- 20 Aug, 2010 29 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers. The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience. Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183). As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o ---- 7026 Total CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o ---- 2183 Total CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible) text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o --- 757 Total Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Commit cf244dc0 added a fourth level to the TREE_RCU hierarchy, but the RCU_FANOUT help message still said "cube root". This commit fixes this to "fourth root" and also emphasizes that production systems are well-served by the default. (Stress-testing RCU itself uses small RCU_FANOUT values in order to test large-system code paths on small(er) systems.) Located-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled immediately upon boot. They can be manually disabled via /sys (and also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic. However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time, but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting. For example, someone running a real-time application in production might not want the additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes. This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior (enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at boot time. Requested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Requested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Because both TINY_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU have been in mainline for several releases, it is time to restrict the use of TREE_RCU to SMP non-preemptible systems. This reduces testing/validation effort. This commit is a first step towards driving the selection of RCU implementation directly off of the SMP and PREEMPT configuration parameters. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Set the permissions of the rcu_cpu_stall_suppress to 644 to enable RCU CPU stall warnings to be enabled and disabled at runtime via sysfs. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Reported-by: Kyle Hubert <khubert@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
RCU heads really don't need to be initialized. Their state before call_rcu() really does not matter. We need to keep init/destroy_rcu_head_on_stack() though, since we want debugobjects to be able to keep track of these objects. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org CC: mingo@elte.hu CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com CC: josh@joshtriplett.org CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com CC: niv@us.ibm.com CC: tglx@linutronix.de CC: peterz@infradead.org CC: rostedt@goodmis.org CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: dhowells@redhat.com CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Make it explicit that new RCU read-side critical sections that start after call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() start might still be running after the end of the relevant grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Although the RCU CPU stall warning messages are a very good way to alert people to a problem, once alerted, it is sometimes helpful to shut them off in order to avoid obscuring other messages that might be being used to track down the problem. Although you can rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR=n, this is sometimes inconvenient. This commit therefore adds a boot parameter named "rcu_cpu_stall_suppress" that shuts these messages off without requiring a rebuild (though a reboot might be needed for those not brave enough to patch their kernel while it is running). This message-suppression was already in place for the panic case, so this commit need only rename the variable and export it via module_param(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Also set the default to 60 seconds, up from the previous hard-coded timeout of 10 seconds. This allows people who care to set short timeouts, while avoiding people with unusual configurations (make randconfig!!!) from being bothered with spurious CPU stall warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Tetsuo Handa authored
find_task_by_vpid() says "Must be called under rcu_read_lock().". But due to commit 3120438a "rcu: Disable lockdep checking in RCU list-traversal primitives", we are currently unable to catch "find_task_by_vpid() with tasklist_lock held but RCU lock not held" errors due to the RCU-lockdep checks being suppressed in the RCU variants of the struct list_head traversals. This commit therefore places an explicit check for being in an RCU read-side critical section in find_task_by_pid_ns(). =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/pid.c:386 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by rc.sysinit/1102: #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<c1048340>] sys_setpgid+0x40/0x160 stack backtrace: Pid: 1102, comm: rc.sysinit Not tainted 2.6.35-rc3-dirty #1 Call Trace: [<c105e714>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x94/0xb0 [<c104b4cd>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x6d/0x70 [<c104b4e8>] find_task_by_vpid+0x18/0x20 [<c1048347>] sys_setpgid+0x47/0x160 [<c1002b50>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36 Commit updated to use a new rcu_lockdep_assert() exported API rather than the old internal __do_rcu_dereference(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
&percpu_data is compatible with allocated percpu data. And we use it and remove the "->rda[NR_CPUS]" array, saving significant storage on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This does add an additional level of indirection and thus an additional cache line referenced, but because ->rda is not used on the read side, this is OK. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Add random preemption to help we to torture the preemptable rcu. srcu_read_delay() also calls rcu_read_delay() for shorter delays. Added comment to preempt_schedule() call indicating that no quiescent states happen if preemption is disabled. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Add a section describing PROVE_RCU, DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and the __rcu sparse checking to the RCU checklist. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
This avoids warnings from missing __rcu annotations in the rculist implementation, making it possible to use the same lists in both RCU and non-RCU cases. We can add rculist annotations later, together with lockdep support for rculist, which is missing as well, but that may involve changing all the users. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier. This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(), or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain. To enable such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER kernel configuration option. Please note that these sparse complaints are intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism. There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer() accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock. This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing their age. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The task_cls_classid() function applies rcu_dereference() to integers, which does not work with the shiny new sparse-based checking in rcu_dereference(). This commit therefore moves to the new RCU API rcu_dereference_index_check(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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- 18 Aug, 2010 11 commits
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: NFS: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 atomic open code NFS: Fix the selection of security flavours in Kconfig NFS: fix the return value of nfs_file_fsync() rpcrdma: Fix SQ size calculation when memreg is FRMR xprtrdma: Do not truncate iova_start values in frmr registrations. nfs: Remove redundant NULL check upon kfree() nfs: Add "lookupcache" to displayed mount options NFS: allow close-to-open cache semantics to apply to root of NFS filesystem SUNRPC: fix NFS client over TCP hangs due to packet loss (Bug 16494)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hidLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: USB HID: Add ID for eGalax Multitouch used in JooJoo tablet HID: hiddev: fix memory corruption due to invalid intfdata HID: hiddev: protect against disconnect/NULL-dereference race HID: picolcd: correct ordering of framebuffer freeing HID: picolcd: testing the wrong variable
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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] Fix build error: conflicting types for ‘sys_execve’
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David Howells authored
Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h to have various consts applied to its pointers. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tony Luck authored
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c:636: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_execve’ commit d7627467 Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer Missed the declaration of sys_execve in the ia64 asm/unistd.h (perhaps because there is no reason for it to be there ... it might be a left over from the COMPAT code?). Just delete the conflicting version. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fs: brlock vfsmount_lock fs: scale files_lock lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks tty: fix fu_list abuse fs: cleanup files_lock locking fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock apparmor: use task path helpers fs: dentry allocation consolidation fs: fix do_lookup false negative mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries hostfs ->follow_link() braino hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy remove SWRITE* I/O types kill BH_Ordered flag vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl cramfs: only unlock new inodes fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
This fixes a build breakage introduced by commit 4c2ef25f ("mmc: fix all hangs related to mmc/sd card insert/removal during suspend/resume") Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings perf annotate tui: Fix exit and RIGHT keys handling tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len) tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: emu10k1 - delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter) ALSA: hda - Fix ALC680 base model capture ASoC: Remove DSP mode support for WM8776 ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Vostro 1220 ALSA: riptide - Fix detection / load of firmware files
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommuLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu: m68knommu: include sched.h in ColdFire/SPI driver m68knommu: formatting of pointers in printk() m68knommu: arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h fix for nommu
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions. md: Notify sysfs when RAID1/5/10 disk is In_sync. Update recovery_offset even when external metadata is used.
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