- 26 Feb, 2008 27 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (24 commits) x86: no robust/pi futex for real i386 CPUs x86: fix boot failure on 486 due to TSC breakage x86: fix build on non-C locales. x86: make c_idle.work have a static address. x86: don't save unreliable stack trace entries x86: don't make swapper_pg_pmd global x86: don't print a warning when MTRR are blank and running in KVM x86: fix execve with -fstack-protect x86: fix vsyscall wreckage x86: rename KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE => KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE x86: fix spontaneous reboot with allyesconfig bzImage x86: remove double-checking empty zero pages debug x86: notsc is ignored on common configurations x86/mtrr: fix kernel-doc missing notation x86: handle BIOSes which terminate e820 with CF=1 and no SMAP x86: add comments for NOPs x86: don't use P6_NOPs if compiling with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC x86: require family >= 6 if we are using P6 NOPs x86: do not promote TM3x00/TM5x00 to i686-class x86: hpet fix docbook comment ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: latencytop: change /proc task_struct access method latencytop: fix memory leak on latency proc file latencytop: fix kernel panic while reading latency proc file sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h sched: fix signedness warnings in sched.c sched: clean up __pick_last_entity() a bit sched: remove duplicate code from sched_fair.c sched: make early bootup sched_clock() use safer
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Tejun Heo authored
printk recursion detection prepends message to printk_buf and offsets printk_buf when actual message is printed but it forgets to trim buffer length accordingly. This can result in overrun in extreme cases. Fix it. [ mingo@elte.hu: bug was introduced by me via: commit 32a76006 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:07:58 2008 +0100 printk: make printk more robust by not allowing recursion ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Real i386 CPUs do not have cmpxchg instructions. Catch it before crashing on an invalid opcode. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Mikael Pettersson authored
> Diffing dmesg between git7 and git8 doesn't sched any light since > git8 also removed the printouts of the x86 caps as they were being > initialised and updated. I'm currently adding those printouts back > in the hope of seeing where and when the caps get broken. That turned out to be very illuminating: --- dmesg-2.6.24-git7 2008-02-24 18:01:25.295851000 +0100 +++ dmesg-2.6.24-git8 2008-02-24 18:01:25.530358000 +0100 ... CPU: After generic identify, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After all inits, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 +CPU: After applying cleared_cpu_caps, caps: 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Notice how the TSC cap bit goes from Off to On. (The first two lines are printout loops from -git7 forward-ported to -git8, the third line is the same printout loop added just after the xor-with-cleared_cpu_caps[] loop.) Here's how the breakage occurs: 1. arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c:tsc_init() sees !cpu_has_tsc, so bails and calls setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC). 2. include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h:setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit) clears the bit in boot_cpu_data and sets it in cleared_cpu_caps 3. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:identify_cpu() XORs all caps in with cleared_cpu_caps HOWEVER, at this point c->x86_capability correctly has TSC Off, cleared_cpu_caps has TSC On, so the XOR incorrectly sets TSC to On in c->x86_capability, with disastrous results. The real bug is that clearing bits with XOR only works if the bits are known to be 1 prior to the XOR, and that's not true here. A simple fix is to convert the XOR to AND-NOT instead. The following patch does that, and allows my 486 to boot 2.6.25-rc kernels again. [ mingo@elte.hu: fixed a similar bug in setup_64.c as well. ] The breakage was introduced via commit 7d851c8d. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Priit Laes authored
For some locales regex range [a-zA-Z] does not work as it is supposed to. so we have to use [:alnum:] and [:xdigit:] to make it work as intended. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_alphabetSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Glauber Costa authored
Currently, c_idle is declared in the stack, and thus, have no static address. Peter Zijlstra points out this simple solution, in which c_idle.work is initializated separatedly. Note that the INIT_WORK macro has a static declaration of a key inside. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vegard Nossum authored
Currently, there is no way for print_stack_trace() to determine whether a given stack trace entry was deemed reliable or not, simply because save_stack_trace() does not record this information. (Perhaps needless to say, this makes the saved stack traces A LOT harder to read, and probably with no other benefits, since debugging features that use save_stack_trace() most likely also require frame pointers, etc.) This patch reverts to the old behaviour of only recording the reliable trace entries for saved stack traces. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Adrian Bunk authored
There doesn't seem to be any reason for swapper_pg_pmd being global. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Inside a KVM virtual machine the MTRRs are usually blank. This confuses Linux and causes a warning message at boot. This patch removes that warning message when running Linux as a KVM guest. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu: > what happens here is that gcc treats the argument area as owned by the > callee, not the caller and is allowed to do certain tricks. for ssp it > will make a copy of the struct passed by value into the local variable > area and pass *its* address down, and it won't copy it back into the > original instance stored in the argument area. > > so once sys_execve returns, the pt_regs passed by value hasn't at all > changed and its default content will cause a nice double fault (FWIW, > this part took me the longest to debug, being down with cold didn't > help it either ;). To fix this we pass in pt_regs by pointer. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
based on a report from Arne Georg Gleditsch about user-space apps misbehaving after toggling /proc/sys/kernel/vsyscall64, a review of the code revealed that the "NOP patching" done there is fundamentally unsafe for a number of reasons: 1) the patching code runs without synchronizing other CPUs 2) it inserts NOPs even if there is no clock source which provides vread 3) when the clock source changes to one without vread we run in exactly the same problem as in #2 4) if nobody toggles the proc entry from 1 to 0 and to 1 again, then the syscall is not patched out as a result it is possible to break user-space via this patching. The only safe thing for now is to remove the patching. This code was broken since v2.6.21. Reported-by: Arne Georg Gleditsch <arne.gleditsch@dolphinics.no> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
The KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE constant was mis-named, as we not only map the kernel text but data, bss and init sections as well. That name led me on the wrong path with the KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE regression, because i knew how big of _text_ my images have and i knew about the 40 MB "text" limit so i wrongly thought to be on the safe side of the 40 MB limit with my 29 MB of text, while the total image size was slightly above 40 MB. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
recently the 64-bit allyesconfig bzImage kernel started spontaneously rebooting during early bootup. after a few fun hours spent with early init debugging, it turns out that we've got this rather annoying limit on the size of the kernel image: #define KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (40*1024*1024) which limit my vmlinux just happened to pass: text data bss dec hex filename 29703744 4222751 8646224c 42572719 2899baf vmlinux 40 MB is 42572719 bytes, so my vmlinux was just 1.5% above this limit :-/ So it happily crashed right in head_64.S, which - as we all know - is the most debuggable code in the whole architecture ;-) So increase the limit to allow an up to 128MB kernel image to be mapped. (should anyone be that crazy or lazy) We have a full 4K of pagetable (level2_kernel_pgt) allocated for these mappings already, so there's no RAM overhead and the limit was rather pointless and arbitrary. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Yinghai Lu authored
so far no one complained about that. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Pavel Machek authored
notsc is ignored in 32-bit kernels if CONFIG_X86_TSC is on.. which is bad, fix it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix mtrr kernel-doc warning: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:677): No description found for parameter 'end_pfn' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
The proper way to terminate the e820 chain is with %ebx == 0 on the last legitimate memory block. However, several BIOSes don't do that and instead return error (CF = 1) when trying to read off the end of the list. For this error return, %eax doesn't necessarily return the SMAP signature -- correctly so, since %ah should contain an error code in this case. To deal with some particularly broken BIOSes, we clear the entire e820 chain if the SMAP signature is missing in the middle, indicating a plain insane e820 implementation. However, we need to make the test for CF = 1 before the SMAP check. This fixes at least one HP laptop (nc6400) for which none of the memory-probing methods (e820, e801, 88) functioned fully according to spec. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Add comments describing the various NOP sequences. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
P6_NOPs are definitely not supported on some VIA CPUs, and possibly (unverified) on AMD K7s. It is also the only thing that prevents a 686 kernel from running on Transmeta TM3x00/5x00 (Crusoe) series. The performance benefit over generic NOPs is very small, so when building for generic consumption, avoid using them. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
The P6 family of NOPs are only available on family >= 6 or above, so enforce that in the boot code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
We have been promoting Transmeta TM3x00/TM5x00 chips to i686-class based on the notion that they contain all the user-space visible features of an i686-class chip. However, this is not actually true: they lack the EA-taking long NOPs (0F 1F /0). Since this is a userspace-visible incompatibility, downgrade these CPUs to the manufacturer-defined i586 level. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Pavel Machek authored
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <Pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Use PF_MEMALLOC to prevent recursive calls in the DBEUG_PAGEALLOC case. This makes the code simpler and more robust against allocation failures. This fixes the following fallback to non-mmconfig: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/551 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10083 Also, for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n reduce the pool size to one page. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Ahmed S. Darwish authored
Hi all, Beginning from commits close to v2.6.25-rc2, running lguest always oopses the host kernel. Oops is at [1]. Bisection led to the following commit: commit 37cc8d7f x86/early_ioremap: don't assume we're using swapper_pg_dir At the early stages of boot, before the kernel pagetable has been fully initialized, a Xen kernel will still be running off the Xen-provided pagetables rather than swapper_pg_dir[]. Therefore, readback cr3 to determine the base of the pagetable rather than assuming swapper_pg_dir[]. static inline pmd_t * __init early_ioremap_pmd(unsigned long addr) { - pgd_t *pgd = &swapper_pg_dir[pgd_index(addr)]; + /* Don't assume we're using swapper_pg_dir at this point */ + pgd_t *base = __va(read_cr3()); + pgd_t *pgd = &base[pgd_index(addr)]; pud_t *pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); Trying to analyze the problem, it seems on the guest side of lguest, %cr3 has a different value from &swapper_pg-dir (which is AFAIK fine on a pravirt guest): Putting some debugging messages in early_ioremap_pmd: /* Appears 3 times */ [ 0.000000] *************************** [ 0.000000] __va(%cr3) = c0000000, &swapper_pg_dir = c02cc000 [ 0.000000] *************************** After 8 hours of debugging and staring on lguest code, I noticed something strange in paravirt_ops->set_pmd hypercall invocation: static void lguest_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmdval) { *pmdp = pmdval; lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PMD, __pa(pmdp)&PAGE_MASK, (__pa(pmdp)&(PAGE_SIZE-1))/4, 0); } The first hcall parameter is global pgdir which looks fine. The second parameter is the pmd index in the pgdir which is suspectful. AFAIK, calculating the index of pmd does not need a divisoin over four. Removing the division made lguest work fine again . Patch is at [2]. I am not sure why the division over four existed in the first place. It seems bogus, maybe the Xen patch just made the problem appear ? [2]: The patch: [PATCH] lguest: fix pgdir pmd index cacluation Remove an error in index calculation which leads to removing a not existing shadow page table (leading to a Null dereference). Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Tony Breeds authored
[ mingo@elte.hu: merged to Rusty's patch ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Harvey Harrison authored
Added a declaration to asm-x86/lguest.h and moved the extern arrays there as well. As an alternative to including asm/lguest.h directly, an include could be put in linux/lguest.h Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: "rusty@rustcorp.com.au" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 25 Feb, 2008 8 commits
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Hiroshi Shimamoto authored
Change getting task_struct by get_proc_task() at read or write time, and returns -ESRCH if get_proc_task() returns NULL. This is same behavior as other /proc files. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hiroshi Shimamoto authored
At lstats_open(), calling get_proc_task() gets task struct, but it never put. put_task_struct() should be called when releasing. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hiroshi Shimamoto authored
Reading /proc/<pid>/latency or /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/latency could cause NULL pointer dereference. In lstats_open(), get_proc_task() can return NULL, in which case the kernel will oops at lstats_show_proc() because m->private is NULL. When get_proc_task() returns NULL, the kernel should return -ENOENT. This can be reproduced by the following script. while : do date bash -c 'ls > ls.$$' & pid=$! cat /proc/$pid/latency & cat /proc/$pid/latency & cat /proc/$pid/latency & cat /proc/$pid/latency done Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Harvey Harrison authored
Avoids sparse warnings: kernel/sched.c:2170:17: warning: symbol 'schedule_tail' was not declared. Should it be static? Avoids the need for an external declaration in arch/um/process.c Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Harvey Harrison authored
Unsigned long values are always assigned to switch_count, make it unsigned long. kernel/sched.c:3897:15: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness) kernel/sched.c:3897:15: expected long *switch_count kernel/sched.c:3897:15: got unsigned long *<noident> kernel/sched.c:3921:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness) kernel/sched.c:3921:16: expected long *switch_count kernel/sched.c:3921:16: got unsigned long *<noident> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Balbir Singh authored
pick_task_entity() duplicates existing code. This functionality can be easily obtained using rb_last(). Avoid code duplication by using rb_last(). Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
do not call sched_clock() too early. Not only might rq->idle not be set up - but pure per-cpu data might not be accessible either. this solves an ia64 early bootup hang with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y. Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 Feb, 2008 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Gaston, Jason D authored
Add the Intel ICH10 SMBus Controller DeviceID's and updates Tolapai support. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <jason.d.gaston@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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David Brownell authored
Don't require platform code to be #ifdeffed according to whether I2C is enabled or not ... if it's not enabled, let GCC compile out all I2C device declarations. (Issue noted on an NSLU2 build that didn't configure I2C.) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Christian Krafft authored
When probing i2c-pca-isa writes to legacy ioports, which crashes the kernel if there is no device at that port. This patch adds a check_legacy_ioport call, so probe fails gracefully and thus prevents the oops. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Manuel Lauss authored
Commit 8b798c4d broke alchemy build, fix it. Pointed out by Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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