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2009-06-12kmemleak: Remove the kmemleak.h include in drivers/char/vt.cCatalin Marinas
This file is no longer annotated for false positives but the kmemleak.h include was still present. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan.cox@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
2009-06-11Merge branch 'perfcounters-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (574 commits) perf_counter: Turn off by default perf_counter: Add counter->id to the throttle event perf_counter: Better align code perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cache perf_counter: Standardize event names perf_counter: Rename enums perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl perf_counter: More paranoia settings perf_counter: powerpc: Implement generalized cache events for POWER processors perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors perf_counter: Accurate period data perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample data perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data perf_counter: Annotate exit ctx recursion perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processors ...
2009-06-11Merge branch 'topic/slab/earlyboot' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'topic/slab/earlyboot' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: vgacon: use slab allocator instead of the bootmem allocator irq: use kcalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator sched: use slab in cpupri_init() sched: use alloc_cpumask_var() instead of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() memcg: don't use bootmem allocator in setup code irq/cpumask: make memoryless node zero happy x86: remove some alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var calling vt: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator sched: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator init: introduce mm_init() vmalloc: use kzalloc() instead of alloc_bootmem() slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence bootmem: fix slab fallback on numa bootmem: use slab if bootmem is no longer available
2009-06-11Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11vt: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocatorPekka Enberg
Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before console_init(), we should use kzalloc() and not the bootmem allocator. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positivesCatalin Marinas
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'serial-from-alan'Linus Torvalds
* serial-from-alan: (79 commits) moxa: prevent opening unavailable ports imx: serial: use tty_encode_baud_rate to set true rate imx: serial: add IrDA support to serial driver imx: serial: use rational library function lib: isolate rational fractions helper function imx: serial: handle initialisation failure correctly imx: serial: be sure to stop xmit upon shutdown imx: serial: notify higher layers in case xmit IRQ was not called imx: serial: fix one bit field type imx: serial: fix whitespaces (no changes in functionality) tty: use prepare/finish_wait tty: remove sleep_on sierra: driver interface blacklisting sierra: driver urb handling improvements tty: resolve some sierra breakage timbuart: Fix the termios logic serial: Added Timberdale UART driver tty: Add URL for ttydev queue devpts: unregister the file system on error tty: Untangle termios and mm mutex dependencies ...
2009-06-11Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/exit.c
2009-06-11moxa: prevent opening unavailable portsDirk Eibach
In moxa.c there are 32 minor numbers reserved for each device. The number of ports actually available per device is stored in moxa_board_conf->numPorts. This number is not considered in moxa_open(). Opening a port that is not available results in a kernel oops. This patch adds a test to moxa_open() that prevents opening unavailable ports. Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: use prepare/finish_waitJiri Slaby
Use prepare_to_wait and finish_wait instead of add_wait_queue and remove_wait_queue. This avoids us setting a task state. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: remove sleep_onJiri Slaby
Use wait_event instead of sleep_on in tty_block_til_ready. Wait for ASYNC_CLOSING flag being 0. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: Untangle termios and mm mutex dependenciesAlan Cox
Although this doesn't cause any problems it could potentially do so for future mmap using devices. No real work is needed to sort it out so untangle it before it causes problems Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: bfin_jtag_comm: emulate a TTY over the Blackfin EMUDAT/JTAG interfaceMike Frysinger
The Blackfin JTAG interface has a 4 byte generic data field (EMUDAT). With a little creative thinking, we can turn this into a TTY device. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: simplify buffer allocator cleanupsAlan Cox
Having cleaned up the allocators we might as well remove the inline helpers for some of it Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: remove buffer special casingAlan Cox
Long long ago a 4K kmalloc allocated two pages so the tty layer used the page allocator, except on some machines where the page size was huge. This was removed from the core tty layer with the tty buffer re-implementation but not from tty_audit or the n_tty ldisc. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: bring ldisc into CodingStyleAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: Move ldisc_flushAlan Cox
We have a tty_ldisc file now so put tty_ldisc_flush in the right place Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: rewrite the ldisc lockingAlan Cox
There are several pretty much unfixable races in the old ldisc code, especially with respect to pty behaviour and also to hangup. It's easier to rewrite the code than simply try and patch it up. This patch - splits the ldisc from the tty (so we will be able to refcount it more cleanly later) - introduces a mutex lock for ldisc changing on an active device - fixes the complete mess that hangup caused - implements hopefully correct setldisc/close/hangup locking There are still some problems around pty pairs that have always been there but at least it is now possible to understand the code and fix further problems. This fixes the following known bugs - hang up can leak ldisc references - hang up may not call open/close on ldisc in a matched way - pty/tty pairs can deadlock during an ldisc change - reading the ldisc proc files can cause every ldisc to be loaded and probably a few other of the mysterious ldisc race reports. I'm sure it also adds the odd new one. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: Extract various bits of ldisc codeAlan Cox
Before trying to tackle the ldisc bugs the code needs to be a good deal more readable, so do the simple extractions of routines first. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: Fix oops when scanning the polling list for kgdbAlan Cox
Costantino Leandro found a bug in tty_find_polling_driver and provided a patch that fixed the crash but not the underlying bug. This fixes the underlying bug where the list walk corrupts the values it is using on a match but then reuses them if the open fails. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11pty: Fix a commentAlan Cox
We fixed the globals, so now fix the comment Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: throttling race fixAlan Cox
The tty throttling code can race due to the lock drops. It takes very high loads but this has been observed and verified by Rob Duncan. The basic problem is that on an SMP box we can go CPU #1 CPU #2 need to throttle ? suppose we should buffer space cleared are we throttled yes ? - unthrottle call throttle method This changeet take the termios lock to protect against this. The termios lock isn't the initial obvious candidate but many implementations of throttle methods already need to poke around their own termios structures (and nobody really locks them against a racing change of flow control). This does mean that anyone who is setting tty->low_latency = 1 and then calling tty_flip_buffer_push from their unthrottle method is going to end up collapsing in a pile of locks. However we've removed all the known bogus users of low_latency = 1 and such use isn't safe anyway for other reasons so catching it would be an improvement. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11epca: fix test_bit parametersJiri Slaby
Switch from ASYNC_* to ASYNCB_*, because test_bit expects bit number, not mask. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11rocket: fix test_bit parametersJiri Slaby
Switch from ASYNC_* to ASYNCB_*, because {test,set}_bit expect bit number, not mask. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, remove unused variablesJiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, fix nports handlingJiri Slaby
Set up ports right after FW load so that we won't allocate maximal (64) ports when we use few. Also remove reading of nports in irq context, since we know it from initialisation now. This also fixes a tty ports unregistration on some fail paths and for Ze which registered 64 and unregistered real port count. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, convert macros to inlinesJiri Slaby
Remove ugly macros and add inlines instead of them. This improves readability and type checking a much. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, cache HW versionJiri Slaby
Store HW version locally to not read it all the time in interrupts and alike. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, plx9060 casts cleanupJiri Slaby
Remove ugly all-over-the-code casts of ctl_addr to 9060 space. Add an union to the cyclades_card structure, which contains a pointer to both 9050 and 9060 spaces. The 9050 space layout is unknown, so let it still as a void __iomem pointer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: synclink_gt add receive pio modePaul Fulghum
Add receive programmed IO mode to reduce receive latency when using low data rates. The receive FIFO trigger level of 128 bytes used in DMA mode creates excessive latency when operating at low data rates. PIO mode is selected when user application requests data in blocks of less than 128 bytes. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: Implement a drain delay in the tty portAlan Cox
We need this for devices that cannot flush and wait, but which do not order data and modem events. Without it we will hang up before all the data clears the hardware. Needed for the USB changes. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: Add carrier processing on close to the tty_port coreAlan Cox
Some drivers implement this internally, others miss it out. Push the behaviour into the core code as that way everyone will do it consistently. Update the dtr rts method to raise or lower depending upon flags. Having a single method in this style fits most of the implementations more cleanly than two funtions. We need this in place before we tackle the USB side Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, remove spurious check in ISRJiri Slaby
No need to check if dev_id is NULL, it never is. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty: cyclades, don't kill FWJiri Slaby
Don't reset the PLX chip after FW load, which effectively kills the FW, so that user had to boot manually. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11tty:cyclades, load firmware even on ZeJiri Slaby
Ze needs firmware to be loaded as well as Zo. Move cyz_load_fw one level upper to achieve that. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-10Merge branch 'irq-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (76 commits) x86, apic: Fix dummy apic read operation together with broken MP handling x86, apic: Restore irqs on fail paths x86: Print real IOAPIC version for x86-64 x86: enable_update_mptable should be a macro sparseirq: Allow early irq_desc allocation x86, io-apic: Don't mark pin_programmed early x86, irq: don't call mp_config_acpi_gsi() if update_mptable is not enabled x86, irq: update_mptable needs pci_routeirq x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic x86, apic: introduce io_apic_irq_attr x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector(), fix x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case x86: apic: Fixmap apic address even if apic disabled x86: display extended apic registers with print_local_APIC and cpu_debug code x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case x86: clean up and fix setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling x86: apic: Check rev 3 fadt correctly for physical_apic bit x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing x86/acpi: move setup io apic routing out of CONFIG_ACPI scope x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector() ...
2009-06-09Make /dev/zero reads interruptible by signalsLinus Torvalds
This helps with bad latencies for large reads from /dev/zero, but might conceivably break some application that "knows" that a read of /dev/zero cannot return early. So do this early in the merge window to give us maximal test coverage, even if the patch is totally trivial. Obviously, no well-behaved application should ever depend on the read being uninterruptible, but hey, bugs happen. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-09char: mxser, fix ISA board lookupPeter Botha
There's a bug in the mxser kernel module that still appears in the 2.6.29.4 kernel. mxser_get_ISA_conf takes a ioaddress as its first argument, by passing the not of the ioaddr, you're effectively passing 0 which means it won't be able to talk to an ISA card. I have tested this, and removing the ! fixes the problem. Cc: "Peter Botha" <peterb@goldcircle.co.za> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-06Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes before the -v8 perfcounters release. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-04drivers/char/mem.c: avoid OOM lockup during large reads from /dev/zeroSalman Qazi
While running 20 parallel instances of dd as follows: #!/bin/bash for i in `seq 1 20`; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/export/hda3/dd_$i bs=1073741824 count=1 & done wait on a 16G machine, we noticed that rather than just killing the processes, the entire kernel went down. Stracing dd reveals that it first does an mmap2, which makes 1GB worth of zero page mappings. Then it performs a read on those pages from /dev/zero, and finally it performs a write. The machine died during the reads. Looking at the code, it was noticed that /dev/zero's read operation had been changed by 557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") from giving zero page mappings to actually zeroing the page. The zeroing of the pages causes physical pages to be allocated to the process. But, when the process exhausts all the memory that it can, the kernel cannot kill it, as it is still in the kernel mode allocating more memory. Consequently, the kernel eventually crashes. To fix this, I propose that when a fatal signal is pending during /dev/zero read operation, we simply return and let the user process die. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Modified error return and comment trivially. - Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-01Merge branch 'linus' into irq/numaIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge almost-rc8 into perfcounters/core, which was -rc6 based - to pick up the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22ipmi: fix ipmi_si modprobe hangCorey Minyard
Instead of queuing IPMB messages before channel initialization, just throw them away. Nobody will be listening for them at this point, anyway, and they will clog up the queue and nothing will be delivered if we queue them. Also set the current channel to the number of channels, as this value is used to tell if the channel information has been initialized. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> Cc: Dan Frazier <dannf@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-20TPM: get_event_name stack corruptionEric Paris
get_event_name uses sprintf to fill a buffer declared on the stack. It fills the buffer 2 bytes at a time. What the code doesn't take into account is that sprintf(buf, "%02x", data) actually writes 3 bytes. 2 bytes for the data and then it nul terminates the string. Since we declare buf to be 40 characters long and then we write 40 bytes of data into buf sprintf is going to write 41 characters. The fix is to leave room in buf for the nul terminator. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-19Avoid ICE in get_random_int() with gcc-3.4.5Linus Torvalds
Martin Knoblauch reports that trying to build 2.6.30-rc6-git3 with RHEL4.3 userspace (gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) causes an internal compiler error (ICE): drivers/char/random.c: In function `get_random_int': drivers/char/random.c:1672: error: unrecognizable insn: (insn 202 148 150 0 /scratch/build/linux-2.6.30-rc6-git3/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h:23 (set (reg:SI 0 ax [91]) (subreg:SI (plus:DI (plus:DI (reg:DI 0 ax [88]) (subreg:DI (reg:SI 6 bp) 0)) (const_int -4 [0xfffffffffffffffc])) 0)) -1 (nil) (nil)) drivers/char/random.c:1672: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2083 and after some debugging it turns out that it's due to the code trying to figure out the rough value of the current stack pointer by taking an address of an uninitialized variable and casting that to an integer. This is clearly a compiler bug, but it's not worth fighting - while the current stack kernel pointer might be somewhat hard to predict in user space, it's also not generally going to change for a lot of the call chains for a particular process. So just drop it, and mumble some incoherent curses at the compiler. Tested-by: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-18Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6 to get the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collisionJason Wessel
Commit 79e539453b34e35f39299a899d263b0a1f1670bd introduced a regression where you cannot use sysrq 'g' to enter kgdb. The solution is to move the intel fb sysrq over to V for video instead of G for graphics. The SMP VOYAGER code to register for the sysrq-v is not anywhere to be found in the mainline kernel, so the comments in the code were cleaned up as well. This patch also cleans up the sysrq definitions for kgdb to make it generic for the kernel debugger, such that the sysrq 'g' can be used in the future to enter a gdbstub or another kernel debugger. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-12Merge branch 'x86/apic' into irq/numaIngo Molnar
Merge reason: both topics modify the APIC code but were able to do it in parallel so far. An upcoming patch generates a conflict so merge them to avoid the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>