- 29 Sep, 2006 40 commits
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Ian S. Nelson authored
I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it can't probe a lot of modules. Turns out it's kind of silly, the sections section of /sys/module is limited to 32byte filenames and many of the actual sections are a a bit longer than that. [akpm@osdl.org: rewrite to use dymanic allocation] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
I just got a bounce telling me my contributions aren't welcome. Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
People search maintainers for NBD and then decide it is not maintained. (akpm: ditto LVM. And other things, but I forget what they were) Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
Constify two structs. Correct some typos. Compile-tested and run-tested (module inserted) on 2.6.18-rc4-mm3. Signed-off-by:
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen. It happens under memory pressure. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Acked-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
akpm draws my attention to the fact that sysctl(VM_PAGE_CLUSTER) might conceivably change page_cluster to 0 while valid_swaphandles() is in the middle of using it, leading to an embarrassingly long loop: take a local snapshot of page_cluster and work with that. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chandra Seetharaman authored
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit()) every time a CPU is hot-added/removed. But this value is not recalculated when new pages are hot-added. This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chandra Seetharaman authored
page-writeback.c has a static local variable "total_pages", which is the total number of pages in the system. There is a global variable "vm_total_pages", which is the total number of pages the VM controls. Both are assigned from the return value of nr_free_pagecache_pages(). This patch removes the local variable and uses the global variable in that place. One more issue with the local static variable "total_pages" is that it is not updated when new pages are hot-added. Since vm_total_pages is updated when new pages are hot-added, this patch fixes that problem too. Signed-off-by:
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Geoff Levand authored
This change corrects the logic on the preprocessor conditionals that include support for ISA port i/o (/dev/ioports) into the mem character driver. This fixes the following error when building for powerpc platforms with CONFIG_PCI=n. drivers/built-in.o: undefined reference to `pci_io_base' Signed-off-by:
Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by:
Linas Vepstas <lins@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kaz Kojima authored
I think this is a time to step down from my SUPERH architecture maintainerships. The major development issues for this port seem to shift on the hardwares I can't access and I have no recent activity on kernel. I shouldn't qualify as a maintainer of SUPERH port now and there is no problem because Paul is actively maintaining it. The attached patch drops my name, address and web URL from MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by:
Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
Replace current->fs by fs helper variable to reduce some indirection overhead and (at least at the moment, before the current_thread_info() %gs PDA improvement is available) get rid of more costly current references. Reduces fs/namei.o from 37786 to 37082 Bytes (704 Bytes saved). [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
This patch (as776) adds a new chapter to Documentation/CodingStyle, explaining the circumstances under which a function should return 0 for failure and non-zero for success as opposed to a negative error code for failure and 0 for success. Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
Un-inlining rwsem_down_failed_common() (two callsites) reduced lib/rwsem.o on my Athlon, gcc 4.1.2 from 5935 to 5480 Bytes (455 Bytes saved). I thus guess that reduced icache footprint (and better function caching) is worth more than any function call overhead. Signed-off-by:
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Jim Lewis authored
This patch adds Jim Lewis to the MAINTAINERS file for the Spidernet network driver. Signed-off-by:
James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Serge E. Hallyn authored
Forward port of the patch by Solar and ported by Julio. Compiles, boots, and passes my looptorturetest.sh. Signed-off-by:
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Julio Auto <mindvortex@gmail.com> Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
This appears to be a verbatim copy-n-paste of the GPL. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
The cpuset code handling hot unplug of CPUs or Memory Nodes was incorrect - it could remove a CPU or Node from the top cpuset, while leaving it still in some child cpusets. One basic rule of cpusets is that each cpusets cpus and mems are subsets of its parents. The cpuset hot unplug code violated this rule. So the cpuset hotunplug handler must walk down the tree, removing any removed CPU or Node from all cpusets. However, it is not allowed to make a cpusets cpus or mems become empty. They can only transition from empty to non-empty, not back. So if the last CPU or Node would be removed from a cpuset by the above walk, we scan back up the cpuset hierarchy, finding the nearest ancestor that still has something online, and copy its CPU or Memory placement. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Change the list of memory nodes allowed to tasks in the top (root) nodeset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a call to a cpuset hook from the memory hotplug code. Make this top cpus file read-only. On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset. If that system does support memory hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of memory nodes that are added after system boot, because the memory nodes are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. One key motivation for this change is to remain consistent with the behaviour for the top_cpuset's 'cpus', which is also read-only, and which automatically tracks the cpu_online_map. This change also has the minor benefit that it fixes a long standing, little noticed, minor bug in cpusets. The cpuset performance tweak to short circuit the cpuset_zone_allowed() check on systems with just a single cpuset (see 'number_of_cpusets', in linux/cpuset.h) meant that simply changing the 'mems' of the top_cpuset had no affect, even though the change (the write system call) appeared to succeed. With the following change, that write to the 'mems' file fails -EACCES, and the 'mems' file stubbornly refuses to be changed via user space writes. Thus no one should be mislead into thinking they've changed the top_cpusets's 'mems' when in affect they haven't. In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes the behaviour of the 'mems' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of node_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged memory nodes allowed by their cpuset. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] [bunk@stusta.de: build fix] Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
Fix simple typo in RTC_HCTOSYS option. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
A previous patch to allow an exiting task to OOM kill itself (and thereby avoid a little deadlock) introduced a problem. We don't want the PF_EXITING task, even if it is 'current', to access mem reserves if there is already a TIF_MEMDIE process in the system sucking up reserves. Also make the commenting a little bit clearer, and note that our current scheme of effectively single threading the OOM killer is not itself perfect. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
- It is not possible to have task->mm == &init_mm. - task_lock() buys nothing for 'if (!p->mm)' check. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
No logic changes, but imho easier to read. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The only one usage of TASK_DEAD outside of last schedule path, select_bad_process: for_each_task(p) { if (!p->mm) continue; ... if (p->state == TASK_DEAD) continue; ... TASK_DEAD state is set at the end of do_exit(), this means that p->mm was already set == NULL by exit_mm(), so this task was already rejected by 'if (!p->mm)' above. Note also that the caller holds tasklist_lock, this means that p can't pass exit_notify() and then set TASK_DEAD when p->mm != NULL. Also, remove open-coded is_init(). Signed-off-by: -
Oleg Nesterov authored
I am not sure about this patch, I am asking Ingo to take a decision. task_struct->state == EXIT_DEAD is a very special case, to avoid a confusion it makes sense to introduce a new state, TASK_DEAD, while EXIT_DEAD should live only in ->exit_state as documented in sched.h. Note that this state is not visible to user-space, get_task_state() masks off unsuitable states. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
After the previous change (->flags & PF_DEAD) <=> (->state == EXIT_DEAD), we don't need PF_DEAD any longer. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
schedule() checks PF_DEAD on every context switch and sets ->state = EXIT_DEAD to ensure that the exiting task will be deactivated. Note that this EXIT_DEAD is in fact a "random" value, we can use any bit except normal TASK_XXX values. It is better to set this state in do_exit() along with PF_DEAD flag and remove that check in schedule(). We are safe wrt concurrent try_to_wake_up() (for example ptrace, tkill), it can not change task's ->state: the 'state' argument of try_to_wake_up() can't have EXIT_DEAD bit. And in case when try_to_wake_up() sees a stale value of ->state == TASK_RUNNING it will do nothing. Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Introduce the disable_irq_nosync_lockdep_irqsave() and enable_irq_lockdep_irqrestore() APIs. These are needed for NE2000; basically NE2000 calls disable_irq and enable_irq as locking against the IRQ handler, but both in cases where interrupts are on and off. This means that lockdep needs to track the old state of the virtual irq flags on disable_irq, and restore these at enable_irq time. Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Everyone passes valid pointer there. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
If register_filesystem() fails mux workqueue must be killed. Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
It always returns 0, so relying on it is useless. The only caller isn't checking return value. In general, un-, de-, -free functions should return void. Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
If register_filesystem() fails, vxfs_inode cache must be destroyed. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Two lines -- two bugs. :-( Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
Currently, __acquire and __release take a lock expression, but __cond_lock takes only a condition, not the lock acquired if the expression evaluates to true. Change __cond_lock to accept a lock expression, and change all the callers to pass in a lock expression. Signed-off-by:
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix "quiet" parameter doc. No trailing '=' sign, no value after it. And it disables "most" kernel messages, not all of them. Signed-off-by:
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Frederik Deweerdt authored
At the beginning of the routine, "copied" is set to 0, but it is no good because in lines 805 and 812 it is set to other values. Finally, the routine returns as if it copied 12 (=ENOMEM) bytes less than it actually did. Signed-off-by:
Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jason Baron authored
In the case below we are locking the whole disk not a partition. This change simply brings the code in line with the piece above where when we are the 'first' opener, and we are a partition. Signed-off-by:
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
spin_trylock_irq and spin_trylock_irqsave use _spin_trylock, which does not use the __cond_lock wrapper annotation and thus does not affect the lock context; change them to use spin_trylock instead, which does use __cond_lock. Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
The lock annotations used on spinlocks and rwlocks currently use __{acquires,releases}(spinlock_t) and __{acquires,releases}(rwlock_t), respectively. This loses the information of which lock actually got acquired or released, and assumes a different type for the parameter of __acquires and __releases than the rest of the kernel. While the current implementations of __acquires and __releases throw away their argument, this will not always remain the case. Change this to use the lock parameter instead, to preserve this information and increase consistency in usage of __acquires and __releases. Signed-off-by:
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