- 15 May, 2008 22 commits
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Jiri Slaby authored
Select FW_LOADER since moxa needs it, otherwise we face link problems such as: drivers/built-in.o: In function moxa_pci_probe':moxa.c:(.devinit.text+0x76d8): undefined reference to request_firmware' :moxa.c:(.devinit.text+0x7e6e): undefined reference to release_firmware' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Reported-by: Philippe Roussel <p.o.roussel@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Trying to online a new memory section that was added via memory hotplug sometimes results in crashes when the new pages are added via __free_page. Reason for that is that the pageblock bitmap isn't initialized and hence contains random stuff. That means that get_pageblock_migratetype() returns also random stuff and therefore list_add(&page->lru, &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]); in __free_one_page() tries to do a list_add to something that isn't even necessarily a list. This happens since 86051ca5 ("mm: fix usemap initialization") which makes sure that the pageblock bitmap gets only initialized for pages present in a zone. Unfortunately for hot-added memory the zones "grow" after the memmap and the pageblock memmap have been initialized. Which means that the new pages have an unitialized bitmap. To solve this the calls to grow_zone_span() and grow_pgdat_span() are moved to __add_zone() just before the initialization happens. The patch also moves the two functions since __add_zone() is the only caller and I didn't want to add a forward declaration. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Venki Pallipadi authored
There is a defect in mprotect, which lets the user change the page cache type bits by-passing the kernel reserve_memtype and free_memtype wrappers. Fix the problem by not letting mprotect change the PAT bits. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Current module loader lookups ".data.percpu" ELF section to perform per_cpu relocation. But DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() uses another section (".data.percpu.shared_aligned"), currently only handled in vmlinux.lds, not by module loader. To correct this problem, instead of adding logic into module loader, or using at build time a module.lds file for all arches to group ".data.percpu.shared_aligned" into ".data.percpu", just use ".data.percpu" for modules. Alignment requirements are correctly handled by ld and module loader. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geoff Levand authored
Add a check to online_pages() to test for failure of walk_memory_resource(). This fixes a condition where a failure of walk_memory_resource() can lead to online_pages() returning success without the requested pages being onlined. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Harvey Harrison authored
Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it. Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value. Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many places in the tree that will be consolidated. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robin Getz authored
This art design is beautiful, isn't it? And you can watch our demo on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fKyQOntPEFsSigned-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tiger Yang authored
This fix the uninitialized bs when we try to replace a xattr entry in ibody with the new value which require more than free space. This situation only happens we format ext3/4 with inode size more than 128 and we have put xattr entries both in ibody and block. The consequences about this bug is we will lost the xattr block which pointed by i_file_acl with all xattr entires in it. We will alloc a new xattr block and put that large value entry in it. The old xattr block will become orphan block. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mirco Tischler authored
Return type of cpu_rt_runtime_write() should be int instead of ssize_t. Signed-off-by: Mirco Tischler <mt-ml@gmx.de> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Frysinger authored
I noticed this because alpha was broken due to the recent commit commit bdc80787 ("avoid overflows in kernel/time.c"). Most arches do something like this in their asm/param.h: #ifdef __KERNEL__ # define HZ CONFIG_HZ #else # define HZ 100 #endif A few arches though (namely alpha/h8300/um/v850/xtensa) either do no set HZ at all for !__KERNEL__, or they set it wrongly. This should bring all arches in line by setting up HZ for userspace. Without this currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha: perl.c: In function 'perl_construct': perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this function) -> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.0-10;arch=alpha;stamp=1210252894Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ HZ on alpha is 1024 for historical reasons. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mingming Cao authored
Updating the current transaction's t_state is protected by j_state_lock. We need to do the same when updating the t_state to T_COMMIT. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Heiko Carstens authored
__add_zone calls memmap_init_zone twice if memory gets attached to an empty zone. Once via init_currently_empty_zone and once explictly right after that call. Looks like this is currently not a bug, however the call is superfluous and might lead to subtle bugs if memmap_init_zone gets changed. So make sure it is called only once. Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nate Case authored
The current OF probing assumes that the resource is IORESOURCE_MEM. This checks for the IORESOURCE_IO flag and behaves appropriately. An I/O resource can exist with an ipmi device node on a legacy ISA bus. Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nicolas Ferre authored
Fix initialization of framebuffer not calling ioremap_writecombine() function and not using internal SRAM for at91sam9rl. This is a little rework of the "Don't initialize a pre-allocated framebuffer" patch that corrects the call to ioremap_writecombine() function. It also cuts the use of internal SRAM for at91sam9rl : it is a bit small for a framebuffer. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Cc: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
filemap_fault will go into an infinite loop if ->readpage() fails asynchronously. AFAICS the bug was introduced by this commit, which removed the wait after the final readpage: commit d00806b1 Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Date: Thu Jul 19 01:46:57 2007 -0700 mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings Fix by reintroducing the wait_on_page_locked() after ->readpage() to make sure the page is up-to-date before jumping back to the beginning of the function. I've noticed this while testing nfs exporting on fuse. The patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored
The AD181x and AZT230 chips don't support an IRQ-less MPU401 option but work fine without one. This adds (priority functional) IRQ-less options for each port option to help systems with few available IRQs. The AD1815 quirk can't use pnp_register_irq_resource() due to doubly penalizing the IRQ. Also, while not a practical issue due to no IRQ option being present for the dependents, this needs to add in front, not back. Doesn't use pnp_register_port_resource() for symetry with above. This does not delete the AD1815 independent option even though it should be empty after the IRQ transfer due to AD1816 coming with an empty but still present independent option by default. Was tested on AD1815, AD1816 and AZT2320. The ALSA snd-ad1818a driver also support the AZT2002 ID for MPU401 but this doesn't as I was unable to test it. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Tested-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Acked-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored
The subsequent AD181x quirk patch would like this as part of the API. pnp_register_dependent_option() adds to the same dependent chain the quirk is walking which is fairly unclean. This enables a private option chain build which it can then just add onto the end when done. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Tested-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Acked-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored
Make it look a bit more like pci_fixup_device/pci_do_fixups. Also print the PnP ID and delete the () from the "foo+0x0/0x1234()". Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Tested-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Acked-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jens Rottmann authored
The following patch caused a regression with OLPC panels: commit 3888d463 lxfb: extend PLL table to support dotclocks below 25 MHz Extends the PLL frequency table of the AMD Geode-LX frame buffer driver to make use of the DIV4 bit, thus adding support for dotclocks between 6 and 25 MHz. These are needed for small LCDs (e.g. 320x240). Also inserts some intermediate steps between pre-existing frequencies. The problem was the insertion of intermediate steps into the frequency table; they would cause the wrong frequency to be matched. This patch drops those intermediate frequencies while keeping the sub-25MHz frequencies. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann@LiPPERT-AT.de> Tested-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Alignment was previously requested because cpu_buffer was an [NR_CPUS] array, to avoid cache line sharing between CPUS. After commit 608dfddd (oprofile: change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable ), we dont need to force an alignement anymore since cpu_buffer sits in per_cpu zone. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sebastian Siewior authored
Schedule a removal for this driver. Alternative driver is available for a while now. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Grant Likely authored
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: 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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- 14 May, 2008 18 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: cs5520: disable VDMA ide/Kconfig: couple of fixes alim15x3: remove WDC_ALI15X3 config option alim15x3: add "wdc_udma" module parameter alim15x3: remove stale warning about ATI RS100 northbridge alim15x3: trivial cleanup for ali_set_pio_mode() make ide-iops.c:SELECT_MASK() static SWARM IDE: Fix up following changes to ide_hwif_t
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Disable Virtual DMA support for now (it causes system hangs). Thanks to TAKADA Yoshihito for the help with debugging the problem. Reported-by: TAKADA Yoshihito <takada@mbf.nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
* Don't ask to enable no longer existing config options ("Use DMA by default when available" and "Special UDMA Feature"). * PIIX host driver doesn't support Victory66 chipset. * "ide0=cmd640_vlb" -> "cmd640.probe_vlb" * "ide=doubler" -> "gayle.doubler" * Amiga IDE doubler support is a feature for gayle host driver not a separate host driver. * Remove Andre's mail. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
There is "wdc_udma" module parameter now. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Add "wdc_udma" module parameter for allowing UDMA transfers on M1543C-E chipset for WDC disks. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Remove commented out code and stale comment. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Adrian Bunk authored
SELECT_MASK() can now become static. [bart: remove space between function name and open parenthesis] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Maciej W. Rozycki authored
Following recent changes to ide_hwif_t update the SWARM IDE driver to use hw_regs_t to initialize port mapping. Plus minor layout adjustments along the lines of other drivers. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: RDMA/cxgb3: Wrap the software send queue pointer as needed on flush IB/ipath: Change ipath_devdata.ipath_sdma_status to be unsigned long IB/ipath: Make ipath_portdata work with struct pid * not pid_t IB/ipath: Fix RDMA read response sequence checking IB/ipath: Fix many locking issues when switching to error state IB/ipath: Fix RC and UC error handling RDMA/nes: Fix up nes_lro_max_aggr module parameter
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (70 commits) V4L/DVB (7900): pvrusb: Fix Kconfig if DVB=m V4L_core=y V4L/DVB (7899): Fixes a few remaining Kbuild issues at common/tuners V4L/DVB (7898): Fix VIDEO_MEDIA Kconfig logic V4L/DVB (7895): tveeprom: update Hauppauge analog audio and video decoders V4L/DVB (7893): xc5000: bug-fix: allow multiple devices in a single system V4L/DVB (7891): cx18/ivtv: fix open() kernel oops V4L/DVB (7890): cx18: removed bogus and confusing conditional V4L/DVB (7889): cx18: improve HVR-1600 detection. V4L/DVB (7888): cx18: minor card definition updates. V4L/DVB (7887): cx18: fix Compro H900 analog support. V4L/DVB (7881): saa7134: fixed a compile warning in saa7134-core.c V4L/DVB (7880): saa7134: remove explicit GPIO initialization V4L/DVB(7879): Adding cx18 Support for mxl5005s V4L/DVB(7878): mxl55005s: Makefile and Kconfig additions V4L/DVB(7877): mxl5005s: Ensure debug is off V4L/DVB(7876): mxl5005s: Remove incorrect copyright holders V4L/DVB(7875): mxl5005s: Remove redundant functions V4L/DVB(7874): mxl5005s: Fix function statics V4L/DVB(7873): mxl5005s: Fix header includes. V4L/DVB(7872): mxl5005s: checkpatch.pl compliance ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: Driver core: struct class remove children list block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (22 commits) USB: atmel_usba_udc fixes, mostly disconnect() USB: pxa27x_udc: minor fixes usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface USB: serial gadget: descriptor cleanup USB: serial gadget: simplify endpoint handling USB: serial gadget: remove needless data structure USB: serial gadget: cleanup/reorg usb: fix compile warning in isp1760 USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in 'option' driver USB: Fix unusual_devs.h ordering USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem in option driver USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem usb: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings found by sparse USB: isp1760: fix printk format USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to option driver USB: add association.h ...
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Dave Young authored
because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers authored
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access, so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting. This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and broke some users machines :( Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (73 commits) net: Fix typo in net/core/sock.c. ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device. netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange netfilter: ctnetlink: dump conntrack ID in event messages irda: Fix a misalign access issue. (v2) sctp: Fix use of uninitialized pointer cipso: Relax too much careful cipso hash function. tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery New maintainer for Intel ethernet adapters DM9000: Use delayed work to update MII PHY state DM9000: Update and fix driver debugging messages DM9000: Add __devinit and __devexit attributes to probe and remove sky2: fix simple define thinko [netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support [netdrvr] sfc: Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event [netdrvr] sfc: Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX [netdrvr] sfc: Fix code formatting [netdrvr] sfc: Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic [netdrvr] sfc: Remove garbage from comment ...
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Nick Piggin authored
There is a possible data race in the page table walking code. After the split ptlock patches, it actually seems to have been introduced to the core code, but even before that I think it would have impacted some architectures (powerpc and sparc64, at least, walk the page tables without taking locks eg. see find_linux_pte()). The race is as follows: The pte page is allocated, zeroed, and its struct page gets its spinlock initialized. The mm-wide ptl is then taken, and then the pte page is inserted into the pagetables. At this point, the spinlock is not guaranteed to have ordered the previous stores to initialize the pte page with the subsequent store to put it in the page tables. So another Linux page table walker might be walking down (without any locks, because we have split-leaf-ptls), and find that new pte we've inserted. It might try to take the spinlock before the store from the other CPU initializes it. And subsequently it might read a pte_t out before stores from the other CPU have cleared the memory. There are also similar races in higher levels of the page tables. They obviously don't involve the spinlock, but could see uninitialized memory. Arch code and hardware pagetable walkers that walk the pagetables without locks could see similar uninitialized memory problems, regardless of whether split ptes are enabled or not. I prefer to put the barriers in core code, because that's where the higher level logic happens, but the page table accessors are per-arch, and open-coding them everywhere I don't think is an option. I'll put the read-side barriers in alpha arch code for now (other architectures perform data-dependent loads in order). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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