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Roland Dreier
2714eb5a4f [PATCH] IB/mthca: release mutex on doorbell alloc error path
Release mutex on error return path from mthca_alloc_db().

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:20 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
55645e9b0a [PATCH] IB/mthca: fix MR allocation error path
Fix error handling in MR allocation for mem-free mode: mthca_free must get an
MR index, not a key.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:19 -07:00
Roland Dreier
85665c9816 [PATCH] IB/mthca: allocate correct number of doorbell pages
Doorbell record pages are allocated in HCA page size chunks (always 4096
bytes), so we need to divide by 4096 and not PAGE_SIZE when figuring out how
many pages we'll need space for.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:18 -07:00
Roland Dreier
e464b2a6c2 [PATCH] IB/mthca: clean up mthca_dereg_mr()
It's cleaner to kfree mthca_mr, and not rely on the fact that ib_mr is the
first field in mthca_mr.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:17 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
72c30290be [PATCH] IB/mthca: allow unaligned memory regions
The first buffer of a memory region is not required to be page-aligned, so
don't return an error if it's not.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:16 -07:00
Roland Dreier
3fba231754 [PATCH] IB/mthca: fix posting sends with immediate data
When posting a work request with immediate data, put the immediate data in the
immediate data field of the hardware's work request (rather than overwriting
the flags field).

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:16 -07:00
Roland Dreier
17ead2f5cc [PATCH] IB/mthca: fix calculation of RDB shift
Fix calculation of rdb_shift by using original number of QPs, not
their slot in profile[] (which will be rearranged when we sort it).

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:15 -07:00
Roland Dreier
8cf2daf3fe [PATCH] IB/mthca: fill in more device query fields
Implement more of the device_query method in mthca.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:14 -07:00
Roland Dreier
86562a1391 [PATCH] IB/mthca: map MPT/MTT context in mem-free mode
In mem-free mode, when allocating memory regions, make sure that the HCA has
context memory mapped to cover the virtual space used for the MPT and MTTs
being used.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:13 -07:00
Hal Rosenstock
79b61dceaf [PATCH] IB: Remove incorrect comments
Eliminate unneeded and misleading comments

Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:12 -07:00
Roland Dreier
0df3bb131f [PATCH] IB: Fix user MAD registrations with class 0
Fix handling of MAD agent registrations with mgmt_class == 0.  In this case
ib_umad should pass a NULL registration request to the MAD core rather than a
request with mgmt_class set to 0.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:11 -07:00
Libor Michalek
20aa65699c [PATCH] IB: Trivial FMR printk cleanup
Add missing newline in printk.

Signed-off-by: Libor Michalek <libor@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:11 -07:00
Roland Dreier
de0d9641c4 [PATCH] IB: Fix FMR pool crash
Mask bits correctly from jhash result in ib_fmr_hash() so that the
computed bucket index is within our hash table.  This fixes an SDP
crash.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:10 -07:00
Hal Rosenstock
dfe7cc7e81 [PATCH] IB: remove unneeded includes
Eliminate no longer needed include files

Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:09 -07:00
Sean Hefty
24239aff4e [PATCH] IB: Keep MAD work completion valid
Replace the *wc field in ib_mad_recv_wc from pointing to a structure on the
stack to one allocated with the received MAD buffer.  This allows a client to
access the *wc field after their receive completion handler has returned.

Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:08 -07:00
Roland Dreier
b1ed8dab94 [PATCH] IPoIB: document conversion to debugfs
Update IPoIB documentation now that multicast debugging files have moved from
ipoibdebugfs to debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:07 -07:00
Roland Dreier
9adec1a808 [PATCH] IPoIB: convert to debugfs
Convert IPoIB to use debugfs instead of its own custom debugging filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:07 -07:00
Roland Dreier
e6ded99cbb [PATCH] IPoIB: fix static rate calculation
Correct and simplify calculation of static rate.  We need to round up the
quotient of (local_rate - path_rate) / path_rate.  To round up we add
(path_rate - 1) to the numerator, so the quotient simplifies to (local_rate -
1) / path_rate.

No idea how I came up with the old formula.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:06 -07:00
Hal Rosenstock
62241eb497 [PATCH] IPoIB: set skb->mac.raw on receive
Set skb->mac.raw on receive.  This fixes crashes when this is
dereferenced, for example by netfilter or when PF_PACKET is used.

Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:05 -07:00
Horms
48a5346b31 [PATCH] Maintainers list update: linux-net -> netdev
Use netdev as the mailing list contact instead of the mostly dead linux-net
list.

Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:03 -07:00
Russell King
5960f3a633 [PATCH] arm: fix floppy disk dependencies
Both the RiscPC and (optionally) EBSA285 have floppy disk support.  Allow this
option to be selected on these ARM platforms again.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:02 -07:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
6c46ada700 [PATCH] reparent_to_init cleanup
This patch hides reparent_to_init().  reparent_to_init() should only be
called by daemonize().

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:01 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
2f4cfacecd [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete ACP/MWAVE MODEM entry
Both maintainer email addresses are bouncing and the web address is no
longer valid.

Seems to be a good time to remove the entry.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:26:00 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
5b45c3bb12 [PATCH] let SOUND_AD1889 depend on PCI
Compiling SOUND_AD1889 with PCI=n results in the following compile
error:

sound/built-in.o(.text+0x24f0c): In function `ad1889_remove':
: undefined reference to `pci_release_region'

This patch adds the missing dependency on PCI.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:59 -07:00
Benoit Boissinot
9a8488965d [PATCH] cpuset: remove function attribute const
gcc-4 warns with
include/linux/cpuset.h:21: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function
return type

cpuset_cpus_allowed is declared with const
extern const cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(const struct task_struct *p);

First const should be __attribute__((const)), but the gcc manual
explains that:

"Note that a function that has pointer arguments and examines the data
pointed to must not be declared const. Likewise, a function that calls a
non-const function usually must not be const. It does not make sense for
a const function to return void."

The following patch remove const from the function declaration.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:59 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek
b52402c783 [PATCH] pci enumeration on ixp2000: overflow in kernel/resource.c
IXP2000 (ARM-based) platforms use a separate 'struct resource' for PCI MEM
space.  Resource allocation for PCI BARs always fails because the 'root'
resource (the IXP2000 PCI MEM resource) always has the entire address space
(00000000-ffffffff) free, and find_resource() calculates the size of that
range as ffffffff-00000000+1=0, so all allocations fail because it thinks
there is no space.

(akpm: pls. double-check)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:58 -07:00
Colin Leroy
fe4b334f8b [PATCH] CREDITS update
Update Colin's credits entry.

Signed-off-by: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:57 -07:00
Randy.Dunlap
1cfb7161cd [PATCH] Add dontdiff file
Add a current 'dontdiff' file for use with 'diff -X dontdiff'.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:56 -07:00
Matt Mackall
9e95ce279f [PATCH] update maintainer for /dev/random
Ted has agreed to let me take over as maintainer of /dev/random and
friends.  I've gone ahead and added a line to his entry in CREDITS.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:56 -07:00
Magnus Damm
d390493b11 [PATCH] opl3sa2: MODULE_PARM_DESC
opl3sa2: Fix "irq"-parameter name typo for parameter description.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:55 -07:00
James Bottomley
dae409a277 [PATCH] add Big Endian variants of ioread/iowrite
In the new io infrastructure, all of our operators are expecting the
underlying device to be little endian (because the PCI bus, their main
consumer, is LE).

However, there are a fair few devices and busses in the world that are
actually Big Endian.  There's even evidence that some of these BE bus and
chip types are attached to LE systems.  Thus, there's a need for a BE
equivalent of our io{read,write}{16,32} operations.

The attached patch adds this as io{read,write}{16,32}be.  When it's in,
I'll add the first consume (the 53c700 SCSI chip driver).

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:54 -07:00
maximilian attems
c41f5eb3b8 [PATCH] efi: eliminate bad section references
Randy please double check especially this one.
there may be a better solution.

Fix efi section references:
 remove __initdata for struct efi efi_phys 
 and struct efi_memory_map memmap

Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/efi.o .text refers to 000000d3 R_386_32
.init.data
Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/efi.o .text refers to 000000ff R_386_32
.init.data

efi_memmap_walk (which is not __init nor static) 
accesses both efi_phys and memmap.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:53 -07:00
maximilian attems
fca4480450 [PATCH] hd: eliminate bad section references
Fix hd section references:
make parse_hd_setup() __init

Error: ./drivers/ide/legacy/hd.o .text refers to 00000943 R_386_PC32
.init.text

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:52 -07:00
maximilian attems
ffbe5523a8 [PATCH] pnpbios: eliminate bad section references
one of the last buildcheck errors on i386, thanks Randy again for double
checking.

Fix pnpbios section references:
make dmi_system_id pnpbios_dmi_table __initdata

Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.o .data refers to 00000100 R_386_32
.init.text
Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.o .data refers to 0000012c R_386_32
.init.text

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
e1ba0dab26 [PATCH] Fix comment in list.h that refers to nonexistent API
The hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() comment block refers to a nonexistent
hlist_add_rcu() API, needs to change to hlist_add_head_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:51 -07:00
Daniel McNeil
29504ff3be [PATCH] Direct IO async short read fix
The direct I/O code is mapping the read request to the file system block.  If
the file size was not on a block boundary, the result would show the the read
reading past EOF.  This was only happening for the AIO case.  The non-AIO case
truncates the result to match file size (in direct_io_worker).  This patch
does the same thing for the AIO case, it truncates the result to match the
file size if the read reads past EOF.

When I/O completes the result can be truncated to match the file size
without using i_size_read(), thus the aio result now matches the number of
bytes read to the end of file.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:50 -07:00
Dave Hansen
1f08ad0237 [PATCH] undo do_readv_writev() behavior change
Bugme bug 4326: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4326 reports:

executing the systemcall readv with Bad argument
->len == -1) it gives out error EFAULT instead of EINVAL 


Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:49 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
22a685d09b [PATCH] officially deprecate register_ioctl32_conversion
These have been deprecated since ->compat_ioctl when in, thus only a short
deprecation period.  There's four users left: i2o_config, s390/z90crypy,
s390/dasd and s390/zfcp and for the first two patches are about to be
submitted to get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:48 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
6cae60feb6 [PATCH] kill #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_GET_SIGNAL_TO_DELIVER in signal.c
Now that no architectures defines HAVE_ARCH_GET_SIGNAL_TO_DELIVER anymore
this can go away.  It was a transitional hack only.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:47 -07:00
Niu YaWei
e821d94d34 [PATCH] quota: possible bug in quota format v2 support
Don't put root block of quota tree to the free list (when quota file is
completely empty).  That should not actually happen anyway (somebody should
get accounted for the filesystem root and so quota file should never be
empty) but better prevent it here than solve magical quota file
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:47 -07:00
Jan Kara
31e7ad6ac9 [PATCH] quota: fix possible oops on quotaoff
Remove dquot structures from quota file on quotaon - quota code does not
expect them to be there.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:46 -07:00
Bernard Blackham
e072c6f2af [PATCH] ext2 corruption - regression between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10
Whilst trying to stress test a Promise SX8 card, we stumbled across
some nasty filesystem corruption in ext2. Our tests involved
creating an ext2 partition, mounting, running several concurrent
fsx's over it, umounting, and fsck'ing, all scripted[1]. The fsck
would always return with errors.

This regression was traced back to a change between 2.6.9 and
2.6.10, which moves the functionality of ext2_put_inode into
ext2_clear_inode.  The attached patch reverses this change, and
eliminated the source of corruption.

Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> said:

I think his patch for ext2 is correct.  The corruption on ext3 is not the same
issue he saw on ext2.  I believe that's the race between discard reservation
and reservation in-use that we already fixed it in 2.6.12- rc1.

For the problem related to ext2, at the time when we design reservation for
ext3, we decide we only need to discard the reservation at the last file
close, so we have ext3_discard_reservation on iput_final- >ext3_clear_inode.

The ext2 handle discard preallocation differently at that time, it discard the
preallocation at each iput(), not in input_final(), so we think it's
unnecessary to thrash it so frequently, and the right thing to do, as we did
for ext3 reservation, discard preallocation on last iput().  So we moved the
ext2_discard_preallocation from ext2_put_inode(0 to ext2_clear_inode.

Since ext2 preallocation is doing pre-allocation on disk, so it is possible
that at the unmount time, someone is still hold the reference of the inode, so
the preallocation for a file is not discard yet, so we still mark those blocks
allocated on disk, while they are not actually in the inode's block map, so
fsck will catch/fix that error later.

This is not a issue for ext3, as ext3 reservation(pre-allocation) is done in
memory.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:45 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
614a7d6a76 [PATCH] fix up newly added jsm driver
- plug various leaks and use after frees in the remove and
   initialization failure path (some still left)
 - remove useless global list of boards and use pci_set_drvdata instead
 - unobsfucate init path by merging functions together
 - kill various totally useless state variables
 - .. probably more I forgot

Note that the tty part still generates lots of sparse warnings and there's
still a totally useless layer of function pointer indirections, but maybe
someone else will fix that bit up.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:44 -07:00
Ken Chen
a299738283 [PATCH] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device
In function __generic_unplug_device(), kernel can use a cheaper function
elv_queue_empty() instead of more expensive elv_next_request to find
whether the queue is empty or not.  blk_run_queue can also made conditional
on whether queue's emptiness before calling request_fn().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:43 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
975e046cc0 [PATCH] fix module_param_string() calls
This patch fix 3 calls to module_param_string() in
driver/media/video/tuner-core.c and drivers/media/video/tda9887.c.  In all
three places, the len and the perm parameter was switched.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <wesarg@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:43 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
31143a1204 [PATCH] kernel/param.c: don't use .max when .num is NULL in param_array_set()
there seems to be a bug, at least for me, in kernel/param.c for arrays with
.num == NULL.  If .num == NULL, the function param_array_set() uses &.max
for the call to param_array(), wich alters the .max value to the number of
arguments.  The result is, you can't set more array arguments as the last
time you set the parameter.

example:

# a module 'example' with
# static int array[10] = { 0, };
# module_param_array(array, int, NULL, 0644);

$ insmod example.ko array=1,2,3
$ cat /sys/module/example/parameters/array
1,2,3
$ echo "4,3,2,1" > /sys/module/example/parameters/array
$ dmesg | tail -n 1
kernel: array: can take only 3 arguments

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <wesarg@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:42 -07:00
Bharath Ramesh
fc9c9ab22d [PATCH] AYSNC IO using singals other than SIGIO
A question on sigwaitinfo based IO mechanism in multithreaded applications.

I am trying to use RT signals to notify me of IO events using RT signals
instead of SIGIO in a multithreaded applications.  I noticed that there was
some discussion on lkml during november 1999 with the subject of the
discussion as "Signal driven IO".  In the thread I noticed that RT signals
were being delivered to the worker thread.  I am running 2.6.10 kernel and
I am trying to use the very same mechanism and I find that only SIGIO being
propogated to the worker threads and RT signals only being propogated to
the main thread and not the worker threads where I actually want them to be
propogated too.  On further inspection I found that the following patch
which I have attached solves the problem.

I am not sure if this is a bug or feature in the kernel.


Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> said:

This relates only to fcntl F_SETSIG, which is a Linux extension.  So there is
no POSIX issue.  When changing various things like the normal SIGIO signalling
to do group signals, I was concerned strictly with the POSIX semantics and
generally avoided touching things in the domain of Linux inventions.  That's
why I didn't change this when I changed the call right next to it.  There is
no reason I can see that F_SETSIG-requested signals shouldn't use a group
signal like normal SIGIO does.  I'm happy to ACK this patch, there is nothing
wrong with its change to the semantics in my book.  But neither POSIX nor I
care a whit what F_SETSIG does.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:41 -07:00
Jens Axboe
4a534f93b3 [PATCH] possible use-after-free of bio
There is a possibility that a bio will be accessed after it has been freed
on SCSI.  It happens if you submit a bio with BIO_SYNC marked and the
auto-unplugging kicks the request_fn, SCSI re-enables interrupts in-between
so if the request completes between the add_request() in __make_request()
and the bio_sync() call, we could be looking at a dead bio.  It's a slim
race, but it has been triggered in the Real World.

So assign bio_sync() to a local variable instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:40 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
9c340d80f6 [PATCH] uml: fix compilation for __CHOOSE_MODE addition
I had added the __CHOOSE_MODE syntax to fix some warnings with newer GCC's
in the uml-fix-cond-expr-as-lvalues-warning patch.

Here is the update from the version I sent to make it work also when only
one mode (TT or SKAS) is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:39 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
43117a0828 [PATCH] swsusp: SMP fix
Fix some smp_processor_id-in-preemptible warnings

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:39 -07:00