* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, apic: Don't use logical-flat mode when CPU hotplug may exceed 8 CPUs
x86-32: Make AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH=2
x86/agp: Fix amd64-agp module initialization regression
x86, doc: Fix minor spelling error in arch/x86/mm/gup.c
When suspending, tpm_infineon calls the generic suspend function of the
TPM framework. However, the TPM framework does not return and the system
hangs upon suspend. When sending the necessary command "TPM_SaveState"
directly within the driver, suspending and resuming works fine.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Selhorst <m.selhorst@sirrix.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Debora Velarde <debora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.32.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 7036251180 ("tty: fix race in tty_fasync") and
commit b04da8bfdf ("fnctl: f_modown should call write_lock_irqsave/
restore") that tried to fix up some of the fallout but was incomplete.
It turns out that we really cannot hold 'tty->ctrl_lock' over calling
__f_setown, because not only did that cause problems with interrupt
disables (which the second commit fixed), it also causes a potential
ABBA deadlock due to lock ordering.
Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for following up on the issue, and running
lockdep to show the problem. It goes roughly like this:
- f_getown gets filp->f_owner.lock for reading without interrupts
disabled, so an interrupt that happens while that lock is held can
cause a lockdep chain from f_owner.lock -> sighand->siglock.
- at the same time, the tty->ctrl_lock -> f_owner.lock chain that
commit 7036251180 introduced, together with the pre-existing
sighand->siglock -> tty->ctrl_lock chain means that we have a lock
dependency the other way too.
So instead of extending tty->ctrl_lock over the whole __f_setown() call,
we now just take a reference to the 'pid' structure while holding the
lock, and then release it after having done the __f_setown. That still
guarantees that 'struct pid' won't go away from under us, which is all
we really ever needed.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes the regression introduced by commit
42590a7501 ("x86/agp: Fix
agp_amd64_init and agp_amd64_cleanup").
The commit 61684ceaad fixed the
above regression but it's not enough. When amd64-agp is built as
a module, AGP isn't initialized, iommu is initialized, all the
aperture is owned by the iommu.
Reported-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
LKML-Reference: <20100204090802S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
write_kmem() used to assume vwrite() always return the full buffer length.
However now vwrite() could return 0 to indicate memory hole. This
creates a bug that "buf" is not advanced accordingly.
Fix it to simply ignore the return value, hence the memory hole.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Otherwise vmalloc_to_page() will BUG().
This also makes the kmem read/write implementation aligned with mem(4):
"References to nonexistent locations cause errors to be returned." Here we
return -ENXIO (inspired by Hugh) if no bytes have been transfered to/from
user space, otherwise return partial read/write results.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The previous changeset left behind an unused inode variable.
This patch removes it.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
No other driver does anything remotely like this that I know of except
for the tty drivers, and I can't see any reason for random/urandom to do
it. In fact, it's a (trivial, harmless) timing information leak. And
obviously, it generates power- and flash-cycle wasting I/O, especially
if combined with something like hwrngd. Also, it breaks ubifs's
expectations.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This fixes the regression introduced by commit
42590a7501 ("x86/agp: Fix
agp_amd64_init and agp_amd64_cleanup").
The above commit changes agp_amd64_init() not to do anything if
gart_iommu_aperture is not zero.
If GART iommu calls agp_amd64_init(), we need to skip
agp_amd64_init() when it's called later via module_init.
The problem is that gart_iommu_init() calls agp_amd64_init()
with not zero gart_iommu_aperture so agp_amd64_init() is never
initialized.
When gart_iommu_init() calls agp_amd64_init(), agp should be
always initialized.
Reported-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Reported-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Tested-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100125141006O.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For SGI UV node controllers (HUB) rev 2.0 or greater, use
replicated cachelines to read the RTC timer. This optimization
allows faster simulataneous reads from a given socket.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122154140.GB4975@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need to keep the lock held over the call to __f_setown() to
prevent a PID race.
Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out the problem, and to Travis for
making us look here in the first place.
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nozomi goes wrong if you get the sequence
open
open
close
[stuff]
close
which turns out to occur on some ppp type setups.
This is a quick patch up for the problem. It's not really fixing Nozomi
which completely fails to implement tty open/close semantics and all the
other needed stuff. Doing it right is a rather more invasive patch set and
not one that will backport.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc: Move cpu hotplug driver lock from pseries to powerpc
powerpc: Move /proc/ppc64 to /proc/powerpc update
powerpc/8xx: Fix user space TLB walk in dcbX fixup
powerpc: Fix decrementer setup on 1GHz boards
powerpc/iseries: Initialise on-stack completion
powerpc/hvc: Driver build breaks with !HVC_CONSOLE
serial/pmac_zilog: Workaround problem due to interrupt on closed port
powerpc/macintosh: Make Open Firmware device id constant
powerpc: Use helpers for rlimits
powerpc: cpumask_of_node() should handle -1 as a node
powerpc/pseries: Fix dlpar compile warning without CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE
powerpc/pseries: Fix xics interrupt affinity
powerpc/swsusp_32: Fix TLB invalidation
powerpc/8xx: Always pin kernel instruction TLB
powerpc: 2.6.33 update of defconfigs for embedded 6xx/7xxx, 8xx, 8xxx
powerpc: Use scripts/mkuboot.sh instead of 'mkimage'
powerpc/5200: update defconfigs
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, uv: Ensure hub revision set for all ACPI modes.
x86, uv: Add function retrieving node controller revision number
x86: xen: 64-bit kernel RPL should be 0
x86: kernel_thread() -- initialize SS to a known state
x86/agp: Fix agp_amd64_init and agp_amd64_cleanup
x86: SGI UV: Fix mapping of MMIO registers
x86: mce.h: Fix warning in header checks
Fix fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures to be
suffixed with _driver.
WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove()
WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove()
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel:
drm/i915: enable 36bit physical address for hardware status page
drm/i915: fix eDP pipe mask
drm/i915: fix pixel color depth setting on eDP
drm/i915: parse eDP panel color depth from VBT block
drm/i915: disable LVDS downclock by default
drm/i915: Fix the incorrect cursor A bit definition in DSPFW2 register
drm/i915: Remove chatty execbuf failure message.
drm/i915: remove loop in Ironlake interrupt handler
drm/i915: Don't wait interruptible for possible plane buffer flush
drm/i915: try another possible DDC bus for the SDVO device with multiple outputs
drm/i915: Read the response after issuing DDC bus switch command
drm/i915: Don't use the child device parsed from VBT to setup HDMI/DP
drm/i915: Fix resume regression on MSI Wind U100 w/o KMS
drm/i915: Fix Ironlake M/N/P ranges to match the spec
drm/i915: Use find_pll function to calculate DPLL setting for LVDS downclock
drm/i915: Add HP nx9020/SamsungSX20S to ACPI LID quirk list
drm/i915: disable TV hotplug status check
Trivial conflicts in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c due to i915
non-modeset suspend fix with different comment.
This enables possible 36bit address mask on 965G that use physical
address for hw status page.
Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Hi Stephen,
next-20090925 randconfig build breaks on hvcs driver on powerpc,
with HVC_CONSOLE=n.
ERROR: ".hvc_put_chars" [drivers/char/hvcs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: ".hvc_get_chars" [drivers/char/hvcs.ko] undefined!
adding the dependency of HVC_CONSOLE helped
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This fixes the regression introduced by the commit
f405d2c023.
The above commit fixes the following issue:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126192729110083&w=2
However, it doesn't work properly when you remove and insert the
agp_amd64 module again.
agp_amd64_init() and agp_amd64_cleanup should be called only
when gart_iommu is not called earlier (that is, the GART IOMMU
is not enabled). We need to use 'gart_iommu_aperture' to see if
GART IOMMU is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: mitov@issp.bas.bg
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100104161603L.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'agp-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6:
agp/hp: fail gracefully if we don't find an IOC
agp/hp: fixup hp agp after ACPI changes
agp: correct missing cleanup on error in agp_add_bridge
Bail out if we don't find an enclosing IOC. Previously, if we didn't
find one, we tried to set things up using garbage for the SBA/IOC register
address, which causes a crash.
This crash only happens if firmware supplies a defective ACPI namespace, so
it doesn't fix any problems in the field.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Commit 15b8dd53f5 changed the string in info->hardware_id from a static
array to a pointer and added a length field. But instead of changing
"sizeof(array)" to "length", we changed it to "sizeof(length)" (== 4),
which corrupts the string we're trying to null-terminate.
We no longer even need to null-terminate the string, but we *do* need to
check whether we found a HID. If there's no HID, we used to have an empty
array, but now we have a null pointer.
The combination of these defects causes this oops:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000003)
modprobe[895]: Oops 8804682956800 [1]
ip is at zx1_gart_probe+0xd0/0xcc0 [hp_agp]
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=126264484923647&w=2
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Reported-by: Émeric Maschino <emeric.maschino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
While investigating a kmemleak detected leak, I encountered the
agp_add_bridge function. It appears to be responsible for freeing
the agp_bridge_data in the case of a failure, but it is only doing
so for some errors.
Fix it to always free the bridge data if a failure condition is
encountered.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
We wrap the smm calls and other bits with the BKL push down as a
precaution but they can probably go
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The BKL is in this function because of the BKL pushdown (see commit
f8f2c79d59)
It is not needed here because the mutex_lock sonypi_device.lock provides
the necessary locking.
sonypi_misc_ioctl can be converted to unlocked ioctls since it relies on
its own locking (the mutex sonypi_device.lock) and not the bkl
Document that llseek is not needed by explictly setting it to no_llseek
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910192019420.3563@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/agp: Fix agp_amd64_init() initialization with CONFIG_GART_IOMMU enabled
x86: SGI UV: Fix writes to led registers on remote uv hubs
x86, kmemcheck: Use KERN_WARNING for error reporting
x86: Use KERN_DEFAULT log-level in __show_regs()
x86, compress: Force i386 instructions for the decompressor
x86/amd-iommu: Fix initialization failure panic
dma-debug: Do not add notifier when dma debugging is disabled.
x86: Fix objdump version check in chkobjdump.awk for different formats.
Trivial conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv_hub.h due to me having
applied an earlier version of an SGI UV fix.
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
ACPI: introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable
ACPI: WMI: Survive BIOS with duplicate GUIDs
dell-wmi - fix condition to abort driver loading
wmi: check find_guid() return value to prevent oops
dell-wmi, hp-wmi, msi-wmi: check wmi_get_event_data() return value
ACPI: hp-wmi, msi-wmi: clarify that wmi_install_notify_handler() returns an acpi_status
dell-wmi: sys_init_module: 'dell_wmi'->init suspiciously returned 21, it should
ACPI video: correct error-handling code
ACPI video: no warning message if "acpi_backlight=vendor" is used
ACPI: fix ACPI=n allmodconfig build
thinkpad-acpi: improve Kconfig help text
thinkpad-acpi: update volume subdriver documentation
thinkpad-acpi: make volume subdriver optional
thinkpad-acpi: don't fail to load the entire module due to ALSA problems
thinkpad-acpi: don't take the first ALSA slot by default
with CONFIG_GART_IOMMU enabled drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c has:
#ifndef CONFIG_GART_IOMMU
module_init(agp_amd64_init);
module_exit(agp_amd64_cleanup);
#endif
agp_amd64_init() was called via gart_iommu_init with
CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y agp_amd64_init() was called via module_init
with CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=n
The commit 75f1cdf1dd changes the
x86 dma initialization routine: gart_iommu_init() is called only
when GART IOMMU is detected. So when GART IOMMU isn't detected,
agp_amd64_init isn't called.
Marin Mitov reported this issue:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126192729110083&w=2
With this patch, agp_amd64_init() is always called via
module_init (the above ifndef is removed). If agp_amd64_init()
is called via gart_iommu_init() earlier, agp_amd64_init()
finishes without doing anything (when it is called via
module_init).
Reported-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Tested-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20091228181118C.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Today's -tip failed to build because commit
9e368fa011 ("ipmi: add PNP discovery (ACPI
namespace via PNPACPI)") from today's upstream kernel causes the following
build failure on x86, for CONFIG_ACPI=n && CONFIG_IPMI_SI=y:
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:3208: error: 'ipmi_pnp_driver' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:3208: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:3208: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:3334: error: 'ipmi_pnp_driver' undeclared (first use in this function)
The reason is that the ipmi_pnp_driver depends on ACPI facilities and is only
made available under ACPI - while the registration and unregistration is made
dependent on CONFIG_PNP:
#ifdef CONFIG_PNP
pnp_register_driver(&ipmi_pnp_driver);
#endif
The solution is to only register this driver under ACPI. (Also, the CONFIG_PNP
dependency is not needed because pnp_register_driver() is stubbed out in the
!CONFIG_PNP case.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
VIDEO: cyberpro: pci_request_regions needs a persistent name
ARM: dma-isa: request cascade channel after registering it
ARM: footbridge: trim down old ISA rtc setup
ARM: fix PAGE_KERNEL
ARM: Fix wrong shared bit for CPU write buffer bug test
ARM: 5857/1: ARM: dmabounce: fix build
ARM: 5856/1: Fix bug of uart0 platfrom data for nuc900
ARM: 5855/1: putc support for nuc900
ARM: 5854/1: fix compiling error for NUC900
ARM: 5849/1: ARMv7: fix Oprofile events count
ARM: add missing include to nwflash.c
ARM: Kill CONFIG_CPU_32
ARM: Convert VFP/Crunch/XscaleCP thread_release() to exit_thread()
ARM: 5853/1: ARM: Fix build break on ARM v6 and v7
When the loop terminates with size == 0 in rng_dev_read we will
unlock the rng mutex twice.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Fix the "ignoring return value of '...', declared with attribute
warn_unused_result" compiler warning in several users of the new kfifo
API.
It removes the __must_check attribute from kfifo_in() and
kfifo_in_locked() which must not necessary performed.
Fix the allocation bug in the nozomi driver file, by moving out the
kfifo_alloc from the interrupt handler into the probe function.
Fix the kfifo_out() and kfifo_out_locked() users to handle a unexpected
end of fifo.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... to prevent miss use of old non in
kernel-tree drivers
ditto for kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out...
Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc
annotations more readable.
Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo. Most users in
tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to
call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a
spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.
The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
many constrains. Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
resources.
I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:
- The API is to simple, important functions are missing
- A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
- There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
- There is no support for data records inside a fifo
So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
the API to much. The new API has the following benefits:
- Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
- Provide an API for the most use case.
- Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
- Linux style habit.
- DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
- Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
- The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
- Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
- Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
one is required.
- Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
- Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
field of 1 bytes.
- Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
field of 2 bytes.
- Fixed size records, which no record size field.
- Preserve memory resource.
- Performance!
- Easy to use!
This patch:
Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
structure. This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them. This
patch changes the implementation and all existing users.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (22 commits)
Input: ALPS - add interleaved protocol support (Dell E6x00 series)
Input: keyboard - don't override beep with a bell
Input: altera_ps2 - fix test of unsigned in altera_ps2_probe()
Input: add mc13783 touchscreen driver
Input: ep93xx_keypad - update driver to new core support
Input: wacom - separate pen from express keys on Graphire
Input: wacom - add defines for data packet report IDs
Input: wacom - add support for new LCD tablets
Input: wacom - add defines for packet lengths of various devices
Input: wacom - ensure the device is initialized properly upon resume
Input: at32psif - do not sleep in atomic context
Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte M1022M to the noloop list
Input: i8042 - allow installing platform filters for incoming data
Input: i8042 - fix locking in interrupt routine
Input: ALPS - do not set REL_X/REL_Y capabilities on the touchpad
Input: document use of input_event() function
Input: sa1111ps2 - annotate probe() and remove() methods
Input: ambakmi - annotate probe() and remove() methods
Input: gscps2 - fix probe() and remove() annotations
Input: altera_ps2 - add annotations to probe and remove methods
...
KCS_IDLE and KCS_IDLE state have the same value, but in this function the
constants ending in _STATE are compared to the state variable.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Core Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that we've removed the BKL here, let's explicitly set llseek to
no_llseek since the default llseek is not used here.
The default_llseek function still contains the BKL. When we are auditing
code to see if we can remove the BKL, this is one of the hidden
considerations we need to take into account. i.e., is there
syncronization between code that has the BKL and llseek.
At the same time we remove the BKL it would be a good idea to do indicate
when no llseek function is required, so we don't have to revisit this code
again, when we are trying to determine if we can remove the BKL from the
default_llseek.
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying
and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor
shape.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix node-oriented allocation handling in oom-kill.c I myself think of this
as a bugfix not as an ehnancement.
In these days, things are changed as
- alloc_pages() eats nodemask as its arguments, __alloc_pages_nodemask().
- mempolicy don't maintain its own private zonelists.
(And cpuset doesn't use nodemask for __alloc_pages_nodemask())
So, current oom-killer's check function is wrong.
This patch does
- check nodemask, if nodemask && nodemask doesn't cover all
node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], this is CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY.
- Scan all zonelist under nodemask, if it hits cpuset's wall
this faiulre is from cpuset.
And
- modifies the caller of out_of_memory not to call oom if __GFP_THISNODE.
This doesn't change "current" behavior. If callers use __GFP_THISNODE
it should handle "page allocation failure" by itself.
- handle __GFP_NOFAIL+__GFP_THISNODE path.
This is something like a FIXME but this gfpmask is not used now.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The commit 66d2a5952e introduces a bug:
for every beep requested, a bell is also generated.
Reported-by: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
