- 26 Jul, 2008 36 commits
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Huang Ying authored
This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements the following features: - Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after kexec. - Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec. The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under Linux. kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL: source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2 patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2 binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10 Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return: 1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected: CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y 2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one. 3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode" 4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1. 5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command line can be as follow: /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode 6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line: /sbin/kexec -e Implementation point: To support jumping without reserving memory. One shadow backup page (source page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination page). When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped. Before jumping to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the destination pages and the source pages are swapped too. C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between kernel and called code. A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back. Now, only the i386 architecture is supported. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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WANG Cong authored
Since kimage_terminate() always returns 0, make it void. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Dubov authored
Instead of using a separate thread to pump requests from block layer queue to memstick, do so inline, utilizing the callback design of the memstick. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Dubov authored
In some cases it may be desirable to ensure that associated driver is not going to access the media in some period of time. "start" and "stop" methods are provided therefore to allow it. Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Dubov authored
Some controllers (Jmicron, for instance) can report temporal failure condition during power-on. It is desirable to account for this using a return value of "set_param" device method. The return value can also be handy to distinguish between supported and unsupported device parameters in run time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Halcrow authored
Use the correct data types for the size parameters in tpm_write() and tpm_read(). Note that rw_verify_area() makes sure that this bug cannot be exploited to produce a buffer overrun. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marcin Obara authored
This patch increases size of driver internal response buffers. Some TPM responses defined in TCG TPM Specification Version 1.2 Revision 103 have increased size and do not fit previously defined buffers. Some TPM responses do not have fixed size, so bigger response buffers have to be allocated. 200B buffers should be enough. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Marcin Obara <marcin_obara@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch makes two needlessly global structs static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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LE DISEZ Erwan authored
Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernhard Walle authored
Use the 2nd BAR for the oxsemi_840 chip as BAR for base_hi. Tested with: Parallel controller [0701]: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd VScom 011H-EP1 1 port parallel adaptor [1415:8403] (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284]) This patch is needed to make 'TRISTATE' work with that adaptor. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andre Haupt authored
Signed-off-by: Andre Haupt <andre@bitwigglers.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch adds proper externs for parport_default_timeslice and parport_default_spintime in include/linux/parport.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dmitri Vorobiev authored
Replace the BKL-based locking scheme used in the bfs driver by a private filesystem-wide mutex. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dmitri Vorobiev authored
This patch makes the following cleanups: o removing an unused variable from bfs_fill_super(); o removing unneeded blank spaces from pointer definitions. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthias Kaehlcke authored
The semaphore s_bmlock is used as a mutex. Convert it to the mutex API. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexis Bruemmer authored
The calgary code can give drivers addresses above 4GB which is very bad for hardware that is only 32bit DMA addressable. With this patch, the calgary code sets the global dma_ops to swiotlb or nommu properly, and the dma_ops of devices behind the Calgary/CalIOC2 to calgary_dma_ops. So the calgary code can handle devices safely that aren't behind the Calgary/CalIOC2. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER architecture does: This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423). I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread). So I CC'ed this to KVM camp. Comments are appreciated. A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added. If the pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it. If it's NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before. If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works with hot plugging). It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate dma_mapping_ops per device. The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA operations. So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per device. Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different dma_mapping_error functions. The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error. The patch is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in all the architecture. This patch: dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA operations. So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device. Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function. x86 IOMMUs use device argument. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi] Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Fix the fcpnp_driver declaration to only exist if CONFIG_PNP=y as it's only accessed in that case. The PNP=n variant was added by 30d55e71 ("hisax: depend on CONFIG_PNP, not __ISAPNP__") Fixes an unused variable warning. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored
quirk_system_pci_resources() disables a PnP mem resource that overlaps a PCI BAR so as to not keep the PCI driver from claiming the resource. Have it do the same for io resources. Here, ACPI claims ports that overlap with my soundcard causing the soundcard driver to fail to load. It's unknown why my ACPI BIOS claims those ports; it did not use to but this is not a (kernel) regression. Some odd BIOS reconfig triggered by temporarily removing the card seems to have brought this on. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored
dma_alloc_coherent() on x86 currently takes a passed in NULL device pointer to mean that it should allocate an ISA compatible (24-bit) buffer which is a bit of a hack. The ALSA ISA drivers are the main consumers of this but have a struct device in fact readily available. For the legacy drivers, this sets the device dma_mask in preparation for using the actual device with the DMA API so as to eventually not need the NULL hack in dma_alloc_coherent(). This does not fix a current bug -- 2.6.26-rc1 stumbled over the NULL hack in dma_alloc_coherent() but this has already been fixed in commit 4a367f3a by Takashi Iwai. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored
dma_alloc_coherent() on x86 currently takes a passed in NULL device pointer to mean that it should allocate an ISA compatible (24-bit) buffer which is a bit of a hack. The ALSA ISA drivers are the main consumers of this but have a struct device in fact readily available. For the PnP drivers, the specific pnp_dev->dev device pointer is not always available at the right time so for now we want to pass the pnp_card->dev instead which is always available. Set its dma_mask in preparation for doing so. This does not fix a current bug -- 2.6.26-rc1 stumbled over the NULL hack in dma_alloc_coherent() but this has already been fixed in commit 4a367f3a by Takashi Iwai. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
asic->irq_nr is unsigned. platform_get_irq() may return signed unnoticed Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kentaro Makita authored
Add cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock) while scanning LRU lists on superblocks in __shrink_dcache_sb() Signed-off-by: Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Brownell authored
Cope with a quirk of some RTCs (notably ACPI ones) which aren't guaranteed to implement oneshot behavior when they woke the system from sleeep: forcibly disable the alarm, just in case. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch fixes the following compile error caused by commit d22579b8 ("atmel_lcdfb: FIFO underflow management"): In file included from arch/avr32/boards/atstk1000/atstk1004.c:21: include/video/atmel_lcdc.h:40: error: field 'task' has incomplete type Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
Fixes a build failure reported by Alan Cox: mm/hugetlb.c: In function `hugetlb_acct_memory': mm/hugetlb.c:1507: error: implicit declaration of function `cpuset_mems_nr' Also reverts Ingo's commit e44d1b29 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Fri Jul 25 12:57:41 2008 +0200 mm/hugetlb.c: fix build failure with !CONFIG_SYSCTL which fixed the build error but added some unused-static-function warnings. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Fix this, on avr32: include/linux/utsname.h:35, from init/main.c:20: include/linux/sched.h: In function 'arch_pick_mmap_layout': include/linux/sched.h:2149: error: implicit declaration of function 'PAGE_ALIGN' Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
alpha: drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h:242: error: field 'sg_miter' has incomplete type Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
The new code in commit 5cbf1565 has a bug in the version supporting the AMD 'syscall' instruction. It clobbers the user's %ecx register value (with the %ebp value). This change fixes it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: ipsec: ipcomp - Decompress into frags if necessary ipsec: ipcomp - Merge IPComp implementations pkt_sched: Fix locking in shutdown_scheduler_queue()
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Adrian Bunk authored
Compile error on other architectures: CC drivers/mfd/tc6393xb.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/mfd/tc6393xb.c: In function ‘tc6393xb_attach_irq’: /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/mfd/tc6393xb.c:324: error: implicit declaration of function ‘set_irq_flags’ ... Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.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
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Fix boot problem due to AT_BASE_PLATFORM change
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc: Wire up new system calls.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Wire up new system calls
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Harvey Harrison authored
Introduced by commit aaca0bdc ("flag parameters: paccept"): net/socket.c:1515:17: error: symbol 'sys_paccept' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include/linux/syscalls.h:413) - incompatible argument 4 (different address spaces) Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 Jul, 2008 4 commits
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Nathan Lynch authored
Commit 9115d134 ("powerpc: Enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector") broke boot on 32-bit powerpc systems; we have to use PTRRELOC to initialize powerpc_base_platform this early in boot. Bug reported by Jon Smirl. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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David S. Miller authored
This wires up the recently added Wire up signalfd4, eventfd2, epoll_create1, dup3, pipe2, and inotify_init1 system calls. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6: Make console charset translation optional
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git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6: remove dummy asm/kvm.h files firmware: create firmware binaries during 'make modules'.
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