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<title>compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()</title>
<updated>2010-09-14T23:08:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-07T23:16:18+00:00</published>
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compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area.  A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.

This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.

This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures.  This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.

Reported-by: Ben Hawkes &lt;hawkes@sota.gen.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area.  A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.

This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.

This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures.  This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.

Reported-by: Ben Hawkes &lt;hawkes@sota.gen.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>archs: replace unifdef-y with header-y</title>
<updated>2010-08-14T20:26:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-14T08:20:19+00:00</published>
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unifdef-y and header-y have same semantic, so drop unifdef-y

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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unifdef-y and header-y have same semantic, so drop unifdef-y

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: remove dma_is_consistent API</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T15:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T01:03:25+00:00</published>
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Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt).  So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers.  We have only one user of the API in tree.  Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.

Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all.  It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all.  It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.

Let's remove this API.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt).  So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers.  We have only one user of the API in tree.  Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.

Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all.  It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all.  It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.

Let's remove this API.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: parisc: set ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T15:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T01:03:23+00:00</published>
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Architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to make sure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe: the
buffer doesn't share a cache with the others.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to make sure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe: the
buffer doesn't share a cache with the others.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T15:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T01:03:22+00:00</published>
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dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment.  Architectures
defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN).  So we
can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly.
dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment.  So
fully-coherent architectures should return 1.  This patch also fixes this
issue.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment.  Architectures
defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN).  So we
can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly.
dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment.  So
fully-coherent architectures should return 1.  This patch also fixes this
issue.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T22:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T22:22:42+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T20:47:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>hyc@symas.com</name>
<email>hyc@symas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-22T17:14:49+00:00</published>
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This patch is against the 2.6.34 source.

Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com:

     These are the changes needed for the kernel to support
     LINEMODE in the server.

     There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC.
     When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver
     are disabled.  Input line editing, character echo, and mapping
     of signals are all disabled.  This allows the telnetd to turn
     off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of
     what state the user wants the terminal to be in.

     New ioctl:
         TIOCSIG         Generate a signal to processes in the
                         current process group of the pty.

     There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit.
     When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit
     is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the
     next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL
     bit set.  This allows the process on the server side of the pty
     to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then
     issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state.

Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet
I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for
any remote terminal protocol, including ssh.

The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989.
For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found
here:

http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741

Signed-off-by: Howard Chu &lt;hyc@symas.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;


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This patch is against the 2.6.34 source.

Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com:

     These are the changes needed for the kernel to support
     LINEMODE in the server.

     There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC.
     When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver
     are disabled.  Input line editing, character echo, and mapping
     of signals are all disabled.  This allows the telnetd to turn
     off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of
     what state the user wants the terminal to be in.

     New ioctl:
         TIOCSIG         Generate a signal to processes in the
                         current process group of the pty.

     There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit.
     When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit
     is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the
     next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL
     bit set.  This allows the process on the server side of the pty
     to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then
     issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state.

Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet
I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for
any remote terminal protocol, including ssh.

The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989.
For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found
here:

http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741

Signed-off-by: Howard Chu &lt;hyc@symas.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: remove remaining Hayes ESP ioctls</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T20:47:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-17T20:16:08+00:00</published>
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As Jeff Dike pointed out, the Hayes ESP driver was removed in commit
f53a2ade0bb9f2a81f473e6469155172a96b7c38, so these ioctl definitions
should also be removed.  This cleans up the remaining arch-specific
locations of this ioctl value.

Thanks to Arnd for pointing these out.

Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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As Jeff Dike pointed out, the Hayes ESP driver was removed in commit
f53a2ade0bb9f2a81f473e6469155172a96b7c38, so these ioctl definitions
should also be removed.  This cleans up the remaining arch-specific
locations of this ioctl value.

Thanks to Arnd for pointing these out.

Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmap_atomic: make kunmap_atomic() harder to misuse</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T03:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cesar Eduardo Barros</name>
<email>cesarb@cesarb.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T00:18:32+00:00</published>
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kunmap_atomic() is currently at level -4 on Rusty's "Hard To Misuse"
list[1] ("Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong"), except in
some architectures when CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is set[2][3].

kunmap() takes a pointer to a struct page; kunmap_atomic(), however, takes
takes a pointer to within the page itself.  This seems to once in a while
trip people up (the convention they are following is the one from
kunmap()).

Make it much harder to misuse, by moving it to level 9 on Rusty's list[4]
("The compiler/linker won't let you get it wrong").  This is done by
refusing to build if the type of its first argument is a pointer to a
struct page.

The real kunmap_atomic() is renamed to kunmap_atomic_notypecheck()
(which is what you would call in case for some strange reason calling it
with a pointer to a struct page is not incorrect in your code).

The previous version of this patch was compile tested on x86-64.

[1] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
[2] In these cases, it is at level 5, "Do it right or it will always
    break at runtime."
[3] At least mips and powerpc look very similar, and sparc also seems to
    share a common ancestor with both; there seems to be quite some
    degree of copy-and-paste coding here. The include/asm/highmem.h file
    for these three archs mention x86 CPUs at its top.
[4] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
[5] As an aside, could someone tell me why mn10300 uses unsigned long as
    the first parameter of kunmap_atomic() instead of void *?

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros &lt;cesarb@cesarb.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt; (arch/arm)
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt; (arch/mips)
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt; (arch/frv, arch/mn10300)
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt; (arch/mn10300)
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt; (arch/parisc)
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; (arch/parisc)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt; (arch/parisc)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt; (arch/powerpc)
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt; (arch/powerpc)
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt; (arch/sparc)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt; (arch/x86)
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt; (arch/x86)
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt; (arch/x86)
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt; (include/asm-generic)
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; ("Hard To Misuse" list)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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kunmap_atomic() is currently at level -4 on Rusty's "Hard To Misuse"
list[1] ("Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong"), except in
some architectures when CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is set[2][3].

kunmap() takes a pointer to a struct page; kunmap_atomic(), however, takes
takes a pointer to within the page itself.  This seems to once in a while
trip people up (the convention they are following is the one from
kunmap()).

Make it much harder to misuse, by moving it to level 9 on Rusty's list[4]
("The compiler/linker won't let you get it wrong").  This is done by
refusing to build if the type of its first argument is a pointer to a
struct page.

The real kunmap_atomic() is renamed to kunmap_atomic_notypecheck()
(which is what you would call in case for some strange reason calling it
with a pointer to a struct page is not incorrect in your code).

The previous version of this patch was compile tested on x86-64.

[1] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
[2] In these cases, it is at level 5, "Do it right or it will always
    break at runtime."
[3] At least mips and powerpc look very similar, and sparc also seems to
    share a common ancestor with both; there seems to be quite some
    degree of copy-and-paste coding here. The include/asm/highmem.h file
    for these three archs mention x86 CPUs at its top.
[4] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
[5] As an aside, could someone tell me why mn10300 uses unsigned long as
    the first parameter of kunmap_atomic() instead of void *?

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros &lt;cesarb@cesarb.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt; (arch/arm)
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt; (arch/mips)
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt; (arch/frv, arch/mn10300)
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt; (arch/mn10300)
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt; (arch/parisc)
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; (arch/parisc)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt; (arch/parisc)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt; (arch/powerpc)
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt; (arch/powerpc)
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt; (arch/sparc)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt; (arch/x86)
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt; (arch/x86)
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt; (arch/x86)
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt; (include/asm-generic)
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; ("Hard To Misuse" list)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>remove needless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T16:15:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-31T06:59:04+00:00</published>
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Architectures don't need to define ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD anymore.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Architectures don't need to define ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD anymore.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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