1. 19 Apr, 2004 8 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix default value for commit interval for older reiserfs filesystems. · 3d9d1320
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
      
      The reiserfs patch that adds support for "commit=0" saves the default max
      commit age in a variable when the fs is originally mounted, so that it can
      later restore it.  Unfortunately it makes some mistakes with that:
      
      - The default is not saved when the original mount has a commit=NNN option.
      
      - The default is not correctly saved for older reiserfs filesystems, where
        the default was not stored on disk.
      
      This patch fixes these mistakes.
      3d9d1320
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] direct-IO return type fixes · 59fed502
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: me, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      
      Currently a direct-IO read or write of more than 2G on 64-bit machines is
      broken.  Replace int with ssize_t in various places to fix that up.
      59fed502
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Increase number of dynamic inodes in procfs · fdc51945
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
      
      On some larger ppc64 configurations /proc/device-tree is exhausting procfs'
      dynamic (non-pid) inode range (16K).  This patch makes the dynamic inode
      range 0xf0000000-0xffffffff and changes the inode number allocator to use
      the idr.c allocator for the first-fit allocations.
      fdc51945
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix load_elf_binary error path on unshare_files error · 178036e3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Make sure to return proper retval on unshare_files() error in load_elf_binary.
      
      Error noted by Kirill Korotaev <kirillx@7ka.mipt.ru>.
      178036e3
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] idr.c: extra features enhancements · 8cc89540
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
      
      - Adds idr_get_new_above(), whihc permits us to do a first-fit search
        from a specified offset rather than always from zero.
      
      - Add IDR_INIT() DEFINE_IDR() constructors.  Often idr's are singletons
        and having to cook up an initcall for them is a pain.
      
      This is needed by the "Increase number of dynamic inodes in procfs" patch.
      8cc89540
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Rename PF_IOTHREAD to PF_NOFREEZE · ef29bf03
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>
      
      A few weeks ago, Pavel and I agreed that PF_IOTHREAD should be renamed to
      PF_NOFREEZE.  This reflects the fact that some threads so marked aren't
      actually used for IO while suspending, but simply shouldn't be frozen.
      This patch, against 2.6.5 vanilla, applies that change.  In the
      refrigerator calls, the actual value doesn't matter (so long as it's
      non-zero) and it makes more sense to use PF_FREEZE so I've used that.
      ef29bf03
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] CPU_MASK_ALL fix · 8488dd95
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      
      Do the typecast thing to permit CPU_MASK_ALL to be used both as an
      initialiser and as a normal rvalue.
      8488dd95
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc/ppc64: Add posix message queue syscalls · eeb3e3b9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      
      This patch adds the posix message queue syscalls to ppc32 and 64 and fixes
      our implementation of compat copy siginfo to 32 bits userland which wasn't
      using the si_code but still doing a switch/case on the signal number.
      
      I also reserved some syscalls for the numa API
      eeb3e3b9
  2. 18 Apr, 2004 21 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-rmk · d5b1f484
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      d5b1f484
    • Russell King's avatar
      [ARM] Clean up ARM includes · 53bfadf7
      Russell King authored
      This removes a number of unnecessary includes from the ARM specific
      files throughout the kernel.  Most notably asm/pgalloc.h is
      needlessly included in several places.  There were some places
      including it as a means to get at the cache flushing functions,
      so this has been corrected.
      53bfadf7
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix typo in previous patch · a5d43dcf
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      This is my brown paper bag day, I sent you the wrong patch for
      fixing the deadlock in rtas.c, here's one to apply on top of current
      bk that fixes build.
      a5d43dcf
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      3fd2eaad
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      [PATCH] Amiga Zorro8390 Ethernet KERN_* · 29f9b4d8
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored
      Amiga Zorro8390 Ethernet: Add KERN_* prefixes to printk() messages
      29f9b4d8
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      [PATCH] Amiga Hydra Ethernet KERN_* · 0243dbb6
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored
      Amiga Hydra Ethernet: Add KERN_* prefixes to printk() messages
      0243dbb6
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      [PATCH] Amiga Ariadne Ethernet KERN_* · d79459da
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored
      Amiga Ariadne Ethernet: Add KERN_* prefixes to printk() messages
      d79459da
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      [PATCH] Amiga A2065 Ethernet debug · c934f504
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored
      Amiga A2065 Ethernet: Add missing variable in debug code
      c934f504
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix visws build · 2b2f6d9a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
      
      this small patch fixes visws build error in 2.6.5.
      2b2f6d9a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix laptop mode writeback triggered by hdparm -y. · 247aea28
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
      
      Currently, an `hdparm -Y' can trigger a sync in laptop mode.  We should
      only count fs-originated requests as being "disk activity".
      247aea28
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] set_anon_super locking fix · 4e79ee42
      Andrew Morton authored
      Take the idr's lock while removing an element on the error path.  Spotted by
      Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>.
      4e79ee42
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Print warning for common symbols in modules · 8eeff89b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      People still build modules wrong, particularly without -fno-common.  The
      resulting modules don't load, but we should at least warn about it.
      8eeff89b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] jbd: journal_dirty_metadata locking speedup · 2c941f77
      Andrew Morton authored
      Reduce the locking coverage of the oft-used j_list_lock: the per-bh
      jbd_lock_bh_state() gives us sufficient locking of buffer_head and
      journal_head internals.
      2c941f77
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] rmap: nonlinear truncation · dd9fd0e0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      
      The earlier changes introducing PageAnon left truncated pages mapped into
      nonlinear vmas unswappable.  Once we go to object-based rmap, it's
      impossible to find where file page is mapped once page->mapping cleared:
      switching them to anonymous is odd, and breaks strict commit accounting.
      
      So now handle truncation of nonlinear vmas correctly.  And factor in
      Daniel's cluster filesystem needs while we're there: when invalidating
      local cache, we do want to unmap shared pages from all mms, but we do not
      want to discard private COWed modifications of those pages (which
      truncation discards to satisfy the SIGBUS semantics demanded by specs).
      
      Drew from Daniel's patch (LKML 2 Mar 04), but didn't always follow it;
      fewer name changes, but still some - "unmap" rather than "invalidate".
      zap_page_range is not exported, safe to give it and all the too-many layers
      an extra zap_details arg, in normal cases just NULL.
      
      Given details, zap_pte_range checks page mapping or index to skip anon or
      untruncated pages.  I didn't realize before implementing, that in nonlinear
      case, it should set a file pte when truncating - otherwise linear pages
      might appear in place of SIGBUS.  I suspect this implies that ->populate
      functions ought to set file ptes beyond EOF instead of failing, but haven't
      changed them as yet.
      
      To avoid making yet another copy of that ugly linear pgidx test, added
      inline function linear_page_index (to pagemap.h to get PAGE_CACHE_SIZE,
      though as usual things don't really work if it differs from PAGE_SIZE). 
      Ooh, I thought I'd removed ___add_to_page_cache last time, do so now.
      
      unmap_page_range static, shift its hugepage check up into sole caller
      unmap_vmas.  Killed "killme" debug from unmap_vmas, not seen it trigger.
      unmap_mapping_range is exported without restriction: I'm one of those who
      believe it should be generally available.  But I'm wrongly placed to decide
      that, probably just sob quietly to myself if _GPL added later.
      dd9fd0e0
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] rmap: swap_unplug page · 3df9aaf3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      
      Good example of "swapper_space considered harmful": swap_unplug_io_fn was
      originally designed for calling via swapper_space.backing_dev_info; but
      that way it loses track of which device is to be unplugged, so had to
      unplug all swap devices.  But now sync_page tests SwapCache anyway, can
      call swap_unplug_io_fn with page, which leads direct to the device.
      
      Reverted -mc4's CONFIG_SWAP=n fix, just add another NOTHING for it.
      Reverted -mc3's editorial adjustments to swap_backing_dev_info and
      swapper_space initializations: they document the few fields which are
      actually used now, as comment above them says (sound of slapped wrist).
      3df9aaf3
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] rmap: flush_dcache revisited · c4d92e6b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      
      One of the callers of flush_dcache_page is do_generic_mapping_read, where
      file is read without i_sem and without page lock: concurrent truncation may
      at any moment remove page from cache, NULLing ->mapping, making
      flush_dcache_page liable to oops.  Put result of page_mapping in a local
      variable and apply mapping_mapped to that (if we were to check for NULL
      within mapping_mapped, it's unclear whether to say yes or no).
      
      parisc and arm do have other locking unsafety in their i_mmap(_shared)
      searching, but that's a larger issue to be dealt with down the line.
      c4d92e6b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Oprofilefs cant handle > 99 cpus · 1896ae13
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      
      Oprofilefs cant handle > 99 cpus. This should fix it.
      1896ae13
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix unix module · 17ee20ae
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      # lsmod
      Module                  Size  Used by
      1                      26060  6
      #
      
      The compiler #define's unix to 1: we use -DKBUILD_MODNAME=unix.  We used to
      #undef unix at the top of af_unix.c, but now the name is inserted by
      modpost, that doesn't help.
      
      #undef unix in modpost.c's generated C file.
      17ee20ae
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: Fix CPU hot unplug deadlock · 26214e32
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      
      My RTAS locking fixes incorrectly added a spinlock around the function used
      to stop a CPU, that function never returns, thus the lock becomes stale.
      The correct fix is to disable interrupts instead (the RTAS params beeing
      per-CPU, this should be safe enough)
      26214e32
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Allow non-LFS sendfile to work on LFS files. · f5e277c5
      Linus Torvalds authored
      But obviously only if we're not passing in any offset pointer.
      
      This is how 2.4.x worked, and vsftpd relies on it.
      
      Bug reported by Chris < chris@scary.beasts.org>
      f5e277c5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge master.kernel.org:/home/davem/BK/net-2.6 · a9eb9eb7
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      a9eb9eb7
  3. 17 Apr, 2004 11 commits
    • Russell King's avatar
      [ARM] Add detailed documentation concerning ARM page tables · f6e8a90d
      Russell King authored
      This adds detailed documentation concerning how we map the Linux
      page table structure onto the hardware tables on ARM.  In addition,
      it also adds documentation describing how we emulate the "dirty"
      and "young" or "accessed" page table bits.
      
      This should be of interest to Linux MM developers.
      f6e8a90d
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix vma corruption · e4cf8264
      Hugh Dickins authored
      It occurred to me that if vma and new_vma are one and the same, then
      vma_relink_file will not do a good job of linking it after itself - in
      that pretty unlikely case when move_page_tables fails.
      
      And more generally, whenever copy_vma's vma_merge succeeds, we have no
      guarantee that old vma comes before new_vma in the i_mmap lists, as we
      need to satisfy Rajesh's point: that ordering is only guaranteed in the
      newly allocated case.
      
      We have to abandon the ordering method when/if we move from lists to
      prio_trees, so this patch switches to the less glamorous use of
      i_shared_sem exclusion, as in my prio_tree mremap.
      e4cf8264
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] Remove unused 'kobject' from superblock · 3ba9ac07
      Alexander Viro authored
      The field in question is
        a) unused
        b) damn next to impossible to use correctly, due to struct super_block
           lifetime and locking rules.
      3ba9ac07
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-pcmcia · f8f9945f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      f8f9945f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-serial · 1ea0721d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      1ea0721d
    • Russell King's avatar
      [SERIAL] Use module_param/module_param_array · 2dff0579
      Russell King authored
      Update serial to use new module parameters rather than
      MODULE_PARM.
      2dff0579
    • Russell King's avatar
      [SERIAL] Remove check_region() · ae1b4721
      Russell King authored
      ae1b4721
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-rmk · c7a7273c
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      c7a7273c
    • Pavel Roskin's avatar
      [PCMCIA] Conversion to module_param · 32ee9eec
      Pavel Roskin authored
      Patch from: Pavel Roskin
      
      As it turns out, mixing MODULE_PARM and module_param in one module is
      wrong.  The parameters specified in module_param are ignored.  I've just
      posted a patch to LKML that will detect this condition and warn about it.
      
      The new debugging code used the new-style module_param, which means that
      all instances of MODULE_PARM should be converted.  The attached patch does
      that.
      
      An additional bonus is that module_param_array provides the number of
      array elements.  This allowed me to change tcic.c and i82365.c to use
      this number for IRQ list.  This change was tested with i82365.  If
      "irq_list" is not specified, irq_list_count is 0.
      
      I set all permissions to 0444 to be safe.  I think we have no secrets
      from the users regarding those parameters.  If some parameters can be
      changed safely at the runtime, the permissions could be changed to 0644.
      I didn't examine how safe (and how useful) it would be, so it's 0444 for
      now.
      32ee9eec
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ARM-related ptep_to_address() fix · d8fbf4f1
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      rmk mentioned that ARM was borked as the relation, assumed by generic rmap,
      PTRS_PER_PTE*sizeof(pte_t) == PAGE_SIZE, fails to hold.  The following
      patch, developed jointly with him (or depending on POV, by him with me
      acting as codemonkey), is reported to resolve the issue.
      
      Specifically, while ARM dedicates an entire PAGE_SIZE -sized block of
      memory to each PTE table, the PTE table itself only spans half that, the
      remainder being dedicated to hardware-interpreted structures.  As the
      hardware structure must be contiguous, wider ptes can't be used.  So the
      core-visible PTE table only spans PAGE_SIZE/2 bytes, violating the
      assumption.  This corrects masking and scaling done in ptep_to_address().
      d8fbf4f1
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] aty128fb dereference before null check · 5450c6c1
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      5450c6c1