- 16 Oct, 2008 40 commits
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Andy Whitcroft authored
Add the cacheline alignment modifiers to the attribute lists. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored
Add support for direct testing of the attribute matcher, add basic tests for it. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored
It is a common and sane idiom to allow a single return on the end of a case statement: switch (...) { case foo: return bar; } Add an exception for this. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored
Labels have different indent rules and must be ignored when checking the conditional indent levels. Also correct identify labels in single statement conditionals. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored
It is possible to use double ampersand (&&) in unary context where it means the address of a goto label. Handle spacing for it. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored
It is wholy reasonable to have square brackets representing array slices in braces on the same line. These should be spaced. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
This patch introduces the generic iommu_num_pages function. It can be used by a given memory area. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
This is a preparation patch for introducing a generic iommu_num_pages function. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
This is a preparation patch for introducing a generic iommu_num_pages function. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joerg Roedel authored
This series of patches re-introduces the iommu_num_pages function so that it can be used by each architecture specific IOMMU implementations. The series also changes IOMMU implementations for X86, Alpha, PowerPC and UltraSparc. The other implementations are not yet changed because the modifications required are not obvious and I can't test them on real hardware. This patch: This is a preparation patch for introducing a generic iommu_num_pages function. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Nothing arch specific in get/settimeofday. The details of the timeval conversion varied a little from arch to arch, but all with the same results. Also add an extern declaration for sys_tz to linux/time.h because externs in .c files are fowned upon. I'll kill the externs in various other files in a sparate patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ] Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
struct stat / compat_stat is the same on all architectures, so cp_compat_stat should be, too. Turns out it is, except that various architectures have slightly and some high2lowuid/high2lowgid or the direct assignment instead of the SET_UID/SET_GID that expands to the correct one anyway. This patch replaces the arch-specific cp_compat_stat implementations with a common one based on the x86-64 one. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ] Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [ parisc bits ] Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Raimondi authored
clk_get and clk_put may not be used from within interrupt context. Change comment to this function. Signed-off-by: Alex Raimondi <raimondi@miromico.ch> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Add documentation in kerneldoc for new printk format extensions This patch documents the new %pS/%pF options in printk in kernel doc. Hope I didn't miss any other extension. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies to submit difficult kernel patches. Add a reference to it to SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernhard Walle authored
This adds "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" sysctl to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text is mainly taken from http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/43/217998.html. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Move print_tainted() kernel-doc to avoid the following error: Error(/var/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617//kernel/panic.c:155): cannot understand prototype: 'struct tnt ' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/FD Cami authored
Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ urls, update to new ones when necessary, delete references otherwise. There are still instances of that living in: Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches Documentation/ko_KR/HOWTO Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Francois Cami authored
People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the current email address. Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
We want all uses of memory barriers to be explained in the source code. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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WANG Cong authored
Commit 6dd06c9f ("module: make module_address_lookup safe") introduced double returns in the function kallsyms_lookup(), it's weird. The second one should be removed. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> 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>
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Davide Libenzi authored
Thomas found that there is an unnecessary (always true) test in ep_send_events(). The callback never inserts into ->rdllink while the send loop is performed, and also does the ~EP_PRIVATE_BITS test. Given we're holding the mutex during this time, the conditions tested inside the loop are always true. This patch drops the test done inside the re-insertion loop. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Victor authored
Only three of Atmel's AT91 processors (SAM9263, SAM9RL and CAP9) include a PWM controller. It should therefore only be possible to enable the misc/atmel_pwm.c driver on those processors (and not all AT91 processors). Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alberto Bertogli authored
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Baron authored
With MAX_ARG_STRINGS set to 0x7FFFFFFF, and being passed to 'count()' and compat_count(), it would appear that the current max bounds check of fs/exec.c:394: if(++i > max) return -E2BIG; would never trigger. Since 'i' is of type int, so values would wrap and the function would continue looping. Simple fix seems to be chaning ++i to i++ and checking for '>='. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Ollie Wild" <aaw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
utsname() is quite expensive to calculate. Cache it in a local. text data bss dec hex filename before: 11136 720 16 11872 2e60 kernel/sys.o after: 11096 720 16 11832 2e38 kernel/sys.o Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vegard Nossum authored
On sethostname() and setdomainname(), previous information may be retained if it was longer than than the new hostname/domainname. This can be demonstrated trivially by calling sethostname() first with a long name, then with a short name, and then calling uname() to retrieve the full buffer that contains the hostname (and possibly parts of the old hostname), one just has to look past the terminating zero. I don't know if we should really care that much (hence the RFC); the only scenarios I can possibly think of is administrator putting something sensitive in the hostname (or domain name) by accident, and changing it back will not undo the mistake entirely, though it's not like we can recover gracefully from "rm -rf /" either... The other scenario is namespaces (CLONE_NEWUTS) where some information may be unintentionally "inherited" from the previous namespace (a program wants to hide the original name and does clone + sethostname, but some information is still left). I think the patch may be defended on grounds of the principle of least surprise. But I am not adamant :-) (I guess the question now is whether userspace should be able to write embedded NULs into the buffer or not...) At least the observation has been made and the patch has been presented. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
defkeymap.c_shipped should be diffed if it is changed. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> COPYING, CREDITS, .mailmap should be diffed if they are changed. keywords.c_shipped & lex.c_shipped should be diffed when changed. parse.[ch]_shipped should be diffed when changed. Reported-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> vsyscall* updates from a .gitignore patch by "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>. *.so.dbg from a .gitignore patch by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>. binoffset from a .gitignore patch by Uwe Kleine-Koenig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>. Module.markers from a .gitignore patch by Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>. vmlinux*.lds* should be diffed if changed. Reported-by: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr> vmlinux.lds from a .gitignore patch by Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com>. *.scr should be diffed if changed. Lots of updates from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/32 Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Use ncscope.* instead of *cscope* since the latter may catch too many files. Add *.elf, from a .gitignore patch by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>. Make firmware entries match .gitignore entries. Make some entries less greedy by removing trailing '*'. Remove "make_times_h" (no such file). Remove "filelist" (no such file). Remove "dummy_sym.c" (no such file). Remove "gen-kdb_cmds.c" (no such file). Remove "gentbl" (no such file). Remove "kconfig.tk" (no such file). Remove "tkparse" (no such file). Remove "sim710_d.h" (no such file). Remove "53c8xx_d.h" (no such file). Add "syscalltab.h" (generated file). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shane McDonald authored
Add a missing word to the explanation of the purpose of the zdisk and bzdisk make targets. Signed-off-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Hansen authored
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too much system time and I wonder what is responsible. I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by default. Dang! The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and runtime-alloc it? To use: echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile Then run readprofile like normal. This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adam Tkac authored
When a process wants to set the limit of open files to RLIM_INFINITY it gets EPERM even if it has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability. For example, BIND does: ... #elif defined(NR_OPEN) && defined(__linux__) /* * Some Linux kernels don't accept RLIM_INFINIT; the maximum * possible value is the NR_OPEN defined in linux/fs.h. */ if (resource == isc_resource_openfiles && rlim_value == RLIM_INFINITY) { rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = NR_OPEN; unixresult = setrlimit(unixresource, &rl); if (unixresult == 0) return (ISC_R_SUCCESS); } #elif ... If we allow setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY we increase portability - you don't have to check if OS is linux and then use different schema for limits. The spec says "Specifying RLIM_INFINITY as any resource limit value on a successful call to setrlimit() shall inhibit enforcement of that resource limit." and we're presently not doing that. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Naohiro Ooiwa authored
It is written in the Documentation/sysrq.txt that oom-killer is enabled when we set "64" in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq: <Documentation/sysrq.txt> Here is the list of possible values in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq: 64 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill) ^^^^^^^^ but enable_mask is not set in sysrq_moom_op. Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion. Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit operations on it. Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it anymore. It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit (since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.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>
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Nye Liu authored
When unpacking the cpio into the initramfs, mtimes are not preserved by default. This patch adds an INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME option that allows mtimes stored in the cpio image to be used when constructing the initramfs. For embedded applications that run exclusively out of the initramfs, this is invaluable: When building embedded application initramfs images, its nice to know when the files were actually created during the build process - that makes it easier to see what files were modified when so we can compare the files that are being used on the image with the files used during the build process. This might help (for example) to determine if the target system has all the updated files you expect to see w/o having to check MD5s etc. In our environment, the whole system runs off the initramfs partition, and seeing the modified times of the shared libraries (for example) helps us find bugs that may have been introduced by the build system incorrectly propogating outdated shared libraries into the image. Similarly, many of the initializion/configuration files in /etc might be dynamically built by the build system, and knowing when they were modified helps us sanity check whether the target system has the "latest" files etc. Finally, we might use last modified times to determine whether a hot fix should be applied or not to the running ramfs. Signed-off-by: Nye Liu <nyet@nyet.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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