The general error logic handling in there is:

	*errp = -EFOO;
	<lots of code>
	if (some_error)
		goto out;

this is fragile and unmaintainable, because the setting of the error code is
"far away" from the site where the error was detected.

And the code was actually wrong - we're returning ENOSPC in places where fs
metadata inconsistency was detected.  We traditionally return -EIO in this
case.

So change it all to do, effectively:

	if (some_error) {
		*errp = -EFOO;
		goto out;
	}

Patch from: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

For almost a year (since 2.5.4) ext2_new_block has tended to set err 0
instead of -ENOSPC or -EIO.  This manifested variously (typically depends on
what's stale in ext2_get_block's chain[4] array): sometimes __brelse free
free buffer backtraces, sometimes release_pages oops, usually
generic_make_request beyond end of device messages, followed by further ext2
errors.

[Insert lecture on dangers of using goto for unwind :-]

Forward port of a 2.4 patch by Christoph Hellwig.

See http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/03/msg00384.html
for the security implications.

Patch from Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

exec of setuid apps and ptrace must be synchronized, to ensure that a normal
user cannot ptrace a setuid app across exec.  ptrace_attach acquires the
task_lock around the uid checks, compute_creds acquires the BLK.  The patch
converts compute_creds to the task_lock.  Additionally, it removes the
do_unlock variable: the task_lock is not heaviliy used, there is no need to
avoid the spinlock by adding branches.

The patch is a cleanup patch, not a fix for a security problem: AFAICS the
sys_ptrace in every arch acquires the BKL before calling ptrace_attach.

Patch from "Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at>

Compile fix in sound/oss/maestro.c

Patch from: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>

Fixes a commonly-reported insmod oops.

Move the ksymtab labels definitions inside the liker section, so they get the
right addresses.

Since Jan removed the lock_kernel()s in inode_add_bytes() and
inode_sub_bytes(), these functions have been racy.

One problematic workload has been discovered in which concurrent writepage
and truncate on SMP quickly causes i_blocks to go negative.  writepage() does
not take i_sem, and it seems that for ext2, there are no other locks in
force when inode_add_bytes() is called.

Putting the BKL back in there is not acceptable.  To fix this race I have
added a new spinlock "i_lock" to the inode.

That lock is presently used to protect i_bytes and i_blocks.  We could use it
to protect i_size as well.

The splitting of the used disk space into i_blocks and i_bytes is silly - we
should nuke all that and just have a bare loff_t i_usedbytes.   Later.

When an appending O_DIRECT write hits ENOSPC we're returning a short write
which is _too_ short.  The file ends up with an undersized i_size and fsck
complains.

So update the return value with the partial result before bailing out.

In 2.5.52 I broke sys_sync() for ext2 in subtle ways.

sys_sync() will set mapping->dirtied_when non-zero against a clean inode.
Later, in (say) __iget(), that inode gets moved over to inode_unused or
inode_in_use.  But because it has non-zero ->dirtied_when,
__mark_inode_dirty() thinks that the inode must still be on sb->s_dirty.

But it isn't.  It's on inode_in_use.  It (and its pages) never get written
out and the data gets thrown away on unmount.

The patch ceases to use ->dirtied_when as an indicator of inode dirtiness.
Not sure why I even did that :(

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__virt_to_bus/__bus_to_virt depended on INTEGRATOR_HDR0_SDRAM_BASE
Unfortunately, this is defined in arch-integrator/platform.h, and
we really don't want to include it in memory.h.

We instead use BUS_OFFSET, which will eventually depend on the CPU
number in the system.

Only default BLK_DEV_IDEDMA on BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_ICS if ARCH_ACORN is
set, not if ARM is set.  There are PCI ARM systems out there!

Ensure that we clean up properly after initialisation error,
releasing all claimed resources in an orderly manner and
returning the correct error code.

Add cfbfillrect / cfbcopyarea / cfbimgblt objects for SA1100fb.
Remove redundant "pm" member.

Found a buglet in the marvel code -- doesn't change the number of IRQS
just the logic to get there.. This applies on top of the other marvel
code.

/jeff

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to header files where they belong.

of AGP and SRMCONS patches.

From Jeff.Wiedemeier@hp.com.

(Titan / Marvel), Kconfig and headers.

From Jeff Wiedemeier.

Patch from Erich Focht

This adds a hook to rebalance globally across nodes every NODE_BALANCE_RATE
iterations of the rebalancer. This allows us to easily tune on an architecture
specific basis how often we wish to rebalance - machines with higher NUMA
ratios (more expensive off-node access) will want to do this less often.
It's currently set to 100 for NUMA-Q and 10 for other machines. If the
imbalance between nodes is > 125%, we'll rebalance them. The hook for this
is added to the NUMA definition of cpus_to_balance, so again, no impact
on non-NUMA machines.

Patch from Michael Hohnbaum

This adds a hook, sched_balance_exec(), to the exec code, to make it
place the exec'ed task on the least loaded queue. We have less state
to move at exec time than fork time, so this is the cheapest point
to cross-node migrate. Experience in Dynix/PTX and testing on Linux
has confirmed that this is the cheapest time to move tasks between nodes.

It also macro-wraps changes to nr_running, to allow us to keep track of
per-node nr_running as well. Again, no impact on non-NUMA machines.

Patch from Martin J. Bligh

This adds a small hook to the find_busiest_queue routine to allow us to
specify a mask of which CPUs to search over. In the NUMA case, it will
only balance inside the node (much cheaper to search, and stops tasks
from bouncing across nodes, which is very costly). The cpus_to_balance
routine is conditionally defined to ensure no impact to non-NUMA machines.

This is a tiny NUMA scheduler, but it needs the assistance of the second
and third patches in order to spread tasks across nodes.

Another left-over from ancient module code, it was supposed to return
non-zero if the module has a use count, but currently it always
evaluates to 0.

There are a few users of different types:
(1)  ioctl that perform a while(MOD_IN_USE) MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT loop.
     Just rip them out, we now have forced module unloading.
(2)  printk's that moan if the use-count in not zero in the exitfunc.
     Just rip them out, this can't happen.
(3)  if(MOD_IN_USE) MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT constructs in ->close of a few
     serial drivers.  Just remove the conditional, we did a
     MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in ->open.
(4)  This one is interesting:  drivers/sbus/char/display7seg.c uses
     the module use count to track openers.  Replace this with an
     atomic_t.

In addition remove tons of stale comments in network driver that aren't
understandable for anyone who doesn't know ancient Linux module semantics.

x86-64 updates for 2.5.58. Changes only x86-64 specific files.

 - Rewrote module allocation. Lots of bugs fixed. Module loading
   should work now again.
 - Kconfig help fixes from Randy Dunlap
 - Makefile cleanups from Pavel Machek and Sam Ravnborg
 - Assembly cleanups from Pavel
 - defconfig update
 - Better strlen_user/strnlen_user
 - Merge with i386: new ptrace commands, 32bit vsyscall signal trampolines
		new deactivate_mm, add asm/bug.h
 - Make sure initramfs is freed after booting (thanks to Kai for the hint)
 - User per cpu data for profile counters (Ravikiran Thirumalai)
 - 32bit compat_* updates from Stephen Rothwell
 - Fix race in context switch. The exception handler for bogus segment
   loads in __switch_to needs to keep interrupts disabled, otherwise an
   interrupt can deadlock on scheduler locks.  Also make sure they don't
   printk or set oops_in_progress during printk because printk does a
   wake_up too.
 - Disable 64bit GS base changes for processes.  I cannot get it to work
   reliably.
 - Clear IOPL on kernel entry

From Jeff.Wiedemeier@hp.com:

Add platform-specific callin for SMP.

From Jeff.Wiedemeier@hp.com:

- Only create smp_affinity /proc nodes if a set_affinity handler
  is provided.
- Limit the number of irq nodes that will be created in /proc
  to avoid overfilling the /proc inode space.

a titan specific kernel.

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Without it, unloading a module
leads to some unpleasant oops...

Please note that the naming DB is now completely optional. If there is
no eisa.ids in the drivers/eisa/ directory, build will behave as if
CONFIG_EISA_NAMES is disabled. So this patch can be left out if there
is any objection.

Base patch adding sysfs support for the EISA bus

From Jeff.Wiedemeier@hp.com:

Update titan system support include AlphaServer DS25, AGP,
enhanced machine check handling.