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* [PATCH] tty: update the tty layer to work with struct pidEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Of kernel subsystems that work with pids the tty layer is probably the largest consumer. But it has the nice virtue that the assiation with a session only lasts until the session leader exits. Which means that no reference counting is required. So using struct pid winds up being a simple optimization to avoid hash table lookups. In the long term the use of pid_nr also ensures that when we have multiple pid spaces mixed everything will work correctly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <eric@maxwell.lnxi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] pid: replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphanedEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every call to is_orphaned_pgrp passed in process_group(current) which is racy with respect to another thread changing our process group. It didn't bite us because we were dealing with integers and the worse we would get would be a stale answer. In switching the checks to use struct pid to be a little more efficient and prepare the way for pid namespaces this race became apparent. So I simplified the calls to the more specialized is_current_pgrp_orphaned so I didn't have to worry about making logic changes to avoid the race. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] pid: use struct pid for talking about process groups in exitcEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Modify has_stopped_jobs and will_become_orphan_pgrp to use struct pid based process groups. This reduces the number of hash tables looks ups and paves the way for multiple pid spaces. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] pid: make session_of_pgrp use struct pid instead of pid_tEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To properly implement a pid namespace I need to deal exclusively in terms of struct pid, because pid_t values become ambiguous. To this end session_of_pgrp is transformed to take and return a struct pid pointer. To avoid the need to worry about reference counting I now require my caller to hold the appropriate locks. Leaving callers repsonsible for increasing the reference count if they need access to the result outside of the locks. Since session_of_pgrp currently only has one caller and that caller simply uses only test the result for equality with another process group, the locking change means I don't actually have to acquire the tasklist_lock at all. tiocspgrp is also modified to take and release the lock. The logic there is a little more complicated but nothing I won't need when I convert pgrp of a tty to a struct pid pointer. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] signal: rewrite kill_something_info so it uses newer helpersEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | The goal is to remove users of the old signal helper functions so they can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] signal: use kill_pgrp not kill_pg in the sunos compatibility codeEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | I am slowly moving to a model where all process killing is struct pid based instead of pid_t based. The sunos compatibility code is one of the last users of the old pid_t based kill_pg in the kernel. By being complete I allow for the future removal of kill_pg from the kernel, which will ensure I don't miss something. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] tty: fix the locking for signal->session in disassociate_cttyEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | commit 24ec839c431eb79bb8f6abc00c4e1eb3b8c4d517 while fixing the locking for signal->tty got the locking wrong for signal->session. This places our accesses of signal->session back under the tasklist_lock where they belong. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] tty: clarify disassociate_cttyEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code to look at tty_old_pgrp and send SIGHUP and SIGCONT when it is present only executes when disassociate_ctty is called from do_exit. Make this clear by adding an explict on_exit check, and explicitly setting tty_old_pgrp to 0. In addition fix the locking by reading tty_old_pgrp under the siglock. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] tty: make __proc_set_tty staticEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The aim of this patch set is to start wrapping up the struct pid conversions. As such this patchset culminates with the removal of kill_pg, kill_pg_info, __kill_pg_info, do_each_task_pid, and while_each_task_pid. kill_proc, daemonize, and kernel_thread are still in my sights but there is still work to get to them. The first three are basic cleanups around disassociate_ctty, while working on converting it I found several issues. tty_old_pgrp can be a tricky concept to wrap your head around. 1 tty: Make __proc_set_tty static. 2 tty: Clarify disassociate_ctty 3 tty: Fix the locking for signal->session in disassociate_ctty These just stop using the old helper functions. 4 signal: Use kill_pgrp not kill_pg in the sunos compatibility code. 5 signal: Rewrite kill_something_info so it uses newer helpers. Then the grind to convert the tty layer and all of it's helper functions to struct pid. 6 pid: Make session_of_pgrp use struct pid instead of pid_t. 7 pid: Use struct pid for talking about process groups in exit.c 8 pid: Replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned 9 tty: Update the tty layer to work with struct pid. A final helper function update. 10 pid: Replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task And the removal of the functions that are now unused. 11 pid: Remove now unused do_each_task_pid and while_each_task_pid 12 pid: Remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_info All of these should be fairly simple and to the point. This patch: Currently all users of __proc_set_tty are in tty_io.c so make the function static. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Minix V3 supportAndries Brouwer2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This morning I needed to read a Minix V3 filesystem, but unfortunately my 2.6.19 did not support that, and neither did the downloaded 2.6.20rc4. Fortunately, google told me that Daniel Aragones had already done the work, patch found at http://www.terra.es/personal2/danarag/ Unfortunaly, looking at the patch was painful to my eyes, so I polished it a bit before applying. The resulting kernel boots, and reads the filesystem it needed to read. Signed-off-by: Daniel Aragones <danarag@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] SPI eeprom driverDavid Brownell2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is adds a simple SPI EEPROM driver, providing access to the EEPROM through sysfs much like the I2C "eeprom" driver ... except this driver supports write access, and multiple EEPROM sizes. From: "Tuppa, Walter" <walter.tuppa@siemens.com> Since I have EEPROMs on SPI with different address sizing, I made some changes to your at25.c to support them. Works perfectly. (Also includes a small bugfix for the "what size address" test.) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Walter Tuppa <walter.tuppa@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] RTC gets sysfs wakealarm attributeDavid Brownell2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new "wakealarm" sysfs attribute to RTC class devices which support alarm operations and are wakeup-capable: - It reads as either empty, or the scheduled alarm time as seconds since the POSIX epoch. (That time may already have passed, since nothing currently enforces one-shot alarm semantics.) - It can be written with an alarm time in the future, again seconds since the POSIX epoch, which enables the alarm. - It can be written with an alarm time not in the future (such as 0, the start of the POSIX epoch) to disable the alarm. Usage examples (some need GNU date) after "cd /sys/class/rtc/rtcN": alarm after 10 minutes: # echo $(( $(cat since_epoch) + 10 * 60 )) > wakealarm alarm tuesday evening 10pm: # date -d '10pm tuesday' "+%s" > wakealarm disable alarm: # echo 0 > wakealarm This resembles the /proc/acpi/alarm file in that nothing happens when the alarm triggers ... except possibly waking the system from sleep. It's also like that in a nasty way: not much can be done to prevent one task from clobbering another task's alarm settings. It differs from that file in that there's no in-kernel date parser. Note that a few RTCs ignore rtc_wkalrm.enabled when setting alarms, or aren't set up correctly, so they won't yet behave with this attribute. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] SPI doc clarificationsDavid Brownell2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | This clarifies some aspects of the SPI programming interface, based on feedback from Hans-Peter Nilsson. The in-memory representation of words is right-aligned, so for example a twelve bit word is stored using sixteen bits with four undefined bits in the MSB. And controller drivers must reject protocol tweaking modes they do not support. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] SPI cleanup() method param becomes non-constHans-Peter Nilsson2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'd like to assign NULL to kfree()d members of a structure. I can't do that without ugly casting (see the PXA patch) when the structure pointed to is const-qualified. I don't really see a reason why the cleanup method isn't allowed to alter the object it should clean up. :-) No, I didn't test the PXA patch, but I verified that the NULL-assignment doesn't stop me from doing rmmod/insmodding my own spi_bitbang-based driver. Signed-off-by: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] spi_bitbang(): use overridable setup_transfer() methodHans-Peter Nilsson2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A small bug-fix for spi_bitbang: it must always call the setup_transfer function via the overridable pointer, not assume that its spi_bitbang_setup_transfer is sufficient. Otherwise, if all options in the transfers are default (0), the overrided function will never be called. Granted, the function replacing it must call spi_bitbang_setup_transfer, but it might also have other important things to do, even if the second argument (the spi_transfer) is NULL. Tested together with the other patches on the spi_crisv32_sser and spi_crisv32_gpio drivers (not yet in the kernel, will IIUC be submitted as part of the usual arch-maintainer-pushes). Signed-off-by: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] spi: remove return in spi_unregister_driver()Ben Dooks2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make the spi_unregister_driver() code fit in with the rest of the header file, and only do the action if the driver passed is non-NULL. This also makes the code a line smaller. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] spi: documentation does not need to set driver's bus_type fieldBen Dooks2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | The spi_register_driver() sets the bus_type field of the spi_driver being registered, so there is no need to have it set in the driver itself. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] spi: add spi_set_drvdata() and spi_get_drvdata()Ben Dooks2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Add wrappers for getting and setting the driver data using spi_device instead of using dev_{get|set}_drvdata with &spi->dev, to mirror the platform_{get|set}_drvdata. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] SPI: Freescale iMX SPI controller driver (BIS+)Andrea Paterniani2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the SPI controller driver for Freescale i.MX(S/L/1). Main features summary: > Per chip setup via board specific code and/or protocol driver. > Per transfer setup. > PIO transfers. > DMA transfers. > Managing of NULL tx / rx buffer for rd only / wr only transfers. This patch replace patch-2.6.20-rc4-spi_imx with the following changes: > Few cosmetic changes. > Function map_dma_buffers now return 0 for success and -1 for failure. > Solved a bug inside spi_imx_probe function (wrong error path). > Solved a bug inside setup function (bad undo setup for max_speed_hz). > For read-only transfers, always write zero bytes. This is almost the same as the 'BIS' version sent by Andrea, except for updating the 'DUMMY' byte so that read-only transfers shift out zeroes. That part of the API changed recently, since some half duplex peripheral chips require that semantic. Signed-off-by: Andrea Paterniani <a.paterniani@swapp-eng.it> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] SPI controller driver for OMAP MicrowireDavid Brownell2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a SPI driver for the Microwire controller on OMAP1 chips. This driver has been used in the Linux-OMAP tree for some time now, including with some of those displays using standardized 9-bit commands followed by data with 8-bit words. Microwire only supports half duplex transfers, but that's all that most SPI protocols need. When full duplex, or higher speeds, are needed there are several other controllers that can be used on OMAP. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@solidboot.com> Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] SPI Kconfig fixDavid Brownell2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | Minor Kconfig cleanup ... put the SPI_S3C24XX entry in the correct location (alphabetical order). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] DS1302: local_irq_disable() is redundant after local_irq_save()Jiri Kosina2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/char/ds1302.c::get_rtc_time() contains local_irq_disable() call after local_irq_save(). This looks redundant. drivers/char/ds1302.c::rtc_ioctl() contains local_irq_disable() call after local_irq_save(). This looks redundant. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver (v2)Tilman Schmidt2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the line discipline based driver for the Gigaset M101 wireless RS232 adapter. It also improves the documentation a bit. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] drivers/telephony/ixj: Convert to generic booleanRichard Knutsson2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert: BOOL -> bool FALSE -> false TRUE -> true Change a variable ('mContinue') to boolean from char, since it is used as boolean. Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Char: timers cleanupJiri Slaby2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Use timer macros to set function and data members and to modify expiration time. - Use DEFINE_TIMER for global timers and do not init them at run-time in these cases. - del_timer_sync is common in most cases -- we want to wait for timer function if it's still running. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> (Input bits) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Char: specialix, isr have 2 paramsJiri Slaby2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | specialix, isr have 2 params pt_regs are no longer the third parameter of isr, call sx_interrupt without it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] change __init to __devinit in 2 rtc driversPrarit Bhargava2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change __init to __devinit in rtc drivers' probe functions. Resolves MODPOST warnings: WARNING: drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1553.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:ds1553_rtc_probe from .data.rel between 'ds1553_rtc_driver' (at offset 0x0) and 'ds1553_nvram_attr' WARNING: drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1742.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:ds1742_rtc_probe from .data.rel between 'ds1742_rtc_driver' (at offset 0x0) and 'ds1742_nvram_attr' Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] export ufs_fs.h to userspaceMike Frysinger2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Was ufs_fs.h purposefully not exported to userspace or did it just slip through the cracks ? assuming the latter scenario, the attached patch touches up the relationship between ufs_fs.h and its sub headers (like ufs_fs_sb.h) so that we can export it ... the silo bootloader takes advantage of this header for example. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] close_files(): add scheduling pointIngo Molnar2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | close_files() can sometimes take long enough to trigger the soft lockup detector. Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: reduce kernel message spamTilman Schmidt2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | Reduce the number of kernel messages the Gigaset drivers produce in case of an excessively long device response, from one per character exceeding the limit to one per overlong message. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: reduce mutex scopeTilman Schmidt2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | Do not lock the cardstate structure mutex earlier than necessary. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] FS: speed up rw_verify_area()Eric Dumazet2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | oprofile hunting showed a stall in rw_verify_area(), because of triple indirection and potential cache misses. (file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_flock) By moving initialization of 'struct inode' pointer before the pos/count sanity tests, we allow the compiler and processor to perform two loads by anticipation, reducing stall, without prefetch() hints. Even x86 arch has enough registers to not use temporary variables and not increase text size. I validated this patch running a bench and studied oprofile changes, and absolute perf of the test program. Results of my epoll_pipe_bench (source available on request) on a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz machine Before : # ./epoll_pipe_bench -l 30 -t 20 Avg: 436089 evts/sec read_count=8843037 write_count=8843040 21.218390 samples per call (best value out of 10 runs) After : # ./epoll_pipe_bench -l 30 -t 20 Avg: 470980 evts/sec read_count=9549871 write_count=9549894 21.216694 samples per call (best value out of 10 runs) oprofile CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events gave a reduction from 5.3401 % to 2.5851 % for the rw_verify_area() function. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] com20020 build fixRandy Dunlap2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Need to export com20020 symbols for com20020_cs also. WARNING: "com20020_found" [drivers/net/pcmcia/com20020_cs.ko] undefined! WARNING: "com20020_check" [drivers/net/pcmcia/com20020_cs.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: forward declare struct task_structHeiko Carstens2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3117df0453828bd045c16244e6f50e5714667a8a causes this: In file included from arch/s390/kernel/early.c:13: include/linux/lockdep.h:300: warning: "struct task_struct" declared inside parameter list include/linux/lockdep.h:300: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexecHorms2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've noticed that the boot options are not correct for in the documentation for kdump. The "init" keyword is not necessary, and causes a kernel panic when booting with an initrd on Fedora 5. [horms@verge.net.au: put original comment with the latest version of the patch] Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@osdl.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] swiotlb uninliningsAndrew Morton2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Optimise swiotlb.c for size. text data bss dec hex filename 5009 89 64 5162 142a lib/swiotlb.o-before 4666 89 64 4819 12d3 lib/swiotlb.o-after For some reason my gcc (4.0.2) doesn't want to tailcall these things. swiotlb_sync_sg_for_device: pushq %rbp # movl $1, %r8d #, movq %rsp, %rbp #, call swiotlb_sync_sg # leave ret .size swiotlb_sync_sg_for_device, .-swiotlb_sync_sg_for_device .section .text.swiotlb_sync_sg_for_cpu,"ax",@progbits .globl swiotlb_sync_sg_for_cpu .type swiotlb_sync_sg_for_cpu, @function swiotlb_sync_sg_for_cpu: pushq %rbp # xorl %r8d, %r8d # movq %rsp, %rbp #, call swiotlb_sync_sg # leave ret Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] atmel_serial: Use __raw I/O register accessHaavard Skinnemoen2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Access to chip-internal registers should always be native-endian. This is especially important for AVR32 since it's a big-endian architecture and the non-raw readl() and writel() macros are defined to do little-endian accesses. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] warning fix: unsigned->signedTomasz Kvarsin2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | While compiling my code with -Wconversion using gcc-trunk, I always get a bunch of warrning from headers, here is fix for them: __getblk is alawys called with unsigned argument, but it takes signed, the same story with __bread,__breadahead and so on. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kvarsin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] ipc: save the ipc namespace while reading proc filesEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem we were assuming that current->nsproxy->ipc_ns would never change while someone has our file in /proc/sysvipc/ file open. Given that this can change with both unshare and by passing the file descriptor to another process that assumption is occasionally wrong. Therefore this patch causes /proc/sysvipc/* to cache the namespace and increment it's count when we open the file and to decrement the count when we close the file, ensuring consistent operation with no surprises. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriateAhmed S. Darwish2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | Use ARRAY_SIZE macro already defined in kernel.h Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] OSS: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate (2)Ahmed S. Darwish2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | Use ARRAY_SIZE macro already defined in kernel.h Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] OSS: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriateAhmed S. Darwish2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | Use ARRAY_SIZE macro already defined in kernel.h Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] w1: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriateAhmed S. Darwish2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | A patch to use ARRAY_SIZE macro already defined in kernel.h Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] kernel: shut up the IRQ mismatch messagesAlan Cox2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem is various drivers legally validly and sensibly try to claim IRQs but the kernel insists on vomiting forth a giant irrelevant debugging spew when the types clash. Edit kernel/irq/manage.c go down to mismatch: in setup_irq() and ifdef out the if clause that checks for mismatches. It'll then just do the right thing and work sanely. For the current -mm kernel this will do the trick (and moves it into shared irq debugging as in debug mode the info spew is useful). I've had a variant of this in my private tree for some time as I got fed up on the mess on boxes where old legacy IRQs get reused. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Debug shared irqsDavid Woodhouse2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drivers registering IRQ handlers with SA_SHIRQ really ought to be able to handle an interrupt happening before request_irq() returns. They also ought to be able to handle an interrupt happening during the start of their call to free_irq(). Let's test that hypothesis.... [bunk@stusta.de: Kconfig fixes] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] inotify: read return val fixNick Piggin2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix for inotify read bug (bugzilla.kernel.org #6999) Problem Description: When reading from an inotify device with an insufficient sized buffer, read(2) will return 0 with no errno set. This is because of an logically incorrect action from the user program thus should return an more logical value. My suggestion is return -EINVAL as for bind(2). This patch is based on the proposal from Ryan <wolf0403@hotmail.com>, and feedback from John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>. Return -EINVAL if we have not passed in enough buffer space to read a single inotify event, rather than 0 which indicates that there is nothing to read. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: "John McCutchan" <john@johnmccutchan.com> Cc: Ryan <wolf0403@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list_lock usage in dquot.cChristoph Hellwig2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Iterate over sb->s_inodes instead of sb->s_files in add_dquot_ref. This reduces list search and lock hold time aswell as getting rid of one of the few uses of file_list_lock which Ingo identified as a scalability problem. Previously we called dq_op->initialize for every inode handing of a writeable file that wasn't initialized before. Now we're calling it for every inode that has a non-zero i_writecount, aka a writeable file descriptor refering to it. Thanks a lot to Jan Kara for running this patch through his quota test harness. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] move remove_dquot_ref to dqout.cChristoph Hellwig2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove_dquot_ref can move to dqout.c instead of beeing in inode.c under #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA. Also clean the resulting code up a tiny little bit by testing sb->dq_op earlier - it's constant over a filesystems lifetime. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] scnprintf(): fix a commentMartin Peschke2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | The return value of scnprintf() never exceeds @size. Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] fix the defaults mentioned in Documentation/nfsroot.txtDan Aloni2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the documentation of nfsroot to match NFS_DEF_FILE_IO_SIZE. Or perhaps we need to change NFS_DEF_FILE_IO_SIZE to match the documentation? Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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