- 03 Jun, 2004 21 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Currently the hugepage code stores the hugepage destructor in the mapping field of the second of the compound pages. However, this field is never cleared again, which causes tracebacks from free_pages_check() if the hugepage is later destroyed by reducing the number in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. This patch fixes the bug by clearing the mapping field when the hugepage is freed. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> When filling holes via DIRECT_IO, we fall back to normal buffered io. For this to work properly, the direct io funcs have to return a value of zero to the file write functions, so the file write functions know where to start writing. In some cases, dio->result was getting returned by direct_io_worker, and that wasn't always zero, causing some data not to be written. From: <akpm@osdl.org>: - Simplify things by setting `ret' later on, fix up subsequent damage to the dio_complete() args. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Currently, calling msync() on a hugepage area will cause the kernel to blow up with a bad_page() (at least on ppc64, but I think the problem will exist on other archs too). The msync path attempts to walk pagetables which may not be there, or may have an unusual layout for hugepages. Lucikly we shouldn't need to do anything for an msync on hugetlbfs beyond flushing the cache, so this patch should be sufficient to fix the problem. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> Darrene Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> noticed that the #endif for __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SIGPROCMASK was off by one routine. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> start_jiffies was not respected by set_timeout(), which reread jiffies instead of respecting what read_events() passed it. This difference can be significant, particularly if the calling process slept during the copy_to_user() operation in read_events(). To correct this, this patch teaches it to respect its argument, with the additional bonus of converting it to use timespec_to_jiffies() instead of open-coding it. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> The time conversion functions may have const args, which is in fact useful for when they are passed const variables as arguments so as to avoid discarding qualifiers from pointer types warnings. This is a preparatory cleanup for a minor aio bugfix. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> Remove duplicated assignment. Signed-off by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Add DM_REMOVE_ALL_32 to the list of compatible ioctls. Signed-off-By:
Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> In fs/ext3/super.c::ext3_get_journal() at line 1675 `journal' can be NULL, but it is not handled right (detect by Coverity's checker). Signed-off by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> It appears the loop driver has had one flush_dcache_page() call added for the case where it writes to the backing device page cache pages. However, it seems to be missing the call where it writes to its own page cache pages. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> It looks like the call to sched_balance_exec() from do_execve() is in the wrong spot. The code calls sched_balance_exec() before determining whether "filename" actually exists. In many cases, users have several entries in $PATH. If a full path name is not specified on the 'exec" call, the library code iterates thru the files in the PATH list until it finds the program. This can result is numerous migrations of the parent process before the program is actually found. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Paul Slootman <paul+nospam@wurtel.net> Correctly set the floppy disk's first minor. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> This patch changes security_context_to_sid to check the length of the processed security context against the full length of the provided context, rejecting any further data. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
`make buildcheck' only checks for calls to linker discarded sections, reference_init checks for calls to sections discarded at run time, init was cloned from discarded. They are separate because the linker detects the discarded case and I did not want to confuse users with messages about init text/data while they were fixing the linker errors. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> The patch examines a putative partition table, and if that doesnt look like a valid partition table it goes away again. Some devices have partition tables (and there are many styles of such), some don't. Traditionally fixed disks have one, floppies don't. Nobody knows what happens with ZIP disks, USB sticks and other such things. Both the DOS-type partition table, and the "big floppy" whole disk FAT filesystem are common. It is undesirable for the kernel to detect partitions where there are none. This leads to great confusion, sometimes to kernel crashes. In the particular case of DOS-type partition tables a partition entry has a 1-byte field boot_ind that traditionally is 0x80 for the boot partition and 0 for the other three primary partitions. Linux does not use this field, and one sometimes sees tables with all four entries zero. The patch tells the kernel not to think that something is a valid DOS-type partition table when a value other than 0 or 0x80 is encountered. I think it is a fairly safe change: I do not know of any fdisk-type program that will write other values there. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com> On some systems it can take a hotplugged cpu much longer to come up than it would at boot. If the cpu comes up after we've given up on it, it tends to die in its first attempt to kmem_cache_alloc (uninitialized percpu data, I imagine). In my experimentation I haven't seen a processor take more than one second to become available; the patch waits five seconds just to be safe. Signed-off-by:
Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> /proc/iSeries/config contains now the number of configured virtual ethernet adapters. AVAILABLE_VETH should only indicate if there is at least one interface available, iseries_veth must be loaded in this case. Printing the entire map will give installers some hints about what interface numbers will appear and how the MAC address may look like. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> `-64' is no longer a valid option for as. Pass it `-a64' instead. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> DCR number is encoded in mfdcr/mtdcr command itself and this prevents easy DCR access when register number is not known on compile time. This patch adds __mfdcr & __mtdcr helpers which use pre-generated mfdcr/mtdcr sequences for all possible DCR numbers. We also use GCC extension __builtin_constant_p to optimize cases when DCR number is in fact known during compilation. Signed-off-by:
Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by:
Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
- Off-by-one in balance_pgdat means that we're not scanning the zones all the way down to priority=0. - Always set zone->temp_priority in shrink_caches(). I'm not sure why I had the `if (zone->free_pages < zone->pages_high)' test in there, but it's preventing us from setting ->prev_priority correctly on the try_to_free_pages() path. - Set zone->prev_priority to the current priority if it's currently a "lower" priority. This allows us to build up the pressure on mapped pages on the first scanning pass rather than only on successive passes. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Writing to ramfs files with O_SYNC dereferences null in mpage_writepages(), due to null a_ops->writepage. The call path is generic_file_aio_write_nolock ->generic_osync_inode ->write_inode_now ->__writeback_single_inode ->__sync_single_inode ->do_writepages ->mpage_writepages The best fix for this is to visit all ram-backed filesystems and give them a no-op a_ops.writepages. But baling out if the file is memory-backed is a sufficient coverall and is how we handle this in __filemap_fdatawrite(). Signed-off-by:
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- 02 Jun, 2004 19 commits
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
It only gives (not mapped in case of MMIO) DMA base addresses. The same info is given during driver initialization (if BM-DMA is used) or can be obtained from 'lspci -v' output (if MMIO-DMA is used). Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
per jgarzik's suggestion Define it in <asm/ide.h> if ide_default_io_base(), ide_default_irq() and ide_init_default_irq() are needed. Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
They are identical (modulo infamous PC9800 stuff). Acked by Andi. Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Also print the same warning as on m68k on other archs too. Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
From: "Brian Lazara" <blazara@nvidia.com> Add device IDs for new nForce IDE and SATA controllers. Rename some of the existing controller names to correctly match released product names. Acked by Vojtech. Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
While at it add DECLARE_AMD_DEV() and DECLARE_NV_DEV() macros (ala piix.h:DECLARE_PIIX_DEV() added by jgarzik). Acked by Vojtech. Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
- convert ->isa_ports into ->flags (IDEPCI_FLAG_ISA_PORTS) - add IDEPCI_FLAG_{OBS_FORCE_PDC,FORCE_MASTER} flags and use them in setup-pci.c - use struct pci_dev ->vendor and ->device fields directly in generic.c and serverworks.c - remove no longer needed debug checks (dev->device != d->device) - remove ->vendor and ->device fields from ide_pci_device_t - misc cleanups Signed-off-by: -
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Extracted from the Debian kernel package. Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by:
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/net-drivers-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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Arjan van de Ven authored
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Jeff Garzik authored
When taskfile delivery is improved, we will actually perform this command, instead of no-oping it. For now, this is cosmetic except for removing an annoying message that some users see.
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Jeff Garzik authored
The ->tf_load and ->exec_command driver hooks were changed to assume that PIO was the only type of taskfile ever delivered to these functions. This will be true... in the future, but not today. In other drivers this change was not needed, but Promise executes commands differently due to its "ATA packet" hardware features, so the Promise drivers need this change reverted. Diagnosis and initial fix by Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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Jeff Garzik authored
into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.6
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Krzysztof Halasa authored
The attached patch updates generic HDLC: - fixed some carrier-related problems (Cisco HDLC and FR links could report valid link when no carrier was detected at startup). - fixed kbuild problems with wanxl firmware (building kernel in separate tree). $(src)/wanxlfw.inc is now wanxlfw.inc_shipped.
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