- 14 Aug, 2003 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Touching a page via follow_page() counts as a reference so we should be either setting the referenced bit in the pte or running mark_page_accessed(). Altering the pte is tricky because we haven't implemented an atomic pte_mkyoung(). And mark_page_accessed() is better anyway because it has more aging state: it can move the page onto the active list.
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Andrew Morton authored
If POKETEXT modifies the page it needs to tell the VM about it.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Fix the dnotify documentation and code example to reflect reality.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com> While initializing the adm1021 device, the driver is performing a conversion from fixed point to Celcius on values that were declaired as Celcius. On my Dell Precision 220 this results in a shutdown after a couple of minutes running. The latch simply removes the conversion.
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Introduce a new variable "arg_size" and set it appropriately in each arm of the CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP. This patch fixes a bug for PA-RISC and makes the code cleaner for everyone.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org> The dynamic queue allocation appears to have exposed a long-standing bug.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Todor Todorov <ttodorov@web.de> A missig line fs/nls/Makefile prevents codepage 1250 from compiling and installing whatever the .config value.
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From: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> It writes one too many zeroes when nulling out the destination.
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From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> 16 proc x440 boxen aren't booting mainline kernels right now for many valid configs. This patch makes sure NUMA codepaths aren't executed for SMP configs. It also adds some sane error messages to the code, and cleans up some #ifdefs.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@charter.net> jffs was missed in the statfs64 conversions.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> Add Manuel to MAINTAINERS for request_firmware().
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> Add some higher level docs to Documentation/firmware_class/README.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> The code appears to be able to add too many blocks back to sbinfo->free_blocks in the failure path. We first do; len = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start; sbinfo->free_blocks -= len; but then later do; len = (vma->vm_end - vma->vma_start) + (vma->vm_pgoff << HPAGE_SHIFT) error: sbinfo->free_blocks += len;
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From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c: In function `acpi_find_bmc': drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c:1088: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c:1088: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> 1. allows likely() and unlikely() to work for pointers 2. fixes likely() (in C, any non-zero value is true)
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Andrew Morton authored
drivers/char/keyboard.c: In function `k_fn': drivers/char/keyboard.c:665: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type I didn't want to just delete the code because one day the size of func_table may get smaller, or the type of `value' may get larger. When that happens, the test becomes valid again.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> If you need a long long format, then cast to long long, not u64. u64 is long on 64-bit architectures.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Attached patch kills a warning when compiling on a 64-bit architecture (ssize_t is long, not int)
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> - undo recent change, made in the believe that "buffer" was the size of the whole file, it is just PAGE_SIZE in size. This was causing kernel memory corruption. - Since files are allowed to have unknown sizes, by setting their size to 0, we can't preallocate a buffer of their size on open. - Adapt request_firmware() to the sysfs change. - Adapt drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c to the sysfs change.
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Andrew Morton authored
loop-on-file oopses during unmount. This is because lo_queue is now freed during lo_ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD). I think the scenario is: 1: umount(8) opens /dev/loop0 2: umount(8) runs lo_ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD) (this frees the queue) 3: umount(8) closes the /dev/loop0 handle. The blockdev layer syncs the blockdev, but its mapping->backing_dev_info now points into la-la-land. We shouldn't be freeing the queue until all refs to it have gone away. This patch gives the queue the same lifetime as the controlling loop_device itself. It also makes the loop driver's queue appear in sysfs again. It would be better to free the queue when the device is not in use, but I'm not sure how we can hook into the blockdev layer to do that.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> On 64-bit architectures, ino_t is int, not long, so the attached patch is needed to prevent a warning.
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From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> hugetlbfs was accessing super_block->s_fs_info after free'ing it. This was because it was being free'd prematurely. I have deferred free until ->put_super(). I have also removed hugetlbfs_kill_super since it now is simply a kill_litter_super.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> hd.c contains a typo
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> This is a patch to make the MTRR initialisation more conformant with what is stated in volume 3 of (10-36 Memory Cache Control). The most notable change is entering the no-fill cache mode before clearing the PGE bit in cr4. Intel also states that we should do the cache flush via the cr3 register shuffle. If there is a problem with the patch please don't hesitate to beat me vigorously with a clue-by-four. It has been tested on a 3x Pentium 133, 8x PIII Xeon 700, 1x Celeron 550 and 32x PIII 500 NUMAQ (hardware courtesy of OSDL)
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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> The floppy driver doesn't remove /dev/floppy when floppy_init fails.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> _devfs_walk_path does not check if de it is about to scan is a directory. Next step is spinlock on non-spinlock memory. It requires either artificial setup or really broken driver but fairly easy to reproduce once you know how. It is likely to exist in 2.4 as well.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> devfs_mk_dir freed wrong de and incorrectly passed to devfsd already freed de. Besides it did not even check if entry found was actually directory.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ramn Rey Vicente <ramon.rey@hispalinux.es> Fix the config issue with the hotplug firmware loader. The firmware loader use hotplug, so this must be included as a dependency.
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Andrew Morton authored
When we changed try_name() to handle new-style printable dev_t formatting we broke lots of people's setups. Lilo, grub, etc. Fix that by trying new-style formatting first, then fall back to old-style. People should generally use new-style %u:%u major:minor formatting in the future.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net> The patch below fixes two pointer reference bugs (shows up as compile time warnings given below) which wrongly take the address of "struct usb_interface*". drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.c: In function `hci_usb_probe': drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.c:786: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.c:810: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> This patch fixes ide-scsi.c for the ide_drive_t->queue type change in 2.6.0-test3. Without the patch you'll get these new warnings in -test3: drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c: In function `idescsi_abort': drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c:875: warning: passing arg 1 of `elv_queue_empty' from incompatible pointer type drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c: In function `idescsi_reset': drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c:902: warning: passing arg 1 of `elv_next_request' from incompatible pointer type
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Andrew Morton authored
Bug 1065 (http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065) points out that there is a risk that UDF will accidentally mount a reiserfs partition, which would prevent a successful boot. Andries points out that probing is unreliable and that users/admins should always specify the root filesystem type on the kernel boot command line with "rootfstype=resierfs". But nobody does that, so we should be trying reiserfs before UDF.
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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> (We think this might be the mystery bug which has been hanging about for months) We found a [the?] task struct refcount error: A task that dies sets tsk->state to TASK_ZOMBIE. The next scheduled task checks prev->state, and if it's ZOMBIE, then it decrements the reference count of prev. The prev->state & _ZOMBIE test is not atomic with schedule, thus if prev is scheduled again and dies between dropping the runqueue lock and checking prev->state, then the reference it dropped twice. This is possible with either preemption [schedule_tail is called by ret_from_fork with preemption count 1, finish_arch_switch drops it to 0] or profiling [profile_exit_mmap can sleep on profile_rwsem, called by mmdrop()] enabled.
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Andrew Morton authored
Several comparisons which can never be true because they're comparing u8's with numbers which are greater than 255.
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Andrew Morton authored
ic_servaddr is accessible after boot via /proc/net/pnp. So it cannot be __initdata. davej says that other varibles there are treated the same way, so move them all into the regular data section.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> Here's the updated patch to fix several race conditions in nbd. It requires reverting the already included (but incomplete) nbd-race-fix.patch that's in -mm5. This patch fixes the following race conditions: 1) adds an increment of req->ref_count to eliminate races between do_nbd_request and nbd_end_request, which resulted in the freeing of in-use requests -- there were races between send/receive, send/shutdown (killall -9 nbd-client), and send/disconnect (nbd-client -d), which are now all fixed 2) adds locking and properly orders the code in NBD_CLEAR_SOCK to eliminate races with other code 3) adds an lo->sock check to nbd_clear_que to eliminate races between do_nbd_request and nbd_clear_que, which resulted in the dequeuing of active requests 4) adds an lo->sock check to NBD_DO_IT to eliminate races with NBD_CLEAR_SOCK, which caused an Oops when "nbd-client -d" was called
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> The P4 thermal interrupt vector was only getting set on SMP builds.
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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com> This patch fixes a problem in reiserfs' handling of immutable attribute, where every user (not just root) can unset it. Also it adds "append-only" attribute "support" (all the support is in VFS anyway, we only recognise the bit now). Also misleading comment in reiserfs_fs.h is removed.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com> There is a leftover kunmap in reiserfs_unprepare_pages() which was not deleted after conversion to kmap_atomic. This path is virtually never executed, that's why it was not caught earlier. Please apply.
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Andrew Morton authored
The pipe code's mtime and ctime updates are causing writes to read-only mounted filesystems. Fix that up by teaching inode_update_time() to honour readonly mounts, and call it from the pipe code.
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