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2006-11-25Linux 2.6.16.34-rc1v2.6.16.34-rc1Adrian Bunk
2006-11-25[ALSA] echoaudio - Remove kfree_nocheck()Takashi Iwai
Remove obsoleted kfree_nochec() (for debug). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25[ALSA] echoaudio - Fix MakefileTakashi Iwai
Fix missing makefile entries for echoaudio drivers Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25[ALSA] Fix a typo in echoaudio/midi.cTakashi Iwai
Fixed a typo in echoaudio/midi.c. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25[ALSA] Add echoaudio sound driversGiuliano Pochini pochini@shiny.it
Add echoaudio sound drivers (darla20, darla24, echo3g, gina20, gina24, indigo, indigodj, indigoio, layla20, lala24, mia, mona) Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25CIFS: report rename failure when target file is locked by WindowsSteve French
Fixes Samba bugzilla bug # 4182 Rename by handle failures (retry after rename by path) were not being returned back. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25i2c: Handle i2c_add_adapter failure in i2c algorithm driversMark M. Hoffman
It is possible for i2c_add_adapter() to fail. Several I2C algorithm drivers ignore that fact. This (compile-tested only) patch fixes them. Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25[IGMP]: Fix IGMPV3_EXP() normalization bit shift value.David L Stevens
The IGMPV3_EXP() macro doesn't correctly shift the normalization bit, so time-out values are longer than they should be. Thanks to Dirk Ooms for finding the problem in IGMPv3 - MLDv2 had a similar problem that was already fixed a year ago. :-( Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25USB: UHCI: Increase port-reset completion delay for HP controllersAlan Stern
This patch (as657) increases the port-reset completion delay in uhci-hcd for HP's embedded controllers. Unlike other UHCI controllers, the HP chips can take as long as 250 us to carry out the processing associated with finishing a port reset. This fixes Novell bug #148761. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[SCSI] hptiop: backout ioctl messChristoph Hellwig
The hptiop just got merged with a horrible amount of really bad ioctl code that is against the standards for new scsi drivers. This patch backs it out (and fixes a small bug where scsi_add_host is called to early). We can re-add proper APIs once we agree on them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[SCSI] hptiop: wrong register used in hptiop_reset_hba()HighPoint Linux Team
IOP reset message should be posted to inbound message register instead of outbound message register. Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[SCSI] hptiop: don't use cmnd->bufflenJames Bottomley
use cmnd->request_bufflen instead. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[SCSI] hptiop: HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx controller driverHighPoint Linux Team
Updates: - don't bypass SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command - return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY when no free request slots - move scsi_remove_host() to the begin of hpt_remove(), or it will not work after resources being released. Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[SCSI] hptiop: HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx controller driverHighPoint Linux Team
HighPoint RocketRAID 3220/3320 series 8 channel PCI-X SATA RAID Host Adapters. Fixes from original submission: Merge Andrew Morton's patches: - Provide locking for global list - Fix debug printks - uninline function with multiple callsites - coding style fixups - remove unneeded casts of void* - kfree(NULL) is legal - Don't "succeed" if register_chrdev() failed - otherwise we'll later unregister a not-registered chrdev. - Don't return from hptiop_do_ioctl() with the spinlock held. - uninline __hpt_do_ioctl() Update for Arjan van de Ven's comments: - put all asm/ includes after the linux/ ones - replace mdelay with msleep - add pci posting flush - do not set pci command reqister in map_pci_bar - do not try merging sg elements in hptiop_buildsgl() - remove unused outstandingcommands member from hba structure - remove unimplemented hptiop_abort() handler - remove typedef u32 hpt_id_t Other updates: - fix endianess Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24update the OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER help textAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24sysfs: remove duplicated dput in sysfs_update_fileHidetoshi Seto
Following function can drops d_count twice against one reference by lookup_one_len. <SOURCE> /** * sysfs_update_file - update the modified timestamp on an object attribute. * @kobj: object we're acting for. * @attr: attribute descriptor. */ int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr) { struct dentry * dir = kobj->dentry; struct dentry * victim; int res = -ENOENT; mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); victim = lookup_one_len(attr->name, dir, strlen(attr->name)); if (!IS_ERR(victim)) { /* make sure dentry is really there */ if (victim->d_inode && (victim->d_parent->d_inode == dir->d_inode)) { victim->d_inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME; fsnotify_modify(victim); /** * Drop reference from initial sysfs_get_dentry(). */ dput(victim); res = 0; } else d_drop(victim); /** * Drop the reference acquired from sysfs_get_dentry() above. */ dput(victim); } mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); return res; } </SOURCE> PCI-hotplug (drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c) is only user of this function. I confirmed that dentry of /sys/bus/pci/slots/XXX/* have negative d_count value. This patch removes unnecessary dput(). Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24fix sys_getppid oopses on debug kernelKirill Korotaev
sys_getppid() optimization can access a freed memory. On kernels with DEBUG_SLAB turned ON, this results in Oops. As Dave Hansen noted, this optimization is also unsafe for memory hotplug. So this patch always takes the lock to be safe. Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[IPX]: Annotate and fix IPX checksumAl Viro
Calculation of IPX checksum got buggered about 2.4.0. The old variant mangled the packet; that got fixed, but calculation itself got buggered. Restored the correct logics, fixed a subtle breakage we used to have even back then: if the sum is 0 mod 0xffff, we want to return 0, not 0xffff. The latter has special meaning for IPX (cheksum disabled). Observation (and obvious fix) nicked from history of FreeBSD ipx_cksum.c... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[IPX]: Fix typo, ipxhdr() --> ipx_hdr()David S. Miller
Noticed by Dave Jones. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[IPX]: Another nonlinear receive fixStephen Hemminger
Need to check some more cases in IPX receive. If the skb is purely fragments, the IPX header needs to be extracted. The function pskb_may_pull() may in theory invalidate all the pointers in the skb, so references to ipx header must be refreshed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[IPX]: Header length validation neededStephen Hemminger
This patch will linearize and check there is enough data. It handles the pprop case as well as avoiding a whole audit of the routing code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24[IPX]: Correct return type of ipx_map_frame_type().Alexey Dobriyan
Casting BE16 to int and back may or may not work. Correct, to be sure. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-24Fix i2c-ixp4xx compilation breakageJean Delvare
Fix recent i2c-ixp4xx compilation breakage. Sorry for overlooking it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-23[SCSI] advansys pci tweaks.Adrian Bunk
Remove a lot of duplicate #defines from the advansys driver, and make them look like PCI IDs as defined elsewhere in the kernel. Also add a module table so that it automatically gets picked up by tools relying on modinfo output (like say, distro installers). Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-23advansys section fixesRandy Dunlap
Priority: not critical. Mark 3 functions __init. Saves a little memory. This makes these functions' calls to AdvWaitEEPCmd() (which is __init) be clean (i.e., eliminates text -> init -> text call chain). Fix multiple section mismatch warnings: WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7a22) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7a4e) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7a79) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7aa2) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet3550EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7abb) and 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7ae0) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b0c) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b37) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b60) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C0800EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b79) and 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7b9e) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7bca) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7bf5) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7c1e) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue' WARNING: drivers/scsi/advansys.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'AdvSet38C1600EEPConfig' (at offset 0x7c37) and 'AdvExeScsiQueue' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-23[SCSI] advansys driver: limp along on x86Linus Torvalds
Let people enable the advansys driver on x86-32, even though it's broken on other architectures due to missing DMA mapping infrastructure. It's used by Jeffrey Phillips Freeman <jeffreyfreeman@syncleus.com> and possibly others. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-23i2c-ixp4xx: fix ") != 0))" typoAlexey Dobriyan
i2c_bit_add_bus() returns -E; -E != 0 => err = 1 probe fails with positive error code Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-22Linux 2.6.16.33v2.6.16.33Adrian Bunk
2006-11-20Linux 2.6.16.33-rc1v2.6.16.33-rc1Adrian Bunk
2006-11-20POWERPC: Make alignment exception always check exception tableBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The alignment exception used to only check the exception table for -EFAULT, not for other errors. That opens an oops window if we can coerce the kernel into getting an alignment exception for other reasons in what would normally be a user-protected accessor, which can be done via some of the futex ops. This fixes it by always checking the exception tables. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20Add new PHY to sis900 supported listDaniele Venzano
This patch adds support for a new PHY to the sis900 driver. See also Bugzilla 6919. Signed-off-by: Daniele Venzano <venza@brownhat.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20sis900 adm7001 PHY supportArtur Skawina
this patch is required to get a SIS964 based motherboard ethernet working (FSC D1875) (picking the #1 transceiver, instead of the last one, in case no known ones were found might be a better default, and would have worked in this case too) Signed-off-by: Artur Skawina <art_k@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20Old IDE, fix SATA detection for cablingMichael-Luke Jones
This patch is identical to that introduced in 1a1276e7b6cba549553285f74e87f702bfff6fac to the Linus' 2.6 development tree by Alan Cox. 'This is based on the proposed patches flying around but also checks that the device in question is new enough to have word 93 rather thanb blindly assuming word 93 == 0 means SATA (see ATA-5, ATA-7)' -- Alan Cox Required for my SATA drive on an Asus Pundit-R to operate above 33MBps. Signed-off-by: Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20Fix BeFS slab corruptionDiego Calleja
In bugzilla #6941, Jens Kilian reported: "The function befs_utf2nls (in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c) writes a 0 byte past the end of a block of memory allocated via kmalloc(), leading to memory corruption. This happens only for filenames which are pure ASCII and a multiple of 4 bytes in length. [...] Without DEBUG_SLAB, this leads to further corruption and hard lockups; I believe this is the bug which has made kernels later than 2.6.8 unusable for me. (This must be due to changes in memory management, the bug has been in the BeFS driver since the time it was introduced (AFAICT).) Steps to reproduce: Create a directory (in BeOS, naturally :-) with files named, e.g., "1", "22", "333", "4444", ... Mount it in Linux and do an "ls" or "find"" This patch implements the suggested fix. Credits to Jens Kilian for debugging the problem and finding the right fix. Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20V4L/DVB: Saa7134: rename dmasound_{init,exit}Adrian Bunk
Two different exports with the same name are not a good idea: $ grep -r EXPORT_SYMBOL\(dmasound_init\) * drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-core.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmasound_init); sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_core.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmasound_init); $ This patch renames the saa7134 dmasound_{init,exit} to saa7134_dmasound_{init,exit}. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20[RTNETLINK]: Fix IFLA_ADDRESS handling.David Miller
The ->set_mac_address handlers expect a pointer to a sockaddr which contains the MAC address, whereas IFLA_ADDRESS provides just the MAC address itself. So whip up a sockaddr to wrap around the netlink attribute for the ->set_mac_address call. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20drivers/scsi/psi240i.c: fix an array overrunAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes an array overrun spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20[TG3]: Fix array overrun in tg3_read_partno().Michael Chan
Use proper upper limits for the loops and check for all error conditions. The problem was noticed by Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-20disable debugging version of write_lock()Andrew Morton
We've confirmed that the debug version of write_lock() can get stuck for long enough to cause NMI watchdog timeouts and hence a crash. We don't know why, yet. Disable it for now. Also disable the similar read_lock() code. Just in case. Thanks to Dave Olson <olson@unixfolk.com> for reporting and testing. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-17Fix timer race in dst GC codeDmitry Mishin
Replace add_timer() by mod_timer() in dst_run_gc in order to avoid BUG message. CPU1 CPU2 dst_run_gc() entered dst_run_gc() entered spin_lock(&dst_lock) ..... del_timer(&dst_gc_timer) fail to get lock .... mod_timer() <--- puts timer back to the list add_timer(&dst_gc_timer) <--- BUG because timer is in list already. Found during OpenVZ internal testing. At first we thought that it is OpenVZ specific as we added dst_run_gc(0) call in dst_dev_event(), but as Alexey pointed to me it is possible to trigger this condition in mainstream kernel. F.e. timer has fired on CPU2, but the handler was preeempted by an irq before dst_lock is tried. Meanwhile, someone on CPU1 adds an entry to gc list and starts the timer. If CPU2 was preempted long enough, this timer can expire simultaneously with resuming timer handler on CPU1, arriving exactly to the situation described. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-17ext3 -nobh option causes oopsBadari Pulavarty
For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense. Modifications to them are journalled and needs buffer heads to do that. Without this patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers(). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-17ipmi_si_intf.c: fix "&& 0xff" typosAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-17security/seclvl.c: fix time wrap (CVE-2005-4352)Adrian Bunk
initlvl=2 in seclvl gives the guarantee "Cannot decrement the system time". But it was possible to set the time to the maximum unixtime value (19 Jan 2038) resulting in a wrap to the minimum value. This patch fixes this by disallowing setting the time to any date after 2030 with initlvl=2. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-17synclink_gt fix receive tty error handlingPaul Fulghum
Fix receive tty error handling in synclink_gt driver. Adrian reported compiler warning for incorrect bit test against char variable. I determined these and other device specific error bits were incorrectly defined. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-15fix via586 irq routing for pirq 5Daniel Ritz
fix interrput routing for via 586 bridges. pirq can be 5 which needs to be mapped to INTD. but currently the access functions can handle only pirq 1-4. this is similar to the other via chipsets where pirq 4 and 5 are both mapped to INTD. fixes bugzilla #7490 Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-15sata_promise: Support FastTrak TX4300/TX4310Daniel Drake
This patch adds support for the Promise FastTrak TX4300/TX4310 4-port PCI SATA controllers based on the PDC40719 chip. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-15Reduce ACPI verbosity on null handle conditionBob Moore
As detailed at http://bugs.gentoo.org/131534 : 2.6.16 converted many ACPI debug messages into error or warning messages. One extraneous message was incorrectly converted, resulting in logs being flooded by "Handle is NULL and Pathname is relative" messages on some systems. This patch (part of a larger ACPICA commit) converts the message back to debug level. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-15Linux 2.6.16.32v2.6.16.32Adrian Bunk
2006-11-11Linux 2.6.16.32-rc1v2.6.16.32-rc1Adrian Bunk
2006-11-11Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the schedulerChristoph Lameter
The scheduler will stop load balancing if the most busy processor contains processes pinned via processor affinity. The scheduler currently only does one search for busiest cpu. If it cannot pull any tasks away from the busiest cpu because they were pinned then the scheduler goes into a corner and sulks leaving the idle processors idle. F.e. If you have processor 0 busy running four tasks pinned via taskset, there are none on processor 1 and one just started two processes on processor 2 then the scheduler will not move one of the two processes away from processor 2. This patch fixes that issue by forcing the scheduler to come out of its corner and retrying the load balancing by considering other processors for load balancing. This patch was originally developed by John Hawkes and discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113901368523205&w=2. I have removed extraneous material and gone back to equipping struct rq with the cpu the queue is associated with since this makes the patch much easier and it is likely that others in the future will have the same difficulty of figuring out which processor owns which runqueue. The overhead added through these patches is a single word on the stack if the kernel is configured to support 32 cpus or less (32 bit). For 32 bit environments the maximum number of cpus that can be configued is 255 which would result in the use of 32 bytes additional on the stack. On IA64 up to 1k cpus can be configured which will result in the use of 128 additional bytes on the stack. The maximum additional cache footprint is one cacheline. Typically memory use will be much less than a cacheline and the additional cpumask will be placed on the stack in a cacheline that already contains other local variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>