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* driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.Andrew Morton2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | Try to find the culprit who caused http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150 Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap codeJean-Samuel Chenard2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | Mapping of physical memory in UIO needs pgprot_noncached() to ensure that IO memory is not cached. Without pgprot_noncached(), it (accidentally) works on x86 and arm, but fails on PPC. Signed-off-by: Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-03-24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix incorrect compatible string for the mdio node [POWERPC] Update some defconfigs
| * Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into mergePaul Mackerras2008-03-24
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| * | [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix incorrect compatible string for the mdio nodeGrant Likely2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The MDIO node in the lite5200b.dts file needs to also claim compatibility with the older mpc5200 chip. Otherwise the driver won't find the device. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * | [POWERPC] Update some defconfigsKumar Gala2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
* | | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-03-24
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for now sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2 libata: improve HPA error handling libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted pata_it821x: use raw nbytes in check_atapi_dma libata: implement ata_qc_raw_nbytes()
| * | | [libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for nowJeff Garzik2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At least one report claims that a878539ef994787c447a98c2e3ba0fe3dad984ec failed to solve lockups, whereas the old limit-to-32-bit trick worked. Restore the 32-bit limit, but also leave the 255-sector limit in place, because we know that's needed as well. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
| * | | sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2Mikael Pettersson2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A Promise SATA controller will signal hotplug events when a hard reset (COMRESET) is done on a port. These events aren't masked by the driver, and the unexpected interrupts will cause a sequence of failed reset attempts util libata's EH finally gives up. This has not been a common problem so far, but the pending libata hardreset-by-default changes makes it a critical issue. The solution is to disable hotplug events before a reset, and to reenable them afterwards. (Promise's driver does this too.) This patch adds SATA-specific versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw() that also disable and enable hotplug events. PATA ports continue to use the old versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Accesses to the hotplug register must be serialised via host->lock. We rely on ap->lock == &ap->host->lock and that libata takes this lock before ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Document this requirement. The interrupt handler is adjusted so its hotplug register accesses are inside the region protected by host->lock. Tested on various chips (SATA300TX4, SATA300TX2plus, SATAII150TX4, FastTrack TX4000) with various combinations of SATA and PATA disks, with and without the pending hardreset-by-default changes. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * | | libata: improve HPA error handlingTejun Heo2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no point in retrying and eventually failing device detection when the device rejects READ_NATIVE_MAX[_EXT]. Disable HPA unlocking if READ_NATIVE_MAX[_EXT] is rejected as done when SET_MAX[_EXT] is rejected. This allows some old drives to work even if they aren't blacklisted. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * | | libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are abortedTejun Heo2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is to fix bugzilla #10254. QSI cdrom attached to pata_sis as secondary master appears as phantom device for the slave. Interestingly, instead of not setting DRQ after IDENTIFY which triggers NODEV_HINT, it aborts both IDENTIFY and IDENTIFY PACKET which makes EH retry. Modify EH such that it assumes no device is attached if both flavors of IDENTIFY are aborted by the device. There really isn't much point in retrying when the device actively aborts the commands. While at it, convert NODEV detection message to ata_dev_printk() to help debugging obscure detection problems. This problem was reported by Jan Bücken. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Bücken <jb.faq@gmx.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * | | pata_it821x: use raw nbytes in check_atapi_dmaTejun Heo2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pata_it821x needs to look at raw request size in check_atapi_dma(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * | | libata: implement ata_qc_raw_nbytes()Tejun Heo2008-03-24
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement ata_qc_raw_nbytes() which determines the raw user-requested size of a PC command. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linusLinus Torvalds2008-03-24
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linus: kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds
| * | | kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross buildsSam Ravnborg2008-03-23
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The module alias support in the kernel have a consistency check where it is checked that the size of a structure in the kernel and on the build host are the same. For cross builds this check does not make sense so detect when we do cross builds and silently skip the check in these situations. This fixes a build bug for a wireless driver when cross building for arm. Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* | | Make printk() console semaphore accesses sensibleLinus Torvalds2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The printk() logic on when/how to get the console semaphore was unreadable, this splits the code up into a few helper functions and makes it easier to follow what is going on. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespacesPavel Emelyanov2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In case we're accounting from a sub-namespace, the tgids reported will not refer to the right namespace. Save the pid_namespace we're accounting in on the acct_glbs and use it in do_acct_process. Two less :) places using the task_struct.tgid member. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always safePavel Emelyanov2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not safe on debug kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be unmapped - RCU protection is required. Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with task_tgid_xxx call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"Andrew Morton2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert commit f1a9ee758de7de1e040de849fdef46e6802ea117: Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800 kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight. This problem is notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages, causing unnecessary stalls in the VM. Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be written out. This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while the direct reclaim task sleeps. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos, here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211 Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current: - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the current code: it's a framework now, a "core" with a small sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to. Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end. - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file and better explains what this really does. Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with that important task. 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>
* | | smackfs: remove redundant lock, fix open(,O_RDWR)Ahmed S. Darwish2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking write sessions on open() was needed. This lock is no longer useful now since each rule is handled by a single write() call. This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an Oops. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | markers: remove ACCESS_ONCEMathieu Desnoyers2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As Paul pointed out, the ACCESS_ONCE are not needed because we already have the explicit surrounding memory barriers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | markers: update preempt_disable. call_rcu, rcu_barrier commentsMathieu Desnoyers2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add comments requested by Andrew. Updated comments about synchronize_sched(). Since we use call_rcu and rcu_barrier now, these comments were out of sync with the code. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_coreYinghai Lu2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With numa enabled, some callers could have a range of memory on one node but try to free that on other node. This can cause some pages to be freed wrongly. For example: when we try to allocate 128g boot ram early for gart/swiotlb, and free that range later so gart/swiotlb can get some range afterwards. With this patch, we don't need to care which node holds the range, just loop to call free_bootmem_node for all online nodes. This patch makes free_bootmem_core() more robust by trimming the sidx and eidx according the ram range that the node has. And make the free_bootmem_core handle this out of range case. We could use bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure. So next time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use free_bootmem directly. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.cIngo van Lil2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The block2mtd driver (drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c) will kfree an on-stack pointer when handling an invalid argument line (e.g. block2mtd=/dev/loop0,xxx). The kfree was added some time ago when "name" was dynamically allocated. Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option betterPavel Machek2008-03-24
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory. Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-03-24
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Fix Oops with TQM5200 on TQM5200 [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix null dereference if bestcomm fails to initialize [POWERPC] mpc5200-fec: Fix possible NULL dereference in mdio driver [POWERPC] Fix crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika [POWERPC] Don't use 64k pages for ioremap on pSeries
| * | [POWERPC] Fix Oops with TQM5200 on TQM5200Anatolij Gustschin2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "bestcomm-core" driver defines its of_match table as follows static struct of_device_id mpc52xx_bcom_of_match[] = { { .type = "dma-controller", .compatible = "fsl,mpc5200-bestcomm", }, { .type = "dma-controller", .compatible = "mpc5200-bestcomm", }, {}, }; so while registering the driver, the driver's probe function won't be called, because the device tree node doesn't have a device_type property. Thus the driver's bcom_engine structure won't be allocated. Referencing this structure later causes observed Oops. Checking bcom_eng pointer for NULL before referencing data pointed by it prevents oopsing, but fec driver still doesn't work (because of the lost bestcomm match and resulted task allocation failure). Actually the compatible property exists and should match and so the fec driver should work. This removes .type = "dma-controller" from the bestcomm driver's mpc52xx_bcom_of_match table to solve the problem. Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * | [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix null dereference if bestcomm fails to initializeGrant Likely2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the bestcomm initialization fails, calls to the task allocate function should fail gracefully instead of oopsing with a NULL deref. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * | [POWERPC] mpc5200-fec: Fix possible NULL dereference in mdio driverGrant Likely2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the reg property is missing from the phy node (unlikely, but possible), then the kernel will oops with a NULL pointer dereference. This fixes it by checking the pointer first. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * | [POWERPC] Fix crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efikaOlaf Hering2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The global primary_ipic in arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c can remain NULL if ipic_init() fails, which will happen on machines that don't have an ipic interrupt controller. init_ipic_sysfs() will crash in that case. Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * | [POWERPC] Don't use 64k pages for ioremap on pSeriesPaul Mackerras2008-03-24
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On pSeries, the hypervisor doesn't let us map in the eHEA ethernet adapter using 64k pages, and thus the ehea driver will fail if 64k pages are configured. This works around the problem by always using 4k pages for ioremap on pSeries (but not on other platforms). A better fix would be to check whether the partition could ever have an eHEA adapter, and only force 4k pages if it could, but this will do for 2.6.25. This is based on an earlier patch by Tony Breeds. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-03-24
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: exec PT_DTRACE [SPARC64]: Use shorter list_splice_init() for brevity. [SPARC64]: Remove most limitations to kernel image size.
| * | [SPARC64]: exec PT_DTRACERoland McGrath2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PT_DTRACE flag is meaningless and obsolete. Don't touch it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | [SPARC64]: Use shorter list_splice_init() for brevity.Robert P. J. Day2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | [SPARC64]: Remove most limitations to kernel image size.David S. Miller2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently kernel images are limited to 8MB in size, and this causes problems especially when enabling features that take up a lot of kernel image space such as lockdep. The code now will align the kernel image size up to 4MB and map that many locked TLB entries. So, the only practical limitation is the number of available locked TLB entries which is 16 on Cheetah and 64 on pre-Cheetah sparc64 cpus. Niagara cpus don't actually have hw locked TLB entry support. Rather, the hypervisor transparently provides support for "locked" TLB entries since it runs with physical addressing and does the initial TLB miss processing. Fully utilizing this change requires some help from SILO, a patch for which will be submitted to the maintainer. Essentially, SILO will only currently map up to 8MB for the kernel image and that needs to be increased. Note that neither this patch nor the SILO bits will help with network booting. The openfirmware code will only map up to a certain amount of kernel image during a network boot and there isn't much we can to about that other than to implemented a layered network booting facility. Solaris has this, and calls it "wanboot" and we may implement something similar at some point. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-03-24
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: sch_htb: fix "too many events" situation connector: convert to single-threaded workqueue [ATM]: When proc_create() fails, do some error handling work and return -ENOMEM. [SUNGEM]: Fix NAPI assertion failure. BNX2X: prevent ethtool from setting port type [9P] net/9p/trans_fd.c: remove unused variable [IPV6] net/ipv6/ndisc.c: remove unused variable [IPV4] fib_trie: fix warning from rcu_assign_poinger [TCP]: Let skbs grow over a page on fast peers [DLCI]: Fix tiny race between module unload and sock_ioctl. [SCTP]: Fix build warnings with IPV6 disabled. [IPV4]: Fix null dereference in ip_defrag
| * | | sch_htb: fix "too many events" situationMartin Devera2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HTB is event driven algorithm and part of its work is to apply scheduled events at proper times. It tried to defend itself from livelock by processing only limited number of events per dequeue. Because of faster computers some users already hit this hardcoded limit. This patch limits processing up to 2 jiffies (why not 1 jiffie ? because it might stop prematurely when only fraction of jiffie remains). Signed-off-by: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | connector: convert to single-threaded workqueueEvgeniy Polyakov2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> We don't need one cqueue thread for each CPU. cqueue is used for receiving userspace datagrams, which are very rare and thus will happily live with a single queue. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [ATM]: When proc_create() fails, do some error handling work and return -ENOMEM.Wang Chen2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [SUNGEM]: Fix NAPI assertion failure.David S. Miller2008-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As reported by Johannes Berg: I started getting this warning with recent kernels: [ 773.908927] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 773.908954] Badness at net/core/dev.c:2204 ... If we loop more than once in gem_poll(), we'll use more than the real budget in our gem_rx() calls, thus eventually trigger the caller's assertions in net_rx_action(). Subtract "work_done" from "budget" for the second arg to gem_rx() to fix the bug. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | BNX2X: prevent ethtool from setting port typeEliezer Tamir2008-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On 10GBaseT boards setting the type to TP will cause the driver to try to configure 1GBaseT. Since there are currently no boards that support setting of the port type, disable this for now. Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezert@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [9P] net/9p/trans_fd.c: remove unused variableJulia Lawall2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The variable cb is initialized but never used otherwise. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T; identifier i; constant C; @@ ( extern T i; | - T i; <+... when != i - i = C; ...+> ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [IPV6] net/ipv6/ndisc.c: remove unused variableJulia Lawall2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The variable hlen is initialized but never used otherwise. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T; identifier i; constant C; @@ ( extern T i; | - T i; <+... when != i - i = C; ...+> ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [IPV4] fib_trie: fix warning from rcu_assign_poingerStephen Hemminger2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This gets rid of a warning caused by the test in rcu_assign_pointer. I tried to fix rcu_assign_pointer, but that devolved into a long set of discussions about doing it right that came to no real solution. Since the test in rcu_assign_pointer for constant NULL would never succeed in fib_trie, just open code instead. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [TCP]: Let skbs grow over a page on fast peersHerbert Xu2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing the virtio-net driver on KVM with TSO I noticed that TSO performance with a 1500 MTU is significantly worse compared to the performance of non-TSO with a 16436 MTU. The packet dump shows that most of the packets sent are smaller than a page. Looking at the code this actually is quite obvious as it always stop extending the packet if it's the first packet yet to be sent and if it's larger than the MSS. Since each extension is bound by the page size, this means that (given a 1500 MTU) we're very unlikely to construct packets greater than a page, provided that the receiver and the path is fast enough so that packets can always be sent immediately. The fix is also quite obvious. The push calls inside the loop is just an optimisation so that we don't end up doing all the sending at the end of the loop. Therefore there is no specific reason why it has to do so at MSS boundaries. For TSO, the most natural extension of this optimisation is to do the pushing once the skb exceeds the TSO size goal. This is what the patch does and testing with KVM shows that the TSO performance with a 1500 MTU easily surpasses that of a 16436 MTU and indeed the packet sizes sent are generally larger than 16436. I don't see any obvious downsides for slower peers or connections, but it would be prudent to test this extensively to ensure that those cases don't regress. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [DLCI]: Fix tiny race between module unload and sock_ioctl.Pavel Emelyanov2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a narrow pedantry :) but the dlci_ioctl_hook check and call should not be parted with the mutex lock. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [SCTP]: Fix build warnings with IPV6 disabled.David S. Miller2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduced by 270637abff0cdf848b910b9f96ad342e1da61c66 ("[SCTP]: Fix a race between module load and protosw access") Reported by Gabriel C: In file included from net/sctp/sm_statetable.c:50: include/net/sctp/sctp.h: In function 'sctp_v6_pf_init': include/net/sctp/sctp.h:392: warning: 'return' with a value, in function returning void In file included from net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c:62: include/net/sctp/sctp.h: In function 'sctp_v6_pf_init': include/net/sctp/sctp.h:392: warning: 'return' with a value, in function returning void ... Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [IPV4]: Fix null dereference in ip_defragPhil Oester2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Been seeing occasional panics in my testing of 2.6.25-rc in ip_defrag. Offending line in ip_defrag is here: net = skb->dev->nd_net where dev is NULL. Bisected the problem down to commit ac18e7509e7df327e30d6e073a787d922eaf211d ([NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the inet_frag_queue lookup work in namespaces). Below patch (idea from Patrick McHardy) fixes the problem for me. Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | SVCRDMA: Use only 1 RDMA read scatter entry for iWARP adaptersRoland Dreier2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The iWARP protocol limits RDMA read requests to a single scatter entry. NFS/RDMA has code in rdma_read_max_sge() that is supposed to limit the sge_count for RDMA read requests to 1, but the code to do that is inside an #ifdef RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP block. In the mainline kernel at least, RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP is an enum and not a preprocessor #define, so the #ifdef'ed code is never compiled. In my test of a kernel build with -j8 on an NFS/RDMA mount, this problem eventually leads to trouble starting with: svcrdma: Error posting send = -22 svcrdma : RDMA_READ error = -22 and things go downhill from there. The trivial fix is to delete the #ifdef guard. The check seems to be a remnant of when the NFS/RDMA code was not merged and needed to compile against multiple kernel versions, although I don't think it ever worked as intended. In any case now that the code is upstream there's no need to test whether the RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP constant is defined or not. Without this patch, my kernel build on an NFS/RDMA mount using NetEffect adapters quickly and 100% reproducibly failed with an error like: ld: final link failed: Software caused connection abort With the patch applied I was able to complete a kernel build on the same setup. (Tom Tucker says this is "actually an _ancient_ remnant when it had to compile against iWARP vs. non-iWARP enabled OFA trees.") Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>