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* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: further UTF-8 fixes and name correction Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt
| * further UTF-8 fixes and name correctionDavid Woodhouse2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > -** Copyright 1994 by Bj<94>rn Brauel > +** Copyright 1994 by Bj”rn Brauel I think these were cp437, and it should read 'Björn'. (asm-m68k/atari*.h) Also note that Arnaldo just put more legacy noise into CREDITS... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-ip22Linus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-ip22: Convert SGI IP22 and specific drivers to platform_device.
| * | Convert SGI IP22 and specific drivers to platform_device.Ralf Baechle2007-05-11
| |/ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (28 commits) [MIPS] Rework cobalt_board_id [MIPS] Use RTC_CMOS for Cobalt [MIPS] Use platform_device for Cobalt UART [MIPS] Separate Alchemy processor based boards config [MIPS] Fix build error in atomic64_cmpxchg [MIPS] Run checksyscalls for N32 and O32 ABI [MIPS] tlbex: use __maybe_unused [MIPS] excite: use __maybe_unused [MIPS] Add extern cobalt_board_id [MIPS] Remove unused CONFIG_TOSHIBA_BOARDS [MIPS] Rename tb0229_defconfig to tb0219_defconfig [MIPS] Update tb0229_defconfig; add CONFIG_GPIO_TB0219. [MIPS] Add minimum defconfig for RBHMA4200 [MIPS] SB1: Build fix. [MIPS] Drop __devinit tag from allocate_irqno() and free_irqno() [MIPS] clocksource: use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() macro [MIPS] Remove LIMITED_DMA support [MIPS] Remove Momenco Jaguar ATX support [MIPS] Remove Momenco Ocelot G support [MIPS] FPU hazard handling ...
| * | [MIPS] Fix build error in atomic64_cmpxchgAtsushi Nemoto2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] Add extern cobalt_board_idYoichi Yuasa2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] SB1: Build fix.Ralf Baechle2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] Remove LIMITED_DMA supportFranck Bui-Huu2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This code was needed only by Jaguar ATX. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] Remove Momenco Jaguar ATX supportFranck Bui-Huu2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has some hackish code and it odd DMA results in the need to support old features in kernel code. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] Remove Momenco Ocelot G supportFranck Bui-Huu2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] FPU hazard handlingChris Dearman2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move FPU hazard handling to hazards.h and provide proper support for MIPSR2 processors Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] MT: Reenable EIC support and add support for SOCit SC.Chris Dearman2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * | [MIPS] Define and use vi_handler_t for vectored interrupt handlers.Ralf Baechle2007-05-11
| |/ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: Fix compile/link of init/do_mounts.c with !CONFIG_BLOCK When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls
| * | Fix compile/link of init/do_mounts.c with !CONFIG_BLOCKJens Axboe2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need a stub function for when CONFIG_BLOCK isn't set. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive callsNeil Brown2007-05-11
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to generic_make_request can use up a lot of space, and we would rather they didn't. As generic_make_request is a void function, and as it is generally not expected that it will have any effect immediately, it is safe to delay any call to generic_make_request until there is sufficient stack space available. As ->bi_next is reserved for the driver to use, it can have no valid value when generic_make_request is called, and as __make_request implicitly assumes it will be NULL (ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE fork of switch) we can be certain that all callers set it to NULL. We can therefore safely use bi_next to link pending requests together, providing we clear it before making the real call. So, we choose to allow each thread to only be active in one generic_make_request at a time. If a subsequent (recursive) call is made, the bio is linked into a per-thread list, and is handled when the active call completes. As the list of pending bios is per-thread, there are no locking issues to worry about. I say above that it is "safe to delay any call...". There are, however, some behaviours of a make_request_fn which would make it unsafe. These include any behaviour that assumes anything will have changed after a recursive call to generic_make_request. These could include: - waiting for that call to finish and call it's bi_end_io function. md use to sometimes do this (marking the superblock dirty before completing a write) but doesn't any more - inspecting the bio for fields that generic_make_request might change, such as bi_sector or bi_bdev. It is hard to see a good reason for this, and I don't think anyone actually does it. - inspecing the queue to see if, e.g. it is 'full' yet. Again, I think this is very unlikely to be useful, or to be done. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <dm-devel@redhat.com> Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> said: I can see nothing wrong with this in principle. For device-mapper at the moment though it's essential that, while the bio mappings may now get delayed, they still get processed in exactly the same order as they were passed to generic_make_request(). My main concern is whether the timing changes implicit in this patch will make the rare data-corrupting races in the existing snapshot code more likely. (I'm working on a fix for these races, but the unfinished patch is already several hundred lines long.) It would be helpful if some people on this mailing list would test this patch in various scenarios and report back. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | Merge branch 'audit.b38' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes [PATCH] match audit name data [PATCH] complete message queue auditing [PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls [PATCH] initialize name osid [PATCH] audit signal recipients [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3) [PATCH] auditing ptrace
| * | [PATCH] Abnormal End of ProcessesSteve Grubb2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hi, I have been working on some code that detects abnormal events based on audit system events. One kind of event that we currently have no visibility for is when a program terminates due to segfault - which should never happen on a production machine. And if it did, you'd want to investigate it. Attached is a patch that collects these events and sends them into the audit system. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | [PATCH] complete message queue auditingAmy Griffis2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Handle the edge cases for POSIX message queue auditing. Collect inode info when opening an existing mq, and for send/receive operations. Remove audit_inode_update() as it has really evolved into the equivalent of audit_inode(). Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | [PATCH] audit signal recipientsAmy Griffis2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When auditing syscalls that send signals, log the pid and security context for each target process. Optimize the data collection by adding a counter for signal-related rules, and avoiding allocating an aux struct unless we have more than one target process. For process groups, collect pid/context data in blocks of 16. Move the audit_signal_info() hook up in check_kill_permission() so we audit attempts where permission is denied. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)Amy Griffis2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a syscall class for sending signals. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | [PATCH] auditing ptraceAl Viro2007-05-11
| |/ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid * 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: USB HID: hiddev - fix race between hiddev_send_event() and hiddev_release() HID: add hooks for getkeycode() and setkeycode() methods HID: switch to using input_dev->dev.parent USB HID: Logitech wheel 0x046d/0xc294 needs HID_QUIRK_NOGET quirk USB HID: usb_buffer_free() cleanup USB HID: report descriptor of Cypress USB barcode readers needs fixup Bluetooth HID: HIDP - don't initialize force feedback USB HID: update CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK description HID: add input mappings for non-working keys on Logitech S510 remote
| * | USB HID: report descriptor of Cypress USB barcode readers needs fixupJiri Kosina2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Certain versions of Cypress USB barcode readers (this problem is known to happen at least with PIDs 0xde61 and 0xde64) have report descriptor which has swapped usage min and usage max tag. This results in HID parser failing for report descriptor of these devices, as it (wrongly) requires allocating more usages than HID_MAX_USAGES. Solve this by walking through the report descriptor for such devices, and swap the usage min and usage max items (and their values) to be in proper order. Reported-by: Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (31 commits) [NETFILTER]: xt_conntrack: add compat support [NETFILTER]: iptable_raw: ignore short packets sent by SOCK_RAW sockets [NETFILTER]: iptable_{filter,mangle}: more descriptive "happy cracking" message [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: Clears helper private area when NATing [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: clear helper area and handle unchanged helper [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes unused destroy operation of l3proto [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes duplicated declarations [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: remove unused argument of function allocating binding [NETFILTER]: Clean up table initialization [NET_SCHED]: Avoid requeue warning on dev_deactivate [NET_SCHED]: Reread dev->qdisc for NETDEV_TX_OK [NET_SCHED]: Rationalise return value of qdisc_restart [NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED case [UDP]: Fix AF-specific references in AF-agnostic code. [IrDA]: KingSun/DonShine USB IrDA dongle support. [IPV6] ROUTE: Assign rt6i_idev for ip6_{prohibit,blk_hole}_entry. [IPV6]: Do no rely on skb->dst before it is assigned. [IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations. [SCTP]: Do not include ABORT chunk header in the notification. [SCTP]: Correctly copy addresses in sctp_copy_laddrs ...
| * | | [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes unused destroy operation of l3protoYasuyuki Kozakai2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes duplicated declarationsYasuyuki Kozakai2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are also in include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.h Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: remove unused argument of function allocating bindingYasuyuki Kozakai2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nf_nat_rule_find, alloc_null_binding and alloc_null_binding_confirmed do not use the argument 'info', which is actually ct->nat.info. If they are necessary to access it again, we can use the argument 'ct' instead. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [NETFILTER]: Clean up table initializationPatrick McHardy2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - move arp_tables initial table structure definitions to arp_tables.h similar to ip_tables and ip6_tables - use C99 initializers - use initializer macros where possible Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [UDP]: Fix AF-specific references in AF-agnostic code.David S. Miller2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __udp_lib_port_inuse() cannot make direct references to inet_sk(sk)->rcv_saddr as that is ipv4 specific state and this code is used by ipv6 too. Use an operations vector to solve this, and this also paves the way for ipv6 support for non-wild saddr hashing in UDP. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_deviceHerbert Xu2007-05-11
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather than allocating it on demand. In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially throw a link up event away. It also simplifies the code greatly. In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use of singleevent. This race condition still exists (and is somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | atmel_lcdfb: AT91/AT32 LCD Controller framebuffer driverNicolas Ferre2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds a framebuffer driver to ATMEL AT91SAM9x and AT32 aka AVR32 platforms. Those chips share quite the same IP and this code is suitable for both architectures. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | pm3fb: Preliminary 2.4 to 2.6 portKrzysztof Helt2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a basic port from 2.4 kernel to 2.6. Acceleration is lost and big endian support probably too. The driver works in 8, 16 and 32 bit mode. [adaplas] - change VESA_* to FB_BLANK_* constants - removed unused function clear_memory - fix uninitialized variable compiler warning - some whitespace cleaning [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Nuke pestiferous CVS string] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: KAIO eventfd support exampleDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code, in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd (hence compatible with POSIX select/poll). The KAIO code simply signals the eventfd fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd. This patch uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass an eventfd file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time a request completes. At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the completed result to a struct io_event. I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it runs fine here: http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-aio-test.c The test program uses poll(2), but it'd, of course, work with select and epoll too. This can allow to schedule both block I/O and other poll-able devices requests, and wait for results using select/poll/epoll. In a typical scenario, an application would submit KAIO request using aio_submit(), and will also use epoll_ctl() on the whole other class of devices (that with the addition of signals, timers and user events, now it's pretty much complete), and then would: epoll_wait(...); for_each_event { if (curr_event_is_kaiofd) { aio_getevents(); dispatch_aio_events(); } else { dispatch_epoll_event(); } } Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: eventfd wire up x86 archesDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch wires the eventfd system call to the x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: eventfd coreDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a very simple and light file descriptor, that can be used as event wait/dispatch by userspace (both wait and dispatch) and by the kernel (dispatch only). It can be used instead of pipe(2) in all cases where those would simply be used to signal events. Their kernel overhead is much lower than pipes, and they do not consume two fds. When used in the kernel, it can offer an fd-bridge to enable, for example, functionalities like KAIO or syslets/threadlets to signal to an fd the completion of certain operations. But more in general, an eventfd can be used by the kernel to signal readiness, in a POSIX poll/select way, of interfaces that would otherwise be incompatible with it. The API is: int eventfd(unsigned int count); The eventfd API accepts an initial "count" parameter, and returns an eventfd fd. It supports poll(2) (POLLIN, POLLOUT, POLLERR), read(2) and write(2). The POLLIN flag is raised when the internal counter is greater than zero. The POLLOUT flag is raised when at least a value of "1" can be written to the internal counter. The POLLERR flag is raised when an overflow in the counter value is detected. The write(2) operation can never overflow the counter, since it blocks (unless O_NONBLOCK is set, in which case -EAGAIN is returned). But the eventfd_signal() function can do it, since it's supposed to not sleep during its operation. The read(2) function reads the __u64 counter value, and reset the internal value to zero. If the value read is equal to (__u64) -1, an overflow happened on the internal counter (due to 2^64 eventfd_signal() posts that has never been retired - unlickely, but possible). The write(2) call writes an __u64 count value, and adds it to the current counter. The eventfd fd supports O_NONBLOCK also. On the kernel side, we have: struct file *eventfd_fget(int fd); int eventfd_signal(struct file *file, unsigned int n); The eventfd_fget() should be called to get a struct file* from an eventfd fd (this is an fget() + check of f_op being an eventfd fops pointer). The kernel can then call eventfd_signal() every time it wants to post an event to userspace. The eventfd_signal() function can be called from any context. An eventfd() simple test and bench is available here: http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-bench.c This is the eventfd-based version of pipetest-4 (pipe(2) based): http://www.xmailserver.org/pipetest-4.c Not that performance matters much in the eventfd case, but eventfd-bench shows almost as double as performance than pipetest-4. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_eventfd to sys_ni.c] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: timerfd compat codeDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements the necessary compat code for the timerfd system call. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: timerfd wire up x86 archesDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch wires the timerfd system call to the x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: timerfd coreDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with epoll(2) too. The system call is defined as: int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct itimerspec *utmr); The "ufd" parameter allows for re-use (re-programming) of an existing timerfd w/out going through the close/open cycle (same as signalfd). If "ufd" is -1, s new file descriptor will be created, otherwise the existing "ufd" will be re-programmed. The "clockid" parameter is either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME. The time specified in the "utmr->it_value" parameter is the expiry time for the timer. If the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME flag is set in "flags", this is an absolute time, otherwise it's a relative time. If the time specified in the "utmr->it_interval" is not zero (.tv_sec == 0, tv_nsec == 0), this is the period at which the following ticks should be generated. The "utmr->it_interval" should be set to zero if only one tick is requested. Setting the "utmr->it_value" to zero will disable the timer, or will create a timerfd without the timer enabled. The function returns the new (or same, in case "ufd" is a valid timerfd descriptor) file, or -1 in case of error. As stated before, the timerfd file descriptor supports poll(2), select(2) and epoll(2). When a timer event happened on the timerfd, a POLLIN mask will be returned. The read(2) call can be used, and it will return a u32 variable holding the number of "ticks" that happened on the interface since the last call to read(2). The read(2) call supportes the O_NONBLOCK flag too, and EAGAIN will be returned if no ticks happened. A quick test program, shows timerfd working correctly on my amd64 box: http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_timerfd to sys_ni.c] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: signalfd wire up x86 archesDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch wires the signalfd system call to the x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event: signalfd coreDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call. I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard kernel delivery in dequeue_signal(). If you want to reliably fetch signals on the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). This seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine. I made a quick test program for it: http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor receiver. The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API: int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize); The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going to close/create cycle (Linus idea). Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new signalfd file. The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested in. The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask". The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls. The poll(2) will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued. As a direct consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use used together with epoll(2) too. The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in the userspace supplied buffer. The return value is the number of bytes copied in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error. The read(2) call can also return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached, has been orphaned. The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available. If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned. A read from the signalfd can also return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process. The format of the struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code & __SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would: struct signalfd_siginfo { __u32 signo; /* si_signo */ __s32 err; /* si_errno */ __s32 code; /* si_code */ __u32 pid; /* si_pid */ __u32 uid; /* si_uid */ __s32 fd; /* si_fd */ __u32 tid; /* si_fd */ __u32 band; /* si_band */ __u32 overrun; /* si_overrun */ __u32 trapno; /* si_trapno */ __s32 status; /* si_status */ __s32 svint; /* si_int */ __u64 svptr; /* si_ptr */ __u64 utime; /* si_utime */ __u64 stime; /* si_stime */ __u64 addr; /* si_addr */ }; [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | signal/timer/event fds: anonymous inode sourceDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in the associated dentries (dentry names will be same for classes of file*). This allow code reuse, and will be used by epoll, signalfd and timerfd (and whatever else there'll be). Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Don't init pgrp and __session in INIT_SIGNALSSukadev Bhattiprolu2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove initialization of pgrp and __session in INIT_SIGNALS, as these are later set by the call to __set_special_pids() in init/main.c by the patch: explicitly-set-pgid-and-sid-of-init-process.patch Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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>
* | | statically initialize struct pid for swapperSukadev Bhattiprolu2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Statically initialize a struct pid for the swapper process (pid_t == 0) and attach it to init_task. This is needed so task_pid(), task_pgrp() and task_session() interfaces work on the swapper process also. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | attach_pid() with struct pid parameterSukadev Bhattiprolu2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | attach_pid() currently takes a pid_t and then uses find_pid() to find the corresponding struct pid. Sometimes we already have the struct pid. We can then skip find_pid() if attach_pid() were to take a struct pid parameter. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | consolidate generic_writepages and mpage_writepagesMiklos Szeredi2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up massive code duplication between mpage_writepages() and generic_writepages(). The new generic function, write_cache_pages() takes a function pointer argument, which will be called for each page to be written. Maybe cifs_writepages() too can use this infrastructure, but I'm not touching that with a ten-foot pole. The upcoming page writeback support in fuse will also want this. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | tty: add compat_ioctlPaul Fulghum2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add compat_ioctl method for tty code to allow processing of 32 bit ioctl calls on 64 bit systems by tty core, tty drivers, and line disciplines. Based on patch by Arnd Bergmann: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.0/1732.html [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make things static] Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 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>
* | | module_author: don't advise putting in an email addressRene Herman2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | module_author: don't advise putting in an email address It's information that's easily outdated and easily mistaken for a driver contact which is a problem especially for modules with multiple current and non-current authors as well as for modules with a maintainer who may not even be a module author. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Add hard_irq_disable()Benjamin Herrenschmidt2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some architectures, like powerpc, implement lazy disabling of interrupts. That means that on those, local_irq_disable() doesn't actually disable interrupts on the CPU, but only sets some per CPU flag which cause them to be disabled only if an interrupt actually occurs. However, in some cases, such as stop_machine, we really want interrupts to be fully disabled. For example, I have code using stop machine to do ECC error injection, used to verify operations of the ECC hardware, that sort of thing. It really needs to make sure that nothing is actually writing to memory while the injection happens. Similar examples can be found in other low level bits and pieces. This patch implements a generic hard_irq_disable() function which is meant to be called -after- local_irq_disable() and ensures that interrupts are fully disabled on that CPU. The default implementation is a nop, though powerpc does already provide an appropriate one. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>