1. 18 Feb, 2004 40 commits
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      [PATCH] defer panic for too many items in boot parameter line · f9d4cdfc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
      
      When passing too many unrecognized boot command line options (which become
      arguments or environment variables), the 2.6 kernel panics (unlike 2.4,
      which just ignores the extra items).  Unfortunately, this happens before
      the console is initialized, so all you get is a kernel that dies quickly,
      for no apparent reason.
      
      This is particularly irritating if using UML with
      init=something wi th a lot of ar gu men t s
      
      The patch below delays the panic until after console_init.
      
      (akpm: I mainly added this in because we have other places where the
      panic-later-on machinery is needed).
      f9d4cdfc
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      [PATCH] adfs: remove a kernel 2.2 #ifdef · 0ad0b87d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      The patch below removes a kernel 2.2 #ifdef from fs/adfs/adfs.h .
      
      Note that this #ifdef was only present in the header, the implementation
      of adfs_bmap was already removed.
      0ad0b87d
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      [PATCH] kbuild documentation fix · 4f3a9491
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ryan Boder <icanoop@bitwiser.org>
      
      Explains how to compile external modules in
      Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt.
      4f3a9491
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      [PATCH] remove kernel 2.2 #ifdef's from {i,}stallion.h · c9700b7e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      The patch below removeskernel 2.2 #ifdef's from {i,}stallion.h .
      c9700b7e
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      [PATCH] OSS: remove #ifdef's for kernel 2.0 · 32856f32
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      The patch below removes two #ifdef's for kernel 2.0 from OSS.
      32856f32
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      [PATCH] Rename bitmap_snprintf() and cpumask_snprintf() to *_scnprintf() · e9dc2e51
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
      
      Rename bitmap_snprintf() to bitmap_scnprintf() and cpumask_snprintf() to
      cpumask_scnprintf(), as these functions now belong to the scnprintf family
      of functions.
      e9dc2e51
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      [PATCH] MCE fixes and cleanups · 3aa6ed84
      Andrew Morton authored
      Andi notes that the
      
      	smp_call_function(foo);
      	foo();
      
      in there is incorrect on preemptible kernels.
      
      Fix that by using on_each_cpu(), which takes care of such things.
      
      Also, remove the open-coded timer from here.  We have
      schedule_delayed_work().
      
      And remove the `timerset' variable, which doesn't do anything.
      3aa6ed84
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      [PATCH] Fix printk level on non fatal MCEs · 2d943d44
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      
      For various reasons non fatal Machine Checks can happen on Athlons (e.g.
      we have reports that laptops like to trigger them on suspend/resume)
      
      They are not necessarily fatal and often only minor hardware glitches.
      
      But what's annoying is that they're KERN_EMERG and pollute your console and
      scare the user into writing confused kernel bug reports.
      
      This patch just replaces the KERN_EMERGs with KERN_INFO for now.  Longer
      term I think it would be better to log this stuff into a separate log.
      2d943d44
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      [PATCH] 8259 timer ack fix · 660ab10c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
      
      Fix up the 8259 ack handling for buggy SMM firmware.
      
      See http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.2/0956.html
      
      Apparently the embedded 8259A-compatible core is not fully functional.
      This patch lets the I/O APIC-driven NMI watchdog to function correctly.
      Credit to Ross Dickson for discovering this.
      660ab10c
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      [PATCH] dm: drop BIO_SEG_VALID bit · d4634c58
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      I just noticed that bio_clone copies the BIO_SEG_VALID bit from the original
      bio when it was set.  When we modify bi_idx or bi_vcnt afterwards the segment
      counts are invalid and the bit must be dropped (though it is fairly unlikely
      that it has already been set).  [Christophe Saout]
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      [PATCH] dm: Remove redundant spin lock in dec_pending() · 01fce686
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Remove redundant spin lock in dec_pending()
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      [PATCH] dm: Zero size target sanity check · bc553993
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Add sanity check to dm_table_add_target() against zero length targets.
      [Christophe Saout]
      bc553993
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      [PATCH] dm: Correct GFP flag in dm_table_create() · 2c2eae81
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      For some reason dm_table_create() was allocating GFP_NOIO rather than
      GFP_KERNEL.
      2c2eae81
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      [PATCH] dm: Tidy up the error path for alloc_dev() · 6b1b56f9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Tidy up the error path for alloc_dev()
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      [PATCH] dm: Maintain ordering when deferring bios · 54e37e09
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Make sure that we maintain ordering when deferring bios.
      54e37e09
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      [PATCH] dm: Get rid of struct dm_deferred_io in dm.c · a0befbbc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Remove struct dm_deferred_io from dm.c.  [Christophe Saout]
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      [PATCH] dm: Move to_bytes() and to_sectors() into dm.h · 0901c174
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Move to_bytes() and to_sectors() into dm.h
      0901c174
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      [PATCH] dm: Export dm_vcalloc() · c087ec3d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
      
      Export dm_vcalloc()
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      [PATCH] md: Allow partitioning of MD devices. · 1797a796
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      With this patch, md used two major numbers for arrays.
      
      One Major is number 9 with name 'md' have unpartitioned md arrays, one per
      minor number.
      
      The other Major is allocated dynamically with name 'mdp' and had on array for
      every 64 minors, allowing for upto 63 partitions.
      
      The arrays under one major are completely separate from the arrays under the
      other.
      
      The preferred name for devices with the new major are of the form:
      
        /dev/md/d1p3  # partion 3 of device 1 - minor 67
      
      When a paritioned md device is assembled, the partitions are not recognised
      until after the whole-array device is opened again.  A future version of
      mdadm will perform this open so that the need will be transparent.
      1797a796
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      [PATCH] md: Dynamically limit size of bio requests used for raid1 resync · 5077fef0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      Currently raid1 uses PAGE_SIZE read/write requests for resync, as it doesn't
      know how to honour per-device restrictions.  This patch uses to bio_add_page
      to honour those restrictions and ups the limit on request size to 64K.  This
      has a measurable impact on rebuild speed (25M/s -> 60M/s)
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      [PATCH] md: Avoid unnecessary bio allocation during raid1 resync · 89654f5b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      For each resync request, we allocate a "r1_bio" which has a bio "master_bio"
      attached that goes largely unused.  We also allocate a read_bio which is
      used.  This patch removes the read_bio and just uses the master_bio instead.
      
      This fixes a bug wherein bi_bdev of the master_bio wasn't being set, but was
      being used.
      
      We also introduce a new "sectors" field into the r1_bio as we can no-longer
      rely in master_bio->bi_sectors.
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      [PATCH] md: Remove some un-needed fields from r1bio_s · d0d464b1
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      next_r1 is never used, so it can just go.
      
      read_bio isn't needed as we can easily use one of the pointers in the
      write_bios array - write_bios[->read_disk].  So rename "write_bios" to "bios"
      and store the pointer to the read bio in there.
      d0d464b1
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      [PATCH] md: Discard the cmd field from r1_bio structure · ebf7768e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      The only time it is really needed is to differentiate a retry-on-fail from a
      write-after-read-for-resync request to raid1d.  So we use a bit in 'state'
      for that.
      ebf7768e
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      [PATCH] md: Split read and write end_request handlers · c1dd448e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      Instead of having a single end_request handler that must determine whether it
      was a read or a write request, we have two separate handlers, which makes
      each of them easier to follow.
      c1dd448e
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      [PATCH] md: Print "deprecated" warning when START_ARRAY is used. · a2c4e506
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      The "START_ARRAY" ioctl depends on major/minor numbers (as stored in the raid
      superblock) are stable over reboots, which is increasingly untrue.
      
      There are better ways to start an array (e.g.  with mdadm) so we mark the
      ioctl as deprecated for 2.6, and will remove it in 2.7.
      a2c4e506
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      [PATCH] kNFSd:fix build problems in nfs w/o proc_fs on 2.6.0-test5 · 67afcb4f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
      Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:31:06 -0700
      
      NFS won't build w/o CONFIG_PROC_FS.  Looks like typo's (or a C++
      programmer) in stats.h
      67afcb4f
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      [PATCH] kNFSd: convert NFS /proc interfaces to seq_file · 2a0807bd
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: shemminger@osdl.org Sat Sep  6 09:19:50 2003
      Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:19:30 -0700
      
      Converts /proc/net/rpc/nfs and /proc/net/rpc/nfsd to use the simpler
      seq_file interface.
      2a0807bd
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      [PATCH] kNFSd: ip_map_init does a kmalloc which isn't checked... · bbcc5fa8
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      There is no way to return an error from a cache init routine, so instead we
      make sure to pre-allocate the memory needed, and free it after the lookup
      if the lookup failed.
      bbcc5fa8
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      [PATCH] kNFSd: Allow sunrpc/svc cache init function to modify the "key" · 9417bd87
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      When adding a item to a sunrpc/svc cache that contains kmalloced data it is
      usefully to move the malloced data out of the key object into the new cache
      object rather than copying (as then we would need to cope with kmalloc
      failure and such).  This means modifying the original.
      
      If the kmalloced data forms part of the key, then we must not move the data
      out until after the key isn't needed any more.  So this patch moves the
      call to "INIT" on a new item (which fills in the key) to *after* the item
      has been found (or not), and also makes sure we only call the HASH function
      once.
      
      Thanks to "J.  Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      also
      
       1/ remove unnecessary assignment
       2/ fix comments that lag behind implementation.
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      [PATCH] kNFSd: Fix possible scheduling_while_atomic in cache.c · 16b82dca
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      We currently call cache_put, which can schedule(), under a spin_lock.  This
      patch moves that call outside the spinlock.
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      [PATCH] #if versus #ifdef cleanup · c65febbb
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      
      15 changes of #if to #ifdef and 2 places CONFIG_FOO should be
      defined(CONFIG_FOO).  This gets rid of spurious warnings if you build with
      "-Wundef" so you get a warning if you have a preprocessor command like:
      
      #if CONFIG_ETRAX_DS1302_RSTBIT == 27
      
      and you'll be told if it's substituting a zero rather than silent
      weirdness and unexpected code generation.
      c65febbb
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      [PATCH] MIPS: New 2.6 serial drivers · b7df53b3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      
      Three new MIPS-specific serial drivers.  ip22.c is derived from the sparc
      zilog driver; guess we should write a generic Zilog driver somewhen ...
      b7df53b3
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      [PATCH] Enable coredumps > 2GB · 95b387a4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      
      Some x86-64 users were complaining that coredumps >2GB don't work.
      
      This will enable large coredump for everybody.  Apparently the 32bit
      gdb/binutils cannot handle them, but I hear the binutils people are working
      on fixing that.  I doubt it will harm people - unreadable coredumps are not
      worse than no coredump and it won't make any difference in space usage if
      you get a 1.99GB or a 2.5GB coredump.  So just enable it unconditionally.
      If it should be really a problem for 32bit the rlimit defaults in
      resource.h could be changed.
      
      For file systems that don't support O_LARGEFILE you should just get an
      truncated coredumps for big address spaces.
      95b387a4
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      [PATCH] devfs: race fixes and cleanup · bf98c406
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
      
      - use struct nameidata in devfs_d_revalidate_wait to detect when it is
        called without i_sem hold; take i_sem on parent in this case.  This
        prevents both deadlock with devfs_lookup by allowing it to drop i_sem
        consistently and oops in d_instantiate by ensuring that it always runs
        protected
      
      - remove dead code that deals with major number allocation.  The only
        remaining user was devfs itself and patch changes it to
      
      - use register_chardev to get device number for internal /dev/.devfsd and
        /dev/.statd.
      
      - remove dead auto allocation flag as well
      
      - remove code that does module get on dev open - it is handled by fops_get.
         Use init_special_inode consistently
      
      - get rid of struct cdev_type and bdev_type - both have just single dev_t
        now
      bf98c406
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      [PATCH] snprintf fixes · 01d1a791
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Juergen Quade <quade@hsnr.de>
      
      Lots of places in the kernel are using [v]snprintf wrongly: they assume it
      returns the number of characters copied.  It doesn't.  It returns the
      number of characters which _would_ have been copied had the buffer not been
      filled up.
      
      So create new functions vscnprintf() and scnprintf() which have the
      expected (sane) semaptics, and migrate callers over to using them.
      01d1a791
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      [PATCH] bd_set_size i_size handling · 53b15b86
      Andrew Morton authored
      We need to hold i_sem while running i_size_write().  But that seems like a
      lot of fuss and deadlock potential.  So just write the dang thing.
      53b15b86
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      [PATCH] Mark intermezzo as broken · eaaec5b5
      Andrew Morton authored
      The NGROUPS changes broke it, and we're not sure how to fixit, and nobody
      appears to be working on or testing intermezzo.
      eaaec5b5
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      [PATCH] NGROUPS 2.6.2rc2 + fixups · a937b06e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>,
            Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
            me
      
      New groups infrastructure.  task->groups and task->ngroups are replaced by
      task->group_info.  Group)info is a refcounted, dynamic struct with an array
      of pages.  This allows for large numbers of groups.  The current limit of
      32 groups has been raised to 64k groups.  It can be raised more by changing
      the NGROUPS_MAX constant in limits.h
      a937b06e
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      [PATCH] bonding alias revert and documentation fix · 7e594425
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Jeff Garzik disliked the bonding driver knowing it was called "bond0".
      Remove that alias, and revert documentation.
      7e594425
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      [PATCH] add some more MODULE_ALIASes · 69b848dd
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      New MODULE_ALIASes in:
      1) arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
      2) drivers/char/genrtc.c
      3) drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
      4) drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
      5) drivers/net/bsd_comp.c
      6) drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c
      7) drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
      69b848dd