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Thomas Gleixner
03491c9293 i386: fix early usage of atomic_add_return and local_add_return on real i386
The check (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 3) in atomic_add_return() and
local_add_return() fails, when those operations are used before
boot_cpu_data is filled in.

Change the check to (boot_cpu_data.x86 <= 3) to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
98d8256739 Prevent going idle with softirq pending
The NOHZ patch contains a check for softirqs pending when a CPU goes idle.
The BUG is unrelated to NOHZ, it just was made visible by the NOHZ patch.
The BUG showed up mainly on P4 / hyperthreading enabled machines which lead
the investigations into the wrong direction in the first place.  The real
cause is in cond_resched_softirq():

cond_resched_softirq() is enabling softirqs without invoking the softirq
daemon when softirqs are pending.  This leads to the warning message in the
NOHZ idle code:

t1 runs softirq disabled code on CPU#0
interrupt happens, softirq is raised, but deferred (softirqs disabled)
t1 calls cond_resched_softirq()
	enables softirqs via _local_bh_enable()
	calls schedule()
t2 runs
t1 is migrated to CPU#1
t2 is done and invokes idle()
NOHZ detects the pending softirq

Fix: change _local_bh_enable() to local_bh_enable() so the softirq
daemon is invoked.

Thanks to Anant Nitya for debugging this with great patience !

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Li Yang
40acc09530 ehci-fsl: fix cache coherency problem on system with large memory
The patch fixes bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7482.

It sets USB snooping on 4G space for PowerPC platforms without
CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE defined.

Reported-by: Stefan Meyer <reyems@telkomsa.net>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
3d6ac98431 document clocksources
Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into
the correct (alpha) location in the file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Michael Halcrow
53a2731f93 eCryptfs: delay writing 0's after llseek until write
Delay writing 0's out in eCryptfs after a seek past the end of the file
until data is actually written.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/lseek.html

``The lseek() function shall not, by itself, extend the size of a
file.''

Without this fix, applications that lseek() past the end of the file without
writing will experience unexpected behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
4acb3e2f97 Off by one in floppy.c
Another coverity patch i forgot to resend, original thread here
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115144559823592&w=2

In case drive == N_DRIVE, we get one past the drive_params array.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Nicolas Boichat
fa74419bb7 applesmc - sensors patch missing from 2.6.22-rc2
Add name file needed by lm_sensors user-space applications in applesmc
sysfs tree.

Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Alan Stern
ae2d990eed HiSax: fix error checking for hisax_register()]
This patch (as875) adds error-checking to the callers of hisax_register().
It also changes an error pathway in that routine, making it return an error
code rather than 0.

This fixes Bugzilla #7960.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Bachem <info@colognechip.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Domenico Andreoli
9d9a2000e6 documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt
Final clearification of the pivot_root mechanism, which brings this
document really up-to-date.

Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@dandreoli.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
NeilBrown
a778b73ff7 md: fix bug with linear hot-add and elsewhere
Adding a drive to a linear array seems to have stopped working, due to changes
elsewhere in md, and insufficient ongoing testing...

So the patch to make linear hot-add work in the first place introduced a
subtle bug elsewhere that interracts poorly with older version of mdadm.

This fixes it all up.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
NeilBrown
ab6085c795 md: don't write more than is required of the last page of a bitmap
It is possible that real data or metadata follows the bitmap without full page
alignment.

So limit the last write to be only the required number of bytes, rounded up to
the hard sector size of the device.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
NeilBrown
787f17feb2 md: avoid overflow in raid0 calculation with large components
If a raid0 has a component device larger than 4TB, and is accessed on a 32bit
machines, then as 'chunk' is unsigned long,

   chunk << chunksize_bits

can overflow (this can be as high as the size of the device in KB).  chunk
itself will not overflow (without triggering a BUG).

So change 'chunk' to be 'sector_t, and get rid of the 'BUG' as it becomes
impossible to hit.

Cc: "Jeff Zheng" <Jeff.Zheng@endace.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Stefan Richter
1dbf37e8ad i386, x86-64: show that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend on SMP
It's not sufficiently documented that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for
suspend/hibernation on SMP.

Point out the non-obvious.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
82cd0e8410 i2o: eliminate a peculiar constraint on i2o_max_drivers
There is no reason i2o_max_drivers must be a power of two.  This patch
eliminates such a constraint.

Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
be324797d9 i2o: fix notifiers when max_drivers is configured
Maximum number of I2O drivers which could be registered is configurable by
max_drivers module parameter.

But the module parameter is ignored and default value (I2O_MAX_DRIVERS = 8)
is used in the loops to notify all registered drivers.

Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
e578e9a1cc i2o: destroy event queue only when drv->event is set
i2o_driver_register() initalizes event queue for driver only when
drv->event is set.  So similarly the event queue should be destroyed only
when drv->event is set in the error path.  Otherwise destroy_workqueue()
will called with NULL.

Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Davi Arnaut
b3762bfc8d signalfd: retrieve multiple signals with one read() call
Gathering signals in bulk enables server applications to drain a signal
queue (almost full of realtime signals) more efficiently by reducing the
syscall and file look-up overhead.

Very similar to the sigtimedwait4() call described by Niels Provos, Chuck
Lever, and Stephen Tweedie in a paper entitled "Analyzing the Overload
Behavior of a Simple Web Server".  The paper lists more details and
advantages.

Signed-off-by: Davi E. M. Arnaut <davi@haxent.com.br>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0532cb427e update dontdiff file
Update dontdiff file by adding entries from many .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
6373da1fb7 power: Fix sizeof(PAGE_SIZE) typo
Fix sizeof(PAGE_SIZE) typo.  It should be just PAGE_SIZE for zeroing the
swsusp_header.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hogawa@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
c8511f9490 Misc: phantom, take care of pci posting
phantom, take care of pci posting

thanks to akpm for pointing this out

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
c15395c0db phantom: move to unlocked_ioctl
phantom's ioctl is often (4000 times a sec or so) invoked, don't acquire
BKL and block other processes.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@phantom.fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
14441960e8 simplify cleanup_workqueue_thread()
cleanup_workqueue_thread() and cwq_should_stop() are overcomplicated.

Convert the code to use kthread_should_stop/kthread_stop as was
suggested by Gautham and Srivatsa.

In particular this patch removes the (unlikely) busy-wait loop from the
exit path, it was a temporary and ugly kludge (if not a bug).

Note: the current code was designed to solve another old problem:
work->func can't share locks with hotplug callbacks.  I think this could
be done, see

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116905366428633

but this needs some more complications to preserve CPU affinity of
cwq->thread during cpu_up().  A freezer-based hotplug looks more
appealing.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make it more tolerant of gcc borkenness]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas@wilibox.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
3fcbc72965 Char: cyclades, fix deadlock
An omitted unlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
33e9e24101 SLUB Debug: fix check for super sized slabs (>512k 64bit, >256k 32bit)
The check for super sized slabs where we can no longer move the free
pointer behind the object for debugging purposes etc is accessing a
field that is not setup yet.  We must use objsize here since the size of
the slab has not been determined yet.

The effect of this is that a global slab shrink via "slabinfo -s" will
show errors about offsets being wrong if booted with slub_debug.
Potentially there are other troubles with huge slabs under slub_debug
because the calculated free pointer offset is truncated.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
418508c132 fix unused setup_nr_node_ids
mm/page_alloc.c:931: warning: 'setup_nr_node_ids' defined but not used

This is now the only (!) compiler warning I get in my UML build :)

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
ead5f0b5fa fuse: delete inode on drop
When inode is dropped (no more references) delete it from cache.

There's not much point in keeping it cached, when a new lookup will refresh
the attributes anyway.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
889f784831 fuse: generic_write_checks() for direct_io
This fixes O_APPEND in direct IO mode.  Also checks writes against file size
limits, notably rlimits.

Reported by Greg Bruno.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
492c8b332e uselib: add missing MNT_NOEXEC check
We don't allow loading ELF shared library from noexec points so the
same should apply to sys_uselib aswell.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
David Woodhouse
5a1b639148 Missing 'const' from reiserfs MIN_KEY declaration.
In stree.c, MIN_KEY is declared const. The extern declaration in dir.c
doesn't match...

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Sascha Hauer
772dce71f5 imxfb: fix memory hole
info->pseudo_palette was previously kmalloced.  Do not overwrite it afterwards

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Sascha Hauer
90e16dddec imxfb: remove ifdefs
Here are some small fixes for the imxfb framebuffer driver:

 - remove ifndef for MX1FS2 platform which is not present in the kernel.
 - REV, CLS, PS and SPL_SPR are only needed with some sharp displays.
   Only setup the corresponding io pins when such a display is connected.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
92c4579dbb ps3fb: use FB_SYS_* instead of FB_CFB_*
ps3fb: Use the FB_SYS_* operations instead of the FB_CFB_* operations as the
actual frame buffer memory is part of system RAM

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.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>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Richard Purdie
a01fbbd52e w100fb: fix compile warnings
Fix compile warnings from w100fb.c.  Attribute registration failure doesn't
stop the driver working so just warn about it.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
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>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
2686ba894b pm3fb: various fixes
- fix 16-bit RGBA 4444 and 5551 modes (use fbset -rgba to set them)
 - kill wmb() after each register write by PM3_SLOW_WRITE_REG
 - kill inaccurate comments (leftovers from skeletonfb.c)
 - kill PCI class restriction, now it is more general and shorter
 - white spaces and other minor fixes and source reducing

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>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
11d1a62c59 pm2fb: RDAC_WR barriers clean up
This patch fixes a possible barriers problem in RDAC_WR functions, then
remove redudant ones.

It also removes one unneeded register load from blitter function().

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>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
8d74c1fdaa fbdev: cleanup of sparc FB options
This patch puts all SBUS/UPA selection under one option "SBUS/UPA
framebuffers" and moves all sparc specific drivers next to them in one group.

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>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Florin Malita
9bea3f29fc spi: potential memleak in spidev_ioctl
'ioc' should be deallocated if __copy_from_user fails (found by Coverity
- CID 1644).

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
6087b2dab2 optimize compat_core_sys_select() by a using stack space for small fd sets
Optimize select by a using stack space for small fd sets.
core_sys_select() already has this optimization.  This is for compat
version.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Roland McGrath
7bb44adef3 recalc_sigpending_tsk fixes
Steve Hawkes discovered a problem where recalc_sigpending_tsk was called in
do_sigaction but no signal_wake_up call was made, preventing later signals
from waking up blocked threads with TIF_SIGPENDING already set.

In fact, the few other calls to recalc_sigpending_tsk outside the signals
code are also subject to this problem in other race conditions.

This change makes recalc_sigpending_tsk private to the signals code.  It
changes the outside calls, as well as do_sigaction, to use the new
recalc_sigpending_and_wake instead.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <Steve.Hawkes@motorola.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>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Ben Collins
3c6df2a917 Avoid zero size allocation in cache_k8_northbridges()
kmalloc for flush_words resulted in zero size allocation when no
k8_northbridges existed.  Short circuit the code path for this case.

Also remove uneeded zeroing of num_k8_northbridges just after checking if
it is zero.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
6754bb4de9 Documentation: fix the explanation of Kconfig files
Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9aaffc898f prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel
There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally compiled
rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which has never been
useful, and has often resulted in great frustration.

The attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the
kernel.  It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module.  People
wishing to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot
are free to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m"
line.

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Jeff Dike
cf6acedbea uml: improve PTRACE_SYSEMU checking
Make the PTRACE_SYSEMU checking more robust.  It will make sure that system
call numbers are reported correctly.  If there is a problem, it will disable
PTRACE_SYSEMU use and use PTRACE_SYSCALL instead.

Thanks to Balaji G for helping reproduce this problem.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Domen Puncer
da90fa8ff6 spi/spidev: check message size before copying
Message size needs to be checked before copying, or bad things could
happen.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Andrew Morton
b7add02d62 capability.h warning fix
include/linux/capability.h:397: warning: "struct task_struct" declared inside parameter list
include/linux/capability.h:397: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi
8ce7ad7b2d genhd: send async notification on media change
Send an uevent to user space to indicate that a media change event has
occurred.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi
86ce18d7b7 genhd: expose AN to user space
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of
media changes.  This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags",
which is documented in (insert file name).  This sysfs file will export all
disk capabilities flags to user space.  We also define a new flag to define
the media change notification capability.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
3528231606 NOHZ: Rate limit the local softirq pending warning output
The warning in the NOHZ code, which triggers when a CPU goes idle with
softirqs pending can fill up the logs quite quickly.  Rate limit the output
until we found the root cause of that problem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
David Brownell
43d4f961a8 spi doc update: describe clock mode bits
Update the SPI documentation to cover a few points that have proven to be
confusing or unclear; most notably the two clock mode bits.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
Domen Puncer
8888735fca mpc52xx_psc_spi: fix it for CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
Fix mpc5200 PSC SPI driver to actually work for CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
 - s/mpc52xx/mpc5200/, as this was changed in device tree some time ago
 - fix spi id detection

The move from 'ppc' to 'powerpc' didn't quite match the latest
kernel.org code.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com>
Acked-by: Dragos Carp <dragos.carp@toptica.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00