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Keith Mannthey
f28c5edc06 [PATCH] hot-add-mem x86_64: fixup externs
Fix up externs in memory_hotplug.c.  Cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:18 -07:00
Alan Cox
236561e5df [PATCH] PCI quirks update
This fixes two things

Firstly someone mistakenly used "errata" for the singular.  This causes
Dave Woodhouse to emit diagnostics whenever the string is read, and so
should be fixed.

Secondly the AMD AGP tunnel has an erratum which causes hangs if you try
and do direct PCI to AGP transfers in some cases.  We have a flag for
PCI/PCI failures but we need a different flag for this really as in this
case we don't want to stop PCI/PCI transfers using things like IOAT and the
new RAID offload work.

I'll post some updates to make proper use of the PCIAGP flag in the
media/video drivers to Mauro.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:17 -07:00
Andrew Morton
cb5d9e0948 [PATCH] scsi: device_reprobe() can fail
device_reprobe() should return an error code.  When it does so,
scsi_device_reprobe() should propagate it back.

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-30 19:33:43 -07:00
Andrew Morton
bcfd8d3615 [PATCH] CONFIG_BLOCK: blk_congestion_wait() fix
Don't just do nothing: it'll cause busywaits all over writeback and page
reclaim.

For now, take a fixed-length nap.  Will improve when NFS starts waking up
throttled processes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:33 +02:00
David Howells
9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
David Howells
52a700c567 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext3 driver [try #6]
Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the Ext3
driver so that the Ext3 header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:29 +02:00
David Howells
52b499c438 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff to the ReiserFS driver [try #6]
Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the
ReiserFS driver so that the ReiserFS header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:28 +02:00
David Howells
36695673b0 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move common FS-specific ioctls to linux/fs.h [try #6]
Move common FS-specific ioctls from linux/ext2_fs.h to linux/fs.h as FS_IOC_*
and FS_IOC32_* and have the users of them use those as a base.

Also move the GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS flags to linux/fs.h as FS_*_FL macros, and then
have the other users use them as a base.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:28 +02:00
David Howells
863d5b822c [PATCH] BLOCK: Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff to the loop driver [try #6]
Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the loop
driver so that the loop header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:27 +02:00
David Howells
811d736f9e [PATCH] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff [try #6]
Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
mm/page-writeback.c.

The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
references removed.

It is used by NFS to do writeback.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:26 +02:00
David Howells
07f3f05c1e [PATCH] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files [try #6]
Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.

Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:18 +02:00
David Howells
0d67a46df0 [PATCH] BLOCK: Remove duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() [try #6]
Remove the duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() from linux/sched.h.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:31:20 +02:00
David Howells
cf9a2ae8d4 [PATCH] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code [try #6]
Move some functions out of the buffering code that aren't strictly buffering
specific.  This is a precursor to being able to disable the block layer.

 (*) Moved some stuff out of fs/buffer.c:

     (*) The file sync and general sync stuff moved to fs/sync.c.

     (*) The superblock sync stuff moved to fs/super.c.

     (*) do_invalidatepage() moved to mm/truncate.c.

     (*) try_to_release_page() moved to mm/filemap.c.

 (*) Moved some related declarations between header files:

     (*) declarations for do_invalidatepage() and try_to_release_page() moved
     	 to linux/mm.h.

     (*) __set_page_dirty_buffers() moved to linux/buffer_head.h.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:31:19 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7457e6e2d7 [PATCH] blktrace: support for logging metadata reads
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5404bc7a87 [PATCH] Allow file systems to differentiate between data and meta reads
We can use this information for making more intelligent priority
decisions, and it will also be useful for blktrace.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:42 +02:00
Jens Axboe
dc72ef4ae3 [PATCH] Add blk_start_queueing() helper
CFQ implements this on its own now, but it's really block layer
knowledge. Tells a device queue to start dispatching requests to
the driver, taking care to unplug if needed. Also fixes the issue
where as/cfq will invoke a stopped queue, which we really don't
want.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:40 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b5deef9012 [PATCH] Make sure all block/io scheduler setups are node aware
Some were kmalloc_node(), some were still kmalloc(). Change them all to
kmalloc_node().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe
a3b05e8f58 [PATCH] Kill various deprecated/unused block layer defines/functions
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4a893e837b [PATCH] elevator: define ioc counting mechanism
None of the in-kernel primitives for handling "atomic" counting seem
to be a good fit. We need something that is essentially free for
incrementing/decrementing, while the read side may be more expensive
as we only ever need to do that when a device is removed from the
kernel.

Use a per-cpu variable for maintaining a per-cpu ioc count and define
a reading mechanism that just sums up the values.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:36 +02:00
Jens Axboe
fc46379daf [PATCH] cfq-iosched: kill cfq_exit_lock
cfq_exit_lock is protecting two things now:

- The per-ioc rbtree of cfq_io_contexts

- The per-cfqd linked list of cfq_io_contexts

The per-cfqd linked list can be protected by the queue lock, as it is (by
definition) per cfqd as the queue lock is.

The per-ioc rbtree is mainly used and updated by the process itself only.
The only outside use is the io priority changing. If we move the
priority changing to not browsing the rbtree, we can remove any locking
from the rbtree updates and lookup completely. Let the sys_ioprio syscall
just mark processes as having the iopriority changed and lazily update
the private cfq io contexts the next time io is queued, and we can
remove this locking as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:36 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e6a1c874a0 [PATCH] struct request: shrink and optimize some more
Move some members around and unionize completion_data and rb_node since
they cannot ever be used at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:35 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cb78b285c8 [PATCH] Drop useless bio passing in may_queue/set_request API
It's not needed for anything, so kill the bio passing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:23 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cdd6026217 [PATCH] Remove ->rq_status from struct request
After Christophs SCSI change, the only usage left is RQ_ACTIVE
and RQ_INACTIVE. The block layer sets RQ_INACTIVE right before freeing
the request, so any check for RQ_INACTIVE in a driver is a bug and
indicates use-after-free.

So kill/clean the remaining users, straight forward.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:23 +02:00
Jens Axboe
49171e5c6f [PATCH] Remove struct request_list from struct request
It is always identical to &q->rq, and we only use it for detecting
whether this request came out of our mempool or not. So replace it
with an additional ->flags bit flag.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:22 +02:00
Jens Axboe
c00895ab2f [PATCH] Remove ->waiting member from struct request
As the comments indicates in blkdev.h, we can fold it into ->end_io_data
usage as that is really what ->waiting is. Fixup the users of
blk_end_sync_rq().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:29:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe
ff7d145fd9 [PATCH] Add one more pointer to struct request for IO scheduler usage
Then we have enough room in the request to get rid of the dynamic
allocations in CFQ/AS.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:27:01 +02:00
Jens Axboe
9e2585a8a2 [PATCH] as-iosched: remove arq->is_sync member
We can track this in struct request.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:27:00 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1fbfdfcddf [PATCH] elevator: introduce a way to reuse rq for internal FIFO handling
The io schedulers can use this instead of having to allocate space for
it themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:59 +02:00
Jens Axboe
2e662b65f0 [PATCH] elevator: abstract out the rbtree sort handling
The rbtree sort/lookup/reposition logic is mostly duplicated in
cfq/deadline/as, so move it to the elevator core. The io schedulers
still provide the actual rb root, as we don't want to impose any sort
of specific handling on the schedulers.

Introduce the helpers and rb_node in struct request to help migrate the
IO schedulers.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe
10fd48f237 [PATCH] rbtree: fixed reversed RB_EMPTY_NODE and rb_next/prev
The conditions got reserved. Also make rb_next() and rb_prev() check
for the empty condition.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe
9817064b68 [PATCH] elevator: move the backmerging logic into the elevator core
Right now, every IO scheduler implements its own backmerging (except for
noop, which does no merging). That results in duplicated code for
essentially the same operation, which is never a good thing. This patch
moves the backmerging out of the io schedulers and into the elevator
core. We save 1.6kb of text and as a bonus get backmerging for noop as
well. Win-win!

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:26:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4aff5e2333 [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5ffd1a6aaa Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (180 commits)
  V4L/DVB (4641): Trivial: use lowercase letters in hex subsystem ids
  V4L/DVB (4639): Cx88: add autodetection for alternate revision of Leadtek PVR
  V4L/DVB (4638): Basic DVB-T and analog TV support for the HVR1300.
  V4L/DVB (4637): Add a default method for VIDIOC_G_PARM
  V4L/DVB (4635): Extend bttv and saa7134 to check for both AGP and PCI PCI failure case
  V4L/DVB (4634): Zr36120: implement pcipci checks
  V4L/DVB (4632): Zoran: Implement pcipci failure check
  V4L/DVB (4631): Av7110: remove V4L2_CAP_VBI_CAPTURE flag
  V4L/DVB (4630): Av7110: FW_LOADER depemdency fixed
  V4L/DVB (4629): Saa7134: add card support for Proteus Pro 2309
  V4L/DVB (4628): Fix VIDIOC_ENUMSTD ioctl in videodev.c
  V4L/DVB (4627): Vivi crashes with mplayer
  V4L/DVB (4626): On saa7111/7113, LUMA_CTRL need a different value
  V4L/DVB (4624): Tvaudio: Replaced kernel_thread() with kthread_run()
  V4L/DVB (4622): Copy-paste bug in videodev.c
  V4L/DVB (4620): Fix AGC configuration for MOD3000P-based boards
  V4L/DVB (4619): Fixes some I2C dependencies on V4L devices
  V4L/DVB (4617): Problem with dibusb-mb.c USB IDs
  V4L/DVB (4616): [PATCH] Nebula DigiTV USB RC support
  V4L/DVB (4614): Export symbol saa7134_tvaudio_setmute from saa7134 for saa7134-alsa
  ...
2006-09-30 09:39:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
db1a19b38f Merge branch 'intelfb-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/intelfb-2.6
* 'intelfb-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/intelfb-2.6:
  intelfbhw.c: intelfbhw_get_p1p2 defined but not used
  intelfb: fix mtrr_reg signedness
  intelfb: update doc and Kconfig (supported devices)
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
  intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
  intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
  intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
  intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
  intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
2006-09-30 09:36:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
369aa8395a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] Use early clobber in semaphores
  [PATCH] Define vsyscall cache as blob to make clearer that user space shouldn't use it
  [PATCH] Re-positioning the bss segment
  [PATCH] Use ARRAY_SIZE in setup.c
  [PATCH] i386: replace intermediate array-size definitions with ARRAY_SIZE()
  [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls
  [PATCH] Refactor some duplicated code in mpparse.c
  [PATCH] Document iommu=panic
  [PATCH] Fix broken indentation in iommu_setup
  [PATCH] Allow disabling DAC using command line options
  [PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomic
  [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig
  [PATCH] Update defconfig
2006-09-30 08:37:55 -07:00
Chas Williams
1c9d3e72a7 [ATM]: [lec] header indent, comment and whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:13:24 -07:00
Michael Chan
f9317a40c4 [BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present.
MSI is defined to be 32-bit write.  The 5706 does 64-bit MSI writes
with byte enables disabled on the unused 32-bit word.  This is legal
but causes problems on the AMD 8132 which will eventually stop
responding after a while.

Without this patch, the MSI test done by the driver during open will
pass, but MSI will eventually stop working after a few MSIs are
written by the device.

AMD believes this incompatibility is unique to the 5706, and
prefers to locally disable MSI rather than globally disabling it
using pci_msi_quirk.

Update version to 1.4.45.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:06:23 -07:00
Paul Moore
95d4e6be25 [NetLabel]: audit fixups due to delayed feedback
Fix some issues Steve Grubb had with the way NetLabel was using the audit
subsystem.  This should make NetLabel more consistent with other kernel
generated audit messages specifying configuration changes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:05:05 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c84ef53059 [PATCH] Use early clobber in semaphores
New code clobbers the result always early, so tell gcc about it
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen
34596dc9e5 [PATCH] Define vsyscall cache as blob to make clearer that user space shouldn't use it
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen
29cbc78b90 [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls
Use prototypes in headers
Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures

Cc: dzickus@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b885808e18 [PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomic
Noticed by Al Viro

Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
39f0247d38 [PATCH] Access Control Lists for tmpfs
Add access control lists for tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
f0c8bd164e [PATCH] Generic infrastructure for acls
The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices
based on who is logged in from where, etc.  This includes switching back and
forth between multiple user sessions, etc.

Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the
flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem.

Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs.

Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to
different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions
and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate.  RedHat uses pam_console, which
changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user.  Others use a set of
groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses.

The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a
console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to
devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach.

These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again
on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with
no problems reported.  The previous submission is archived here:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231

This patch:

Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory
filesystems such as tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Ian S. Nelson
04b1db9fd7 [PATCH] /sys/modules: allow full length section names
I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it can't
probe a lot of modules.  Turns out it's kind of silly, the sections section
of /sys/module is limited to 32byte filenames and many of the actual
sections are a a bit longer than that.

[akpm@osdl.org: rewrite to use dymanic allocation]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman
2d1d43f6a4 [PATCH] call mm/page-writeback.c:set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit())
every time a CPU is hot-added/removed.  But this value is not recalculated
when new pages are hot-added.

This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages
are hot-added.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:22 -07:00
Paul Jackson
38837fc75a [PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to node_online_map
Change the list of memory nodes allowed to tasks in the top (root) nodeset
to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a call to a cpuset hook
from the memory hotplug code.  Make this top cpus file read-only.

On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't
actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of
systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset.

If that system does support memory hotplug, then these tasks cannot make
use of memory nodes that are added after system boot, because the memory
nodes are not allowed in the top cpuset.  This is a surprising regression
over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled.

One key motivation for this change is to remain consistent with the
behaviour for the top_cpuset's 'cpus', which is also read-only, and which
automatically tracks the cpu_online_map.

This change also has the minor benefit that it fixes a long standing,
little noticed, minor bug in cpusets.  The cpuset performance tweak to
short circuit the cpuset_zone_allowed() check on systems with just a single
cpuset (see 'number_of_cpusets', in linux/cpuset.h) meant that simply
changing the 'mems' of the top_cpuset had no affect, even though the change
(the write system call) appeared to succeed.  With the following change,
that write to the 'mems' file fails -EACCES, and the 'mems' file stubbornly
refuses to be changed via user space writes.  Thus no one should be mislead
into thinking they've changed the top_cpusets's 'mems' when in affect they
haven't.

In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems
actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes
the behaviour of the 'mems' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read
only, and making it automatically track the value of node_online_map.  Thus
tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged memory nodes
allowed by their cpuset.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:21 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
c394cc9fbb [PATCH] introduce TASK_DEAD state
I am not sure about this patch, I am asking Ingo to take a decision.

task_struct->state == EXIT_DEAD is a very special case, to avoid a confusion
it makes sense to introduce a new state, TASK_DEAD, while EXIT_DEAD should
live only in ->exit_state as documented in sched.h.

Note that this state is not visible to user-space, get_task_state() masks off
unsuitable states.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:21 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
55a101f8f7 [PATCH] kill PF_DEAD flag
After the previous change (->flags & PF_DEAD) <=> (->state == EXIT_DEAD), we
don't need PF_DEAD any longer.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:20 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
e8106b941c [PATCH] lockdep: core, add enable/disable_irq_irqsave/irqrestore() APIs
Introduce the disable_irq_nosync_lockdep_irqsave() and
enable_irq_lockdep_irqrestore() APIs.  These are needed for NE2000; basically
NE2000 calls disable_irq and enable_irq as locking against the IRQ handler,
but both in cases where interrupts are on and off.  This means that lockdep
needs to track the old state of the virtual irq flags on disable_irq, and
restore these at enable_irq time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:20 -07:00