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* [PATCH] net core: Some interface flags not returned by SIOCGIFFLAGSJohn Dykstra2009-06-121-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit b00055aacdb172c05067612278ba27265fcd05ce " [NET] core: add RFC2863 operstate" defined new interface flag values. Its documentation specified that these flags could be accessed from user space via SIOCGIFFLAGS. However, this does not work because the new flags do not fit in that ioctl's argument width. Change the documentation to match the code's behavior. Also change the source to explicitly show the truncation. This _should_ have no effect on executable code, and did not with gcc 4.2.4 generating x86 code. A new ioctl could be defined to return all interface flags to user space. However, since this has been broken for three years with no one complaining, there doesn't seem much need. They are still accessible via netlink. Reported-by: "Fredrik Arnerup" <fredrik.arnerup@edgeware.tv> Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ieee802154: add documentation about our stackSergey Lapin2009-06-091-0/+76
| | | | | | | | | Add MAINTAINERS entry and a small text describing our stack interfaces, how to hook the drivers, etc. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* isdn: extend INTERFACE.CAPI documentTilman Schmidt2009-06-081-2/+88
| | | | | | | | | Clarify calling context and return codes of callback methods, and add a description of the _cmsg structure and helper functions. Impact: documentation Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* isdn: rename capi_ctr_reseted() to capi_ctr_down()Tilman Schmidt2009-06-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Change the name of the Kernel CAPI exported function capi_ctr_reseted() to something representing its purpose better. Impact: renaming, no functional change Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* rfkill: document /dev/rfkillJohannes Berg2009-06-031-1/+7
| | | | | | | | Add some blurb about /dev/rfkill to the documentation and fix the "transmiter" spelling error. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* rfkill: create useful userspace interfaceJohannes Berg2009-06-031-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new code added by this patch will make rfkill create a misc character device /dev/rfkill that userspace can use to control rfkill soft blocks and get status of devices as well as events when the status changes. Using it is very simple -- when you open it you can read a number of times to get the initial state, and every further read blocks (you can poll) on getting the next event from the kernel. The same structure you read is also used when writing to it to change the soft block of a given device, all devices of a given type, or all devices. This also makes CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT selectable again in order to be able to test without it present since its functionality can now be replaced by userspace entirely and distros and users may not want the input part of rfkill interfering with their userspace code. We will also write a userspace daemon to handle all that and consequently add the input code to the feature removal schedule. In order to have rfkilld support both kernels with and without CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT (or new kernels after its eventual removal) we also add an ioctl (that only exists if rfkill-input is present) to disable rfkill-input. It is not very efficient, but at least gives the correct behaviour in all cases. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* rfkill: rewriteJohannes Berg2009-06-031-519/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address the following deficiencies: * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary rather than having one central implementation * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring lots of code * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked internally -- the core should do this * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally should be avoided * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines that do nothing if it isn't compiled in * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc() * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic operations in locked sections * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state changes -- this wasn't done before Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* IPv6: Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' module parametersBrian Haley2009-06-012-0/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' parameters to the IPv6 module. The first controls if IPv6 addresses are autoconfigured from prefixes received in Router Advertisements. The IPv6 loopback (::1) and link-local addresses are still configured. The second controls if IPv6 addresses are desired at all. No IPv6 addresses will be added to any interfaces. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* can: sja1000: generic OF platform bus driverWolfgang Grandegger2009-06-011-0/+53
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a generic driver for SJA1000 chips on the OpenFirmware platform bus found on embedded PowerPC systems. You need a SJA1000 node definition in your flattened device tree source (DTS) file similar to: can@3,100 { compatible = "nxp,sja1000"; reg = <3 0x100 0x80>; interrupts = <2 0>; interrupt-parent = <&mpic>; nxp,external-clock-frequency = <16000000>; }; See also Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/can/sja1000.txt. CC: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* mac80211: fix kernel-docJohannes Berg2009-05-201-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Moving information from config_interface to bss_info_changed removed struct ieee80211_if_conf which the documentation still refers to, additionally there's one kernel-doc description too much and one other missing, fix all this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* net: TX_RING and packet mmapJohann Baudy2009-05-191-19/+121
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for transmission. - It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism, based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space which is mmapped from user space). - It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy). Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-05-1939-3616/+1351
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
| * Doc: fixed descriptions on /proc/sys/net/core/* and /proc/sys/net/unix/*Wang Tinggong2009-05-181-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Wang Tinggong <wangtinggong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-151-1/+1
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: gdb documentation fix kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
| | * kgdb: gdb documentation fixFrank Rowand2009-05-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
| * | Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"Jens Axboe2009-05-151-28/+0
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more senseHenrik Austad2009-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * doc: small kernel-parameters updatesRandy Dunlap2009-05-071-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bitHugh Dickins2009-05-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-051-3/+3
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: fix sparse warning dma-debug: remove broken dma memory leak detection for 2.6.30 locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits
| | * locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bitsMing Lei2009-04-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From source code of get_usage_char(), the previous note is not correct, so fix it. static char get_usage_char(struct lock_class *class, enum lock_usage_bit bit) { char c = '.'; if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))/*LOCK_ENABLED_##STATE*/ c = '+'; if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit)) {/*LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE*/ c = '-'; if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2)) c = '?'; } return c; } note: 1) The 'bit' parameter always is passed as LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE or LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE_READ , from get_usage_chars(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1240585806-5744-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-032-0/+205
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol Input: add detailed multi-touch finger data report protocol Input: allow certain EV_ABS events to bypass all filtering Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driver Input: bcm5974 - augment debug information Input: bcm5974 - Add support for the Macbook 5 (Unibody) Input: bcm5974 - add quad-finger tapping Input: bcm5974 - prepare for a new trackpad header type Input: appletouch - fix DMA to/from stack buffer Input: wacom - fix TabletPC touch bug Input: lifebook - add DMI entry for Fujitsu B-2130 Input: ALPS - add signature for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 Input: elantech - make sure touchpad is really in absolute mode Input: elantech - provide a workaround for jumpy cursor on firmware 2.34 Input: ucb1400 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler Input: tsc2007 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler Input: sa1111ps2 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handlers Input: omap-keypad - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
| | * | Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocolHenrik Rydberg2009-04-301-0/+140
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchs adds documentation for the multi-touch protocol to Documentation/input/. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: grammar fixes] Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
| | * | Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driverHenrik Rydberg2009-04-281-0/+65
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/. Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
| * | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-031-2/+3
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch missing "ax"/"aw" kbuild: fix comment in modpost.c kbuild: fix scripts/setlocalversion with git kbuild: fix Module.markers permission error under cygwin docs: also clean index.html kbuild: remove a tag file before it is regenerated kbuild: "make prepare" should be "make modules_prepare" kbuild: clean Module.markers and modules.order for out-of-tree modules avr32: drop unused CLEAN_FILES
| | * | | docs: also clean index.htmlRandy Dunlap2009-05-011-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Missed index.html in "make cleandocs", so add it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | | | mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytesAndrea Righi2009-05-031-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid setting less than two pages for vm_dirty_bytes: this is necessary to avoid potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits(). [ 49.951610] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 49.952195] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent [ 49.952195] CPU 1 [ 49.952195] Modules linked in: pcspkr [ 49.952195] Pid: 3064, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3 #1 [ 49.952195] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802d39a9>] [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0 [ 49.952195] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de03a98 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 49.952195] RAX: 00000000000000c0 RBX: ffff88001de03b80 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 [ 49.952195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] RBP: ffff88001de03ae8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] R10: ffff88001ddda9a0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 49.952195] R13: ffff88001fbc8218 R14: ffff88001de03b70 R15: ffff88001de03b78 [ 49.952195] FS: 00007fe9a435b6f0(0000) GS:ffff8800025d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 49.952195] CR2: 00007fe9a39ab000 CR3: 000000001de38000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 49.952195] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 49.952195] Process dd (pid: 3064, threadinfo ffff88001de02000, task ffff88001ddda250) [ 49.952195] Stack: [ 49.952195] ffff88001fa0de00 ffff88001f2dbd70 ffff88001f9fe800 000080b900000000 [ 49.952195] 00000000000000c0 ffff8800027a6100 0000000000000400 ffff88001fbc8218 [ 49.952195] 0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88001de03bb8 ffffffff802d3ed7 [ 49.952195] Call Trace: [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802d3ed7>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x1d7/0x3f0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80368f8e>] ? ext3_writeback_write_end+0x9e/0x120 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cc7df>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x12f/0x330 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cce8d>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26d/0x460 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cda32>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x52/0xd0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cda49>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80365fa6>] ext3_file_write+0x26/0xc0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff803034d1>] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x140 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80290d1a>] ? get_lock_stats+0x2a/0x60 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80280730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff8030411b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff803042d0>] sys_write+0x50/0x90 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff8022ff6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 49.952195] Code: 00 00 00 2b 05 09 1c 17 01 48 89 c6 49 0f af f4 48 c1 ee 02 48 89 f0 48 f7 e1 48 89 d6 31 d2 48 c1 ee 02 48 0f af 75 d0 48 89 f0 <48> f7 f7 41 8b 95 ac 01 00 00 48 89 c7 49 0f af d4 48 c1 ea 02 [ 49.952195] RIP [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0 [ 49.952195] RSP <ffff88001de03a98> [ 50.096523] ---[ end trace 008d7aa02f244d7b ]--- Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | kernel-doc: restrict syntax for private: and public:Randy Dunlap2009-05-031-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | scripts/kernel-doc can (incorrectly) delete struct members that are surrounded by /* ... */ <struct members> /* ... */ if there is a /* private: */ comment in there somewhere also. Fix that by making the "/* private:" only allow whitespace between /* and "private:", not anything/everything in the world. This fixes some erroneous kernel-doc warnings that popped up while processing include/linux/usb/composite.h. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: close page_mkwrite racesNick Piggin2009-05-031-8/+16
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-04-292-4/+226
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits) e100: do not go D3 in shutdown unless system is powering off netfilter: revised locking for x_tables Bluetooth: Fix connection establishment with low security requirement Bluetooth: Add different pairing timeout for Legacy Pairing Bluetooth: Ensure that HCI sysfs add/del is preempt safe net: Avoid extra wakeups of threads blocked in wait_for_packet() net: Fix typo in net_device_ops description. ipv4: Limit size of route cache hash table Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX ixgbe: Fix WoL functionality for 82599 KX4 devices veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor xfrm: wrong hash value for temporary SA forcedeth: tx timeout fix net: Fix LL_MAX_HEADER for CONFIG_TR_MODULE mlx4_en: Handle page allocation failure during receive mlx4_en: Fix cleanup flow on cq activation vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down netfilter: xt_recent: fix stack overread in compat code ...
| * | | | Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"Linus Torvalds2009-04-273-2914/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 8032b526d1a3bd91ad633dd3a3b5fdbc47ad54f1. Hey, it was only meant to be a single release. Now they can all die as far as I'm concerned. [ Just kidding. They're cute and cuddly. Except when they have horrible nasty facial diseases. Oh, and I guess they're not actually that cuddly even when disease-free. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-271-1/+5
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: only save/restore existent registers in the PCIe capability x86/PCI: don't bother with root quirks if _CRS is used docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-doc PCI: cleanup debug output resources x86/PCI: set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default cleanups x86/PCI: Move set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default into arch/x86 x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case PCI quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets
| | * | | | docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-docRandy Dunlap2009-04-221-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add drivers/pci/*.c source files to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl and update those pci/*.c source files that need kernel-doc fixes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-261-0/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, hpet: Stop soliciting hpet=force users on ICH4M x86: check boundary in setup_node_bootmem() uv_time: add parameter to uv_read_rtc() x86: hpet: fix periodic mode programming on AMD 81xx x86: more than 8 32-bit CPUs requires X86_BIGSMP x86: avoid theoretical spurious NMI backtraces with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y x86: fix boot crash in NMI watchdog with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and flat APIC x86-64: fix FPU corruption with signals and preemption x86/uv: fix for no memory at paddr 0 docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux x86/uv: fix init of cpu-less nodes x86/uv: fix init of memory-less nodes
| | * | | | | Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar2009-04-222-2/+7
| | |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: hpet.c changed upstream, make sure we test against that Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar2009-04-2029-555/+1207
| | |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: We need the x86/uv updates from upstream, to queue up dependent fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txtWeidong Han2009-04-181-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt. [ Impact: add boot parameter description ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer namesMarc Dionne2009-04-241-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential pointers in task_struct. The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials patches. Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-242-4/+8
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (34 commits) ACPI, i915: Register ACPI video even when not modesetting Revert "ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83" I/O port protection: update for windows compatibility. sony-laptop: always try to unblock rfkill on load sony-laptop: fix bogus error message display on resume ACPI: EC: Fix ACPI EC resume non-query interrupt message sony-laptop: SNC input event 38 fix sony-laptop: SNC 127 Initialization Fix sony-laptop: Duplicate SNC 127 Event Fix ACPI: prevent processor.max_cstate=0 boot crash ACPI/hpet: prevent boot hang when hpet=force used on ICH-4M ACPI: delete obsolete "bus master activity" proc field ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter ACPI video: fix an error when the brightness levels on AC and on Battery are same acpi-cpufreq: Do not let get_measured perf depend on internal variable acpi-cpufreq: style-only: add parens to math expression acpi-cpufreq: Cleanup: Use printk_once x86, acpi_cpufreq: Fix the NULL pointer dereference in get_measured_perf thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23 ...
| | * \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'irq' into releaseLen Brown2009-04-241-2/+6
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| | | * | | | | | | ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counterLen Brown2009-04-211-2/+6
| | | | |/ / / / / | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This counter may prove useful in debugging some spurious interrupt issues seen in the field. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * | | | | | | Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into releaseLen Brown2009-04-241-2/+2
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| | | * | | | | | thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2009-04-181-2/+2
| | | | |_|_|_|/ | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Plenty of high-profile changes, so it deserves a new version number. Features added since 0.22: * Restrict unsafe LEDs * New race-less brightness control strategy for IBM ThinkPads * Disclose TGID of driver access from userspace (debug) * Warn when deprecated functions are used Other changes: * Better debug messages in some subdrivers * Removed "hotkey disable" support, since it breaks the driver * Dropped "ibm-acpi" alias Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-242-77/+92
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: powerpc: Fix modular build of ide-pmac when mediabay is built in powerpc/pasemi: Fix build error on UP powerpc: Make macintosh/mediabay driver depend on CONFIG_BLOCK maintainers: Fix PS3 patterns powerpc/ps3: Fix CONFIG_PS3_FLASH=n build warning powerpc/32: Don't clobber personality flags on exec powerpc: Fix crash on CPU hotplug powerpc/85xx: Remove defconfigs that mpc85xx_{smp_}defconfig cover powerpc/85xx: Added SMP defconfig powerpc/85xx: Enabled a bunch of FSL specific drivers/options powerpc/85xx: Updated generic mpc85xx_defconfig powerpc: don't disable SATA interrupts on Freescale MPC8610 HPCD fsl_rio: Pass the proper device to dma mapping routines powerpc: Fix of_node_put() exit path in of_irq_map_one() powerpc/5200: defconfig updates powerpc/5200: Add FLASH nodes to lite5200 device tree powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuples powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-of powerpc/5200: Bring the legacy fsl_spi_platform_data hooks back
| | * | | | | | Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 into mergePaul Mackerras2009-04-2243-929/+2390
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| | | * | | | | | powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuplesStefan Roese2009-04-161-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add binding for mtd nodes with multiple reg tuples. Multiple reg tuples are used when the flash region covers multiple devices of the same type, but not necessarily the same size. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
| | | * | | | | | powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-ofStefan Roese2009-04-162-77/+75
| | | |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's easier to find bindings descriptions in separate files. So factor out the MTD physmap bindings into a separate file to not clutter booting-without-of.txt more. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
| * | | | | | | spi: documentation: emphasise spi_master.setup() semanticsDavid Brownell2009-04-211-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a doc-only patch which I hope will reduce the number of spi_master controller driver patches starting out with a common implementation bug. (As in: almost every spi_master driver I see starts out with its version of this bug. Sigh.) It just re-emphasizes that the setup() method may be called for one device while a transfer is active on another ... which means that most driver implementations shouldn't touch any registers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being heldAdrian McMenamin2009-04-211-2/+1
| | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence. remove reference to BKL being held in statfs Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | Merge ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-192-5/+7
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio: lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements lguest: tell git to ignore Documentation/lguest/lguest virtio: fix suspend when using virtio_balloon lguest: fix guest crash on non-linear addresses in gdt pvops lguest: fix crash on vmlinux images
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