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2008-02-06docs: kernel-locking: Convert semaphore referencesDaniel Walker
I converted some of the document to reflect mutex usage instead of semaphore usage. Since we shouldin't be promoting semaphore usage when it's on it's way out.. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06tty: enable the echoing of ^C in the N_TTY disciplineJoe Peterson
Turn on INTR/QUIT/SUSP echoing in the N_TTY line discipline (e.g. ctrl-C will appear as "^C" if stty echoctl is set and ctrl-C is set as INTR). Linux seems to be the only unix-like OS (recently I've verified this on Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X) that does *not* behave this way, and I really miss this as a good visual confirmation of the interrupt of a program in the console or xterm. I remember this fondly from many Unixs I've used over the years as well. Bringing this to Linux also seems like a good way to make it yet more compliant with standard unix-like behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Add arch_ptrace_stopRoland McGrath
This adds support to allow asm/ptrace.h to define two new macros, arch_ptrace_stop_needed and arch_ptrace_stop. These control special machine-specific actions to be done before a ptrace stop. The new code compiles away to nothing when the new macros are not defined. This is the case on all machines to begin with. On ia64, these macros will be defined to solve the long-standing issue of ptrace vs register backing store. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06quota: improve inode list scanning in add_dquot_ref()Jan Kara
We restarted scan of sb->s_inodes list whenever we had to drop inode_lock in add_dquot_ref(). This leads to overall quadratic running time and thus add_dquot_ref() can take several minutes when called on a life filesystem. We fix the problem by using the fact that inode cannot be removed from s_inodes list while we hold a reference to it and thus we can safely restart the scan if we don't drop the reference. Here we use the fact that inodes freshly added to s_inodes list are already guaranteed to have quotas properly initialized and the ordering of inodes on s_inodes list does not change so we cannot skip any inode. Thanks goes to Nick <gentuu@gmail.com> for analyzing the problem and testing the fix. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: iput(NULL) is legal] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Nick <gentuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06drivers/char: use LIST_HEAD instead of LIST_HEAD_INITDenis Cheng
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code and looks better. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06uio: nopageNick Piggin
Convert uio from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06relay: nopageNick Piggin
Convert relay from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kallsyms should prefer non weak symbolsPaulo Marques
When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak symbol. This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So, even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this. Mathieu says: I created a module in LTTng that uses kallsyms to get the symbol corresponding to a specific system call address. Unfortunately, all the unimplemented syscalls were all referring to the (same) weak symbol identifying an unrelated system call rather that sys_ni (or whatever non-weak symbol would be expected). Kallsyms was dumbly returning the first symbol that matched. This patch makes sure kallsyms returns the non-weak symbol when there is one, which seems to be the expected result. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Looks-great-to: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06unix98 allocated_ptys_lock semaphore to mutexDaniel Walker
Convert the unix98 allocated_ptys_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c: remove write_semDaniel Walker
I couldn't find any users, so removing it.. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06drivers/char/tty_io.c: remove pty_semDaniel Walker
I couldn't find any users, so removing it.. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Documentation about unaligned memory accessDaniel Drake
Here's a document I wrote after figuring out what unaligned memory access is all about. I've tried to cover the information I was looking for when trying to learn about this, without producing a hopelessly detailed/complex spew. I hope it is useful to others. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06inotify: remove debug codeNick Piggin
The inotify debugging code is supposed to verify that the DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED scalability optimisation does not result in notifications getting lost nor extra needless locking generated. Unfortunately there are also some races in the debugging code. And it isn't very good at finding problems anyway. So remove it for now. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06inotify: fix raceNick Piggin
There is a race between setting an inode's children's "parent watched" flag when placing the first watch on a parent, and instantiating new children of that parent: a child could miss having its flags set by set_dentry_child_flags, but then inotify_d_instantiate might still see !inotify_inode_watched. The solution is to set_dentry_child_flags after adding the watch. Locking is taken care of, because both set_dentry_child_flags and inotify_d_instantiate hold dcache_lock and child->d_locks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06SC26XX: New serial driver for SC2681 uartsThomas Bogendoerfer
New serial driver for SC2681/SC2691 uarts. Older SNI RM400 machines are using these chips for onboard serial ports. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06char: use SGI_HAS_DS1286 for SGI_DS1286 dependsThomas Bogendoerfer
Use SGI_HAS_DS1286 for SGI_DS1286 depends Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06serial: use SGI_HAS_ZILOG for IP22_ZILOG dependsThomas Bogendoerfer
- Use SGI_HAS_ZILOG for IP22_ZILOG depends - remove IP22 from description, because the driver works on more than IP22 SGI machines Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Remove superfluous checks for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD from initramfs.cRobert P. J. Day
Given that init/Makefile includes initramfs.c in the build only if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is defined, there seems to be no point checking for it yet again. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Remove rcu_assign_pointer() penalty for NULL pointersPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_assign_pointer() primitive currently unconditionally executes a memory barrier, even when a NULL pointer is being assigned. This has lead some to avoid using rcu_assign_pointer() for NULL pointers, which loses the self-documenting advantages of rcu_assign_pointer() This patch uses __builtin_const_p() to omit needless memory barriers for NULL-pointer assignments at compile time with no runtime penalty, as discussed in the following thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg54852.html Tested on x86_64 and ppc64, also compiled the four cases (NULL/non-NULL and const/non-const) with gcc version 4.1.2, and hand-checked the assembly output. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kill an unused PTR_ERR in bdev_cache_init()Qi Yong
Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() cond_resched() neededMatt Mackall
Reduce latency for large writes to /dev/[u]random Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Fix __const_udelay declaration and definition mismatchesJeff Dike
The declaration and implementation of __const_udelay use different names for the parameter on a number of architectures: include/asm-avr32/delay.h:15:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs); arch/avr32/lib/delay.c:39:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops) include/asm-sh/delay.h:15:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs); arch/sh/lib/delay.c:22:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops) include/asm-m32r/delay.h:15:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs); arch/m32r/lib/delay.c:58:void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops) include/asm-x86/delay.h:16:extern void __const_udelay(unsigned long usecs); arch/x86/lib/delay_32.c:82:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops) arch/x86/lib/delay_64.c:46:inline void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops) The units of the parameter isn't usecs, so that name is definitely wrong. It's also not exactly loops, so I suppose xloops is an OK name. This patch changes these names from usecs to xloops. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06synclink_gt fix missed serial input signal changesPaul Fulghum
Fix missed serial input signal changes caused by rereading the serial status register during interrupt processing. Now processing is performed on original status register value. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06synclink: standardize format of linux header file include's with "<>"Robert P. J. Day
Use the recommended form of "<>" to include linux header files, and move those includes up to join the rest of the linux includes. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_openEric Dumazet
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open more than 1024*1024 handles. Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process. Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential exhaust. This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to 1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload needs it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06reiserfs: complement va_start() with va_end().Richard Knutsson
Complement va_start() with va_end(). Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06via-rng: enable secondary noise source on CPUs where it is presentDave Jones
In the padlock spec: "SRC Bits[9:8] Noise source select (I): These bits control the two noise sources on the processor that input bits to the accumulation buffers. On Nehemiah processors prior to stepping 8, these bits are reserved and undefined. The default RESET state is both bits = 0." Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Tested-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06inotify: send IN_ATTRIB events when link count changesJan Kara
Currently, no notification event has been sent when inode's link count changed. This is inconvenient for the application in some cases: Suppose you have the following directory structure foo/test bar/ and you watch test. If someone does "mv foo/test bar/", you get event IN_MOVE_SELF and you know something has happened with the file "test". However if someone does "ln foo/test bar/test" and "rm foo/test" you get no inotify event for the file "test" (only directories "foo" and "bar" receive events). Furthermore it could be argued that link count belongs to file's metadata and thus IN_ATTRIB should be sent when it changes. The following patch implements sending of IN_ATTRIB inotify events when link count of the inode changes, i.e., when a hardlink to the inode is created or when it is removed. This event is sent in addition to all the events sent so far. In particular, when a last link to a file is removed, IN_ATTRIB event is sent in addition to IN_DELETE_SELF event. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06MAINTAINERS, order AUERSWALD alphabeticallyJiri Slaby
MAINTAINERS, order AUERSWALD alphabetically Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Wolfgang Muees <wolfgang@iksw-muees.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06hfs: update comment to reflect actual init and exit routinesRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06address hfs on-disk corruption robustness review commentsEric Sandeen
Address Roman's review comments for the previously sent on-disk corruption hfs robustness patch. - use 0 as a failure value, rather than making a new macro HFS_BAD_KEYLEN, and use a switch statement instead of if's. - Add new fail: target to __hfs_brec_find to skip assignments using bad values when exiting with a failure. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06NCPFS: update diagnostic strings to match routine names.Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06fs: use list_for_each_entry_reverse and kill sb_entryAkinobu Mita
Use list_for_each_entry_reverse for super_blocks list and remove unused sb_entry macro. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06fs: use hlist_unhashedAkinobu Mita
Use hlist_unhashed() instead of opencoded equivalent. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06proc: loadavg reading raceMichal Schmidt
The avenrun[] values are supposed to be protected by xtime_lock. loadavg_read_proc does not use it. Theoretically this may result in an occasional glitch when the value read from /proc/loadavg would be as much as 1<<11 times higher than it should be. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06do_wait: remove one "else if" branchOleg Nesterov
Minor cleanup. We can remove one "else if" branch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Avoid divide in IS_ALIGNHerbert Xu
I was happy to discover the brand new IS_ALIGN macro and quickly used it in my code. To my dismay I found that the generated code used division to perform the test. This patch fixes it by changing the % test to an &. This avoids the division. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06vt: bitlock fixNick Piggin
vt is missing a memory barrier to close the critical section. Use a real spinlock for this. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06tpm.c: fix crash during device removalRichard MUSIL
The clean up procedure now uses platform device "release" callback to handle memory clean up. For this purpose "release" function callback was added to struct tpm_vendor_specific, so hw device driver provider can get called when it is safe to remove all allocated resources. This is supposed to fix a bug in device removal, where device while in receive function (waiting on timeout) was prone to segfault, if the tpm_chip struct was unallocated before the timeout expired (in tpm_remove_hardware). Acked-by: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06printk.c: use unsigned ints instead of longs for logbuf indexDenys Vlasenko
Stop using unsigned _longs_ for printk buffer indexes. Log buffer is way smaller than 2 gigabytes and unsigned ints will work too . Indeed, they do work nicely on all 32-bit platforms where longs and ints are the same. With this patch, we have following size savings on amd64: text data bss dec hex filename 5997 313 17736 24046 5dee 2.6.23.1.t64/kernel/printk.o 5858 313 17700 23871 5d3f 2.6.23.1.printk.t64/kernel/printk.o Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06PERCPU : __percpu_alloc_mask() can dynamically size percpu_data storageEric Dumazet
Instead of allocating a fix sized array of NR_CPUS pointers for percpu_data, we can use nr_cpu_ids, which is generally < NR_CPUS. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Document I_SYNC and I_DATASYNCJoern Engel
After some archeology (see http://logfs.org/logfs/inode_state_bits) I finally figured out what the three I_DIRTY bits do. Maybe others would prefer less effort to reach this insight. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06alpha/parisc: remove config variable DEBUG_RWLOCKJiri Olsa
Remove config variable DEBUG_RWLOCK, since it is not used. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06fs: remove dead config CONFIG_HAS_COMPAT_EPOLL_EVENT symbolJiri Olsa
Remove dead config CONFIG_HAS_COMPAT_EPOLL_EVENT symbol. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06log2.h: Define order_base_2() macro for convenience.Robert P. J. Day
Given a number of places in the tree that need to calculate this value explicitly, might as well just create a macro for it. (akpm: must be implemented as a macro for callee typeof() usage) Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06cciss: use upper_32_bits() macro to eliminate warningsRandy Dunlap
Use upper_32_bits(x) macro to handle shifts that may be >= the width of the data type. drivers/block/cciss.c: In function 'do_cciss_request': drivers/block/cciss.c:2655: warning: right shift count >= width of type drivers/block/cciss.c:2656: warning: right shift count >= width of type drivers/block/cciss.c:2657: warning: right shift count >= width of type drivers/block/cciss.c:2658: warning: right shift count >= width of type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06time: fix sysfs_show_{available,current}_clocksources() buffer overflow problemMiao Xie
I found that there is a buffer overflow problem in the following code. Version: 2.6.24-rc2, File: kernel/time/clocksource.c:417-432 -------------------------------------------------------------------- static ssize_t sysfs_show_available_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf) { struct clocksource *src; char *curr = buf; spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock); list_for_each_entry(src, &clocksource_list, list) { curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", src->name); } spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock); curr += sprintf(curr, "\n"); return curr - buf; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- sysfs_show_current_clocksources() also has the same problem though in practice the size of current clocksource's name won't exceed PAGE_SIZE. I fix the bug by using snprintf according to the specification of the kernel (Version:2.6.24-rc2,File:Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt) Fix sysfs_show_available_clocksources() and sysfs_show_current_clocksources() buffer overflow problem with snprintf(). Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06sound/oss/trident.c: fix incorrect test in trident_ac97_set()Roel Kluin
If count reaches zero, the loop ends, but the postfix decrement still subtracts: testing for 'count == 0' will not work. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Reviewed-by: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06rd: use is_power_of_2() in drivers/block/rd.c.Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- make needlessly global functions static - make lkdtm_module_{init,exit}() as __{init,exit} Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>