Use pid_alive() rather than testing for a zero value of ->pid.  Is the right
thing to do and addresses an oops dereferencing real_parent which one person
reported.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

When drives go offline, e.g.  usb-storage disconnect, the upper layers
don't behave very intelligently yet: ext3 over scsi keeps retrying reads,
logging three lines for each error:

10:58:31  scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device
10:58:31  EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #18089296 offset 0
10:58:31 
10:59:47  EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #18089296 offset 0

This patch shrinks that log spam by the trivial third, getting rid of those
needless blank lines.  It's not clear to me why the "no such device" errors
don't immediately make ext3 (or is it the block layer?) give up ...  maybe
someone else can make Linux not retry after those errors.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We need to set the PF_SYNCWRITE when performing direct-io writes.  Otherwise
the anticipatory scheduler exhibits bad read-starves-write problems.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Recently I tried booting a UP kernel on a 1-processor logical partition on
a POWER4 system.  It failed because the CPU we happened to be running on
was CPU 2, but hard_smp_processor_id() is defined to 0 for !CONFIG_SMP. 
(Note that this code runs quite early, as part of init_IRQ, so
hard_smp_processor_id() should be the physical ID of the boot cpu.)

This patch does a minimal fix to make it work.  I think this patch should
go in 2.6.10.  Ultimately I think the hard_smp_processor_id() definition
should be removed from include/linux/smp.h, but that carries a risk of
breaking other architectures and probably shouldn't be done pre 2.6.10.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Found a subtle bug that caused mount errors on a SATA drive with
barriers on reiser and ext3, where it should have recovered and just
turned off barriers. The problem is that the EOPNOTSUPP error isn't
being propagated properly to the bounced bio. This patch fixes that by
correctly passing error all the way down.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch is from Will Schmidt <willschm@us.ibm.com>, with some extra
comments from me.

On iSeries and on POWER5 machines, there is a data structure which is
used for communication between the hypervisor and the kernel, called
the `lppaca'.  The kernel tells the hypervisor where it is, and the
hypervisor requires that it doesn't cross a page boundary.  With other
changes in the last few months we have ended up with a situation where
it could cross a page boundary.  This patch increases the alignment
requirement for the struct to make sure that it can't cross a page
boundary.

This is a bug fix and should go into 2.6.10.
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt  <willschm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

allowing buffer size to be changed

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

into bkbits.net:/repos/c/cifs/linux-2.5cifs

The patch below by "Petri T. Koistinen" <petri.koistinen@iki.fi> in
Rusty's trivial patches is IMHO a candidate for 2.6.10 .
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

into bkbits.net:/repos/c/cifs/linux-2.5cifs

It contains the thread info pointer. That's not something that
user mode can really use for anything interesting, but it's also
not something that user mode should ever really see.

Pointed out by Brad Spender as being in PaX.

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

buffers and for maximum number of simultaneous requests.  Fix directio of 
userbuffers to use copy_to_user.

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

into bkbits.net:/repos/c/cifs/linux-2.5cifs

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

From: Edward Falk <efalk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

When we issue an ide command the status bits don't become valid for
400nS. In the DMA case ide_execute_command handles this but in the PIO
case we don't do the needed locking, use OUTBSYNC to avoid posting or
delay. This means that in some situations we can execute the command
handler in PIO mode before the command status bits are valid and the
handler may read and act wrongly.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

From: Clear Zhang <Clear.Zhang@uli.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

From: Pascal Lengard <lklm@lengard.net>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

pdc202xx_old_cable_detect() always returns '0' (which means 80c cable)
due to a sloppy coding - result of CIS & mask is truncated to 8 bits
although CIS holds cable info in bits 10-11.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Reported to work OK by Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Reported to work OK by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net> and Anton <_xman_@mail.ru>.

Fixes bugzilla bug #3730.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

[CIFS] Allow peek to return less than smb header so we do not prematurely kill session to server when 
socket stack is busy.

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

It's a purely theoretical bug, since the kmalloc() failure that
might "leak" file descriptors cannot actually happen (we do not
ever fail small GFP_KERNEL allocations), but it's good to do
things properly.

Noted by Brad Spender.

Noted by Georgi Guninski

into bkbits.net:/repos/c/cifs/linux-2.5cifs

dnotify to be disabled by default. Fix dnotify endianness.

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

Description: Bug 387 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387)
is fixed by the attached patch, which sends waitqueue wake-ups to all
the appropriate wait-queue entries when a device is removed from
the system.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>