- 26 Sep, 2006 21 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s. The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the write-fault, make writeable and set dirty. On page write-back clean all the PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again. The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained. Hence it is not enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty. The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when: - its shared writeable (vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED) - it is not a 'special' mapping (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0 - the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping) - f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and because they don't have a backing store anyway. mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well. However it overrides the last condition. Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call. It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will also wrprotect the PTE. Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from under ->private_lock. This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself. This is needed because clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate locking order. [dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
Introduce a VM_BUG_ON, which is turned on with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. Use this in the lightweight, inline refcounting functions; PageLRU and PageActive checks in vmscan, because they're pretty well confined to vmscan. And in page allocate/free fastpaths which can be the hottest parts of the kernel for kbuilds. Unlike BUG_ON, VM_BUG_ON must not be used to execute statements with side-effects, and should not be used outside core mm code. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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James Bottomley authored
Give non-highmem architectures access to the kmap API for the purposes of overriding (this is what the attached patch does). The proposal is that we should now require all architectures with coherence issues to manage data coherence via the kmap/kunmap API. Thus driver writers never have to write code like kmap(page) modify data in page flush_kernel_dcache_page(page) kunmap(page) instead, kmap/kunmap will manage the coherence and driver (and filesystem) writers don't need to worry about how to flush between kmap and kunmap. For most architectures, the page only needs to be flushed if it was actually written to *and* there are user mappings of it, so the best implementation looks to be: clear the page dirty pte bit in the kernel page tables on kmap and on kunmap, check page->mappings for user maps, and then the dirty bit, and only flush if it both has user mappings and is dirty. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jan Kara authored
Original commit code assumes, that when a buffer on BJ_SyncData list is locked, it is being written to disk. But this is not true and hence it can lead to a potential data loss on crash. Also the code didn't count with the fact that journal_dirty_data() can steal buffers from committing transaction and hence could write buffers that no longer belong to the committing transaction. Finally it could possibly happen that we tried writing out one buffer several times. The patch below tries to solve these problems by a complete rewrite of the data commit code. We go through buffers on t_sync_datalist, lock buffers needing write out and store them in an array. Buffers are also immediately refiled to BJ_Locked list or unfiled (if the write out is completed). When the array is full or we have to block on buffer lock, we submit all accumulated buffers for IO. [suitable for 2.6.18.x around the 2.6.19-rc2 timeframe] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jan Blunck authored
get_cpu_var()/per_cpu()/__get_cpu_var() arguments must be simple identifiers. Otherwise the arch dependent implementations might break. This patch enforces the correct usage of the macros by producing a syntax error if the variable is not a simple identifier. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
The scheduler will stop load balancing if the most busy processor contains processes pinned via processor affinity. The scheduler currently only does one search for busiest cpu. If it cannot pull any tasks away from the busiest cpu because they were pinned then the scheduler goes into a corner and sulks leaving the idle processors idle. F.e. If you have processor 0 busy running four tasks pinned via taskset, there are none on processor 1 and one just started two processes on processor 2 then the scheduler will not move one of the two processes away from processor 2. This patch fixes that issue by forcing the scheduler to come out of its corner and retrying the load balancing by considering other processors for load balancing. This patch was originally developed by John Hawkes and discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113901368523205&w=2. I have removed extraneous material and gone back to equipping struct rq with the cpu the queue is associated with since this makes the patch much easier and it is likely that others in the future will have the same difficulty of figuring out which processor owns which runqueue. The overhead added through these patches is a single word on the stack if the kernel is configured to support 32 cpus or less (32 bit). For 32 bit environments the maximum number of cpus that can be configued is 255 which would result in the use of 32 bytes additional on the stack. On IA64 up to 1k cpus can be configured which will result in the use of 128 additional bytes on the stack. The maximum additional cache footprint is one cacheline. Typically memory use will be much less than a cacheline and the additional cpumask will be placed on the stack in a cacheline that already contains other local variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [libata] Fix oops introduced in non-uniform port handling fix [PATCH] ata-piix: fixes kerneldoc error
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Jeff Garzik authored
Noticed by several people. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NetLabel]: update docs with website information [NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 2) [NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 1) [Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested() [NETLINK]: add nla_for_each_nested() to the interface list [NetLabel]: change the SELinux permissions [NetLabel]: make the CIPSOv4 cache spinlocks bottom half safe [NetLabel]: correct improper handling of non-NetLabel peer contexts [TCP]: make cubic the default [TCP]: default congestion control menu [ATM] he: Fix __init/__devinit conflict [NETFILTER]: Add dscp,DSCP headers to header-y [DCCP]: Introduce dccp_probe [DCCP]: Use constants for CCIDs [DCCP]: Introduce constants for CCID numbers [DCCP]: Allow default/fallback service code.
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SOUND] sparc/amd7930: Use __devinit and __devinitdata as needed. [SUNLANCE]: Mark sparc_lance_probe_one as __devinit. [SPARC64]: Fix section-mismatch errors in solaris emul module.
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Jonathan Corbet authored
The v4l2 API documentation for VIDIOC_ENUMSTD says: To enumerate all standards applications shall begin at index zero, incrementing by one until the driver returns EINVAL. The actual code, however, tests the index this way: if (index<=0 || index >= vfd->tvnormsize) { ret=-EINVAL; So any application which passes in index=0 gets EINVAL right off the bat - and, in fact, this is what happens to mplayer. So I think the following patch is called for, and maybe even appropriate for a 2.6.18.x stable release. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ed Swierk authored
Invoking load_module() before param_sysfs_init() is called crashes in mod_sysfs_setup(), since the kset in module_subsys is not initialized yet. In my case, net-pf-1 is getting modprobed as a result of hotplug trying to create a UNIX socket. Calls to hotplug begin after the topology_init initcall. Another patch for the same symptom (module_subsys-initialize-earlier.patch) moves param_sysfs_init() to the subsys initcalls, but this is still not early enough in the boot process in some cases. In particular, topology_init() causes /sbin/hotplug to run, which requests net-pf-1 (the UNIX socket protocol) which can be compiled as a module. Moving param_sysfs_init() to the postcore initcalls fixes this particular race, but there might well be other cases where a usermodehelper causes a module to load earlier still. The patch makes load_module() return an error rather than crashing the kernel if invoked before module_subsys is initialized. Cc: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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keith mannthey authored
If there is only 1 node in the system cpus should think they are apart of some other node. If cases where a real numa system boots the Flat numa option make sure the cpus don't claim to be apart on a non-existent node. Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
Assume that a cpu is *physically* offlined at boot time... Because smpboot.c::smp_boot_cpu_map() canoot find cpu's sapicid, numa.c::build_cpu_to_node_map() cannot build cpu<->node map for offlined cpu. For such cpus, cpu_to_node map should be fixed at cpu-hot-add. This mapping should be done before cpu onlining. This patch also handles cpu hotremove case. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
Problem description: We have additional_cpus= option for allocating possible_cpus. But nid for possible cpus are not fixed at boot time. cpus which is offlined at boot or cpus which is not on SRAT is not tied to its node. This will cause panic at cpu onlining. Usually, pxm_to_nid() mapping is fixed at boot time by SRAT. But, unfortunately, some system (my system!) do not include full SRAT table for possible cpus. (Then, I use additiona_cpus= option.) For such possible cpus, pxm<->nid should be fixed at hot-add. We now have acpi_map_pxm_to_node() which is also used at boot. It's suitable here. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Michael Hanselmann authored
Seems like not all drivers use the framebuffer_alloc() function and won't have an initialized mutex. But those don't have a backlight, anyway. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Daniel R Thompson <daniel.thompson@st.com> Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Rientjes authored
Stops panic associated with attempting to free a non slab-allocated per_cpu_pageset. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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keith mannthey authored
With CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START set to a non default values the i386 boot_ioremap code calculated its pte index wrong and users of boot_ioremap have their areas incorrectly mapped (for me SRAT table not mapped during early boot). This patch removes the addr < BOOT_PTE_PTRS constraint. [ Keith says this is applicable to 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 as well ] Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey<kmannth@us.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1816/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted) [<c04051ee>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x171 [<c0405802>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c040591b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c043abee>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa2/0x11e [<c06143c3>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x22/0x26 [<c0541540>] rtc_get_rtc_time+0x32/0x176 [<c0419ba4>] hpet_rtc_interrupt+0x92/0x14d [<c0450f94>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x4d [<c0451055>] __do_IRQ+0x94/0xef [<c040678d>] do_IRQ+0x9e/0xbd [<c0404a49>] common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c DWARF2 unwinder stuck at common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ian Kent authored
If the timeout of an autofs mount is set to zero then umounts are disabled. This works fine, however the kernel module checks the expire timeout and goes no further if it is zero. This is not the right thing to do at shutdown as the module is passed an option to expire mounts regardless of their timeout setting. This patch allows autofs to honor the force expire option. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Henne authored
Fixes an error in kerneldoc of ata_piix.c. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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- 25 Sep, 2006 19 commits
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David S. Miller authored
Fixes section-mismatch errors. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Fixes section mismatch warnings when built as a module. Also, mark find_ledma and sun4 init function as __devinit too. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
init_socksys() was marked __init but invoked from a non-__init function. Use the correct module_{init,exit}() faciltiies while we're here and eliminate some seriously bogus ifdefs. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
Now that all of the supporting pieces of NetLabel have a home at SourceForge update the Kconfig help text and add an entry to the MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
At the suggestion of Thomas Graf, rewrite NetLabel's use of Netlink attributes to better follow the common Netlink attribute usage. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
At the suggestion of Thomas Graf, rewrite NetLabel's use of Netlink attributes to better follow the common Netlink attribute usage. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
Add a new function, nla_validate_nested(), to validate nested Netlink attributes. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
At the top of include/net/netlink.h is a list of Netlink interfaces, however, the nla_for_each_nested() macro was not listed. This patch adds this interface to the list at the top of the header file. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
Change NetLabel to use the 'recvfrom' socket permission and the SECINITSID_NETMSG SELinux SID as the NetLabel base SID for incoming packets. This patch effectively makes the old, and currently unused, SELinux NETMSG permissions NetLabel permissions. Signed-of-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
The CIPSOv4 cache traversal routines are triggered both the userspace events (cache invalidation due to DOI removal or updated SELinux policy) and network packet processing events. As a result there is a problem with the existing CIPSOv4 cache spinlocks as they are not bottom-half/softirq safe. This patch converts the CIPSOv4 cache spin_[un]lock() calls into spin_[un]lock_bh() calls to address this problem. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
Fix a problem where NetLabel would always set the value of sk_security_struct->peer_sid in selinux_netlbl_sock_graft() to the context of the socket, causing problems when users would query the context of the connection. This patch fixes this so that the value in sk_security_struct->peer_sid is only set when the connection is NetLabel based, otherwise the value is untouched. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jeff Garzik authored
They all contain the same thing. Instead, have a single generic one in include/asm-generic, and permit an arch to override as needed. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Change default congestion control used from BIC to the newer CUBIC which it the successor to BIC but has better properties over long delay links. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Change how default TCP congestion control is chosen. Don't just use last installed module, instead allow selection during configuration, and make sure and use the default regardless of load order. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Roland Dreier authored
he_init_one() is declared __devinit, but calls lots of init functions that are marked __init. However, if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled, __devinit functions go into normal .text, which leads to WARNING: drivers/atm/he.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'he_start' (at offset 0x2130) and 'he_service_tbrq' Fix this by changing the __init functions to __devinit. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
To whoever had written that code: a) priority of >> is higher than that of & b) priority of typecast is higher than that of any binary operator c) learn the fscking C Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
ql3xxx_probe() does ioremap and stores result in ->mem_map_registers. On failure exit it does iounmap() of the same thing. OTOH, ql3xxx_remove() does iounmap() of ->mmap_virt_base which is (a) never assigned and (b) never used other than in that iounmap() call. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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