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Stephen Hemminger
eab03ac7bd [PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/proc
The table is empty, why does it still exist?

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
8ad2914d9c [PATCH] checkstack: print module names
Finding "init_module" high stack usage problems is challenging when there
are over 1600 "init_module" functions in the kernel tree, so make
checkstack.pl print out the filename where the stack usage occurs.  This is
useful for code built as loadable modules.

For built-in code, it just prints the kernel image file name, like
"vmlinux".  Examples:

(before patch:)
0x0000000d callback:					1928
0xffffffff81678c09 huft_build:				1560
0x0018 init_module:					1512

(after patch:)
0x0000000d callback [divacapi]:				1928
0xffffffff81678c09 huft_build [vmlinux]:		1560
0x0018 init_module [hdaps]:				1512

Also change one if-series to use elsif to cut down on unneeded tests.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
5ec3e4b7ae [PATCH] RTC: add rtc-ds1742 driver
Add an RTC driver for the Dallas DS1742 RTC chip.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
9bf5b4f5f5 [PATCH] RTC: add rtc-ds1553 driver
Add an RTC driver for the Dallas DS1553 RTC chip.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Andrew Morton
e7a8bb12c2 [PATCH] at91rm9200-rtc-driver-tidy
- whitespace fixes (80-col display)

- one unneeded cast of void*

Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Andrew Victor
788b1fc619 [PATCH] AT91RM9200 RTC driver
Adds support for the RTC integrated in the Atmel AT91RM9200 SoC.

Driver was originally written for 2.4 by Rick Bronson.  Then converted to
2.6 ARM RTC API by Steven Scholz.  Now converted to the RTC class model.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Andrew Victor
8232212e0b [PATCH] RTC: Add rtc_year_days() to calculate tm_yday
RTC: Add exported function rtc_year_days() to calculate the tm_yday value.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Raphael Assenat
362600fe60 [PATCH] Add v3020 RTC support
This patch adds support for the v3020 RTC from EM Microelectronic.

The v3020 RTC is designed to be connected on a bus using only one data bit.
 Since any data bit may be used, it is necessary to specify this to the
driver by passing a struct v3020_platform_data pointer (see
include/linux/rtc-v3020.h) to the driver.

Part of the following code comes from the kernel patchs produced by
Compulab for their products.  The original file (available here:
http://raph.people.8d.com/misc/emv3020.c) was released under the terms of
the GPL license.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Raphael Assenat <raph@raphnet.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Jean Delvare
9be05b57bd [PATCH] rtc: small documentation update
Rtc driver documentation update

* Mention the max-user-freq control file.
* Add missing header in example code.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Raphael Assenat
8e12ecc2b5 [PATCH] Add max6902 RTC support
Add support for the MAX6902 SPI RTC chip.  Tested on a pxa2xx cpu.

The compulab code comes from the kernel patch the produce for their
cn-x255 board. (inside a zip file on the
http://www.compulab.co.il/x255/html/x255-developer.htm)

The original file (drivers/char/max6902.c) was GPL, which is of course
an appropriate licence:

/*
 * max6902.c
 *
 * Driver for MAX6902 RTC
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2004 Compulab Ltd.
 *
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 *
 */

For reference, you can get the original file here:
http://raph.people.8d.com/misc/max6902.c

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Raphael Assenat <raph@raphnet.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo
110d693d58 [PATCH] rtc subsystem: add capability checks
Centralize CAP_SYS_XXX checks to avoid duplicate code and missing checks in
the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo
56f10c634e [PATCH] rtc subsystem, fix capability checks in kernel interface
Remove commented capability checks and add some others.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
G. Liakhovetski
9c0c570576 [PATCH] drivers/acorn/char/pcf8583.[hc] vs. RTC subsystem
A port of the driver for the pcf8583 i2c rtc controller to the generic RTC
framework by Alessandro Zummo.  Based on
drivers/acorn/char/{pcf8583.[hc],i2c.c}.  Hopefully, acorn can be converted
too to use this driver in the future.

Signed-off-by: G. Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
655066c383 [PATCH] RTC: rtc-dev UIE emulation
Import genrtc's RTC UIE emulation (CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X) to rtc-dev driver with
slight adjustments/refinements.  This makes UIE-less rtc drivers work
better with programs doing read/poll on /dev/rtc, such as hwclock.  This
emulation should not harm rtc drivers with UIE support, since
rtc_dev_ioctl() calls underlaying rtc driver's ioctl() first.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
David Brownell
1abb0dc92d [PATCH] "RTC-framework" driver for DS1307 and similar RTC chips
This is an "RTC-framework" driver for DS1307 and similar RTC chips,

It should be a full replacement for the existing ds1337.c driver (using the
older RTC glue), giving a net increase in the number of RTC chips that work
out-of-the-box.  There's a whole cluster of RTCs that are very similar, but
the 1337 driver was a bit too picky to work with most of them.

Still no support for RTC alarm IRQs (on chips that support them).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
3eecd1dc57 [PATCH] Correct sa'K' description in sysrq.txt
sysrq SAK is described as being something you should mistake for SAK from
c2 compliant systems - whoops.  What's meant is that it should *not* be
mistaken as such.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
3b9c04106b [PATCH] printk time parameter
Currently, enabling/disabling printk timestamps is only possible through
reboot (bootparam) or recompile.  I normally do not run with timestamps
(since syslog handles that in a good manner), but for measuring small
kernel delays (e.g.  irq probing - see parport thread) I needed subsecond
precision, but then again, just for some minutes rather than all kernel
messages to come.  The following patch adds a module_param() with which the
timestamps can be en-/disabled in a live system through
/sys/modules/printk/parameters/printk_time.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
e5dcd90b53 [PATCH] radixtree: normalize radix_tree_tag_get() return value
In radix_tree_tag_get(), return normalized value of 0/1, as indicated
by its comment.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
3419b23a91 [PATCH] epoll: use unlocked wqueue operations
A few days ago Arjan signaled a lockdep red flag on epoll locks, and
precisely between the epoll's device structure lock (->lock) and the wait
queue head lock (->lock).

Like I explained in another email, and directly to Arjan, this can't happen
in reality because of the explicit check at eventpoll.c:592, that does not
allow to drop an epoll fd inside the same epoll fd.  Since lockdep is
working on per-structure locks, it will never be able to know of policies
enforced in other parts of the code.

It was decided time ago of having the ability to drop epoll fds inside
other epoll fds, that triggers a very trick wakeup operations (due to
possibly reentrant callback-driven wakeups) handled by the
ep_poll_safewake() function.  While looking again at the code though, I
noticed that all the operations done on the epoll's main structure wait
queue head (->wq) are already protected by the epoll lock (->lock), so that
locked-style functions can be used to manipulate the ->wq member.  This
makes both a lock-acquire save, and lockdep happy.

Running totalmess on my dual opteron for a while did not reveal any problem
so far:

http://www.xmailserver.org/totalmess.c

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4ad3bcf314 [PATCH] nbd: endian annotations
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Valerie Henson
21730eed11 [PATCH] Make EXT2_DEBUG work again
This patch makes EXT2_DEBUG work again.  Due to lack of proper include
file, EXT2_DEBUG was undefined in bitmap.c and ext2_count_free() is left
out.  Moved to balloc.c and removed bitmap.c entirely.

Second, debug versions of ext2_count_free_{inodes/blocks} reacquires
superblock lock.  Moved lock into callers.

Signed-off-by: Val Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:12 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
42225a359a [PATCH] emu10k1: mark midi_spinlock as used
Why is it marked unused when in fact it's used?

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:12 -07:00
Andrew Morton
9de9adb615 [PATCH] for_each_cpu_mask() warning fix
On UP, this:

       cpumask_t mask = node_to_cpumask(numa_node_id());

       for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask)

does this:

mm/readahead.c: In function `node_readahead_aging':
mm/readahead.c:850: warning: unused variable `mask'

which is unpleasantly fixed by this:

Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:12 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
eab98702af [PATCH] Make sysctl obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Make makes sysctl non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set.  There are a number
of interfaces exposed via sysctl, enough that it has to be considered core
kernel functionality at this point.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:12 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
74bb6a09b2 [PATCH] introduce WARN_ON_ONCE(cond)
Add WARN_ON_ONCE(cond) to print once-per-bootup messages.

[rostedt@goodmis.org: improve code generation]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
69755652c9 [PATCH] Make procfs obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Make procfs non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set, just like sysfs.  procfs
is already de facto required for a large subset of Linux functionality.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:11 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
bd40cddae2 [PATCH] kernel-doc: mm/readhead fixup
Put short function description for read_cache_pages() on one line as needed
by kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:10 -07:00
Mingming Cao
43d23f9039 [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: the rest of in-kernel filesystem blocks conversion
Convert the ext3 in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t.  Convert the
rest of all unsigned long type in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t,
and replace the printk format string respondingly.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:10 -07:00
Mingming Cao
1c2bf374a4 [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: filesystem, group blocks and bug fixes
Some of the in-kernel ext3 block variable type are treated as signed 4 bytes
int type, thus limited ext3 filesystem to 8TB (4kblock size based).  While
trying to fix them, it seems quite confusing in the ext3 code where some
blocks are filesystem-wide blocks, some are group relative offsets that need
to be signed value (as -1 has special meaning).  So it seem saner to define
two types of physical blocks: one is filesystem wide blocks, another is
group-relative blocks.  The following patches clarify these two types of
blocks in the ext3 code, and fix the type bugs which limit current 32 bit ext3
filesystem limit to 8TB.

With this series of patches and the percpu counter data type changes in the mm
tree, we are able to extend exts filesystem limit to 16TB.

This work is also a pre-request for the recent >32 bit ext3 work, and makes
the kernel to able to address 48 bit ext3 block a lot easier: Simply redefine
ext3_fsblk_t from unsigned long to sector_t and redefine the format string for
ext3 filesystem block corresponding.

Two RFC with a series patches have been posted to ext2-devel list and have
been reviewed and discussed:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=114722190816690&w=2

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=114784919525942&w=2

Patches are tested on both 32 bit machine and 64 bit machine, <8TB ext3 and
>8TB ext3 filesystem(with the latest to be released e2fsprogs-1.39).  Tests
includes overnight fsx, tiobench, dbench and fsstress.

This patch:

Defines ext3_fsblk_t and ext3_grpblk_t, and the printk format string for
filesystem wide blocks.

This patch classifies all block group relative blocks, and ext3_fsblk_t blocks
occurs in the same function where used to be confusing before.  Also include
kernel bug fixes for filesystem wide in-kernel block variables.  There are
some fileystem wide blocks are treated as int/unsigned int type in the kernel
currently, especially in ext3 block allocation and reservation code.  This
patch fixed those bugs by converting those variables to ext3_fsblk_t(unsigned
long) type.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:10 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
cedfb178ad [PATCH] megaraid_mbox: fix section mismatch warnings
Fix section warning:
WARNING: drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'megaraid_probe_one' (at offset 0x171e) and 'megaraid_queue_command'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
Randy.Dunlap
b9bcf9c117 [PATCH] wd7000: fix section mismatch warnings
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Fix section mismatch in wd7000 driver:
WARNING: drivers/scsi/wd7000.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text after 'wd7000_detect' (at offset 0xa5d)
WARNING: drivers/scsi/wd7000.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text after 'wd7000_detect' (at offset 0xab6)
WARNING: drivers/scsi/wd7000.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text after 'wd7000_detect' (at offset 0xb67

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
Ben Dooks
ad4063b0b2 [PATCH] AX88796 parallel port driver
Driver for the simple parallel port interface on the Asix AX88796 chip on
an platform_bus.

[akpm@osdl.org: x86_64 build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
Matt Helsley
11e64757f9 [PATCH] Remove unecessary NULL check in kernel/acct.c
copy_process() appears to be the only caller of acct_clear_integrals() and
does not pass in NULL task pointers.  Remove the unecessary check.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
NeilBrown
7c12d81134 [PATCH] Make copy_from_user_inatomic NOT zero the tail on i386
As described in a previous patch and documented in mm/filemap.h,
copy_from_user_inatomic* shouldn't zero out the tail of the buffer after an
incomplete copy.

This patch implements that change for i386.

For the _nocache version, a new __copy_user_intel_nocache is defined similar
to copy_user_zeroio_intel_nocache, and this is ultimately used for the copy.

For the regular version, __copy_from_user_ll_nozero is defined which uses
__copy_user and __copy_user_intel - the later needs casts to reposition the
__user annotations.

If copy_from_user_atomic is given a constant length of 1, 2, or 4, then we do
still zero the destintion on failure.  This didn't seem worth the effort of
fixing as the places where it is used really don't care.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
NeilBrown
01408c4939 [PATCH] Prepare for __copy_from_user_inatomic to not zero missed bytes
The problem is that when we write to a file, the copy from userspace to
pagecache is first done with preemption disabled, so if the source address is
not immediately available the copy fails *and* *zeros* *the* *destination*.

This is a problem because a concurrent read (which admittedly is an odd thing
to do) might see zeros rather that was there before the write, or what was
there after, or some mixture of the two (any of these being a reasonable thing
to see).

If the copy did fail, it will immediately be retried with preemption
re-enabled so any transient problem with accessing the source won't cause an
error.

The first copying does not need to zero any uncopied bytes, and doing so
causes the problem.  It uses copy_from_user_atomic rather than copy_from_user
so the simple expedient is to change copy_from_user_atomic to *not* zero out
bytes on failure.

The first of these two patches prepares for the change by fixing two places
which assume copy_from_user_atomic does zero the tail.  The two usages are
very similar pieces of code which copy from a userspace iovec into one or more
page-cache pages.  These are changed to remove the assumption.

The second patch changes __copy_from_user_inatomic* to not zero the tail.
Once these are accepted, I will look at similar patches of other architectures
where this is important (ppc, mips and sparc being the ones I can find).

This patch:

There is a problem with __copy_from_user_inatomic zeroing the tail of the
buffer in the case of an error.  As it is called in atomic context, the error
may be transient, so it results in zeros being written where maybe they
shouldn't be.

In the usage in filemap, this opens a window for a well timed read to see data
(zeros) which is not consistent with any ordering of reads and writes.

Most cases where __copy_from_user_inatomic is called, a failure results in
__copy_from_user being called immediately.  As long as the latter zeros the
tail, the former doesn't need to.  However in *copy_from_user_iovec
implementations (in both filemap and ntfs/file), it is assumed that
copy_from_user_inatomic will zero the tail.

This patch removes that assumption, so that after this patch it will
be safe for copy_from_user_inatomic to not zero the tail.

This patch also adds some commentary to filemap.h and asm-i386/uaccess.h.

After this patch, all architectures that might disable preempt when
kmap_atomic is called need to have their __copy_from_user_inatomic* "fixed".
This includes
 - powerpc
 - i386
 - mips
 - sparc

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
5f507d9e05 [PATCH] constify libcrc32c table
constify a medium-large CRC code table.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:09 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
3b364b8d58 [PATCH] constify parts of kernel/power/
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
Chris Wright
43b0bc00fd [PATCH] cpuset: remove extra cpuset_zone_allowed check in __alloc_pages
This is redundant with check in wakeup_kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
David Wilder
dc851a0fd2 [PATCH] Updated kdump documentation
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
8ea2c2ecfc [PATCH] moxa: partial CodingStyle cleanup & spelling fixes
Do a *partial* CodingStyle cleanup, correct some spelling in printk()'s &&
convert C++ comments to C comments - in moxa driver.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.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>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
8a7f7c9307 [PATCH] moxa: remove pointless check of 'tty' argument vs NULL
Remove pointless check of 'tty' argument vs NULL from moxa driver.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.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>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
56e139f62b [PATCH] moxa: remove pointless casts
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
d2e5b13c4a [PATCH] ext3: remove inconsistent space before exclamation point in mount code
This was reported as Debian bug #336604.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
e8f1c6227a [PATCH] ext3: fix memory leak when the journal file is corrupted
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
f16fdadba2 [PATCH] ext2: clean up dead code from mount code
The variable i is guaranteed to be the same as db_count given the previous
for loop.  So get rid of it since it's dead code.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Mingming Cao
fcd5df3588 [PATCH] Avoid disk sector_t overflow for >2TB ext3 filesystem
If ext3 filesystem is larger than 2TB, and sector_t is a u32 (i.e.
CONFIG_LBD not defined in the kernel), the calculation of the disk sector
will overflow.  Add check at ext3_fill_super() and ext3_group_extend() to
prevent mount/remount/resize >2TB ext3 filesystem if sector_t size is 4
bytes.

Verified this patch on a 32 bit platform without CONFIG_LBD defined
(sector_t is 32 bits long), mount refuse to mount a 10TB ext3.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Andrew Morton
b61367732f [PATCH] schedule_on_each_cpu(): reduce kmalloc() size
schedule_on_each_cpu() presently does a large kmalloc - 96 kbytes on 1024 CPU
64-bit.

Rework it so that we do one 8192-byte allocation and then a pile of tiny ones,
via alloc_percpu().  This has a much higher chance of success (100% in the
current VM).

This also has the effect of reducing the memory requirements from NR_CPUS*n to
num_possible_cpus()*n.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
232acbcf53 [PATCH] kernel-doc: script cleanups
Fix indentation.
Quote a brace '{' so that vi won't be fooled by it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
05189497d1 [PATCH] kernel-doc: drop leading space in sections
Drop leading space of kernel-doc section contents.

"Section" data (contents) are split from the section header
(e.g., Note: below is a section header:
 * Note: list_empty on entry does not return true after this, the entry is
 * in an undefined state.
).

Currently the data/contents begins with a space and is left that way, which
causes it to look bad when printed (in text mode; see example below), so
just remove the leading space.

Note:

list_empty on entry does not return true after this, the entry is in an
undefined state.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:07 -07:00
Chris Wedgwood
5d18639a83 [PATCH] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore
Lots of people use this.  Apparently RH has for over 18 months so lets
drop EXPERIMENTAL.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:06 -07:00