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2006-03-24Fix simple typosAndrzej Zaborowski
This corrects some trivial errors in ARM docs and comments, Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24tabify drivers/char/MakefileJim Cromie
this trivial patch tabifies drivers/char/Makefile for readability. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24Re-alphabetize a couple MAINTANTER entries.Jim Cromie
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] libata: Remove dependence on host_set->dev for SAS [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_ioctl cleanup [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_queuecmd cleanup [libata] export ata_dev_pair; trim trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add ata_dev_pair helper [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE. [PATCH] libata: make ata_set_mode() responsible for failure handling [PATCH] libata: use ata_dev_disable() in ata_bus_probe() [PATCH] libata: implement ata_dev_disable() [PATCH] libata: check if port is disabled after internal command [PATCH] libata: make per-dev transfer mode limits per-dev [PATCH] libata: add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_mask [PATCH] libata: implement ata_unpack_xfermask() [libata] Move some bmdma-specific code to libata-bmdma.c [libata sata_uli] kill scr_addr abuse [libata sata_nv] eliminate duplicate codepaths with iomap [libata sata_nv] cleanups: convert #defines to enums; remove in-file history [libata sata_sil24] cleanups: use pci_iomap(), kzalloc()
2006-03-24[PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=nAndrew Morton
uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper are only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, CONFIG_NET=n. (I stole this back from Greg's tree - it makes allnoconfig work). Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] strndup_user: convert keyctlDavi Arnaut
Copies user-space string with strndup_user() and moves the type string duplication code to a function (thus fixing a wrong check on the length of the type.) Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] strndup_user: convert moduleDavi Arnaut
Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user. Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] strndup_user()Davi Arnaut
This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings from userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the final \0 after the strlen_user(). Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanupsIngo Molnar
Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task. (the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup phase and does small style fixes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()Sergey Vlasov
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain, __set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference acquired by lookup_exec_domain(). Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] ext3: Properly report backup block present in a groupGlauber de Oliveira Costa
In filesystems with the meta block group flag on, ext3_bg_num_gdb() fails to report the correct number of blocks used to store the group descriptor backups in a given group. It happens because meta_bg follows a different logic from the original ext3 backup placement in groups multiples of 3, 5 and 7. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return valueAndrew Morton
Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when it should. I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x.. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limitAndrew Morton
At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero seconds. But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does. Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead of overloading the value of it_prof_expires). Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's zero-seconds as one second. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanupAndrew Morton
- Whitespace cleanups - Make that expression comprehensible. There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison between raw cputime_t's. But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change anything. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock exportChristoph Hellwig
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock. The only possibly modular users left are: arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c drivers/edac/edac_mc.c fs/binfmt_elf.c which I'll send out fixes for soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (2 of 2)Alan Cox
- Remove more unused headers - Remove various typedefs - Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong) - Kill use of bcopy - More printk cleanups - Kill true/false - Clean up direct access to pci BARs Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (1 of 2)Alan Cox
- Remove more unused headers - Remove various typedefs - Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong) - Kill use of bcopy - More printk cleanups - Kill true/false - Clean up direct access to pci BARs Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #5Alan Cox
Final polish. There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left. We also no longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #4Alan Cox
Third large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #3Alan Cox
Second large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #2Alan Cox
First large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rio driver rework continued #1Alan Cox
More header cleanups, strip out typedefs and remove cruft. There are a lot of magic macros that can go and also a great deal of abuse of volatile that is not needed any more as this patch set cleans up the misuse of pointer access to ISA and PCI space. It now builds cleanly on 64bit, although there is more work left to do Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rioboot: post-LindentAlan Cox
After the indent we can now clean up unused code, and fix all myriad cases that don't use readb/writeb properly. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rioboot: lindentAlan Cox
This is the result of indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] rio: more header cleanupAlan Cox
Strip some of the typedef mess out Remove a small subset of unused defines and the like. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Fix "value computed not used" warningsTakashi Iwai
Fixes for annoying gcc-4.1 compile warnings "value computed not used". Simply cast to void. (akpm: Linus will go ballistic...) Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread exportChristoph Hellwig
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year, after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan to do over the next month. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operationsKumar Gala
In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] show MCP menu only on ARCH_SA1100Adrian Bunk
On architectures like i386, the "Multimedia Capabilities Port drivers" menu is visible, but it can't be visited since it contains nothing usable for !ARCH_SA1100. This patch therefore shows this menu only on ARCH_SA1100. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Conditionalize compat_sys_newfstatatKyle McMartin
If we don't want sys_newfstatat because __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined, then we certainly don't want compat_sys_newfstatat either. Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] console_setup() depends (wrongly?) on CONFIG_PRINTKJohn Z. Bohach
It appears that console_setup() code only gets compiled into the kernel if CONFIG_PRINTK is enabled. One detrimental side-effect of this is that serial8250_console_setup() never gets invoked when CONFIG_PRINTK is not set, resulting in baud rate not being read/parsed from command line (i.e. console=ttyS0,115200n8 is ignored, at least the baud rate part...) Attached patch moves console_setup() code from inside #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK to outside (in printk.c), removing dependence on said config. option. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txtNico Schottelius
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2, which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot. This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions available of loading the kernel and passing parameters. Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] mmc: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driverPierre Ossman
Driver for the Secure Digital Host Controller Interface specification. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regsPierre Ossman
Class code and register definitions for the Secure Digital Host Controller standard. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync()Andrew Morton
No need to duplicate all that code. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] fsync: extract internal codeAndrew Morton
Pull the guts out of do_fsync() - we can use it elsewhere. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] msync: fix return valueAndrew Morton
msync() does a strange thing. Essentially: vma = find_vma(); for ( ; ; ) { if (!vma) return -ENOMEM; ... vma = vma->vm_next; } so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM. Fix. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncingAndrew Morton
It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O. Alter the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levellingAndrew Morton
It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixesAndrew Morton
We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state. This wasn't right in a couple of places. Do a kernel-wide audit, fix things up. This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from set_page_dirty() sometime in the future. But we don't do that at present. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages argAndrew Morton
Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument. For msync(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] HOTPLUG_CPU: avoid hitting too many cachelines in recalc_bh_state()Eric Dumazet
Instead of using for_each_cpu(i), we can use for_each_online_cpu(i). When a CPU goes offline (ie removed from online map), it might have a non null bh_accounting.nr, so this patch adds a transfer of this counter to an online CPU counter. We already have a hotcpu_notifier, (function buffer_cpu_notify()), where we can do this bh_accounting. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] sound: remove PC98-specific OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98Arthur Othieno
OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98 #define isn't used anywhere; previously in sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_lib.c and sound/isa/cs423x/pc98.c, the latter of which went away with the rest of PC98 subarch. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] block: floppy98 removal, really.Arthur Othieno
floppy98 went out together with the rest of PC98 subarch. Remove stale Makefile entry that remained. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] shmdt: check address alignmentHugh Dickins
SUSv3 says the shmdt() function shall fail with EINVAL if the value of shmaddr is not the data segment start address of a shared memory segment: our sys_shmdt needs to reject a shmaddr which is not page-aligned. Does it have the potential to break existing apps? Hugh says "sys_shmdt() just does the wrong (unexpected) thing with a misaligned address: it'll fail on what you might expect it to succeed on, and only succeed on what it should definitely fail on. "That is, I think it behaves as if shmaddr gets rounded up, when the only understandable behaviour would be if it rounded it down. "Which does mean you'd have to be devious to see anything but EINVAL from a misaligned shmaddr there, so it's not terribly important." Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] sb_set_blocksize cleanupCoywolf Qi Hunt
sb_set_blocksize() cleanup: make sb_set_blocksize() use blksize_bits(). Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] early_printk: cleanup trailiing whitespaceRandy Dunlap
Remove all trailing tabs and spaces. No other changes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] fadvise(): write commandsAndrew Morton
Add two new linux-specific fadvise extensions(): LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. Any pages which are currently under writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. By combining these two operations the application may do several things: LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been written. It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data will be available after a crash. To complete this suite of operations I guess we should have a "sync file metadata only" operation. This gives applications access to all the building blocks needed for all sorts of sync operations. But sync-metadata doesn't fit well with the fadvise() interface. Probably it should be a new syscall: sys_fmetadatasync(). The patch also diddles with the meaning of `endbyte' in sys_fadvise64_64(). It is made to represent that last affected byte in the file (ie: it is inclusive). Generally, all these byterange and pagerange functions are inclusive so we can easily represent EOF with -1. As Ulrich notes, these two functions are somewhat abusive of the fadvise() concept, which appears to be "set the future policy for this fd". But these commands are a perfect fit with the fadvise() impementation, and several of the existing fadvise() commands are synchronous and don't affect future policy either. I think we can live with the slight incongruity. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] filemap_fdatawrite_range() api: clarify -end parameterAndrew Morton
I had trouble understanding working out whether filemap_fdatawrite_range()'s `end' parameter describes the last-byte-to-be-written or the last-plus-one. Clarify that in comments. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFOJan Beulich
As a foundation for reliable stack unwinding, this adds a config option (available to all architectures except IA64 and those where the module loader might have problems with the resulting relocations) to enable the generation of frame unwind information. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>