- 26 Apr, 2004 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> This patch moves the initrd when "make_room" runs out of space, rather than stepping over it. The problem with stepping over it is that it gets copied with the kernel when this happens, which wastes space. Also ensures that the initrd isn't where the kernel wants to be moved to: if it is, it gets moved out the way.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Clean up initrd handling. 1) Expose initrd_start and initrd_end to prom.c (replacing its local initrd_start and initrd_len). 2) Don't hand mem (aka klimit) through functions which don't need it. 3) Add more debugging under DEBUG_PROM in case we broke anything.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 1) Define PROM_ERROR: checks for call_prom() < 0 are bogus (returns ulong) 2) All OF access functions should be marked __init. 3) prom_strtoul isn't used at all.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Ben Herrenschmidt made this actually boot.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> copy_device_tree calls inspect_node() which recurses to copy the Open Firmware device tree. It just copied into memory above the kernel for about 8MB, which can overwrite the initrd, and/or get truncated on big machines. The real solution is to allocate memory properly for all the prom_init memory users. However, that's quite a change. This patch introduces a "make_room" macro which inspect_node uses to get memory. This does the same as before, except skips over the initrd if neccessary.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> finish_device_tree simply allocates nodes by incrementing klimit (ie. using memory on top of the kernel). Change it to figure out how much memory it needs, then use lmb_alloc to allocate that, then fill it in. This gets rid of the only manipulation of klimit after prom_init.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Rather than pre-declaring static functions, order them so it's not neccessary. This makes the code easier to navigate and patch.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Rather than pre-declaring static functions, order them so it's not neccessary. This makes the code easier to navigate and patch.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Rather than pre-declaring static functions, order them so it's not neccessary. This makes the code easier to navigate and patch.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Rather than pre-declaring static functions, order them so it's not neccessary. This makes the code easier to navigate and patch.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Move all the functions that run normally (ie. with the kernel in the correct address) to the bottom of prom.c, and keep all the functions which use RELOC() to the top, above "prom_init()" which calls them. Also, make prom_initialize_dart_table and prom_initialize_tce_table static.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> It fixes a memory leak when turning journalled quotas off.
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Andrew Morton authored
We're testing the nullness of `sb' potentially after rereferencing it (although the compiler will have reordered things to avoid such a bug). Just remove the test - the superblock pointer shouldn't be null in there.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> When there are lots of dirty dquots the vfs_quota_sync() is too slow (it has O(N^2) behaviour). Attached patch implements list of dirty dquots for each superblock and quota type. Using this lists sync is trivially linear. Attached patch is against 2.6.5 with journalled quota and previous patch for hash table size. (Jan had a test which went from 8 minutes to 0.8 seconds...)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> I found out that quota uses hash table with just 43 entries to hash dquot entries. I guess that we can afford using one page for that (quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA...), got faster like 3x for 4000 users). Attached patch implements that.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> I've attached a fix for a problem in ext3 journalled quota patch - the problem is that detecting whether dqput() sleeps was wrong and so we could possibly schedule when holding a spinlock.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Contributions from: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Andy Lutomirski <luto@stanford.edu> During exec the LSM bprm_apply_creds() hooks may tranisition the program to a new security context (like setuid binaries). The security context of the new task is dependent on state such as if the task is being ptraced. ptrace_detach() doesn't take the task_lock() when clearing task->ptrace. So there is a race possible where a process starts off being ptraced, the malicious ptracer detaches and if any checks agains task->ptrace are done more than once, the results are indeterminate. This patch ensures task_lock() is held while bprm_apply_creds() hooks are called, keeping it safe against ptrace_attach() races. Additionally, tests against task->ptrace (and ->fs->count, ->files->count and ->sighand->count all of which signify potential unsafe resource sharing during a security context transition) are done only once the results are passed down to hooks, making it safe against ptrace_detach() races. Additionally: - s/must_must_not_trace_exec/unsafe_exec/ - move unsafe_exec() call above security_bprm_apply_creds() call rather than in call for readability. - fix dummy hook to honor the case where root is ptracing - couple minor formatting/spelling fixes
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> block_write_full_page might see and lock clean metadata buffers, which leads to bogus vs-12339 messages. Change the message to ignore bh locked.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> call_usermodehelper uses keventd to create a thread, guaranteeing a nice, clean kernel thread. Unfortunately, there is a case where call_usermodehelper is called with &bus->subsys.rwsem held (via bus_add_driver()), but keventd could be running bus_add_device(), which is blocked on the same lock. The result is deadlock, and it comes from using keventd for both. In this case, it can be fixed by using a completely independent thread for call_usermodehelper, or an independent workqueue. Workqueues have the infrastructure we need, so we use one. Move EXPORT_SYMBOL while we're there, too. akpm fixes: Make it compile with !CONFIG_KMOD
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Workqueues are a great primitive for running things from user context from a completely clean environment. Unfortunately, they currently insist on creating one thread per CPU, which is overkill for many situations, so the more generic keventd workqueue is used for these. Recently deadlocks using keventd were demonstrated, showing that it is not suitable for all uses. 1) Clean up CPU iterators. Always a nice touch. 2) Add __create_workqueue() and create_singlethread_workqueue(), keeping source compatibility. 3) Put workqueues in workqueue list even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU (means we need a lock to protect that list). Now we can tell if a wq is single-threaded using list_empty(&wq->list). 4) For single-threaded workqueues, override CPU in queue_work, delayed_work_timer_fn and flush_workqueue to be 0. flush_workqueue now does redundant passes for single-threaded workqueues, but the code remains simple. 5) Make create_workqueue_thread return the thread, so we can easily kthread_bind for multi-threaded workqueues. akpm fixes: - Fix up is_single_threaded() handling - single-threaded wq thread does not have "/0" appended.
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David Brownell authored
Here's another fix it'd be good to merge ... No changes to the Linux code at all, but it'll makes the Windows configuration of a Linux device running the Ethernet/RNDIS gadget behave correctly on more versions of Windows. (It might prevent some Bluescreening too.)
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http://lia64.bkbits.net/to-linus-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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Greg Edwards authored
There's an obsolete check in sn_init_pdas() left over from the 2.4 days that panics if the cpu PDA and cpu_data area span more than a page. With 2.6, we're not limited to a page, so remove the check entirely.
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Alex Williamson authored
I just ran into a bug introduced by the most recent iosapic.c patch. The scenario is a builtin driver is up and running happily. A module loads for a devices that happens to share the same interrupt vector, in this case a network driver. The module calls pci_enable_device() as it should, which eventually lands in iosapic_enable_intr(). We then proceed to mask the interrupt and kill the device that's already running. As a bonus, request_interrupt() doesn't fix the problem because we only call the startup for the interrupt handler on the first action attached to the interrupt. I think the best way out of this is simply to detect when an action is already attached to a vector and leave it alone. This also prevents interrupts from moving to other cpus (on boxes w/o irq redirection) for no good reason.
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/fix-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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Jens Axboe authored
The logic got a little foo-bar'ed in the last patch, we should have keep the old logic. Ie LoEj bit (2nd) must always be set, just clear it for known non-capable of loading drives.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This fixes a oops in the current kernel tree.
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Jens Axboe authored
This is an old bug that often confuses people, rightfully. For some laptop and server type cdroms, the drives advertise themselves as tray loading even if they are caddy-like or slot-in loaders. This means they cannot insert the media on their own, and this generates a 5/24/00 error to START_STOP_UNIT. This prevents the logging of such a failure, and also fixes the generation of such a bad command in case the mech type was correctly set by the drive.
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Armin Schindler authored
Fix race conditions of ISDN CAPI's internal ncci list handling by using a per capidev semaphore.
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Michael Hunold authored
- [V4L] follow changes in saa7146 driver: mxb, dpc7146, hexium_orion, hexium_gemini
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Michael Hunold authored
- [DVB] ttusb-dec: - Add a parameter to dvb_filter_pes2ts function to specify whether the packet is a payload unit start or not - Use the hotplug firmware loader for 2.6 kernels instead of compiling the firmware into the module. - Correct the USB id of the DEC3000-s, add basic support - [DVB] ttusb-budget: - Remove spurious discontinuity message when starting streaming
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Michael Hunold authored
- [DVB] follow changes in dvb-core for frontend drivers (ves1x93, ves1820, nxt6000, sp887x, tda1004x, stv0299, mt312, alps_tdlb7, alps_tdmb7, at76c651, cx24110, dst, dvb_dummy_fe, grundig_29504-401, grundig_29504-491) - [DVB] tda1004x: updated timeout to 800ms, implemented FE_SLEEP - [DVB] cx24110: add FE_CAN_RECOVER to reduce kdvb-fe CPU load - [DVB] grundig_29504-401: added 200ms delay after first FE_INIT, Implemented FE_GET_FRONTEND - [DVB] alps_tdlb7, alps_tdmb7: upped tuning delays to fix tuning
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Michael Hunold authored
- [DVB] av7110 update: - speed up firmware loading - follow internal API changes in saa7146 driver - introduced some symbolic constants for a/v dec cmds - change default for hw_sections to 0 to enable crc checks
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Michael Hunold authored
- [DVB] remove superflous memset() which caused section data to be overwritten when a) there are two sections in one TS packet, and b) the first section was smaller than 18 bytes; thanks to Jean-Claude Repetto for tracking this down - [DVB] starting a ts filter on a running section filter's pid did break the section filter; fixed. - [DVB] integrate ULE Decapsulation code, thanks to gcs - Global Communication & Services GmbH. and Institute for Computer Sciences Salzburg University. Hilmar Linder <hlinder@cosy.sbg.ac.at> and Wolfram Stering <wstering@cosy.sbg.ac.at> - [DVB] fix the module use count bugs, thanks to Hernan A.Perez Masci for his initial work on this problem - [DVB] if dvb_frontend_internal_ioctl() returns an error code, be sure to deliver it to the calling application, don't ignore it (fixes the bug that the frontend0 doesn't respond properly to unknown ioctls...) - [DVB] major frontend code clean up, rewritten core tuning loop. Thanks to Andrew de Quincey. - [DVB] follow changes in dvb-core in skystar2, dvb-bt8xx
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Michael Hunold authored
- [DVB] add generic functions for EN50221 CAM interfaces
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Michael Hunold authored
- [DVB] budget-av: patch by Kenneth Aafløy to add support for Typhoon DVB-S budget card - [DVB] budget.c: support for Fujitsu-Siemens Activy Card - [DVB] budget-ci: add preliminary CI support
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