- 27 Apr, 2004 5 commits
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Steve French authored
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bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5Steve French authored
into hostme.bitkeeper.com:/repos/c/cifs/linux-2.5cifs
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Jens Axboe authored
We cannot always rely on ->biotail remaining untouched. Currently we leak all the pinned user pages when doing cdda ripping at least, so I see no way around keeping the bio pointer seperate and passing it back in for unmap. Alternatively, we could invent a struct blk_map_data and put it on the stack for passing to both map and unmap.
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http://jfs.bkbits.net/linux-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
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Dave Kleikamp authored
An unintentional sign extention caused non-ascii characters to be stored incorrectly, leading to inaccessible files. Changing a declaration to unsigned char fixes the problem.
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- 26 Apr, 2004 35 commits
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bk://ppc.bkbits.net/for-linus-ppcLinus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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bk://cifs.bkbits.net/linux-2.5cifsSteve French authored
into smfhome.smfsambadom:/suse/home/stevef/bk/linux-2.5cifs
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Steve French authored
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/tg3-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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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.
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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
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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.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com> This seems to have slipped in during a manual merge at some point.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> A copyright change to properly show the lineage of this file.
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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.
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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.
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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().
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Andrew Morton authored
By requiring that compound pages implement destructors we can drop some code from put_page().
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Andrew Morton authored
->writepage() is supposed to return zero or a negative error code. Returning the number of bytes written will confuse the VFS.
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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.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Marek Szuba <scriptkiddie@wp.pl> Use the configured default NLS rather than hardwire it.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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Andrew Morton authored
This function doesn't correctly accumulate -EIO for its caller.
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Andrew Morton authored
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com> Second efivars driver update patch that adds efivars into the drivers/firmware directory.
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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.
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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()
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