- 16 Jul, 2007 40 commits
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Robert P. J. Day authored
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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vasily Tarasov authored
OpenVZ Linux kernel team has discovered the problem with 32bit quota tools working on 64bit architectures. In 2.6.10 kernel sys32_quotactl() function was replaced by sys_quotactl() with the comment "sys_quotactl seems to be 32/64bit clean, enable it for 32bit" However this isn't right. Look at if_dqblk structure: struct if_dqblk { __u64 dqb_bhardlimit; __u64 dqb_bsoftlimit; __u64 dqb_curspace; __u64 dqb_ihardlimit; __u64 dqb_isoftlimit; __u64 dqb_curinodes; __u64 dqb_btime; __u64 dqb_itime; __u32 dqb_valid; }; For 32 bit quota tools sizeof(if_dqblk) == 0x44. But for 64 bit kernel its size is 0x48, 'cause of alignment! Thus we got a problem. Attached patch reintroduce sys32_quotactl() function, that handles this and related situations. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it link with CONFIG_QUOTA=n] Signed-off-by:Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Arnd Bergmann authored
One common problem with 32 bit system call and ioctl emulation is the different alignment rules between i386 and 64 bit machines. A number of drivers work around this by marking the compat structures as 'attribute((packed))', which is not the right solution because it breaks all the non-x86 architectures that want to use the same compat code. Hopefully, this patch improves the situation, it introduces two new types, compat_u64 and compat_s64. These are defined on all architectures to have the same size and alignment as the 32 bit version of u64 and s64. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Henrik Kretzschmar authored
Fix parameter name in audit_core_dumps for kerneldoc. Signed-off-by:
Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Nathan Lynch authored
aa953877 removed the implementation of lock_cpu_hotplug_interruptible and all users of it. This stub definition for !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU was left over -- kill it now. Signed-off-by:
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
ext4_orphan_add() and ext4_orphan_del() functions lock sb->s_lock with a transaction started with ext4_mark_recovery_complete() waits for a transaction holding sb->s_lock, thus leading to a possible deadlock. At the moment we call ext4_mark_recovery_complete() from ext4_remount() we have done all the work needed for remounting and thus we are safe to drop sb->s_lock before we wait for transactions to commit. Note that at this moment we are still guarded by s_umount lock against other remounts/umounts. Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
ext3_orphan_add() and ext3_orphan_del() functions lock sb->s_lock with a transaction started with ext3_mark_recovery_complete() waits for a transaction holding sb->s_lock, thus leading to a possible deadlock. At the moment we call ext3_mark_recovery_complete() from ext3_remount() we have done all the work needed for remounting and thus we are safe to drop sb->s_lock before we wait for transactions to commit. Note that at this moment we are still guarded by s_umount lock against other remounts/umounts. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
Especially when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, avoid needlessy allocating resources for CPUs that can never become available. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
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Cedric Le Goater authored
It should improve performance in some scenarii where a lot of these nsproxy objects are created by unsharing namespaces. This is a typical use of virtual servers that are being created or entered. This is also a good tool to find leaks and gather statistics on namespace usage. Signed-off-by:
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Cedric Le Goater authored
dup_mnt_ns() and clone_uts_ns() return NULL on failure. This is wrong, create_new_namespaces() uses ERR_PTR() to catch an error. This means that the subsequent create_new_namespaces() will hit BUG_ON() in copy_mnt_ns() or copy_utsname(). Modify create_new_namespaces() to also use the errors returned by the copy_*_ns routines and not to systematically return ENOMEM. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: better changelog] Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Repair indenting bustage. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime. Especially if it triggers during a distro install. Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Remove not only the references to Cobalt NVRAM, but the header file as well. Signed-off-by:
Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Add an item to the RCU documentation checklist noting that RCU callbacks can run in parallel. Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
fs/binfmt_elf.c: In function 'load_elf_binary': fs/binfmt_elf.c:1002: warning: 'interp_map_addr' may be used uninitialized in this function The compiler (gcc-4.1.0) is correct, but it failed to notice that we didn't use the resulting value. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert my do_ioctl() debugging patch: Paul fixed the bug. Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Serge E. Hallyn authored
This patch enables the unshare of user namespaces. It adds a new clone flag CLONE_NEWUSER and implements copy_user_ns() which resets the current user_struct and adds a new root user (uid == 0) For now, unsharing the user namespace allows a process to reset its user_struct accounting and uid 0 in the new user namespace should be contained using appropriate means, for instance selinux The plan, when the full support is complete (all uid checks covered), is to keep the original user's rights in the original namespace, and let a process become uid 0 in the new namespace, with full capabilities to the new namespace. Signed-off-by:
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Cedric Le Goater authored
Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table, resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated accounting. A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation. Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?) The unshare is not included in this patch. Changes since [try #4]: - Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and get_user_ns to return the namespace. Changes since [try #3]: - moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h} Changes since [try #2]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() Changes since [try #1]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() - added a root_user per user namespace Signed-off-by: -
Cedric Le Goater authored
CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS have very little value as they only deactivate the unshare of the uts and ipc namespaces and do not improve performance. Signed-off-by:
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Miloslav Trmac authored
Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it necessary to audit TTY output as well. Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still work). TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly useless audit events. Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel. The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone). Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by:
Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Currently we handle spurious IRQ activity based upon seeing a lot of invalid interrupts, and we clear things back on the base of lots of valid interrupts. Unfortunately in some cases you get legitimate invalid interrupts caused by timing asynchronicity between the PCI bus and the APIC bus when disabling interrupts and pulling other tricks. In this case although the spurious IRQs are not a problem our unhandled counters didn't clear and they act as a slow running timebomb. (This is effectively what the serial port/tty problem that was fixed by clearing counters when registering a handler showed up) It's easy enough to add a second parameter - time. This means that if we see a regular stream of harmless spurious interrupts which are not harming processing we don't go off and do something stupid like disable the IRQ after a month of running. OTOH lockups and performance killers show up a lot more than 10/second [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a trim down to 80 columns. Put it back into the right format and keep the overlong lines as the result is also MUCH easier to read in this specific case. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
I was seeing a null pointer deref in fs/super.c:vfs_kern_mount(). Some file system get_sb() handler was returning NULL mnt_sb with a non-negative return value. I also noticed a "hugetlbfs: Bad mount option:" message in the log. Turns out that hugetlbfs_parse_options() was not checking for an empty option string after call to strsep(). On failure, hugetlbfs_parse_options() returns 1. hugetlbfs_fill_super() just passed this return code back up the call stack where vfs_kern_mount() missed the error and proceeded with a NULL mnt_sb. Apparently introduced by patch: hugetlbfs-use-lib-parser-fix-docs.patch The problem was exposed by this line in my fstab: none /huge hugetlbfs defaults 0 0 It can also be demonstrated by invoking mount of hugetlbfs directly with no options or a bogus option. This patch: 1) adds the check for empty option to hugetlbfs_parse_options(), 2) enhances the error message to bracket any unrecognized option with quotes , 3) modifies hugetlbfs_parse_options() to return -EINVAL on any unrecognized option, 4) adds a BUG_ON() to vfs_kern_mount() to catch any get_sb() handler that returns a NULL mnt->mnt_sb with a return value >= 0. Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Use lib/parser.c to parse hugetlbfs mount options. Correct docs in hugetlbpage.txt. old size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 675 bytes new size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 686 bytes (hugetlbfs_parse_options() is inlined) Signed-off-by:
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
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Jesper Juhl authored
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Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wyatt Banks authored
Removed kmalloc and memset in favor of kzalloc. To explain the HFSPLUS_SB() macro in the removed memset call: hfsplus_fs.h:#define HFSPLUS_SB(super) (*(struct hfsplus_sb_info *)(super)->s_fs_info) Signed-off-by:
Wyatt Banks <wyatt@banksresearch.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT. Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer: drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c:1920:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by:
Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by:
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Maxim Uvarov authored
Make available to the user the following task and process performance statistics: * Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw) * Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw) Statistics information is available from: 1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/) 2. /proc/PID/status (task only). This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vasily Averin authored
After ext3 orphan list check has been added into ext3_destroy_inode() (please see my previous patch) the following situation has been detected: EXT3-fs warning (device sda6): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file (37901290), 0 Inode 00000101a15b7840: orphan list check failed! 00000773 6f665f00 74616d72 00000573 65725f00 06737270 66000000 616d726f ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff80211ea9>] ext3_destroy_inode+0x79/0x90 [<ffffffff801a2b16>] sys_unlink+0x126/0x1a0 [<ffffffff80111479>] error_exit+0x0/0x81 [<ffffffff80110aba>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 First messages said that unlinked inode has i_nlink=0, then ext3_unlink() adds this inode into orphan list. Second message means that this inode has not been removed from orphan list. Inode dump has showed that i_fop = &bad_file_ops and it can be set in make_bad_inode() only. Then I've found that ext3_read_inode() can call make_bad_inode() without any error/warning messages, for example in the following case: ... if (inode->i_nlink == 0) { if (inode->i_mode == 0 || !(EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_mount_state & EXT3_ORPHAN_FS)) { /* this inode is deleted */ brelse (bh); goto bad_inode; ... Bad inode can live some time, ext3_unlink can add it to orphan list, but ext3_delete_inode() do not deleted this inode from orphan list. As result we can have orphan list corruption detected in ext3_destroy_inode(). However it is not clear for me how to fix this issue correctly. As far as i see is_bad_inode() is called after iget() in all places excluding ext3_lookup() and ext3_get_parent(). I believe it makes sense to add bad inode check to these functions too and call iput if bad inode detected. Signed-off-by:Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Vasily Averin authored
Customers claims to ext3-related errors, investigation showed that ext3 orphan list has been corrupted and have the reference to non-ext3 inode. The following debug helps to understand the reasons of this issue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update for print_hex_dump() changes] Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Drop <linux/isicom.h> from being exported to user space since it would be only an empty file. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Remove the no longer used sonypi_camera_command(). Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by:
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Jan Engelhardt authored
This patch fixes dead keys and copy/paste of non-ASCII characters in UTF-8 mode on Linux console. See more details about the original patch at: http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html Already posted on (Oldest) http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/5/31/148 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/24/69 (Recent) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/7/75 [bunk@stusta.de: make drivers/char/selection.c:store_utf8() static] Signed-off-by:
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
I forgot to remove capability.h from mm.h while removing sched.h! This patch remedies that, because the only inline function which was using CAP_something was made out of line. Cross-compile tested without regressions on: all powerpc defconfigs all mips defconfigs all m68k defconfigs all arm defconfigs all ia64 defconfigs alpha alpha-allnoconfig alpha-defconfig alpha-up arm i386 i386-allnoconfig i386-defconfig i386-up ia64 ia64-allnoconfig ia64-defconfig ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-allnoconfig parisc-defconfig parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-allnoconfig s390-defconfig s390-up sparc sparc-allnoconfig sparc-defconfig sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-allnoconfig sparc64-defconfig sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-allnoconfig x86_64-defconfig x86_64-up as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Original problem: in some circumstances seq_file interface can present infinite proc file to the following script when normally said proc file is finite: while read line; do [do something with $line] done </proc/$FILE bash, to implement such loop does essentially read(0, buf, 128); [find \n] lseek(0, -difference, SEEK_CUR); Consider, proc file prints list of objects each of them consists of many lines, each line is shorter than 128 bytes. Two objects in list, with ->index'es being 0 and 1. Current one is 1, as bash prints second object line by line. Imagine first object being removed right before lseek(). traverse() will be called, because there is negative offset. traverse() will reset ->index to 0 (!). traverse() will call ->next() and get NULL in any usual iterate-over-list code using list_for_each_entry_continue() and such. There is one object in list now after all... traverse() will return 0, lseek() will update file position and pretend everything is OK. So, what we have now: ->f_pos points to place where second object will be printed, but ->index is 0. seq_read() instead of returning EOF, will start printing first line of first object every time it's called, until enough objects are added to ->f_pos return in bounds. Fix is to update ->index only after we're sure we saw enough objects down the road. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
Documentation for the /proc/$pid/stat file. Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
The RXBRK field in the AT91/AT32 USART status register has the following definition according to e.g. the AT32AP7000 data sheet: RXBRK: Break Received/End of Break 0: No Break received or End of Break detected since the last RSTSTA. 1: Break Received or End of Break detected since the last RSTSTA. Thus, for each break, the USART sets the RXBRK bit twice. This patch modifies the driver to report the break event to the serial core only once by keeping track of whether a break condition is currently active. The break_active flag is reset as soon as a character is received, so even if we miss the start-of-break interrupt this should do the right thing. Signed-off-by:Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ivan Kuten <ivan.kuten@promwad.com> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com> Cc: Patrice Vilchez <patrice.vilchez@rfo.atmel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Pierre Ossman authored
Some buses (e.g. USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace(). In order to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device specified in root= to actually show up. If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. In order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be turned on via the command line option "rootwait". [bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static] Signed-off-by:
Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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