- 21 Jan, 2009 3 commits
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Suresh Siddha authored
Impact: fix sporadic slowdowns and warning messages This patch fixes a performance issue reported by Linus on his Nehalem system. While Linus reverted the PAT patch (commit 58dab916) which exposed the issue, existing cpa() code can potentially still cause wrong(page attribute corruption) behavior. This patch also fixes the "WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:560" that various people reported. In 64bit kernel, kernel identity mapping might have holes depending on the available memory and how e820 reports the address range covering the RAM, ACPI, PCI reserved regions. If there is a 2MB/1GB hole in the address range that is not listed by e820 entries, kernel identity mapping will have a corresponding hole in its 1-1 identity mapping. If cpa() happens on the kernel identity mapping which falls into these holes, existing code fails like this: __change_page_attr_set_clr() __change_page_attr() returns 0 because of if (!kpte). But doesn't set cpa->numpages and cpa->pfn. cpa_process_alias() uses uninitialized cpa->pfn (random value) which can potentially lead to changing the page attribute of kernel text/data, kernel identity mapping of RAM pages etc. oops! This bug was easily exposed by another PAT patch which was doing cpa() more often on kernel identity mapping holes (physical range between max_low_pfn_mapped and 4GB), where in here it was setting the cache disable attribute(PCD) for kernel identity mappings aswell. Fix cpa() to handle the kernel identity mapping holes. Retain the WARN() for cpa() calls to other not present address ranges (kernel-text/data, ioremap() addresses) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
This reverts commit 4217458d. Justin Madru bisected this commit, it was causing weird Firefox crashes. The reason is that GCC mis-optimizes (re-uses) the on-stack parameters of the calling frame, which corrupts the syscall return pt_regs state and thus corrupts user-space register state. So we go back to the slightly less clean but more optimization-safe method of getting to pt_regs. Also add a comment to explain this. Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com> Tested-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Andi Kleen authored
Impact: fix rare (but currently harmless) miscompile with certain configs and gcc versions Hugh Dickins noticed that strncpy_from_user() was miscompiled in some circumstances with gcc 4.3. Thanks to Hugh's excellent analysis it was easy to track down. Hugh writes: > Try building an x86_64 defconfig 2.6.29-rc1 kernel tree, > except not quite defconfig, switch CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y > and CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY off (because it expands a > might_fault() there, which hides the issue): using a > gcc 4.3.2 (I've checked both openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora 10). > > It generates the following: > > 0000000000000000 <__strncpy_from_user>: > 0: 48 89 d1 mov %rdx,%rcx > 3: 48 85 c9 test %rcx,%rcx > 6: 74 0e je 16 <__strncpy_from_user+0x16> > 8: ac lods %ds:(%rsi),%al > 9: aa stos %al,%es:(%rdi) > a: 84 c0 test %al,%al > c: 74 05 je 13 <__strncpy_from_user+0x13> > e: 48 ff c9 dec %rcx > 11: 75 f5 jne 8 <__strncpy_from_user+0x8> > 13: 48 29 c9 sub %rcx,%rcx > 16: 48 89 c8 mov %rcx,%rax > 19: c3 retq > > Observe that "sub %rcx,%rcx; mov %rcx,%rax", whereas gcc 4.2.1 > (and many other configs) say "sub %rcx,%rdx; mov %rdx,%rax". > Isn't it returning 0 when it ought to be returning strlen? The asm constraints for the strncpy_from_user() result were missing an early clobber, which tells gcc that the last output arguments are written before all input arguments are read. Also add more early clobbers in the rest of the file and fix 32-bit usercopy.c in the same way. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [ since this API is rarely used and no in-kernel user relies on a 'len' return value (they only rely on negative return values) this miscompile was never noticed in the field. But it's worth fixing it nevertheless. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 Jan, 2009 5 commits
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Gary Hade authored
Impact: fix crash with memory hotplug enabled kernel_physical_mapping_init() is called during memory hotplug so it does not belong in the init section. If the kernel is built with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y on the make command line, arch/x86/mm/init_64.c is compiled with the -fno-inline-functions-called-once gcc option defeating inlining of kernel_physical_mapping_init() within init_memory_mapping(). When kernel_physical_mapping_init() is not inlined it is placed in the .init.text section according to the __init in it's current declaration. A later call to kernel_physical_mapping_init() during a memory hotplug operation encounters an int3 trap because the .init.text section memory has been freed. This patch eliminates the crash caused by the int3 trap by moving the non-inlined kernel_physical_mapping_init() from .init.text to .meminit.text. Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
-tip testing found this crash: > [ 35.258515] calling acpi_cpufreq_init+0x0/0x127 @ 1 > [ 35.264127] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > [ 35.267554] IP: [<ffffffff80478092>] __bitmap_intersects+0x48/0x73 > [ 35.267554] PGD 0 > [ 35.267554] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c is still broken: there's no allocation of the variable mask, so we pass in an uninitialized cmd.mask field to drv_read(), which then passes it to the scheduler which then crashes ... Switch it over to the much simpler constant-cpumask-pointers approach. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mike Travis authored
Impact: use new work_on_cpu function to reduce stack usage Replace the saving of current->cpus_allowed and set_cpus_allowed_ptr() with a work_on_cpu function for drv_read() and drv_write(). Basically converts do_drv_{read,write} into "work_on_cpu" functions that are now called by drv_read and drv_write. Note: This patch basically reverts 50c668d6 which reverted 7503bfba, now that the work_on_cpu() function is more stable. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: <cpufreq@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in workqueues. As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue for work_on_cpu. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: remove potential circular lock dependency with cpu hotplug lock This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu hotplug locking issues. Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using set_cpus_allowed without locking. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 18 Jan, 2009 3 commits
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Leonardo Potenza authored
The function setup_cpu_local_masks() has been marked __init, in order to remove the following section mismatch messages: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3c2c7): Section mismatch in reference from the function setup_cpu_local_masks() to the function .init.text:alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() The function setup_cpu_local_masks() references the function __init alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(). This is often because setup_cpu_local_masks lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var is wrong. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3c2d3): Section mismatch in reference from the function setup_cpu_local_masks() to the function .init.text:alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() The function setup_cpu_local_masks() references the function __init alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(). This is often because setup_cpu_local_masks lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var is wrong. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3c2df): Section mismatch in reference from the function setup_cpu_local_masks() to the function .init.text:alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() The function setup_cpu_local_masks() references the function __init alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(). This is often because setup_cpu_local_masks lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var is wrong. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3c2eb): Section mismatch in reference from the function setup_cpu_local_masks() to the function .init.text:alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() The function setup_cpu_local_masks() references the function __init alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(). This is often because setup_cpu_local_masks lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var is wrong. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Potenza <lpotenza@inwind.it> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mike Travis authored
Impact: add debug warning Fire off one message if two apic's discovered with different apic versions. (this code is only called during CPU init) The goal of this is to pave the way of the removal of the apic_version[] array. We dont expect any apic version incompatibilities in the x86 landscape of systems [if so we dont handle them very well and probably never will handle deep apic version assymetries well], but it's prudent to have a debug check for one kernel cycle nevertheless. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeff Mahoney authored
Commit da4276b8 changed a dependency for FRAME_POINTER from X86 to ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS, but didn't actually define it. This patch adds the definition for ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS. Without it, FRAME_POINTER can't be enabled on x86. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 Jan, 2009 1 commit
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Jan Beulich authored
Debugging and original patch from Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> The early fixmap pmd entry inserted at the very top of the KVA is causing the subsequent fixmap mapping code to not provide physically linear pte pages over the kmap atomic portion of the fixmap (which relies on said property to calculate pte addresses). This has caused weird boot failures in kmap_atomic much later in the boot process (initial userspace faults) on a 32-bit PAE system with a larger number of CPUs (smaller CPU counts tend not to run over into the next page so don't show up the problem). Solve this by attempting to clear out the page table, and copy any of its entries to the new one. Also, add a bug if a nonlinear condition is encountered and can't be resolved, which might save some hours of debugging if this fragile scheme ever breaks again... Once we have such logic, we can also use it to eliminate the early ioremap trickery around the page table setup for the fixmap area. This also fixes potential issues with FIX_* entries sharing the leaf page table with the early ioremap ones getting discarded by early_ioremap_clear() and not restored by early_ioremap_reset(). It at once eliminates the temporary (and configuration, namely NR_CPUS, dependent) unavailability of early fixed mappings during the time the fixmap area page tables get constructed. Finally, also replace the hard coded calculation of the initial table space needed for the fixmap area with a proper one, allowing kernels configured for large CPU counts to actually boot. Based-on: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 Jan, 2009 2 commits
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Cliff Wickman authored
The function uv_wait_completion() spins on reads of a memory-mapped register, waiting for completion of BAU hardware replies. It should call "cpu_relax()" between those reads to improve performance on hyperthreaded configurations. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jan Beulich authored
E.g. when called due to an early panic. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 Jan, 2009 1 commit
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Suresh Siddha authored
Thierry Vignaud reported: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12372 > > On P4 with an SiS motherboard (video card is a SiS 651) > X server fails to start with error: > xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (0x00000000,0x2000) (Invalid > argument) Here X is trying to map first 8KB of memory using /dev/mem. Existing code treats first 0-4KB of memory as non-RAM and 4KB-8KB as RAM. Recent code changes don't allow to map memory with different attributes at the same time. Fix this by treating the first 1MB legacy region as special and always track the attribute requests with in this region using linear linked list (and don't bother if the range is RAM or non-RAM or mixed) Reported-and-tested-by: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 Jan, 2009 2 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
Impact: reduce kernel image size Hugh Dickins noticed that older gcc versions when the kernel is built for code size didn't inline some of the bitops. Mark all complex x86 bitops that have more than a single asm statement or two as always inline to avoid this problem. Probably should be done for other architectures too. Ingo then found a better fix that only requires a single line change, but it unfortunately only works on gcc 4.3. On older gccs the original patch still makes a ~0.3% defconfig difference with CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y. With gcc 4.1 and a defconfig like build: 61169987 1138540 883788 8139326 7c323e vmlinux-oi-with-patch 6137043 1138540 883788 8159371 7c808b vmlinux-optimize-inlining ~20k / 0.3% difference. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: fix potential boot crash on MAXSMP Remove code left over by: 50c668d6: Revert "cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read That cmd.cpumask is not allocated anymore. No impact on default !MAXSMP kernels. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 Jan, 2009 5 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
This reverts commit e0c73175. This patch was wrong, as lockdep (and thus the irq state tracer) aren't nmi safe. People are already seeing lockdep warnings due to this. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
This reverts commit 7503bfba. Dieter Ries reported bootup soft-hangs and bisected it back to this commit, and reverting this commit gave him a working system. The commit introduces work_on_cpu() use into the cpufreq code, but that is subtly problematic from a lock hierarchy POV: the hotplug-cpu lock is an highlevel lock that is taken before lowlevel locks, and in this codepath we are called with the policy lock taken. Dieter did not have lockdep enabled so we dont have a nice stack trace proof for this, but using work_on_cpu() in such a lowlevel place certainly looks wrong, so we revert the patch. work_on_cpu() needs to be reworked to be more generally usable. Reported-by: Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> Tested-by: Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
Fix this by reintroducing asm/smp.h include in apic.c - later on I will fix this by removing non-smp data from smp.h Also fix the __inquire_remote_apic() prototype/inline. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
Fix this by reintroducing asm/smp.h include in mpparse.c - later on I will fix this by removing non-smp data from smp.h. Reported-by: Petr Titera <P.Titera@century.cz> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Andi Kleen authored
Ajith Kumar noticed: I was going through the vmalloc fault handling for x86_64 and am unclear about the following lines in the vmalloc_fault() function. pgd = pgd_offset(current->mm ?: &init_mm, address); pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address); Here the intention is to get the pgd corresponding to the current process and sync it up with the pgd in init_mm(obtained from pgd_offset_k). However, for kernel threads current->mm is NULL and hence pgd = pgd_offset(init_mm, address) = pgd_ref which means the fault handler returns without setting the pgd entry in the MM structure in the context of which the kernel thread has faulted. This could lead to never-ending faults and busy looping of kernel threads like pdflush. So, shouldn't the pgd = pgd_offset(current->mm ?: &init_mm, address); be pgd = pgd_offset(current->active_mm ?: &init_mm, address); We can use active_mm unconditionally because it should be always set. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 Jan, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
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- 10 Jan, 2009 16 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Arjan van de Ven authored
It is useful for diagnosing boot performance to see where async function calls are waiting on serialization... this patch adds this functionality to the bootgraph.pl script. The waiting time is shown as a half transparent, gray bar through the block that is waiting. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
In a discussio with Jeff Garzik, he mentioned that the serialization for the libata port probes only needs to be within the domain of a host. This means that for the first port of each host (with ID 0), we don't need to wait, so we can relax our serialization a little. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch adds a per host flag that allows drivers to opt in into having its busses scanned in parallel. Drivers that do not set this flag get their ports scanned in the "original" sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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: (36 commits) x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes x86: remove duplicated #include's x86: k8 numa register active regions later x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems x86: i8259.c fix style problems x86: irq_32.c fix style problems x86: ioport.c fix style problems ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: [IA64] fix typo in cpumask_of_pcibus() x86: fix x86_32 builds for summit and es7000 arch's cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for read_measured_perf_ctrs cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in acpi-cpufreq.c cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi/cstate.c cpumask: convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t cpumask: replace CPUMASK_ALLOC etc with cpumask_var_t x86: cleanup remaining cpumask_t ops in smpboot code cpumask: update pci_bus_show_cpuaffinity to use new cpumask API cpumask: update local_cpus_show to use new cpumask API ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit c4be0c1d added the ability for write_super_lockfs to return errors, and renamed them to match. But btrfs didn't get converted. Do the minimal conversion to make it compile again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
The 'rb_first()', 'rb_last()', 'rb_next()' and 'rb_prev()' calls take a pointer to an RB node or RB root. They do not change the pointed objects, so add a 'const' qualifier in order to make life of the users of these functions easier. Indeed, if I have my own constant pointer &const struct my_type *p, and I call 'rb_next(&p->rb)', I get a GCC warning: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘rb_next’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric Piel authored
The sensor can be accessed via various buses. In particular, SPI, I²C and, on HP laptops, via a specific ACPI API (the only one currently supported). Separate this latest platform from the core of the sensor driver to allow support for the other bus type. The second, and more direct goal is actually to be able to merge this part with the hp-disk-leds driver, which has the same ACPI PNP number. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Takashi Sato authored
It removes XFS specific ioctl interfaces and request codes for freeze feature. This patch has been supplied by David Chinner. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Takashi Sato authored
The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below. o Freeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 o Unfreeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FITHAW: request code for unfreeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen, errno is set to EINVAL. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n] Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Takashi Sato authored
Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and replication) while it is mounted. In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature and it would be used to get the consistent backup. If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it without a commercial filesystem. So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature. I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps. 1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl. 2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot with the storage device's feature. 3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl. 4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume or the snapshot. This patch: VFS: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they can return an error. Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion. ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed, and unlockfs always returns 0. reiserfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Harvey Harrison authored
The code was shifting the endianness appropriately everywhere, annotate the structs to avoid the sparse warnings when assigning the endian types to the struct members, or passing them to be[16|32]_to_cpu: drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:331:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:333:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:335:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:337:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:341:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:347:4: warning: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:356:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:358:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:364:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:367:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:369:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:371:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:377:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:478:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:480:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:482:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:484:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:486:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:689:22: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] data_address drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:689:22: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident> drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:697:3: warning: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:960:17: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different base types) drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:960:17: expected unsigned short [unsigned] data_count drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:960:17: got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident> drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:993:6: warning: cast to restricted __be16 drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:995:28: warning: cast to restricted __be16 Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Larry Finger authored
Compilation of the HP WMI hotkeys code results in the following: CC [M] drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.o drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c: In function hp_wmi_bios_setup: drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c:431: warning: ignoring return value of rfkill_register, declared with attribute warn_unused_result drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c:441: warning: ignoring return value of rfkill_register, declared with attribute warn_unused_result drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c:450: warning: ignoring return value of rfkill_register, declared with attribute warn_unused_result Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Requested by C. Lameter Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Brownell authored
Kernels that don't support ELF coredumps at all surely can't be supporting new partial-segment flavored ELF coredumps ... don't make folk answer Kconfig questions about that flavor. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 Jan, 2009 1 commit
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2: async: make async a command line option for now partial revert of asynchronous inode delete
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