1. 29 Dec, 2003 40 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix dcache and icache bloat with deep directories · 6f5bd3c5
      Andrew Morton authored
      This fixes the recently-reported "fsstress memory leak" problem.  It has been
      there since November 2002.
      
      shrink_dcache() has a heuristic to prevent the dcache (and hence icache) from
      getting shrunk too far: it refuses to allow the dcache to shrink below
      2*nr_used.
      
      Problem is, _all_ non-leaf dentries (directories) count as used.  So when you
      have really deep directory hierarchies (fsstress creates these), nr_used is
      really high, and there is no upper bound to the amount of pinned dcache.
      
      The patch just rips out the heuristic.  This means that dcache (and hence
      icache (and hence pagecache)) will be shrunk more aggressively.  This could
      be a problem, and tons of testing is needed - a new heuristic may be needed.
      
      However I am not able to reproduce the problem which cause me to add this
      heuristic in the first place:
      
         Simple testcase: run a huge `dd' while running a concurrent `watch -n1
         cat /proc/meminfo'.  The program text for `cat' gets loaded from disk once
         per second.
      6f5bd3c5
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] cmpci.c: remove pointless set_fs() · a61f9729
      Andrew Morton authored
      It is doing a set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for no obvious reason.
      
      Spotted by margitsw@t-online.de (Margit Schubert-While)
      a61f9729
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ext3 scheduling latency fix · 9e77aa68
      Andrew Morton authored
      Sometimes kjournald has to refile a huge number of buffers, because someone
      else wrote them out beforehand - they are all clean.
      
      This happens under a lock and scheduling latencies of 88 milliseconds on a
      2.7GHx CPU were observed.
      
      The patch forward-ports a little bit of the 2.4 low-latency patch to fix this
      problem.
      
      Worst-case on ext3 is now sub-half-millisecond, except for when the RCU
      dentry reaping softirq cuts in :(
      9e77aa68
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] make name_to_dev_t __init · c5427c68
      Andrew Morton authored
      It calls __init functions anyway.
      c5427c68
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Use __GFP_REPEAT for cdrom buffer · 40ea9a64
      Andrew Morton authored
      The cdrom driver does an order-4 allocation and the open will fail if that
      allocation does not succeed.  This happened to me on an unstressed 900MB
      machine.
      
      So add the __GFP_REPEAT flag in there - this will cause the page allocator to
      keep on freeing pages until the allocation succeeds.
      
      It can in theory livelock but in practice I expect it is OK: the user should
      just stop running dbench or whatever it is which is gobbling all the memory
      and the mount/open will then succeed.
      40ea9a64
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] scale the initial value of min_free_kbytes · 4d1ba80c
      Andrew Morton authored
      This tunable refers to the amount of free memory which the VM will attempt to
      sustain.  It is mainly needed for atomic allocations (eg, networking
      receive).
      
      It is currently hardwired to 1024k, which is far too large for small machines
      and too small for large machines.
      
      Rework it to be 128k on tiny machines and 16M on huge machines.
      4d1ba80c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sqrt() fixes · e44db7e2
      Andrew Morton authored
      It turns out that the int_sqrt() function in oom_kill.c gets it wrong.
      
      But fb_sqrt() in fbmon.c gets its math right.  Move that function into
      lib/int_sqrt.c, and consolidate.
      
      (oom_kill.c fix from Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>)
      e44db7e2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] compat_ioctl for i2c · 9b1ace8b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      
      I needed those for the G5 on ppc64, so here they are, I was only
      able to test the SMBUS stuff though.
      9b1ace8b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] EFI support for ia32 · c596442a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
      
      Attached is a patch that enables EFI boot-up support in ia32 kernels.
      
      In order to continue to determine whether the kernel should initialize using
      EFI tables, I've temporarily added a check on the LOADER_TYPE boot parameter.
       Although I haven't requested that elilo be assigned an id for this yet, I've
      used this to determine whether the kernel should use the EFI initialization
      path as well as a check to see if the EFI_SYSTAB boot parameter contains
      anything.  If someone has a better suggestion for determining this, I'm
      open...
      
      This patch also uses the existing ioremapping functions to map the efi tables
      into kernel virtual address space.  I've added an option such that I could
      use Dave Hansen's boot_ioremap() before paging_init().  After paging_init, I
      then remap the efi memmap using bt_ioremap for use later.  This has
      eliminated the need for several functions...thanks for the suggestions and
      thanks for your help Dave.  Still this could use a look-see.
      c596442a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ia32 Message Signalled Interrupt support · f036d4ea
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: long <tlnguyen@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
      
      
      Add support for Message Signalled Interrupt delivery on ia32.
      
      With a fix from Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
      f036d4ea
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] futex uninlining · 82b699a6
      Andrew Morton authored
                 text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      Before:    4674    1040    4100    9814    2656 kernel/futex.o
      After:     4098    1176    4100    9374    249e kernel/futex.o
      82b699a6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] make /proc/tty/driver/ S_IRUSR | S_IXUSR for root only · 4b66a41d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Fix for CAN-2003-0461: /proc/tty/driver/serial in Linux 2.4.x reveals the
      exact number of characters used in serial links, which could allow local
      users to obtain potentially sensitive information such as the length of
      passwords.
      4b66a41d
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix suid leak in /proc · ce3323db
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Fix for CAN-2003-0501: The /proc filesystem in Linux allows local users to
      obtain sensitive information by opening various entries in /proc/self
      before executing a setuid program, which causes the program to fail to
      change the ownership and permissions of those entries.
      ce3323db
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix unsigned issue with env_end - env_start · d585d2c0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Fix for CAN-2003-0462:  A race condition in the way env_start and
      env_end pointers are initialized in the execve system call and used in
      fs/proc/base.c on Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of
      service (crash).
      d585d2c0
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] use new steal_locks helper · 02c541ec
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Use the new steal_locks helper to steal the locks from the old files struct
      left from unshare_files() when the new unshared struct files gets used.
      02c541ec
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] add steal_locks helper · 088f5d72
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Add steal_locks helper for use in conjunction with unshare_files to make
      sure POSIX file lock semantics aren't broken due to unshare_files.
      088f5d72
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] use new unshare_files helper · 04e9bcb4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Use unshare_files during binary loading to eliminate potential leak of
      the binary's fd installed during execve().  As is, this breaks
      binfmt_som.c
      04e9bcb4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] unshare_files · 02cda956
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Introduce unshare_files as a helper for use during execve to eliminate
      potential leak of the execve'd binary's fd.
      02cda956
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/compat-aio-2.6 · 3a8d5347
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      3a8d5347
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge davem@nuts.ninka.net:/disk1/davem/BK/compat-aio-2.5 · 30ca6c0b
      David S. Miller authored
      into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/compat-aio-2.5
      30ca6c0b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-exp · 42c1faa2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      42c1faa2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/sparc-2.5 · 0b170e19
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      0b170e19
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://linuxusb.bkbits.net/usb-devel-2.6 · 9ade0432
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      9ade0432
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge davem@nuts.ninka.net:/disk1/davem/BK/sparc-2.5 · 3a613294
      David S. Miller authored
      into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/sparc-2.5
      3a613294
    • Pete Zaitcev's avatar
      [SPARC]: Get sun4c functional again in 2.6.0 · f2a39c2b
      Pete Zaitcev authored
      Move some elements of task_struct into thread_info so that
      these elements are locked into the TLB in the trap handlers
      and thus will not cause a watchdog reset.
      f2a39c2b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Fix ATA 64-bit divides with CONFIG_LBD. · 88891ed3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Use "sector_div()" to do the division, that's what it
      exists for.
      88891ed3
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge nuts.ninka.net:/disk1/davem/BK/sparcwork-2.5 · 361d16e2
      David S. Miller authored
      into nuts.ninka.net:/disk1/davem/BK/sparc-2.5
      361d16e2
    • Arnaud Quette's avatar
      [PATCH] USB: disable hiddev support for MGE UPS · ad2188e3
      Arnaud Quette authored
      following my recent posts on libusb-devel and hidups, here's
      a patch to disable hiddev support for MGE UPSs. It only
      declares VID/PID as QUIRK_IGNORE in hid-core's blacklist.
      This simply prevent hiddev to be loaded when plugging
      an MGE UPS.
      ad2188e3
    • David Brownell's avatar
      [PATCH] USB: let USB_{PEGASUS,USBNET} depend on NET_ETHERNET · 4606bd17
      David Brownell authored
      Adrian Bunk wrote:
      > I observed the following small problem in 2.6:
      >
      > - MII depends on NET_ETHERNET
      > - USB_PEGASUS and USB_USBNET select MII, but they depend only on NET
      >
      > The patch below lets USB_PEGASUS and USB_USBNET depend on NET_ETHERNET
      > instead of NET to fix this issue.
      
      Actually how about this one instead?  The PEGASUS bit is the same.
      The difference is that MII (and CRC32) are only attributed to the
      driver code that needs those ... AX8817X needs both, ZAURUS just
      needs CRC32.  The core (which should eventually become a separate
      module) shouldn't depend on those modules at all.
      
      Also both CDCETHER and AX8817X are marked as non-experimental;
      I recall Dave Hollis submitted a patch to do that for AX8817X,
      and CDCETHER now seems to have gotten enough success reports too.
      4606bd17
    • David Brownell's avatar
      [PATCH] USB: ethernet gadget supports goku_udc · 3b99c1c4
      David Brownell authored
      This patch just adds TC86c001 (goku) UDC support to
      the "ether.c" gadget driver.  This hardware supports
      a full speed CDC Ethernet interface.
      3b99c1c4
    • David Brownell's avatar
      [PATCH] USB: gadget zero updates · 4a0764a0
      David Brownell authored
      Small updates:
      
         - support TC86c001 (goku_udc) controller
         - simplify the per-controller configuration
         - add two vendor requests to test control-OUT
         - some minor fixes
      4a0764a0
    • David Brownell's avatar
      [PATCH] USB: <linux/usb_gadget.h> doc updates · df4dfbbd
      David Brownell authored
      As more people have been using this API, the need for some
      clarifications has (no surprise!) came up.
      
      Most significant is the halt processing, needed to make
      Alan's "File Storage Gadget" (mass storage class, talks
      to usb-storage and Windows) handle fault cases cleanly.
      Gadget drivers can't halt IN endpoints until the FIFO is
      emptied by the host ...  virtually no hardware tries to
      sequence the DATA and STALL packets by itself.
      df4dfbbd
    • Adam Kropelin's avatar
      [PATCH] USB: Stop hiddev generating empty events · d3d1e308
      Adam Kropelin authored
      hiddev is mistakenly returning empty hiddev_event structures for report
      events. According to Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt, report events are
      only sent when HIDDEV_FLAG_REPORT and HIDDEV_FLAG_UREF are both set.
      Currently, report events from hid cause hiddev to generate empty
      hiddev_event events when HIDDEV_FLAG_UREF is not set.
      d3d1e308
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.5 · e241138a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      e241138a
    • Jeff Garzik's avatar
      Merge redhat.com:/spare/repo/linux-2.5 · a76a8a35
      Jeff Garzik authored
      into redhat.com:/spare/repo/libata-2.5
      a76a8a35
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/net-drivers-2.5 · 7629bad2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      7629bad2
    • Jeff Garzik's avatar
      Merge redhat.com:/spare/repo/linux-2.5 · 8a2e73e1
      Jeff Garzik authored
      into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5
      8a2e73e1
    • Wim Van Sebroeck's avatar
      [PATCH] Watchdog update · 4c538d4e
      Wim Van Sebroeck authored
      Kconfig:
         Reflect new watchdog Documentation directory.
      
      [USB] hid blacklist addition:
         Add the Berkshire Products USB PC Watchdog to the hid blacklist.
         This to avoid problems with USB-Disconnects when the card feels it
         should reboot...
      4c538d4e
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      Merge kroah.com:/home/linux/BK/bleed-2.5 · a59205e0
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      into kroah.com:/home/linux/BK/usb-new_drivers-2.6
      a59205e0
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Don't print out I/O error warnings for non-filesystem requests. · dbf8623b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The errors will be reported by the code that started the request,
      and printing out "sector numbers" for special requests makes no
      sense. 
      dbf8623b