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>
This patch changes device_shutdown() to use the newly introduced safe
reverse list traversal. We experienced loops on system reboot if we had
removed and re-inserted our device from the device list.
We noticed this problem on PPC405. Our PCI IDE device comes and goes a lot.
Our hypothesis was that there was a loop caused by the driver->shutdown
freeing memory. It is possible that we do something wrong as well, but
being unable to reboot is kind of nasty.
Signed-off-by: Michael Richardson <mcr@marajade.sandelman.ca>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Please fold this typo fix into platform-device-del.patch, as was
discussed earlier on LKML:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/10/76
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add bus_type probe, remove and shutdown methods to replace the
corresponding methods in struct device_driver. This matches
the way we handle the suspend/resume methods.
Since the bus methods override the device_driver methods, warn
if a device driver is registered whose methods will not be
called.
The long-term idea is to remove the device_driver methods entirely.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;
- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
mm/, security/, & sound/;
many more drivers/ to go)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix typos in comments to remove kernel-doc warnings.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Removes the call to get_cpu() and put_cpu() as it is not required.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Kexec on panic functionality allocates memory for saving cpu registers in
case of system crash event. Address of this allocated memory needs to be
exported to user space, which is used by kexec-tools.
- Previously, a single /sys/kernel/crash_notes entry was being exported as
memory allocated was a single continuous array. Now memory allocation being
dyanmic and per cpu based, address of per cpu buffer is exported through
"/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes"
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
register_memory is global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the
HOTPLUG specific definition to match. This fixes a compile warning when
HOTPLUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Both register_memory_notifer and unregister_memory_notifier are global and
declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definitions to
match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Merge the suspend and resume methods for 16-bit PCMCIA cards into the
device model -- for both runtime power management and suspend to ram/disk.
Bugfix in ds.c by Richard Purdie
Signed-Off-By: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
This patch #if 0's an unused global function.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thanks to drivers making their id tables __devinit, we can't allow
userspace to bind or unbind drivers from devices manually through sysfs.
So we only allow this if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled.
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Driver core: rearrange exports in platform.c
The new way is to specify export right after symbol definition.
Rearrange exports to follow new style to avoid mixing two styles
in one file.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There are cases in which a device's memory mapped registers overlap
with another device's memory mapped registers. On several PowerPC
devices this occurs for the MDIO bus, whose registers tended to overlap
with one of the ethernet controllers.
By switching from request_resource to insert_resource we can register
the MDIO bus as a proper platform device and not hack around how we
handle its memory mapped registers.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as604) makes the driver core hold a device's parent's lock
as well as the device's lock during calls to the probe and remove
methods in a driver. This facility is needed by USB device drivers,
owing to the peculiar way USB devices work:
A device provides multiple interfaces, and drivers are bound
to interfaces rather than to devices;
Nevertheless a reset, reset-configuration, suspend, or resume
affects the entire device and requires the caller to hold the
lock for the device, not just a lock for one of the interfaces.
Since a USB driver's probe method is always called with the interface
lock held, the locking order rules (always lock parent before child)
prevent these methods from acquiring the device lock. The solution
provided here is to call all probe and remove methods, for all devices
(not just USB), with the parent lock already acquired.
Although currently only the USB subsystem requires these changes, people
have mentioned in prior discussion that the overhead of acquiring an
extra semaphore in all the prove/remove sequences is not overly large.
Up to now, the USB core has been using its own set of private
semaphores. A followup patch will remove them, relying entirely on the
device semaphores provided by the driver core.
The code paths affected by this patch are:
device_add and device_del: The USB core already holds the parent
lock, so no actual change is needed.
driver_register and driver_unregister: The driver core will now
lock both the parent and the device before probing or removing.
driver_bind and driver_unbind (in sysfs): These routines will
now lock both the parent and the device before binding or
unbinding.
bus_rescan_devices: The helper routine will lock the parent
before probing a device.
I have not tested this patch for conflicts with other subsystems. As
far as I can see, the only possibility of conflict would lie in the
bus_rescan_devices pathway, and it seems pretty remote. Nevertheless,
it would be good for this to get a lot of testing in -mm.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We can't export a static struct to modules.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch (as603) makes a few small fixes to the driver core:
Change spin_lock_irq for a klist lock to spin_lock;
Fix reference count leaks;
Minor spelling and formatting changes.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce struct platform_driver. This allows the platform device
driver methods to be passed a platform_device structure instead of
instead of a plain device structure, and therefore requiring casting
in every platform driver.
We introduce this in such a way that any existing platform drivers
registered directly via driver_register continue to work as before,
thereby allowing a gradual conversion to the new platform_driver
methods.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous
fix-missing-includes.patch. This should now allow not to include sched.h
from module.h, which is done by a followup patch.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
parent device to be set.
Example usage:
pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
if (pdev) {
err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
if (err == 0)
err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
sizeof(platform_data));
if (err == 0)
err = platform_device_add(pdev);
} else {
err = -ENOMEM;
}
if (err)
platform_device_put(pdev);
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.
In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert existing function docs to kernel-doc format. Eliminate all
kernel-doc warnings. Fix some doc typos and a little whitespace cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some modules creating sysfs entries under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/
need to know the parent sysfs entry to make devices under them. This will
just return the sysfs entry for a given cpu.
sysfs entries showing under each cpu sysfs can be easily created if such
entries can be created by registering a sysfs driver for cpuclass. The
issue is when the entry is created the CPU may not be online, hence we
would need to defer the creation until the online notification comes.
Current users: cache entries for Intel CPU's and cpufreq subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This basically keeps up from having to extern __kmalloc_section_memmap().
The vaddr_in_vmalloc_area() helper could go in a vmalloc header, but that
header gets hard to work with, because it needs some arch-specific macros.
Just stick it in here for now, instead of creating another header.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals <webmaster@schiggl.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory
hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option.
Individual architecture patches will follow.
For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled. There's a lot of
churn there right now. We'll fix it up properly once it calms down.
Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert everyone who uses platform_bus_type to include
linux/platform_device.h.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
With CONFIG_PM=n:
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x1098c): In function `hub_thread':
drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2673: undefined reference to `.dpm_runtime_resume'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x10998):drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2674: undefined reference to `.dpm_runtime_resume'
Please, never ever ever put extern decls into .c files. Use the darn header
files :(
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch collects various small updates related to root hubs, to shrink
later patches which build on them.
- For root hub suspend/resume support:
* Make the existing usb_hcd_resume_root_hub() routine respect pmcore
locking, exporting and using the dpm_runtime_resume() method.
* Add a new usb_hcd_suspend_root_hub() to pair with that routine.
(Essential to make OHCI autosuspend behave again...)
* HC_SUSPENDED by itself only refers to the root hub's downstream ports.
So let HCDs see root hub URBs unless the parent device is suspended.
- Remove an assertion we no longer need (and now, also don't want).
- Generic suspend/resume updates to work better with swsusp.
* Ignore the FREEZE vs SUSPEND distinction for hardware; trying to
use it breaks the swsusp snapshots it's supposed to help (sigh).
* On resume, mark devices as resumed right away, but then
do nothing else if the device is marked NOTATTACHED.
These changes shouldn't be very noticable by themselves.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 1
drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/usb/core/hcd.h | 1
drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/usb/core/usb.c | 20 +++++++++----
drivers/usb/core/usb.h | 1
6 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
This saves a word from "struct device" ... there's a refcounting mechanism
stub that's rather ineffective (the values are never even tested!), which
can safely be deleted. With this patch it uses normal device refcounting,
so any potential users of the pm_parent mechanism will be more correct.
(That mechanism is actually unusable for now though; it does nothing.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/base/power/main.c | 26 +++-----------------------
include/linux/pm.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level. Then
all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally
SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level. However, with PM v2, to maintain
compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2
suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume
callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing
drivers continued to work.
Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary,
we can remove it. Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There are a number of sparse warnings from the latest sparse
snapshot being generated from the drivers/base build. The
main culprits are due to the initialisation functions not
being declared in a header file.
Also, the firmware.c file should include <linux/device.h>
to get the prototype of firmware_register() and
firmware_unregister().
This patch moves the init function declerations from the
init.c file to the base.h, and ensures it is included in
all the relevant c sources. It also adds <linux/device.h>
to the included headers for firmware.c.
The patch does not solve all the sparse errors generated,
but reduces the count significantly.
drivers/base/core.c:161:1: warning: symbol 'devices_subsys' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/core.c:417:12: warning: symbol 'devices_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:253:6: warning: symbol 'sysdev_shutdown' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:326:5: warning: symbol 'sysdev_suspend' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:428:5: warning: symbol 'sysdev_resume' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:450:12: warning: symbol 'system_bus_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/bus.c:133:1: warning: symbol 'bus_subsys' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/bus.c:667:12: warning: symbol 'buses_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/class.c:759:12: warning: symbol 'classes_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/platform.c:313:12: warning: symbol 'platform_bus_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/cpu.c:110:12: warning: symbol 'cpu_dev_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/firmware.c:17:5: warning: symbol 'firmware_register' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/firmware.c:23:6: warning: symbol 'firmware_unregister' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/firmware.c:28:12: warning: symbol 'firmware_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/init.c:28:13: warning: symbol 'driver_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/dmapool.c:174:10: warning: implicit cast from nocast type
drivers/base/attribute_container.c:439:1: warning: symbol 'attribute_container_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/power/runtime.c:76:6: warning: symbol 'dpm_set_power_state' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch allows struct class_device to be nested, so that another
struct class_device can be the parent of a new one, instead of only
having the struct class be the parent. This will allow us to
(hopefully) fix up the input and video class subsystem mess.
But please people, don't go crazy and start making huge trees of class
devices, you should only need 2 levels deep to get everything to work
(remember to use a class_interface to get notification of a new class
device being added to the system.)
Oh, this also allows us to have the possibility of potentially, someday,
moving /sys/block into /sys/class. The main hindrance is that pesky
/dev numberspace issue...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
A "coldplug + udevstart" can be simple like this:
for i in /sys/block/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
for i in /sys/class/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
for i in /sys/bus/*/devices/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Driver core: pass interface to class intreface methods
Pass interface as argument to add() and remove() class interface
methods. This way a subsystem can implement generic add/remove
handlers and then call interface-specific ones.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Move call to kobject_hotplug() above code that adds interfaces
to a class device, otherwise children's hotplug events may reach
userspace first.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a refresh of an earlier patch to add "wakeup" support to the
PM core model. This provides per-device bus-neutral control of the
use of wakeup events.
* "struct device_pm_info" has two bits that are initialized as
part of setting up the enclosing struct device:
- "can_wakeup", reflecting hardware capabilities
- "may_wakeup", the policy setting (when CONFIG_PM)
* There's a writeable sysfs "wakeup" file, with one of two values:
- "enabled", when the policy is to allow wakeup
- "disabled", when the policy is not to allow it
- "" if the device can't currently issue wakeups
By default, wakeup is enabled on all devices that support it. If its
driver doesn't support it ... treat it as a bug. :)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
- replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The class symlinks in sysfs don't properly handle changing device names.
To demonstrate, rename your network device from eth0 to eth1. Your
pci (or usb, or whatever) device will still have a 'net:eth0' link,
except now it points to /sys/class/net/eth1.
The attached patch makes sure the class symlink name changes when
the class device name changes. It isn't 100% correct, it should be
using sysfs_rename_link. Unfortunately, sysfs_rename_link doesn't exist.
Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bus_rescan_devices_helper() does not hold the dev->sem when it checks for
!dev->driver(). device_attach() holds the sem, but calls again
device_bind_driver() even when dev->driver is set.
What happens is that a first device_attach() call (module insertion time)
is on the way binding the device to a driver. Another thread calls
bus_rescan_devices(). Now when bus_rescan_devices_helper() checks for
dev->driver it is still NULL 'cos the the prior device_attach() is not yet
finished. But as soon as the first one releases the dev->sem the second
device_attach() tries to rebind the already bound device again.
device_bind_driver() does this blindly which leads to a corrupt
driver->klist_devices list (the device links itself, the head points to the
device). Later a call to device_release_driver() sets dev->driver to NULL
and breaks the link it has to itself on knode_driver. Rmmoding the driver
later calls driver_detach() which leads to an endless loop 'cos the list
head in klist_devices still points to the device. And since dev->driver is
NULL it's stuck with the same device forever. Boom. And rmmod hangs.
Very easy to reproduce with new-style pcmcia and a 16bit card. Just loop
modprobe <pcmcia-modules> ;cardctl eject; rmmod <card driver, pcmcia
modules>.
Easiest fix is to check if the device is already bound to a driver in
device_bind_driver(). This avoids the double binding.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"
Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The problem is that klists claim to provide semantics for safe traversal of
lists which are being modified. The failure case is when traversal of a
list causes element removal (a fairly common case). The issue is that
although the list node is refcounted, if it is embedded in an object (which
is universally the case), then the object will be freed regardless of the
klist refcount leading to slab corruption because the klist iterator refers
to the prior element to get the next.
The solution is to make the klist take and release references to the
embedding object meaning that the embedding object won't be released until
the list relinquishes the reference to it.
(akpm: fast-track this because it's needed for the 2.6.13 scsi merge)
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Revert commit 2b7d6a8cb9.
The "fix" was known to not even compile. Duh. That's not a fix.
That's just stupid.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
