Commits · 120b114237e2461fb4fa437c5c37edf014c916b9 · linux / linux-davinci-2.6.23

29 Sep, 2006 40 commits

[PATCH] Re-positioning the bss segment · 120b1142

Vivek Goyal authored Sep 30, 2006

[AK: This apparently broke some systems, but we need it to fix
a compile problem with old binutils and in theory the patch
is correct. So let's trying reenabling it again.]

o Currently bss segment is being placed somewhere in the middle (after .data)
  section and after bss lots of init section and data sections are coming.
  Is it intentional?

o One side affect of placing bss in the middle is that objcopy keeps the
  bss in raw binary image (vmlinux.bin) hence unnecessarily increasing
  the size of raw binary image. (In my case ~600K). It also increases
  the size of generated bzImage, though the increase is very small
  (896 bytes), probably a very high compression ratio for stream
  of zeros.

o This patch moves the bss at the end hence reducing the size of
  bzImage by 896 bytes and size of vmlinux.bin by 600K.

o This change benefits in the context of relocatable kernel patches. If
  kernel bss is not part of compressed data (vmlinux.bin) then it does
  not have to be decompressed and this area can be used by the decompressor
  for its execution hence keeping the memory requirements bounded and
  decompressor code does not stomp over any other data loaded beyond
  kernel image (As might be the case with bootloaders like kexec).
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

120b1142

[PATCH] Use ARRAY_SIZE in setup.c · 9d0ef4fd
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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Based on i386 patch from Bjorn.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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9d0ef4fd

[PATCH] i386: replace intermediate array-size definitions with ARRAY_SIZE() · b9629b82

Bjorn Helgaas authored Sep 30, 2006

Code is easier to validate if array sizes aren't hidden behind extra
#defines.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

b9629b82

[PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls · 29cbc78b

Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006

Use prototypes in headers
Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures

Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

29cbc78b

[PATCH] Refactor some duplicated code in mpparse.c · 013bf2c5
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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No logic changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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013bf2c5
[PATCH] Document iommu=panic · d802ab98
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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d802ab98
[PATCH] Fix broken indentation in iommu_setup · ded318ec
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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No functional changes; only white space.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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ded318ec

[PATCH] Allow disabling DAC using command line options · ece66840

Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006

Might or might not work around some reported bugs on VIA systems.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

ece66840

[PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomic · b885808e
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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Noticed by Al Viro

Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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b885808e
[PATCH] i386: Update defconfig · ae853e79
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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ae853e79
[PATCH] Update defconfig · 81b999b1
Andi Kleen authored Sep 30, 2006
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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81b999b1

[PATCH] uml build fix · d6c64102

Ollie Wild authored Sep 29, 2006

Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

d6c64102

[PATCH] MLSXFRM: fix mis-labelling of child sockets · 2148ccc4

David Woodhouse authored Sep 29, 2006

Accepted connections of types other than AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_UNIX won't
have an appropriate label derived from the peer, so don't use it.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2148ccc4

Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband · 9a69d1ae

Linus Torvalds authored Sep 29, 2006

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (33 commits)
  IB/ipath: Fix lockdep error upon "ifconfig ibN down"
  IB/ipath: Fix races with ib_resize_cq()
  IB/ipath: Support new PCIE device, QLE7142
  IB/ipath: Set CPU affinity early
  IB/ipath: Fix EEPROM read when driver is compiled with -Os
  IB/ipath: Fix and recover TXE piobuf and PBC parity errors
  IB/ipath: Change HT CRC message to indicate how to resolve problem
  IB/ipath: Clean up module exit code
  IB/ipath: Call mtrr_del with correct arguments
  IB/ipath: Flush RWQEs if access error or invalid error seen
  IB/ipath: Improved support for PowerPC
  IB/ipath: Drop unnecessary "(void *)" casts
  IB/ipath: Support multiple simultaneous devices of different types
  IB/ipath: Fix mismatch in shifts and masks for printing debug info
  IB/ipath: Fix compiler warnings and errors on non-x86_64 systems
  IB/ipath: Print more informative parity error messages
  IB/ipath: Ensure that PD of MR matches PD of QP checking the Rkey
  IB/ipath: RC and UC should validate SLID and DLID
  IB/ipath: Only allow complete writes to flash
  IB/ipath: Count SRQs properly
  ...

9a69d1ae

Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6 · c0341b0f

Linus Torvalds authored Sep 29, 2006

* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (49 commits)
  [XFS] Remove v1 dir trace macro - missed in a past commit.
  [XFS] 955947: Infinite loop in xfs_bulkstat() on formatter() error
  [XFS] pv 956241, author: nathans, rv: vapo - make ino validation checks
  [XFS] pv 956240, author: nathans, rv: vapo - Minor fixes in
  [XFS] Really fix use after free in xfs_iunpin.
  [XFS] Collapse sv_init and init_sv into just the one interface.
  [XFS] standardize on one sema init macro
  [XFS] Reduce endian flipping in alloc_btree, same as was done for
  [XFS] Minor cleanup from dio locking fix, remove an extra conditional.
  [XFS] Fix kmem_zalloc_greedy warnings on 64 bit platforms.
  [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on EFAULT formatter() error
  [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on formatter() error
  [XFS] Fixes the leak in reservation space because we weren't ungranting
  [XFS] Add lock annotations to xfs_trans_update_ail and
  [XFS] Fix a porting botch on the realtime subvol growfs code path.
  [XFS] Minor code rearranging and cleanup to prevent some coverity false
  [XFS] Remove a no-longer-correct debug assert from dio completion
  [XFS] Add a greedy allocation interface, allocating within a min/max size
  [XFS] Improve error handling for the zero-fsblock extent detection code.
  [XFS] Be more defensive with page flags (error/private) for metadata
  ...

c0341b0f

[PATCH] i2c-sibyte: Fix modular build breakage · ae1390d8

Yoichi Yuasa authored Sep 29, 2006

Fix undefined reference in i2c_sibyte_exit().

drivers/built-in.o: In function `i2c_sibyte_exit':
i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x368): undefined reference to `i2c_del_bus'
i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x368): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `i2c_del_bus'
i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x38c): undefined reference to `i2c_del_bus'
i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x38c): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `i2c_del_bus'
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

ae1390d8

[PATCH] cpuset: fix obscure attach_task vs exiting race · 181b6480

Paul Jackson authored Sep 29, 2006

Fix obscure race condition in kernel/cpuset.c attach_task() code.

There is basically zero chance of anyone accidentally being harmed by this
race.

It requires a special 'micro-stress' load and a special timing loop hacks
in the kernel to hit in less than an hour, and even then you'd have to hit
it hundreds or thousands of times, followed by some unusual and senseless
cpuset configuration requests, including removing the top cpuset, to cause
any visibly harm affects.

One could, with perhaps a few days or weeks of such effort, get the
reference count on the top cpuset below zero, and manage to crash the
kernel by asking to remove the top cpuset.

I found it by code inspection.

The race was introduced when 'the_top_cpuset_hack' was introduced, and one
piece of code was not updated. An old check for a possibly null task
cpuset pointer needed to be changed to a check for a task marked
PF_EXITING. The pointer can't be null anymore, thanks to
the_top_cpuset_hack (documented in kernel/cpuset.c). But the task could
have gone into PF_EXITING state after it was found in the task_list scan.

If a task is PF_EXITING in this code, it is possible that its task->cpuset
pointer is pointing to the top cpuset due to the_top_cpuset_hack, rather
than because the top_cpuset was that tasks last valid cpuset. In that
case, the wrong cpuset reference counter would be decremented.

The fix is trivial. Instead of failing the system call if the tasks cpuset
pointer is null here, fail it if the task is in PF_EXITING state.

The code for 'the_top_cpuset_hack' that changes an exiting tasks cpuset to
the top_cpuset is done without locking, so could happen at anytime. But it
is done during the exit handling, after the PF_EXITING flag is set. So if
we verify that a task is still not PF_EXITING after we copy out its cpuset
pointer (into 'oldcs', below), we know that 'oldcs' is not one of these
hack references to the top_cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

181b6480

[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches · 683e91cb

Kirill Korotaev authored Sep 29, 2006

Add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to
fix mozilla.  Thunderbird has the similar options.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

683e91cb

[PATCH] lockdep core: improve the lock-chain-hash · 03cbc358

Ingo Molnar authored Sep 29, 2006

With CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC turned off i was getting sporadic failures in
the locking self-test:

  ------------>
  | Locking API testsuite:
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem |
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       A-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                   A-B-B-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
               A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
               A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
           A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |FAILED|  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
           A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
           A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |FAILED|

after much debugging it turned out to be caused by accidental chain-hash
key collisions.  The current hash is:

 #define iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) \
	(((key1) << MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS/2) ^ \
	((key1) >> (64-MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS/2)) ^ \
 	(key2))

where MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS is 11.  This hash is pretty good as it will
shift by 5 bits in every iteration, where every new ID 'mixed' into the
hash would have up to 11 bits.  But because there was a 6 bits overlap
between subsequent IDs and their high bits tended to be similar, there was
a chance for accidental chain-hash collision for a low number of locks
held.

the solution is to shift by 11 bits:

 #define iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) \
	(((key1) << MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS) ^ \
	((key1) >> (64-MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS)) ^ \
 	(key2))

This keeps the hash perfect up to 5 locks held, but even above that the
hash is still good because 11 bits is a relative prime to the total 64
bits, so a complete match will only occur after 64 held locks (which doesnt
happen in Linux).  Even after 5 locks held, entropy of the 5 IDs mixed into
the hash is already good enough so that overlap doesnt generate a colliding
hash ID.

with this change the false positives went away.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

03cbc358

[PATCH] Kcore elf note namesz field fix · 632dd205

Vivek Goyal authored Sep 29, 2006

o As per ELF specifications, it looks like that elf note "namesz" field
  contains the length of "name" including the size of null character.  And
  currently we are filling "namesz" without taking into the consideration
  the null character size.

o Kexec-tools performs this check deligently hence I ran into the issue
  while trying to open /proc/kcore in kexec-tools for some info.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

632dd205

[PATCH] expand_fdtable(): remove pointless unlock+lock · 327dcaad

Andrew Morton authored Sep 29, 2006

This unlock/lock on a super-unlikely path isn't worth the kernel text.

Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

327dcaad

[PATCH] Clean up expand_fdtable() and expand_files() · 74d392aa

Vadim Lobanov authored Sep 29, 2006

Perform a code cleanup against the expand_fdtable() and expand_files()
functions inside fs/file.c.  It aims to make the flow of code within these
functions simpler and easier to understand, via added comments and modest
refactoring.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

74d392aa

[PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingDrivers: minor update · 3706baa8

Alexey Dobriyan authored Sep 29, 2006

* fix copright typo
* remove trailing whitespace
* remove Kernel Traffic from Resources. Zack, it was great reading!
* Name Arjan by name and fix URL of "How to NOT" paper.
* Remove "Last updated" tag.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>