alistair23-linux/drivers/char
Linus Torvalds d3594ea2b3 Merge branch 'block-dev'
Merge 'block-dev' branch.

I was going to just mark everything here for stable and leave it to the
3.8 merge window, but having decided on doing another -rc, I migth as
well merge it now.

This removes the bd_block_size_semaphore semaphore that was added in
this release to fix a race condition between block size changes and
block IO, and replaces it with atomicity guaratees in fs/buffer.c
instead, along with simplifying fs/block-dev.c.

This removes more lines than it adds, makes the code generally simpler,
and avoids the latency/rt issues that the block size semaphore
introduced for mount.

I'm not happy with the timing, but it wouldn't be much better doing this
during the merge window and then having some delayed back-port of it
into stable.

* block-dev:
  blkdev_max_block: make private to fs/buffer.c
  direct-io: don't read inode->i_blkbits multiple times
  blockdev: remove bd_block_size_semaphore again
  fs/buffer.c: make block-size be per-page and protected by the page lock
2012-12-03 10:53:25 -08:00
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agp Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-fixes 2012-10-16 10:11:59 +10:00
hw_random IXP4xx: HW pseudo-random generator is available on IXP45x/46x only. 2012-11-22 03:35:39 +00:00
ipmi IPMI: Detect register spacing on PCI interfaces 2012-10-16 18:07:12 -07:00
mwave
pcmcia TTY merge for 3.7-rc1 2012-10-01 12:26:52 -07:00
tpm Merge branch 'tpmdd-next-v3.6' of git://github.com/shpedoikal/linux into for-linus 2012-10-11 18:41:29 +08:00
xilinx_hwicap
apm-emulation.c
applicom.c
applicom.h
bfin-otp.c
bsr.c
ds1302.c
ds1620.c ARM: footbridge: nw_gpio_lock is raw_spin_lock 2012-10-07 10:33:12 +02:00
dsp56k.c
dtlk.c
efirtc.c
generic_nvram.c
genrtc.c
hangcheck-timer.c
hpet.c
i8k.c
Kconfig char/misc: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependencies 2012-09-18 16:14:53 +01:00
lp.c
Makefile IPMI: Change link order 2012-10-16 18:07:12 -07:00
mbcs.c mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter 2012-10-09 16:22:19 +09:00
mbcs.h
mem.c mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter 2012-10-09 16:22:19 +09:00
misc.c
mmtimer.c drivers/char/mmtimer.c: Remove useless kfree 2012-09-26 13:20:40 -07:00
msm_smd_pkt.c
mspec.c mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter 2012-10-09 16:22:19 +09:00
nsc_gpio.c
nvram.c
nwbutton.c drivers/char: removes unnecessary semicolon 2012-09-26 13:20:39 -07:00
nwbutton.h
nwflash.c Merge branch 'late/fixes' into fixes 2012-10-07 07:22:32 -07:00
pc8736x_gpio.c
ppdev.c ppdev: ppdev_init: do not return zero in case of failure 2012-09-05 13:44:04 -07:00
ps3flash.c
random.c
raw.c blockdev: remove bd_block_size_semaphore again 2012-11-29 10:52:19 -08:00
rtc.c drivers/char: removes unnecessary semicolon 2012-09-26 13:20:39 -07:00
scx200_gpio.c
snsc.c
snsc.h
snsc_event.c
sonypi.c sonypi: suspend/resume callbacks should be conditionally compiled on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP 2012-10-25 12:05:50 -07:00
tb0219.c
tile-srom.c
tlclk.c drivers/char/tlclk.c: fix error return code 2012-08-16 10:09:15 -07:00
toshiba.c
ttyprintk.c TTY: tty_alloc_driver() returns error pointers 2012-08-16 12:07:23 -07:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c virtio: console: fix error handling in init() function 2012-09-28 15:05:13 +09:30