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11 Mar, 2008 29 commits

BF54x LQ043 Framebuffer driver: fix bug NULL for gpio_request label is not allowed · fdcc5358

Michael Hennerich authored Mar 10, 2008

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fdcc5358

stifb: fix crash A1439A CRX (Rattler) graphics card · 62347218

Helge Deller authored Mar 10, 2008

Fix kernel crash when stifb driver is used with a A1439A CRX (Rattler)
graphics card.  (Reference:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.hppa/1834)
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

62347218

mbxfb: fix incorrect argument type · 1039edc9

Krzysztof Helt authored Mar 10, 2008

Fix wrong pointer type passed into the dev_dbg() function.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1039edc9

iov_iter_advance() fix · f7009264

Nick Piggin authored Mar 10, 2008

iov_iter_advance() skips over zero-length iovecs, however it does not properly
terminate at the end of the iovec array.  Fix this by checking against
i->count before we skip a zero-length iov.

The bug was reproduced with a test program that continually randomly creates
iovs to writev.  The fix was also verified with the same program and also it
could verify that the correct data was contained in the file after each
writev.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tested-by: "Kevin Coffman" <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

f7009264

rcu: move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT · 21bbb39c

Paul E. McKenney authored Mar 10, 2008

The original preemptible-RCU patch put the choice between classic and
preemptible RCU into kernel/Kconfig.preempt, which resulted in build failures
on machines not supporting CONFIG_PREEMPT.  This choice was therefore moved to
init/Kconfig, which worked, but placed the choice between classic and
preemptible RCU at the top level, a very obtuse choice indeed.

This patch changes from the Kconfig "choice" mechanism to a pair of booleans,
only one of which (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) is user-visible, and is located in
kernel/Kconfig.preempt, where one would expect it to be.  The other
(CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU) is in init/Kconfig so that it is available to all
architectures, hopefully avoiding build breakage.  Thanks to Roman Zippel for
suggesting this approach.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

21bbb39c

i8042: use SGI_HAS_I8042 to select SGI i8042 handlinig · f47831fa

Thomas Bogendoerfer authored Mar 10, 2008

Use SGI_HAS_I8042 to select SGI i8042 handling
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

f47831fa

modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook · e24e2e64

Alexey Dobriyan authored Mar 10, 2008

Return value convention of module's init functions is 0/-E.  Sometimes,
e.g.  during forward-porting mistakes happen and buggy module created,
where result of comparison "workqueue != NULL" is propagated all the way up
to sys_init_module.  What happens is that some other module created
workqueue in question, our module created it again and module was
successfully loaded.

Or it could be some other bug.

Let's make such mistakes much more visible.  In retrospective, such
messages would noticeably shorten some of my head-scratching sessions.

Note, that dump_stack() is just a way to get attention from user.  Sample
message:

sys_init_module: 'foo'->init suspiciously returned 1, it should follow 0/-E convention
sys_init_module: loading module anyway...
Pid: 4223, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.24-25f66630 #5

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80254b05>] sys_init_module+0xe5/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff8020b39b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

e24e2e64

modules: fix module waiting for dependent modules' init · 6c5db22d

Rusty Russell authored Mar 10, 2008

Commit c9a3ba55 (module: wait for dependent modules doing init.) didn't quite
work because the waiter holds the module lock, meaning that the state of the
module it's waiting for cannot change.

Fortunately, it's fairly simple to update the state outside the lock and do
the wakeup.

Thanks to Jan Glauber for tracking this down and testing (qdio and qeth).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

6c5db22d

hugetlb: correct page count for surplus huge pages · 2668db91

Adam Litke authored Mar 10, 2008

Free pages in the hugetlb pool are free and as such have a reference count of
zero.  Regular allocations into the pool from the buddy are "freed" into the
pool which results in their page_count dropping to zero.  However, surplus
pages can be directly utilized by the caller without first being freed to the
pool.  Therefore, a call to put_page_testzero() is in order so that such a
page will be handed to the caller with a correct count.

This has not affected end users because the bad page count is reset before the
page is handed off.  However, under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM this triggers a BUG when
the page count is validated.

Thanks go to Mel for first spotting this issue and providing an initial fix.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2668db91

gpio/pca953x bugfix: mark as can_sleep · 84207805

Arnaud Patard authored Mar 10, 2008

The pca953x driver is an I2C driver so gpio_chip->can_sleep should be set.
This lets upper layers know they should use the gpio_*_cansleep() calls to
access values, and may not access them from nonsleeping contexts.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

84207805

md: reduce CPU wastage on idle md array with a write-intent bitmap · 7be3dfec

NeilBrown authored Mar 10, 2008

Recent patch titled
  Reduce CPU wastage on idle md array with a write-intent bitmap.

would sometimes leave the array with dirty bitmap bits that stay dirty.  A
subsequent write would sort things out so it isn't a big problem, but should
be fixed nonetheless.

We need to make sure that when the bitmap becomes not "allclean", the
daemon_sleep really does get set to a sensible value.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

7be3dfec

md: fix formatting error in /proc/mdstat · 52720ae7

NeilBrown authored Mar 10, 2008

If an md array is "auto-read-only", then this appears in /proc/mdstat as

   /dev/md0: active(auto-read-only)

whereas if it is truely readonly, it appears as

   /dev/md0: active (read-only)

The difference being a space.

One program known to parse this file expects the space and gets badly
confused.  It will be fixed, but it would be best if what the kernel generates
is more consistent too.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

52720ae7

mempolicy: fix reference counting bugs · 69682d85

Lee Schermerhorn authored Mar 10, 2008

Address 3 known bugs in the current memory policy reference counting method.
I have a series of patches to rework the reference counting to reduce overhead
in the allocation path.  However, that series will require testing in -mm once
I repost it.

1) alloc_page_vma() does not release the extra reference taken for
   vma/shared mempolicy when the mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE.  This can result in
   leaking mempolicy structures.  This is probably occurring, but not being
   noticed.

   Fix:  add the conditional release of the reference.

2) hugezonelist unconditionally releases a reference on the mempolicy when
   mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE.  This can result in decrementing the reference
   count for system default policy [should have no ill effect] or premature
   freeing of task policy.  If this occurred, the next allocation using task
   mempolicy would use the freed structure and probably BUG out.

   Fix:  add the necessary check to the release.

3) The current reference counting method assumes that vma 'get_policy()'
   methods automatically add an extra reference a non-NULL returned mempolicy.
    This is true for shmem_get_policy() used by tmpfs mappings, including
   regular page shm segments.  However, SHM_HUGETLB shm's, backed by
   hugetlbfs, just use the vma policy without the extra reference.  This
   results in freeing of the vma policy on the first allocation, with reuse of
   the freed mempolicy structure on subsequent allocations.

   Fix: Rather than add another condition to the conditional reference
   release, which occur in the allocation path, just add a reference when
   returning the vma policy in shm_get_policy() to match the assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

69682d85

Typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt · 9afa802f

Masatake YAMATO authored Mar 10, 2008

I have found a very small typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt.
See the end of this mail.
Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>