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It is possible that the reserved crashkernel region can be overlapped with
initrd since the bootloader sets the initrd location. When the initrd
region is freed, the second kernel memory will not be contiguous. The
Kexec_load can cause an oops since there is no contiguous memory to write
the second kernel or this memory could be used in the first kernel itself
and may not be part of the dump. For example, on powerpc, the initrd is
located at 36MB and the crashkernel starts at 32MB. The kexec_load caused
panic since writing into non-allocated memory (after 36MB). We could see
the similar issue even on other archs.
One possibility is to move the initrd outside of crashkernel region. But,
the initrd region will be freed anyway before the system is up. This patch
fixes this issue and frees only regions that are not part of crashkernel
memory in case overlaps.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink.
Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket,
so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be,
and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock
of rtnetlink.
Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional
argument to netlink_attachskb().
A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed
to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even
have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases:
1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot
wait for buffer space.
2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered
to some recipients.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Clear unblockable signals beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds new PCI serial card support.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird
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q->ordcolor must only be flipped on initial queueing of a hardbarrier
request.
Constructing ordered sequence and requeueing used to pass through
__elv_add_request() which flips q->ordcolor when it sees a barrier
request.
This patch separates out elv_insert() from __elv_add_request() and uses
elv_insert() when constructing ordered sequence and requeueing.
elv_insert() inserts the given request at the specified position and
does nothing else.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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* compat_alloc_user_space() returns __user pointer
* copying between two userland areas is copy_in_user(), not copy_from_user()
* dereferencing userland pointers is bad
* so's get_user() from local variables
... plus usual __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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A bunch of asm/bug.h includes are both not needed (since it will get
pulled anyway) and bogus (since they are done too early). Removed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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If the namespace structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.
Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Compound pages on SMP systems can now often be freed from pagetables via
the release_pages path. This uses put_page_testzero which does not handle
compound pages at all. Releasing constituent pages from process mappings
decrements their count to a large negative number and leaks the reference
at the head page - net result is a memory leak.
The problem was hidden because the debug check in put_page_testzero itself
actually did take compound pages into consideration.
Fix the bug and the debug check.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix compilation problem in PM headers.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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South Korea uses NTSC-M but with A2 audio instead of BTSC. Several audio
chips need this information in order to set the correct audio processing
registers.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mauro_chehab@yahoo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Ben points out that:
When writing files out using O_SYNC, jbd's 1 jiffy delay results in a
significant drop in throughput as the disk sits idle. The patch below
results in a 4-5x performance improvement (from 6.5MB/s to ~24-30MB/s on my
IDE test box) when writing out files using O_SYNC.
So optimise the batching code by omitting it entirely if the process which is
doing a sync write is the same as the one which did the most recent sync
write. If that's true, we're unlikely to get any other processes joining the
transaction.
(Has been in -mm for ages - it took me a long time to get on to performance
testing it)
Numbers, on write-cache-disabled IDE:
/usr/bin/time -p synctest -n 10 -uf -t 1 -p 1 dir-name
Unpatched:
40 seconds
Patched:
35 seconds
Batching disabled:
35 seconds
This is the problematic single-process-doing-fsync case. With multiple
fsyncing processes the numbers are AFACIT unaltered by the patch.
Aside: performance testing and instrumentation shows that the transaction
batching almost doesn't help (testing with synctest -n 1 -uf -t 100 -p 10
dir-name on non-writeback-caching IDE). This is because by the time one
process is running a synchronous commit, a bunch of other processes already
have a transaction handle open, so they're all going to batch into the same
transaction anyway.
The batching seems to offer maybe 5-10% speedup with this workload, but I'm
pretty sure it was more important than that when it was first developed 4-odd
years ago...
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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With CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y, CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=n:
fs/reiserfs/xattr.c: In function `reiserfs_check_acl':
fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:1330: called object is not a function
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The pktcdvd driver uses a compile time macro constant to define the maximum
supported packet length. I changed this from 32 sectors to 128 sectors
because that allows over 100 MB of additional usable space on a 700 MB cdrw,
and increases throughput.
Note that you need a modified cdrwtool program that can format a CDRW disc
with larger packets to benefit from this change.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Allocate memory for read-gathering at open time, when it is known just how
much memory is needed. This avoids wasting kernel memory when the real packet
size is smaller than the maximum packet size supported by the driver. This is
always the case when using DVD discs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The pktcdvd driver was using an 8 bit field to store the packet length
obtained from the disc track info. This causes it to overflow packet length
values of 128KB or more. I changed the field to 32 bits to fix this.
The pktcdvd driver defaulted to its maximum allowed packet length when it
detected a 0 in the track info field. I changed this to fail the operation
and refuse to access the media. This seems more sane than attempting to
access it with a value that almost certainly will not work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The IPv4 and IPv6 version of the policy match are identical besides address
comparison and the data structure used for userspace communication. Unify
the data structures to break compatiblity now (before it is released), so
we can port it to x_tables in 2.6.17.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix some typos that make iptables userspace compilation fail.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove private inode tests from security_inode_alloc and security_inode_free,
as we otherwise end up leaking inode security structures for private inodes.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Since there's no longer any external user, we can make __ide_end_request()
static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch stops CompactFlash devices being marked as removable. They are
not removable (as defined by Linux) as the media and device are
inseparable. When a card is removed, the whole device is removed from the
system and never sits in a media-less state.
This stops some nasty udev device creation/destruction loops.
Further, once this change is made, there is no need for ide to can be
removed from ide_drive_t.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Change locking in the new tty buffering facility from using tty->read_lock,
which is currently ignored by drivers and thus ineffective. New locking
uses a new tty buffering specific lock enforced centrally in the tty
buffering code.
Two drivers (esp and cyclades) are updated to use the tty buffering
functions instead of accessing tty buffering internals directly. This is
required for the new locking to work.
Minor checks for NULL buffers added to
tty_prepare_flip_string/tty_prepare_flip_string_flags
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The compilation of kexec/kdump seems to be broken for x86_64. Remove the
dependency of kexec on CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix to broken comment to synchronize_rcu() noted by Keith Owens. Also add
sentence noting that synchronize_sched() and synchronize_rcu() are not
necessarily identical.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The already removed sync_dquots_dev(dev,type) is still defined in the
no-quota case.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- This controller violates the I2O spec for the I/O registers. The patch
contains a workaround which moves the registers to the proper location.
(originally author: Matthew Starzewski)
- If a message frame is beyond the mapped address range a error is
returned.
Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add support for the built-in parallel port on SGI O2 (a.k.a. IP32).
Define a new configuration option: PARPORT_IP32. The module is named
parport_ip32.
Hardware support for SPP, EPP and ECP modes along with DMA support when
available are currently implemented.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix this warning:
fs/ufs/super.c: In function âufs_fill_superâ:
fs/ufs/super.c:858: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
which happens because __s8 != char. These macros are used for struct
ufs_super_block.fs_clean which is declared as __s8.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Shrinks "struct dentry" from 128 bytes to 124 on x86, allowing 31 objects
per slab instead of 30.
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This fixes the code like this:
bh = sb_find_get_block (sb, tmp + j);
if ((bh && DATA_BUFFER_USED(bh)) || tmp != fs32_to_cpu(sb, *p)) {
retry = 1;
brelse (bh);
goto next1;
}
bforget (bh);
sb_find_get_block() ordinarily returns a buffer_head with b_count>=2, and
this code assume that in case if "b_count>1" buffer is used, so this caused
infinite loop.
(akpm: that is-the-buffer-busy code is incomprehensible. Good riddance. Use
of block_truncate_page() seems sane).
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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"rm" command, on file system with "ufs1" type cause system hang up. This
is, in fact, not so bad as it seems to be, because of after that in "kernel
control path" there are 3-4 places which may cause "oops".
So the first patch fix oopses, and the second patch fix "kernel hang up".
"oops" appears because of reading of group's summary info partly wrong, and
access to not first group's summary info cause "oops".
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I noticed that list.h init functions were evaluating macro arguments
multiple times and thought it might be nice to protect the unsuspecting
caller. Converting the macros to inline functions seems to reduce code
size, too. A i386 defconfig build with gcc 3.3.3 from fc4:
text data bss dec hex filename
3573148 565664 188828 4327640 4208d8 vmlinux.before
3572177 565664 188828 4326669 42050d vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 11/144 up/down: 88/-1016 (-928)
There was no difference in checkstack output.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Noticed by Rune Torgersen.
Fix generic_fls64(). tcp_cubic is using fls64().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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kernel/power/power.h:49: error: static declaration of 'pm_prepare_console' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/suspend.h:46: error: previous declaration of 'pm_prepare_console' was here
kernel/power/power.h:50: error: static declaration of 'pm_restore_console' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/suspend.h:47: error: previous declaration of 'pm_restore_console' was here
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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This patch adds support for SIIG 8-port boards. These boards have 4 ports in
separate bars and another 4 ports in the single bar. Because of this strange
port arrangement these cards need special setup function. Fortunately no other
SIIG cards have more than 4 port, so this setup function could be used for them
too.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Some hosts need to know the command type, so pass it via a set of
flags in cmd->flags.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
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