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Herbert Xu
9f514950bb [NET]: Take RTNL when unregistering notifier
The netdev notifier call chain is currently unregistered without taking
any locks outside the notifier system.  Because the notifier system itself
does not synchronise unregistration with respect to the calling of the
chain, we as its user need to do our own locking.

We are supposed to take the RTNL for all calls to netdev notifiers, so
taking the RTNL should be sufficient to protect it.

The registration path in dev.c already takes the RTNL so it's OK.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-25 01:24:25 -08:00
Dave Jones
868d2c1efe [WIRELESS]: Fix config dependencies.
I accidentally ended up with a config that set NET_RADIO off,
and NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK on, which blew up thus..

net/built-in.o: In function `do_setlink':net/core/rtnetlink.c:479: undefined reference to `wireless_rtnetlink_set'
net/built-in.o: In function `do_getlink':net/core/rtnetlink.c:521: undefined reference to `wireless_rtnetlink_get'

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24 15:47:25 -08:00
David S. Miller
9932cf9546 [NET]: Fill in a 32-bit hole in struct sock on 64-bit platforms.
This makes struct sock 8 bytes smaller on 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24 15:45:00 -08:00
David S. Miller
f67ed26f2b [NET]: Ensure device name passed to SO_BINDTODEVICE is NULL terminated.
Found by Solar Designer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24 15:44:59 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
a1a8feed17 [MODULES]: Don't allow statically declared exports
Add an extern declaration for exported symbols to make the compiler warn
on symbols declared statically.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24 15:44:58 -08:00
Peter Chubb
4dc6d9cc38 [BRIDGE]: Unaligned accesses in the ethernet bridge
I see lots of
	kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6f, ip=0xa000000100811591
	kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6b, ip=0xa0000001008115c1
	kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6d, ip=0xa0000001008115f1
messages in my logs on IA64 when using the ethernet bridge with 2.6.16.

Appended is a patch to fix them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-24 15:44:57 -08:00
Horms
b2fd16b4ff [PATCH] net: ne2k.c won't compile if pci_clone_list is const
net: ne2k.c won't compile if pci_clone_list is const

f71e130966 which (amongst other things)
made pci_clone_list in ne2k-pci.c const causes the following compile error.
This patch reverses that portion of that changeset

drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c:123: error: pci_clone_list causes a section type
conflict

~/ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)
~/ dpkg gcc-4.0 | grep Version
Version: 4.0.3-1

Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au

 ne2k-pci.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

cee0890cc97247b6a9decd94f5dc0719ac8f0b1b

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-24 12:10:55 -05:00
Andrew Victor
d4b7780ea1 [PATCH] AT91RM9200 Ethernet driver
This patch adds support for the Ethernet controller integrated in the
Atmel AT91RM9200 SoC processor.

Changes since the previous submission (01/02/2006) are:
  - Make use of the clk.h clock infrastructure.
  - The multicast hash function is not crc32. [Patch by Pedro Perez]

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-24 12:10:55 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
e93252faca Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [PATCH] libata: Remove dependence on host_set->dev for SAS
  [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_ioctl cleanup
  [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_queuecmd cleanup
  [libata] export ata_dev_pair; trim trailing whitespace
  [PATCH] libata: add ata_dev_pair helper
  [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE.
  [PATCH] libata: make ata_set_mode() responsible for failure handling
  [PATCH] libata: use ata_dev_disable() in ata_bus_probe()
  [PATCH] libata: implement ata_dev_disable()
  [PATCH] libata: check if port is disabled after internal command
  [PATCH] libata: make per-dev transfer mode limits per-dev
  [PATCH] libata: add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_mask
  [PATCH] libata: implement ata_unpack_xfermask()
  [libata] Move some bmdma-specific code to libata-bmdma.c
  [libata sata_uli] kill scr_addr abuse
  [libata sata_nv] eliminate duplicate codepaths with iomap
  [libata sata_nv] cleanups: convert #defines to enums; remove in-file history
  [libata sata_sil24] cleanups: use pci_iomap(), kzalloc()
2006-03-24 08:19:51 -08:00
Andrew Morton
f125b56113 [PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper are only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y,
CONFIG_NET=n.

(I stole this back from Greg's tree - it makes allnoconfig work).

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
0cb409d98e [PATCH] strndup_user: convert keyctl
Copies user-space string with strndup_user() and moves the type string
duplication code to a function (thus fixing a wrong check on the length of the
type.)

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
24277dda3a [PATCH] strndup_user: convert module
Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user.

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
96840aa00a [PATCH] strndup_user()
This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings
from userspace.  Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the
final \0 after the strlen_user().

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
6687a97d40 [PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups
Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing
softirq-context (timer) dependencies.  This means that if the softlockup
watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds
scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task.

(the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup
phase and does small style fixes)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Sergey Vlasov
6a4d11c2ab [PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain,
__set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference
acquired by lookup_exec_domain().

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
b5a7c4f583 [PATCH] ext3: Properly report backup block present in a group
In filesystems with the meta block group flag on, ext3_bg_num_gdb() fails
to report the correct number of blocks used to store the group descriptor
backups in a given group.  It happens because meta_bg follows a different
logic from the original ext3 backup placement in groups multiples of 3, 5
and 7.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Andrew Morton
d3561f78fd [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value
Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should.  I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Andrew Morton
e0661111e5 [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit
At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero
seconds.  But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does.

Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new
it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead
of overloading the value of it_prof_expires).

Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has
expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's
zero-seconds as one second.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Andrew Morton
ec9e16bacd [PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanup
- Whitespace cleanups

- Make that expression comprehensible.

There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to
zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison
between raw cputime_t's.

But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change
anything.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
de62a97ef5 [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock.
 The only possibly modular users left are:

 arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
 fs/binfmt_elf.c

which I'll send out fixes for soon.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
554b7c801e [PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (2 of 2)
- Remove more unused headers
- Remove various typedefs
- Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong)
- Kill use of bcopy
- More printk cleanups
- Kill true/false
- Clean up direct access to pci BARs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
57c2d60e1e [PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (1 of 2)
- Remove more unused headers
- Remove various typedefs
- Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong)
- Kill use of bcopy
- More printk cleanups
- Kill true/false
- Clean up direct access to pci BARs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
db3185242a [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #5
Final polish.  There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left.  We also no
longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
3d336aa257 [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #4
Third large chunk of code cleanup.  The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list.  These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions.  Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
00d83a54aa [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #3
Second large chunk of code cleanup.  The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list.  These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions.  Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
e2b3afd676 [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #2
First large chunk of code cleanup.  The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list.  These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions.  Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
27c6e526f3 [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #1
More header cleanups, strip out typedefs and remove cruft.  There are a lot of
magic macros that can go and also a great deal of abuse of volatile that is
not needed any more as this patch set cleans up the misuse of pointer access
to ISA and PCI space.

It now builds cleanly on 64bit, although there is more work left to do

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Alan Cox
b6c6b6021e [PATCH] rioboot: post-Lindent
After the indent we can now clean up unused code, and fix all myriad cases
that don't use readb/writeb properly.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Alan Cox
3b8e3f1e44 [PATCH] rioboot: lindent
This is the result of indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Alan Cox
74769abfcb [PATCH] rio: more header cleanup
Strip some of the typedef mess out Remove a small subset of unused defines
and the like.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Takashi Iwai
10e705f83c [PATCH] Fix "value computed not used" warnings
Fixes for annoying gcc-4.1 compile warnings "value computed not used".
Simply cast to void.

(akpm: Linus will go ballistic...)

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
ac515898f3 [PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread export
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Kumar Gala
208a08f7cc [PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operations
In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit
or smaller accesses.  Allow the interface to specify if this is the case
and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f751d50f6d [PATCH] show MCP menu only on ARCH_SA1100
On architectures like i386, the "Multimedia Capabilities Port drivers" menu is
visible, but it can't be visited since it contains nothing usable for
!ARCH_SA1100.

This patch therefore shows this menu only on ARCH_SA1100.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:28 -08:00
Kyle McMartin
82d821ddca [PATCH] Conditionalize compat_sys_newfstatat
If we don't want sys_newfstatat because __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined, then
we certainly don't want compat_sys_newfstatat either.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
John Z. Bohach
2ea1c5392c [PATCH] console_setup() depends (wrongly?) on CONFIG_PRINTK
It appears that console_setup() code only gets compiled into the kernel if
CONFIG_PRINTK is enabled.  One detrimental side-effect of this is that
serial8250_console_setup() never gets invoked when CONFIG_PRINTK is not
set, resulting in baud rate not being read/parsed from command line (i.e.
console=ttyS0,115200n8 is ignored, at least the baud rate part...)

Attached patch moves console_setup() code from inside

#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK

to outside (in printk.c), removing dependence on said config. option.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Nico Schottelius
7e9dd124b9 [PATCH] Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txt
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.

This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.

Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Pierre Ossman
d129bceb1d [PATCH] mmc: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
Driver for the Secure Digital Host Controller Interface specification.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Pierre Ossman
97f2478db1 [PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regs
Class code and register definitions for the Secure Digital Host Controller
standard.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Andrew Morton
8f2e9f157a [PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync()
No need to duplicate all that code.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Andrew Morton
18e79b40ed [PATCH] fsync: extract internal code
Pull the guts out of do_fsync() - we can use it elsewhere.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Andrew Morton
676758bdb7 [PATCH] msync: fix return value
msync() does a strange thing.  Essentially:

	vma = find_vma();
	for ( ; ; ) {
		if (!vma)
			return -ENOMEM;
		...
		vma = vma->vm_next;
	}

so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends
within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM.

Fix.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Andrew Morton
707c21c848 [PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing
It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O.  Alter
the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Andrew Morton
9c50823eeb [PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling
It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application
dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller
to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller.

The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just
discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied.  (Otherwise it
wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up).

It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying
those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem.

We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too.

We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing.  It doesn't
seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long.

Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC.  MS_SYNC will be syncing all the
dirty pages anyway.

We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always
has.  We can fix that up...

The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in
taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Andrew Morton
4741c9fd36 [PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes
We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page
from a clean to dirty state.  This wasn't right in a couple of places.  Do a
kernel-wide audit, fix things up.

This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from
set_page_dirty() sometime in the future.  But we don't do that at present.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Andrew Morton
fa5a734e40 [PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages arg
Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a
number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument.  For msync().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
8a14342683 [PATCH] HOTPLUG_CPU: avoid hitting too many cachelines in recalc_bh_state()
Instead of using for_each_cpu(i), we can use for_each_online_cpu(i).

When a CPU goes offline (ie removed from online map), it might have a non
null bh_accounting.nr, so this patch adds a transfer of this counter to an
online CPU counter.

We already have a hotcpu_notifier, (function buffer_cpu_notify()), where we
can do this bh_accounting.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Arthur Othieno
2ecb9e633c [PATCH] sound: remove PC98-specific OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98
OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98 #define isn't used anywhere; previously in
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_lib.c and sound/isa/cs423x/pc98.c, the latter of which
went away with the rest of PC98 subarch.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Arthur Othieno
453ae9337a [PATCH] block: floppy98 removal, really.
floppy98 went out together with the rest of PC98 subarch.  Remove stale
Makefile entry that remained.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
df1e2fb540 [PATCH] shmdt: check address alignment
SUSv3 says the shmdt() function shall fail with EINVAL if the value of
shmaddr is not the data segment start address of a shared memory segment:
our sys_shmdt needs to reject a shmaddr which is not page-aligned.

Does it have the potential to break existing apps?

Hugh says

  "sys_shmdt() just does the wrong (unexpected) thing with a misaligned
  address: it'll fail on what you might expect it to succeed on, and only
  succeed on what it should definitely fail on.

  "That is, I think it behaves as if shmaddr gets rounded up, when the only
  understandable behaviour would be if it rounded it down.

  "Which does mean you'd have to be devious to see anything but EINVAL from
  a misaligned shmaddr there, so it's not terribly important."

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:25 -08:00