- 04 Aug, 2008 6 commits
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Huang Weiyi authored
Removed duplicated include <linux/smp_lock.h> in drivers/char/efirtc.c. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Halesh says: Please find the below testcase provide to test mlock. Test Case : =========================== #include <sys/resource.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { int fd,ret, i = 0; char *addr, *addr1 = NULL; unsigned int page_size; struct rlimit rlim; if (0 != geteuid()) { printf("Execute this pgm as root\n"); exit(1); } /* create a file */ if ((fd = open("mmap_test.c",O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0755)) == -1) { printf("cant create test file\n"); exit(1); } page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE); /* set the MEMLOCK limit */ rlim.rlim_cur = 2000; rlim.rlim_max = 2000; if ((ret = setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK,&rlim)) != 0) { printf("Cant change limit values\n"); exit(1); } addr = 0; while (1) { /* map a page into memory each time*/ if ((addr = (char *) mmap(addr,page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,fd,0)) == MAP_FAILED) { printf("cant do mmap on file\n"); exit(1); } if (0 == i) addr1 = addr; i++; errno = 0; /* lock the mapped memory pagewise*/ if ((ret = mlock((char *)addr, 1500)) == -1) { printf("errno value is %d\n", errno); printf("cant lock maped region\n"); exit(1); } addr = addr + page_size; } } ====================================================== This testcase results in an mlock() failure with errno 14 that is EFAULT, but it has nowhere been specified that mlock() will return EFAULT. When I tested the same on older kernels like 2.6.18, I got the correct result i.e errno 12 (ENOMEM). I think in source code mlock(2), setting errno ENOMEM has been missed in do_mlock() , on mlock_fixup() failure. SUSv3 requires the following behavior frmo mlock(2). [ENOMEM] Some or all of the address range specified by the addr and len arguments does not correspond to valid mapped pages in the address space of the process. [EAGAIN] Some or all of the memory identified by the operation could not be locked when the call was made. This rule isn't so nice and slighly strange. but many people think POSIX/SUS compliance is important. Reported-by: Halesh Sadashiv <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com> Tested-by: Halesh Sadashiv <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gerard Kam authored
For some time my at91sam9260 board with JFFS2 on serial flash (m25p80) would hang when accessing the serial flash and SPI bus. Slowing the SPI clock down to 9 MHz reduced the occurrence of the hang from "always" during boot to a nuisance level that allowed other SW development to continue. Finally had to address this issue when an application stresses the I/O to always cause a hang. Hang seems to be caused by a missed SPI interrupt, so that the task ends up waiting forever after calling spi_sync(). The fix has 2 parts. First is to halt the DMA engine before the "current" PDC registers are loaded. This ensures that the "next" registers are loaded before the DMA operation takes off. The second part of the fix is a kludge that adds a "completion" interrupt in case the ENDRX interrupt for the last segment of the DMA chaining operation was missed. The patch allows the SPI clock for the serial flash to be increased from 9 MHz to 15 MHz (or more?). No hangs or SPI overruns were encountered. Haavard: while this patch does indeed improve things, I still see overruns and CRC errors on my NGW100 board when running the DataFlash at 10 MHz. However, I think some improvement is better than nothing, so I'm passing this on for inclusion in 2.6.27. Signed-off-by: Gerard Kam <gerardk5@verizon.net> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ben Dooks authored
Fix a bug in the spi_s3c24xx driver where it does not reset the registers of the hardware when resuming from suspend (this block has been reset over suspend). Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> 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>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit f9247273 (and fb2e405f - "fix fs/nfs/nfsroot.c compilation" - that fixed a missed conversion). The changes cause problems for at least the sparc build. Let's re-do them when the exact issues are resolved. Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Requested-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 2b142900, since it seems to break some other USB storage devices (at least a JMicron USB to ATA bridge). As such, while it apparently fixes some cardreaders, it would need to be made conditional on the exact reader it fixes in order to avoid causing regressions. Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 Aug, 2008 4 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: remove write-only variables from ext4_ordered_write_end ext4: unexport jbd2_journal_update_superblock ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issues ext4: improve ext4_fill_flex_info() a bit ext4: Cleanup the block reservation code path ext4: don't assume extents can't cross block groups when truncating ext4: Fix lack of credits BUG() when deleting a badly fragmented inode ext4: Fix ext4_ext_journal_restart() ext4: fix ext4_da_write_begin error path jbd2: don't abort if flushing file data failed ext4: don't read inode block if the buffer has a write error ext4: Don't allow lg prealloc list to be grow large. ext4: Convert the usage of NR_CPUS to nr_cpu_ids. ext4: Improve error handling in mballoc ext4: lock block groups when initializing ext4: sync up block and inode bitmap reading functions ext4: Allow read/only mounts with corrupted block group checksums ext4: Fix data corruption when writing to prealloc area
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5182/1: pxa: Fix pcm990 compilation [ARM] Fix explicit asm(-arm)?/arch-foo references [ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm [ARM] Remove explicit dependency for misc.o from compressed/Makefile [ARM] initrd: claim initrd memory exclusively [ARM] pxa: add support for L2 outer cache on XScale3 (attempt 2) [ARM] 5180/1: at91: Fix at91_nand -> atmel_nand rename fallout [ARM] add Sascha Hauer as Freescale i.MX Maintainer [ARM] i.MX: add missing clock functions exports [ARM] i.MX: remove set_imx_fb_info() export [ARM] mx1ads: make mmc platform data available for modules [ARM] mx2: add missing Kconfig dependency
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Guennadi Liakhovetski authored
Compiling pcm990 produces an error: In file included from arch/arm/mach-pxa/pcm990-baseboard.c:25: include/linux/ide.h:645: error: 'CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS' undeclared here (not in a function) Fix it by removing unneeded header include. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Eric Sandeen authored
The variables 'from' and 'to' are not used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 02 Aug, 2008 9 commits
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Russell King authored
No file should be explicitly referencing its own platform headers by specifying an absolute include path. Fix these paths to use standard <asm/arch/...> includes. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6: [MTD] Fix !CONFIG_BLOCK compile for mtdsuper.c firmware: silence __fw_modbuild and __fw_modinst 'Nothing to be done' messages
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Do not clobber %g7 in setcontext() trap. sparc64: Kill __show_regs(). sparc: Add __KERNEL__ ifdef protection to pt_regs helpers. sparc64: Kill smp_report_regs(). sparc64: Kill VERBOSE_SHOWREGS code. sparc64: Hook up trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(). sparc64: Make global reg dumping even more useful. sparc: Ignore drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c conmakehash generated file sparc64: FUTEX_OP_ANDN fix sparc: merge of_platform_{32,64}.h sparc64: Kill isa_bus_type. sparc64: Fix global reg snapshotting on self-cpu.
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
FAT has to handle the newly introduced ATTR_TIMES_SET for allow_utime option. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Brian Wang reported that a FUSE filesystem exported through NFS could return I/O errors on read. This was traced to splice_direct_to_actor() returning a short or zero count when racing with page invalidation. However this is not FUSE or NFSD specific, other filesystems (notably NFS) also call invalidate_inode_pages2() to purge stale data from the cache. If this happens while such pages are sitting in a pipe buffer, then splice(2) from the pipe can return zero, and read(2) from the pipe can return ENODATA. The zero return is especially bad, since it implies end-of-file or disconnected pipe/socket, and is documented as such for splice. But returning an error for read() is also nasty, when in fact there was no error (data becoming stale is not an error). The same problems can be triggered by "hole punching" with madvise(MADV_REMOVE). Fix this by not clearing the PG_uptodate flag on truncation and invalidation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Russell King authored
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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David Woodhouse authored
As reported by Adrian Bunk, commit d5686b44 (switch mtd and dm-table to lookup_bdev()) causes the following compile error with CONFIG_BLOCK=n: CC drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.o drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c: In function `get_sb_mtd': drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c:184: error: implicit declaration of function 'lookup_bdev' drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c:184: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c:197: error: implicit declaration of function 'bdput' make[3]: *** [drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.o] Error 1 Fix it by putting the block device lookup inside #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
People don't like them and think they're errors. Leave the __fw_install one though; when 'make firmware_install' does nothing, it's best to have a 'Nothing to be done for...' message rather than just doing nothing. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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- 01 Aug, 2008 21 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Move include/asm-ia64 to arch/ia64/include/asm
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Tim Bird authored
This fixes a bug in operator precedence in the newly introduced vc_translate macro. Without this fix, the translation of some characters on the kernel console is garbled. This patch was copied to the e-mail list previously for testing. Now, all reports confirm that it works, so this is an official post for application. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Jack Steiner authored
Delete 2 EXPORTs that were accidentally sent upstream. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
I asked legal about the licensing of ftrace.txt, and they told me that, unless the Documentation directory is specifically set up to handle non GPL licenses (which it does not appear to be), then it would be best to put ftrace.txt under the GPL. This patch adds a dual license to ftrace.txt such that it is under both the FDL and the GPL. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Wire up for FRV the system calls that were added in the last merge window. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Wire up system calls added in the last merge window for the MN10300 arch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eugeniy Meshcheryakov authored
Currently function tty_ldisc_get() tries to load an ldisc driver module only when tty_ldisc_try_get() returns -EAGAIN. This happens only if module is being unloaded. If ldisc module is not loaded tty_ldisc_try_get() returns -EINVAL and this case is not handled in tty_ldisc_get(), so request_module() is not called. Attached patch fixes this by calling request_module() if tty_ldisc_try_get() returned any error code. I discovered this when my UMTS modem stopped working with 2.6.27-rc1 because module ppp_async was not loaded. Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: KVM: s390: Fix kvm on IBM System z10 KVM: Advertise synchronized mmu support to userspace KVM: Synchronize guest physical memory map to host virtual memory map KVM: Allow browsing memslots with mmu_lock KVM: Allow reading aliases with mmu_lock
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'zero-len' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6: drivers/media, include/media: delete zero-length files
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Some platform decide whether they support huge pages at boot time. On these, such as powerpc, HPAGE_SHIFT is a variable, not a constant, and is set to 0 when there is no such support. The patches to introduce multiple huge pages support broke that causing the kernel to crash at boot time on machines such as POWER3 which lack support for multiple page sizes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yoshinori Sato authored
ARCH=h8300: init/main.c:781: undefined reference to `___early_initcall_end' Same problem have __start___bug_table __stop___bug_table __tracedata_start __tracedata_end __per_cpu_start __per_cpu_end When defining a symbol in vmlinux.lds, use the VMLINUX_SYMBOL macro. VMLINUX_SYMBOL adds a prefix charactor. You can't just use straight symbol names in common header files as they dont take into consideration weird arch-specific ABI conventions. in the case of Blackfin/h8300, the ABI dictates that any C-visible symbols have an underscore prefixed to them. Thus all symbols in vmlinux.lds.h need to be wrapped in VMLINUX_SYMBOL() so that each arch can put hide this magic in their own files. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
Each resource should be printed on its own line, so start snprintf'ing at the beginning of the buffer every time through the loop. Also, use scnprintf() rather than snprintf() when building up the buffer to print. scnprintf() returns the number of characters actually written into the buffer (not including the trailing NULL). snprintf() returns the number of characters that *would be* written, assuming everything would fit in the buffer. That's nice if we want to resize the buffer to make sure everything fits, but in this case, I just want to keep from overflowing the buffer, and it's OK if the output is truncated. Using snprintf() meant that my "len" could grow to be more than the the buffer size, which makes "sizeof(buf) - len" negative, which causes this alarming WARN_ON: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121736480005656&w=2 More useful snprintf/scnprintf discussion: http://lwn.net/Articles/69419/Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Reported-by: Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net> Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Niels de Vos authored
Some module parameters with only one line have the '\n' at the end of the description. This is not needed nor wanted as after the description the type (i.e. int) is followed by a newline. Some modules contain a multi-line description, these are not affected by this patch. Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <niels.devos@wincor-nixdorf.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: pata_it821x: Driver updates and reworking libata.h: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ ata_piix: subsys 106b:00a3 is apple ich8m too libata-core: make sure that ata_force_tbl is freed in case of an error libata: update atapi disable handling pata_via: add VX800 flag; add function for fixing h/w bugs pata_ali: misplaced pci_dev_put()
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git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-pullLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-pull: (64 commits) [XFS] Remove vn_revalidate calls in xfs. [XFS] Now that xfs_setattr is only used for attributes set from ->setattr [XFS] xfs_setattr currently doesn't just handle the attributes set through [XFS] fix use after free with external logs or real-time devices [XFS] A bug was found in xfs_bmap_add_extent_unwritten_real(). In a [XFS] fix compilation without CONFIG_PROC_FS [XFS] s/XFS_PURGE_INODE/IRELE/g s/VN_HOLD(XFS_ITOV())/IHOLD()/ [XFS] fix mount option parsing in remount [XFS] Disable queue flag test in barrier check. [XFS] streamline init/exit path [XFS] Fix up problem when CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL is not set and yet we still [XFS] Don't assert if trying to mount with blocksize > pagesize [XFS] Don't update mtime on rename source [XFS] Allow xfs_bmbt_split() to fallback to the lowspace allocator [XFS] Restore the lowspace extent allocator algorithm [XFS] use minleft when allocating in xfs_bmbt_split() [XFS] attrmulti cleanup [XFS] Check for invalid flags in xfs_attrlist_by_handle. [XFS] Fix CI lookup in leaf-form directories [XFS] Use the generic xattr methods. ...
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Dean Nelson authored
Add a reverse dependency of CONFIG_SGI_XP upon CONFIG_SGI_GRU to Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dean Nelson authored
Add a dependency of CONFIG_SGI_XP upon CONFIG_NET to Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
My commit 2b2a1ff6 introduced a regression (sorry about that) for the odd case of exit_signal=0 (e.g. clone_flags=0). This is not a normal use, but it's used by a case in the glibc test suite. Dying with exit_signal=0 sends no signal, but it's supposed to wake up a parent's blocked wait*() calls (unlike the delayed_group_leader case). This fixes tracehook_notify_death() and its caller to distinguish a "signal 0" wakeup from the delayed_group_leader case (with no wakeup). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: raid10: wake up frozen array md: do not count blocked devices as spares md: do not progress the resync process if the stripe was blocked md: delay notification of 'active_idle' to the recovery thread md: fix merge error md: move async_tx_issue_pending_all outside spin_lock_irq
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: [PATCH] ocfs2: Release mutex in error handling code [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix oops when racing files truncates with writes into an mmap region [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Fix race between mount and recovery [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add counter in struct ocfs2_dinode to track journal replays [PATCH] configfs: Convenience macros for attribute definition. [PATCH] configfs: Pin configfs subsystems separately from new config_items. [PATCH] configfs: Fix open directory making rmdir() fail [PATCH] configfs: Lock new directory inodes before removing on cleanup after failure [PATCH] configfs: Prevent userspace from creating new entries under attaching directories [PATCH] configfs: Fix failing symlink() making rmdir() fail [PATCH] configfs: Fix symlink() to a removing item [PATCH] configfs: Include linux/err.h in linux/configfs.h
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of 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: locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation
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