- 09 Jan, 2006 40 commits
-
-
Latchesar Ionkov authored
New multiplexer implementation. Decreases the number of kernel threads required. Better handling when the user process receives a signal. Signed-off-by:
Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
Eric Van Hensbergen authored
If a 9pfs server crashes, v9fs_fd_close() is called. Subsequently, in cleaning up by performing a umount() on the FS that was provided by this server v9fs_fd_close() is called again, and uses the old, freed valus of trans->priv. This patch ensures that trans->priv can be freed only once, otherwise this function bails early. Signed-off-by:
Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Brian Gerst authored
This makes it possible for boot code to use screen_info without dragging in all of tty.h. Signed-off-by:
Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by:
-
Eugene Surovegin authored
Add EMAC to my CREDITS entry. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net Signed-off-by:
-
Randy Dunlap authored
Add desired 'diffstat' options to use for kernel patches. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by:
-
Evgeniy Polyakov authored
Signed-off-by:
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
-
Maciej W. Rozycki authored
This patch fixes a data corruption in smb_proc_setattr_unix() (smb_filetype_from_mode() returns an u32, and there are only four bytes reserved for it in data. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
-
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP} is actually arch specific, for now, and the current allocated number clashes with a ptrace code of frv, i.e. PTRACE_GETFDPIC. I should have submitted this much earlier, anyway we get no breakage for this. CC: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Signed-off-by:Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by:
-
Ashutosh Naik authored
Remove the redundant spinlock in the function resolve_symbol() as we are not altering the module list, and we already hold the semaphore. Signed-off-by:
Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
-
Andrew Morton authored
Reduce the size of the pageframe for NR_CPUS>4, CONFIG_PREEMPT back to the minimal size by unionising both ->private and ->mapping with the pagetable lock. It uses an anonymous struct and hence requires gcc-3.x. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Benjamin LaHaise authored
Reorder members of the kiocb structure to make sync kiocb setup faster. By setting the elements sequentially, the write combining buffers on the CPU are able to combine the writes into a single burst, which results in fewer cache cycles being consumed, freeing them up for other code. This results in a 10-20KB/s[*] increase on the bw_unix part of LMbench on my test system. * The improvement varies based on what other patches are in the system, as there are a number of bottlenecks, so this number is not absolutely accurate. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Akinobu Mita authored
Currently TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD is totally unused. Because it is marked as TAINT_FORCED_MODULE instead when user forced a module unload. This patch marks it correctly Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
-
Ashutosh Naik authored
Ensure that an exported symbol does not already exist in the kernel or in some other module's exported symbol table. This is done by checking the symbol tables for the exported symbol at the time of loading the module. Currently this is done after the relocation of the symbol. Signed-off-by:
Anand Krishnan <anandhkrishnan@yahoo.co.in> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
-
Ben Collins authored
Signed-off-by:
Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by:
-
Dmitry Torokhov authored
Do not use platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away, implement ->probe() and -remove() functions so manual binding and unbinding will work with this driver. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by:
-
Adrian Bunk authored
Function prototypes belong into header files. Signed-off-by:
-
Bjorn Helgaas authored
Add a hook so architectures can validate /dev/mem mmap requests. This is analogous to validation we already perform in the read/write paths. The identity mapping scheme used on ia64 requires that each 16MB or 64MB granule be accessed with exactly one attribute (write-back or uncacheable). This avoids "attribute aliasing", which can cause a machine check. Sample problem scenario: - Machine supports VGA, so it has uncacheable (UC) MMIO at 640K-768K - efi_memmap_init() discards any write-back (WB) memory in the first granule - Application (e.g., "hwinfo") mmaps /dev/mem, offset 0 - hwinfo receives UC mapping (the default, since memmap says "no WB here") - Machine check abort (on chipsets that don't support UC access to WB memory, e.g., sx1000) In the scenario above, the only choices are - Use WB for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because it causes attribute aliasing with the UC mapping for the VGA MMIO space. - Use UC for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because the chipset may not support UC for that region. - Disallow the hwinfo mmap with -EINVAL. That's what this patch does. Signed-off-by:Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Bjorn Helgaas authored
Tidy up __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT usage to make mmap_mem() easier to read. Signed-off-by:
-
Andrew Morton authored
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers. From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2. Acked-by:Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
-
Andrew Morton authored
There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE. None of the new SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions. The V4L guys are very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on sneaking in anonymous unions, which are rather nice. Plus anonymous unions are rather useful. Signed-off-by:
-
Oleg Nesterov authored
This patch moves 'fork_out:' under 'bad_fork_free:', and removes now unneeded 'if (retval)' check. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
-
Adrian Bunk authored
"extern inline" doesn't make much sense. Signed-off-by:
-
Andy Isaacson authored
I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of /sys/block/<dev>/stat, so I wrote up the following. I'm not completely sure it's accurate - Jens, could you give a yea or nay on this? In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as the request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
-
Oleg Nesterov authored
sys_setpgid() allows to change ->pgrp of ptraced childs. 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by:
-
Oren Laadan authored
setsid() does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by:
Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Oleg Nesterov authored
setpgid(0, pgid) or setpgid(forked_child_pid, pgid) does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by:
-
Oren Laadan authored
In fork, child should recopy parent's pgrp/tty after it has tasklist_lock. Otherwise following a setpgid() on the parent, *after* copy_signal(), the child will own a stale pgrp (which may be reused); (eg. if copy_mm() sleeps a long while due to memory pressure). Similar issue for the tty. Signed-off-by:
-
Mike Miller authored
This creates a new function, cciss_interrupt_mode called from cciss_pci_init. This function determines what type of interrupt vector to use, i.e., MSI, MSI-X, or IO-APIC. One noticeable difference is changing the interrupt field of the controller struct to an array of 4 unsigned ints. The Smart Array HW is capable of generating 4 distinct interrupts depending on the transport method in use during operation. These are: #define DOORBELL_INT 0 Used to notify the contoller of configuration updates. We only use this feature when in polling mode. #define PERF_MODE_INT 0 Used when the controller is in Performant Mode. #define SIMPLE_MODE_INT 2 Used when the controller is in Simple Mode (current Linux implementation). #define MEMQ_INT_MODE 3 Not used. When using IO-APIC interrupts these 4 lines are OR'ed together so when any one fires an interrupt an is generated. In MSI or MSI-X mode this hardware OR'ing is ignored. We must register for our interrupt depending on what mode the controller is running. For Linux we use SIMPLE_MODE_INT exclusively at this time. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by:
Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
-
Kylene Jo Hall authored
Remove global event log in the tpm bios event measurement log code that would have caused problems when the code was run concurrently. A log is now allocated and attached to the seq file upon open and destroyed appropriately. Signed-off-by:
Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Eric W. Biederman authored
The problem. It is expected that /sbin/halt -p works exactly like /sbin/halt, when the kernel does not implement power off functionality. The kernel can do a lot of work in the reboot notifiers and in device_shutdown before we even get to machine_power_off. Some of that shutdown is not safe if you are leaving the power on, and it definitely gets in the way of using sysrq or pressing ctrl-alt-del. Since the shutdown happens in generic code there is no way to fix this in architecture specific code :( Some machines are kernel oopsing today because of this. The simple solution is to turn LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF into LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT if power_off functionality is not implemented. This has the unfortunate side effect of disabling the power off functionality on architectures that leave pm_power_off to null and still implement something in machine_power_off. And it will break the build on some architectures that don't have a pm_power_off variable at all. On both counts I say tough. For architectures like alpha that don't implement the pm_power_off variable pm_power_off is declared in linux/pm.h and it is a generic part of our power management code, and all architectures should implement it. For architectures like parisc that have a default power off method in machine_power_off if pm_power_off is not implemented or fails. It is easy enough to set the pm_power_off variable. And nothing bad happens there, the machines just stop powering off. The current semantics are impossible without a flag at the top level so we can avoid the problem code if a power off is not implemented. pm_power_off is as good a flag as any with the bonus that it works without modification on at least x86, x86_64, powerpc, and ppc today. Andrew can you pick this up and put this in the mm tree. Kernels that don't compile or don't power off seem saner than kernels that oops or panic. Until we get the arch specific patches for the problem architectures this probably isn't smart to push into the stable kernel. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to walk through every architecture and make them work. And even if I did I couldn't test it :( From: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Add pm_power_off() for build fix of arch/m32r/kernel/process.c. From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> UML build fix Signed-off-by:Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by:
Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
-
Valentine Barshak authored
The patch makes posix_fadvise return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe in order to be fully POSIX-compliant. Signed-off-by:
-
Rob Landley authored
Based on questions people have asked me. Repeatedly. Signed-off-by:
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by:
-
Srivatsa Vaddagiri authored
This patch forces RCU torture threads off various CPUs in the system allowing them to become idle and go tickless. Meant to test support for such tickless idle CPU in RCU. Signed-off-by:
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Dave Jones authored
Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable. I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla only to find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers', and their problems were unreproducable without them loaded. Acked-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Eric Dumazet authored
I found that blkp field was not used in kernel tree. As most of the times NR_CPUS is a power of two and kmalloc() memory blocks too, this extra field basically doubles the memory space allocated in __alloc_percpu() to store the 'struct percpu_data' (for example, if NR_CPUS=8 on i386, kmalloc(4*8+4) returns a 64 bytes block instead of a 32 bytes block after this patch) Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Pekka Enberg authored
This patch inlines the single user of struct super_block field s_old_blocksize and removes the field. Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
-
Jesper Juhl authored
Minor update to Documentation/applying-patches.txt Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
-
Nicolas Kaiser authored
linux/delay.h included twice Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by:
-
David Gibson authored
mmap() returns -EINVAL if given a zero length, and thus elf_map() in binfmt_elf.c does likewise if it attempts to map a (page-aligned) ELF segment with zero filesize. Such a situation never arises with the default linker scripts, but there's nothing inherently wrong with zero-filesize (but non-zero memsize) ELF segments. Custom linker scripts can generate them, and the kernel should be able to map them; this patch makes it so. Signed-off-by:
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by:
-
David S. Miller authored
The parameter to put_cpu_var() is unreferenced by the implementation, and the compiler doesn't try to comprehend comments, so this wouldn't cause any problem, but if bugged me enough to post a fix :-) Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
-
