- 12 Apr, 2012 14 commits
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Linus Walleij authored
The ST variants of the PL031 all require bit 26 in the control register to be set before they work properly. Discovered this when testing on the Nomadik board where it would suprisingly just stand still. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Mian Yousaf Kaukab <mian.yousaf.kaukab@stericsson.com> Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ying Han authored
This reverts commit c38446cc. Before the commit, the code makes senses to me but not after the commit. The "nr_reclaimed" is the number of pages reclaimed by scanning through the memcg's lru lists. The "nr_to_reclaim" is the target value for the whole function. For example, we like to early break the reclaim if reclaimed 32 pages under direct reclaim (not DEF_PRIORITY). After the reverted commit, the target "nr_to_reclaim" is decremented each time by "nr_reclaimed" but we still use it to compare the "nr_reclaimed". It just doesn't make sense to me... Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chris Metcalf authored
The race is as follows: Suppose a multi-threaded task forks a new process (on cpu A), thus bumping up the ref count on all the pages. While the fork is occurring (and thus we have marked all the PTEs as read-only), another thread in the original process (on cpu B) tries to write to a huge page, taking an access violation from the write-protect and calling hugetlb_cow(). Now, suppose the fork() fails. It will undo the COW and decrement the ref count on the pages, so the ref count on the huge page drops back to 1. Meanwhile hugetlb_cow() also decrements the ref count by one on the original page, since the original address space doesn't need it any more, having copied a new page to replace the original page. This leaves the ref count at zero, and when we call unlock_page(), we panic. fork on CPU A fault on CPU B ============= ============== ... down_write(&parent->mmap_sem); down_write_nested(&child->mmap_sem); ... while duplicating vmas if error break; ... up_write(&child->mmap_sem); up_write(&parent->mmap_sem); ... down_read(&parent->mmap_sem); ... lock_page(page); handle COW page_mapcount(old_page) == 2 alloc and prepare new_page ... handle error page_remove_rmap(page); put_page(page); ... fold new_page into pte page_remove_rmap(page); put_page(page); ... oops ==> unlock_page(page); up_read(&parent->mmap_sem); The solution is to take an extra reference to the page while we are holding the lock on it. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Konstantin Shlyakhovoy authored
RTC stores time and date in several registers. Due to the fact that these registers can't be read instantaneously, there is a chance that reading from counting registers gives an error of one minute, one hour, one day, etc. To address this issue, the RTC has hardware support to copy the RTC counting registers to static shadowed registers. The current implementation does not use this feature, and in a stress test, we can reproduce this error at a rate of around two times per 300000 readings. Fix the implementation to ensure that the right snapshot of time is captured. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shlyakhovoy <x0155534@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com> Cc: linux-omap <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Mykola Oleksiienko <x0174904@ti.com> Acked-by: Oleksandr Dmytryshyn <oleksandr.dmytryshyn@ti.com> Acked-by: Graeme Gregory <gg@slimlogic.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tushar Behera authored
Driver data field is a pointer, hence assigning that to an integer results in compilation warnings. Fixes following compilation warnings: drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: In function `s3c_rtc_get_driver_data': drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:452:3: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast [enabled by default] drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: At top level: drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:674:3: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default] drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:674:3: warning: (near initialization for `s3c_rtc_dt_match[1].data') [enabled by default] drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:677:3: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default] drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:677:3: warning: (near initialization for `s3c_rtc_dt_match[2].data') [enabled by default] drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:680:3: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default] drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:680:3: warning: (near initialization for `s3c_rtc_dt_match[3].data') [enabled by default] Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tushar Behera authored
Fix this error: drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: At top level: drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:671:3: error: request for member `data' in something not a structure or union drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:674:3: error: request for member `data' in something not a structure or union drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:677:3: error: request for member `data' in something not a structure or union drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:680:3: error: request for member `data' in something not a structure or union Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Khalid Aziz authored
Add missing maintainer info for PCDP console code. Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Glauber Costa authored
We should use the accessor res_counter_read_u64 for that. Although a purely cosmetic change is sometimes better delayed, to avoid conflicting with other people's work, we are starting to have people touching this code as well, and reproducing the open code behavior because that's the standard =) Time to fix it, then. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Beulich authored
efi_rtc_init() uses platform_driver_probe(), so there's no need to also set efi_rtc_driver's probe member (as it won't be used anyway). This fixes a modpost section mismatch warning (as efi_rtc_probe() validly is __init). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andreas Dumberger authored
hwclock refuses to set date/time if RTC registers contain invalid values. Check the date/time register values at probe time and initialize them to make hwclock happy. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dumberger <andreas.dumberger@tqs.de> Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id can be read concurrently by userspace processes. If two (or more) user-space processes concurrently read boot_id when sysctl_bootid is not yet assigned, a race can occur making boot_id differ between the reads. Because the whole point of the boot id is to be unique across a kernel execution, fix this by protecting this operation with a spinlock. Given that this operation is not frequently used, hitting the spinlock on each call should not be an issue. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
action != CPU_DEAD || action != CPU_DEAD_FROZEN is always true. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ying Han authored
In v3.3-rc1, the global LRU was removed in commit 925b7673 ("mm: make per-memcg LRU lists exclusive"). The patch fixes up the memcg docs. I left the swap session to someone who has better understanding of 'memory+swap'. Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Fixes for two nasty regression affecting powerpc in 3.4." * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Fix typo in runlatch code powerpc: Fix page fault with lockdep regression
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- 11 Apr, 2012 9 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
Pull infiniband fixes from Roland Dreier: "Fix a regression in the /sys/class/infiniband/.../rate attribute -- old kernels used to just return something, even if the underlying value was out-of-bounds, while 3.4-rc1 returned EINVAL to userspace. This breaks some applications that check for the error, so go back to the old behavior." * tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/core: Don't return EINVAL from sysfs rate attribute for invalid speeds IB/mlx4: Don't return an invalid speed when a port is down
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tileLinus Torvalds authored
Pull arch/tile fixes from Chris Metcalf: "This is one important change from Srivatsa Bhat that got dropped when I put together my pull request for -rc2, plus a trivial change to remove a compiler warning." * 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: arch/tile: avoid unused variable warning in proc.c for tilegx tile/CPU hotplug: Add missing call to notify_cpu_starting()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/soundLinus Torvalds authored
Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai: - A series of fixes for Conexant 20549 HD-audio codec chip - A workaround for HDMI hotplug debug prints that annoyed people - A fix for the new support of platform DAPM contexts - Many driver-specific minor fixes * tag 'sound-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: ALSA: hda - hide HDMI/ELD printks unless snd.debug=2 ALSA: sound/isa/sscape.c: add missing resource-release code sound: sound/oss/msnd_pinnacle.c: add vfrees ALSA: hda - clean up CX20549 test mixer setup ALSA: hda - CX20549 doesn't need pin_amp_workaround. ALSA: hda - Remove CD control from model=benq for CX20549 ALSA: hda - fix record volume controls of CX20459 ("Venice") ALSA: hda - Rename capture sources of CX20549 to match common conventions ALSA: hda - Fix proc output for ADC amp values of CX20549 ASoC: tegra: fix i2s compilation when !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS ASoC: set idle_bias_off=1 for all platform DAPM contexts ASoC: imx-audmux: Check for NULL pointer ASoC: imx-audmux: Fix ssi port numbers in sysfs ASoC: ak4642: fixup: mute needs +1 step MAINTAINERS: Don't list everyone working on Wolfson drivers MAINTAINERS: Add missing ASoC OMAP co-maintainer ASoC: pxa: pxa2xx-i2s: add io.h for IOMEM macro ASoC: tegra: ensure clocks are enabled when touching registers ASoC: sgtl5000: Enable VAG when DAC/ADC up ALSA: asihpi - fix return value of hpios_locked_mem_alloc()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediaLinus Torvalds authored
Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - dvb core: there is a regression found when used with xine. For whatever unknown reason, xine (and xine-lib clients) wants that the frontend to tell what frequency he is using even before the PLL lock (or at least, it expects a non-zero frequency). On DVB, the frequency is only actually known after a frequency zig-zag seek, done by the DVB core. Anyway, the fix was trivial. That solves Fedora BZ#808871. - ivtv: fix a regression when selecting the language channel - uvc: fix a race-related crash - it913x: fixes firmware loading - two trivial patches (a dependency issue at a radio driver at sound Kconfig, and a warning fix on dvb). * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: [media] uvcvideo: Fix race-related crash in uvc_video_clock_update() [media] Drivers/media/radio: Fix build error [media] dvb_frontend: fix compiler warning [media] it913x: fix firmware loading errors [media] ivtv: Fix AUDIO_(BILINGUAL_)CHANNEL_SELECT regression [media] dvb_frontend: regression fix: userspace ABI broken for xine
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
Pull GFS2 fixes from Steven Whitehouse * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixes: GFS2: Allow caching of rindex glock GFS2: Make sure rindex is uptodate before starting transactions GFS2: use depends instead of select in kconfig GFS2: put glock reference in error patch of read_rindex_entry
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Chris Metcalf authored
Until we push the unaligned access support for tilegx, it's silly to have arch/tile/kernel/proc.c generate a warning about an unused variable. Extend the #ifdef to cover all the code and data for now. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user() by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at a time. Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason). Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it adds, due to the de-duplication. Also, we no longer export (or define) the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and the user address space checks are built in to the new code. Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the address space. Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
keyctl_session_to_parent(task) sets ->replacement_session_keyring, it should be processed and cleared by key_replace_session_keyring(). However, this task can fork before it notices TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and the new child gets the bogus ->replacement_session_keyring copied by dup_task_struct(). This is obviously wrong and, if nothing else, this leads to put_cred(already_freed_cred). change copy_creds() to clear this member. If copy_process() fails before this point the wrong ->replacement_session_keyring doesn't matter, exit_creds() won't be called. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Commit fe1952fc "powerpc: Rework runlatch code" has a nasty typo where it uses "TLF_RUNLATCH" instead of "_TLF_RUNLATCH" (bit number instead of bit mask), causing some flags to be potentially lost such as _TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK (Brown paper bag for me ! We should be able to make that break at compile time with a bit of magic, any volunteer ?) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 10 Apr, 2012 13 commits
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Kees Cook authored
This fixes builds where CONFIG_AUDIT is not defined and CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK=y. This got introduced by the stack-usage reducation commit 48c62af6 ("LSM: shrink the common_audit_data data union"). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengineLinus Torvalds authored
Pull dmaengine fixes from Dan Williams: 1/ regression fix for Xen as it now trips over a broken assumption about the dma address size on 32-bit builds 2/ new quirk for netdma to ignore dma channels that cannot meet netdma alignment requirements 3/ fixes for two long standing issues in ioatdma (ring size overflow) and iop-adma (potential stack corruption) * tag 'dmaengine-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine: netdma: adding alignment check for NETDMA ops ioatdma: DMA copy alignment needed to address IOAT DMA silicon errata ioat: ring size variables need to be 32bit to avoid overflow iop-adma: Corrected array overflow in RAID6 Xscale(R) test. ioat: fix size of 'completion' for Xen
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull sparc fixes from David Miller: 1) Build fix for LEON, from Sam Ravnborg. 2) Make the sparc side changes that go along with the infrastructure to retry faults when blocking on a disk transfer. From Kautuk Consul. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: sparc32,leon: fix leon build sparc/mm/fault_32.c: Port OOM changes to do_sparc_fault sparc/mm/fault_64.c: Port OOM changes to do_sparc64_fault
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulatorLinus Torvalds authored
Pull a regulator build fix from Mark Brown: "Fix a build warning in the anatop driver for 3.4 This is a trivial rename to stop the build system complaining that we're referencing things we shouldn't be." * tag 'regulator-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator: regulator: anatop: fix 'anatop_regulator' name collision
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/umlLinus Torvalds authored
Pull UML fixes from Richard Weinberger. * 'for-3.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: um: uml_setup_stubs': warning: unused variable 'pages' um: Use asm-generic/switch_to.h um: Disintegrate asm/system.h um: switch cow_user.h to htobe{32,64}/betoh{32,64} um: several x86 hw-dependent crypto modules won't build on uml um: fix linker script generation
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Kristen Carlson Accardi authored
Don't call i2c_enable on resume because it causes a spurious interrupt. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fengguang Wu authored
Also remove two warnings when CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set: sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c: In function ‘hdmi_intrinsic_event’: sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c:761:6: warning: unused variable ‘eldv’ [-Wunused-variable] sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c:760:6: warning: unused variable ‘pd’ [-Wunused-variable] Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Bob Peterson authored
This patch allows caching of the rindex glock. We were previously setting the GL_NOCACHE bit when the glock was released. That forced the rindex inode to be invalidated, which caused us to re-read rindex at the next access. However, it caused the glock to be unnecessarily bounced around the cluster. This patch allows the glock to remain cached, but it still causes the rindex to be re-read once it has been written to by gfs2_grow. Ben and I have tested single-node gfs2_grow cases and I've tested clustered gfs2_grow cases on my four-node cluster. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
commit a546498f introduced a regression on 32-bit when irq tracing is enabled by exposing an old bug in our irq tracing code for exception entry. The code would save and restore some GPRs around the calls to the C lockdep code, however, it tries to be too smart for its own good and restores some of the GPRs from the exception frame (as saved there on exception entry). However, for page faults, we do replace those GPRs with arguments to do_page_fault before we call transfer_to_handler and so restoring from the exception frame is plain wrong in this case. This was fine as long as we didn't touch the interrupt state when taking page fault, but when I started doing it, it would trigger the lockdep calls and the bug. This fixes it by cleaning up that code a bit. It did create a small stack frame for the sake of backtraces, so let's make it a bit bigger and use it to save and restore the stuff we care about. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Julia Lawall authored
At the point of this error-handling code, both regions and the dma have been allocated, so free it as done in previous and subsequent error-handling code. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Julia Lawall authored
At the point of this error-handling code, HAVE_DSPCODEH may be undefined, so free INITCODE and PERMCODE as done elsewhere. A jump and label are introduced to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Frank Rowand authored
Commit f02e8a65 ("module: Sort exported symbols") sorts symbols placing each of them in its own elf section. This sorting and merging into the canonical sections are done by the linker. Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux.o (which is not linked yet) and all modules object files (which aren't linked yet). These aren't sanitized by the linker yet. That breaks modpost that can't detect license properly for modules. This patch makes modpost aware of the new exported symbols structure. [ This above is a slightly corrected version of the explanation of the problem, copied from commit 62a26356 ("modpost: Fix modpost's license checking V3"). That commit fixed the problem for module object files, but not for vmlinux.o. This patch fixes modpost for vmlinux.o. ] Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes authored
The task handoff notifier leaks task_struct since it never gets freed after the callback returns NOTIFY_OK, which means it is responsible for doing so. It turns out the lowmemorykiller actually doesn't need this notifier at all. It's used to prevent unnecessary killing by waiting for a thread to exit as a result of lowmem_shrink(), however, it's possible to do this in the same way the kernel oom killer works by setting TIF_MEMDIE and avoid killing if we're still waiting for it to exit. The kernel oom killer will already automatically set TIF_MEMDIE for threads that are attempting to allocate memory that have a fatal signal. The thread selected by lowmem_shrink() will have such a signal after the lowmemorykiller sends it a SIGKILL, so this won't result in an unnecessary use of memory reserves for the thread to exit. This has the added benefit that we don't have to rely on CONFIG_PROFILING to prevent needlessly killing tasks. Reported-by: Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.ru> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 Apr, 2012 4 commits
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Boaz Harrosh authored
Fix the following gcc complain arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c: In function 'uml_setup_stubs': arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c:106:16: warning: unused variable 'pages' [-Wunused-variable] Signed-Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Richard Weinberger authored
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Richard Weinberger authored
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> CC: dhowells@redhat.com
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Al Viro authored
... rather than open-coding the 64bit versions. endian.h has those guys. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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