The order of locking between lockdep_off/on() and local_irq_save/restore() in
vprintk() should be changed.
* In kernel/printk.c :
vprintk() does :
preempt_disable()
local_irq_save()
lockdep_off()
spin_lock(&logbuf_lock)
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock)
if(!down_trylock(&console_sem))
up(&console_sem)
lockdep_on()
local_irq_restore()
preempt_enable()
The goals here is to make sure we do not call printk() recursively from
kernel/lockdep.c:__lock_acquire() (called from spin_* and down/up) nor from
kernel/lockdep.c:trace_hardirqs_on/off() (called from local_irq_restore/save).
It can then potentially call printk() through mark_held_locks/mark_lock.
It correctly protects against the spin_lock call and the up/down call, but it
does not protect against local_irq_restore. It could cause infinite recursive
printk/trace_hardirqs_on() calls when printk() is called from the
mark_lock() error handing path.
We should change the locking so it becomes correct :
preempt_disable()
lockdep_off()
local_irq_save()
spin_lock(&logbuf_lock)
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock)
if(!down_trylock(&console_sem))
up(&console_sem)
local_irq_restore()
lockdep_on()
preempt_enable()
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the unused kernel config option PARIDE_PARPORT.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the kernel config option ZISOFS_FS, since it appears that the actual
option is simply ZISOFS.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the few references to the obsolete kernel config option
DEBUG_RWSEMS.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the dead kernel config option AEDSP16_MPU401.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <mindspring.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace a small number of expressions with a call to the "container_of()"
macro.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- #ifdef guard this header for multiple inclusion
- adjust the #include's to what is actually required by this header
- remove an unneeded #ifdef
- #endif comments
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- reduce the userspace visible part
- fix the in-kernel compilation
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete
smp_commence() call.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
unlock_buffer(), like unlock_page(), must not clear the lock without
ensuring that the critical section is closed.
Mingming later sent the same patch, saying:
We are running SDET benchmark and saw double free issue for ext3 extended
attributes block, which complains the same xattr block already being freed (in
ext3_xattr_release_block()). The problem could also been triggered by
multiple threads loop untar/rm a kernel tree.
The race is caused by missing a memory barrier at unlock_buffer() before the
lock bit being cleared, resulting in possible concurrent h_refcounter update.
That causes a reference counter leak, then later leads to the double free that
we have seen.
Inside unlock_buffer(), there is a memory barrier is placed *after* the lock
bit is being cleared, however, there is no memory barrier *before* the bit is
cleared. On some arch the h_refcount update instruction and the clear bit
instruction could be reordered, thus leave the critical section re-entered.
The race is like this: For example, if the h_refcount is initialized as 1,
cpu 0: cpu1
-------------------------------------- -----------------------------------
lock_buffer() /* test_and_set_bit */
clear_buffer_locked(bh);
lock_buffer() /* test_and_set_bit */
h_refcount = h_refcount+1; /* = 2*/ h_refcount = h_refcount + 1; /*= 2 */
clear_buffer_locked(bh);
.... ......
We lost a h_refcount here. We need a memory barrier before the buffer head lock
bit being cleared to force the order of the two writes. Please apply.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical
(and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files.
based on a page at robert love's blog:
http://rlove.org/log/2005102601
extend the set of shortcut macros defined in compiler-gcc.h with the
following:
#define __packed __attribute__((packed))
#define __weak __attribute__((weak))
#define __naked __attribute__((naked))
#define __noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
#define __pure __attribute__((pure))
#define __aligned(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))
#define __printf(a,b) __attribute__((format(printf,a,b)))
Once these are in place, it's up to subsystem maintainers to decide if they
want to take advantage of them. there is already a strong precedent for
using shortcuts like this in the source tree.
The ones that might give people pause are "__aligned" and "__printf", but
shortcuts for both of those are already in use, and in some ways very
confusingly. note the two very different definitions for a macro named
"ALIGNED":
drivers/net/sgiseeq.c:#define ALIGNED(x) ((((unsigned long)(x)) + 0xf) & ~(0xf))
drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c:#define ALIGNED(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))
also:
include/acpi/platform/acgcc.h:
#define ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE(c) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, c, c+1)))
Given the precedent, then, it seems logical to at least standardize on a
consistent set of these macros.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Part of long forgotten patch
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/e98e941ce1cf29f6?dmode=source
Since then, m32r grabbed two copies.
Leave s390 copy because of important absence of CONFIG_VT, but remove
references to non-existent timerlist_lock. ia64 also loses timerlist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the lone, remaining reference to the long-deceased
rwlock_is_locked() macro.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Naming is confusing, ext3_inc_count manipulates i_nlink not i_count
- handle argument passed in is not used
- ext3 and ext4 already call inc_nlink and dec_nlink directly in other places
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Return -ENOENT from ext[34]_link if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is
0. Doing otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list,
because we'd wind up with an inode with a non-zero link count on the list,
and it will never get properly cleaned up & removed from the orphan list
before it is freed.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or
ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by a
kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating
inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666,
and mkdir creates directories as 0777.
This appears to have worked right until 2.6.11, when a fix to the default
mode on symlinks (always 0777) assumed VFS applies umask: which it does,
unless the mount is marked for ACLs; but ext[234] set MS_POSIXACL in
s_flags according to s_mount_opt set according to def_mount_opts.
We could revert to the 2.6.10 ext[234]_init_acl (adding an S_ISLNK test);
but other filesystems only set MS_POSIXACL when ACLs are configured. We
could fix this at another level; but it seems most robust to avoid setting
the s_mount_opt flag in the first place (at the expense of more ifdefs).
Likewise don't set the XATTR_USER flag when built without XATTR support.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries.patch doesn't want dynamically
allocated ->proc_fops, because it will set it to NULL at module unload time.
Regardless of module status, switch to statically allocated ->proc_fops which
leads to simpler code without wrappers.
AFAICS, also fix the following bug: "sn_force_interrupt" proc entry set
->write for itself, but was created with 0444 permissions. Change to 0644.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device
file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings. However,
the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying a raw device
with minor number 0:
$ sudo ./raw /dev/raw/raw0 /dev/VolGroup00/swap
/dev/raw/raw0: bound to major 253, minor 2
$ ls -l /dev/rawctl
ls: /dev/rawctl: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /dev/raw/raw0
crw------- 1 root root 162, 0 Jan 12 10:51 /dev/raw/raw0
$ sudo ./raw -qa
Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory)
As you can see, this prevents any further raw operations from
succeeding. The fix (from Steve Fernandez) is quite simple--do not
allow the allocation of minor number 0.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Fernandez <sfernand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gcc emits this warning:
kernel/auditfilter.c: In function 'audit_filter_user':
kernel/auditfilter.c:1611: warning: 'state' is used uninitialized in this function
I tend to agree with gcc - there are a couple of plausible exit paths from
audit_filter_user_rules() where it does not set 'state', keeping the
variable uninitialized. For example if a filter rule has an AUDIT_POSSIBLE
action. Initialize to 'wont audit'. Fix whitespace damage too.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the rare case where we have skipped orphan inode processing due to a
readonly block device, and the block device subsequently changes back to
read-write, disallow a remount,rw transition of the filesystem when we have an
unprocessed orphan inodes as this would corrupt the list.
Ideally we should process the orphan inode list during the remount, but that's
trickier, and this plugs the hole for now.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the rare case where we have skipped orphan inode processing due to a
readonly block device, and the block device subsequently changes back to
read-write, disallow a remount,rw transition of the filesystem when we have an
unprocessed orphan inodes as this would corrupt the list.
Ideally we should process the orphan inode list during the remount, but that's
trickier, and this plugs the hole for now.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- no longer a userspace header
- add #include <linux/types.h> for in-kernel compilation
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for the CPCI-ASIO4 quad port CompactPCI UART board from
electronic system design gmbh.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Get the Perle quad-modem PCI card (PCI-RAS4) detected by serial driver. It
may also get the PCI-RAS8 running, but can't guarantee as I didn't had one for
testing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hoehn <thomas.hoehn@avocent.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- in man and text mode output, if the function return type is empty (like it
is for macros), don't print the return type and a following space; this
fixes an output malalignment;
- in the function short description, strip leading, trailing, and multiple
embedded spaces (to one space); this makes function name/description output
spacing consistent;
- fix a comment typo;
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>
Cleanup kernel-doc notation in drivers/firmware/edd.c.
Add edd.c to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is an "RTC framework" driver for the "CMOS" RTCs which are standard on
PCs and some other platforms. That's MC146818 compatible silicon.
Advantages of this vs. drivers/char/rtc.c (use one _or_ the other, only
one will be able to claim the RTC irq) include:
- This leverages both the new RTC framework and the driver model; both
PNPACPI and platform device modes are supported. (A separate patch
creates a platform device on PCs where PNPACPI isn't configured.)
- It supports common extensions like longer alarms. (A separate patch
exports that information from ACPI through platform_data.)
- Likewise, system wakeup events use "real driver model support", with
policy control via sysfs "wakeup" attributes and and using normal rtc
ioctls to manage wakeup. (Patch in the works. The ACPI hooks are
known; /proc/acpi/alarm can vanish. Making it work with EFI will
be a minor challenge to someone with e.g. a MiniMac.)
It's not yet been tested on non-x86 systems, without ACPI, or with HPET.
And the RTC framework will surely have teething pains on "mainstream"
PC-based systems (though must embedded Linux systems use it heavily), not
limited to sorting out the "/dev/rtc0" issue (udev easily tweaked). Also,
the ALSA rtctimer code doesn't use the new RTC API.
Otherwise, this should be a no-known-regressions replacement for the old
drivers/char/rtc.c driver, and should help the non-embedded distros (and
the new timekeeping code) start to switch to the framework.
Note also that any systems using "rtc-m48t86" are candidates to switch over
to this more functional driver; the platform data is different, and the way
bytes are read is different, but otherwise those chips should be compatible.
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc32 fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I noticed that almost all architectures implemented exactly the same
sys32_sysinfo... except parisc, where a bug was to be found in handling of
the uptime. So let's remove a whole whack of code for fun and profit.
Cribbed compat_sys_sysinfo from x86_64's implementation, since I figured it
would be the best tested.
This patch incorporates Arnd's suggestion of not using set_fs/get_fs, but
instead extracting out the common code from sys_sysinfo.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:
* make multi-line initial descriptions single line
* denote some function names, constants and structs as such
* change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
* reword some text for clarity
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.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>
Explain a couple of the most common errors in kernel-doc usage.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-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>
Mostly so people can see the work in progress. This enhances the encode
function which isn't currently used in the base tree but is when using some of
the testing tty patches.
This resolves a problem with some hardware where applications got confusing
information from the tty ioctls. Correct but confusing.
In some situations asking for, say, 9600 baud actually gets you 9595 baud or
similar near-miss values. With the old code this meant that a request for
B9600 got a return of BOTHER, 9595 which programs interpreted as a failure.
The new code now works on the following basis
- If you ask for specific rate via BOTHER, you get a precise return
- If you ask for a standard Bfoo rate and the result is close you get a Bfoo
return
- If you ask for a standard Bfoo rate and get something way off you get a
BOTHER/rate return
This seems to fix up the cases I've found where this broke compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow whitespace in pointer-to-function
[accept "(* done)", not just "(*done)"].
Allow tabs (spaces are already allowed) between "#define" and a macro name.
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>
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.
create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In kernel-doc syntax, be a little flexible: allow whitespace between
a function parameter name and the colon that must follow it, such as:
@pdev : PCI device to unplug
(This allows lots of megaraid kernel-doc to work without tons of
editing.)
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>
Delete the few remaining unnecessary calls to memset(0) after a call to
kzalloc().
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c:2816: warning: 'sysctl_ipc_data' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Schedule obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same
hardware) for removal.
A rationale of the patch is in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/305
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-By: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The arguments are really const. Mark them const to allow these functions
being called from places where the arguments are const without getting
useless compiler warnings.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one
machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117
The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes
of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it,
then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC.
The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix
is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4
bytes.
The whole partition info for primary partitions is in this block:
dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be ))
All other data do not matter, beside the 0x55aa marker at the end of the
first block.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simplify the few instances where a call to "get_zeroed_page()" is closely
followed by an unnecessary call to memset() to clear that page.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix some RCU problem pointed out by Paul McKenney of IBM. These are:
The wholesale move of the command receivers list into a new list was not
safe because the list will point to the new tail during a traversal, so the
traversal will never end on a reader if this happens during a read.
Memory barriers were needed to handle proper ordering of the setting of the
IPMI interface as valid. Readers might not see proper ordering of data
otherwise.
In ipmi_smi_watcher_register(), the use of the _rcu suffix on the list is
unnecessary.
This require the list_splice_init_rcu() patch previously posted.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is in support of the IPMI driver. I have tested this with the
IPMI driver changes coming in the next patch.
Add a list_splice_init_rcu() function to splice an RCU-protected list into
another list. This takes the sync function as an argument, so one would do
something like:
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
list_splice_init_rcu(&source, &dest, synchronize_rcu);
The idea being to keep the RCU API proliferation down to a dull roar.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mathieu Desnoyers