- 12 Mar, 2004 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Add missing implementation for non-atomic __test_and_set_bit()
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Andrew Morton authored
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>, Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net> Various fixes and enhancements to the monitor hardware detection code. The only driver that uses it is the radeon driver. Old EDID parsing code was very verbose, half of the patch address this (ie. print lots of stuff iff DEBUG). The other big change is the FB_MODE_IS_* stuff: we really need a way to know the origin of a video mode. In this way we can select video mode that comes from EDID instead of VESA or GTF. Drivers other than radeonfb won't be affected because they cannot (yet) get EDID from the monitor and don't use EDID related code.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Michel Marti <michel.marti@objectxp.com> The blkmtd driver oopses in add_device(). The following trivial patch fixes this.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> Readahead of raid0 was suboptimal; it read only 1 stride ahead. The problem with this is that while it will keep all spindles busy, it will not actually manage to make larger IO's, eg each disk would just do the chunk size IO. Doing at least 2 chunks is more than appropriate so that each spindle will get a chance to merge IO's. (Neil fixed raid6 and raid6 too)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Someone added __attribute_used__ throughout module.h, but didn't remove the ", unused". Looks like some arch/gcc combos still consider it unused, and discard the fn.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Make CONFIG_NVRAM depend on the prerequisites that are explicitly checked for in drivers/char/nvram.c, or on CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM (for PPC).
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Add missing include (needed for struct inode)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de> The attached patch is needed to stop showing us "Macintosh device drivers" for all architectures via menuconfig || xconfig || gconfig. It's only necessary for PPC and/or MAC. ACKed by benh.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> Several of the pte_chain_alloc() allocators that use GFP_ATOMIC have a fallback for failure that sleeps; they thus need to not warn on failure.. Seen during a big fork on a busy system.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> cciss_scsi_detect() can be called after init (for TAPE support).
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Patch below from Patrick J. LoPresti and myself. Patrick describes: Why this patch? The problem is that the legacy BIOS interface (INT13/AH=3D08) for querying the disk geometry returns different values than the extended INT13 interface which the EDD code currently uses. This is because the legacy interface only provides a 10-bit cylinder field, so modern BIOSes "lie" about the head/sector counts in order to make more of the disk visible within the first 1024 cylinders. Many non-Linux applications, including the stock Windows boot loader, DOS fdisk, etc., rely upon the legacy interface and geometry. So it is useful to be able to obtain the legacy values from a running Linux kernel. What this patch does is to add new entries under /sys/firmware/edd/int13_devXX named "legacy_cylinders", "legacy_heads", and "legacy_sectors". These provide the geometry given by the legacy INT13/AH=3D08 BIOS interface, just like the current "default_cylinders" etc. provide the the geometry given by the INT13/AH=3D48 interface. Without this patch, I cannot use Linux to partition a drive and install Windows, which happens to be my application. - Pat http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ In addition, this adds two buggy BIOS workarounds in the EDD int13 calls as suggested by Ralf Brown's interrupt list. I'm also interested in moving this code out of arch/i386/kernel/edd.c and include/asm-i386/edd.h, as I believe it is applicable on x86-64 as well. However, there's no good place under drivers/ to put edd.c when it's not tied to a bus, but to several CPU architectures and their firmwares... Maybe a new directory drivers/firmware?
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Andrew Morton authored
sound/oss/wavfront.c: In function `wavefront_download_firmware': sound/oss/wavfront.c:2524: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_open' sound/oss/wavfront.c:2533: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_read' sound/oss/wavfront.c:2582: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_close
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> This patch fixes a problem we're hitting on ia64 with page sizes > 4k. When the page size is greater than the block size, and parts of the page fall past the end of the device, readpage will fail because blkdev_get_block returns -EIO for blocks past i_size. The attached patch changes blkdev_get_block to return holes when reading past the end of the device, which allows us to read that last valid 4k block and then fill the rest of the page with zeros. Writes will still fail with -EIO.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Add a missing test for the "root=/dev/ram" kernel boot option. It's just an alias for /dev/ram0, but it worked in 2.4...
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> current_is_keventd() doesn't need to search across all the CPUs to identify itself.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> I was debugging some code that corrupted the vma rb lists and for that I fixed validate_mm to not be recursive and do some more checks. It's slower now, but that shouldn't be a problem. Also make it non static to allow easier checks elsewhere.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> - In sys_fadvise64_64(): if the start and/or end offsets do not fall on page boundaries, preserve the partial pages. The thinking here is that it is better to preserve needed memory than to not shoot down unneeded memory. - In invalidate_mapping_pages(): we were invalidating an entire pagevec's worth of pages each time around, even if that went beyond the part of the file which the caller asked to be invalidated. Fix that up.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> - remove an MELAN entry that was forgotten in the i386 processor selection menu - s/CONFIG_MELAN/CONFIG_X86_ELAN/ was missing in module.h
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Convert last set of watchdog drivers to new moduleparam system.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Remove the arbitrary limit of 32 ACL entries on ext[23] when reading from disk. This change is backward compatible; we need to have this change in to be able to also allow writing big ACLs. The second patch that removes the ACL entry limit for writes is not included. I don't want to push that patch now, because large ACLs would cause 2.4 and current 2.6 kernels to fail. My plan is to remove the second limit later, in a half-year or year or so.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> i810fb most likely is needed on x86-64 too because there are Intel chipsets for it now. So far it only linked on i386, fix this.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> If someone removes a /proc directory which still has subdirectories it will lead to very nasty things (dentries remaining on hash chains etc etc etc). The BUG_ON in the patch below will catch this nasty situation.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> sem_revalidate checks that a semaphore array didn't disappear while the code was running without the semaphore array spinlock. If the array disappeared, then it will return without holding a lock. find_undo calls sem_revalidate and then sem_unlock, even if sem_revalidate failed. The sem_unlock call must be removed. Mingming Cao reported a spinlock deadlock with sysv semaphores. A superflous unlock doesn't explain the deadlock, but it's obviously a bug.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> From: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>, me modpost unconditionally searched for ".o" assuming this is always the suffix of the module. This fails in two cases: a) when building external modules where any directory include ".o" in the name. One example is a directory named: .../cvs.alsa.org/... b) when someone names a kernel directory so it contains ".o". One example is drivers/scsi/aic.ok/... case b) was triggered by renaming the directory for aic7xxx, and modifying Makefile and Kconfig. This caused make modules to fail.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> There's a race in loopback setup, it's easiest to trigger with one or more procs doing loopback mounts at the same time. The problem is that fs/block_dev.c:do_open() only calls bdev_set_size on the first open. Picture two procs: proc1: mount -o loop file1 mnt1 proc2: mount -o loop file2 mnt2 proc1 proc2 open /dev/loop0 # bd_openers now 1 do_open bd_set_size(bdev, 0) # loop unbound, so bdev size is 0 open /dev/loop0 # bd_openers now 2 loop_set_fd # disk capacity now correct, but # bdev not updated mount /dev/loop0 /mnt do_open Because bd_openers != 0 for the last do_open, bd_set_size is not called again and a size of 0 is used. This eventually leads to an oops when the loop device is unmounted, because fsync_bdev calls block_write_full_page who decides every page on the block device is outside i_size and unmaps them. When ext2 or reiserfs try to sync a metadata buffer, we get an oops on because the buffers are no longer mapped. The patch below changes loop_set_fd and loop_clr_fd to also manipulate the size of the block device, which fixes things for me.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> The patch below (written by Al Viro) solves a nasty chicken-and-egg issue for operating system installers (well at least anaconda but the problem domain is not exclusive to that) The basic problem is this: - The small first stage installer locates the image file of the second stage installer (which has X and all the graphical stuff); this image can be on the same CD, but it can come via NFS, http or ftp or ... as well. - The first stage installer loop-back mounts this image and gives control to the second stage installer by calling some binary there. - The graphical installer then asks the user all those questions and starts installing packages. Again the packages can come from the CD but also from NFS or http or ... Now in case of a CD install, once all requested packages from the first CD are installed, the installer wants to unmount and eject the CD and prompt the user to put CD 2 in....... EXCEPT that the unmount can't work since the installer is actually running from a loopback mount of this cd. The solution is a "LOOP_CHANGE_FD" ioctl, where basically the installer copies the image to the harddisk (which can only be done late since only late the target harddisk is mkfs'd) and then magically switches the backing store FD from underneath the loop device to the one on the target harddisk (and thus unbusying the CD mount). This is obviously only allowed if the size of the new image is identical and if the loop image is read-only in the first place. It's the responsibility of root to make sure the contents is the same (but that's of the give-root-enough-rope kind)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Make the difference between 'make clean' and 'make distclean/mrproper' more explicit. make clean now removes all generated files except .config* and .version. The result is much easier to understand now. make clean deletes all generated files (except .config* and .version). make mrproper deletes configuration and all temporary files left by patch, editors and the like. Example output: > make mrproper CLEAN init CLEAN usr CLEAN scripts/kconfig CLEAN scripts CLEAN .tmp_versions include/config CLEAN include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h include/asm .tmp_versions CLEAN .version .config Form the list of files/directories deleted during make clean, removed all references that is no longer relevant for the current kernel.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Using PAGE_SIZE rather than 4096 so that mmap() granularity is honored by whatever non-i386 architectures use MMAP_PAGE_ZERO.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> There are a few kernel-only things in compiler.h which should have been placed inside __KERNEL__.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> The only path to get to del_timer call in __generic_unplug_device() is when blk_remove_plug() returns 1, and in that case it already removed the unplug_timer. Patch to remove this redundant call.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> The attached patch is NUMA-aware zonelist builder patch, which sorts zonelist in the order that near-node first, far-node last. In lse-tech and linux-ia64, where most of NUMA people resides, no objections are raised so far. The patch adds NUMA-specific version of build_zonelists which calls find_next_best_node to select the next-nearest node to add to zonelist. The patch has no effect on flat NUMA platform.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> The EXTRA_CFLAGS assignments in the following files are a left-over from the early 2.5 days where the source was not compiled from the root of the source tree. Removing these wrong assignments fixes http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2210 A script named 'kernel' in the .. directory no longer halt compilation.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ben Fennema <bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu> - added udf 2.5 #defines - fixed prealloc discard race - fixed several bugs in inode_getblk - added S_IFSOCK support - fix unicode encoding bug - change partition allocation from kmalloc to vmalloc for large allocations
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Andrew Morton authored
From: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> selinux is currently inspecting the filesystem name ("nfs" vs "coda" vs watever) to work out whether it needs to hanbdle binary mount data. Eliminate all that by adding a flag to file_system_type.fs_flags.
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Andrew Morton authored
dm-stripe.c: The stripe width must be at least the page size.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> List targets ioctl. [Patrick Caulfield]
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Fill in missing queue limitations when table is complete instead of enforcing the "default" limits on every dm device. Problem noticed by Mike Christie. [Christophe Saout]
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Audit for list_for_each_*entry*
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Add an endio method to targets. This method is allowed to request another shot at failed ios (think multipath). Context can be passed between the map method and the endio method.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> By allowing X86_MCE_NONFATAL to be a module, it can be included in distribution kernels without upsetting those with strange hardware.
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