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Linus Torvalds 4b7227ca32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-xen-next
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-xen-next: (52 commits)
  xen: add balloon driver
  xen: allow compilation with non-flat memory
  xen: fold xen_sysexit into xen_iret
  xen: allow set_pte_at on init_mm to be lockless
  xen: disable preemption during tlb flush
  xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver
  xen: Add compatibility aliases for frontend drivers
  xen: Module autoprobing support for frontend drivers
  xen blkfront: Delay wait for block devices until after the disk is added
  xen/blkfront: use bdget_disk
  xen: Make xen-blkfront write its protocol ABI to xenstore
  xen: import arch generic part of xencomm
  xen: make grant table arch portable
  xen: replace callers of alloc_vm_area()/free_vm_area() with xen_ prefixed one
  xen: make include/xen/page.h portable moving those definitions under asm dir
  xen: add resend_irq_on_evtchn() definition into events.c
  Xen: make events.c portable for ia64/xen support
  xen: move events.c to drivers/xen for IA64/Xen support
  xen: move features.c from arch/x86/xen/features.c to drivers/xen
  xen: add missing definitions in include/xen/interface/vcpu.h which ia64/xen needs
  ...
2008-04-25 12:32:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5dae61b805 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Wrap SMP IPIs with irq_enter()/irq_exit().
  [SPARC64]: Fix args to 64-bit sys_semctl() via sys_ipc().
2008-04-25 12:29:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2e561c7b7e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  net: Fix wrong interpretation of some copy_to_user() results.
  xfrm: alg_key_len & alg_icv_len should be unsigned
  [netdrvr] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to function start
  ipv6: Fix typo in net/ipv6/Kconfig
  via-velocity: fix vlan receipt
  tg3: sparse cleanup
  forcedeth: realtek phy crossover detection
  ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
  gianfar: Fix skb allocation strategy
  netxen: reduce stack usage of netxen_nic_flash_print
  smc911x: test after postfix decrement fails in smc911x_{reset,drop_pkt}
  net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
  forcedeth: new backoff implementation
  ehea: make things static
  phylib: Add support for board-level PHY fixups
  [netdrvr] atlx: code movement: move atl1 parameter parsing
  atlx: remove flash vendor parameter
  korina: misc cleanup
  korina: fix misplaced return statement
  WAN: Fix confusing insmod error code for C101 too.
  ...
2008-04-25 12:28:28 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox 2cfed60cc2 Update .gitignore files
Add some autogenerated files to various .gitignore files

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-25 12:27:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7e97b28309 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (82 commits)
  [MTD] m25p80: Add Support for ATMEL AT25DF641 64-Megabit SPI Flash
  [MTD] m25p80: add FAST_READ access support to M25Pxx
  [MTD] [NAND] bf5xx_nand: Avoid crash if bfin_mac is installed.
  [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand: control NCE signal
  [MTD] [NAND] AT91 hardware ECC compile fix for at91sam9263 / at91sam9260
  [MTD] [NAND] Hardware ECC controller on at91sam9263 / at91sam9260
  [JFFS2] Introduce dbg_readinode2 log level, use it to shut read_dnode() up
  [JFFS2] Fix jffs2_reserve_space() when all blocks are pending erasure.
  [JFFS2] Add erase_checking_list to hold blocks being marked.
  UBI: add a message
  [JFFS2] Return values of jffs2_block_check_erase error paths
  [MTD] Clean up AR7 partition map support
  [MTD] [NOR] Fix Intel CFI driver for collie flash
  [JFFS2] Finally remove redundant ref->__totlen field.
  [JFFS2] Honour TEST_TOTLEN macro in debugging code. ref->__totlen is going!
  [JFFS2] Add paranoia debugging for superblock counts
  [JFFS2] Fix free space leak with in-band cleanmarkers
  [JFFS2] Self-sufficient #includes in jffs2_fs_i.h: include <linux/mutex.h>
  [MTD] [NAND] Verify probe by retrying to checking the results match
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410 Allow ECC disable to be specified by the board
  ...
2008-04-25 12:25:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5421d05906 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes2:
  sched: use alloc_bootmem() instead of alloc_bootmem_low()
2008-04-25 12:25:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5f3b28781c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  ieee1394: silence defined but not used warning in non-modular builds
  ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle
2008-04-25 12:24:06 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg 4217516e52 kconfig: fix broken target update-po-config
Massimo Maiurana reported:
In the latest kernel "make update-po-config" fails because it tries
to open arch/Kconfig/Kconfig, since the ls command doesn't
distinguish between files and directories.

Cc: Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 21:15:41 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f7ce1f5e08 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  kbuild: fix depmod comment
  kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
  kbuild: support loading extra symbols in modpost
  Add option to enable -Wframe-larger-than= on gcc 4.4
  kbuild: add kconfig symbols to tags output
  kbuild: fix some minor typoes
  kbuild: error out on missing MODULE_LICENSE
2008-04-25 12:06:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds dd0e101d63 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-x86-fixes4
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-x86-fixes4:
  x86: harden kernel code patching
  x86: clean up text_poke()
  x86: fix text_poke()
  x86: remove set_fixmap() warning
  x86: make __set_fixmap() non-init
  x86: make clear_fixmap() available on 64-bit as well
2008-04-25 12:03:36 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 759cd603be kbuild: silence documentation GEN xml messages according to $(quiet)
Add rules for gen_xml and its quiet & silent variants.  This causes "make -s"
to be silent for gen_xml.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 21:03:20 +02:00
Uwe Kleine-König 0254da07d9 kbuild: fix depmod comment
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:49:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cf2ec150fc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd: don't allow setting ctime over v4
  Update to NFS/RDMA documentation
  locks: don't call ->copy_lock methods on return of conflicting locks
  lockd: unlock lockd locks held for a certain filesystem
  lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip
  leases: remove unneeded variable from fcntl_setlease().
  leases: move lock allocation earlier in generic_setlease()
  leases: when unlocking, skip locking-related steps
  leases: fix a return-value mixup
2008-04-25 11:45:40 -07:00
Richard Hacker 0d96fb20b7 kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
This patch adds a new (Kbuild) Makefile variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS.
The space separated list of file names assigned to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
is used when calling scripts/mod/modpost during stage 2 of the Kbuild
process for non-kernel-tree modules.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hacker <lerichi@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:45:26 +02:00
Richard Hacker 2d04b5ae1b kbuild: support loading extra symbols in modpost
This patch adds a new command line option -E to modpost, expecting a symbol
file as an argument which is read prior to symbol processing. -E can be
supplied multiple times for as many files as is needed.

When building kernel modules that depend on other modules not in the main
kernel tree, modpost complains about undefined symbols:
# make -C /path/to/linux/kernel M=/path/to/my/module
...
Building modules, stage 2.
....
WARNING: "rt_copy_buf" [/home/rich/osc_etl_rtw/osc_kmod.ko] undefined!
...etc

This situation occurs when modpost processes the new module's symbols. When
it finds symbols not exported by the mainline kernel, it issues this warning.

The patch adds a new command line option -e to modpost which expects a symbol
file as an argument. The symbols listed in this file are added to modpost's
symbol tables during startup. -e can be supplied as often as required.

This patch works together with the second patch. It introduces a new make
variable, KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, which is used when calling modpost.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hacker <lerichi@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:35:47 +02:00
Andi Kleen 35bb5b1e0e Add option to enable -Wframe-larger-than= on gcc 4.4
Add option to enable -Wframe-larger-than= on gcc 4.4

gcc mainline (upcoming 4.4) added a new -Wframe-larger-than=...
option to warn at build time about too large stack frames. Add a config
option to enable this warning, since this very useful for the kernel.

I choose (somewhat arbitarily) 2048 as default warning threshold for 64bit
and 1024 as default for 32bit architectures.  With some research and
fixing all the code for smaller values these defaults should be probably
lowered.

With the default allyesconfigs have some new warnings, but I think
that is all code that should be just fixed.

At some point (when gcc 4.4 is released and widely used) this should
obsolete make checkstack

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:23:47 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 80ff262416 kbuild: add kconfig symbols to tags output
Steps to reproduce:

	vi -t NETFILTER

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:20:42 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day 3156fd0529 kbuild: fix some minor typoes
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:18:48 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg eed7d2798c kbuild: error out on missing MODULE_LICENSE
Adrian Bunk suggested a build time check for
missing MODULE_LICENSE annotation in modules.
The build time check is fatal as we really
want this fixed for all modules.
In-tree modules should all have been fixed up by now.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-04-25 20:13:30 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet 9f4def9ae4 Document seq_path_root()
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-25 11:56:37 -06:00
Ingo Molnar 00c6b2d5d7 x86: harden kernel code patching
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 19:54:07 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers b7b66baa8b x86: clean up text_poke()
Clean up the codepath, remove alignment restrictions and do sanity
checking of the end result, to make sure we patched the right site.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 19:54:07 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 8b132ecbcf x86: fix text_poke()
kernel_text_address returns true even for modules which is not wanted
in text_poke. Use core_kernel_text instead.

This is a regression introduced in e587cadd8f
which caused occasionaly crashes after suspend/resume.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: pageexec@freemail.hu
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 19:54:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 70c9f590ff x86: remove set_fixmap() warning
set_fixmap()+clear_fixmap() is safe.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 19:54:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 82a355f5a2 x86: make __set_fixmap() non-init
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 19:54:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3ec96783e3 x86: make clear_fixmap() available on 64-bit as well
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 19:54:07 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet 0fe8a3ce73 Various fixes to Documentation/HOWTO
Fix a number of things which have gone somewhat out-of-date over the last
few months.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-25 11:23:56 -06:00
J. Bruce Fields e36cd4a287 nfsd: don't allow setting ctime over v4
Presumably this is left over from earlier drafts of v4, which listed
TIME_METADATA as writeable.  It's read-only in rfc 3530, and shouldn't
be modifiable anyway.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 13:00:11 -04:00
James Lentini c272cca625 Update to NFS/RDMA documentation
Update to the NFS/RDMA documentation to clarify how to configure the
exports file.

Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 13:00:11 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 1a747ee0cc locks: don't call ->copy_lock methods on return of conflicting locks
The file_lock structure is used both as a heavy-weight representation of
an active lock, with pointers to reference-counted structures, etc., and
as a simple container for parameters that describe a file lock.

The conflicting lock returned from __posix_lock_file is an example of
the latter; so don't call the filesystem or lock manager callbacks when
copying to it.  This also saves the need for an unnecessary
locks_init_lock in the nfsv4 server.

Thanks to Trond for pointing out the error.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-25 13:00:11 -04:00
Wendy Cheng 17efa372cf lockd: unlock lockd locks held for a certain filesystem
Add /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem, which allows e.g.:

shell> echo /mnt/sfs1 > /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem

so that a filesystem can be unmounted before allowing a peer nfsd to
take over nfs service for the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Cc: Lon Hohberger  <lhh@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

 fs/lockd/svcsubs.c          |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c            |   65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/lockd/lockd.h |    7 ++++
 3 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
2008-04-25 13:00:11 -04:00
Wendy Cheng 4373ea84c8 lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip
For high-availability NFS service, we generally need to be able to drop
file locks held on the exported filesystem before moving clients to a
new server.  Currently the only way to do that is by shutting down lockd
entirely, which is often undesireable (for example, if you want to
continue exporting other filesystems).

This patch allows the administrator to release all locks held by clients
accessing the client through a given server ip address, by echoing that
address to a new file, /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip, as in:

shell> echo 10.1.1.2 > /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip

The expected sequence of events can be:
1. Tear down the IP address
2. Unexport the path
3. Write IP to /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip to unlock files
4. Signal peer to begin take-over.

For now we only support IPv4 addresses and NFSv2/v3 (NFSv4 locks are not
affected).

Also, if unmounting the filesystem is required, we assume at step 3 that
clients using the given server ip are the only clients holding locks on
the given filesystem; otherwise, an additional patch is required to
allow revoking all locks held by lockd on a given filesystem.

Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Cc: Lon Hohberger  <lhh@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

 fs/lockd/svcsubs.c          |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c            |   65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/lockd/lockd.h |    7 ++++
 3 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
2008-04-25 13:00:10 -04:00
David M. Richter 9d91cdcc0c leases: remove unneeded variable from fcntl_setlease().
fcntl_setlease() has a struct dentry* that is used only once; this patch
removes it.

Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 12:58:22 -04:00
David M. Richter 1908555767 leases: move lock allocation earlier in generic_setlease()
In generic_setlease(), the struct file_lock is allocated after tests for the
presence of conflicting readers/writers is done, despite the fact that the
allocation might block; this patch moves the allocation earlier.  A subsequent
set of patches will rely on this behavior to properly serialize between a
modified __break_lease() and generic_setlease().

Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 12:58:22 -04:00
David M. Richter 288b2fd825 leases: when unlocking, skip locking-related steps
In generic_setlease(), we don't need to allocate a new struct file_lock
or check for readers or writers when called with F_UNLCK.

Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 12:58:22 -04:00
David M. Richter 5fcc60c3a0 leases: fix a return-value mixup
Fixes a return-value mixup from 85c59580b3
"locks: Fix potential OOPS in generic_setlease()", in which -ENOMEM replaced
what had been intended to stay -EAGAIN in the variable "error".

Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25 12:58:22 -04:00
Tony Breeds e38649702e ieee1394: silence defined but not used warning in non-modular builds
Currently the kernel will issue the following warning:
drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c:2938: warning: 'raw1394_id_table' defined but not used
Add #ifdef MODULE guards around the declaration.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>

Ditto with dv1394_id_table and video1394_id_table.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-25 18:15:45 +02:00
Pieter Palmers cc9429bcb6 ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle
As it seems, some host controllers have issues that can cause them to
skip cycles now and then when using large packets. I suspect that this
is due to DMA not succeeding in time. If the transmit fifo can't contain
more than one packet (big packets), the DMA should provide a new packet
each cycle (125us). I am under the impression that my current PCI
express test system can't guarantee this.

In any case, the patch tries to provide a workaround as follows:
The DMA program descriptors are modified such that when an error occurs,
the DMA engine retries the descriptor the next cycle instead of
stalling. This way no data is lost. The side effect of this is that
packets are sent with one cycle delay. This however might not be that
much of a problem for certain protocols (e.g. AM824). If they use
padding packets for e.g. rate matching they can drop one of those to
resync the streams.

The amount of skips between two userspace wakeups is counted. This
number is then propagated to userspace through the upper 16 bits of the
'dropped' parameter. This allows unmodified userspace applications due
to the following:
1) libraw simply passes this dropped parameter to the user application
2) the meaning of the dropped parameter is: if it's nonzero, something
bad has happened. The actual value of the parameter at this moment does
not have a specific meaning.

A libraw client can then retrieve the number of skipped cycles and
account for them if needed.

Signed-off-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-25 18:15:45 +02:00
Al Viro f8f95702f0 [PATCH] sanitize locate_fd()
* 'file' argument is unused; lose it.
* move setting flags from the caller (dupfd()) to locate_fd();
  pass cloexec flag as new argument.  Note that files_fdtable()
  that used to be in dupfd() isn't needed in the place in
  locate_fd() where the moved code ends up - we know that ->file_lock
  hadn't been dropped since the last time we calculated fdt because
  we can get there only if expand_files() returns 0 and it doesn't
  drop/reacquire in that case.
* move getting/dropping ->file_lock into locate_fd().  Now the caller
  doesn't need to do anything with files_struct *files anymore and
  we can move that inside locate_fd() as well, killing the
  struct files_struct * argument.

At that point locate_fd() is extremely similar to get_unused_fd_flags()
and the next patches will merge those two.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:24:05 -04:00
Al Viro 3b1253880b [PATCH] sanitize unshare_files/reset_files_struct
* let unshare_files() give caller the displaced files_struct
* don't bother with grabbing reference only to drop it in the
  caller if it hadn't been shared in the first place
* in that form unshare_files() is trivially implemented via
  unshare_fd(), so we eliminate the duplicate logics in fork.c
* reset_files_struct() is not just only called for current;
  it will break the system if somebody ever calls it for anything
  else (we can't modify ->files of somebody else).  Lose the
  task_struct * argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:59 -04:00
Al Viro fd8328be87 [PATCH] sanitize handling of shared descriptor tables in failing execve()
* unshare_files() can fail; doing it after irreversible actions is wrong
  and de_thread() is certainly irreversible.
* since we do it unconditionally anyway, we might as well do it in do_execve()
  and save ourselves the PITA in binfmt handlers, etc.
* while we are at it, binfmt_som actually leaked files_struct on failure.

As a side benefit, unshare_files(), put_files_struct() and reset_files_struct()
become unexported.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:53 -04:00
Al Viro 6b335d9c80 [PATCH] close race in unshare_files()
updating current->files requires task_lock

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:48 -04:00
Al Viro 42faad9965 [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:25 -04:00
Igor Mammedov 78d31a3a87 cifs: timeout dfs automounts +little fix.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:15:26 -04:00
Milan Broz e3dcc5a387 dm crypt: add documentation
Add description of dm-crypt to device-mapper documentation.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:27:03 +01:00
Frederik Deweerdt cf13ab8e02 dm: remove md argument from specific_minor
The small patch below:
- Removes the unused md argument from both specific_minor() and next_free_minor()
- Folds kmalloc + memset(0) into a single kzalloc call in alloc_dev()

This has been compile tested on x86.

Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:27:02 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 4fdfe401e9 dm table: remove unused dm_create_error_table
dm_create_error_table() was added in kernel 2.6.18 and never used...

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:27:00 +01:00
Adrian Bunk e8488d0858 dm table: drop void suspend_targets return
void returning functions returned the return value of another void
returning function...

Spotted by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:26:59 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka 7ff14a3615 dm: unplug queues in threads
Remove an avoidable 3ms delay on some dm-raid1 and kcopyd I/O.

It is specified that any submitted bio without BIO_RW_SYNC flag may plug the
queue (i.e. block the requests from being dispatched to the physical device).

The queue is unplugged when the caller calls blk_unplug() function. Usually, the
sequence is that someone calls submit_bh to submit IO on a buffer. The IO plugs
the queue and waits (to be possibly joined with other adjacent bios). Then, when
the caller calls wait_on_buffer(), it unplugs the queue and submits the IOs to
the disk.

This was happenning:

When doing O_SYNC writes, function fsync_buffers_list() submits a list of
bios to dm_raid1, the bios are added to dm_raid1 write queue and kmirrord is
woken up.

fsync_buffers_list() calls wait_on_buffer().  That unplugs the queue, but
there are no bios on the device queue as they are still in the dm_raid1 queue.

wait_on_buffer() starts waiting until the IO is finished.

kmirrord is scheduled, kmirrord takes bios and submits them to the devices.

The submitted bio plugs the harddisk queue but there is no one to unplug it.
(The process that called wait_on_buffer() is already sleeping.)

So there is a 3ms timeout, after which the queues on the harddisks are
unplugged and requests are processed.

This 3ms timeout meant that in certain workloads (e.g. O_SYNC, 8kb writes),
dm-raid1 is 10 times slower than md raid1.

Every time we submit something asynchronously via dm_io, we must unplug the
queue actually to send the request to the device.

This patch adds an unplug call to kmirrord - while processing requests, it keeps
the queue plugged (so that adjacent bios can be merged); when it finishes
processing all the bios, it unplugs the queue to submit the bios.

It also fixes kcopyd which has the same potential problem. All kcopyd requests
are submitted with BIO_RW_SYNC.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-25 13:26:57 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka a2aebe03be dm raid1: use timer
This patch replaces the schedule() in the main kmirrord thread with a timer.
The schedule() could introduce an unwanted delay when work is ready to be
processed.

The code instead calls wake() when there's work to be done immediately, and
delayed_wake() after a failure to give a short delay before retrying.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:26:56 +01:00