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* block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeoutsJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout handling. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* init: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT requires explicit root= paramTejun Heo2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT shuffles SCSI and IDE device numbers and root device number set using rdev become meaningless. Root devices should be explicitly specified using textual names. Warn about it if root can't be found and DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is enabled. Also, add warning to the help text. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Change default value of CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT to 'n'Jens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | It's a debug option that you would explicitly enable to test this feature, we should default it to 'n' to prevent accidental surprises for now. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVTTejun Heo2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extended devt introduces non-contiguos device numbers. This patch implements a debug option which forces most devt allocations to be from the extended area and spreads them out. This is enabled by default if DEBUG_KERNEL is set and achieves... 1. Detects code paths in kernel or userland which expect predetermined consecutive device numbers. 2. When something goes wrong, avoid corruption as adding to the minor of earlier partition won't lead to the wrong but valid device. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* klist: don't iterate over deleted entriesTejun Heo2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A klist entry is kept on the list till all its current iterations are finished; however, a new iteration after deletion also iterates over deleted entries as long as their reference count stays above zero. This causes problems for cases where there are users which iterate over the list while synchronized against list manipulations and natuarally expect already deleted entries to not show up during iteration. This patch implements dead flag which gets set on deletion so that iteration can skip already deleted entries. The dead flag piggy backs on the lowest bit of knode->n_klist and only visible to klist implementation proper. While at it, drop klist_iter->i_head as it's redundant and doesn't offer anything in semantics or performance wise as klist_iter->i_klist is dereferenced on every iteration anyway. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2008-09-11
|\ | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_buffer
| * sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_bufferFUJITA Tomonori2008-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The callers of sg_copy_buffer must disable interrupts before calling it (since it uses kmap_atomic). Some callers use it on interrupt-disabled code but some need to take the trouble to disable interrupts just for this. No wonder they forget about it and we hit a bug like: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11529 James said that it might be better to disable interrupts inside the function rather than risk the callers getting it wrong. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | swiotlb: fix back-off path when memory allocation failsDaniel J Blueman2008-09-10
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a SWIOTLB oops With SWIOTLB being enabled and straight-forward page allocation failure [1], the swiotlb_alloc_coherent fall-back path hits an issue [2], resulting in my webcam failing to work. At the time of oops, RDI is clearly a pointer to a structure which has arrived as NULL, leading to the typo in swiotlb_map_single's callsite arguments. Correctly passing the device structure [3] addresses the issue and gets my webcam working again (the allocation failure still occuring). --- [1] skype: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x1 Pid: 5895, comm: skype Not tainted 2.6.27-rc6-235c-debug #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff802b7cf0>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x4a0/0x5d0 [<ffffffff802d5ddd>] alloc_pages_current+0xad/0x110 [<ffffffff802b4ccd>] __get_free_pages+0x1d/0x60 [<ffffffff8046cd39>] swiotlb_alloc_coherent+0x49/0x180 [<ffffffff80212731>] dma_alloc_coherent+0x281/0x310 [<ffffffff805621c0>] hcd_buffer_alloc+0x50/0x90 [<ffffffff805547fd>] usb_buffer_alloc+0x2d/0x40 [<ffffffffa0056763>] uvc_alloc_urb_buffers+0x53/0xf0 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0056958>] uvc_init_video+0x158/0x3e0 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0056c17>] uvc_video_enable+0x37/0x80 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0055853>] uvc_v4l2_do_ioctl+0x723/0x1260 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffff8026dd61>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x21/0xc0 [<ffffffff8026dd61>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x21/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0032c9f>] video_usercopy+0x19f/0x390 [videodev] [<ffffffffa0055130>] ? uvc_v4l2_do_ioctl+0x0/0x1260 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffff8026d0ce>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x30 [<ffffffffa0054dad>] uvc_v4l2_ioctl+0x4d/0x80 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0045083>] native_ioctl+0x83/0x90 [compat_ioctl32] [<ffffffffa004534e>] v4l_compat_ioctl32+0x2be/0x1da4 [compat_ioctl32] [<ffffffff806aad21>] ? do_page_fault+0x3d1/0xae0 [<ffffffff80270ccd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff80270c59>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x149/0x1b0 [<ffffffff80270ccd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff80329afa>] compat_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0x3c0 [<ffffffff806a700d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff8022f816>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffff806a6fce>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f Mem-Info: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 3 CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Node 0 Normal per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 23 CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 179 Active:78545 inactive:48683 dirty:31 writeback:0 unstable:2 free:830202 slab:17516 mapped:17473 pagetables:3496 bounce:0 Node 0 DMA free:36kB min:28kB low:32kB high:40kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:15156kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3207 3956 3956 Node 0 DMA32 free:3197192kB min:6512kB low:8140kB high:9768kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:3284896kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 748 748 Node 0 Normal free:123580kB min:1516kB low:1892kB high:2272kB active:314180kB inactive:194732kB present:766464kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 36kB Node 0 DMA32: 4*4kB 3*8kB 2*16kB 3*32kB 4*64kB 5*128kB 3*256kB 5*512kB 4*1024kB 5*2048kB 776*4096kB = 3197224kB Node 0 Normal: 14*4kB 14*8kB 8*16kB 6*32kB 1*64kB 3*128kB 3*256kB 2*512kB 4*1024kB 1*2048kB 28*4096kB = 123560kB 64847 total pagecache pages 0 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Free swap = 502752kB Total swap = 502752kB 1048576 pages RAM 52120 pages reserved 71967 pages shared 143004 pages non-shared --- [2] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002c8 IP: [<ffffffff8046c84c>] map_single+0x1c/0x280 PGD 10e54e067 PUD 10e595067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC CPU 0 Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm microcode uvcvideo compat_ioctl32 videodev v4l1_compat shpchp pci_hotplug Pid: 5895, comm: skype Not tainted 2.6.27-rc6-235c-debug #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8046c84c>] [<ffffffff8046c84c>] map_single+0x1c/0x280 RSP: 0018:ffff88010e78d988 EFLAGS: 00210296 RAX: 0000780000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 0000000000005000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88010e78d9e8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffff88010e78d698 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000005000 R15: ffff88012f1c9968 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80a6cdc0(0063) knlGS:00000000f6355b90 CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000000002c8 CR3: 000000010e57d000 CR4: 00000000000026e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process skype (pid: 5895, threadinfo ffff88010e78c000, task ffff88012b9cc460) Stack: 0000000200000000 0000000000005000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000017b8 0000000000000000 ffff88010e78d9c8 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000005000 ffff88012f1c9968 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8046cbb0>] swiotlb_map_single_attrs+0x60/0xf0 [<ffffffff8046cc4c>] swiotlb_map_single+0xc/0x10 [<ffffffff8046cdee>] swiotlb_alloc_coherent+0xfe/0x180 [<ffffffff80212731>] dma_alloc_coherent+0x281/0x310 [<ffffffff805621c0>] hcd_buffer_alloc+0x50/0x90 [<ffffffff805547fd>] usb_buffer_alloc+0x2d/0x40 [<ffffffffa0056763>] uvc_alloc_urb_buffers+0x53/0xf0 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0056958>] uvc_init_video+0x158/0x3e0 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0056c17>] uvc_video_enable+0x37/0x80 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0055853>] uvc_v4l2_do_ioctl+0x723/0x1260 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffff8026dd61>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x21/0xc0 [<ffffffff8026dd61>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x21/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0032c9f>] video_usercopy+0x19f/0x390 [videodev] [<ffffffffa0055130>] ? uvc_v4l2_do_ioctl+0x0/0x1260 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffff8026d0ce>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x30 [<ffffffffa0054dad>] uvc_v4l2_ioctl+0x4d/0x80 [uvcvideo] [<ffffffffa0045083>] native_ioctl+0x83/0x90 [compat_ioctl32] [<ffffffffa004534e>] v4l_compat_ioctl32+0x2be/0x1da4 [compat_ioctl32] [<ffffffff806aad21>] ? do_page_fault+0x3d1/0xae0 [<ffffffff80270ccd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff80270c59>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x149/0x1b0 [<ffffffff80270ccd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff80329afa>] compat_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0x3c0 [<ffffffff806a700d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff8022f816>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffff806a6fce>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f Code: 45 31 c0 48 89 e5 e8 a4 ff ff ff c9 c3 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 38 48 89 75 b0 48 89 55 a8 89 4d a4 <48> 8b 87 c8 02 00 00 48 85 c0 0f 84 1c 02 00 00 48 8b 58 08 48 RIP [<ffffffff8046c84c>] map_single+0x1c/0x280 RSP <ffff88010e78d988> CR2: 00000000000002c8 ---[ end trace 5d15baeeb7025a0e ]--- --- [3] ffffffff8046c830 <map_single>: map_single(): /store/kernel/linux/lib/swiotlb.c:291 ffffffff8046c830: 55 push %rbp ffffffff8046c831: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp ffffffff8046c834: 41 57 push %r15 ffffffff8046c836: 41 56 push %r14 ffffffff8046c838: 41 55 push %r13 ffffffff8046c83a: 41 54 push %r12 ffffffff8046c83c: 53 push %rbx ffffffff8046c83d: 48 83 ec 38 sub $0x38,%rsp ffffffff8046c841: 48 89 75 b0 mov %rsi,-0x50(%rbp) ffffffff8046c845: 48 89 55 a8 mov %rdx,-0x58(%rbp) ffffffff8046c849: 89 4d a4 mov %ecx,-0x5c(%rbp) dma_get_seg_boundary(): /store/kernel/linux/include/linux/dma-mapping.h:80 ffffffff8046c84c: 48 8b 87 c8 02 00 00 mov 0x2c8(%rdi),%rax <---- --- [4] Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architecturesJames Bottomley2008-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2. However, the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64. For two reasons: 1) parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for function descriptors Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing architecture overrides. I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64 and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'core/debugobjects' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-09-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/debugobjects' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: debugobjects: fix lockdep warning
| * debugobjects: fix lockdep warningVegard Nossum2008-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Daniel J. Blueman reported: > ======================================================= > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 2.6.27-rc4-224c #1 > ------------------------------------------------------- > hald/4680 is trying to acquire lock: > (&n->list_lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff802bfa26>] add_partial+0x26/0x80 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&obj_hash[i].lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff8041cfdc>] > debug_object_free+0x5c/0x120 We fix it by moving the actual freeing to outside the lock (the lock now only protects the list). The pool lock is also promoted to irq-safe (suggested by Dan). It's necessary because free_pool is now called outside the irq disabled region. So we need to protect against an interrupt handler which calls debug_object_init(). [tglx@linutronix.de: added hlist_move_list helper to avoid looping through the list twice] Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | powerpc: Work around gcc's -fno-omit-frame-pointer bugTony Breeds2008-09-03
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This bug is causing random crashes (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414). -fno-omit-frame-pointer is only needed on powerpc when -pg is also supplied, and there is a gcc bug that causes incorrect code generation on 32-bit powerpc when -fno-omit-frame-pointer is used---it uses stack locations below the stack pointer, which is not allowed by the ABI because those locations can and sometimes do get corrupted by an interrupt. This ensures that CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is only selected by ftrace. When CONFIG_FTRACE is enabled we also pass -mno-sched-epilog to work around the gcc codegen bug. Patch based on work by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* kobject: Replace ALL occurrences of '/' with '!' instead of only the first one.Ingo Oeser2008-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent patch from Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> replaced the first occurrence of '/' with '!' as needed for block devices. Now do some cheap defensive coding and replace all of them to avoid future issues in this area. Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-08-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: lmb: Fix reserved region handling in lmb_enforce_memory_limit(). sparc64: Fix cmdline_memory_size handling bugs. sparc64: Fix overshoot in nid_range().
| * lmb: Fix reserved region handling in lmb_enforce_memory_limit().David S. Miller2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The idea of the implementation of this fix is from Michael Ellerman. This function has two loops, but they each interpret the memory_limit value differently. The first loop interprets it as a "size limit" whereas the second loop interprets it as an "address limit". Before the second loop runs, reset memory_limit to lmb_end_of_DRAM() so that it all works out. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
* | Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default yAndi Kleen2008-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed that sysctl_check.o was the largest object file in a allnoconfig build in kernel/*. 36243 0 0 36243 8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o This is because it was default y and && EMBEDDED. But I don't really see a need for a non kernel developer to have their sysctls checked all the time. So move the Kconfig into the kernel debugging section and also drop the default y and the EMBEDDED check. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | docsrc: build Documentation/ sourcesRandy Dunlap2008-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them. This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code instead of bad examples. Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir. Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol. Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the Documentation/ sources. Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system. However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need to be installed (for userspace builds). Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32, sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | seq_file: add seq_cpumask(), seq_nodemask()Alexey Dobriyan2008-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Short enough reads from /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity return -EINVAL for no good reason. This became noticed with NR_CPUS=4096 patches, when length of printed representation of cpumask becase 1152, but cat(1) continued to read with 1024-byte chunks. bitmap_scnprintf() in good faith fills buffer, returns 1023, check returns -EINVAL. Fix it by switching to seq_file, so handler will just fill buffer and doesn't care about offsets, length, filling EOF and all this crap. For that add seq_bitmap(), and wrappers around it -- seq_cpumask() and seq_nodemask(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib/vsprintf.c: wrong conversion function usedYi Yang2008-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix wrong conversion function used by strict_strtou* Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com> Reported-by: Swen Schillig <swen@vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'core/locking' into core/urgentIngo Molnar2008-08-11
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| * debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages.David Miller2008-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise lock debugging messages on runqueue locks can deadlock the system due to the wakeups performed by printk(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-08-01
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: fix gdb serial thread queries kgdb: fix kgdb_validate_break_address to perform a mem write kgdb: remove the requirement for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
| * | kgdb: remove the requirement for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERJason Wessel2008-08-01
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no technical reason that the kgdb core requires frame pointers. It is up to the end user of KGDB to decide if they need them or not. [ anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp: removed frame pointers on mips ] Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-08-01
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (46 commits) tcp: MD5: Fix IPv6 signatures skbuff: add missing kernel-doc for do_not_encrypt net/ipv4/route.c: fix build error tcp: MD5: Fix MD5 signatures on certain ACK packets ipv6: Fix ip6_xmit to send fragments if ipfragok is true ipvs: Move userspace definitions to include/linux/ip_vs.h netdev: Fix lockdep warnings in multiqueue configurations. netfilter: xt_hashlimit: fix race between htable_destroy and htable_gc netfilter: ipt_recent: fix race between recent_mt_destroy and proc manipulations netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: decrease timeouts while data in unacknowledged irda: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ nsc-ircc: default to dongle type 9 on IBM hardware bluetooth: add quirks for a few hci_usb devices hysdn: remove the packed attribute from PofTimStamp_tag isdn: use the common ascii hex helpers tg3: adapt tg3 to use reworked PCI PM code atm: fix direct casts of pointers to u32 in the InterPhase driver atm: fix const assignment/discard warnings in the ATM networking driver net: use the common ascii hex helpers random32: seeding improvement ...
| * | random32: seeding improvementStephen Hemminger2008-07-30
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rationale is: * use u32 consistently * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding * don't reduce state space on srandom32() * enforce state variable initialization restrictions Note: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period and a version of random64() if needed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* / generic, x86: fix add iommu_num_pages helper functionFUJITA Tomonori2008-07-29
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This IOMMU helper function doesn't work for some architectures: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121699304403202&w=2 It also breaks POWER and SPARC builds: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121730388001890&w=2 Currently, only x86 IOMMUs use this so let's move it to x86 for now. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-28
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits) x86/PCI: use dev_printk when possible PCI: add D3 power state avoidance quirk PCI: fix bogus "'device' may be used uninitialized" warning in pci_slot PCI: add an option to allow ASPM enabled forcibly PCI: disable ASPM on pre-1.1 PCIe devices PCI: disable ASPM per ACPI FADT setting PCI MSI: Don't disable MSIs if the mask bit isn't supported PCI: handle 64-bit resources better on 32-bit machines PCI: rewrite PCI BAR reading code PCI: document pci_target_state PCI hotplug: fix typo in pcie hotplug output x86 gart: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages x86, AMD IOMMU: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages iommu: add iommu_num_pages helper function dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces Cris: convert to using generic dma-coherent mem allocator Sh: use generic per-device coherent dma allocator ARM: support generic per-device coherent dma mem Generic dma-coherent: fix DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE x86: use generic per-device dma coherent allocator ...
| * Merge branch 'x86/iommu' of ↵Jesse Barnes2008-07-28
| |\ | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus
| | * iommu: add iommu_num_pages helper functionJoerg Roedel2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Calculating the number of pages from given address and length numbers is a task required in multiple IOMMU implementations. So implement this as a generic function into the IOMMU helper code. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | __ratelimit() cpu flags can't be staticAlexey Dobriyan2008-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar2008-07-28
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| * | lib: generic show_mem()Johannes Weiner2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This implements a platform-independent version of show_mem(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | task_current_syscallRoland McGrath2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the new function task_current_syscall() on machines where the asm/syscall.h interface is supported (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK). It's exported for modules to use in the future. This function safely samples the state of a blocked thread to collect what system call it is blocked in, and the six system call argument registers. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | Use WARN() in lib/Arjan van de Ven2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. In addition, one of the if() clauses collapes into the WARN() entirely now. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructorAlexey Dobriyan2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | radix-tree: add gang_lookup_slot, gang_lookup_slot_tagNick Piggin2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce gang_lookup_slot() and gang_lookup_slot_tag() functions, which are used by lockless pagecache. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error()FUJITA Tomonori2008-07-26
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER architecture does: This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423). I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread). So I CC'ed this to KVM camp. Comments are appreciated. A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added. If the pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it. If it's NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before. If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works with hot plugging). It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate dma_mapping_ops per device. The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA operations. So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per device. Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different dma_mapping_error functions. The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error. The patch is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in all the architecture. This patch: dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA operations. So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device. Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function. x86 IOMMUs use device argument. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi] Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* / cpumask: change cpumask_of_cpu_ptr to use new cpumask_of_cpuMike Travis2008-07-26
|/ | | | | | | | | | | * Replace previous instances of the cpumask_of_cpu_ptr* macros with a the new (lvalue capable) generic cpumask_of_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* idr: make idr_remove rcu-safeNadia Derbey2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce the free_layer() routine: it is the one that actually frees memory after a grace period has elapsed. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* idr: make idr_find rcu-safeNadia Derbey2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical section. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* idr: make idr_get_new* rcu-safeNadia Derbey2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the idr_get_new* routines rcu-safe. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* idr: error checking factorizationNadia Derbey2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Do some code factorization in the return code analysis. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* idr: fix a printk callNadia Derbey2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the incomplete printk call. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* idr: rename some of the idr APIs internal routinesNadia Derbey2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a trivial patch that renames: . alloc_layer to get_from_free_list since it idr_pre_get that actually allocates memory. . free_layer to move_to_free_list since memory is not actually freed there. This makes things more clear for the next patches. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk ratelimiting rewriteDave Young2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All ratelimit user use same jiffies and burst params, so some messages (callbacks) will be lost. For example: a call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) b call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) before the 5*HZ timeout of a, then b will will be supressed. - rewrite __ratelimit, and use a ratelimit_state as parameter. Thanks for hints from andrew. - Add WARN_ON_RATELIMIT, update rcupreempt.h - remove __printk_ratelimit - use __ratelimit in net_ratelimit Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* list debugging: use WARN() instead of BUG()Dave Jones2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Arjan noted that the list_head debugging is BUG'ing when it detects corruption. By causing the box to panic immediately, we're possibly losing some bug reports. Changing this to a WARN() should mean we at the least start seeing reports collected at kerneloops.org Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Example use of WARN()Arjan van de Ven2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | Now that WARN() exists, we can fold some of the printk's into it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* inflate: refactor inflate malloc codeThomas Petazzoni2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot process and this is provided with a set of four functions: malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release. The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena. This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying all the malloc/free implementations. The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses: - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which allocations should be made - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog() function call. This function will be called several times during the decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls arch_decomp_wdog(). Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the kernel and improved by me. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lists: remove a redundant conditional definition of list_add()Robert P. J. Day2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the conditional surrounding the definition of list_add() from list.h since, if you define CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST, the definition you will subsequently pick up from lib/list_debug.c will be absolutely identical, at which point you can remove that redundant definition from list_debug.c as well. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lib: allow memparse() to accept a NULL and ignorable second parmRobert P. J. Day2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend memparse() to allow the caller to use a NULL second parameter, which would represent no interest in returning the address of the end of the parsed string. In numerous cases, callers invoke memparse() to parse a possibly-suffixed string (such as "64K" or "2G" or whatever) and define a character pointer to accept the end pointer being returned by memparse() even though they have no interest in it and promptly throw it away. This (backward-compatible) enhancement allows callers to use NULL in the cases where they just don't care about getting back that end pointer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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