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2006-10-11[PATCH] m32r: NULL noise removalAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] m32r: signal __user annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] m32r: C99 initializers in setup.cAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] arm-versatile iomem annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] arm: use unsigned long instead of unsigned int in get_user()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] arm __user annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] md: use BUILD_BUG_ONAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ISDN: several minor fixesJeff Garzik
pcbit: kill 'may be used uninitialized' warning. although the code does eventually fill the 32 bits it cares about, the variable truly is accessed uninitialized in each macro. Easier to just clean it up now. sc: fix a ton of obviously incorrect printk's (some with missing arguments even) Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] fs/bio.c: tweaksAndreas Mohr
- Calculate a variable in bvec_alloc_bs() only once needed, not earlier (bio.o down from 18408 to 18376 Bytes, 32 Bytes saved, probably due to data locality improvements). - Init variable idx to silence a gcc warning which already existed in the unmodified original base file (bvec_alloc_bs() handles idx correctly, so there's no need for the warning): fs/bio.c: In function `bio_alloc_bioset': fs/bio.c:169: warning: `idx' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] drivers/mca: handle sysfs errorsJeff Garzik
Also includes a kmalloc->kzalloc cleanup. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] firmware/efivars: handle errorJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] EISA: handle sysfs errorsJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ipmi: handle sysfs errorsJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] firmware/dell_rbu: handle sysfs errorsJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] VFS: Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmountingDavid Howells
The attached patch destroys all the dentries attached to a superblock in one go by: (1) Destroying the tree rooted at s_root. (2) Destroying every entry in the anon list, one at a time. (3) Each entry in the anon list has its subtree consumed from the leaves inwards. This reduces the amount of work generic_shutdown_super() does, and avoids iterating through the dentry_unused list. Note that locking is almost entirely absent in the shrink_dcache_for_umount*() functions added by this patch. This is because: (1) at the point the filesystem calls generic_shutdown_super(), it is not permitted to further touch the superblock's set of dentries, and nor may it remove aliases from inodes; (2) the dcache memory shrinker now skips dentries that are being unmounted; and (3) the superblock no longer has any external references through which the VFS can reach it. Given these points, the only locking we need to do is when we remove dentries from the unused list and the name hashes, which we do a directory's worth at a time. We also don't need to guard against reference counts going to zero unexpectedly and removing bits of the tree we're working on as nothing else can call dput(). A cut down version of dentry_iput() has been folded into shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() function. Apart from not needing to unlock things, it also doesn't need to check for inotify watches. In this version of the patch, the complaint about a dentry still being in use has been expanded from a single BUG_ON() and now gives much more information. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] AUTOFS: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling ↵David Howells
kill_anon_super() Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super() so that the assumption that generic_shutdown_super() can completely destroy the dentry tree for there will be no external references holds true. What was being done in the put_super() superblock op, is now done in the kill_sb() filesystem op instead, prior to calling kill_anon_super(). This makes the struct autofs_sb_info::root member variable redundant (since sb->s_root is still available), and so that is removed. The calls to shrink_dcache_sb() are also removed since they're also redundant as shrink_dcache_for_umount() will now be called after the cleanup routine. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ReiserFS: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling ↵David Howells
kill_block_super() Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_block_super() so that the assumption that generic_shutdown_super() can completely destroy the dentry tree for there will be no external references holds true. What was being done in the put_super() superblock op, is now done in the kill_sb() filesystem op instead, prior to calling kill_block_super(). Changes made in [try #2]: (*) reiserfs_kill_sb() now checks that the superblock FS info pointer is set before trying to dereference it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] dell_rbu: printk() warning fixAndrew Morton
drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c: In function 'packetize_data': drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c:252: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'int' Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] kernel-doc: make parameter description indentation uniformRandy Dunlap
- In parameter descriptions, strip all whitespace between the parameter name (e.g., @len) and its description so that the description is indented uniformly in text and man page modes. Previously, spaces or tabs (which are used for cleaner source code viewing) affected the produced output in a negative way. Before (man mode): to Destination address, in user space. from Source address, in kernel space. n Number of bytes to copy. After (man mode): to Destination address, in user space. from Source address, in kernel space. n Number of bytes to copy. - Fix/clarify a few function description comments. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] include linux/types.h in linux/nbd.hMike Frysinger
The nbd header uses __be32 and such types but doesn't actually include the header that defines these things (linux/types.h); so let's include it. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] kernel-doc: drop various "inline" qualifiersRandy Dunlap
Drop __inline, __always_inline, and noinline in the produced kernel-doc output, similar to other pseudo directives. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] uaccess.h: match kernel-doc and function namesRandy Dunlap
Place kernel-doc function comment header immediately before the function that is being documented. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] kernel-doc: fix function name in usercopy.cRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc function name in usercopy.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] lockdep: fix printk recursion logicIngo Molnar
Bug reported and fixed by Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>: if lockdep is enabled then log messages make it to /var/log/messages belatedly. The reason is a missed wakeup of klogd. Initially there was only a lockdep_internal() protection against lockdep recursion within vprintk() - it grew the 'outer' lockdep_off()/on() protection only later on. But that lockdep_off() made the release_console_sem() within vprintk() always happen under the lockdep_internal() condition, causing the bug. The right solution to remove the inner protection against recursion here - the outer one is enough. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] fix lockdep-design.txtAneesh Kumar
I was looking at lockdep-desing.txt and i guess i am confused with the changes with respect to fd7bcea35e7efb108c34ee2b3840942a3749cadb. It says + '.' acquired while irqs enabled + '+' acquired in irq context + '-' acquired in process context with irqs disabled + '?' read-acquired both with irqs enabled and in irq context + But the get_usage_chars() function does this for '-' if (class->usage_mask & LOCKF_ENABLED_HARDIRQS) *c1 = '-'; So i guess what would be correct would be '.' acquired while irqs disabled '+' acquired in irq context '-' acquired with irqs enabled '?' read acquired in irq context with irqs enabled. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] lockdep: use BUILD_BUG_ONAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] DAC960: use memmove for overlapping areasAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] fs/*: use BUILD_BUG_ONAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] HT_IRQ must depend on PCIAdrian Bunk
CONFIG_PCI=n, CONFIG_HT_IRQ=y results in the following compile error: ... LD vmlinux arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `apicid_to_node': summit.c:(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `apicid_2_node' arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `arch_setup_ht_irq': (.text+0xcf79): undefined reference to `write_ht_irq_low' arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `arch_setup_ht_irq': (.text+0xcf85): undefined reference to `write_ht_irq_high' arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `k7nops': alternative.c:(.data+0x1358): undefined reference to `mask_ht_irq' alternative.c:(.data+0x1360): undefined reference to `unmask_ht_irq' make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Bug report by Jesper Juhl. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.cAneesh Kumar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] Consolidate check_signatureMatthew Wilcox
There's nothing arch-specific about check_signature(), so move it to <linux/io.h>. Use a cross between the Alpha and i386 implementations as the generic one. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] Use linux/io.h instead of asm/io.hMatthew Wilcox
In preparation for moving check_signature, change these users from asm/io.h to linux/io.h Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] D-cache aliasing issue in __block_prepare_writeMonakhov Dmitriy
A couple of flush_dcache_page()s are missing on the I/O-error paths. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] Remove unnecessary check in fs/fat/inode.cEric Sesterhenn
Aince all callers dereference sb, and this function does so earlier too, we dont need the check. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] VM: Fix the gfp_mask in invalidate_complete_page2Trond Myklebust
If try_to_release_page() is called with a zero gfp mask, then the filesystem is effectively denied the possibility of sleeping while attempting to release the page. There doesn't appear to be any valid reason why this should be banned, given that we're not calling this from a memory allocation context. For this reason, change the gfp_mask argument of the call to GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] document the core-dump-to-a-pipe patchMatthias Urlichs
The pipe-a-coredump-to-a-program feature was undocumented. *Grumble*. NB: a good enhancement to that patch would be: save all the stuff that a core file can get from the %x expansions in the environment. Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffersReinette Chatre
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc function of the /proc filesystem operates. This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user(). We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for kernel and user. This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the upcoming bandwidth allocator code. Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] 32-bit compatibility HDIO IOCTLsMaciej W. Rozycki
A couple of HDIO IOCTLs are not yet handled and a few others are marked as using a pointer rather than an unsigned long. The formers include: HDIO_GET_WCACHE, HDIO_GET_ACOUSTIC, HDIO_GET_ADDRESS and HDIO_GET_BUSSTATE. The latters are: HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT, HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR, HDIO_SET_KEEPSETTINGS, HDIO_SET_32BIT, HDIO_SET_NOWERR, HDIO_SET_DMA, HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE and HDIO_SET_NICE. Additionally 0x330 used to be HDIO_GETGEO_BIG and may be issued by 32-bit `hdparm' run on a 64-bit kernel making Linux complain loudly. This is a fix for these issues. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] x86/microcode: handle sysfs errorJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] invalidate_inode_pages2_range() debugAndrew Morton
A failure in invalidate_inode_pages2_range() can result in unpleasant things happening in NFS (at least). Stick a WARN_ON_ONCE() in there so we can find out if it happens, and maybe why. (akpm: might be a -mm-only patch, we'll see..) Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] sched: likely profilingNick Piggin
This likely profiling is pretty fun. I found a few possible problems in sched.c. This patch may be not measurable, but when I did measure long ago, nooping (un)likely cost a couple of % on scheduler heavy benchmarks, so it all adds up. Tweak some branch hints: - the 2nd 64 bits in the bitmask is likely to be populated, because it contains the first 28 bits (nearly 3/4) of the normal priorities. (ratio of 669669:691 ~= 1000:1). - it isn't unlikely that context switching switches to another process. it might be very rapidly switching to and from the idle process (ratio of 475815:419004 and 471330:423544). Let the branch predictor decide. - preempt_enable seems to be very often called in a nested preempt_disable or with interrupts disabled (ratio of 3567760:87965 ~= 40:1) Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] tpm: fix error handlingJeff Garzik
- handle sysfs error - handle driver model errors - de-obfuscate platform_device_register_simple() call, which included an assignment in between two function calls, in the same C statement. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ext2: errors behaviour fixVasily Averin
Current error behaviour for ext2 and ext3 filesystems does not fully correspond to the documentation and should be fixed. According to man 8 mount, ext2 and ext3 file systems allow to set one of 3 different on-errors behaviours: ---- start of quote man 8 mount ---- errors=continue / errors=remount-ro / errors=panic Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. (Either ignore errors and just mark the file system erroneous and continue, or remount the file system read-only, or panic and halt the system.) The default is set in the filesystem superblock, and can be changed using tune2fs(8). ---- end of quote ---- However EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock, and thus ERRORS_CONT is not saved on the sbi->s_mount_opt. It leads to the incorrect handle of errors on ext3. Then we've checked corresponding code in ext2 and discovered that it is buggy as well: - EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock (the same); - parse_option() does not clean the alternative values and thus something like (ERRORS_CONT|ERRORS_RO) can be set; - if options are omitted, parse_option() does not set any of these options. Therefore it is possible to set any combination of these options on the ext2: - none of them may be set: EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE on superblock / empty mount options; - any of them may be set using mount options; - 2 any options may be set: by using EXT2_ERRORS_RO/EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock and other value in mount options; - and finally all three options may be set by adding third option in remount. Currently ext2 uses these values only in ext2_error() and it is not leading to any noticeable troubles. However somebody may be discouraged when he will try to workaround EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock by using errors=continue in mount options. This patch: EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE should be read from the superblock as default value for error behaviour. parse_option() should clean the alternative options and should not change default value taken from the superblock. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ext3: errors behaviour fixDmitry Mishin
Current error behaviour for ext2 and ext3 filesystems does not fully correspond to the documentation and should be fixed. According to man 8 mount, ext2 and ext3 file systems allow to set one of 3 different on-errors behaviours: ---- start of quote man 8 mount ---- errors=continue / errors=remount-ro / errors=panic Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. (Either ignore errors and just mark the file system erroneous and continue, or remount the file system read-only, or panic and halt the system.) The default is set in the filesystem superblock, and can be changed using tune2fs(8). ---- end of quote ---- However EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock, and thus ERRORS_CONT is not saved on the sbi->s_mount_opt. It leads to the incorrect handle of errors on ext3. Then we've checked corresponding code in ext2 and discovered that it is buggy as well: - EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock (the same); - parse_option() does not clean the alternative values and thus something like (ERRORS_CONT|ERRORS_RO) can be set; - if options are omitted, parse_option() does not set any of these options. Therefore it is possible to set any combination of these options on the ext2: - none of them may be set: EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE on superblock / empty mount options; - any of them may be set using mount options; - 2 any options may be set: by using EXT2_ERRORS_RO/EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock and other value in mount options; - and finally all three options may be set by adding third option in remount. Currently ext2 uses these values only in ext2_error() and it is not leading to any noticeable troubles. However somebody may be discouraged when he will try to workaround EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock by using errors=continue in mount options. This patch: EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE should be taken from the superblock as default value for error behaviour. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> Acked-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] fix Module taint flags listing in Oops/panicFlorin Malita
Module taint flags listing in Oops/panic has a couple of issues: * taint_flags() doesn't null-terminate the buffer after printing the flags * per-module taints are only set if the kernel is not already tainted (with that particular flag) => only the first offending module gets its taint info correctly updated Some additional changes: * 'license_gplok' is no longer needed - equivalent to !(taints & TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE) - so we can drop it from struct module * exporting module taint info via /proc/module: pwc 88576 0 - Live 0xf8c32000 evilmod 6784 1 pwc, Live 0xf8bbf000 (PF) Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ide-generic: jmicron fixAlan Cox
Some people find their Jmicron pata port reports its disabled even though it has devices on it and was boot probed. Fix this (Candidate for 2.6.18.*, less so for 2.6.19 as we've got a proper jmicron driver on the merge for that to replace ide-generic support) Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] grow_buffers() infinite loop fixAndrew Morton
If grow_buffers() is for some reason passed a block number which wants to lie outside the maximum-addressable pagecache range (PAGE_SIZE * 4G bytes) then it will accidentally truncate `index' and will then instnatiate a page at the wrong pagecache offset. This causes __getblk_slow() to go into an infinite loop. This can happen with corrupted disks, or with software errors elsewhere. Detect that, and handle it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] Add carta_random32() library routineStephane Eranian
This is a follow-up patch based on the review for perfmon2. This patch adds the carta_random32() library routine + carta_random32.h header file. This is fast, simple, and efficient pseudo number generator algorithm. We use it in perfmon2 to randomize the sampling periods. In this context, we do not need any fancy randomizer. Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Cc: David Mosberger <david.mosberger@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] epoll_pwait()Davide Libenzi
Implement the epoll_pwait system call, that extend the event wait mechanism with the same logic ppoll and pselect do. The definition of epoll_pwait is: int epoll_pwait(int epfd, struct epoll_event *events, int maxevents, int timeout, const sigset_t *sigmask, size_t sigsetsize); The difference between the vanilla epoll_wait and epoll_pwait is that the latter allows the caller to specify a signal mask to be set while waiting for events. Hence epoll_pwait will wait until either one monitored event, or an unmasked signal happen. If sigmask is NULL, the epoll_pwait system call will act exactly like epoll_wait. For the POSIX definition of pselect, information is available here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] Add CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK option to automatically run 'make ↵David Woodhouse
headers_check' In order to encourage people to notice when they break the exported headers, add a config option which automatically runs the sanity checks when building vmlinux. That way, those who use allyesconfig will notice failures. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>