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* S3c24xx SPI controllers both select 'bitbang'David Brownell2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Tweak Kconfig for the S3C24XX SPI controller drivers. Both use the bitbang framework; only one previously said that. Plus in this case "select" is the right way to manage that dependency, since folk will not know up front to enable bitbang in order to even see those S3C drivers in order to enable them. 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>
* atmel_spi: don't always deselect chip between messagesDavid Brownell2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update chipselect handling for atmel_spi: * Teach it how to leave chipselect active between messages; this helps various drivers work better. * Cope with at91rm0200 errata: nCS0 can't be managed with GPIOs. The MR.PCS value is now updated whenever a chipselect changes. (This requires SPI pinmux init for that controller to change, and also testing on rm9200; doesn't break at91sam9 or avr32.) * Fix minor glitches: spi_setup() must leave chipselects inactive, as must removal of the spi_device. Also tweak diagnostic messaging to be a bit more useful. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* atmel_spi: minor updatesDavid Brownell2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor updates to atmel_spi: - DMA: * Comments to explain the DMA policies * Report any mapping errors from spi_transfer() * Remove extra loop for DMA mapping - Diagnostics: report minimum clock rate, if we need to reject a spi_setup() request because that rate is too low. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* spi_mpc83xx.c underclocking hotfixClifford Wolf2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The MPC83xx SPI controller clock divider can divide the system clock by not more then 1024. The spi_mpc83xx driver does not check this and silently writes garbage to the SPI controller registers when asked to run at lower frequencies. I've tried to run the SPI on a 266MHz MPC8349E with 100kHz for debugging a bus problem and suddenly was confronted with a 2nd problem to debug.. ;-) The patch adds an additional check which avoids writing garbage to the SPI controller registers and warn the user about it. This might help others to avoid simmilar problems. Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* spi_lm70llp parport adapter driverKaiwan N Billimoria2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board for the LM70 temperature sensor. For those without that board, it may be a simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly. Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes. Minor rename. 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>
* spidev compiler warning goneDavid Brownell2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of annoying GCC warning on 32-bit platforms. drivers/spi/spidev.c: In function 'spidev_message': drivers/spi/spidev.c:184: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size drivers/spi/spidev.c:216: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size The trick is to add an extra cast using "ptrdiff_t" to convert the u64 to the correct size integer, and only then casting it into a "void *" pointer. 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>
* CRC7 supportJan Nikitenko2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication. Kerneldoc updates [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const] Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SPI: add 3wire mode flagDavid Brownell2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | Add a new spi->mode bit: SPI_3WIRE, for chips where the SI and SO signals are shared (and which are thus only half duplex). Update the LM70 driver to require support for that hardware mode from the controller. 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>
* SPI controller drivers: check for unsupported modesDavid Brownell2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor SPI controller driver updates: make the setup() methods reject spi->mode bits they don't support, by masking aginst the inverse of bits they *do* support. This insures against misbehavior later when new mode bits get added. Most controllers can't support SPI_LSB_FIRST; more handle SPI_CS_HIGH. Support for all four SPI clock/transfer modes is routine. 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>
* IBMASM: must depend on CONFIG_INPUTDmitry Torokhov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | IBMASM: must depend on CONFIG_INPUT The driver registers couple of input devices and therefore must depend on CONFIG_INPUT. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com> Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* IBMASM: miscellaneous fixesDmitry Torokhov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes Fix some minor issues, such as: - properly set up ID of keyboard device (was mixed up with mouse) - constify translation tables - change some variables to #defines - set up input device's parent to form proper sysfs hierarchy - minor formatting changes Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com> Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* IBMASM: dont use extern in function declarationsDmitry Torokhov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | IBMASM: don't use extern in function declarations We normally don't use extern in function declarations located in header files. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com> Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* IBMASM: whitespace cleanupDmitry Torokhov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | IBMASM: whitespace cleanup Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com> Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86_64: speedup touch_nmi_watchdogAndrew Morton2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | Avoid dirtying remote cpu's memory if it already has the correct value. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@darnok.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* i386: speedup touch_nmi_watchdogAndrew Morton2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | Avoid dirtying remote cpu's memory if it already has the correct value. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@darnok.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Inhibit NMI watchdog when Alt-SysRq-T operation is underwayKonrad Rzeszutek2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | On large memory configuration with not so fast CPUs the NMI watchdog is triggered when memory addresses are being gathered and printed. The code paths for Alt-SysRq-t are sprinkled with touch_nmi_watchdog in various places but not in this routine (or in the loop that utilizes this function). The patch has been tested for regression on large CPU+memory configuration (128 logical CPUs + 224 GB) and 1,2,4,16-CPU sockets with various memory sizes (1,2,4,6,20). Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix sparse false positives re BUG_ON(ptr)Alexey Dobriyan2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sparse now warns if one compares pointers with integers. However, there are false positives, like: fs/filesystems.c:72:2: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Every time BUG_ON(ptr) is used, ptr is checked against integer zero. Avoid that and save ~70 false positives from allyesconfig run. mentioned by Al. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* destroy_workqueue() can livelockOleg Nesterov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pointed out by Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>. The bug was introduced in 2.6.22 by me. cleanup_workqueue_thread() does flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) in a loop until ->worklist becomes empty. This is live-lockable, a re-niced caller can get CPU after wake_up() and insert a new barrier before the lower-priority cwq->thread has a chance to clear ->current_work. Change cleanup_workqueue_thread() to do flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) only once. We can rely on the fact that run_workqueue() won't return until it flushes all works. So it is safe to call kthread_stop() after that, the "should stop" request won't be noticed until run_workqueue() returns. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Kprobes on select architectures no longer EXPERIMENTALAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on usage and testing over the past couple of years, kprobes on i386, ia64, powerpc and x86_64 is no longer EXPERIMENTAL. This is a follow-up to Robert P.J. Day's patch making "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118396955423812&w=2 Arch maintainers for sparc64, avr32 and s390 need to take a similar call. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 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>
* make timespec_equal() take const argumentsJan Engelhardt2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Make arguments of timespec_equal() const struct timespec. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0'Tejun Heo2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KSYM_NAME_LEN is peculiar in that it does not include the space for the trailing '\0', forcing all users to use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 when allocating buffer. This is nonsense and error-prone. Moreover, when the caller forgets that it's very likely to subtly bite back by corrupting the stack because the last position of the buffer is always cleared to zero. This patch increments KSYM_NAME_LEN by one and updates code accordingly. * off-by-one bug in asm-powerpc/kprobes.h::kprobe_lookup_name() macro is fixed. * Where MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN were used together, MODULE_NAME_LEN was treated as if it didn't include space for the trailing '\0'. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sb1250-duart.c: SB1250 DUART serial supportMaciej W. Rozycki2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a driver for the SB1250 DUART, a dual serial port implementation included in the Broadcom family of SOCs descending from the SiByte SB1250 MIPS64 chip multiprocessor. It is a new implementation replacing the old-fashioned driver currently present in the linux-mips.org tree. It supports all the usual features one would expect from a(n asynchronous) serial driver, including modem line control (as far as hardware supports it -- there is edge detection logic missing from the DCD and RI lines and the driver does not implement polling of these lines at the moment), the serial console, BREAK transmission and reception, including the magic SysRq. The receive FIFO threshold is not maintained though. The driver was tested with a SWARM board which uses a BCM1250 SOC (which is dual MIPS64 CMP) and has both ports of the single DUART implemented wired externally. Both were tested. Testing included using the ports as terminal lines at 1200bps (which is the ports minimum), 115200bps and a couple of random speeds inbetween. The modem lines were verified to operate correctly. No testing was performed with a use as a network interface, like with SLIP or PPP. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove CHILD_MAXRoland McGrath2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The CHILD_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there. It claims to be the limit on processes a user can own, but its value is wrong for that. There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NPROC). Nothing in the kernel uses CHILD_MAX. The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define CHILD_MAX at all. The sysconf (_SC_CHILD_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove OPEN_MAXRoland McGrath2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The OPEN_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there. It claims to be the limit on file descriptors in a process, but its value is wrong for that. There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). Nothing in the kernel uses OPEN_MAX except things that are wrong to do so. I've submitted other patches to remove those uses. The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define OPEN_MAX at all. The sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 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>
* avoid OPEN_MAX in SCM_MAX_FDRoland McGrath2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | The OPEN_MAX constant is an arbitrary number with no useful relation to anything. Nothing should be using it. SCM_MAX_FD is just an arbitrary constant and it should be clear that its value is chosen in net/scm.h and not actually derived from anything else meaningful in the system. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 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>
* unregister_blkdev(): return voidAkinobu Mita2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | Put WARN_ON and fixed all callers of unregister_blkdev(). Now we can make unregister_blkdev return void. Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* unregister_blkdev(): delete redundant messageAkinobu Mita2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | No need to warn unregister_blkdev() failure by caller. (The previous patch makes unregister_blkdev() print error message in error case) Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* unregister_blkdev() delete redundant messages in callersAkinobu Mita2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | No need to warn unregister_blkdev() failure by the callers. (The previous patch makes unregister_blkdev() print error message in error case) Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* unregister_blkdev(): do WARN_ON on failureAkinobu Mita2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | When unregister_blkdev() has failed, something wrong happened. This patch adds WARN_ON to notify of such badness. Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proper prototype for proc_nr_files()Adrian Bunk2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | Add a proper prototype for proc_nr_files() in include/linux/fs.h 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>
* PTRACE_POKEDATA consolidationAlexey Dobriyan2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Identical implementations of PTRACE_POKEDATA go into generic_ptrace_pokedata() function. AFAICS, fix bug on xtensa where successful PTRACE_POKEDATA will nevertheless return EPERM. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* PTRACE_PEEKDATA consolidationAlexey Dobriyan2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Identical implementations of PTRACE_PEEKDATA go into generic_ptrace_peekdata() function. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPSPavel Emelianov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add support for Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interfaceGrant Likely2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Tested on Xilinx Virtex ppc405, Katmai 440SPe, and Microblaze Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: John William <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* powerpc: 8xx: fix whitespace and indentationVitaly Bordug2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rolling forward PCMCIA driver, it was discovered that the indentation in existing one, as well as in BSP side are very odd. This patch is just result of Lindent run ontop of culprit files. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* CONFIG_BOUNCE to avoid useless inclusion of bounce buffer logicChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bounce buffer logic is included on systems that do not need it. If a system does not have zones like ZONE_DMA and ZONE_HIGHMEM that can lead to the use of bounce buffers then there is no need to reserve memory pools etc etc. This is true f.e. for SGI Altix. Also nicifies the Makefile and gets rid of the tricky "and" there. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: introduce some page/buffer invariantsNick Piggin2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is a bug to set a page dirty if it is not uptodate unless it has buffers. If the page has buffers, then the page may be dirty (some buffers dirty) but not uptodate (some buffers not uptodate). The exception to this rule is if the set_page_dirty caller is racing with truncate or invalidate. A buffer can not be set dirty if it is not uptodate. If either of these situations occurs, it indicates there could be some data loss problem. Some of these warnings could be a harmless one where the page or buffer is set uptodate immediately after it is dirtied, however we should fix those up, and enforce this ordering. Bring the order of operations for truncate into line with those of invalidate. This will prevent a page from being able to go !uptodate while we're holding the tree_lock, which is probably a good thing anyway. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* MM: Make needlessly global hugetlb_no_page() static.Robert P. J. Day2007-07-17
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add VM_BUG_ON in case someone uses page_mapping on a slab pageChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Detect slab objects being passed to the page oriented functions of the VM. It is not sufficient to simply return NULL because the functions calling page_mapping may depend on other items of the page_struct also to be setup properly. Moreover slab object may not be properly aligned. The page oriented functions of the VM expect to operate on page aligned, page sized objects. Operations on object straddling page boundaries may only affect the objects partially which may lead to surprising results. It is better to detect eventually remaining uses and eliminate them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Make SLUB the default allocatorChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | There are some reports that 2.6.22 has SLUB as the default. Not true! This will make SLUB the default for 2.6.23. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Fix CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG use for CONFIG_NUMAChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | We currently cannot disable CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG for CONFIG_NUMA. Now that embedded systems start to use NUMA we may need this. Put an #ifdef around places where NUMA only code uses fields only valid for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Move sysfs operations outside of slub_lockChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sysfs can do a gazillion things when called. Make sure that we do not call any sysfs functions while holding the slub_lock. Just protect the essentials: 1. The list of all slab caches 2. The kmalloc_dma array 3. The ref counters of the slabs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Do not allocate object bit array on stackChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The objects per slab increase with the current patches in mm since we allow up to order 3 allocs by default. More patches in mm actually allow to use 2M or higher sized slabs. For slab validation we need per object bitmaps in order to check a slab. We end up with up to 64k objects per slab resulting in a potential requirement of 8K stack space. That does not look good. Allocate the bit arrays via kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZEROChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing while allocating. Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever we can. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocationsChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline functions in slab.h. Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing functions from the slab allocators and util.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Do not use length parameter in slab_alloc()Christoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | We can get to the length of the object through the kmem_cache_structure. The additional parameter does no good and causes the compiler to generate bad code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Style fix up the loop to disable small slabsChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | Do proper spacing and we only need to do this in steps of 8. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/slub.c: make code staticAdrian Bunk2007-07-17
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Simplify dma index -> size calculationChristoph Lameter2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | There is no need to caculate the dma slab size ourselves. We can simply lookup the size of the corresponding non dma slab. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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