| Change log for patch v2.5.75 |
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Summary of changes from v2.5.74 to v2.5.75
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<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Update the OpenPIC code.
This is related to bugzilla bug #791
<shaggy@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>
JFS: Possible trap/data loss when fixing directory index table
<arun.sharma@intel.com>
[PATCH] ia64: IA-32 support patch: msgsnd/msgrcv return value off by 4
<arun.sharma@intel.com>
[PATCH] ia64: IA-32 support patch: munmap should return EINVAL if size == 0
Native IA-32 returns EINVAL on a unmap of size 0. Our behavior is currently
not compatible.
<arun.sharma@intel.com>
[PATCH] ia64: IA-32 support patch: mmap should return ENOMEM
Single Unix Specification says:
[ENOMEM] MAP_FIXED was specified, and the range [addr, addr + len) exceeds
that allowed for the address space of a process.
Therefore if addr + len > IA32_PAGE_OFFSET, we should return ENOMEM.
<davidm@hpl.hp.com>
[PATCH] ia64: A couple of additional fixes to sync with 2.5.73+.
<davidm@hpl.hp.com>
[PATCH] ia64: support arch_get_unmapped_area() cache
Add support for the mm->free_area_cache so that we do not stupidly
search from TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE every time we need to allocate some
virtual memory.
<alex_williamson@hp.com>
[PATCH] ia64: turn off ALLOW_IOV_BYPASS
Since the BIO-layer assumes that blocks can be merged virtually
at the granularity of BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY, independent of what device
is in use, we always need to go through the I/O MMU, even for 64-bit
devices. Hopefully, the BIO-layer can be made smarter some day.
<jsm@udlkern.fc.hp.com>
[PATCH] ia64: don't let PTRACE_POKEDATA write the NaT bits of syscall args
<davidm@tiger.hpl.hp.com>
ia64: Remove UNW_DEBUG again. Adding it was a mistake.
<stevef@stevef95.austin.ibm.com>
Fix compiler warning
<stevef@linux.local>
Signing fixes part 1
<mort@green.i.bork.org>
[PATCH] ia64: fix register-backing store initialization for main thread
<davidm@tiger.hpl.hp.com>
ia64: Fix LOAD_OFFSET macro in kernel linker script. Reported by
Mika Penttil.
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Update the bootloader serial code to have stub functions.
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Remove references to a removed file.
<stevef@steveft21.ltcsamba>
cifs xattr support part 1
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Minor KGDB updates.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[AGPGART] SiS 755 support for AMD K8 GART.
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Add a backend for standard (ns1655x) UARTs for debugers.
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Update the Motorola Sandpoint support.
This removes support for the X2 version of the board,
and has a number of cleanups and enhancements.
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Fix CONFIG_NVRAM && !CONFIG_PPC_PMAC.
Noted by Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
<lists@mdiehl.de>
[PATCH] Missing IrDA stuff for 2.5.73-bk8: sir_dev
Cleanups, and kernel thread + swsuspend fix.
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove the Zynx 4500 platform code. It was old and unmaintained.
This change can also be found in patch form at:
ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/linuxppc/obsolete/zx4500/
<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
PPC32: Remove the MEN F1 platform code. It was old and unmaintained.
This change can also be found in patch form at:
ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/linuxppc/obsolete/menf1
<bcollins@debian.org>
[SPARC64]: Fix formatting and typos in boot Makefile.
<bcollins@debian.org>
[SPARC64]: Enable KALLSYMS, use print_symbol().
<lunz@falooley.org>
[NET] Fix refcounting of dev->promiscuity for af_packet.
<greg@kroah.com>
[PATCH] PCI: change WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) to WARN_ON(in_interrupt()) to keep the fusion drivers happy.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] Fix stupid inverted FID/VID bug.
Spotted by Luigi Belli
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] update cpufreq docs to reflect newly merged architecture support
From Dominik Brodowski
<ilmari@ilmari.org>
[PATCH] Allow modular DM
With the recent fixes, io_schedule needs to be exported for modular dm
to work.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[IPV6] fix a mistake in ipv6_advmss() conversion
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] move_vma() make_pages_present() fix
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
mremap's move_vma VM_LOCKED case was still wrong.
If the do_munmap unmaps a part of new_vma, then its vm_start and vm_end
from before cannot both be the right addresses for the make_pages_present
range, and may BUG() there.
We need [new_addr, new_addr+new_len) to be locked down; but
move_page_tables already transferred the locked pages [new_addr,
new_addr+old_len), and they're either held in a VM_LOCKED vma throughout,
or temporarily in no vma: in neither case can be swapped out, so no need to
run over that range again.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] page unmapping debug
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Manfred's latest page unmapping debug patch.
The patch adds support for a special debug mode to both the page and the slab
allocator: Unused pages are removed from the kernel linear mapping. This
means that now any access to freed memory will cause an immediate exception.
Right now, read accesses remain totally unnoticed and write accesses may be
catched by the slab poisoning, but usually far too late for a meaningfull bug
report.
The implementation is based on a new arch dependant function,
kernel_map_pages(), that removes the pages from the linear mapping. It's
right now only implemented for i386.
Changelog:
- Add kernel_map_pages() for i386, based on change_page_attr. If
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not set, then the function is an empty stub. The stub
is in <linux/mm.h>, i.e. it exists for all archs.
- Make change_page_attr irq safe. Note that it's not fully irq safe due to
the lack of the tlb flush ipi, but it's good enough for kernel_map_pages().
Another problem is that kernel_map_pages is not permitted to fail, thus
PSE is disabled if DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled
- use kernel_map pages for the page allocator.
- use kernel_map_pages for the slab allocator.
I couldn't resist and added additional debugging support into mm/slab.c:
* at kfree time, the complete backtrace of the kfree caller is stored
in the freed object.
* a ptrinfo() function that dumps all known data about a kernel virtual
address: the pte value, if it belongs to a slab cache the cache name and
additional info.
* merging of common code: new helper function obj_dbglen and obj_dbghdr
for the conversion between the user visible object pointers/len and the
actual, internal addresses and len values.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] NUMA memory reporting fix
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
The current numa meminfo code exports (via sysfs) pgdat->node_size, as
totalram. This variable is consistently used elsewhere to mean "the number
of physical pages that this particular node spans". This is _not_ what we
want to see from meminfo, which is: "how much actual memory does this node
have?"
The following patch removes pgdat->node_size, and replaces it with
->node_spanned_pages. This is to avoid confusion with a new variable,
node_present_pages, which is the _actual_ value that we want to export in
meminfo. Most of the patch is a simple s/node_size/node_spanned_pages/.
The node_size() macro is also removed, and replaced with new ones for
node_{spanned,present}_pages() to avoid confusion.
We were bitten by this problem in this bug:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818
Compiled and tested on NUMA-Q.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ramfs: use rgeneric_file_llseek
Teach ramfs to use generic_file_llseek: default_llseek takes lock_kernel().
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] inode_change_ok(): remove lock_kernel()
`attr' is on the stack, and the inode's contents can change as soon as we
return from inode_change_ok() anyway. I can't see anything which is actually
being locked in there.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] nommu vmtruncate: remove lock_kernel()
lock_kernel() need not be held across truncate.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] procfs: remove some unneeded lock_kernel()s
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Remove spurious BKL acquisitions in /proc/. The BKL is not required to
access nr_threads for reporting, and get_locks_status() takes it
internally, wrapping all operations with it.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] remove lock_kernel() from file_ops.flush()
Rework the file_ops.flush() API sothat it is no longer called under
lock_kernel(). Push lock_kernel() down to all impementations except CIFS,
which doesn't want it.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] block_llseek(): remove lock_kernel()
Replace it with the blockdev inode's i_sem. And we only really need that for
atomic access to file->f_pos.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Make CONFIG_TC35815 depend on CONFIG_TOSHIBA_JMR3927
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
I got an error at the final linking with CONFIG_TC35815 enabled since
the variables tc_readl and tc_writel are not available.
The only place where they are defined is arch/mips/pci/ops-jmr3927.c.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Report detached thread exit to the debugger
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Right now, CLONE_DETACHED threads silently vanish from GDB's sight when
they exit. This patch lets the thread report its exit to the debugger, and
then be auto-reaped as soon as it is collected, instead of being reaped as
soon as it exits and not reported at all.
GDB works either way, but this is more correct and will be useful for some
later GDB patches.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] timer renaming and cleanups
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
This renames the bad "timer" variable to "cur_timer" and moves externs to
.h files.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix lost_tick detector for speedstep
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
The patch tries to resolve issues caused by running the TSC based lost
tick compensation code on CPUs that change frequency (speedstep, etc).
Should the CPU be in slow mode when calibrate_tsc() executes, the kernel
will assume we have so many cycles per tick. Later when the cpu speeds up,
the kernel will start noting that too many cycles have past since the last
interrupt. Since this can occasionally happen, the lost tick compensation
code then tries to fix this by incrementing jiffies. Thus every tick we
end up incrementing jiffies many times, causing timers to expire too
quickly and time to rush ahead.
This patch detects when there has been 100 consecutive interrupts where we
had to compensate for lost ticks. If this occurs, we spit out a warning
and fall back to using the PIT as a time source.
I've tested this on my speedstep enabled laptop with success, and others
laptop users seeing this problem have reported it works for them. Also to
ensure we don't fall back to the slower PIT too quickly, I tested the code
on a system I have that looses ~30 ticks about every second and it can
still manage to use the TSC as a good time source.
This solves most of the "time doubling" problems seen on laptops.
Additionally this revision has been modified to use the cleanups made in
rename-timer_A1.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix lost-tick compensation corner-case
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
This patch catches a corner case in the lost-tick compensation code.
There is a check to see if we overflowed between reads of the two time
sources, however should the high res time source be slightly slower then
what we calibrated, its possible to trigger this code when no ticks have
been lost.
This patch adds an extra check to insure we have seen more then one tick
before we check for this overflow. This seems to resolve the remaining
"time doubling" issues that I've seen reported.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] cleanup and generalise lowmem_page_address
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
This patch allows architectures to micro-optimize lowmem_page_address() at
their whims. Roman Zippel originally wrote and/or suggested this back when
dependencies on page->virtual existing were being shaken out. That's
long-settled, so it's fine to do this now.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Security hook for vm_enough_memory
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
This patch against 2.5.73 replaces vm_enough_memory with a security hook
per Alan Cox's suggestion so that security modules can completely replace
the logic if desired.
Note that the patch changes the interface to follow the convention of the
other security hooks, i.e. return 0 if ok or -errno on failure (-ENOMEM in
this case) rather than returning a boolean. It also exports various
variables and functions required for the vm_enough_memory logic.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ext2: inode allocation race fix
ext2's inode allocator will call find_group_orlov(), which will return a
suitable blockgroup in which the inode should be allocated. But by the time
we actually try to allocate an inode in the blockgroup, other CPUs could have
used them all up.
ext2 will bogusly fail with "ext2_new_inode: Free inodes count corrupted in
group NN".
To fix this we just advance onto the next blockgroup if the rare race
happens. If we've scanned all blockgroups then return -ENOSPC.
(This is a bit inaccurate: after we've scanned all blockgroups, there may
still be available inodes due to inode freeing activity in other blockgroups.
This cannot be fixed without fs-wide locking. The effect is a slightly
early ENOSPC in a nearly-full filesystem).
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix double mmdrop() on exec path
If load_elf_binary() (and the other binary handlers) fail after
flush_old_exec() (for example, in setup_arg_pages()) then do_execve() will go
through and do mmdrop(bprm.mm).
But bprm.mm is now current->mm. We've just freed the current process's mm.
The kernel dies in a most ghastly manner.
Fix that up by nulling out bprm.mm in flush_old_exec(), at the point where we
consumed the mm. Handle the null pointer in the do_execve() error path.
Also: don't open-code free_arg_pages() in do_execve(): call it instead.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ext3: fix journal_release_buffer() race
CPU0 CPU1
journal_get_write_access(bh)
(Add buffer to t_reserved_list)
journal_get_write_access(bh)
(It's already on t_reserved_list:
nothing to do)
(We decide we don't want to
journal the buffer after all)
journal_release_buffer()
(It gets pulled off the transaction)
journal_dirty_metadata()
(The buffer isn't on the reserved
list! The kernel explodes)
Simple fix: just leave the buffer on t_reserved_list in
journal_release_buffer(). If nobody ends up claiming the buffer then it will
get thrown away at start of transaction commit.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Set limits on CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Attached patch adds a range check to LOG_BUF_SHIFT and clarifies the
configuration somewhat. I managed to build a non-booting kernel because I
thought 64 was a nice power of two, which lead to the kernel blocking when
it tried to actually use or allocate a 2^64 buffer.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Fix cciss hang
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
It fixes a hang when performing large I/O's. Has been tested and acked by
the maintainer, "Wiran, Francis" <francis.wiran@hp.com>.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] e100 use-after-free fix
I though Scott had recently merged this but it seems not. We'll be
needing this patch if you merge Manfred's page unmapping debug patch.
<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
[PATCH] Remove cpu arg from cpu_raise_irq
The function cpu_raise_softirq() takes a softirq number, and a cpu number,
but cannot be used with cpu != smp_processor_id(), because there's no
locking around the pending softirq lists. Since noone does this, remove
that arg.
As per Linus' suggestion, names changed:
raise_softirq(int nr)
cpu_raise_softirq(int cpu, int nr) -> raise_softirq_irqoff(int nr)
__cpu_raise_softirq(int cpu, int nr) -> __raise_softirq_irqoff(int nr)
<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
[PATCH] Per-cpu variable in mm/slab.c
Rather trivial conversion. Tested on SMP.
<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
[PATCH] Remove unused __syscall_count
Noone seems to use __syscall_count. Remove the field from i386
irq_cpustat_t struct, and the generic accessor macros.
Because some archs have hardcoded asm references to offsets in this
structure, I haven't touched non-x86, but doing so is usually
trivial.
<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
[PATCH] Make ksoftirqd a normal per-cpu variable.
This moves the ksoftirqd pointers out of the irq_stat struct, and uses a
normal per-cpu variable. It's not that time critical, nor referenced in
assembler. This moves us closer to making irq_stat a per-cpu variable.
Because some archs have hardcoded asm references to offsets in this
structure, I haven't touched non-x86. The __ksoftirqd_task field is
unused in other archs, too.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
The sbp2 driver needs <linux/pci.h>, but didn't include it. It apparently
used to work due to some random magic indirect include, but broke lately.
Do the obvious fix.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[NET] Fix oops with /proc/net/{raw,igmp,mfilter,
raw6,igmp6,mfilter6,anycast,ip6_flowlabel}.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[AGPGART] Add AGP3 support for all VIA AGP3 chipsets.
Previously, only KT400 worked. Now, if we detect an AGP3 header,
we check the chipset to see if theres an AGP3 gfx card too
(which puts the chipset into 3.0 mode), and then adjust the
agp_bridge struct accordingly.
<shaggy@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>
JFS: If unicode conversion fails, operation should fail.
Previously, if an object is created with an illegal character in the
iocharset, JFS substituted a question mark as a substitution character and
allowed the operation to succeed. This can cause more than on dentry to
be created for the same object, leading to more problems.
<shaggy@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>
JFS: Make error return codes negative
JFS was often returning positive error return codes. This was confusing and
awkward. Patch originally submitted by Thomas Cort.
<ambx1@neo.rr.com>
[PNP] Handle Disabled Resources Properly
Some devices will allow for individual resources to be disabled,
even when the device as a whole is active. The current PnP
resource manager is not handling this situation properly. This
patch corrects the issue by detecting disabled resources and then
flagging them. The pnp layer will now skip over any disabled
resources. Interface updates have also been included so that we
can properly display resource tables when a resource is disabled.
Also note that a new flag "IORESOURCE_DISABLED" has been added to
linux/ioports.h.
<ambx1@neo.rr.com>
[PNP] Allow resource auto config to assign disabled resources
This patch updates the resource manager so that it actually assigns
disabled resources when they are requested by the device.
<ambx1@neo.rr.com>
[PNP] Fix manual resource setting API
This patch corrects a trivial thinko in the manual resource api.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[AGPGART] Fill out bridge structure with pdev before querying agp version.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI: Improve documentation
Fix some grammar problems
Add a note about Fast Back to Back support
Change the slot_name recommendation to pci_name().
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI: arch/i386/pci/direct.c can use __init, not __devinit
pci_sanity_check() is only called from functions marked __init, so it
can be __init too.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI: pci_find_bus needs a domain
Give pci_find_bus a domain argument and move its declaration to <linux/pci.h>
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI: Remove pci_bus_exists
Convert all callers of pci_bus_exists() to call pci_find_bus() instead.
Since all callers of pci_find_bus() are __init or __devinit, mark it as
__devinit too.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI: arch/i386/pci/irq.c should use pci_find_bus
Use pci_find_bus rather than relying on the return value of pci_scan_bus.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI: arch/i386/pci/legacy.c: use raw_pci_ops
Make pcibios_fixup_peer_bridges() use raw_pci_ops directly instead of
faking pci_bus and pci_dev.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] PCI config space in sysfs
- Fix a couple of bugs in sysfs's handling of binary files (my fault).
- Implement pci config space reads and writes in sysfs
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] Driver Core: fix firmware binary files
Fixes the sysfs binary file bug.
<greg@kroah.com>
[PATCH] sysfs: change print() to pr_debug() to not annoy everyone.
<greg@kroah.com>
[PATCH] SYSFS: add module referencing to sysfs attribute files.
<johnstul@us.ibm.com>
[PATCH] jiffies include fix
This patch fixes a bad declaration of jiffies in timer_tsc.c and
timer_cyclone.c, replacing it with the proper usage of jiffies.h.
Caught by gregkh.
<greg@kroah.com>
[PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_rename_dir()
Based on a patch written by Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
<greg@kroah.com>
[PATCH] kobject: add kobject_rename()
Based on a patch written by Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
<greg@kroah.com>
[PATCH] driver core: added class_device_rename()
Based on a patch written by Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
<greg@kroah.com>
driver core: add my copyright to class.c
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Add an asynchronous buffer read-ahead facility. Nobody
uses it for now, but I needed it for some tuning tests,
and it is potentially useful for others.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Re-organize "ext3_get_inode_loc()" and make it easier to
follow by splitting it into two functions: one that calculates
the position, and the other that actually reads the inode
block off the disk.
<jgarzik@pobox.com>
[PATCH] fix via irq routing
Via irq routing has a funky PIRQD location. I checked my datasheets
and, yep, this is correct all the way back to via686a.
This bug existed for _ages_. I wonder if I created it, even...
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
[PATCH] Add open intent information to the 'struct nameidata'
- Add open intent information to the 'struct nameidata'.
- Pass the struct nameidata as an optional parameter to the
lookup() inode operation.
- Pass the struct nameidata as an optional parameter to the
d_revalidate() dentry operation.
- Make link_path_walk() set the LOOKUP_CONTINUE flag in nd->flags instead
of passing it as an extra parameter to d_revalidate().
- Make open_namei(), and sys_uselib() set the open()/create() intent
data.
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
[PATCH] Pass 'nameidata' to ->create()
- Make the VFS pass the struct nameidata as an optional argument
to the create inode operation.
- Patch vfs_create() to take a struct nameidata as an optional
argument.
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
[PATCH] Pass 'nameidata' to ->permission()
- Make the VFS pass the struct nameidata as an optional parameter
to the permission() inode operation.
- Patch may_create()/may_open() so it passes the struct nameidata from
vfs_create()/open_namei() as an argument to permission().
- Add an intent flag for the sys_access() function.
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
[PATCH] Use the intents in 'nameidata' to improve NFS close-to-open consistency
- Make use of the open intents to improve close-to-open
cache consistency. Only force data cache revalidation when
we're doing an open().
- Add true exclusive create to NFSv3.
- Optimize away the redundant ->lookup() to check for an
existing file when we know that we're doing NFSv3 exclusive
create.
- Optimize away all ->permission() checks other than those for
path traversal, open(), and sys_access().
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger suggest adding a paranoid incoming
trigger as per the "bk help triggers" suggestion, so that
we'll see any new triggers showing up in the tree.
Make it so.
<stevef@linux.local>
Signing fixes part 2
<stevef@linux.local>
Update cifs vfs information and readme
<mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
[PATCH] EISA: core changes
- Now reserves I/O ranges according to EISA specs (four 256 bytes
regions instead of a single 4KB region).
- By default, do not try to probe the bus if the mainboard does not
seems to support EISA (allow this behaviour to be changed through a
command-line option).
- Use parent bridge device dma_mask as default for each discovered
device.
- Allow devices to be enabled or disabled from the kernel command line
(useful for non-x86 platforms where the firmware simply disable
devices it doesn't know about...).
<mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
[PATCH] EISA: Documentation update
<mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
[PATCH] EISA: More EISA ids
<mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
[PATCH] EISA: PA-RISC changes
- Probe the right number of EISA slots on PA-RISC. No more, no less.
<mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
[PATCH] EISA: PCI-EISA dma_mask
- Use parent bridge device dma_mask as default for each discovered
device.
<mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
[PATCH] EISA: avoid unnecessary probing
- By default, do not try to probe the bus if the mainboard does not
seems to support EISA (allow this behaviour to be changed through a
command-line option).
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Go back to defaulting to 6-byte commands for MODE SENSE,
since some drivers seem to be unhappy about the 10-byte
version.
The subsystem configuration can override this (eg USB or
ide-scsi).
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
When forcing through a signal for some thread-synchronous
event (ie SIGSEGV, SIGFPE etc that happens as a result of a
trap as opposed to an external event), if the signal is
blocked we will not invoce a signal handler, we will just
kill the thread with the signal.
This is equivalent to what we do in the SIG_IGN case: you
cannot ignore or block synchronous signals, and if you try,
we'll just have to kill you.
We don't want to handle endless recursive faults, which the
old behaviour easily led to if the stack was bad, for example.
<drepper@redhat.com>
[PATCH] wrong pid in siginfo_t
If a signal is sent via kill() or tkill() the kernel fills in the wrong
PID value in the siginfo_t structure (obviously only if the handler has
SA_SIGINFO set).
POSIX specifies the the si_pid field is filled with the process ID, and
in Linux parlance that's the "thread group" ID, not the thread ID.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] PCI domain scanning fix
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
ppc64 oopses on boot because pci_scan_bus_parented() is unexpectedly
returning NULL. Change pci_scan_bus_parented() to correctly handle
overlapping PCI bus numbers on different domains.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ipc semaphore optimization
From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
This patch proposes a performance fix for the current IPC semaphore
implementation.
There are two shortcoming in the current implementation:
try_atomic_semop() was called two times to wake up a blocked process,
once from the update_queue() (executed from the process that wakes up
the sleeping process) and once in the retry part of the blocked process
(executed from the block process that gets woken up).
A second issue is that when several sleeping processes that are eligible
for wake up, they woke up in daisy chain formation and each one in turn
to wake up next process in line. However, every time when a process
wakes up, it start scans the wait queue from the beginning, not from
where it was last scanned. This causes large number of unnecessary
scanning of the wait queue under a situation of deep wait queue.
Blocked processes come and go, but chances are there are still quite a
few blocked processes sit at the beginning of that queue.
What we are proposing here is to merge the portion of the code in the
bottom part of sys_semtimedop() (code that gets executed when a sleeping
process gets woken up) into update_queue() function. The benefit is two
folds: (1) is to reduce redundant calls to try_atomic_semop() and (2) to
increase efficiency of finding eligible processes to wake up and higher
concurrency for multiple wake-ups.
We have measured that this patch improves throughput for a large
application significantly on a industry standard benchmark.
This patch is relative to 2.5.72. Any feedback is very much
appreciated.
Some kernel profile data attached:
Kernel profile before optimization:
-----------------------------------------------
0.05 0.14 40805/529060 sys_semop [133]
0.55 1.73 488255/529060 ia64_ret_from_syscall
[2]
[52] 2.5 0.59 1.88 529060 sys_semtimedop [52]
0.05 0.83 477766/817966 schedule_timeout [62]
0.34 0.46 529064/989340 update_queue [61]
0.14 0.00 1006740/6473086 try_atomic_semop [75]
0.06 0.00 529060/989336 ipcperms [149]
-----------------------------------------------
0.30 0.40 460276/989340 semctl_main [68]
0.34 0.46 529064/989340 sys_semtimedop [52]
[61] 1.5 0.64 0.87 989340 update_queue [61]
0.75 0.00 5466346/6473086 try_atomic_semop [75]
0.01 0.11 477676/576698 wake_up_process [146]
-----------------------------------------------
0.14 0.00 1006740/6473086 sys_semtimedop [52]
0.75 0.00 5466346/6473086 update_queue [61]
[75] 0.9 0.89 0.00 6473086 try_atomic_semop [75]
-----------------------------------------------
Kernel profile with optimization:
-----------------------------------------------
0.03 0.05 26139/503178 sys_semop [155]
0.46 0.92 477039/503178 ia64_ret_from_syscall
[2]
[61] 1.2 0.48 0.97 503178 sys_semtimedop [61]
0.04 0.79 470724/784394 schedule_timeout [62]
0.05 0.00 503178/3301773 try_atomic_semop [109]
0.05 0.00 503178/930934 ipcperms [149]
0.00 0.03 32454/460210 update_queue [99]
-----------------------------------------------
0.00 0.03 32454/460210 sys_semtimedop [61]
0.06 0.36 427756/460210 semctl_main [75]
[99] 0.4 0.06 0.39 460210 update_queue [99]
0.30 0.00 2798595/3301773 try_atomic_semop [109]
0.00 0.09 470630/614097 wake_up_process [146]
-----------------------------------------------
0.05 0.00 503178/3301773 sys_semtimedop [61]
0.30 0.00 2798595/3301773 update_queue [99]
[109] 0.3 0.35 0.00 3301773 try_atomic_semop [109]
-----------------------------------------------=20
Both number of function calls to try_atomic_semop() and update_queue()
are reduced by 50% as a result of the merge. Execution time of
sys_semtimedop is reduced because of the reduction in the low level
functions.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] bring back the batch_requests function
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
The batch_requests function got lost during the merge of the dynamic request
allocation patch.
We need it for the anticipatory scheduler - when the number of threads
exceeds the number of requests, the anticipated-upon task will undesirably
sleep in get_request_wait().
And apparently some block devices which use small requests need it so they
string a decent number together.
Jens has acked this patch.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Create `kblockd' workqueue
keventd is inappropriate for running block request queues because keventd
itself can get blocked on disk I/O. Via call_usermodehelper()'s vfork and,
presumably, GFP_KERNEL allocations.
So create a new gang of kernel threads whose mandate is for running low-level
disk operations. It must ever block on disk IO, so any memory allocations
should be GFP_NOIO.
We mainly use it for running unplug operations from interrupt context.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] elv_may_queue() API function
Introduces the elv_may_queue() predicate with which the IO scheduler may tell
the generic request layer that we may add another request to this queue.
It is used by the CFQ elevator.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] elevator completion API
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Introduces an elevator_completed_req() callback with which the generic
queueing layer may tell an IO scheduler that a particualr request has
finished.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] anticipatory I/O scheduler
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
This is the core anticipatory IO scheduler. There are nearly 100 changesets
in this and five months work. I really cannot describe it fully here.
Major points:
- It works by recognising that reads are dependent: we don't know where the
next read will occur, but it's probably close-by the previous one. So once
a read has completed we leave the disk idle, anticipating that a request
for a nearby read will come in.
- There is read batching and write batching logic.
- when we're servicing a batch of writes we will refuse to seek away
for a read for some tens of milliseconds. Then the write stream is
preempted.
- when we're servicing a batch of reads (via anticipation) we'll do
that for some tens of milliseconds, then preempt.
- There are request deadlines, for latency and fairness.
The oldest outstanding request is examined at regular intervals. If
this request is older than a specific deadline, it will be the next
one dispatched. This gives a good fairness heuristic while being simple
because processes tend to have localised IO.
Just about all of the rest of the complexity involves an array of fixups
which prevent most of teh obvious failure modes with anticipation: trying to
not leave the disk head pointlessly idle. Some of these algorithms are:
- Process tracking. If the process whose read we are anticipating submits
a write, abandon anticipation.
- Process exit tracking. If the process whose read we are anticipating
exits, abandon anticipation.
- Process IO history. We accumulate statistical info on the process's
recent IO patterns to aid in making decisions about how long to anticipate
new reads.
Currently thinktime and seek distance are tracked. Thinktime is the
time between when a process's last request has completed and when it
submits another one. Seek distance is simply the number of sectors
between each read request. If either statistic becomes too high, the
it isn't anticipated that the process will submit another read.
The above all means that we need a per-process "io context". This is a fully
refcounted structure. In this patch it is AS-only. later we generalise it a
little so other IO schedulers could use the same framework.
- Requests are grouped as synchronous and asynchronous whereas deadline
scheduler groups requests as reads and writes. This can provide better
sync write performance, and may give better responsiveness with journalling
filesystems (although we haven't done that yet).
We currently detect synchronous writes by nastily setting PF_SYNCWRITE in
current->flags. The plan is to remove this later, and to propagate the
sync hint from writeback_contol.sync_mode into bio->bi_flags thence into
request->flags. Once that is done, direct-io needs to set the BIO sync
hint as well.
- There is also quite a bit of complexity gone into bashing TCQ into
submission. Timing for a read batch is not started until the first read
request actually completes. A read batch also does not start until all
outstanding writes have completed.
AS is the default IO scheduler. deadline may be chosen by booting with
"elevator=deadline".
There are a few reasons for retaining deadline:
- AS is often slower than deadline in random IO loads with large TCQ
windows. The usual real world task here is OLTP database loads.
- deadline is presumably more stable.
- deadline is much simpler.
The tunable per-queue entries under /sys/block/*/iosched/ are all in
milliseconds:
* read_expire
Controls how long until a request becomes "expired".
It also controls the interval between which expired requests are served,
so set to 50, a request might take anywhere < 100ms to be serviced _if_ it
is the next on the expired list.
Obviously it can't make the disk go faster. Result is basically the
timeslice a reader gets in the presence of other IO. 100*((seek time /
read_expire) + 1) is very roughly the % streaming read efficiency your disk
should get in the presence of multiple readers.
* read_batch_expire
Controls how much time a batch of reads is given before pending writes
are served. Higher value is more efficient. Shouldn't really be below
read_expire.
* write_ versions of the above
* antic_expire
Controls the maximum amount of time we can anticipate a good read before
giving up. Many other factors may cause anticipation to be stopped early,
or some processes will not be "anticipated" at all. Should be a bit higher
for big seek time devices though not a linear correspondance - most
processes have only a few ms thinktime.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Use kblockd for running request queues
Using keventd for running request_fns is risky because keventd itself can
block on disk I/O. Use the new kblockd kernel threads for the generic
unplugging.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] per queue nr_requests
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
This gets rid of the global queue_nr_requests and usage of BLKDEV_MAX_RQ
(the latter is now only used to set the queues' defaults).
The queue depth becomes per-queue, controlled by a sysfs entry.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] blk_congestion_wait threshold cleanup
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Now that we are counting requests (not requests free), this patch changes
the congested & batch watermarks to be more logical. Also a minor fix to
the sysfs code.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] allow the IO scheduler to pass an allocation hint to
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
This patch implements a hint so that AS can tell the request allocator to
allocate a request even if there are none left (the accounting is quite
flexible and easily handles overallocations).
elv_may_queue semantics have changed from "the elevator does _not_ want
another request allocated" to "the elevator _insists_ that another request is
allocated". I couldn't see any harm ;)
Now in practice, AS will only allow _1_ request over the limit, because as
soon as the request is sent to AS, it stops anticipating.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] handle OOM in get_request_wait()
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
If there are no requess in flight against the target device and
get_request() fails, nothing will wake us up. Fix.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] block batching fairness
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
This patch fixes the request batching fairness/starvation issue. Its not
clear what is going on with 2.4, but it seems that its a problem around this
area.
Anyway, previously:
* request queue fills up
* process 1 calls get_request, sleeps
* a couple of requests are freed
* process 2 calls get_request, proceeds
* a couple of requests are freed
* process 2 calls get_request...
Now as unlikely as it seems, it could be a problem. Its a fairness problem
that process 2 can skip ahead of process 1 anyway.
With the patch:
* request queue fills up
* any process calling get_request will sleep
* once the queue gets below the batch watermark, processes
start being worken, and may allocate.
This patch includes Chris Mason's fix to only clear queue_full when all tasks
have been woken. Previously I think starvation and unfairness could still
occur.
With this change to the blk-fair-batches patch, Chris is showing some much
improved numbers for 2.4 - 170 ms max wait vs 2700ms without blk-fair-batches
for a dbench 90 run. He didn't indicate how much difference his patch alone
made, but it is an important fix I think.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] generic io contexts
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Generalise the AS-specific per-process IO context so that other IO schedulers
could use it.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] block request batching
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
The following patch gets batching working how it should be.
After a process is woken up, it is allowed to allocate up to 32 requests
for 20ms. It does not stop other processes submitting requests if it isn't
submitting though. This should allow less context switches, and allow
batches of requests from each process to be sent to the io scheduler
instead of 1 request from each process.
tiobench sequential writes are more than tripled, random writes are nearly
doubled over mm1. In earlier tests I generally saw better CPU efficiency
but it doesn't show here. There is still debug to be taken out. Its also
only on UP.
Avg Maximum Lat% Lat% CPU
Identifier Rate (CPU%) Latency Latency >2s >10s Eff
------------------- ------ --------- ---------- ------- ------ ----
-2.5.71-mm1 11.13 3.783% 46.10 24668.01 0.84 0.02 294
+2.5.71-mm1 13.21 4.489% 37.37 5691.66 0.76 0.00 294
Random Reads
------------------- ------ --------- ---------- ------- ------ ----
-2.5.71-mm1 0.97 0.582% 519.86 6444.66 11.93 0.00 167
+2.5.71-mm1 1.01 0.604% 484.59 6604.93 10.73 0.00 167
Sequential Writes
------------------- ------ --------- ---------- ------- ------ ----
-2.5.71-mm1 4.85 4.456% 77.80 99359.39 0.18 0.13 109
+2.5.71-mm1 14.11 14.19% 10.07 22805.47 0.09 0.04 99
Random Writes
------------------- ------ --------- ---------- ------- ------ ----
-2.5.71-mm1 0.46 0.371% 14.48 6173.90 0.23 0.00 125
+2.5.71-mm1 0.86 0.744% 24.08 8753.66 0.31 0.00 115
It decreases context switch rate on IBM's 8-way on ext2 tiobench 64 threads
from ~2500/s to ~140/s on their regression tests.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] get_io_context fixes
- pass gfp_flags to get_io_context(): not all callers are forced to use
GFP_ATOMIC().
- fix locking in get_io_context(): bump the refcount whilein the exclusive
region.
- don't go oops in get_io_context() if the kmalloc failed.
- in as_get_io_context(): fail the whole thing if we were unable to
allocate the AS-specific part.
- as_remove_queued_request() cleanup
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] block allocation comments
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Add some comments to the request allocation code.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] after exec_mmap(), exec cannot fail
If de_thread() fails in flush_old_exec() then we try to fail the execve().
That is a bad move, because exec_mmap() has already switched the current
process over to the new mm. The new process is not yet sufficiently set up
to handle the error and the kernel doublefaults and dies. exec_mmap() is the
point of no return.
Change flush_old_exec() to call de_thread() before running exec_mmap() so the
execing program sees the error. I added fault injection to both de_thread()
and exec_mmap() - everything now survives OK.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] bootmem.c cleanups
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
- Remove a couple of impossible debug checks (unsigneds cannot be
negative!)
- If __alloc_bootmem_core() fails with a goal and unaligned node_boot_start
it'll loop fovever.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] epoll: microoptimisations
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
- Inline eventpoll_release() so that __fput() does not need to call in
epoll code if the file itself is not registered inside an epoll fd
- Add <linux/types.h> inclusion due __u32 and __u64 usage
- Fix debug printf that would otherwise panic if enabled with the new
epoll code
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix current->user->__count leak
From: Arvind Kandhare <arvind.kan@wipro.com>
When switch_uid is called, the reference count of the new user is
incremented twice. I think the increment in the switch_uid is done because
of the reparent_to_init() function which does not increase the __count for
root user.
But if switch_uid is called from any other function, the reference count is
already incremented by the caller by calling alloc_uid for the new user.
Hence the count is incremented twice. The user struct will not be deleted
even when there are no processes holding a reference count for it. This
does not cause any problem currently because nothing is dependent on timely
deletion of the user struct.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] MTD build fix for old gcc's
From: junkio@cox.net
Sigh. Is there a gcc option to tell it to not accept this incompatible C99
extension?
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix rfcomm oops
From: ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker)
It turns out that net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c (and
net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c) had been left out when net_proto_family gained an
owner field, here's a patch that fixes them both.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i2o_scsi build fix
i2o_scsi.c now needs pci.h.
<khc@pm.waw.pl>
[PATCH] C99 initializers in hdlc_generic.c
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[NET] Send only unicast NSs in PROBE state.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[IPV6] ignore on-link information without on-link flag set
On-link flag == 0 in RA message does not mean that the
prefix is off-link. It simply means the prefix
does not talk about on-link information.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[IPV6] remove unused variable
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[IPV6] fix algorithm for updating lifetime
This patch, depends on "IPV6: remove unused variable,"
fixes algorithm for updating lifetime according to RFC2462.
- We should not delete an address even if prefix is
advertised with valid lifetime == 0.
- support the "2 hours" rule.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[ATM] Convert clip neigh table to C99 initializers
This converts nlip_tbl to C99 initializers.
(and fixes wrong value for proxy_len and locktime.)
<stevef@linux.local>
Signing fixes part 3
<jgarzik@redhat.com>
[netdrvr 8139too] fix debug printk
printk args had been accidentally reversed
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Improve mmap readaround
This tweaks the mmap read-ahead behaviour so that the prefaulting
is largely pointless.
- double the minimum readaround chunksize in page_cache_readaround().
- when a seek is detected, collapse the window more slowly.
<lode_leroy@hotmail.com>
[IPV4] display bootserver in /proc/net/pnp
With modification from niv@us.ibm.com to only print
bootserver if there was one.
<anton@samba.org>
[PATCH] enable device mapper in compat layer
The compat ioctls for device mapper were not being enabled due to an
incorrect config option.
<pavel@ucw.cz>
[PATCH] New maintainter for nbd
I no longer have the time/interest in nbd, and Paul agreed to take it
over.
<benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[PATCH] fix IDE init oops on PowerMac
From Mikael Petterson:
Booting kernel 2.5.74 on a PowerMac with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC=y
results in an oops during IDE init, and the box then reboots.
The patch below updates drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c to also set up the
hwif->ide_dma_queued_off and hwif->ide_dma_queued_on function
pointers, which fixes the oops. Tested on my ancient PM4400.
<paulkf@microgate.com>
[PATCH] synclink.c update
Fix arbitration between net open and tty open.
Cleanup unused local resulting from latest tty changes.
<paulkf@microgate.com>
[PATCH] synclinkmp.c update
Fix arbitration between net open and tty open.
Clean up unused locals resulting from latest tty changes.
<paulkf@microgate.com>
[PATCH] synclink_cs.c update
Fix arbitration between net open and tty open.
Cleanup missed bits of CUA device removal changes.
<bernie@develer.com>
[PATCH] Fix do_div() for all architectures
This offers a generic do_div64() that actually does the right thing,
unlike some architectures that "optimized" the 64-by-32 divide into
just a 32-bit divide.
Both ppc and sh were already providing an assembly optimized
__div64_32(). I called my function the same, so that their optimized
versions will automatically override mine in lib.a.
I've only tested extensively on m68knommu (uClinux) and made
sure generated code is reasonably short. Should be ok also on
parisc, since it's the same algorithm they were using before.
- add generic C implementations of the do_div() for 32bit and 64bit
archs in asm-generic/div64.h;
- add generic library support function __div64_32() to handle the
full 64/32 case on 32bit archs;
- kill multiple copies of generic do_div() in architecture
specific subdirs. Most copies were either buggy or not doing
what they were supposed to do;
- ensure all surviving instances of do_div() have their parameters
correctly parenthesized to avoid funny side-effects;
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] another timer overflow thing
in add_timer_internal() we simply leave the timer pending forever if the
expiry is in more than 0xffffffff jiffies. This means more than 48 days on
eg. ia64 - which is not an unrealistic timeout. IIRC crond is happy to use
extremely large timeouts.
It's better to time out early (if you can call 48 days "early") than to
not time out at all.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Simplify and speed up mmap read-around handling
This improves cold-cache program startup noticeably for me, and
simplifies the read-ahead logic at the same time. The rules for
read-ahead are:
- if the vma is marked random, we just do the regular one-page case.
Obvious.
- if the vma is marked "linear access", we use the regular readahead
code. No change in behaviour there (well, we also only consider it a
_miss_ if it was marked linear access - the "readahead" and
"readaround" things are now totally independent of each other)
- otherwise, we look at how many hits/misses we've had for this
particular file open for mmap, and if we've had noticeably more
misses than hits, we don't bother with read-around.
In particular, this means that the "real" read-ahead logic literally
only needs to worry about finding sequential accesses, and does not
have to worry about the common executable mmap access patthers that
have very different behaviour.
Some constant tweaking may be a good idea.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] selection of boot parameters at configure time for Motorola 5282 targets
Allow setting boot time parameters at configuration for Motorola
5282 targets.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] conditional ROMfs copy for Motorola M5307C3 board
Conditionally copy the ROMfs filesystem on the Motorola M5307C3
target board only if using a ROMfs.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] force PAGE_SIZE to be an unsigned long
Force PAGE_SIZE for the m68knommu architecture to be an unsigned long.
This makes it consistent with all other architectures and cleans up
a load of compiler warnings.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] remove unused register from clobber list in down_trylock()
Remove "%d0" register from clobber list of down_trylock() for
m68knommu. It is not used by the asm code here at all.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] simplify access_ok() for all m68knommu targets
Unify access_ok for all m68knommu targets. All targets use the
common linker script and have common end symbols. So now we can
just use a simple check.
<dtor_core@ameritech.net>
[NET] Attach inner qdiscs to TBF
<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
[IPSEC] Add policy expiration
This patch finally adds policy expiration.
Note that it resends soft policy expire messages every 30 seconds. This
is needed as when "soft use expire" is used for dead peer detection,
a lost message could lead to a dead peer that isn't discovered until the
SAs expire.
I've only implemented notification for XFRM as I didn't want to just add
another PFKEY extension in case it collides with something else. Of
course it could be easily done for PFKEY with an extension too.
<stevef@linux.local>
Signing fixes part 4 of 4
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] shared library support for MMUless binfmt_flat loader
This patch adds shared library support to the MMU application
loader, binfmt_flat. This is not new, it is a forward port from the
same support in 2.4.x kernels with MMUless support, and has been
running for well over a year now. The code support is conditionally
compiled on CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED. This change also abstracts
a bit more architecture dependent code into the separate flat.h
includes.
Basically relocations within an application also carry a tag to
identify what they refer too (this code or which shared library).
This is patched as before at load/run-time with an appropriate
address.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] flat loader H8/300 specific support abstracted
Architecture specific flat loader code for H8/300 moved into its
own H8/300 flat.h header.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] flat loader m68knommu specific support abstracted
Architecture specific flat loader code for m68knommu moved into its
own m68knommu flat.h header. Part of the shared library flat loader
update.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] flat loader v850 specific support abstracted
Architecture specific flat loader code for v850 moved into its
own v850 flat.h header. This patch also adds supporti for a number
of relocation cases that need to be handled at laod time.
Most of this code is originally from Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Fix several broken macros to get the "private" field of a seq-file
in the networking code.
From YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] use task_cpu() not ->thread_info->cpu in sched.c
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
This patch fixes two p->thread_info->cpu occurrences in kernel/sched.c to
use the task_cpu(p) macro instead, which is optimised on UP. Although one
of the occurrences is under #ifdef CONFIG_SMP, it's bad style to use the
raw non-optimisable form in non-arch code.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] misc fixes
- xfs printk warning fix (dev_t is ulong on ppc64)
- unused var in serial_remove() (Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it>)
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] breadahead() tweaks
- use ll_rw_block().
- use READA
- export it to modules.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] proc_attr_lookup() fix
From: Daniele Belluci <bellucda@tiscali.it>
proc_attr_lookup() was missed out in Trond's conversion. (It is behind
CONFIG_SECURITY).
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] xattr: cleanups
From: From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
* Various minor cleanups and simplifications in the extended attributes
and acl code.
* Use a smarter shortcut rule in ext[23]_permission(): If the mask
contains permissions that are not also contained in the group
file mode permission bits, those permissions can never be granted by
an acl. (The previous shortcut rule was more coarse.)
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] xattr: blockdev inode selection fix
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
The inode->i_bdev field is not the same as inode->i_sb->s_bdev or bh->b_bdev.
We must compare inode->i_sb->s_bdev with bh->b_bdev, or else equal extended
attribute block will not be found.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] xattr: update-in-place optimisation
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
It is common to update extended attributes without changing the value's
length. This patch optimizes this case. In addition to that, the current
code tries to recognize early when extended attribute blocks become
empty. This optimization is not of significant value, so this patch
removes it, and moves the empty block test further down.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] xattrr: preparation for fine-grained locking
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Andrew Morton found that there is lock contention between extended
attribute operations (like reading ACLs, which `ls -l' needs to do)
and other operations on the same files. This is due to the fact that
all extended attribute syscalls take inode->i_sem before calling into
the filesystem code.
To fix this problem, this patch no longer takes inode->i_sem in the
getxattr and listxattr syscalls, and moves the lock taking code into
the file systems. (Another patch improves the locking strategy in
ext2 and ext3.)
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] xattr: fine-grained locking
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
This patch removes the dependency on i_sem in the getxattr and
listxattr iops of ext2 and ext3. In addition, the global ext[23]_xattr
semaphores go away. Instead of i_sem and the global semaphore, mutual
exclusion is now ensured by per-inode xattr semaphores, and by locking
the buffers before modifying them. The detailed locking strategy is
described in comments in fs/ext[23]/xattr.c.
Due to this change it is no longer necessary to take i_sem in
ext[23]_permission() for retrieving acls, so the
ext[23]_permission_locked() functions go away.
Additionally, the patch fixes a race condition in ext[23]_permission:
Accessing inode->i_acl was protected by the BKL in 2.4; in 2.5 there no
longer is such protection. Instead, inode->i_acl (and inode->i_default_acl)
are now accessed under inode->i_lock. (This could be replaced by RCU in
the future.)
In the ext3 extended attribute code, an new uglines results from locking
at the buffer head level: The buffer lock must be held between testing
if an xattr block can be modified and the actual modification to prevent
races from happening. Before a block can be modified,
ext3_journal_get_write_access() must be called. But this requies an unlocked
buffer, so I call ext3_journal_get_write_access() before locking the
buffer. If it turns out that the buffer cannot be modified,
journal_release_buffer() is called. Calling ext3_journal_get_write_access
after the test but while the buffer is still locked would be much better.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Module autoloading for quota
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This implements autoloading of quota modules.
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] display bootserver in /proc/net/pnp
From: "lode leroy" <lode_leroy@hotmail.com>
I would like to submit a trivial enhancement to display the ip address of
the bootserver in /proc/net/pnp
This aids me in developing a diskless linux root image to know where it
comes from...
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] BSD accounting speedup
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Most distributions turn on process accounting - but even the common
'accounting is off' case is horrible SMP-scalability-wise: it accesses a
global spinlock during every sys_exit() call, which bounces like mad on SMP
(and NUMA) systems.
(i also got rid of the unused return code.)
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] conditional ROMfs copy for Cleopatra/5307 board
Conditionally copy the ROMfs filesystem on the Cleopatra/5307
target board only if using a ROMfs.
<stevef@linux.local>
Fix statfs failure due to invalid value for ffree
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] Double unlock in BSD accounting speedup patch
doh - double unlock in the acct-is-on path. Noticed by Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@digital.com>
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] .no .romvec section for DragonEngine/68328 target
A couple of minor fixes for the 68328 interrupt setup code.
- don't define the .romvec section for DragonEngine build
- print newline at end of spurious interrupt count in show_interrupts()
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] define shared lib limits for flat loader
This patch includes the last peices of the flat laoder shared
library support. Define the shared lib limit and implement a
flag for doing kernel level tracing.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] cleanup show_process_blocks() for non-mmu targets
Clean up show_process_blocks() loop for non-mmu targets.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] define raw read/write for m68knommu io access
Define the raw read and write access macros for m68knommu.
These rae use by MTD drivers in particular.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] remove 68360 specific trap init call
No longer need the 68360 specific trap init call. The generic
interrupt/trap code is now setup to do this itself.
<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
[PATCH] Make kstat_this_cpu in terms of __get_cpu_var and use it
kstat_this_cpu() is defined in terms of per_cpu instead of __get_cpu_var.
This patch changes that, and uses it everywhere appropriate. The sched.c
change puts it in a local variable, which helps gcc generate better code.
<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
[PATCH] switch_mm and enter_lazy_tlb: remove cpu arg
switch_mm and enter_lazy_tlb take a CPU arg, which is always
smp_processor_id(). This is misleading, and pointless if they use
per-cpu variables or other optimizations. gcc will eliminate
redundant smp_processor_id() (in inline functions) anyway.
This removes that arg from all the architectures.
<paulus@samba.org>
[PATCH] Compile fix and cleanup for macserial driver
This adds a declaration that the macserial driver needs in order to
compile correctly, and removes some old SERIAL_DO_RESTART junk which
isn't used (SERIAL_DO_RESTART is never defined in this driver) and which
I think is incorrect anyway, since it looks to me like it would
potentially return an ERESTARTSYS error without a signal pending.
<ducrot@poupinou.org>
[PATCH] powernow-k7 typo fix
Due to a typo in powernow-k7.c, the value which correspond
to the CPU core multiplicator and the VID value are swapped
when we go down to up in frequency step.
<chadt@sgi.com>
[PATCH] ia64: SN2 updates
Patch against latest BK (as of July 3) contains the following fixes
and updates:
- Generic kernel tweaks for SN (use of ia64_platform_is)
- Fix some error return values.
- Fix for IO port space on SN (fixes slow console, return
immediately when probing IO addresses < 64K)
- Fixes to keep hwgraph up to date
- Clean-up/remove early prototype code.
- PCI bridge RRB tweaks
- Support for changing memory protections and registering
nofault ranges.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes.
<spyro@f2s.com>
[PATCH] ARM26 architecture update
<pavel@suse.cz>
[PATCH] suspend SMP-kernel with one CPU
This allows suspend to work on UP machines, even if the kernel
is compiled for SMP.
<drepper@redhat.com>
[PATCH] tgkill patch for safe inter-thread signals
This is the updated versions of the patch Ingo sent some time ago to
implement a new tgkill() syscall which specifies the target thread
without any possibility of ambiguity or thread ID wrap races, by passing
in both the thread group _and_ the thread ID as the arguments.
This is really needed since many/most people still run with limited PID
ranges (maybe due to legacy apps breaking) and the PID reuse can cause
problems.
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
[PATCH] make create() follow symlinks again
The intent patches broke behaviour w.r.t. following symlinks when
doing an open() with file creation. The problem occurs in open_namei()
because the LOOKUP_PARENT flag is no longer set when we do the call to
follow_link().
<rl@hellgate.ch>
[PATCH] via-rhine 1.18-2.5: Fix Rhine-I regression
This patch addresses a minor regression reported by Rhine-I users (leading
to occasional Tx timeouts).
I also merged some cosmetic changes.
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] request_irq() failure resulted in freeing twice
* Bug fix: request_irq() failure resulted in freeing resources twice!
[Don Fry (brazilnut@us.ibm.com)]
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] fix VLAN support on PPC64
* Bug fix: fix VLAN support on PPC64 [Mark Rakes (mrakes@vivato.net)]
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] missing Tx cleanup opportunities during intr handling
* Bug fix: missing Tx cleanup opportunities during interrupt handling.
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] alloc_etherdev failure didn't cleanup regions
* Bug fix: alloc_etherdev failure didn't cleanup regions in probe.
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] ethtool diag cleanup
* Cleanup: ethtool diags: only reset if not if_running.
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] h/w workaround for mis-fused parts
* h/w workaround: several 10's of thousands of 82547 controllers where
mis-fused during manufacturing, resulting in PHY Tx amplitude to be
too high and out of spec. This workaround detects those parts, and
compensates the Tx amplitude by subtracting ~80mV.
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] s/int/unsigned int/ for descriptor ring indexes
* Perf cleanup: s/int/unsigned int/ for descriptor ring indexes
[suggestion by Jeff Garzik].
* Perf cleanup: cache references to ring elements using local pointer
<scott.feldman@intel.com>
[e1000] misc cleanup
* whitespace cleanup
* removal of unused members of netdev priv struct
* extendable arrangement of h/w reset logic
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] 68328 DragenEngine configure updates
Configuration updates for 68328 DragenEngine board. Fix up name
so that it is "DragenEngine" and clean up eeprom read.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] conditional ROMfs copy for SecureEdgeMP3/5307 board
Conditionally copy the ROMfs filesystem on the SecureEdgeMP3/5307
target board only if using a ROMfs.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] DragenEngine interrupt handler to use irqreturn_t
DragenEngine setup code updates:
- Change interrupt handler return type to irqreturn_t
- Allow configure time setting of boot parameters
- Clean up warnings
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] conditional ROMfs copy for NETtel/5307 board
Conditionally copy the ROMfs filesystem on the NETtel/5307
target board only if using a ROMfs.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] fix security_initcall in m68knommu linker script
Global SECURITY_INIT macro cannot be used inside .init section
for m68knommu linker script. It is a complete section of its own,
need to just list the components individually.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] clean module_exit in m68knommu serial drivers
Remove un-used commented module_exit functions from m68knommu
ColdFire and 68328 serial drivers. These drivers currently cannot
be configured as modules, and they have no exit functions.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC64]: Move raid xor into library assembler file.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC64]: Kill all irq_cpustat_t except __softirq_pending.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC64]: Use kstat_this_cpu where possible.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
[IPV6] Fix BUG when appending destination options headers
This patch fixes BUG when pushing IPv6 destination options over an
IPv6 raw socket. Patch is based on one from Thomas Graf <tgr@reeler.org>.
<hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
[PATCH] FAT maintainership
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Avoid deadlocking on thread shutdown after a vfork.
<pavel@ucw.cz>
[PATCH] Fix thinko in acpi
<bernie@develer.com>
[PATCH] Fix problem introduced by do_div() patch
- export the __div64_32 symbol for modules;
- add likely() to the fast path (divisor>>32 == 0);
- add __attribute__((pure)) to __div64_32() prototype so
the compiler knows global memory isn't clobbered;
- avoid building __div64_32() on 64bit architectures.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[SERIAL] Don't return -ERESTARTSYS if signals aren't pending.
<garyhade@us.ibm.com>
[PATCH] ia64: fix for sys32_sysinfo bug
<rddunlap@osdl.org>
[IPV6] use correct mib struct
And spell it correctly :-)
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
[IPSEC]: Do not call request_module() under spinlock in xfrm_get_type().
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] Misc cleanups.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] kobj refcount fixes.
Wait with the destruction of cpufreq objects until all references
are gone (code partly based on rmk's comparable patch for the PCMCIA
subsystem.
From Dominik.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] move cpufreq_restore(), and don't make it dependent on CONFIG_PM
From Dominik.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] don't care about "rmmod -f". It's expected to break things.
More from Dominik
<shaggy@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>
JFS: add nointegrity mount option
This option allows a performance boost by not writing to the journal at the
expense of loss of data integrity if the system crashes or is powered off.
The intended use of this option is to allow faster restores from backup media.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[CPUFREQ] More misc cleanups.
- CPUFREQ_ALL_CPUS is not a valid argument any more, don't mention it
in include/linux/cpufreq.h
- without a driver->init() function a cpufreq driver isn't even
loaded, so remove that check in the per-CPU initialization
- whitespace and clarification changes to linux/cpufreq.
All from Dominik again..
<sandeen@sgi.com>
[XFS] add swsusp support to xfs daemons
SGI Modid: 2.5.x-xfs:slinx:152354a
<lord@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Remove unused xfs_syncd.c file
<lord@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Cleanup xfs and pagebuf sysctl code, use posix initializers to avoid
confusion in the future over which constants apply to which initializers.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Fix IDE initialization when we don't probe for interrupts.
The driver obviously cannot rely on the interrupt handler
when it is probing for interrupts, so the identify code is
written to not use interrupts and the probing code will
disable the interrupt after having figured out which one it
is.
The non-probe code should do the same, otherwise confusion
happens.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Make the gcc version checks use the preprocessor symbols
consistently.
<davidm@tiger.hpl.hp.com>
ia64: Sync up with 2.5.74+.
<shemminger@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Change OSDL address in CREDITS
OSDL is new building as of May-2003
<pavel@ucw.cz>
[PATCH] Fix swsusp with PREEMPT
This fixes swsusp with CONFIG_PREEMPT and makes locking a bit more
obvious.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Update CREDITS file and other documentation about my new email address.
Also, switch the snail-mail address to OSDL from Transmeta. I'm sure
they'll enjoy the junk-mail ;)
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] ia64: Use generic pci_scan_bus()
With the recent changes in 2.5.74-BK, ia64 can now use the
generic pci_scan_bus().
<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
[IPSEC] Fix refcnt leak in xfrm_lookup
This patch fixes a refcnt leak when the policy changes on us in
xfrm_lookup.
<Jean-Luc.Richier@Imag.Fr>
[IPV6] Fix ipv6_addr_prefix() for prefixlen != 0 (mod 8)
<rddunlap@osdl.org>
[NET] Add MODULE_LICENSE (GPL) to wanroutrer so that kernel is not tainted
<vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
[IPV6] fix a dst leakage and clean-up in tcp_v6_connect()
<shemminger@osdl.org>
[NET]: PPP handling fragmented skbuffs.
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
[TCP]: Delete obsolete comment.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[TCP]: Initialize socket route on move to established state.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[TCP]: Eliminate spurious CWND restart on every new connection.
<vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
[NET]: Fix tunnel device bugs added by alloc_netdev() changes.
<vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
[IPV6]: Fix DST handling bug in ip6ip6_err().
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SUNHME]: Set RXMAX/TXMAX large enough to handle VLAN frames.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Fix up the IDE irq disable to take into account some
odd-ball IDE controllers without a control register.
(Apparently Amiga X-Surf and Amiga Gayle with IDE doubler)
Also, clean up the code a bit while I'm at it.
<vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
[IPV6]: Convert ip6ip6 tunnel driver to alloc_netdev().
<tgraf@suug.ch>
[NET]: Make {send,recv}msg return EMSGSIZE when msg_iovelen is too big, as per 1003.1
<mikael.starvik@axis.com>
[PATCH] CRIS architecture update for 2.5.74
This brings the chris architecture up to date with 2.5.
The patch is huge because files have been moved to prepare
for future subarchitechtures.
<levon@movementarian.org>
[PATCH] OProfile: __exit fixes
oprofile_arch_exit() can be called from an __init routine now. Remove the remaining
incorrect __exit markers.
<levon@movementarian.org>
[PATCH] OProfile: needed fix to IO-APIC timer
Critical fix to the IO-APIC timer support. By Zwane Mwaikambo.
<levon@movementarian.org>
[PATCH] OProfile: fix a comment
Reflect Intel manual bugfix, by Philippe Elie
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] fix return type of m68knommu timer handler to be irqreturn_t
Fix return type of m68knommu timer interrupt handler to be irqreturn_t.
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] fix interrupt handler passed as arg to return irqreturn_t
Fix arg passing of interrupt handler to return irqreturn_t in
ColdFire PIT timer initialization..
<gerg@snapgear.com>
[PATCH] use irqreturn_t in ColdFire interrupt setup code
Update ColdFire interrupt setup code to return irqreturn_t from
interrupt handlers.
<davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
[PATCH] Use ".incbin" for initramfs image build
This makes initramfs use ".incbin" to include a binary blob into the
object file, instead of using LDFLAGS_BLOB, which isn't supported on all
architectures.
This will require reasonably modern binutils, but is portable.
This is the last thing that keeps the standard tree from building
directly for ia64.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Fix mailer-induced corruption in initramfs build rules
<elenstev@mesatop.com>
[PATCH] update Documentation/Changes, scripts/ver_linux
Add a section about quota-tools in the Changes and version docs.
<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Linux 2.5.75
Making ready for the pre-2.6.x series ...
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