Impact: removal of unnecessary looping

The lockless part of the ring buffer allows for reentry into the code
from interrupts. A timestamp is taken, a test is preformed and if it
detects that an interrupt occurred that did tracing, it tries again.

The problem arises if the timestamp code itself causes a trace.
The detection will detect this and loop again. The difference between
this and an interrupt doing tracing, is that this will fail every time,
and cause an infinite loop.

Currently, we test if the loop happens 1000 times, and if so, it will
produce a warning and disable the ring buffer.

The problem with this approach is that it makes it difficult to perform
some types of tracing (tracing the timestamp code itself).

Each trace entry has a delta timestamp from the previous entry.
If a trace entry is reserved but and interrupt occurs and traces before
the previous entry is commited, the delta timestamp for that entry will
be zero. This actually makes sense in terms of tracing, because the
interrupt entry happened before the preempted entry was commited, so
one may consider the two happening at the same time. The order is
still preserved in the buffer.

With this idea, instead of trying to get a new timestamp if an interrupt
made it in between the timestamp and the test, the entry could simply
make the delta zero and continue. This will prevent interrupts or
tracers in the timer code from causing the above loop.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

Impact: fix for bug on resize

This patch addresses the bug found here:

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996

When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of
the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing
is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted.

This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize
takes place.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Make the HP EliteBook 8530p use AD1884A model laptop
  ALSA: gusextreme: Fix build errors
  ALSA: hdsp: check for iobox and upload firmware during ioctl
  ALSA: HDSP: check for io box before uploading firmware
  ALSA: hda - Add another HP model (6730s) for AD1884A
  alsa: fix snd_BUG_on() and friends
  ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for MEDION MD96630
  ALSA: hda - Limit the number of GPIOs show in proc

Added a QUIRK to patch_analog.c for the HP Elitebook 8530p
(IDs 0x103c:0x30e7) to use AD1884A model 'laptop' by default.
Playback and Capture confirmed working.
Signed-off-by: Travis Place <wishie@wishie.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to
use block layer tagging.

 43a49cbd
 e013e13b
 2fca5ccf

Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the
tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and
hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with
the current conversion.

The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for
non-NCQ commands.  Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI
starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made.  I'm not
sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it
doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the
frailty of ATA controllers.

So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

gusextreme depends on opl3 support. Add the approriate select to Kconfig.
Also remove the unnecessary hwdep select.

Relevant build errors:
ERROR: "snd_opl3_hwdep_new" [sound/isa/gus/snd-gusextreme.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "snd_opl3_create" [sound/isa/gus/snd-gusextreme.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

It's showing up as regressions; disabling it very likely just papers
over an underlying issue, but time is running out for 2.6.28, lets get
back to this for 2.6.29

Fixes: #11826 and #11893
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: Fixup deb-pkg target to generate separate firmware deb

The below is a simplistic fix for "make deb-pkg"; it splits the
firmware out to a linux-firmware-image package and adds an
(unversioned) Suggests to the linux package for this firmware.
Signed-Off-By: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Acked-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

The "Exclude staging drivers" question is there so that we don't build
staging drivers for allyesconfig or allnoconfig settings, but it's very
irritating when you've already said "no" to staging drivers earlier.

There is absolutely no point in declining twice - once you've declined
the staging drivers, you're done.

So make the second question depend on the first question having been
answered in the affirmative.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  Fix nfsd truncation of readdir results

* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
  cpumask: new API, v2
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything

Commit 8d7c4203 "nfsd: fix failure to set eof in readdir in some
situations" introduced a bug: on a directory in an exported ext3
filesystem with dir_index unset, a READDIR will only return about 250
entries, even if the directory was larger.

Bisected it back to this commit; reverting it fixes the problem.

It turns out that in this case ext3 reads a block at a time, then
returns from readdir, which means we can end up with buf.full==0 but
with more entries in the directory still to be read.  Before 8d7c4203
(but after c002a6c7 "Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly"), this would
cause us to return the READDIR result immediately, but with the eof bit
unset.  That could cause a performance regression (because the client
would need more roundtrips to the server to read the whole directory),
but no loss in correctness, since the cleared eof bit caused the client
to send another readdir.  After 8d7c4203, the setting of the eof bit
made this a correctness problem.

So, move nfserr_eof into the loop and remove the buf.full check so that
we loop until buf.used==0.  The following seems to do the right thing
and reduces the network traffic since we don't return a READDIR result
until the buffer is full.

Tested on an empty directory & large directory; eof is properly sent and
there are no more short buffers.
Signed-off-by: Doug Nazar <nazard@dragoninc.ca>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

Impact: cleanup

Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others:

 - change to inline functions instead of macros
 - add __init to bootmem method
 - add a missing debug check
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Previously I assumed that the receive queues of candidates don't
change during the GC.  This is only half true, nothing can be received
from the queues (see comment in unix_gc()), but buffers could be added
through the other half of the socket pair, which may still have file
descriptors referring to it.

This can result in inc_inflight_move_tail() erronously increasing the
"inflight" counter for a unix socket for which dec_inflight() wasn't
previously called.  This in turn can trigger the "BUG_ON(total_refs <
inflight_refs)" in a later garbage collection run.

Fix this by only manipulating the "inflight" counter for sockets which
are candidates themselves.  Duplicating the file references in
unix_attach_fds() is also needed to prevent a socket becoming a
candidate for GC while the skb that contains it is not yet queued.
Reported-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU
architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user
mode preemption is disabled already.  It is nevertheless a good idea to
better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit
memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter
value in the wrong order.  On UP a simple compiler barrier is
sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
  mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  mmc: increase SD write timeout for crappy cards

Use menuconfig instead of flat configs so that you can disable/enable
regulator items with one selection.  Also, use depends instead of
reverse selections to make life easier, too.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>

currently, the error message when trying to run hdspmixer or hdspconf
if the breakout box is not connected is somehow misleading, since it
asks the user to upload the firmware.

this patch adds a test, whether the breakout box is connected and
tries to upload the firmware in the case, that it is not present, e.g.
because of power failures of the breakout box.

[Minor coding-style fixes by tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

currently the hdsp driver tries to upload the firmware, even if the
io box is not connected. this patch adds a check for the io box
before trying to upload the firmware.
thus instead of messages complaining about the fifo status and firmware
loading failure, the driver gives a message that no multiface or
digiface is connected.

[A minor coding-style fix by tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Added model=laptop for another HP machine (103c:3614) with AD1884A
codec.
Signed-off-by: Michel Marti <mma@objectxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>

It seems that some cards are slightly out of spec and occasionally
will not be able to complete a write in the alloted 250 ms [1].
Incease the timeout slightly to allow even these cards to function
properly.

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/390Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>

Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit
  sched: improve sched_clock() performance

Merge branch 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  oprofile: Fix p6 counter overflow check
  Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function
  Revert "Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function"
  oprofile: fix memory ordering
  Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function
  Change UTF8 chars in Kconfig help text about Oprofile AMD barcelona

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6:
  Staging: make usbip depend on CONFIG_NET
  Staging: only build the tree if we really want to

Fix the __pfn_to_page(pfn) macro so that it doesn't evaluate its
argument twice in the CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y case, because 'pfn' may
be a result of a funtion call having side effects.

For example, the hibernation code applies pfn_to_page(pfn) to the
result of a function returning the pfn corresponding to the next set
bit in a bitmap and the current bit position is modified on each
call.  This leads to "interesting" failures for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y
due to the current behavior of __pfn_to_page(pfn).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

sched_clock() uses cycles_2_ns() needlessly - which is an irq-disabling
variant of __cycles_2_ns().

Most of the time sched_clock() is called with irqs disabled already.
The few places that call it with irqs enabled need to be updated.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for
20% of the system overhead:

 659567 system_call                              41222.9375
 686796 schedule                                 435.7843
 718382 __switch_to                              665.1685
 823875 switch_mm                                4526.7857
 1883122 native_read_tsc                          55385.9412
 9761990 total                                      2.8468

this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before
and after reading the TSC.

But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such
barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use
them in vget_cycles().

This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for finding this problem.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This Kconfig change allows the common 'make allmodconfig' and
'make allyesconfig' build options to skip the staging tree, which is
probably what you want to have happen anyway.

This makes the linux-next developer's life a lot easier so he doesn't
have to worry about changes that break the staging tree, that's for me
to worry about...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Merge branch 'oprofile-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into x86/urgent

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
  [IA64] fix boot panic caused by offline CPUs
  [IA64] reorder Kconfig options to match x86
  [IA64] Build VT-D iommu support into generic kernel
  [IA64] remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY definition
  [IA64] remove duplicated #include from pci-dma.c
  [IA64] use common header for software IO/TLB
  [IA64] fix the difference between node_mem_map and node_start_pfn
  [IA64] Add error_recovery_info field to SAL section header
  [IA64] Add UV watchlist support.
  [IA64] Simplify SGI uv vs. sn2 driver issues

IA64 kdump kernel failed to initialize /proc/vmcore in 2.6.28-rc2.
A bug was introduced in this patch commit:

  d9a9855d
  always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel

The problem was that the call to reserve_elfcorehdr() should be placed
in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than in CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL, which does
not exist.
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Simon Hormon <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files
  PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation
  PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem
  PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, xen: fix use of pgd_page now that it really does return a page

Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT
  sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
  sched: fix memory leak in a failure path
  sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  xen: make sure stray alias mappings are gone before pinning
  vmap: cope with vm_unmap_aliases before vmalloc_init()