From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au>

A better explanation of the X86_GENERIC config option follows.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> I'm getting a warning when building
for ia64 with MODVERSIONS enabled.  This is a bug in genksyms, it can't
cope with some arguments of __typeof__.

The following patch will fix that.  Actually the argument of __typeof__ is
an abstract declarator, but the genksyms parser has no production for that;
decl_specifier_seq also matches some invalid constructs, but I don't think
this is a problem in practice, since the compiler will reject them.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Petri Koistinen <petri.koistinen@iki.fi>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

sysfs should be mounted on /sys these days.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>

I just noticed the nested ifdefs, and made it little more readable.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Hans Ulrich Niedermann <linux-kernel@n-dimensional.de>

doc patch: close tag with ">"

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Hans Ulrich Niedermann <linux-kernel@n-dimensional.de>

doc patch: Consistently use quotes for SGML attributes This makes it
possible to process the SGML files without SHORTTAG YES.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>

This small patch documents that bits 9, 10, and 11 are unused by the Linux
kernel.  The IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual says that
these bits are available for programmer use.

From: Trivial Patch Monkey <trivial@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

Depending on one's default emacs settings, the suggestion in the
CodingStyle may or may not work.  This patch adds a few more commands to
ensure it works in more cases.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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

Some versions of ps print non-version lines when ps --version is invoked.
grep them out.

From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>

This patch replaces the call to bitmap_shift_right() in bitmap_parse() with
bitmap_shift_left().

I also prepended comments to the bitmap_shift_* functions defining what
'left' and 'right' means.  This is under the theory that if I and all the
reviewers were bamboozled, others in the future occasionally might be too.

From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@timesys.com>

This is a Scott Wood patch against 2.6.3.


Use gettimeofday() rather than xtime.tv_sec in sys_time(), since
sys_stime() uses settimeofday() and thus subtracts the subtick correction
from the new xtime.

stime() used settimeofday(), but time() did not use gettimeofday().  Since
settimeofday() subtracts out the current intra-tick correction, and nsec
was 0 (since stime() only allows seconds), this resulted in xtime being
slightly earlier than the time that was set.

If time() had used gettimeofday(), the correction would have been applied,
and everything would be fine.  However, instead time just reads the current
xtime.tv_sec, so if time() is called immediately after stime(), you'll
usually get a value one second earlier.

From: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>

O_DIRECT|O_APPEND cannot possibly work on NFS, so NFS needs some way of
preventing the user from setting this combination.  We felt that the best
way of implementing this restriction is to allow the filesytem to implement
its own fcntl() handler.

This patch does, that, and provide the appropriate handler for NFS.

Additional details from Chuck:

Forgetting O_DIRECT for a moment, O_APPEND writes on NFS don't work in any
case when multiple clients are writing to a file, since an NFS client can
never guarantee it knows where the true end of file is 100% of the time.
it works as expected iff only one client writes to an O_APPEND file at a
time.

Multi-client O_APPEND writing doesn't seem to be a problem for any
application I'm aware of.  Since it can be made to behave in the
multi-client case with careful application logic or by using file locking,
I don't think we should disallow it.

I want to drop the inode semaphore when doing NFS direct I/O because it is
synchronous; holding the i_sem means we reduce direct I/O concurrency to
one I/O per file at a time.  the important thing sct was worried about was
the case where a single client is writing with O_APPEND and O_DIRECT, and
we don't hold the i_sem during the write.

We must at least hold the i_sem when determining where the end of file is
to do the O_APPEND write.  In 2.6, I believe that is handled correctly in
the VFS layer, so this is not an issue for 2.6, right?

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

This patch fixes the sysfs store functions for pmdisk when the input
contains a trailing newline.

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>

This patch add proper bounds checking to the sb_mixer.c code, found by the
stanford checker[0].  It fixes bugzilla bugs 252[1], 253[2] and 254[3]. 
Patch is against 2.6.5-rc2.  It was tested by Rene Herman on SN AWE64 gold
and sound still works.  The issue was previously discussed on lkml[4], but
apparently no fix was applied.

The patch is a bit more intrusive than I would've liked, but I don't think
it can be helped without really intrusive changes.  sb_devc has a pointer
to an array (iomap) that is set at run time to point to arrays of variable
sizes.  The patch adds an 'iomap_sz' member to sb_devc that is set to the
length of the array, and does bounds checking in sb_common_mixer_set() and
smw_mixer_set() agains that.

From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

mod->waiter needs to be set before we try to stop the module: setting it in
__try_stop_module means it gets set to the kthread, not rmmod.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

Description:

Right now kmem_cache_create automatically decides about the alignment of
allocated objects. The automatic decisions are sometimes wrong:

- for some objects, it's better to keep them as small as possible to
  reduce the memory usage.  Ingo already added a parameter to
  kmem_cache_create for the sigqueue cache, but it wasn't implemented.

- for s390, normal kmalloc must be 8-byte aligned.  With debugging
  enabled, the default allocation was 4-bytes.  This means that s390 cannot
  enable slab debugging.

- arm26 needs 1 kB aligned objects.  Previously this was impossible to
  generate, therefore arm has its own allocator in
  arm26/machine/small_page.c

- most objects should be cache line aligned, to avoid false sharing.  But
  the cache line size was set at compile time, often to 128 bytes for
  generic kernels.  This wastes memory.  The new code uses the runtime
  determined cache line size instead.

- some caches want an explicit alignment.  One example are the pte_chain
  objects: they must find the start of the object with addr&mask.  Right
  now pte_chain objects are scaled to the cache line size, because that was
  the only alignment that could be generated reliably.

The implementation reuses the "offset" parameter of kmem_cache_create and
now uses it to pass in the requested alignment.  offset was ignored by the
current implementation, and the only user I found is sigqueue, which
intended to set the alignment.

In the long run, it might be interesting for the main tree: due to the 128
byte alignment, only 7 inodes fit into one page, with 64-byte alignment, 9
inodes - 20% memory recovered for Athlon systems.



For generic kernels  running on P6 cpus (i.e. 32 byte cachelines), it means

Number of objects per page:

 ext2_inode_cache: 8 instead of 7
 ext3_inode_cache: 8 instead of 7
 fat_inode_cache: 9 instead of 7
 rpc_tasks: 24 instead of 15
 tcp_tw_bucket: 40 instead of 30
 arp_cache: 40 instead of 30
 nfs_write_data: 9 instead of 7

From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>

The following patch is needed so that kernel-doc can handle functions which
have __attribute__'s on them (such as __attribute__ ((weak))).

do-readv_writev() is trying to fail if

a) any of the segments have a length < 0 or

b) the sum of the segments wraps negative.

But it gets b) wrong because local variable tot_len is unsigned.

Fix that up.

Fix a few buglets spotted by Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>.  We're currently
only checking for I/O errors against journal buffers if they were locked when
they were first inspected.

We need to check buffer_uptodate() even if the buffers were already unlocked.

For data=ordered, kjournald at commit time has to write out and wait upon a
long list of buffers.  It does this in a rather awkward way with a single
list.  it causes complexity and long lock hold times, and makes the addition
of rescheduling points quite hard

So what we do instead (based on Chris Mason's suggestion) is to add a new
buffer list (t_locked_list) to the journal.  It contains buffers which have
been placed under I/O.

So as we walk the t_sync_datalist list we move buffers over to t_locked_list
as they are written out.

When t_sync_datalist is empty we may then walk t_locked_list waiting for the
I/O to complete.

As a side-effect this means that we can remove the nasty synchronous wait in
journal_dirty_data which is there to avoid the kjournald livelock which would
otherwise occur when someone is continuously dirtying a buffer.

There's some nasty code in commit which deals with a lock ranking problem. 
Currently if it fails to get the lock when and local variable `bufs' is zero
we forget to write out some ordered-data buffers.  So a subsequent
crash+recovery could yield stale data in existing files.

Fix it by correctly restarting the t_sync_datalist search.

ext2_sync_file() forgets to clear the inode's dirty bits, so we write the
inode on every fsync(), even if it hasn't changed.

Fix that up via the new sync_file() API which correctly manages the inode
state bits and the superblock inode lists.

When performing file overwrite on IDE with and without writeback caching
enabled this patch approximately doubles fsync() speed, bringing it into line
with O_SYNC writes.

Also, fix up the return value handling in ext2_sync_file().

Credit due to Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> who noticed the performance
discrepancy and wrote a test app.

ext3's fsync/fdatasync implementation is currently syncing the inode via a
full journal commit even if it was unaltered.

Fix that up by exporting the core VFS's inode sync function to modules and
calling it if the inode is dirty.  We need to do it this way so that the
inode is moved to the appropriate superblock list and so that the i_state
dirty flags are appropriately updated.

This speeds up ext3 fsync() for file overwrites by a factor of four (disk
non-writeback) to forty (disk in writeback mode).

From: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>

This changes __alloc_pages() so it uses precalculated values for the "min".
This should prevent the problem of min incrementing from zone to zone across
many nodes on a NUMA machine.  The result of falling back to other nodes with
the old incremental min calculations was that the min value became very
large.

From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

This patch moves all the fields relating to job control from task_struct to
signal_struct, so that all this info is properly per-process rather than
being per-thread.

From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

- Add support for messaging through an IPMI LAN interface, which is
  required for some system software that already exists on other IPMI
  drivers.  It also does some renaming and a lot of little cleanups.

- Add the "System Interface" driver.  The previous driver for system
  interfaces only supported the KCS interface, this driver supports all
  system interfaces defined in the IPMI standard.  It also does a much better
  job of handling ACPI and SMBIOS tables for detecting IPMI system
  interfaces.

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I have tested the code with the open posix test suite and found the same
four failures for both 64-bit and compat mode, most tests pass.  The patch
is against -mc1, but I guess it also applies to the other trees around.

What worries me more than mq_attr compatibility is the conversion of struct
sigevent, which might turn out really hard when more fields in there are
used.  AFAICS, the only other part in the kernel ABI is sys_timer_create(),
so maybe it's not too late to deprecate the current structure and create a
structure that can be used properly for compat syscalls.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

SIGEV_THREAD means that a given callback should be called in the context on a
new thread.  This must be done by the C library.  The kernel must deliver a
notice of the event to the C library when the callback should be called.

This patch switches to a new, simpler interface: User space creates a socket
with socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW,0) and passes the fd to the mq_notify call
together with a cookie.  When the mq_notify() condition is satisfied, the
kernel "writes" the cookie to the socket.  User space then reads the cookie
and calls the appropriate callback.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

The attached patch splits netlink_unicast into three steps:

- netlink_getsock{bypid,byfilp}: lookup the destination socket.

- netlink_attachskb: perform the nonblock checks, sleep if the socket
  queue is longer than the limit, etc.

- netlink_sendskb: actually send the skb.

jamal looked over it and didn't see a problem with the netlink change.  The
actual use from ipc/mqueue.c is still open (just send back whatever the C
library passed to mq_notify, add an nlmsghdr or perhaps even make it a
specialized netlink protocol), but the attached patch is independant from
the the message queue change.

(acked by davem)

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

I found a security bug in the new mqueue code: a process that has only
write permissions to a message queue could call mq_notify(SIGEV_THREAD) and
use the returned notification file descriptor to read from the message
queue.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

My discussion with Ulrich had one result:

- mq_setattr can accept implementation defined flags.  Right now we have
  none, but we might add some later (e.g.  switch to CLOCK_MONOTONIC for
  mq_timed{send,receive} or something similar).  When we add flags, we
  might need the fields for additional information.  And they don't hurt.
  Therefore add four __reserved fields to mq_attr.

- fail mq_setattr if we get unknown flags - otherwise glibc can't detect
  if it's running on a future kernel that supports new features.

- use memset to initialize the mq_attr structure - theoretically we could
  leak kernel memory.

- Only set O_NONBLOCK in mq_attr, explicitely clear O_RDWR & friends.
  openposix uses getattr, attr |=O_NONBLOCK, setattr - a sane approach. 
  Without clearing O_RDWR, this fails.

I've retested all openposix conformance tests with the new patch - the two
new FAILED tests check undefined behavior.  Note that I won't have net
access until Sunday - if the message queue patch breaks something important
either ask Krzysztof or drop it.

Ulrich had another good idea for SIGEV_THREAD, but I must think about it.
It would mean less complexitiy in glibc, but more code in the kernel.  I'm
not yet convinced that it's overall better.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

Make the posix message queue mountable by the user.  This replaces ipcs and
ipcrm for posix message queue: The admin can check which queues exist with ls
and remove stale queues with rm.

I'd like a final confirmation from Ulrich that our SIGEV_THREAD approach is
the right thing(tm): He's aware of the design and didn't object, but I think
he hasn't seen the final API yet.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

Linux specific extension: make the message queue identifiers pollable.  It's
simple and could be useful.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

Actual implementation of the posix message queues, written by Krzysztof
Benedyczak and Michal Wronski.  The complete implementation is dependant on
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE.

It passed the openposix test suite with two exceptions: one mq_unlink test
was bad and tested undefined behavior.  And Linux succeeds
mq_close(open(,,,)).  The spec mandates EBADF, but we have decided to ignore
that: we would have to add a new syscall just for the right error code.

The patch intentionally doesn't use all helpers from fs/libfs for kernel-only
filesystems: step 5 allows user space mounts of the file system.



Signal changes:

The patch redefines SI_MESGQ using __SI_CODE: The generic Linux ABI uses
a negative value (i.e.  from user) for SI_MESGQ, but the kernel internal
value must be posive to pass check_kill_value.  Additionally, the patch
adds support into copy_siginfo_to_user to copy the "new" signal type to
user space.



Changes in signal code caused by POSIX message queues patch:

General & rationale:

  mqueues generated signals (only upon notification) must have si_code
  == SI_MESGQ.  In fact such a signal is send from one process which
  caused notification (== sent message to empty message queue) to
  another which requested it.  Both processes can be of course unrelated
  in terms of uids/euids.  So SI_MESGQ signals must be classified as
  SI_FROMKERNEL to pass check_kill_permissions (not need to say that
  this signals ARE from kernel).

  Signals generated by message queues notification need the same
  fields in siginfo struct's union _sifields as POSIX.1b signals and we
  can reuse its union entry.

  SI_MESGQ was previously defined to -3 in kernel and also in glibc. 
  So in userspace SI_MESGQ must be still visible as -3.

Solution:

  SI_MESGQ is defined in the same style as SI_TIMER using __SI_CODE macro.

  Details:

    Fortunately copy_siginfo_to_user copies si_code as short.  So we
    can use remaining part of int value freely.  __SI_CODE does the
    work.  SI_MESGQ is in kernel:

 		6<<16 | (-3 & 0xffff) what is > 0

    but to userspace is copied

 		(short) SI_MESGQ == -3

Actual changes:

  Changes in include/asm-generic/siginfo.h

  __SI_MESGQ added in signal.h to represent inside-kernel prefix of
  SI_MESGQ.  SI_MESGQ is redefined from -3 to __SI_CODE(__SI_MESGQ, -3)

  Except mips architecture those changes should be arch independent
  (asm-generic/siginfo.h is included in arch versions).  On mips
  SI_MESGQ is redefined to -4 in order to be compatible with IRIX.  But
  the same schema can be used.

  Change in copy_siginfo_to_user: We only add one line to order the
  same copy semantics as for _SI_RT.

  This change isn't very portable - some arch have its own
  copy_siginfo_to_user.  All those should have similar change (but
  possibly not one-line as _SI_RT case was sometimes ignored because i
  wasn't used yet, e.g.  see ia64 signal.c).

Update:
mq: only fail with invalid timespec if mq_timed{send,receive} needs to block
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

POSIX requires EINVAL to be set if:
"The process or thread would have blocked, and the abs_timeout parameter
specified a nanoseconds field value less than zero or greater than or equal
to 1000 million."
but 2.6.5-mm3 returns -EINVAL even if the process or thread would not block
(if the queue is not empty for timedreceive or not full for timedsend).

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

Add -ENOSYS stubs for the posix message queue syscalls.  The API is a direct
mapping of the api from the unix spec, with two exceptions:

- mq_close() doesn't exist.  Message queue file descriptors can be closed
  with close().

- mq_notify(SIGEV_THREAD) cannot be implemented in the kernel.  The kernel
  returns a pollable file descriptor .  User space must poll (or read) this
  descriptor and call the notifier function if the file descriptor is
  signaled.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

cleanup of sysv ipc as a preparation for posix message queues:

- replace !CONFIG_SYSVIPC wrappers for copy_semundo and exit_sem with
  static inline wrappers.  Now the whole ipc/util.c file is only used if
  CONFIG_SYSVIPC is set, use makefile magic instead of #ifdef.

- remove the prototypes for copy_semundo and exit_sem from kernel/fork.c

- they belong into a header file.

- create a new msgutil.c with the helper functions for message queues.

- cleanup the helper functions: run Lindent, add __user tags.

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

Addresses http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2355

It seems that a merge_bvec_fn needs to be aware of partitioning...  who
would have thought it :-(

The following patch should fix the merge_bvec_fn for both linear and raid0.
We teach linear and raid0 about partitions in the merge_bvec_fn.

->merge_bvec_fn needs to make decisions based on the physical geometry of the
device.  For raid0, it needs to decide if adding the bvec to the bio will
make the bio span two drives.

To do this, it needs to know where the request is (what the sector number is)
in the whole device.

However when called from bio_add_page, bi_sector is the sector number
relative to the current partition, as generic_make_request hasn't been called
yet.

So raid_mergeable_bvec needs to map bio->bi_sector (which is partition
relative) to a bi_sector which is device relative, so it can perform proper
calculations about when chunk boundaries are.