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Joel & Rebecca VanderZee
fb50ae7446 [PATCH] I/O Error attempting to read last partial block of a file in an ISO9660 file system
There was an I/O error that prevented reading the last partial block of
large files in an ISO9660 filesystem.  The error was generated when a file
comprised more than one section and had a size that was not an exact
multiple of the filesystem block size.  This patch removes the check (and
failure) for reading into the last partial block (and possibly beyond) for
multiple-section files.

It worked in my testing to prevent reading beyond the end of the section;
my first patch just incremented the sect_size block count for a partial
block and continued doing the check.  But there is a commment in the source
code about reading beyond the end of the file to fill a page cache.
Failing to access beyond the section would prevent reading beyond the end
of the file.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:15 -07:00
Toyo Abe
e4b765551a [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix the flags handling in posix_cpu_nsleep()
When a posix_cpu_nsleep() sleep is interrupted by a signal more than twice, it
incorrectly reports the sleep time remaining to the user.  Because
posix_cpu_nsleep() doesn't report back to the user when it's called from
restart function due to the wrong flags handling.

This patch, which applies after previous one, moves the nanosleep() function
from posix_cpu_nsleep() to do_cpu_nanosleep() and cleans up the flags handling
appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:15 -07:00
Toyo Abe
1711ef3866 [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_nanosleep() doesn't return the remaining time in compatibility mode
The clock_nanosleep() function does not return the time remaining when the
sleep is interrupted by a signal.

This patch creates a new call out, compat_clock_nanosleep_restart(), which
handles returning the remaining time after a sleep is interrupted.  This
patch revives clock_nanosleep_restart().  It is now accessed via the new
call out.  The compat_clock_nanosleep_restart() is used for compatibility
access.

Since this is implemented in compatibility mode the normal path is
virtually unaffected - no real performance impact.

Signed-off-by: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:15 -07:00
jens m. noedler
9c4751fd0e [PATCH] update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:15 -07:00
Jan Kara
b525a7e444 [PATCH] dquot: add proper locking when using current->signal->tty
Dquot passes the tty to tty_write_message without locking

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
254e948b29 [PATCH] Fix memory leak in vc_resize/vc_allocate
Memory leaks can happen in the vc_resize() function in drivers/char/vt.c
because of the vc->vc_screenbuf variable overriding in vc_allocate().  The
kmemleak reported trace is as follows:

  <__kmalloc>
  <vc_resize>
  <fbcon_init>
  <visual_init>
  <vc_allocate>
  <con_open>
  <tty_open>
  <chrdev_open>

This patch no longer allocates a screen buffer in vc_allocate() if it was
already allocated by vc_resize().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
bce9a234ce [PATCH] elf_fdpic_core_dump: don't take tasklist_lock
do_each_thread() is rcu-safe, and all tasks which use this ->mm must sleep
in wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done) at this point, so we can use RCU
locks.

Also, remove unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(new) before list_add(new, head).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
486ccb05fd [PATCH] elf_core_dump: don't take tasklist_lock
do_each_thread() is rcu-safe, and all tasks which use this ->mm must sleep
in wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done) at this point, so we can use RCU
locks.

Also, remove unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(new) before list_add(new, head).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Peter Korsgaard
b22b4cdd53 [PATCH] fix serial/amba-pl011.c console Kconfig
Fix the Kconfig entry for console on AMBA PL011 to match the code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
07dccf3344 [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback
Spawing ksoftirqd, migration, or watchdog, and calling init_timers_cpu()
may fail with small memory.  If it happens in initcalls, kernel NULL
pointer dereference happens later.  This patch makes crash happen
immediately in such cases.  It seems a bit better than getting kernel NULL
pointer dereference later.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
6c2d8b5dca [PATCH] sound/sparc/dbri: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0])

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
2ad3479dec [PATCH] sound/mips/au1x00: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0])

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
Ben Dooks
d202a6c088 [PATCH] Remove old drivers/char/s3c2410_rtc.c
This can now be removed, since there is now a drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c driver.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
99f932f026 [PATCH] CONFIG_PM=n slim: sound/oss/cs46xx.c
Remove some code which is unneeded if CONFIG_PM=n.

* Make suspend/resume registration look like the rest of drivers:
  #ifdef CONFIG_PM in struct pci_driver, prototypes, actual hooks.
* Drop CS46XX_ACPI_SUPPORT. It logically duplicated CONFIG_PM. It was
  hardcoded to 1 approx forever (ALSA merge just moved driver to
  sound/oss/).
* After previous point, sound/oss/cs46xxpm-24.h removed as being useless.
* As side effect selling (unused) static inline functions as suspend/resume
  hooks funkiness removed too.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
aadcc2eef7 [PATCH] CONFIG_PM=n slim: sound/oss/trident.c
Remove some code which is unneeded if CONFIG_PM=n.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Ackde-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
7dd7d6912b [PATCH] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/parport/parport_serial.c
Remove some code which is unneeded if CONFIG_PM=n.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Johannes Berg
af410fc13d [PATCH] make leds.h include relevant headers
Make it possible to include linux/leds.h without first including list.h and
spinlock.h.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Dave Jones
3ca212b813 [PATCH] Remove another config.h
After the asm/ uses of #include <linux/config.h> this one is the next
biggest source of noise.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Ernie Petrides
ee731f4f78 [PATCH] fix wrong error code on interrupted close syscalls
The problem is that close() syscalls can call a file system's flush
handler, which in turn might sleep interruptibly and ultimately pass back
an -ERESTARTSYS return value.  This happens for files backed by an
interruptible NFS mount under nfs_file_flush() when a large file has just
been written and nfs_wait_bit_interruptible() detects that there is a
signal pending.

I have a test case where the "strace" command is used to attach to a
process sleeping in such a close().  Since the SIGSTOP is forced onto the
victim process (removing it from the thread's "blocked" mask in
force_sig_info()), the RPC wait is interrupted and the close() is
terminated early.

But the file table entry has already been cleared before the flush handler
was called.  Thus, when the syscall is restarted, the file descriptor
appears closed and an EBADF error is returned (which is wrong).  What's
worse, there is the hypothetical case where another thread of a
multi-threaded application might have reused the file descriptor, in which
case that file would be mistakenly closed.

The bottom line is that close() syscalls are not restartable, and thus
-ERESTARTSYS return values should be mapped to -EINTR.  This is consistent
with the close(2) manual page.  The fix is below.

Signed-off-by: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
7bbab9166a [PATCH] Small update to CREDITS
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
a45bce4954 [PATCH] memory ordering in __kfifo primitives
Both __kfifo_put() and __kfifo_get() have header comments stating that if
there is but one concurrent reader and one concurrent writer, locking is not
necessary.  This is almost the case, but a couple of memory barriers are
needed.  Another option would be to change the header comments to remove the
bit about locking not being needed, and to change the those callers who
currently don't use locking to add the required locking.  The attachment
analyzes this approach, but the patch below seems simpler.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Dave Jones
99de055ac0 [PATCH] lockdep: print kernel version
Lets do the same thing we do for oopses - print out the version in the
report.  It's an extra line of output though.  We could tack it on the end
of the INFO: lines, but that screws up Ingo's pretty output.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Anatoli Antonovitch
2b33b4dcbe [PATCH] atiixp: ATI SB600 IDE support for various modes
Support SB600 SATA legacy IDE (DMA enable).

Signed-off-by: Anatoli Antonovitch <antonovi@ati.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Amos Waterland
01d553d0fe [PATCH] Chardev checking of overlapping ranges
The code in __register_chrdev_region checks that if the driver wishing to
register has the same major as an existing driver the new minor range is
strictly less than the existing minor range.  However, it does not also
check that the new minor range is strictly greater than the existing minor
range.  That is, if driver X has registered with major=x and minor=0-3,
__register_chrdev_region will allow driver Y to register with major=x and
minor=1-4.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
f400e198b2 [PATCH] pidspace: is_init()
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280).  It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().

Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.

Eric's original description:

	There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
	because we give it special properties.  Most  significantly init
	must not die.  This results in code all over the kernel test
	->pid == 1.

	Introduce is_init to capture this case.

	With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
	looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
	process that has pid == 1.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Eric Biederman
959ed340f4 [PATCH] Fix conflict with the is_init identifier on parisc
This appears to be the only usage of is_init in the kernel besides the
usage in sched.h.  On ia64 the same function is called in_init.  So to
remove the conflict and make the kernel more consistent rename is_init
is_core is_local and is_local_section to in_init in_core in_local and
in_local_section respectively.

Thanks to Adrian Bunk who spotted this, and to Matthew Wilcox
who suggested this fix.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Kirill Korotaev
3b9b8ab65d [PATCH] Fix unserialized task->files changing
Fixed race on put_files_struct on exec with proc.  Restoring files on
current on error path may lead to proc having a pointer to already kfree-d
files_struct.

->files changing at exit.c and khtread.c are safe as exit_files() makes all
things under lock.

Found during OpenVZ stress testing.

[akpm@osdl.org: add export]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
fc09561d63 [PATCH] kthread: convert arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
Convert i386 apm.c from kernel_thread(), whose export is deprecated, to
kthread API.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Alan Cox
ca9bda00b4 [PATCH] tty locking on resize
The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the
resize against the tty structure updates.  This means that while two
parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results
reported.

Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the
console.  This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console
driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good

Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any
longer so I switched it to "deallocate".

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Chris Mason
ae78bf9c4f [PATCH] add -o flush for fat
Fat is commonly used on removable media.  Mounting with -o flush tells the
FS to write things to disk as quickly as possible.  It is like -o sync, but
much faster (and not as safe).

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Arun Sharma
6b77df08a3 [PATCH] oprofile: ppro: need to enable/disable all the counters
Need to enable/disable all the counters instead of just counter 0.

This affects all cpus with family=6, including i386/core.  Usual symptom:
only counter 0 provides samples.  Other counters don't produce samples.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
50462062a0 [PATCH] fs.h: ifdef security fields
[assuming BSD security levels are deleted]
The only user of i_security, f_security, s_security fields is SELinux,
however, quite a few security modules are trying to get into kernel.
So, wrap them under CONFIG_SECURITY. Adding config option for each
security field is likely an overkill.

Following Stephen Smalley's suggestion, i_security initialization is
moved to security_inode_alloc() to not clutter core code with ifdefs
and make alloc_inode() codepath tiny little bit smaller and faster.

The user of (highly greppable) struct fown_struct::security field is
still to be found. I've checked every "fown_struct" and every "f_owner"
occurence. Additionally it's removal doesn't break i386 allmodconfig
build.

struct inode, struct file, struct super_block, struct fown_struct
become smaller.

P.S. Combined with two reiserfs inode shrinking patches sent to
linux-fsdevel, I can finally suck 12 reiserfs inodes into one page.

		/proc/slabinfo

	-ext2_inode_cache	388	10
	+ext2_inode_cache	384	10
	-inode_cache		280	14
	+inode_cache		276	14
	-proc_inode_cache	296	13
	+proc_inode_cache	292	13
	-reiser_inode_cache	336	11
	+reiser_inode_cache	332	12 <=
	-shmem_inode_cache	372	10
	+shmem_inode_cache	368	10

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
cfe14677f2 [PATCH] reiserfs: ifdef ACL stuff from inode
Shrink reiserfs inode more (by 8 bytes) for ACL non-users:

	-reiser_inode_cache     344     11
	+reiser_inode_cache     336     11

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
068fbb315d [PATCH] reiserfs: ifdef xattr_sem
Shrink reiserfs inode by 12 bytes for xattr non-users (me).

	-reiser_inode_cache     356     11
	+reiser_inode_cache     344     11

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Chuck Ebbert
e6cab99bb4 [PATCH] unwind: fix unused variable warning when !CONFIG_MODULES
Fix "variable defined but not used" compiler warning in unwind.c when
CONFIG_MODULES is not set.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0e51a720b9 [PATCH] ifdef ->quota_read, ->quota_write
All suppliers of ->quota_read, ->quota_write (I've found ext2, ext3, UFS,
reiserfs) already have them properly ifdeffed.  All callers of
->quota_read, ->quota_write are under CONFIG_QUOTA umbrella, so...

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Chris Mason
a317202714 [PATCH] Fix reiserfs latencies caused by data=ordered
ReiserFS does periodic cleanup of old transactions in order to limit the
length of time a journal replay may take after a crash.  Sometimes, writing
metadata from an old (already committed) transaction may require committing
a newer transaction, which also requires writing all data=ordered buffers.
This can cause very long stalls on journal_begin.

This patch makes sure new transactions will not need to be committed before
trying a periodic reclaim of an old transaction.  It is low risk because if
a bad decision is made, it just means a slightly longer journal replay
after a crash.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Chris Mason
25736b1c69 [PATCH] reiserfs_fsync should only use barriers when they are enabled
make sure that reiserfs_fsync only triggers barriers when mounted with -o
barrier=flush

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Adam Tlalka
d4328b40af [PATCH] console utf-8 mode fixes
Fix utf-8 mode so alternate charset modes always work according to control
sequences interpreted in do_con_trol function preserving backward US-ASCII
and VT100 semigraphics compatibility.

Malformed utf-8 sequences are represented as sequences of replacement
glyphs,original codes or '?' as a last resort.

unicode-xterm, gnome-terminal, kconsole and other terminal emulators in
utf-8 mode respect acsc, enacs, rmacs sequences.  Also I found that some
important system programs (from Debian distro) uses acsc in utf-8 mode -
dselect, aptitude, w3m for example.

Signed-off-by: Adam Tlalka <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
08c67d2a5d [PATCH] ucb1x00-ts: handle errors from input_register_device()
ucb1x00-ts: handle errors from input_register_device()

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Dave Jones
aa83aa40ed [PATCH] single bit flip detector
In cases where we detect a single bit has been flipped, we spew the usual
slab corruption message, which users instantly think is a kernel bug.  In a
lot of cases, single bit errors are down to bad memory, or other hardware
failure.

This patch adds an extra line to the slab debug messages in those cases, in
the hope that users will try memtest before they report a bug.

000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
Single bit error detected. Possibly bad RAM. Run memtest86.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
527063ba98 [PATCH] tty_io.c: keep davej sane
Just comment and next "while" look _very_ wrong.  Place { correctly to hint
unsuspecting ones that it's the end of the loop actually.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Chris Wright
3bc1fa8ae1 [PATCH] LSM: remove BSD secure level security module
This code has suffered from broken core design and lack of developer
attention.  Broken security modules are too dangerous to leave around.  It
is time to remove this one.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
cd1c6a48ac [PATCH] Use valid_dma_direction() in include/asm-i386/dma-mapping.h
Now that the generic DMA code has a function to decide if a given DMA
mapping is valid use it.  This will catch cases where direction is not any
of the defined enum values but some random number outside the valid range.
The current implementation will only catch the defined but invalid case
DMA_NONE.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
d6bd3a39f7 [PATCH] Move valid_dma_direction() from x86_64 to generic code
As suggested by Muli Ben-Yehuda this function is moved to generic code as
may be useful for all archs.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Alan Cox
d09d7ddf30 [PATCH] There is no devfs, there has never been a devfs, we have always been at war with...
Jon Smirl noted a couple of tty driver functions now are quite misleadingly
named with the death of devfs.  A quick grep found another case in the lp
driver.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
2aae4a108d [PATCH] Fix kerneldoc comments in kernel/timer.c
Some of the kerneldoc comments in this file are ignored since the lead-in
is malformed, using either "/*" or "/***" instead of "/**".

[rdunlap@xenotime.net: kerneldoc fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Jan-Frode Myklebust
d7ff0dbf45 [PATCH] oom_adj/oom_score documentation
I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of
undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes.
 Here's a small documentation patch for /proc/<pid>/oom_adj and
/proc/<pid>/oom_score.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
db630637b2 [PATCH] clean up and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex
Oleg brought up some interesting points about grabbing the pi_lock for some
protections.  In this discussion, I realized that there are some places
that the pi_lock is being grabbed when it really wasn't necessary.  Also
this patch does a little bit of clean up.

This patch basically does three things:

1) renames the "boost" variable to "chain_walk".  Since it is used in
   the debugging case when it isn't going to be boosted.  It better
   describes what the test is going to do if it succeeds.

2) moves get_task_struct to just before the unlocking of the wait_lock.
   This removes duplicate code, and makes it a little easier to read.  The
   owner wont go away while either the pi_lock or the wait_lock are held.

3) removes the pi_locking and owner blocked checking completely from the
   debugging case.  This is because the grabbing the lock and doing the
   check, then releasing the lock is just so full of races.  It's just as
   good to go ahead and call the pi_chain_walk function, since after
   releasing the lock the owner can then block anyway, and we would have
   missed that.  For the debug case, we really do want to do the chain walk
   to test for deadlocks anyway.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: more of the same]
Signed-of-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:09 -07:00
Jan Beulich
c24c95a085 [PATCH] fix Intel RNG detection
Previously, since determination whether there was an Intel random number
generator was based on a single bit, on systems with a matching bridge
device but without a firmware hub, there was a 50% chance that the code
would incorrectly decide that the system had an RNG.  This patch adds
detection of the firmware hub to better qualify the existence of an RNG.

There is one issue with the patch: I was unable to determine the LPC
equivalent for the PCI bridge 8086:2430 (since the old code didn't care
about which of the many devices provided by the ICH/ESB it was chose to use
the PCI bridge device, but the FWH settings live in the LPC device, so the
device list needed to be changed).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:09 -07:00