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2006-06-23[PATCH] add Doc/SubmitChecklistRandy Dunlap
Provide a checklist of techniques to aid kernel patch submitters in producing healthy patches and in lessening a burden on maintainers. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Remove semi-softlockup from invalidate_mapping_pagesNeilBrown
If invalidate_mapping_pages is called to invalidate a very large mapping (e.g. a very large block device) and if the only active page in that device is near the end (or at least, at a very large index), such as, say, the superblock of an md array, and if that page happens to be locked when invalidate_mapping_pages is called, then pagevec_lookup will return this page and as it is locked, 'next' will be incremented and pagevec_lookup will be called again. and again. and again. while we count from 0 upto a very large number. We should really always set 'next' to 'page->index+1' before going around the loop again, not just if the page isn't locked. Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] CONFIG_NET=n build fixAndrew Morton
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] connector-exportsAndrew Morton
Put the connector exports at the functions so people can see them in context. Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] ipmi: strstrip conversionPekka Enberg
Switch an open-coded strstrip() to use the new API. Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> 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>
2006-06-23[PATCH] strstrip() APIPekka Enberg
Add a new strstrip() function to lib/string.c for removing leading and trailing whitespace from a string. Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Process Events: License ChangeMatt Helsley
Change the license on the process event structure passed between kernel and userspace. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Acked-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Process Events - Header CleanupMatt Helsley
Move connector header include to precisely where it's needed. Remove unused time.h header file as well. This was leftover from previous iterations of the process events patches. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Cc: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] remove unlikely() in might_sleep_if()Hua Zhong
The likely() profiling tools show that __alloc_page() causes a lot of misses: ! 132 119193 __alloc_pages():mm/page_alloc.c@937 Because most __alloc_page() calls are not atomic. Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] percpu counter data type changes to suppport more than 2**31 ext3 ↵Mingming Cao
free blocks counter The percpu counter data type are changed in this set of patches to support more users like ext3 who need more than 32 bit to store the free blocks total in the filesystem. - Generic perpcu counters data type changes. The size of the global counter and local counter were explictly specified using s64 and s32. The global counter is changed from long to s64, while the local counter is changed from long to s32, so we could avoid doing 64 bit update in most cases. - Users of the percpu counters are updated to make use of the new percpu_counter_init() routine now taking an additional parameter to allow users to pass the initial value of the global counter. 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>
2006-06-23[PATCH] percpu_counters: create lib/percpu_counter.cRavikiran G Thirumalai
- Move percpu_counter routines from mm/swap.c to lib/percpu_counter.c Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] fix incorrect SA_ONSTACK behaviour for 64-bit processesLaurent MEYER
- When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(), the kernel still try to install the alternate stack. This behavior is the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix Specifications V3. - Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the flag SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on signal delivery. These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery. Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] binflt_elf: remove more castsJesper Juhl
Remove redundant casts from NEW_AUX_ENT() arguments in fs/binfmt_elf.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] binfmt_elf: CodingStyle cleanup and remove some pointless castsJesper Juhl
Do a CodingStyle cleanup of fs/binfmt_elf.c and also remove some pointless casts of kmalloc() return values in the same file. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Update devices.txtJan Engelhardt
Update Documentation/devices.txt with a new version from the LANANA site http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] leds: Amstrad Delta LED supportJonathan McDowell
Use the new LED infrastructure to support the 6 LEDs present on the Amstrad Delta. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Ackde-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] make noirqdebug/irqfixup __read_mostly, add (un)likely()Andreas Mohr
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] ext3_clear_inode(): avoid kfree(NULL)Andrew Morton
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> points out that `rsv' here is usually NULL, so we should avoid calling kfree(). Also, fix up some nearby whitespace damage. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] jbd: avoid kfree(NULL)Andrew Morton
There are a couple of places where JBD has to check to see whether an unneeded memory allocation was performed. Usually it _was_ needed, so we end up calling kfree(NULL). We can micro-optimise that by checking the pointer before calling kfree(). Thanks to Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> for identifying this. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] x86/powerpc make hardirq_ctx and softirq_ctx __read_mostlyAndreas Mohr
The hardirq_ctx and softirq_ctx variables are written to on init only, Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] invert irq/migration.c brach predictionDaniel Walker
If you get to that point in the code it means that desc->move_irq is set, pending_irq_cpumask[irq] and cpu_online_map should have a value. Still pretty good chance anding those two you'll still have a value. So these two branch predictors should be inverted. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] ISDN: correctly handle isdn_writebuf_stub() errorsJesper Juhl
isdn_writebuf_stub() forgets to detect memory allocation and uaccess errors. And when that's fixed, if a error happens the caller will just keep on looping. So change the caller to detect the error, and to return it. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] i4l: memory leak fix for sc_ioctl().Jesper Juhl
Fix leak of `rcvmsg' in sc_ioctl(). There are two returns in the switch in sc_ioctl (the SCIOCSTART case) that may leak `rcvmsg'. This patch fixes that by adding a kfree() call at the beginning of that case. Bug found by the coverity checker as #1098 Eric Sesterhenn send me a patch to fix the leak(s) by adding 2 kfree() calls before the returns, I changed that into just a single call at the beginning. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] OSS: cs46xx cleanup and tiny bugfixJesper Juhl
Here's a patch for cs46xx that - (mostly) cleans up the cs46xx driver according to CodingStyle - removes a bunch of pointless casts - fixes a small, potential use of uninitialized variable, bug - reduces the size of the compiled code by 36 bytes - reduces the size of the source file by 1831 bytes I know I should probably have split this into bits, but since I only thought of that *after* doing all the edits, splitting it up would have been a royal pain. And since these are all pretty trivial changes I thought I'd just submit the one huge patch and hope people could live with it (if not, then just tell me and I'll split it). The bug fix that's in there may be hard to spot, so I'll point it out. It's the - int val, valsave, mapped, ret; + int val, valsave, ret; + int mapped = 0; bit. Without that change we may use `mapped' uninitialized if, in cs_ioctl, the first test of "if(state)" is false and the second "if(state)" test is true. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] jbd: fix BUG in journal_commit_transaction()Jan Kara
Fix possible assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() on jh->b_next_transaction == NULL (when we are processing BJ_Forget list and buffer is not jbddirty). !jbddirty buffers can be placed on BJ_Forget list for example by journal_forget() or by __dispose_buffer() - generally such buffer means that it has been freed by this transaction. Freed buffers should not be reallocated until the transaction has committed (that's why we have the assertion there) but they *can* be reallocated when the transaction has already been committed to disk and we are just processing the BJ_Forget list (as soon as we remove b_committed_data from the bitmap bh, ext3 will be able to reallocate buffers freed by the committing transaction). So we have to also count with the case that the buffer has been reallocated and b_next_transaction has been already set. And one more subtle point: it can happen that we manage to reallocate the buffer and also mark it jbddirty. Then we also add the freed buffer to the checkpoint list of the committing trasaction. But that should do no harm. Non-jbddirty buffers should be filed to BJ_Reserved and not BJ_Metadata list. It can actually happen that we refile such buffers during the commit phase when we reallocate in the running transaction blocks deleted in committing transaction (and that can happen if the committing transaction already wrote all the data and is just cleaning up BJ_Forget list). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] cond_resched() might_sleep() fixIngo Molnar
add the __might_sleep() check back to cond_resched(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] dup fd error fixPrasanna Meda
Set errorp in dup_fd, it will be used in sys_unshare also. Signed-off-by: Prasanna Meda <mlp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] clean up default value of IP_DCCP_ACKVECJean-Luc Leger
Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'. This patch removes wrong default for IP_DCCP_ACKVEC. Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] clean up default value of USB_ISP116X_HCD, USB_SL811_HCD and ↵Jean-Luc Leger
USB_SL811_CS Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'. This patch removes wrong default for USB_ISP116X_HCD, USB_SL811_HCD and USB_SL811_CS. Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] clean up default value of SYSCALL_DEBUGJean-Luc Leger
Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'. This patch removes wrong default for SYSCALL_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] clean up default value of SCHED_SMTJean-Luc Leger
Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'. This patch removes wrong default for SCHED_SMT. Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] ptrace: document the locking rulesEric W. Biederman
After a lot of reading the code and thinking about how it behaves I have managed to figure out what the current ptrace locking rules are. The current code is in much better that it appears at first glance. The troublesome code paths are actually the code paths that violate the current rules. ptrace uses simple exclusive access as it's locking. You can only touch task->ptrace if the task is stopped and you are the ptracer, or if the task is running and are the task itself. Very simple, very easy to maintain. It just needs to be documented so people know not to touch ptrace from elsewhere. Currently we do have a few pieces of code that are in violation of this rule. Particularly the core dump code, and ptrace_attach. But so far the code looks fixable. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Poll cleanups/microoptimizationsVadim Lobanov
The "count" and "pt" variables are declared and modified by do_poll(), as well as accessed and written indirectly in the do_pollfd() subroutine. This patch pulls all handling of these variables into the do_poll() function, thereby eliminating the odd use of indirection in do_pollfd(). This is done by pulling the "struct pollfd" traversal loop from do_pollfd() into its only caller do_poll(). As an added bonus, the patch saves a few clock cycles, and also adds comments to make the code easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] fs/fat/misc.c: unexport fat_sync_bhsAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] mmput() might sleepAndrew Morton
exit_aio() and exit_mmap() can sleep. But it's easy to accidentally call mmput() from inside locks. Cc: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Remove CONFIG_PARPORT_ARC, drivers/parport/parport_arc.cDomen Puncer
It's wasn't referenced in Makefile since at least 2.2.8, unbuildable due to trivial typos and things like DATA_LATCH and arc_write_control() which doesn't exist. Adrian Bunk: adapted the patch to unrelated context changes Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] module.h: updated comments with a new licenseXose Vazquez Perez
"Dual MIT/GPL" is also accepted (kernel/module.c), so updated comments. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] fs/locks.c: make posix_locks_deadlock() staticAdrian Bunk
We can now make posix_locks_deadlock() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] vfs: add lock owner argument to flush operationMiklos Szeredi
Pass the POSIX lock owner ID to the flush operation. This is useful for filesystems which don't want to store any locking state in inode->i_flock but want to handle locking/unlocking POSIX locks internally. FUSE is one such filesystem but I think it possible that some network filesystems would need this also. Also add a flag to indicate that a POSIX locking request was generated by close(), so filesystems using the above feature won't send an extra locking request in this case. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] locks: clean up locks_remove_posix()Miklos Szeredi
locks_remove_posix() can use posix_lock_file() instead of doing the lock removal by hand. posix_lock_file() now does exacly the same. The comment about pids no longer applies, posix_lock_file() takes only the owner into account. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] locks: don't do unnecessary allocationsMiklos Szeredi
posix_lock_file() always allocates new locks in advance, even if it's easy to determine that no allocations will be needed. Optimize these cases: - FL_ACCESS flag is set - Unlocking the whole range Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] locks: don't unnecessarily fail posix lock operationsMiklos Szeredi
posix_lock_file() was too cautious, failing operations on OOM, even if they didn't actually require an allocation. This has the disadvantage, that a failing unlock on process exit could lead to a memory leak. There are two possibilites for this: - filesystem implements .lock() and calls back to posix_lock_file(). On cleanup of files_struct locks_remove_posix() is called which should remove all locks belonging to files_struct. However if filesystem calls posix_lock_file() which fails, then those locks will never be freed. - if a file is closed while a lock is blocked, then after acquiring fcntl_setlk() will undo the lock. But this unlock itself might fail on OOM, again possibly leaking the lock. The solution is to move the checking of the allocations until after it is sure that they will be needed. This will solve the above problem since unlock will always succeed unless it splits an existing region. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] read_mapping_page for address spacePekka Enberg
Add read_mapping_page() which is used for callers that pass mapping->a_ops->readpage as the filler for read_cache_page. This removes some duplication from filesystem code. 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>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Add a sysfs file to determine if a kexec kernel is loadedJeff Moyer
Create two files in /sys/kernel, kexec_loaded and kexec_crash_loaded. Each file contains a simple boolean value indicating whether the relevant kernel has been loaded into memory. The motivation for this is geared around support. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] s390_hypfs filesystemMichael Holzheu
On zSeries machines there exists an interface which allows the operating system to retrieve LPAR hypervisor accounting data. For example, it is possible to get usage data for physical and virtual cpus. In order to provide this information to user space programs, I implemented a new virtual Linux file system named 's390_hypfs' using the Linux 2.6 libfs framework. The name 's390_hypfs' stands for 'S390 Hypervisor Filesystem'. All the accounting information is put into different virtual files which can be accessed from user space. All data is represented as ASCII strings. When the file system is mounted the accounting information is retrieved and a file system tree is created with the attribute files containing the cpu information. The content of the files remains unchanged until a new update is made. An update can be triggered from user space through writing 'something' into a special purpose update file. We create the following directory structure: <mount-point>/ update cpus/ <cpu-id> type mgmtime <cpu-id> ... hyp/ type systems/ <lpar-name> cpus/ <cpu-id> type mgmtime cputime onlinetime <cpu-id> ... <lpar-name> cpus/ ... - update: File to trigger update - cpus/: Directory for all physical cpus - cpus/<cpu-id>/: Directory for one physical cpu. - cpus/<cpu-id>/type: Type name of physical zSeries cpu. - cpus/<cpu-id>/mgmtime: Physical-LPAR-management time in microseconds. - hyp/: Directory for hypervisor information - hyp/type: Typ of hypervisor (currently only 'LPAR Hypervisor') - systems/: Directory for all LPARs - systems/<lpar-name>/: Directory for one LPAR. - systems/<lpar-name>/cpus/<cpu-id>/: Directory for the virtual cpus - systems/<lpar-name>/cpus/<cpu-id>/type: Typ of cpu. - systems/<lpar-name>/cpus/<cpu-id>/mgmtime: Accumulated number of microseconds during which a physical CPU was assigned to the logical cpu and the cpu time was consumed by the hypervisor and was not provided to the LPAR (LPAR overhead). - systems/<lpar-name>/cpus/<cpu-id>/cputime: Accumulated number of microseconds during which a physical CPU was assigned to the logical cpu and the cpu time was consumed by the LPAR. - systems/<lpar-name>/cpus/<cpu-id>/onlinetime: Accumulated number of microseconds during which the logical CPU has been online. As mount point for the filesystem /sys/hypervisor/s390 is created. The update process is triggered when writing 'something' into the 'update' file at the top level hypfs directory. You can do this e.g. with 'echo 1 > update'. During the update the whole directory structure is deleted and built up again. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] xtensa: remove verify_area macrosJesper Juhl
verify_area() is still alive on xtensa in 2.6.17-rc3-git13 It would be nice to finally be rid of that function across the board. Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] m68k: windfarm is powerpc-only, don't do it on m68k macsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] m68k traps.c constraintsAl Viro
Cast is not an lvalue; =r constraint wants an lvalue and really couldn't care whether it's void * or other pointer type. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] m68k: ptrace.h typo fixJan Altenberg
Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <tb10alj@tglx.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] m68k: clean up uaccess.hRoman Zippel
This uninlines a few large functions in uaccess.h and cleans up the rest. It includes a (hopefully temporary) workaround for the broken typeof of gcc-4.1. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>