Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/core

Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 3dcaa1661357..874ecf1307ae 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ void oops_exit(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef WANT_WARN_ON_SLOWPATH
-void warn_slowpath(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...)
+void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
         va_list args;
         char function[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ void warn_slowpath(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...)
         if (board)
                 printk(KERN_WARNING "Hardware name: %s\n", board);
 
-        if (fmt) {
+        if (*fmt) {
                 va_start(args, fmt);
                 vprintk(fmt, args);
                 va_end(args);
@@ -367,7 +367,14 @@ void warn_slowpath(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...)
         print_oops_end_marker();
         add_taint(TAINT_WARN);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_fmt);
+
+void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, int line)
+{
+        static const char *empty = "";
+        warn_slowpath_fmt(file, line, empty);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_null);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR