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JANAK DESAI
a016f3389c [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare files
If the file descriptor structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
a0a7ec308f [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare vm
If vm structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from
the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
741a295130 [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare namespace
If the namespace structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
99d1419d96 [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare filesystem info
If filesystem structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
cf2e340f42 [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: system call handler function
sys_unshare system call handler function accepts the same flags as clone
system call, checks constraints on each of the flags and invokes corresponding
unshare functions to disassociate respective process context if it was being
shared with another task.

Here is the link to a program for testing unshare system call.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/audit/unshare_test.c?download

Please note that because of a problem in rmdir associated with bind mounts and
clone with CLONE_NEWNS, the test fails while trying to remove temporary test
directory.  You can remove that temporary directory by doing rmdir, twice,
from the command line.  The first will fail with EBUSY, but the second will
succeed.  I have reported the problem to Ram Pai and Al Viro with a small
program which reproduces the problem.  Al told us yesterday that he will be
looking at the problem soon.  I have tried multiple rmdirs from the
unshare_test program itself, but for some reason that is not working.  Doing
two rmdirs from command line does seem to remove the directory.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
46cd2f32ba [PATCH] Fix build failure in recent pm_prepare_* changes.
Fix compilation problem in PM headers.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:33 -08:00
Andrew Morton
8e08b75686 [PATCH] module: strlen_user() race fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:32 -08:00
Pavel Machek
7714d5985b [PATCH] swsusp: kill unneeded/unbalanced bio_get
- Remove unneeded bio_get() which would cause a bio leak

- Writing doesn't dirty pages.  Reading dirties pages.

- We should dirty the pages after the IO completion, not before

(Busy-waiting for disk I/O completion isn't very polite.)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:31 -08:00
Dave Jones
5c0d5d262a [PATCH] missing license tag in intermodule
It may suck something awful, but it shouldn't taint the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.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>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
bd576c9523 [PATCH] sched: only print migration_cost once per boot
migration_cost prints after every CPU hotplug event.  Make it print only
once at boot.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
88a2a4ac6b [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs
percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of
cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus.

As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS
loops to use for_each_cpu().

(The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h.  powerpc has gone it
alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's
currently corrupting memory).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Andrew Morton
514a01b880 [PATCH] uninline __sigqueue_free()
Five callsites.  I dunno how all this crap got back in there :(

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:10 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
fe85a998ca [PATCH] cpuset: fix sparse warning
kernel/cpuset.c:644:38: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'cpuset_update_task_memory_state'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
George Anzinger
88fc3897e3 [PATCH] Normalize timespec for negative values in ns_to_timespec
- In case of a negative nsec value the result of the division must be
  normalized.

- Remove inline from an exported function.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@wildturkeyranch.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Keith Owens
54e8ce463a [PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries
When one module exports a function symbol and another module uses that
symbol then kallsyms shows the symbol twice.  Once from the consumer with a
type of 'U' and once from the provider with a type of 't' or 'T'.  On most
architectures, both entries have the same address so it does not matter
which one is returned by kallsyms_lookup_name().  But on architectures with
function descriptors, the 'U' entry points to the descriptor, not to the
code body, which is not what we want.

IA64 # grep -w qla2x00_remove_one /proc/kallsyms
a000000208c25ef8 U qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2300]   <= descriptor
a000000208bf44c0 t qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2xxx]   <= function body

Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries in modules.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:02 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
278ff95370 [PATCH] Kprobes: Fix deadlock in function-return probes
When two function-return probes are inserted on kfree()[1] and the second
on say, sys_link()[2], and later [2] is unregistered, we have a deadlock as
kfree is called with the kretprobe_lock held and the function-return probe
on kfree will also try to grab the same lock.

However, we can move the kfree() during unregistration to outside the
spinlock as we are sure that no instances from the free list will be used
after synchronized_sched() returns during the unregistration process.
Thanks to Masami Hiramatsu for spotting this.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:00 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e65cefe87b [PATCH] kernel/kprobes.c: fix a warning #ifndef ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
kernel/kprobes.c:353: warning: 'pre_handler_kretprobe' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
59ed2f59e4 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2006-02-01 22:06:15 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
2a11ff06d7 [PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.
Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node
allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left.  Reclaim
will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless
scans for memory.  This is also useful to established sufficiently large off
node allocation chunks to relieve the local node.

It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations.
For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up
for longer periods of time.  If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want
to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations.

This patch allows just that....

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
c84db23c6e [PATCH] zone_reclaim: minor fixes
- If we only reclaim nr_pages then its okay to stay on node.
  Switch from > to >= for the comparison.

- vm_table[] entry for zone_reclaim_mode is a bit screwed up.

- Add empty lines around shrink_zone to show that this is the
  central function to be called.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:15 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f7b8988ff5 [PATCH] swsusp: do not change log level during suspend/resume
Prevent the kernel from setting the log level to 10 unconditionally during
suspend/resume which was needed in the past for debugging, but generally is
undesirable.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:14 -08:00
Jack Steiner
2f7016d917 [PATCH] sys_sched_getaffinity() & hotplug
Change sched_getaffinity() so that it returns a bitmap that indicates the
legally schedulable cpus that a task is allowed to run on.

Without this patch, if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled, sched_getaffinity()
unconditionally returns (at least on IA64) a mask with NR_CPUS bits set.
This conveys no useful infornmation except for a kernel compile option.

This fixes a breakage we obseved running recent kernels. We have MPI jobs
that use sched_getaffinity() to determine where to place their threads.
Placing them on non-existant cpus is problematic :-)

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
493f01d1d0 [PATCH] kernel/posix-timers.c: remove do_posix_clock_notimer_create()
This function is neither used nor has any real contents.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
952bbc87f0 [PATCH] hrtimers: set correct initial expiry time for relative SIGEV_NONE timers
The expiry time for relative timers with SIGEV_NONE set was never
updated to the correct value.

Pointed out by George Anzinger.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
66188fae3b [PATCH] hrtimers: add back lost credit lines
At some point we added credits to people who actively helped to bring
k/hr-timers along.  This was lost in the big code revamp.  Add it back.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
George Anzinger
7978672c4d [PATCH] hrtimers: cleanups and simplifications
Clean up the interface to hrtimers by changing the init code to pass the mode
as well as the clock.  This allow the init code to select the correct base and
eliminates extra timer re-init code in posix-timers.  We also simplify the
restart interface nanosleep use.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
ff60a5dc4f [PATCH] hrtimers: fix posix-timer requeue race
From: Steven Rostedtrostedt@goodmis.org <rostedt@goodmis.org>

CPU0 expires a posix-timer and runs the callback function.  The signal is
queued.

After releasing the posix-timer lock and before returning to hrtimer_run_queue
CPU0 gets interrupted.  CPU1 delivers the queued signal and rearms the timer.
CPU0 comes back to hrtimer_run_queue and sets the timer state to expired.

The next modification of the timer can result in an oops, because the state
information is wrong.

Keep track of state = RUNNING and check if the state has been in the return
path of hrtimer_run_queue.  In case the state has been changed, ignore a
restart request and do not touch the state variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.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>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
a16a1c095a [PATCH] hrtimers: fix oldvalue return in setitimer
This resolves bugzilla bug#5617.  The oldvalue of the timer was read after the
timer was cancelled, so the remaining time was always zero.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
b6557fbca8 [PATCH] hrtimers: fix possible use of NULL pointer in posix-timers
Fixup the conversion of posix-timers to hrtimers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
bc1978d404 [PATCH] hrtimers: fixup itimer conversion
The itimer conversion removed the locking which protects the timer and
variables in the shared signal structure.  Steven Rostedt found the problem in
the latest -rt patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
853609b61e [PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size units
Make swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed for future
compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
Andrew Morton
3fa97c9db4 [PATCH] "Fix uidhash_lock <-> RXU deadlock" fix
I get storms of warnings from local_bh_enable().  Better-tested patches,
please.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31 16:49:43 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
adac166523 [PATCH] rcu_torture_lock deadlock fix
rcu_torture_lock is used in a softirq-unsafe manner, but it is also
taken by rcu_torture_cb(), which may execute in softirq-context,
resulting in potential deadlocks.

The fix is to acquire rcu_torture_lock in a softirq-safe manner.  With
this fix applied, the rcu-torture code passes validation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31 11:30:18 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4021cb279a [PATCH] fix uidhash_lock <-> RCU deadlock
RCU task-struct freeing can call free_uid(), which is taking
uidhash_lock - while other users of uidhash_lock are softirq-unsafe.

The fix is to always take the uidhash_spinlock in a softirq-safe manner.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31 11:30:18 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
70b4d63e98 [PATCH] Fix boot-time slowdown for measure_migration_cost
This reduces the amount of time the migration cost calculations cost
during bootup. Based on numbers by Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-31 10:23:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
951069e311 Don't try to "validate" a non-existing timeval.
settime() with a NULL timeval is silly but legal.

Noticed by Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31 10:16:55 -08:00
Len Brown
9fdb62af92 [ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica asus fops pnpacpi branches into release
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-24 17:52:48 -05:00
Alan Cox
715b49ef2d [PATCH] EDAC: atomic scrub operations
EDAC requires a way to scrub memory if an ECC error is found and the chipset
does not do the work automatically.  That means rewriting memory locations
atomically with respect to all CPUs _and_ bus masters.  That means we can't
use atomic_add(foo, 0) as it gets optimised for non-SMP

This adds a function to include/asm-foo/atomic.h for the platforms currently
supported which implements a scrub of a mapped block.

It also adjusts a few other files include order where atomic.h is included
before types.h as this now causes an error as atomic_scrub uses u32.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
150256d8aa [PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend()
The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of
sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture.  This
provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it.

It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Jason Baron
c21761f168 [PATCH] fix sched_setscheduler semantics
Currently, a negative policy argument passed into the
'sys_sched_setscheduler()' system call, will return with success.  However,
the manpage for 'sys_sched_setscheduler' says:

EINVAL The scheduling policy is not one of the recognized policies, or the
              parameter p does not make sense for the policy.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:22 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
1743660b91 [PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override
proc support for zone reclaim

This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be
used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on
bootup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
ea13dbc89c [PATCH] kernel/hrtimer.c sparse warning fix
fix the following sparse warning:

 kernel/hrtimer.c:665:34: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
 kernel/hrtimer.c:665:34:    expected void const *from
 kernel/hrtimer.c:665:34:    got struct timespec [noderef] *<noident><asn:1>
 kernel/hrtimer.c:664:2: warning: dereference of noderef expression

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:21:12 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
fd279197b1 [PATCH] build kernel/intermodule.c only when required
Build kernel/intermodule.c only when required.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:26 -08:00
Jonathan Corbet
8dca6f33f0 [PATCH] hrtimer comment tweak
Fix a comment which missed an update cycle somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 20:27:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3f02d072d4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-15 16:43:29 -08:00
Paul Jackson
505970b96e [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix
The problem, reported in:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5859

and by various other email messages and lkml posts is that the cpuset hook
in the oom (out of memory) code can try to take a cpuset semaphore while
holding the tasklist_lock (a spinlock).

One must not sleep while holding a spinlock.

The fix seems easy enough - move the cpuset semaphore region outside the
tasklist_lock region.

This required a few lines of mechanism to implement.  The oom code where
the locking needs to be changed does not have access to the cpuset locks,
which are internal to kernel/cpuset.c only.  So I provided a couple more
cpuset interface routines, available to the rest of the kernel, which
simple take and drop the lock needed here (cpusets callback_sem).

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
0152fb3760 [PATCH] s390: spinlock fixes
Remove useless spin_retry_counter and fix compilation for UP kernels.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
b0a9499c3d [PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policy
Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed
CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty.  Such
policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not
want to give up their nice levels.  The policy is also useful for workloads
that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing
extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Christian Kujau
624dffcbcf correct email address of Manfred Spraul
I  tried to send the forcedeth maintainer an email, but it came back with:

"The mail address manfreds@colorfullife.com is not read anymore.
Please resent your mail to manfred@ instead of manfreds@."

This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:43:54 +01:00