From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>

We need to pin the firmware loader module until the last reference to the
firmware class device is dropped and the class device is destroyed.

From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

New pdflush threads are launched on-demand by pdflush.

It turns out that on some architectures (eg, ia64) a kernel thread inherits
its parent's stack utilisation.  So after the thread-launches-a-thread
cycle has progressed sufficiently far we run out of stack space and crash.

Simple fix: convert pdflush to use kthreads.  All kthreads are parented by
keventd so there is no stack windup as a result of pdflush launching
pdflush.

From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

<wim@iguana.be> (04/02/29 1.1628)
   [WATCHDOG] v2.6.3 pcwd_usb-watchdog

   Add the Berkshire Products USB-PC Watchdog driver

<wim@iguana.be> (04/02/29 1.1629)
   [WATCHDOG] v2.6.3 MODULE_*-patch

   Add MODULE_* info

<wim@iguana.be> (04/02/29 1.1630)
   [WATCHDOG/SPARC64] v2.6.3 Kconfig-WATCHDOG_CP1XXX/WATCHDOG_RIO-patch

   Move WATCHDOG_CP1XXX and WATCHDOG_RIO for SPARC64 architecture
   from arch/sparc64/Kconfig to drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig
   and made them dependant of WATCHDOG also

From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Fix a few issues on x86-64 for 2.6.4rc1.

The 32bit emulation used 4GB/3 for the mmap break. This actually gave
programs less sbrk space than with a standard 32bit kernel. Move the 32bit
mmap break to 0xc5000000.

Uses the correct gcc option to optimize for Prescott now (requires a very
new mainline gcc)

Also merge the i386 sched_clock().  I hope this will fix some interactivity
problems with the scheduler.

- Change initializer to new style (Arnd Bergmann)
- Remove 2 sibling limit in HT support (from i386)
- Always log RIP in MCE records even when not exact
- Move 32bit program task break up to 0xc5000000 by default
- Use -march=prescott for Prescott optimized kernel if possible
- Don't divide by zero with report_lost_ticks on and HPET off
- Merge preempt/smp/debug_pagealloc oops printing from i386
- Add pfn_to_nid()
- Merge more accurate sched_clock from i386
- Remove traces of debugging code in mce.c
- Update defconfig

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

We curretly have an off-by-factor-of-1000:

cat /proc/cpufreq

          minimum CPU frequency  -  maximum CPU frequency  -  policy
CPU  0         2000 kHz (100 %)  -       2000 kHz (100 %)  -  powersave


I do not have explanation why it is 2MHz - 2MHz.  On my system I removed
bug which prevented my system from being reported as 0.8MHz - 1.8MHz.  (And
modulo cosmetic uglyness, it worked).

This fixes cosmetic uglyness, adds proper copyrights, removes warning
"untested on PREEMPT" (someone tested it, and makes it easier to override
PST by user (eMachine users will need that one).

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

"swap" is more known than "Support for paging of anonymous memory".  The
patch below adds "(swap)" to the prompt of CONFIG_SWAP.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

The patch below is an updated version of the patch that removes some
remaining mentions of "make dep".

From: Bob Doyle <doyle@primenet.com>

BusLogic_UnregisterHostAdapter() is referenced from __exit code, so it cannot
be __init.

The new networking hashtable sizing is all bollixed up.  The logic is wrong
and tcp is setting it to the logarithm of what was intended.  Heaven knows.

Fix it up so that the sizing is the same as it used to be in 2.6, with a
boot-time override.  Which was what was intended.

From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>

when calling

alarm(1); alarm(0);

the second alarm can wrongly return 2. This makes an LSB test fail.

It happens due to rounding errors in the timeval to jiffie conversion and
back.  On i386 with HZ =3D=3D 1000, there would not need to be rounding
error IMVHO, but they even occur there.  On HZ=3D1024 platforms, they may
even be unavoidable.

Attached patch fixes the return value of alarm().

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This patch implements what we discussed earlier to fix the switch bewteen
KD_GRAPHICS and KD_TEXT.

It has been tested for a few days now and appear to resolve the problem for
affected users.

James: I know you have some objections, I don't fully agree with them, and
I want that in asap now, that bug has been plaguing fbdev since the very
beginning and it's time to get rid of that and my corresponding todolist
entry.  You are welcome to propose a patch on top of this one if you feel
you can make things cleaner.  The approach of adding a parameter to
con_blank() is Linus idea btw :)

I didn't add a separate function as that would have made the butchering of
drivers/char/vt beyond what I want to deal with in 2.6.

From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>

The following patches fixes tty drivers which dont set devfs_name. Not
doing so will cause the tty layer to create "/dev/<NULL>x" entries when
devfs is being used.

I used "drivername/" in isicom and pcxe because the letter used to
identify them are already used by other drivers.

From: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

The patch below fixes a bug in the error handling code of
xprt_create_socket().  If sock_create() fails, we should not try and
release the non existent socket.

This fix is by James Carter <jwcart2@epoch.ncsc.mil>.

From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

This is probably useless on x86 for eg..  (Everything else in this file is
dependant on some other s390 feature, so only this one shows up).  Too bad
the drivers/s390/block stuff gets source'd at all on !s390.

From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>

Patch to resolve http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644

The bug reporter pointed out a bit of outdated information in the README
file.

Test booted on a 32x NUMAQ with 10,000 disks

From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Fix an off-by-one in the r1buf_pool_alloc() ENOMEM error recovery path.

From: "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net>

Here is a small patch changing the GNU-style initializers to C99
initializers.

From: "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net>

Here's a small patch changing the GNU-style initializers to C99
initializers.

From: "Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

Fix the zoran driver (zr36067) for the fact that we did not handle
bitrate-conversion at all in the zr36050 MJPEG codec (on DC30 cards), with
the result being that at high-resolution, we'd overload the PCI bus and
drop half of our video capture data into /dev/null'ishness.

Also update Ronald's email address in MAINTAINERS.

It appears that gdb, perfmon and perhaps other applications are already
opening /proc/<tid> even though it does not appear in /proc readdir output
and is available under its group leader's directory anyway.

Apparently ascertaining the group leader is hard for gdb and thsi trick
always worked for LinuxThreads apps.

So revert this change.

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

We should copy the bvec array for read requests so that we still
have the unmodified bvec array to decrypt the data afterwards.

(as discussed earlier this day for highmem bounces)

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

These are some dm-crypt cleanups.  Use a #define PFX "crypt: " for all the
places where something gets logged as suggested by Jeff Garzik.  It also
adds a small additional security check and fixed header includes.

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

This patch fixes the bug where in-place encryption was not detected when
the same highmem pages is mapped twice to different virtual addresses.

This adds a parameter to xxx_process to indicate whether this is an
in-place encryption and moves the responsability to the caller using a
helper function scatterwalk.h.

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

I've cleaned up the latest patches and adjusted the header files.

This patch moves the scatterwalk functions from cipher.c to
scatterwalk.c and adds a header file.

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

__end_that_request_first might modify the bv_offset and bv_len if the
segment was partially completed.  The bio-read-bounce-back code should use
the unmodified bv_offset when copying the segment data:

sysrq-o is supposed to power off the machine.  But if it calls into ACPI (at
least) it does lots of sleepy things, so we best not do this from interrupt
context.

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>

Mostly added descriptions of files in Documentation/ that were not listed
in Documentation/00-INDEX.

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

xpram fix: Replace old style module parameter definition with new style.

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

s390 tape device driver changes:

- Add private tape class to support udev configuration.

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

sclp console fixes:

- Add signal-quiesce bug-fix from 2.4.

- Add irq_enter/irq_exit to sclp_sync_wait to prevent the softirqs from
  processing after the external interrupt.

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Common i/o layer fixes:

- Remove documentation entry for non-existent cio_notoper_msg parameter.

- Add documentation for availability attritube.

- Replace function of the steal_lock attribute by "echo force" to the
  online attribute.

- Trigger device sensing in the online function for unknown devices.

- Always try to get devices online even if they are marked reserved.
  Someone could have released the device while it was offline.

- Add try_module_get/module_put pairs to the online function of ccw devices
  and ccwgroup devices.

- Add owner field to ccwgroup driver structure.  Set owner field in ctc,
  lcs and qeth.

- Fix alignment problems in channel measurement block interface.

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

s390 bug fixes:

- Add missing i/o controls to compat ioctl translation table.

- Fix some gcc 3.4 warnings.

- Export _sb_findmap.

- Export smp_call_function_on only if CONFIG_SMP=y.

- Add safe-guard to diag10.

- Add type definition for compat_timer_t.

- Fix first argument of signal_processor_ps.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This patch updates the g5_defconfig on ppc64, running it through oldconfig
and removing CONFIG_DISTCONTIGMEM.  I don't use the discontigmem stuff at
all, even on machines with +2Gb of RAM, so it's just bloat.

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

Add some missing EXPORT_SYMBOLs.

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

This patch (hopefully) addresses concerns Christoph Hellwig had with the
virtual disk probing code.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

iSeries HyperVisor is doing some evilery when inserting PTEs that I didn't
properly account for when rewriting that code, causing iSeries box to blow
up regulary.

address_spaces have a `dirtied_when' jiffies field which records the time at
which the mapping was first dirtied.  This is used for the periodic writeback
(kupdate) function.  It is also used to prevent livelocks in the writeback
code: don't try to write back objects which were dirtied after
sync_sb_inodes() was called.

It used to be the case that dirtied_when == 0 had magical properties, so
there is code in there which avoids accidentally setting dirtied_when to zero
at jiffy wrap time.  We just set it to jiffies|1.

Unfortunately, jiffies|1 is in the future.  So under some rare timing
circumstances (inode dirtied within one jiffy of umount) the livelock
avoidance code in sync_sb_inodes() can accidentally trigger and we fail to
write an inode out, resulting in filesytem corruption on ext2-style
filesystems.  Normally, nobody dirties a file within a millisecond of umount,
so it was not noticed.

It is no longer the case that (address_space.dirtied_when == 0) has special
meaning, so we can just remove all that code and fix the bug.

This fixes the PowerPC Virtual Ethernet driver that got broken by the
recent ppc64 iommu patch...

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux