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Alexey Dobriyan
4495c9e5ca [PATCH] optical /proc/ide/*/media
Sergey Vlasov reported that his "FUJITSU MCC3064AP, ATAPI OPTICAL drive"
pops up as UNKNOWN in /proc/ide/*/media .

Closes #4145.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.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>
2006-09-08 10:22:50 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
c5780e976e [PATCH] Use the correct restart option for futex_lock_pi
The current implementation of futex_lock_pi returns -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
in case that the lock operation has been interrupted by a signal.  This
results in a return of -EINTR to userspace in case there is an handler for
the signal.  This is wrong, because userspace expects that the lock
function does not return in any case of signal delivery.

This was not caught by my insufficient test case, but triggered a nasty
userspace problem in an high load application scenario.  Unfortunately also
glibc does not check for this invalid return value.

Using -ERSTARTNOINTR makes sure, that the interrupted syscall is restarted.
 The restart block related code can be safely removed, as the possible
timeout argument is an absolute time value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08 10:22:50 -07:00
Kirill Korotaev
3a45975681 [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs
This prevents cross-region mappings on IA64 and SPARC which could lead
to system crash.  They were correctly trapped for normal mmap() calls,
but not for the kernel internal calls generated by executable loading.

This code just moves the architecture-specific cross-region checks into
an arch-specific "arch_mmap_check()" macro, and defines that for the
architectures that needed it (ia64, sparc and sparc64).

Architectures that don't have any special requirements can just ignore
the new cross-region check, since the mmap() code will just notice on
its own when the macro isn't defined.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[ Cleaned up to not affect architectures that don't need it ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08 08:40:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
10387e5eb4 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  [PATCH] myri10ge: update the firmware download URL in Kconfig
2006-09-06 11:00:59 -07:00
john stultz
ebd6c17109 [PATCH] FRV: Use the generic time stuff for FRV
Use the generic time stuff for FRV.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:02 -07:00
David Woodhouse
b4a228346c [PATCH] Remove unneeded asm-i386/cpufeature.h from user visibility.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:02 -07:00
Ismail Donmez
bb98ad77d8 [PATCH] Move linux/device.h include in linux/atmdev.h to #ifdef __KERNEL__ section
linux/device.h header is not included in the David Woodhouse's
kernel-headers git tree which is used for userspace kernel headers.  Which
results in compile errors when building iproute2.  Attached patch moves
linux/device.h include under the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section.

Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
068c4579fe [PATCH] lockdep: do not touch console state when tainting the kernel
Remove an unintended console_verbose() side-effect from add_taint().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:02 -07:00
Pavel Machek
471b40d0df [PATCH] prevent swsusp with PAE
PAE + swsusp results in hard-to-debug crash about 50% of time during
resume.  Cause is known, fix needs to be ported from x86-64 (but we can't
make it to 2.6.18, and I'd like this to be worked around in 2.6.18).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:02 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
96dd7421a0 [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow
Frank v.  Waveren pointed out that on 64bit machines the timespec to
ktime_t conversion might overflow.  This is also true for timeval to
ktime_t conversions.  This breaks a "sleep inf" on 64bit machines.

While a timespec/timeval with tx.sec = MAX_LONG is valid by specification
the internal representation of ktime_t is based on nanoseconds.  The
conversion of seconds to nanoseconds overflows for seconds values >=
(MAX_LONG / NSEC_PER_SEC).

Check the seconds argument to the conversion and limit it to the maximum
time which can be represented by ktime_t.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:02 -07:00
Henrik Kretzschmar
fe2bbc4832 [PATCH] add missing desctiption in super.c
Adds kernel-doc for alloc_super() type in fs/super.c.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:01 -07:00
Henrik Kretzschmar
6dba28379e [PATCH] Documentation for lock_key in struct hrtimer_base
Fixes an error message on make xmldocs.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:01 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
fc47e7b592 [PATCH] lockdep ifdef fix
With

	CONFIG_SMP=y
	CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
	CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y
	CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
	# CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not set

spin_unlock_irqrestore() goes through lockdep but spin_lock_irqsave() doesn't.
Apparently, bad things happen.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-06 11:00:01 -07:00
Brice Goglin
d279490543 [PATCH] myri10ge: update the firmware download URL in Kconfig
Update the firmware download URL in Kconfig to match the header
in drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-06 11:04:26 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c336923b66 Linux 2.6.18-rc6 2006-09-03 19:19:48 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
8f2779491a [PATCH] powerpc: Fix typo in powermac platform functions
New sparse caught that typo which could have caused erratic hardware
behaviour on some machines if the platform functions are used by the
firmware to change bits in some FCR registers.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-03 17:53:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3fbcd940df Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
  [SERIAL] 8250: constify some serial structs
  [SERIAL] Make uart_match_port() work with all memory mapped UARTs
2006-09-02 14:52:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e694420258 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches
  [ARM] 3765/1: S3C24XX: cleanup include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/dma.h
  [ARM] 3764/1: S3C24XX: change type naming to kernel style
  [ARM] 3763/1: add both rtcs to csb337 defconfig
  [ARM] Fix ARM __raw_read_trylock() implementation
  [ARM] 3750/3: Fix double VFP emulation for EABI kernels
2006-09-02 14:51:45 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3b6362b833 [PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid check
It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children
lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads.

Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group,
we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer)
threads in the same group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-02 14:51:27 -07:00
George G. Davis
a188ad2bc7 [ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches
Patch from George G. Davis

Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when
using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page()
while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far
too heavy on non-v6 CPUs".

NOTES:

1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page().
2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page".
3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache
   coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page".  However
   flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range
   for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT
   non-aliasing case.  So memory is consistent between kernel and user
   space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this
   range.  IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before
   memcpy().
4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush
   the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and
   invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable.  We don't
   need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page()
   case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same
   process above if we access "page" again.  The flush_ptrace_access()
   function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle
   cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-02 18:43:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
d738752fc4 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  uhci-hcd: fix list access bug
  USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus
  USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2
  USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill()
  USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i
  USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry
  UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error
  usb gadget: g_ether spinlock recursion fix
  USB: add all wacom device to hid-core.c blacklist
  hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist
  USB floppy drive SAMSUNG SFD-321U/EP detected 8 times
2006-09-01 11:40:37 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
a930363881 [PATCH] backlight last round of fixes
Fix some more problems (inverted use of semaphores in some places).  He
also moved my checks into within the protected section which is better.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
4cfb04a9d3 [PATCH] manage-jbd-its-own-slab fix
Missed a place where I forgot to convert kfree() to kmem_cache_free() as
part of jbd-manage-its-own-slab changes.

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>
2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
3b98b087fc [PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pages
Since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of smallpages, VMAs for huge pages have the
lower HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT bits always cleared, which results in badd
offsets to the interleave functions.  Take this difference from small pages
into account when calculating the offset.  This does add a 0-bit shift into
the small-page path (via alloc_page_vma()), but I think that is negligible.
 Also add a BUG_ON to prevent the offset from growing due to a negative
right-shift, which probably shouldn't be allowed anyways.

Tested on an 8-memory node ppc64 NUMA box and got the interleaving I
expected.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
John Keller
1678df37be [PATCH] sgiioc4: fixup use of mmio ops
Fix some bugs in the patch that converted the IOC4 driver from port IO ops to
memio ops.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114895892231438&w=2

  Problems fixed are:
   - Call to default_hwif_mmiops() was not being done until _after_
     first IO operation, resulting in the first IO operation being
     done as a port IO op, instead of memio.
   - request_region() calls needed to be request_mem_region()
   - Incomplete error case handling.
   - Non-usage of ioremap() and __iomem.

Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
Takashi Iwai
7931e2a92b [PATCH] ALSA: ac97: correct some Mic mixer elements
Revert the mixer element names of some Mic controls to the state of
2.6.17.  This should fix the name mismatch in alsactl.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
ca72945d2d [PATCH] powerpc: Fix PowerMac IRQ handling bug
The port to genirq & the new powerpc interrupt model in 2.6.18 introduced a
bug in the legacy PowerMac PIC code (used on older machines) because of a
typo potentially causing hangs due to interrupt storms.  This fixes it,
along with a performance issue causing us to do spurrious retriggers after
masking an interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
d565dd3b08 [PATCH] powerpc: More via-pmu backlight fixes
The via-pmu backlight code (introduced in 2.6.18) has various design issues
causing crashes on machines using it like the old Wallstreet powerbook
(Michael, the author, never managed to test on these and I just got my hand
on one of those old beasts).

This fixes them by no longer trying to hijack the backlight device of the
frontmost framebuffer (causing that framebuffer to crash) but having it's
own local bits instead.  Might look weird but it's better that way on those
old machines, at least as a last-minute fix for 2.6.18.  We might rework
the whole thing later.  This patch also changes the way it gets notified of
sleep and wakeup in order to properly shut the backlight down on sleep and
bring it back on wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Pavel Mironchik
0b1d647a02 [PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocks
This patch works around a complex dm-related deadlock/livelock down in the
mempool allocator.

Alasdair said:

  Several dm targets suffer from this.

  Mempools are not yet used correctly everywhere in device-mapper: they can
  get shared when devices are stacked, and some targets share them across
  multiple instances.  I made fixing this one of the prerequisites for this
  patch:

    md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

  which in some cases makes people more likely to hit the problem.

  There's been some progress on this recently with (unfinished) dm-crypt
  patches at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/
      (dm-crypt-move-io-to-workqueue.patch plus dependencies)

and:

  I've no problems with a temporary workaround like that, but Milan Broz (a
  new Redhat developer in the Czech Republic) has started reviewing all the
  mempool usage in device-mapper so I'm expecting we'll soon have a proper fix
  for this associated problems.  [He's back from holiday at the start of next
  week.]

For now, this sad-but-safe little patch will allow the machine to recover.

[akpm@osdl.org: rewrote changelog]
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
1e5f5e5cd6 [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd round
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Corey Minyard
a9eec55623 [PATCH] IPMI: fix occasional oops on module unload
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI
driver would occasionally result in Oopses.  He tracked that down to a
variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations.  This
patch initializes that variable.  Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the
data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do
that.  Thanks Olaf!

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Henrik Kretzschmar
43a1dd502f [PATCH] kerneldoc for handle_bad_irq()
Adds the description of the parameters from handle_bad_irq().

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Ian E. Morgan
290995fc3c [PATCH] SBC8360: module_param() permission fixes
The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value.

Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Olaf Hering
ef16b5194f [PATCH] exit early in floppy_init when no floppy exists
modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M

The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late,
when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized.
check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks
the device-tree looking for a floppy node.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a9aa141cfc [PATCH] x86: increase MAX_MP_BUSSES on default arch
Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> reports that an HP DL380 g4 fails using the
default arch due to the ISA bus having an ID of 32.

It would have worked OK with the generic arch - for some reason the default
arch doesn't support as many busses.

So bump that up to support 256 busses, but leave it at 32 if we're building a
tiny system to save a bit of memory.

Cc: Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Bill Huey (hui
d742eae8e2 [PATCH] xtensa: ptrace: EXIT_ZOMBIE fix
We're testing the wrong task_struct field.

Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar
35df17c57c [PATCH] task delay accounting fixes
Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting.
This solves two problems reported for delay accounting:

1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html

Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can
cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats.
 The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when
task_struct itself is freed up.  As a result, it also eliminates the use of
tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard
access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting.

2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html

The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was
missing earlier.

The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress
tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface
(which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc
interface causing the oops above).

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
john stultz
30f3174d1c [PATCH] Fix faulty HPET clocksource usage (fix for bug #7062)
Apparently some systems export valid HPET addresses, but hpet_enable()
fails.  Then when the HPET clocksource starts up, it only checks for a
valid HPET address, and the result is a system where time does not advance.

See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7062 for details.

This patch just makes sure we better check that the HPET is functional
before registering the HPET clocksource.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Paul Fulghum
202af6d501 [PATCH] synclink_gt: fix receive tty error handling
Fix receive tty error handling in synclink_gt driver.  Adrian reported
compiler warning for incorrect bit test against char variable.  I
determined these and other device specific error bits were incorrectly
defined.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
NeilBrown
ddac7c7e3a [PATCH] md: Fix issues with referencing rdev in md/raid1
We need to be careful when referencing mirrors[i].rdev.  It can disappear
under us at various times.

So:
  fix a couple of problem places.
  comment a couple of non-problem places
  move an 'atomic_add' which deferences rdev down a little
    way to some where where it is sure to not be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
df9ecaba3f [PATCH] ZVC: Scale thresholds depending on the size of the system
The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32.
This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and
the sizes of the zones in the system.

With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention
when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters.  The
contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used
Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch).

However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors.  So we need higher
values for larger systems.

But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller
systems.  Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters.  For
example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or
ZONE_DMA32.  These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems.

The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the
system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for.  The
threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy
approximation.

Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM)

The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently
on each processor (Forking the process.  So contention on mmap_sem and the
pte locks is not a factor):

                       X                   MIN
TYPE:               CPUS       WALL       WALL        SYS     USER     TOTCPU
fork                   1      0.552      0.552      0.540    0.012      0.552
fork                   4      0.552      0.548      2.164    0.036      2.200
fork                  16      0.564      0.548      8.812    0.164      8.976
fork                 128      0.580      0.572     72.204    1.208     73.412
fork                 256      1.300      0.660    310.400    2.160    312.560
fork                 512      3.512      0.696   1526.836    4.816   1531.652
fork                1020     20.024      0.700  17243.176    6.688  17249.863

So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention
becomes a factor.

Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit:

fork                   4      0.552      0.548      2.164    0.040      2.204
fork                  16      0.552      0.548      8.640    0.148      8.788
fork                 128      0.556      0.548     69.676    0.956     70.632
fork                 256      0.876      0.636    212.468    2.108    214.576
fork                 512      2.276      0.672    997.324    4.260   1001.584
fork                1020     13.564      0.680  11586.436    6.088  11592.523

Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third.
256 still has a slight bit of contention.

After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces
contention significantly:

fork                 128      0.560      0.548     69.776    0.932     70.708
fork                 256      0.636      0.556    143.460    2.036    145.496
fork                 512      0.640      0.548    284.244    4.236    288.480
fork                1020      1.500      0.588   1326.152    8.892   1335.044

[akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
a302eb4e46 [PATCH] ZVC: Overstep counters
Increments and decrements are usually grouped rather than mixed.  We can
optimize the inc and dec functions for that case.

Increment and decrement the counters by 50% more than the threshold in
those cases and set the differential accordingly.  This decreases the need
to update the atomic counters.

The idea came originally from Andrew Morton.  The overstepping alone was
sufficient to address the contention issue found when updating the global
and the per zone counters from 160 processors.

Also remove some code in dec_zone_page_state.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b63fe1ba44 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IB/mthca: Use IRQ safe locks to protect allocation bitmaps
2006-08-31 21:27:29 -07:00
Alan Stern
db59b464f8 uhci-hcd: fix list access bug
When skipping to the last TD of an URB, go to the _last_ entry in the
list instead of the _first_ entry (as780).  This fixes Bugzilla #6747
and possibly others.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
5df3d8b53f USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus
This patch is support LD-USB20 of the USB LAN device.
http://www2.elecom.co.jp/products/LD-USB20.html ( Japanese only )

I am using this device.
And, I confirmed work by using this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <hemamu@t-base.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00
Mark Hindley
1ae4f9ba84 USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2
Patch to add VIA PCI quirk for Enhanced/Extended USB on VT8235
southbridge. It is needed in order to use EHCI/USB 2.0 with ACPI.
Without it IRQs are not routed correctly, you get an "Unlink after
no-IRQ?" error and the device is unusable.

I belive this could also be a fix for Bugzilla Bug 5835.

Signed-off-by: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00
Andrew Morton
eff674a514 USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill()
We need to wait until any currently-running handler has completed.  Fixes an
unplug-time oops reported by "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com>.

Cc: "Petko Manolov" <petkan@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00
Phil Dibowitz
c9c770ed1f USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i
This entry was sent in by Emmanuel Vasilakis <evas@forthnet.gr>, turned
into a patch by yours truly.

Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00
Phil Dibowitz
f84c749f1c USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry
This patch removes the Kyocera Finecam L3 entry in unusual devices
originally submitted by Michael Krauth <michael.krauth@web.de> and
Alessandro Fracchetti <al.fracchetti@tin.it> given that Gerriet
<ger.haw@gmx.de> finds he doesn't need it and Alessandro confirms it
isn't needed anymore as well.

Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00
Alan Stern
7ceb932f48 UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error
Unlike other sorts of endpoint queues, Isochronous queues don't stop
when an error is encountered.  This patch (as772) fixes the scanning
routine in uhci-hcd, to make it keep on going when it finds an Iso
error.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-31 18:04:30 -07:00