users are much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop. As cpu stoppers are guaranteed to be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed. With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the new implementation is much simpler. Asking the cpu_stop to execute the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug disabled is enough. stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are removed. The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very large machines. According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very large machines. cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online cpus and should have the same effect. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Implement a simplistic per-cpu maximum priority cpu monopolization mechanism. A non-sleeping callback can be scheduled to run on one or multiple cpus with maximum priority monopolozing those cpus. This is primarily to replace and unify RT workqueue usage in stop_machine and scheduler migration_thread which currently is serving multiple purposes. Four functions are provided - stop_one_cpu(), stop_one_cpu_nowait(), stop_cpus() and try_stop_cpus(). This is to allow clean sharing of resources among stop_cpu and all the migration thread users. One stopper thread per cpu is created which is currently named "stopper/CPU". This will eventually replace the migration thread and take on its name. * This facility was originally named cpuhog and lived in separate files but Peter Zijlstra nacked the name and thus got renamed to cpu_stop and moved into stop_machine.c. * Better reporting of preemption leak as per Peter's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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- 30 Apr, 2010 7 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdbLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: don't needlessly skip PAGE_USER test for Fsl booke
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git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: add a shrinker to background inode reclaim
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Wufei authored
The bypassing of this test is a leftover from 2.4 vintage kernels, and is no longer appropriate, or even used by KGDB. Currently KGDB uses probe_kernel_write() for all access to memory via the KGDB core, so it can simply be deleted. This fixes CVE-2010-1446. CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> CC: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Wufei <fei.wu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: exofs: Fix "add bdi backing to mount session" fall out fs: fs/super.c needs to include backing-dev.h for !CONFIG_BLOCK
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: ARM: 6061/1: PL061 GPIO: Bug fix - setting gpio for HIGH_LEVEL interrupt is not working. ARM: 5957/1: ARM: RealView SD/MMC Card detection and write-protect using GPIOLIB ARM: 6030/1: KS8695: enable console ARM: 6060/1: PL061 GPIO: Setting gpio val after changing direction to OUT. ARM: 6059/1: PL061 GPIO: Changing *_irq_chip_data with *_irq_data for real irqs. ARM: 6023/1: update bcmring_defconfig to latest version and fix build error ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig powerpc/ps3: Update platform maintainer powerpc/pseries: Flush lazy kernel mappings after unplug operations powerpc/numa: Add form 1 NUMA affinity powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix CONFIG_RELOCATABLE support on FSL Book-E ppc32 powerpc: 2.6.34 update of defconfigs for embedded 6xx/7xxx, 8xx, 8xxx powerpc/mpc8xxx defconfigs - turn off SYSFS_DEPRECATED powerpc/83xx: configure SIL SATA driver in 83xx-wide defconfig powerpc/83xx: enable EPOLL syscall in defconfig powerpc/83xx: add RTC drivers in 83xx defconfig powerpc/fsl-cpm: Configure clock correctly for SCC powerpc/fsl_booke: Correct test for MMU_FTR_BIG_PHYS powerpc/85xx/86xx: Fix build w/ CONFIG_PCI=n
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- 29 Apr, 2010 10 commits
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viresh kumar authored
In current implementation of PL061, setting type of irq to HIGH_LEVEL is not working. This patch fixes this bug. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> Acked-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Dave Chinner authored
On low memory boxes or those with highmem, kernel can OOM before the background reclaims inodes via xfssyncd. Add a shrinker to run inode reclaim so that it inode reclaim is expedited when memory is low. This is more complex than it needs to be because the VM folk don't want a context added to the shrinker infrastructure. Hence we need to add a global list of XFS mount structures so the shrinker can traverse them. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Boaz Harrosh authored
The patch: add bdi backing to mount session (b3d0ab7e) Has a bug in the placement of the bdi member at struct exofs_sb_info. The layout member must be kept last. Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
When CONFIG_BLOCK is set, it ends up getting backing-dev.h included. But for !CONFIG_BLOCK, it isn't so lucky. The proper thing to do is include <linux/backing-dev.h> directly from the file it's used from, so do that. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: nfs: fix memory leak in nfs_get_sb with CONFIG_NFS_V4 nfs: fix some issues in nfs41_proc_reclaim_complete() NFS: Ensure that nfs_wb_page() waits for Pg_writeback to clear NFS: Fix an unstable write data integrity race nfs: testing for null instead of ERR_PTR() NFS: rsize and wsize settings ignored on v4 mounts NFSv4: Don't attempt an atomic open if the file is a mountpoint SUNRPC: Fix a bug in rpcauth_prune_expired
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The pktcdvd driver uses proper locking and does not need the BKL in the ioctl and llseek functions of the character device, so kill both. Moving the compat_ioctl handling from common code into the driver itself fixes build problems when CONFIG_BLOCK is disabled. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Boaz Harrosh authored
Commit b3d0ab7e ("exofs: add bdi backing to mount session") has a bug in the placement of the bdi member at struct exofs_sb_info. The layout member must be kept last. Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Disable large pages on CPUs with Atom erratum AAE44 x86-64: Clear a 64-bit FS/GS base on fork if selector is nonzero x86, mrst: Conditionally register cpu hotplug notifier for apbt
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: x86/PCI: compute Address Space length rather than using _LEN x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END
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Al Viro authored
If dentry found stale happens to be a root of disconnected tree, we can't d_drop() it; its d_hash is actually part of s_anon and d_drop() would simply hide it from shrink_dcache_for_umount(), leading to all sorts of fun, including busy inodes on umount and oopsen after that. Bug had been there since at least 2006 (commit c636eb already has it), so it's definitely -stable fodder. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 Apr, 2010 2 commits
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Colin Tuckley authored
The switch to using GPIOLIB broke the sd/mmc card detection on the RealView development boards if GPIO_PL061 was not selected. This patch selects GPIO_PL061 if GPIOLIB is selected. The sense of the return value from mmc_status has also changed and is corrected. Signed-off-by: Colin Tuckley <colin.tuckley@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6: regulator: fix enabling regulator issue on max8925
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