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Ok, a lot of things were pending after the 2.6.12 release, let's try to
start calming things down again.
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This crept in with the resync-to-mainline. Nothing uses 802.11-crypt in
mainline, so we can safely comment it out for now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds the SiS 760 ID to the amd64-agp driver, so that agpgart can be
used on Athlon64 boards based on this chip.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Something reverted most of the arch/sparc/Kconfig changes, leaving
arch/sparc/ unconfigurable. This patch re-removes the parts made redundant
by drivers/Kconfig in addition to a mysterious, spurious second instance of
source "mm/Kconfig". cvs strikes again?
Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches}
- update LANANA info.
- fix some typos
- update 2.2 kernel maintainer info.
- update 'dontdiff' info.
- update URLs for patch scripts
- add Trivial Patch Monkey URL
- add more references for submitting patches
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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New cards included.
V4L1 api renamed. Message included informing it is obsoleted by V4L2 API.
V4L2 api included.
Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.
Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>.
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add Philips Webcam format.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>.
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* bttv-driver.c, bttvp.h:
- New bttv module params:
- uv_ratio : allow a ratio of saturation between u and v. If you
have a ratio of 40 and a saturation of 100, usat will be 80 and
vstat 120. Useful to correct a bad color balance.
- full_luma_range : provide a better contrast in using the full
range 0-253 of values instead of 16-253.
- coring : to have a better black level.
- radio range is now defined on tuner-core.c. Cleaning up.
* bttvp.h:
- Fix gcc 4.0 compilation
Signed-off-by: Jorik Jonker <jorik@dnd.utwente.nl>
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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*tuner-core.c:
- some tuner_info msgs will be generated only if insmod opt
tuner_debug enabled.
- Implemented tuner-core support for VIDIO_S_TUNER to allow
changing mono/stereo mode
- Remove unneeded config options.
- I2C_CLIENT_MULTI option removed.
- support for Philips FMD12ME hybrid tuner
- allow to initialize with another tuner
- Move PHILIPS_FMD initialization code to set_type function,
* tda8290:
- Fix dumb error in tda8290 tunning.
- Radio tuner uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
*tea5767.c:
- tuner_info msgs will be generated only if insmod tuner option
tuner_debug enabled.
- some cleanups for better reading.
- Radio tuner uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
- Changing radio mode stereo/mono for tea5767 working.
*tuner-simple.c:
- TNF9533-D/IF UHF fixup.
- Radio tuners now uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
*mt20xx.c:
- Radio tuner uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
*tda9887.c:
- tab and blank spaces corrections.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch updates maintainer info for BTTV and V4L.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Acked-by: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options. Its effectiveness
varies we've found in the Fedora case. Quite a few systems with misdescribed
IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll. It also fixes up the VIA systems
although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default
as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically).
A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause
an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for. In those cases it
doesn't help.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently in ext3 block reservation code, the global filesystem reservation
tree lock (rsv_block) is hold during the process of searching for a space
to make a new reservation window, including while scaning the block bitmap
to verify if the avalible window has a free block. Holding the lock during
bitmap scan is unnecessary and could possibly cause scalability issue and
latency issues.
This patch tries to address this by dropping the lock before scan the
bitmap. Before that we need to reserve the open window in case someone
else is targetting at the same window. Question was should we reserve the
whole free reservable space or just the window size we need. Reserve the
whole free reservable space will possibly force other threads which
intended to do block allocation nearby move to another block group(cause
bad layout). In this patch, we just reserve the desired size before drop
the lock and scan the block bitmap. This patch fixed a ext3 reservation
latency issue seen on a cvs check out test. Patch is tested with many fsx,
tiobench, dbench and untar a kernel test.
Signed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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get_io_context needlessly turned off interrupts and checked for racing io
context creations. Both of which aren't needed, because the io context can
only be created while in process context of the current process.
Also, split the function in 2. A light version, current_io_context does not
elevate the reference count specifically, but can be used when in process
context, because the process holds a reference itself.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Change around locking a bit for a result of 1-2 less spin lock unlock pairs in
request submission paths.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the case where the request is not able to be merged by the elevator, don't
retake the lock and retry the merge mechanism after allocating a new request.
Instead assume that the chance of a merge remains slim, and now that we've
done most of the work allocating a request we may as well just go with it.
Also be rid of the GFP_ATOMIC allocation: we've got working mempools for the
block layer now, so let's save atomic memory for things like networking.
Lastly, in get_request_wait, do an initial get_request call before going into
the waitqueue. This is reported to help efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We add a check of the return value of tty_ldisc_ref(), which
is checked 7 out of 8 times, e.g.:
149 ld = tty_ldisc_ref(tty);
150 if (ld != NULL) {
151 if (ld->set_termios)
152 (ld->set_termios)(tty, &old_termios);
153 tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
154 }
This defect was found automatically by Coverity Prevent, a static analysis
tool.
(akpm: presumably `ld' is never NULL. Oh well)
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.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>
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The return value of "match_int" is checked 27 out of 28 times
In lib/parser.c
142 /**
143 * match_int: - scan a decimal representation of an integer from a substring_t
144 * @s: substring_t to be scanned
145 * @result: resulting integer on success
146 *
147 * Description: Attempts to parse the &substring_t @s as a decimal integer. On
148 * success, sets @result to the integer represented by the string and returns 0.
149 * Returns either -ENOMEM or -EINVAL on failure.
150 */
151 int match_int(substring_t *s, int *result)
152 {
153 return match_number(s, result, 0);
154 }
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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"dir" was dereferenced before null check
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We fix the check in 1084, which was
1084 if (addr->channel > IPMI_NUM_CHANNELS) {
1085 spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->counter_lock, flags);
1086 intf->sent_invalid_commands++;
1087 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->counter_lock, flags);
1088 rv = -EINVAL;
1089 goto out_err;
1090 }
addr->channel is used in
1092 if (intf->channels[addr->channel].medium
Definitions involved:
221 struct ipmi_channel channels[IPMI_MAX_CHANNELS];
134 #define IPMI_MAX_CHANNELS 8
In /linux-2.6.12-rc6/include/linux/ipmi.h
148 #define IPMI_NUM_CHANNELS 0x10
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The check in
627 BUG_ON(index > SG_MEMPOOL_NR);
with SG_MEMPOOL_NR defined in
32 #define SG_MEMPOOL_NR (sizeof(scsi_sg_pools)/sizeof(struct scsi_host_sg_pool))
was not sufficient.
sgp, set in
629 sgp = scsi_sg_pools + index;
is dereferenced in
630 mempool_free(sgl, sgp->pool);
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Variable "c" was declared as an unsigned int, but used in:
125 for (i=0 ; (c=read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)))>0 ; i+=c )
126 if (write(1, buf, c) != c)
127 die("Write call failed");
(akpm: read() can return -1. If it does, we fill the disk up with garbage).
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch for usb_ch9.h includes linux/types.h instead of asm/types.h so that
__le16 and so on is explicitly defined. It also cleans up non standard //
comment.
Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch lets i2c-dev.h include linux/compiler.h so that __user is defined.
Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch cleans up asm-ppc64/byteorder.h to enable ___arch__swab16 and
___arch__swab32 which are marked TODO currently. It removes ___arch__swab64
because ppc64 does not have short instruction combinations for swab64, the
recent gcc generates enough smart code that is equivalent to hand assembled
code under my tests.
Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the case of buffered AIO, in the aio retry path (aio_run_iocb), when the
retry method returns EIOCBRETRY the kicked iocb is added to the context run
list but is never queued onto the work queue. The request therefore is
never completed.
This patch fixes that by adding the appropriate call to aio_queue_work in
aio_run_aiocb so that subsequent retries will be handled by the aio worker
thread.
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Looks like it sneaked back with the NFS ACL merge..
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch makes some needlessly global code static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In file included from drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_hw.c:38:
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:96: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:110: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_v4l.c:36:
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:96: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:110: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_av.c:37:
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:96: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:110: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c:719:4: warning: #warning TODO test headroom or use skb->nb to flag ACK
In file included from drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_ca.c:39:
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:96: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:110: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c:41:
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:96: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h:110: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
Does declaring a function to return a const value actually mean something to
gcc?
Dunno. Kill it and replace sone `__inline__'s with `inline' too.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc4s8s_l1.c:317: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc4s8s_l1.c:329: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Avoid race occurs when some process have open file descriptor for class
device attributes and already firmware allocated memory are freed. Don't
allow negative loading timeout.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw W. Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This code uses the x86 (non-AMD-ELAN) value of CLOCK_TICK_RATE instead of
CLOCK_TICK_RATE itself, which is wrong for other archs.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Colbus <emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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As Steven Rostedt pointed out, there are 2 problems with ITIMER_REAL
timers.
1. do_setitimer() does not call del_timer_sync() in case
when the timer is not pending (it_real_value() returns 0).
This is wrong, the timer may still be running, and it can
rearm itself.
2. It calls del_timer_sync() with tsk->sighand->siglock held.
This is deadlockable, because timer's handler needs this
lock too.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix the same typo in the ixp4xx and ixp2000 watchdog drivers.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh+lkml@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the setup function, the delay variable is initialized with ints[2],
but ints is declared as:
int ints[2];
Since the module parameter should correspond to:
tipar=timeout,delay
I suppose that the following patch fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@looxix.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Use msleep() in a few places.
Signed-off-by: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This up() should be down() instead.
Signed-off-by: Wen-chien Jesse Sung <jesse@cola.voip.idv.tw>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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For msleep_interruptible().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In 2.6.12 we started dropping the conntrack reference when a packet
leaves the IP layer. This broke connection tracking on a bridge,
because bridge-netfilter defers calling some NF_IP_* hooks to the bridge
layer for locally generated packets going out a bridge, where the
conntrack reference is no longer available. This patch keeps the
reference in this case as a temporary solution, long term we will
remove the defered hook calling. No attempt is made to drop the
reference in the bridge-code when it is no longer needed, tc actions
could already have sent the packet anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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linux/etherdevice.h can't be included standalone at the moment, which
is required in order to sort the header files in the recommended
alphabetic order. This patch fixes that and is needed to build spider_net.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove two more unused IPV6_AUTHHDR option things,
which I failed to remove them last time,
plus, mark IPV6_AUTHHDR obsolete.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In an smp system, it is possible for an connection timer to expire, calling
ip_vs_conn_expire while the connection table is being flushed, before
ct_write_lock_bh is acquired.
Since the list iterator loop in ip_vs_con_flush releases and re-acquires the
spinlock (even though it doesn't re-enable softirqs), it is possible for the
expiration function to modify the connection list, while it is being traversed
in ip_vs_conn_flush.
The result is that the next pointer gets set to NULL, and subsequently
dereferenced, resulting in an oops.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: JulianAnastasov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily.
In these situations, the code roughly looks like:
dev = dev_alloc_skb(...);
[optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...);
... skb->tail ...
But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals
skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything
other than skb->data in these cases.
Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with
the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted
to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed
to do instead.
Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB
cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups,
skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and
replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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This should help up the insertion... but the resize is more crucial.
and complex and needs some thinking.
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch tweaks idle thread setup semantics a bit: instead of setting
NEED_RESCHED in init_idle(), we do an explicit schedule() before calling
into cpu_idle().
This patch, while having no negative side-effects, enables wider use of
cond_resched()s. (which might happen in the stock kernel too, but it's
particulary important for voluntary-preempt)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently we cap request allocations at q->nr_requests, but we allow a
batching io context to allocate up to 32 more (default setting). This
can flood the queue with request allocations, with only a few batching
processes. The real fix would be to limit the number of batchers, but
as that isn't currently tracked, I suggest we just cap the maximum
number of allocated requests to eg 50% over the limit.
This was observed in real life, users typically see this as vmstat bo
numbers going off the wall with seconds of no queueing afterwards.
Behaviour this bursty is not beneficial.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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