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Manish Ahuja 654f596da4 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Disable phyp-dump through boot-var
This adds a kernel command line option "phyp_dump", which takes a 0/1
value for disabling/ enabling phyp_dump at boot time.  Kdump can use
this on cmdline (phyp_dump=0) to disable phyp-dump during boot when
enabling itself.  This will ensure only one dumping mechanism is active
at any given time.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja 242f271c05 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Add Kconfig file option
Add hypervisor-assisted dump to kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja fd35cff8d2 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Tracking memory range freed
This tracks the size freed.  For now it does a simple rudimentary
calculation of the ranges freed.  The idea is to keep it simple at the
external shell script level and send in large chunks for now.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:07 +11:00
Manish Ahuja a9c508dae1 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Invalidate and print dump areas
This adds routines to
a. invalidate dump
b. calculate region that is reserved and needs to be freed.  This is
   exported through sysfs interface.

Unregister has been removed for now as it wasn't being used.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja 599c1aa54f [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Debugging print routines
Provide some basic debugging support.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja 2c4f41139c [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Register dump area
Set up the actual dump header, register it with the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja d5a29c7a36 [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Use sysfs to release reserved mem
Check to see if there actually is data from a previously
crashed kernel waiting.  If so, allow user-space tools to
grab the data (by reading /proc/kcore).  When user-space
finishes dumping a section, it must release that memory
by writing to sysfs. For example,

  echo "0x40000000 0x10000000" > /sys/kernel/release_region

will release 256MB starting at the 1GB.  The released memory
becomes free for general use.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja 6ac26c8a7e [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Reserve and release memory
Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it
later.  If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved
memory would contain a copy of the crashed kernel data.

Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Manish Ahuja d28a79326a [POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Documentation
Basic documentation for hypervisor-assisted dump.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:06 +11:00
Roland McGrath 163dab39b5 [POWERPC] powerpc32: Remove asm-offsets ptrace cruft
These items in asm-offsets.c are not used anywhere.  This removes them.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:05 +11:00
S.Çağlar Onur 59861bc6ee [POWERPC] arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/pci.c: Use time_* macros
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and
time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other
values.

This implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at
linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly.

Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:05 +11:00
Tony Breeds 96366a8d3f [POWERPC] Update wait_state_cycles in the VPA
The hypervisor can look at the value in the wait_state_cycles field of
the VPA for an estimate of how busy dedicated processors are.
Currently, as the kernel never touches this field, we appear to be
100% busy.  This records the duration the kernel is in powersave and
passes that to the HV to provide a reasonable indication of
utilisation.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:05 +11:00
Roland McGrath 71e91a0abb [POWERPC] Don't touch PT_DTRACE in exec
The PT_DTRACE flag is meaningless and obsolete.
Don't touch it.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:05 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell bceabd1505 [POWERPC] Really export empty_zero_page
It was being protected by CONFIG_PPC32, but we want to export it on
64-bit also.  This moves it out of the ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:05 +11:00
Nathan Lynch 4944774d7f [POWERPC] maple: Enable ipr driver in defconfig
Some machines supported by the maple platform have an Obsidian
controller which can't be used without enabling CONFIG_IPR and the
options on which it depends.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:04 +11:00
Nathan Lynch 1cd8f348be [POWERPC] maple: Kill fixup_maple_ide
This function has been a no-op for about 18 months; it's there in
the history should anyone need to resurrect it.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:04 +11:00
Nathan Lynch 53378c2845 [POWERPC] maple: Use platform name in define_machine()
Prevailing practice for define_machine() in powerpc is to use the
platform name when the platform has only one define_machine()
statement, but maple uses "maple_md".  This caused me some
head-scratching when writing some new code that uses
machine_is(maple).

Use "maple" instead of "maple_md".  There should not be any behavioral
change -- fixup_maple_ide() calls machine_is(maple) but the body of
the function is ifdef'd out.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:04 +11:00
Marian Balakowicz 0276c1368f [POWERPC] Add 'model: ...' line to common show_cpuinfo()
Print out 'model' property of '/' node as a machine name
in generic show_cpuinfo() routine.

Signed-off-by: Marian Balakowicz <m8@semihalf.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26 08:44:04 +11:00
Linus Torvalds a4083c9271 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  USB: Fix cut-and-paste error in rtl8150.c
  USB: ehci: stop vt6212 bus hogging
  USB: sierra: add another device id
  USB: sierra: dma fixes
  USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage mode
  USB: isd200: fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_data
  USB: pl2303: another product ID
  USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-Interface
  USB: fix gadgetfs class request delegation
2008-03-24 23:24:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4742dc1d76 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.
  UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap code
2008-03-24 23:23:39 -07:00
Andrew Morton 49741c4d01 PCI: revert "pcie: utilize pcie transaction pending bit"
Revert as it is reported to cause problems for people.

commit 4348a2dc49
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 24 10:45:08 2007 +0800

    pcie: utilize pcie transaction pending bit

    PCIE has a mechanism to wait for Non-Posted request to complete. I think
    pci_disable_device is a good place to do this.

    Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Due to the regression reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10065

Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:38:44 -07:00
Mark Gross 8a443df40b PCI: iova: lockdep false alarm fix
lockdep goes off on the iova copy_reserved_iova() because it and a function
it calls grabs locks in the from, and the to of the copy operation.

The function grab locks of the same lock classes triggering the warning.  The
first lock grabbed is for the constant reserved areas that is never accessed
after early boot.  Technically you could do without grabbing the locks for the
"from" structure its copying reserved areas from.

But dropping the from locks to me looks wrong, even though it would be ok.

The affected code only runs in early boot as its setting up the DMAR
engines.

This patch gives the reserved_ioval_list locks special lockdep classes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:38:44 -07:00
Andrew Morton 815d2d50da driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.
Try to find the culprit who caused
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150

Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:33:49 -07:00
Jean-Samuel Chenard c9698d6b1a UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap code
Mapping of physical memory in UIO needs pgprot_noncached() to ensure
that IO memory is not cached. Without pgprot_noncached(), it (accidentally)
works on x86 and arm, but fails on PPC.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:33:49 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day 7fdba2f291 USB: Fix cut-and-paste error in rtl8150.c
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:15 -07:00
Rene Herman 055b93c9e3 USB: ehci: stop vt6212 bus hogging
The VIA VT6212 defaults to only waiting 1us between passes over EHCI's
async ring, which hammers PCI badly ... and by preventing other devices
from accessing the bus, causes problems like drops in IDE throughput,
a problem that's been bugging users of those chips for several years.

A (partial) datasheet for this chip eventually turned up, letting us
see how to make it use a VIA-specific register to switch over to the
the normal 10us value instead, as suggested by the EHCI specification
Solution noted by Lev A. Melnikovsky.

It's not clear whether this register exists on other VIA chips; we
know that it's ineffective on the vt8235.  So this patch only applies
to chips that seem to be incarnations of the (discrete) vt6212.

Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Lev A. Melnikovsky <melnikovsky@mail.ru>
Tested-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:15 -07:00
Kevin Lloyd 7f170a632d USB: sierra: add another device id
Add support for the MC8775 device to the sierra driver.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Lloyd <klloyd@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:15 -07:00
Oliver Neukum 4f4f9c53c2 USB: sierra: dma fixes
while I was adding autosuspend to that driver I noticed a few issues.
You were having DMAed buffers as a part of a structure.
This will fail on platforms that are not DMA-coherent (arm, sparc, ppc, ...)
Please test this patch to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Lloyd <klloyd@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:15 -07:00
Constantin Baranov cc36bdd47a USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage mode
Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone has bugs in its USB, so it is impossible to use
it as mass storage. Patch describes new "unusual" USB device for it with
FIX_INQUIRY and FIX_CAPACITY flags and new BULK_IGNORE_TAG flag.
Last flag relaxes check for equality of bcs->Tag and us->tag in
usb_stor_Bulk_transport routine.

Signed-off-by: Constantin Baranov <const@tltsu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:14 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh ba2ef3b36c USB: isd200: fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_data
If the inquiry fails then the info structure on us->extra was not freed.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:14 -07:00
Max Arnold b483b6aaa5 USB: pl2303: another product ID
Device like this http://aldiga.com/english/A-100-USB-EDGE10.htm
contains Prolific 2303 chip.
Actually their site a bit outdated - I have AlDiga AL-11U
GSM/GPRS/EDGE modem and it works with pl2303 module after adding
corresponding product ID.

By default modem uses baud rate 460800.  GSM chipset - SIMCom SIM600,
quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Device info:

T:  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  5 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=067b ProdID=0611 Rev= 0.00
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=500mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=pl2303
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  10 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

From: Max Arnold <lwarxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:14 -07:00
Alan Stern 392e1d9817 USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-Interface
This patch (as1057) fixes a problem with the X-Rite/Gretag-Macbeth
Eye-One Pro display colorimeter; the device crashes when it receives a
Set-Interface request.  A new quirk (USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF) is
introduced and a quirks entry is created for this device.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:14 -07:00
Roy Hashimoto 12cd5b984f USB: fix gadgetfs class request delegation
gadgetfs (drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c) was not delegating all
non-device requests to userspace.  This patch makes the handling of
all request cases consistent.

Signed-off-by: Roy Hashimoto <hashimot@alumni.caltech.edu>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24 22:26:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7c12c92fba Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix incorrect compatible string for the mdio node
  [POWERPC] Update some defconfigs
2008-03-24 20:35:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5a17558f06 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for now
  sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2
  libata: improve HPA error handling
  libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted
  pata_it821x: use raw nbytes in check_atapi_dma
  libata: implement ata_qc_raw_nbytes()
2008-03-24 20:02:32 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 4cde32fc4b [libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for now
At least one report claims that a878539ef9
failed to solve lockups, whereas the old limit-to-32-bit trick worked.

Restore the 32-bit limit, but also leave the 255-sector limit in place,
because we know that's needed as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-03-24 22:40:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds d56dc0b641 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linus:
  kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds
2008-03-24 19:32:38 -07:00
Paul Mackerras 16fddf5457 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into merge 2008-03-25 13:31:46 +11:00
Mikael Pettersson c07a9c4995 sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2
A Promise SATA controller will signal hotplug events when a hard
reset (COMRESET) is done on a port. These events aren't masked by
the driver, and the unexpected interrupts will cause a sequence
of failed reset attempts util libata's EH finally gives up.

This has not been a common problem so far, but the pending libata
hardreset-by-default changes makes it a critical issue.

The solution is to disable hotplug events before a reset, and to
reenable them afterwards. (Promise's driver does this too.)

This patch adds SATA-specific versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw()
that also disable and enable hotplug events. PATA ports continue
to use the old versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw().

Accesses to the hotplug register must be serialised via host->lock.
We rely on ap->lock == &ap->host->lock and that libata takes this
lock before ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Document this requirement.
The interrupt handler is adjusted so its hotplug register accesses
are inside the region protected by host->lock.

Tested on various chips (SATA300TX4, SATA300TX2plus, SATAII150TX4,
FastTrack TX4000) with various combinations of SATA and PATA disks,
with and without the pending hardreset-by-default changes.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-24 22:31:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 266c2e0abe Make printk() console semaphore accesses sensible
The printk() logic on when/how to get the console semaphore was
unreadable, this splits the code up into a few helper functions and
makes it easier to follow what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:25:08 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 5f7b703fe2 bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespaces
In case we're accounting from a sub-namespace, the tgids reported will not
refer to the right namespace.

Save the pid_namespace we're accounting in on the acct_glbs and use it in
do_acct_process.

Two less :) places using the task_struct.tgid member.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:20 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov a846a1954b bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always safe
This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not safe on debug
kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be unmapped - RCU protection is
required.

Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with task_tgid_xxx
call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Andrew Morton 4dd4b92021 revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"
Revert commit f1a9ee758de7de1e040de849fdef46e6802ea117:

  Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800

    kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO

    The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the
    code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight.  This problem is
    notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages,
    causing unnecessary stalls in the VM.

    Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path
    will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be
    written out.  This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while
    the direct reclaim task sleeps.

    Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos,
here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Carlos R.  Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
David Brownell 537878d2c9 hw_random doc updates
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current:

 - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the
   current code:  it's a framework now, a "core" with a small
   sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to.
   Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end.

 - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file
   and better explains what this really does.

Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy
pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with
that important task.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Ahmed S. Darwish cb622bbb69 smackfs: remove redundant lock, fix open(,O_RDWR)
Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking
write sessions on open() was needed.  This lock is no longer useful now since
each rule is handled by a single write() call.

This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag
was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an
Oops.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 58336114af markers: remove ACCESS_ONCE
As Paul pointed out, the ACCESS_ONCE are not needed because we already have
the explicit surrounding memory barriers.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers fd3c36f8b5 markers: update preempt_disable. call_rcu, rcu_barrier comments
Add comments requested by Andrew.

Updated comments about synchronize_sched().  Since we use call_rcu and
rcu_barrier now, these comments were out of sync with the code.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 5a982cbc7b mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core
With numa enabled, some callers could have a range of memory on one node
but try to free that on other node.  This can cause some pages to be
freed wrongly.

For example: when we try to allocate 128g boot ram early for
gart/swiotlb, and free that range later so gart/swiotlb can get some
range afterwards.

With this patch, we don't need to care which node holds the range, just
loop to call free_bootmem_node for all online nodes.

This patch makes free_bootmem_core() more robust by trimming the sidx
and eidx according the ram range that the node has.

And make the free_bootmem_core handle this out of range case.  We could
use bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure.  So next
time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use free_bootmem
directly.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Ingo van Lil 2875fb65f8 mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.c
The block2mtd driver (drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c) will kfree an on-stack
pointer when handling an invalid argument line (e.g.
block2mtd=/dev/loop0,xxx).

The kfree was added some time ago when "name" was dynamically allocated.

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Pavel Machek 1312848e92 kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option better
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and
non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00