firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: formatting cleanup
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:52 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: formatting cleanup

Cosmetic indentation/formatting cleanup for EDAC code.  Make sure we
are using tabs rather than spaces to indent, etc.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: reorder EXPORT_SYMBOL macros
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:51 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: reorder EXPORT_SYMBOL macros

Fix EDAC code so EXPORT_SYMBOL comes after the function that is being
exported.  This is to maintain consistency with the rest of the kernel.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: Kconfig dependency changes
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:50 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: Kconfig dependency changes

- Add x86 dependency in drivers/edac/Kconfig for all current
  platform-specific modules.

- Add PCI dependency to Radisys 82600 driver

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: protect memory controller list
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:50 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: protect memory controller list

- Fix code so we always hold mem_ctls_mutex while we are stepping
  through the list of mem_ctl_info structures.  Otherwise bad things
  may happen if one task is stepping through the list while another
  task is modifying it.  We may eventually want to use reference
  counting to manage the mem_ctl_info structures.  In the meantime we
  may as well fix this bug.

- Don't disable interrupts while we are walking the list of
  mem_ctl_info structures in check_mc_devices().  This is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: kobject/sysfs fixes
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:49 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: kobject/sysfs fixes

- After we unregister a kobject, wait for our kobject release method
  to call complete().  This causes us to wait until the kobject
  reference count reaches 0.  Otherwise, a task accessing the EDAC
  sysfs interface can hold the reference count above 0 until after the
  EDAC module has been unloaded.  When the reference count finally
  drops to 0, this will result in an attempt to call our release
  method inside the EDAC module after the module has already been
  unloaded.

  This isn't the best fix, since a process can get stuck sleeping forever
  uninterruptibly if the user does the following:

      rmmod my_module < /sys/my_sysfs/file

  I'll go back and implement a better fix later.  However this should
  be ok for now.

- Call edac_remove_sysfs_mci_device() from edac_mc_del_mc() rather
  than from edac_mc_free().  Since edac_mc_add_mc() calls
  edac_create_sysfs_mci_device(), edac_mc_del_mc() should call
  edac_remove_sysfs_mci_device().

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: kobject_init/kobject_put fixes
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:48 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: kobject_init/kobject_put fixes

- Remove calls to kobject_init().  These are unnecessary because
  kobject_register() calls kobject_init().

- Remove extra calls to kobject_put().  When we call
  kobject_unregister(), this releases our reference to the kobject.
  The extra calls to kobject_put() may cause the reference count to
  drop to 0 while a kobject is still in use.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: edac_mc_add_mc fix [2/2]
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:47 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: edac_mc_add_mc fix [2/2]

This is part 2 of a 2-part patch set.

Fix edac_mc_add_mc() so it cleans up properly if call to
edac_create_sysfs_mci_device() fails.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: edac_mc_add_mc fix [1/2]
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:46 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: edac_mc_add_mc fix [1/2]

This is part 1 of a 2-part patch set.  The code changes are split into
two parts to make the patches more readable.

Move complete_mc_list_del() and del_mc_from_global_list() so we can
call del_mc_from_global_list() from edac_mc_add_mc() without forward
declarations.  Perhaps using forward declarations would be better?
I'm doing things this way because the rest of the code is missing
them.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: cleanup code for clearing initial errors
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:45 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: cleanup code for clearing initial errors

Fix xxx_probe1() functions so they call xxx_get_error_info() functions
to clear initial errors.  This is simpler and cleaner than duplicating
the low-level code for accessing PCI config space.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: e7xxx fix minor logic bug
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:45 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: e7xxx fix minor logic bug

Fix minor logic bug in e7xxx_remove_one().

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: i82875p cleanup
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:44 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: i82875p cleanup

- Fix i82875p_probe1() so it calls pci_get_device() instead of
  pci_find_device().
- Fix i82875p_probe1() so it cleans up properly on failure.
- Fix i82875p_init() so it cleans up properly on failure.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: i82860 cleanup
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:43 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: i82860 cleanup

- Fix i82860_init() so it cleans up properly on failure.
- Fix i82860_exit() so it cleans up properly.
- Fix typo in comment (i.e. www.redhat.com.com).

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: e752x cleanup
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:42 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: e752x cleanup

- Add ctl_dev field to "struct e752x_dev_info".  Then we can eliminate
  ugly switch statement from e752x_probe1().

- Remove code from e752x_probe1() that clears initial PCI bus parity
  errors.  The core EDAC module already does this.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: amd76x pci_dev_get/pci_dev_put fixes
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:41 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: amd76x pci_dev_get/pci_dev_put fixes

Eliminate unnecessary calls to pci_dev_get() and pci_dev_put() from
amd76x driver.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: name cleanup
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:41 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: name cleanup

Perform the following name substitutions on all source files:

    sed 's/BS_MOD_STR/EDAC_MOD_STR/g'
    sed 's/bs_thread_info/edac_thread_info/g'
    sed 's/bs_thread/edac_thread/g'
    sed 's/bs_xstr/edac_xstr/g'
    sed 's/bs_str/edac_str/g'

The names that start with BS_ or bs_ are artifacts of when the code
was called "bluesmoke".

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: printk cleanup
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:40 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: printk cleanup

This implements the following idea:

On Monday 30 January 2006 19:22, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> One piece missing from this conversation is the issue that we need errors
> in a uniform format.  That is why edac_mc has helper functions.
>
> However there will always be errors that don't fit any particular model.
> Could we add a edac_printk(dev, );  That is similar to dev_printk but
> prints out an EDAC header and the device on which the error was found?
> Letting the rest of the string be user specified.
>
> For actual control that interface may be to blunt, but at least for people
> looking in the logs it allows all of the errors to be detected and
> harvested.

Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EDAC: switch to kthread_ API
Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:38 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: switch to kthread_ API

This patch was originally posted by Christoph Hellwig (see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/14/331):

"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> Use the kthread_ API instead of opencoding lots of hairy code for kernel
> thread creation and teardown, including tasklist_lock abuse.
>

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: <dave_peterson@pobox.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Dead code in drivers/isdn/avm/avmcard.h
Eric Sesterhenn [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:38 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] Dead code in drivers/isdn/avm/avmcard.h

This fixes coverity id #2.  the if (i==0) is pretty useless, since we
assing i=0, just the line before.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - M105 USB DECT adapter
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:37 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - M105 USB DECT adapter

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the connection-specific module "usb_gigaset", the hardware
driver for Gigaset base stations connected via the M105 USB DECT adapter.  It
contains the code for handling probe/disconnect, AT command/response
transmission, and call setup and termination, as well as handling asynchronous
data transfers, PPP framing, byte stuffing, and flow control.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - isochronous data handler
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:36 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - isochronous data handler

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the payload data handler for the connection-specific module
"bas_gigaset".  It contains the code for handling isochronous data transfers,
HDLC framing and flow control.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - direct USB connection
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:34 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - direct USB connection

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the main source file of the connection-specific module
"bas_gigaset", the hardware driver for Gigaset base stations connected
directly to the computer via USB.  It contains the code for handling
probe/disconnect, AT command/response transmission, and call setup and
termination.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - procfs interface
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:33 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - procfs interface

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the procfs interface to the gigaset module.  The procfs
interface provides access to status information and statistics about the
Gigaset devices.  If the drivers are built with the debugging option it also
allows to change the amount of debugging output on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - tty interface
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:32 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - tty interface

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the tty interface to the gigaset module.  The tty interface
provides direct access to the AT command set of the Gigaset devices.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - isdn4linux interface
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:31 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - isdn4linux interface

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the isdn4linux subsystem interface to the gigaset module.  The
isdn4linux subsystem interface handles requests from and notifications to the
isdn4linux subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - event layer
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:30 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - event layer

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the event layer to the gigaset module.  The event layer
serializes events from hardware, userspace, and other kernel subsystems.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - common module
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:29 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - common module

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

This patch adds the common include file for the Siemens Gigaset drivers,
providing definitions used by all of the Gigaset ISDN driver source files.  It
also adds the main source file of the gigaset module which manages common
functions not specific to the type of connection to the device.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - Kconfigs and Makefiles
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:28 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - Kconfigs and Makefiles

And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

The following patches add drivers for the Siemens Gigaset 3070 family of ISDN
DECT PABXes connected via USB, either directly or over a DECT link using a
Gigaset M105 or compatible DECT data adapter.  The devices are integrated as
ISDN adapters within the isdn4linux framework, supporting incoming and
outgoing voice and data connections, and also as tty devices providing access
to device specific AT commands.

Supported devices include models 3070, 3075, 4170, 4175, SX205, SX255, and
SX353 from the Siemens Gigaset product family, as well as the technically
identical models 45isdn and 721X from the Deutsche Telekom Sinus series.
Supported DECT adapters are the Gigaset M105 data and the technically
identical Gigaset USB Adapter DECT, Sinus 45 data 2, and Sinus 721 data (but
not the Gigaset M34 and Sinus 702 data which advertise themselves as CDC-ACM
devices).

These drivers have been developed over the last four years within the
SourceForge project http://sourceforge.net/projects/gigaset307x/.  They are
being used successfully in several installations for dial-in Internet access
and for voice call switching with Asterisk.

This is our second attempt at submitting these drivers, taking into account
the comments we received to our first submission on 2005-12-11.

The patch set adds three kernel modules:

- a common module "gigaset" encapsulating the common logic for
  controlling the PABX and the interfaces to userspace and the
  isdn4linux subsystem.

- a connection-specific module "bas_gigaset" which handles
  communication with the PABX over a direct USB connection.

- a connection-specific module "usb_gigaset" which does the same
  for a DECT connection using the Gigaset M105 USB DECT adapter.

We also have a module "ser_gigaset" which supports the Gigaset M101 RS232 DECT
adapter, but we didn't judge it fit for inclusion in the kernel, as it does
direct programming of a i8250 serial port.  It should probably be rewritten as
a serial line discipline but so far we lack the neccessary knowledge about
writing a line discipline for that.

The drivers have been working with kernel releases 2.2 and 2.4 as well as 2.6,
and although we took efforts to remove the compatibility code for this
submission, it probably still shows in places.  Please make allowances.

This patch:

Prepare the kernel build infrastructure for addition of the Gigaset ISDN
drivers.  It creates a Makefile and Kconfig file for the Gigaset driver and
hooks them into those of the isdn4linux subsystem.  It also adds a MAINTAINERS
entry for the driver.

This patch depends on patches 2 to 9 of the present set, as without the actual
source files, activating the options added here will cause the kernel build to
fail.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for sparc64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:26 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for sparc64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

I could not test this patch for sparc64.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:25 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy<anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:24 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for x86_64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:23 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for x86_64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for i386
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:22 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for i386

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobe handler: discard user space trap
bibo,mao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:21 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobe handler: discard user space trap

Currently kprobe handler traps only happen in kernel space, so function
kprobe_exceptions_notify should skip traps which happen in user space.
This patch modifies this, and it is based on 2.6.16-rc4.

Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process
bibo mao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:20 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process

When kretprobe probes the schedule() function, if the probed process exits
then schedule() will never return, so some kretprobe instances will never
be recycled.

In this patch the parent process will recycle retprobe instances of the
probed function and there will be no memory leak of kretprobe instances.

Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:19 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster

In normal operation, kretprobe makes a target function return to trampoline
code.  A kprobe (called trampoline_probe) has been inserted in the trampoline
code.  When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's handler and it
returns to the original return address.

Kretprobe-booster removes the trampoline_probe.  It allows the trampoline code
to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking kprobe.  The
trampoline code returns to the original return address.

(changelog from Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> - thanks ;))

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: kprobes-booster
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:17 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: kprobes-booster

Current kprobe copies the original instruction at the probe point and replaces
it with a breakpoint instruction (int3).  When the kernel hits the probe
point, kprobe handler is invoked.  And the copied instruction is single-step
executed on the copied buffer (not on the original address) by kprobe.  After
that, the kprobe checks registers and modify it (if need) as if the
instructions was executed on the original address.

My proposal is based on the fact there are many instructions which do NOT
require the register modification after the single-step execution.  When the
copied instruction is a kind of them, kprobe just jumps back to the next
instruction after single-step execution.  If so, why don't we execute those
instructions directly?

With kprobe-booster patch, kprobes will execute a copied instruction directly
and (if need) jump back to original code.  This direct execution is executed
when the kprobe don't have both post_handler and break_handler, and the copied
instruction can be executed directly.

I sorted instructions which can be executed directly or not;

- Call instructions are NG(can not be executed directly).
  We should correct the return address pushed into top of stack.
- Indirect instructions except for absolute indirect-jumps
  are NG. Those instructions changes EIP randomly. We should
  check EIP and correct it.
- Instructions that change EIP beyond the range of the
  instruction buffer are NG.
- Instructions that change EIP to tail 5 bytes of the
  instruction buffer (it is the size of a jump instruction).
  We must write a jump instruction which backs to original
  kernel code in the instruction buffer.
- Break point instruction is NG. We should not touch EIP and
  pass to other handlers.
- Absolute direct/indirect jumps are OK.- Conditional Jumps are NG.
- Halt and software-interruptions are NG. Because it will stay on
  the instruction buffer of kprobes.
- Prefixes are NG.
- Unknown/reserved opcode is NG.
- Other 1 byte instructions are OK. But those instructions need a
  jump back code.
- 2 bytes instructions are mapped sparsely. So, in this release,
  this patch don't boost those instructions.

>From Intel's IA-32 opcode map described in IA-32 Intel Architecture Software
Developer's Manual Vol.2 B, I determined that following opcodes are not
boostable.

- 0FH (2byte escape)
- 70H - 7FH (Jump on condition)
- 9AH (Call) and 9CH (Pushf)
- C0H-C1H (Grp 2: includes reserved opcode)
- C6H-C7H (Grp11: includes reserved opcode)
- CCH-CEH (Software-interrupt)
- D0H-D3H (Grp2: includes reserved opcode)
- D6H (Reserved)
- D8H-DFH (Coprocessor)
- E0H-E3H (loop/conditional jump)
- E8H (Call)
- F0H-F3H (Prefixes and reserved)
- F4H (Halt)
- F6H-F7H (Grp3: includes reserved opcode)
- FEH-FFH(Grp4,5: includes reserved opcode)

Kprobe-booster checks whether target instruction can be boosted (can be
executed directly) at arch_copy_kprobe() function.  If the target instruction
can be boosted, it clears "boostable" flag.  If not, it sets "boostable" flag
-1.  This is disabled status.  In resume_execution() function, If "boostable"
flag is cleared, kprobe-booster measures the size of the target instruction
and sets "boostable" flag 1.

In kprobe_handler(), kprobe checks the "boostable" flag.  If the flag is 1, it
resets current kprobe and executes instruction buffer directly instead of
single stepping.

When unregistering a boosted kprobe, it calls synchronize_sched()
after "int3" is removed. So we can ensure followings after
the synchronize_sched() called.
- interrupt handlers are finished on all CPUs.
- instruction buffer is not executed on all CPUs.
And we can release the boosted kprobe safely.

And also, on preemptible kernel, the booster is not enabled where the kernel
preemption is enabled.  So, there are no preempted threads on the instruction
buffer.

The description of kretprobe-booster:
====================================

In the normal operation, kretprobe make a target function return to trampoline
code.  And a kprobe (called trampoline_probe) have been inserted at the
trampoline code.  When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's
handler and it returns to original return address.

Kretprobe-booster patch removes the trampoline_probe.  It allows the
tram\18poline code to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking
kprobe.  And tranpoline code returns to original return address.

This new trampoline code stores and restores registers, so the kretprobe
handler is still able to access those registers.

Current kprobe has about 1.3 usec/probe(*) overhead, and kprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.6 usec/probe(*).  Also current kretprobe has about 2.0
usec/probe(*) overhead.  Kprobe-booster patch reduces it to 1.3 usec/probe(*),
and the combination of both kprobe-booster patch and kretprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.9 usec/probe(*).

I expect the combination of both patches can reduce half of a probing
overhead.

Performance numbers strongly depend on the processor model.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> These preempt tricks look rather nasty.  Can you please describe what the
> problem is, precisely?  And how this code avoids it?  Perhaps we can find
> something cleaner.

The problem is how to remove the copied instructions of the
kprobe *safely* on the preemptable kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y).

Kprobes basically executes the following actions;

(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)copied instructioin(single step)
(5)kprobe_posthandler()
(6)preempt_enable()
(7)return to the original code

During the execution of copied instruction, preemption is
disabled (from step (2) to (6)).
When unregistering the probes, Kprobe waits for RCU
quiescent state by using synchronize_sched() after removing
int3 instruction.
Thus we can ensure the copied instruction is not executed.

On the other hand, kprobe-booster executes the following actions;

(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)preempt_enable()             <-- this one is added by my patch
(5)copied instruction(direct execution)
(6)jmp back to the original code

The problem is that we have no way to prevent preemption on
step (5) or (6). We cannot call preempt_disable() after step (6),
because there are no rooms to do that. Thus, some other
processes may be preempted at step(5) or (6) on preemptable kernel.
And I couldn't find the easy way to ensure that other processes'
stack do *not* have the address of them. (I thought some way
to do that, but those are very costly.)

So currently, I simply boost the kprobe only when the probe
point is already preemption disabled.

> Also, the patch adds a preempt_enable() but I don't see a corresponding
> preempt_disable().  Am I missing something?

It is corresponding to the preempt_disable() in the top of
kprobe_handler().
I copied the code of kprobe_handler() here:

static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
        struct kprobe *p;
        int ret = 0;
        kprobe_opcode_t *addr = NULL;
        unsigned long *lp;
        struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb;

        /*
         * We don't want to be preempted for the entire
         * duration of kprobe processing
         */
        preempt_disable();             <-- HERE
        kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: clean up resume_execute()
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:13 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: clean up resume_execute()

Clean up kprobe's resume_execute() for i386 arch.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:12 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field

The nanosleep cleanup allows to remove the data field of hrtimer.  The
callback function can use container_of() to get it's own data.  Since the
hrtimer structure is anyway embedded in other structures, this adds no
overhead.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedef
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:11 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedef

nsec_t predates ktime_t and has mostly been superseded by it.  In the few
places that are left it's better to make it explicit that we're dealing with
64 bit values here.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove DEFINE_KTIME and ktime_to_clock_t()
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:10 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove DEFINE_KTIME and ktime_to_clock_t()

Now that it_real_value is gone, the last user of DEFINE_KTIME and
ktime_to_clock_t are also gone, so remove it before someone starts using it
again.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove it_real_value calculation from proc/*/stat
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:10 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove it_real_value calculation from proc/*/stat

Remove the it_real_value from /proc/*/stat, during 1.2.x was the last time it
returned useful data (as it was directly maintained by the scheduler), now
it's only a waste of time to calculate it.  Return 0 instead.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove state field
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:09 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove state field

Remove the state field and encode this information in the rb_node similiar to
normal timer.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: simplify nanosleep
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:08 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: simplify nanosleep

nanosleep is the only user of the expired state, so let it manage this itself,
which makes the hrtimer code a bit simpler.  The remaining time is also only
calculated if requested.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: posix-timer: cleanup common_timer_get()
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:07 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: posix-timer: cleanup common_timer_get()

Cleanup common_timer_get() a little.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: pass current time to hrtimer_forward()
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:06 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: pass current time to hrtimer_forward()

Pass current time to hrtimer_forward().  This allows to use the softirq time
in the timer base when the forward function is called from the timer callback.
 Other places pass current time with a call to timer->base->get_time().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: optimize softirq runqueues
Thomas Gleixner [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:05 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: optimize softirq runqueues

The hrtimer softirq is called from the timer softirq every tick.  Retrieve the
current time from xtime and wall_to_monotonic instead of calling
base->get_time() for each timer base.  Store the time in the base structure
and provide a hook once clock source abstractions are in place and to keep the
code open for new base clocks.

Based on a patch from: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: "nobh" writeback support for filesystems blocksize < pagesize
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:05 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: "nobh" writeback support for filesystems blocksize < pagesize

There is no valid reason why we can't support "nobh" option for filesystems
with blocksize != PAGESIZE.

This patch lets them use "nobh" option for writeback mode for blocksize <
pagesize.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: multi-block get_block()
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:04 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: multi-block get_block()

Mingming Cao recently added multi-block allocation support for ext3,
currently used only by DIO.  I added support to map multiple blocks for
mpage_readpages().  This patch add support for ext3_get_block() to deal
with multi-block mapping.  Basically it renames ext3_direct_io_get_blocks()
as ext3_get_block().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: cleanups and WARN_ON()
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:03 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: cleanups and WARN_ON()

- Clean up a few little layout things and comments.

- Add a WARN_ON to a case which I was wondering about.

- Tune up some inlines.

Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ->get_blocks() support
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:02 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ->get_blocks() support

Now that get_block() can handle mapping multiple disk blocks, no need to have
->get_blocks().  This patch removes fs specific ->get_blocks() added for DIO
and makes it users use get_block() instead.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:01 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()

This patch changes mpage_readpages() and get_block() to get the disk mapping
information for multiple blocks at the same time.

b_size represents the amount of disk mapping that needs to mapped.  On the
successful get_block() b_size indicates the amount of disk mapping thats
actually mapped.  Only the filesystems who care to use this information and
provide multiple disk blocks at a time can choose to do so.

No changes are needed for the filesystems who wants to ignore this.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] pass b_size to ->get_block()
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:00 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] pass b_size to ->get_block()

Pass amount of disk needs to be mapped to get_block().  This way one can
modify the fs ->get_block() functions to map multiple blocks at the same time.

[akpm@osdl.org: performance tweak]
[akpm@osdl.org: remove unneeded assignments]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:00 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t

Increase the size of the buffer_head b_size field (only) for 64 bit platforms.
Update some old and moldy comments in and around the structure as well.

The b_size increase allows us to perform larger mappings and allocations for
large I/O requests from userspace, which tie in with other changes allowing
the get_block_t() interface to map multiple blocks at once.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust reservation window size for mblocks
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:59 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust reservation window size for mblocks

Optimize the block reservation and the multiple block allocation: with the
knowledge of the total number of blocks ahead, set or adjust the reservation
window size properly (based on the number of blocks needed) before block
allocation happens: if there isn't any reservation yet, make sure the
reservation window equals to or greater than the number of blocks needed,
before create an reservation window; if a reservation window is already
exists, try to extends the window size to match the number of blocks to
allocate.  This could increase the possibility of completing multiple blocks
allocation in a single request, as blocks are only allocated in the range of
the inode's reservation window.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust accounting info in ext3_new_blocks()
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:58 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust accounting info in ext3_new_blocks()

Update accounting information (quota, boundary checks, free blocks number etc)
in ext3_new_blocks().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: support multiple blocks allocation in ext3_new_block()
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:57 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: support multiple blocks allocation in ext3_new_block()

Change ext3_try_to_allocate() (called via ext3_new_blocks()) to try to
allocate the requested number of blocks on a best effort basis: After
allocated the first block, it will always attempt to allocate the next few(up
to the requested size and not beyond the reservation window) adjacent blocks
at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: multiple block allocation
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:56 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: multiple block allocation

Add support for multiple block allocation in ext3-get-blocks().

Look up the disk block mapping and count the total number of blocks to
allocate, then pass it to ext3_new_block(), where the real block allocation is
performed.  Once multiple blocks are allocated, prepare the branch with those
just allocated blocks info and finally splice the whole branch into the block
mapping tree.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Mapping multiple blocks at a once
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:55 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Mapping multiple blocks at a once

Currently ext3_get_block() only maps or allocates one block at a time.  This
is quite inefficient for sequential IO workload.

I have posted a early implements a simply multiple block map and allocation
with current ext3.  The basic idea is allocating the 1st block in the existing
way, and attempting to allocate the next adjacent blocks on a best effort
basis.  More description about the implementation could be found here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=112162230003522&w=2

The following the latest version of the patch: break the original patch into 5
patches, re-worked some logicals, and fixed some bugs.  The break ups are:

 [patch 1] Adding map multiple blocks at a time in ext3_get_blocks()
 [patch 2] Extend ext3_get_blocks() to support multiple block allocation
 [patch 3] Implement multiple block allocation in ext3-try-to-allocate
 (called via ext3_new_block()).
 [patch 4] Proper accounting updates in ext3_new_blocks()
 [patch 5] Adjust reservation window size properly (by the given number
 of blocks to allocate) before block allocation to increase the
 possibility of allocating multiple blocks in a single call.

Tests done so far includes fsx,tiobench and dbench.  The following numbers
collected from Direct IO tests (1G file creation/read) shows the system time
have been greatly reduced (more than 50% on my 8 cpu system) with the patches.

 1G file DIO write:
  2.6.15 2.6.15+patches
 real    0m31.275s 0m31.161s
 user    0m0.000s 0m0.000s
 sys     0m3.384s 0m0.564s

 1G file DIO read:
  2.6.15 2.6.15+patches
 real    0m30.733s 0m30.624s
 user    0m0.000s 0m0.004s
 sys     0m0.748s 0m0.380s

Some previous test we did on buffered IO with using multiple blocks allocation
and delayed allocation shows noticeable improvement on throughput and system
time.

This patch:

Add support of mapping multiple blocks in one call.

This is useful for DIO reads and re-writes (where blocks are already
allocated), also is in line with Christoph's proposal of using getblocks() in
mpage_readpage() or mpage_readpages().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2TB files: change type of kstatfs entries
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:54 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: change type of kstatfs entries

This fix was proposed by Trond Myklebust.  He says: The type "sector_t" is
heavily tied in to the block layer interface as an offset/handle to a block,
and is subject to a supposedly block-specific configuration option:
CONFIG_LBD.  Despite this, it is used in struct kstatfs to save a couple of
bytes on the stack whenever we call the filesystems' ->statfs().

So kstatfs's entries related to blocks are invalid on statfs64 for a network
filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks when CONFIG_LBD is disabled.

- struct kstatfs
  Change the type of following entries from sector_t to u64.
  f_blocks
  f_bfree
  f_bavail
  f_files
  f_ffree

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2tb-files-add-blkcnt_t-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:53 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2tb-files-add-blkcnt_t-fixes

Cc: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2TB files: add blkcnt_t
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:52 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: add blkcnt_t

Add blkcnt_t as the type of inode.i_blocks.  This enables you to make the size
of blkcnt_t either 4 bytes or 8 bytes on 32 bits architecture with CONFIG_LSF.

- CONFIG_LSF
  Add new configuration parameter.
- blkcnt_t
  On h8300, i386, mips, powerpc, s390 and sh that define sector_t,
  blkcnt_t is defined as u64 if CONFIG_LSF is enabled; otherwise it is
  defined as unsigned long.
  On other architectures, it is defined as unsigned long.
- inode.i_blocks
  Change the type from sector_t to blkcnt_t.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2TB files: st_blocks is invalid when calling stat64
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:51 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: st_blocks is invalid when calling stat64

This patch series fixes the following problems on 32 bits architecture.

o stat64 returns the lower 32 bits of blocks, although userland st_blocks
  has 64 bits, because i_blocks has only 32 bits.  The ioctl with FIOQSIZE has
  the same problem.

o As Dave Kleikamp said, making >2TB file on JFS results in writing an
  invalid block number to disk inode.  The cause is the same as above too.

o In generic quota code dquot_transfer(), the file usage is calculated from
  i_blocks via inode_get_bytes().  If the file is over 2TB, the change of
  usage is less than expected.  The cause is the same as above too.

o As Trond Myklebust said, statfs64's entries related to blocks are invalid
  on statfs64 for a network filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks with
  CONFIG_LBD disabled.  [PATCH 3/3]

We made patches to fix problems that occur when handling a large filesystem
and a large file.  It was discussed on the mails titled "stat64 for over 2TB
file returned invalid st_blocks".

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:50 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()

Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add mempool_create_slab_pool()
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:49 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add mempool_create_slab_pool()

Create a simple wrapper function for the common case of creating a slab-based
mempool.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kzalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:48 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kzalloc allocator

This patch changes a mempool user, which is basically just a wrapper around
kzalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather than its own
wrapper function, removing duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:48 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kzalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace a mempool-backed
kzalloc allocator.  It is also very likely that there will be more users in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:47 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator

This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:46 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kmalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed kmalloc allocators in several places in the kernel.  It is also
very likely that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool page allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:45 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool page allocator

Convert two mempool users that currently use their own mempool-backed page
allocators to use the generic mempool page allocator.

Also included are 2 trivial whitespace fixes.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:44 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed page allocators in 2 places in the kernel.  It is also likely
that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: documentation update
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:44 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: documentation update

Update driver documentation.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: minor cleanups
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:43 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: minor cleanups

Remove some whitespaces and codingstyle issues.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: remove per-driver versioning
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:42 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: remove per-driver versioning

Remove per-driver versioning.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: use ethtool_op_get_link
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:41 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: use ethtool_op_get_link

Use ethtool_op_get_link instead of vortex_get_link.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: carriercheck for forced media
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:41 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: carriercheck for forced media

Handle netif_carrier_{on,of} also if media is forced to 10baseT/100baseTx.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: decrease polling interval
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:40 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: decrease polling interval

Set the polling interval for media changes to 5 seconds if link is down and
60 seconds if link is up.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: use mii_check_media
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:39 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: use mii_check_media

Check for media changes and netif_carrier by using mii_check_media() if mii is
used.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix typo causing bad mode of /initrd.image
Jason Gunthorpe [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:38 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix typo causing bad mode of /initrd.image

I noticed that after boot with an initrd in 2.6.16 the rootfs had:

--w-r-xr-T    1 root     root      6241141 Jan  1  1970 initrd.image

Which is caused by a small typo:

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.c
Eric Sesterhenn [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:37 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.c

Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.o, by moving li_destroy() above
li_create()

sound/oss/vwsnd.c:275: warning: conflicting types for â\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:275: error: static declaration of â\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99 follows non-static declaration
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:264: error: previous implicit declaration of â\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99 was here

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:36 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isicom: select FW_LOADER
maximilian attems [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:35 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] isicom: select FW_LOADER

The isicom driver uses request_firmware() and thus needs to select
FW_LOADER.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix array overrun in efi.c
Darren Jenkins [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:34 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix array overrun in efi.c

Coverity found an over-run @ line 364 of efi.c

This is due to the loop checking the size correctly, then adding a '\0'
after possibly hitting the end of the array.

Ensure the loop exits with one space left in the array.

Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ads7846: sparc32 warning fix
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:33 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ads7846: sparc32 warning fix

drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c: In function `ads7846_read12_ser':
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:207: warning: implicit declaration of function `disable_irq'
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:209: warning: implicit declaration of function `enable_irq'

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove fixup_cpu_present_map()
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:32 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove fixup_cpu_present_map()

Since the addition of boot_cpu_init(), fixup_cpu_present_map() has been a
no-op.  That's because fixup_cpu_present_map() won't touch cpu_present_map if
it has any bits set, and boot_cpu_init() sets a bit.

So remove fixup_cpu_present_map().

A consequence of this (actually of the boot_cpu_init() change) is that the
architecture _must_ populate cpu_present_map itself (probably in
smp_prepare_cpus()).  fixup_cpu_present_map() won't do it any more.

If the architecture doesn't do this, it'll only bring up a single CPU.

The other side effect (though less serious) is that smp_prepare_boot_cpu() no
longer needs to mark the boot cpu in the online and present maps -
boot_cpu_init() does that for everyone (to make early printks work).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] tlclk: fix handling of device major
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:31 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] tlclk: fix handling of device major

tlclk calls register_chrdev() and permits register_chrdev() to allocate the
major, but it promptly forgets what that major was.  So if there's no hardware
present you still get "telco_clock" appearing in /proc/devices and, I assume,
an oops reading /proc/devices if tlclk was a module.

Fix.

Mark, I'd suggest that that we not call register_chrdev() until _after_ we've
established that the hardware is present.

Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] loop: potential kernel hang waiting for kthread
Herbert Poetzl [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:30 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] loop: potential kernel hang waiting for kthread

Check that kernel_thread() succeeded, so we don't wait for something which
cannot happen.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Use loff_t for size in struct proc_dir_entry
Maneesh Soni [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:29 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Use loff_t for size in struct proc_dir_entry

Change proc_dir_entry->size to be loff_t to represent files like
/proc/vmcore for 32bit systems with more than 4G memory.

Needed for seeing correct size for /proc/vmcore for 32-bit systems with >
4G RAM.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] consolidate sys32/compat_adjtimex
Stephen Rothwell [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:29 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] consolidate sys32/compat_adjtimex

Create compat_sys_adjtimex and use it an all appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] create struct compat_timex and use it everywhere
Stephen Rothwell [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:27 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] create struct compat_timex and use it everywhere

We had a copy of the compatibility version of struct timex in each 64 bit
architecture.  This patch just creates a global one and replaces all the
usages of the old ones.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] NFSD4: return conflict lock without races
Andy Adamson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:26 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] NFSD4: return conflict lock without races

Update the NFSv4 server to use the new posix_lock_file_conf() interface.
Remove unnecessary (and race-prone) posix_test_file() calls.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c,NFSD4: add race_free posix_lock_file_conf() interface
Andy Adamson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:26 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c,NFSD4: add race_free posix_lock_file_conf() interface

Lockd and the NFSv4 server both exercise a race condition where
posix_test_lock() is called either before or after posix_lock_file() to
deal with a denied lock request due to a conflicting lock.

Remove the race condition for the NFSv4 server by adding a new conflicting
lock parameter to __posix_lock_file() , changing the name to
__posix_lock_file_conf().

Keep posix_lock_file() interface, add posix_lock_conf() interface, both
call __posix_lock_file_conf().

[akpm@osdl.org: Put the EXPORT_SYMBOL() where it belongs]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c: cleanup locks_insert_block
J. Bruce Fields [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c: cleanup locks_insert_block

BUG instead of handling a case that should never happen.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
Eric Dumazet [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hpet header sanitization
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:23 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet header sanitization

Add __KERNEL__ block.
Use __KERNEL__ to allow ioctl interface to be usable.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: Increment driver version to v39.0
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:22 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: Increment driver version to v39.0

Need to increment the version number because of the new PCI and sysfs
capabilities of the driver.  People maintaining things for distros have
asked that I do this after interface or major functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: add full sysfs support
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:21 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add full sysfs support

Add full driver model support for the IPMI driver.  It links in the proper
bus and device support.

It adds an "ipmi" driver interface that has each BMC discovered by the
driver (as a device).  These BMCs appear in the devices/platform directory.
 If there are multiple interfaces to the same BMC, the driver should
discover this and will only have one BMC entry.  The BMC entry will have
pointers to each interface device that connects to it.

The device information (statistics and config information) has not yet been
ported over to the driver model from proc, that will come later.

This work was based on work by Yani Ioannou.  I basically rewrote it using
that code as a guide, but he still deserves credit :).

[bunk@stusta.de: make ipmi_find_bmc_guid() static]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: add generic PCI handling
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:20 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add generic PCI handling

Modify the PCI hanling code for the IPMI driver to use the new method of
tables and registering, and adds more generic PCI handling for IPMI.
Unfortunately, this required a rather large rework of the way the driver
did detection so it would be more event-driven.

[bunk@stusta.de: make a struct static]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cleanup smp_call_function UP build
Con Kolivas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:19 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] cleanup smp_call_function UP build

net/core/flow.c: In function 'flow_cache_flush':
net/core/flow.c:299: warning: statement with no effect

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void
NeilBrown [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:18 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void

The return value of this function is never used, so let's be honest and
declare it as void.

Some places where invalidatepage returned 0, I have inserted comments
suggesting a BUG_ON.

[akpm@osdl.org: JBD BUG fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: rework for git-nfs]
[akpm@osdl.org: don't go BUG in block_invalidate_page()]
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->sync_page return void
NeilBrown [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:17 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->sync_page return void

The only user ignores the return value, and the only instanace
(block_sync_page) always returns 0...

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>