1. 19 May, 2004 40 commits
    • Greg Ungerer's avatar
      [PATCH] m68knommu: big clean/fix of Dragonball frame buffer driver · 3fb529dc
      Greg Ungerer authored
      Big cleanup of the Motorola DragonBall 68x328 frame buffer.  It was
      quite broken before. 
      
      Patch from Georges Menie <georges@menie.org>.
      3fb529dc
    • Greg Ungerer's avatar
      [PATCH] m68knommu: fix cache flush for 5407 ColdFire CPU · 1d2e3bff
      Greg Ungerer authored
      Fix the cache flushing code for the ColdFire 5407 CPU.
      
      The cpushl instruction arguments are wrong, causing it to miss some
      cache lines.
      1d2e3bff
    • Greg Ungerer's avatar
      [PATCH] ucLinux: return 0 on success from do_munmap() for nommu version · c5c7dfff
      Greg Ungerer authored
      Added a nommu version of sysctl_max_map_count.
      
      Fix return value from do_munmap(), it should return 0 on success not
      EINVAL.
      c5c7dfff
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] raid locking fix. · 26c78a95
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      Fix bug #2661
      
      Raid currently calls ->unplug_fn under spin_lock_irqsave(), but unplug_fns
      can sleep.
      
      
      After a morning of scratching my head and trying to come up with some that
      does less locking, the following is the best I can come up with.  I'm not
      proud of it but it should work.
      
      If I move "nr_pending" out or rdev into the per-personality structures
      (e.g.  mirror_info), and if I had "atomic_inc_if_nonzero" I could do with
      without locking so much, but random atomic* functions don't seem trivial
      26c78a95
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/net-drivers-2.6 · d0511fb6
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      d0511fb6
    • Arjan van de Ven's avatar
      [PATCH] fealnx smp bugfix · e1c76849
      Arjan van de Ven authored
              spinlock_t *lp = &((struct netdev_private *)dev->priv)->lock;
      doesn't mix with
      	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp, flags);
      e1c76849
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] s390 atomic_inc_and_test() fix · 86cda021
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
      86cda021
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sir_dev locking fix · 6d06b342
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>
      
      There was a spin_unlock missing in the raw mode tx-completion path.  Probably
      it slipped through because the raw mode stuff is never reached with my Actisys
      hardware.
      6d06b342
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] s390: network driver · 2c81f2e4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      
      Network driver changes:
       - iucv: Make grab_param function SMP safe.
       - lcs: Fix null-pointer dereference after unsuccessful set_online.
       - qeth: Fix kmalloc flags in qeth_alloc_reply.
       - qeth: Show broadcase capability also in route4/6 sysfs attributes.
       - qeth: Remove debug code.
       - qeth: Add option to qetharp user space interface to strip unused
               fields from query arp records.
       - qeth: Add shortcut in outbound path for HiperSockets.
       - qeth: Add more info to qeth_perf_stats.
       - qeth: Add support for direct SNMP interface to OSA express cards.
      2c81f2e4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] s390: zfcp host adapater · b874ee07
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      
      zfcp host adapter change:
       - Remove misplaced dot in error message.
       - Remove unused performance statistics code.
      b874ee07
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] s390: dasd driver · 1f5a9d4e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      
      dasd device driver changes:
       - Reset pointer from ccw device to dasd_devmap on device removal.
      1f5a9d4e
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] s390: core s390 · 4120bd78
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      
      s390 core changes:
       - Fix system call trace / audit interface.
       - Fix find_first_bit / find_next_bit inlines assembly constraints.
      4120bd78
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] use-before-uninitialized value in ext3(2)_find_ goal · 83ee50f5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      
      There is a uninitialized goal value being referenced in both ext3 and ext2
      find goal block functions (ext3_find_goal() and ext2_find_goal()).
      
      In the non-sequential write case, these functions check the goal value(non
      zero) before calling ext3(2)_find_near() to find the goal block to
      allocate.
      
      Since the goal value is uninitialized(non zero), the ext3(2)_find_near() is
      never being called in the non-sequential write, thus ext3(2)_find_goal()
      failed to guide a goal block in the random write case.
      
      ext3(2)_new_block() takes the junk goal value and will turn it to goal 0
      since it's normally beyond the filesystem block number limit.  The fix is
      trivial.
      83ee50f5
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix overzealous use of online cpu iterators · 2cb2f31f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      The IA64 hotplug CPU merge seems to have included some core changes: in
      particular the recalc_bh_state() needs to sum for all (including offline)
      cpus, since we don't empty the counters on CPU down.  The totals printed by
      /proc/stat (the first loop) should include offline cpus, too (apparently
      printing out the per-cpu lines for offline cpus confuses top).
      2cb2f31f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] vga16fb-fix · 4a40d604
      Andrew Morton authored
      The recent ARM-specific fix broke ia32.  Hopefully the ARM team can find an
      arch-specific implementation of VGA_MAP_MEM() which makes it work.
      4a40d604
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] VFS cache sizing fix for small machines · 227d8064
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      
      Doing the algebra:
      
      c = (a - b) * 3/2
      a' = a - c = a - 3/2(a - b) = (2a - 3a + 3b)/2 = (3b - a)/2
      a' >= 0
      3b - a >= 0
      3b >= a
      b >= a/3
      nr_free_pages() >= mempages/3
      
      We can indeed get into trouble if we try to load a large kernel on a very
      small box (ie kernel reserves more than 2/3 of usable memory).  Surprisingly I
      haven't hit this, but here's a fix.
      227d8064
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] svc_recv() fix · c0b5943f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      svc_recv may call svc_sock_release before rqstp->rq_res is initialized.
      c0b5943f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Add a warning when upcalls fail, · eeb6f17b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      To help the user diagnose problems caused by user-level daemons not running.
      eeb6f17b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Remove check on number of threads waiting on user-space. · 95321936
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      Currently we are counting the number of threads already asleep and returning
      an immediate NFS4ERR_DELAY (==JUKEBOX) error if more than half are already
      asleep.
      
      This patch removes that logic, so instead we only return NFS4ERR_DELAY if an
      upcall times out (if it takes more than a second to return).
      
      With the thread counting there is the risk that even when all the relevant
      subsystems are responsive, the client may still see occasional NFS4ERR_DELAY
      returns just because, by coincidence, several upcalls were initiated at the
      same time.  I expect clients will delay several seconds before retrying after
      NFS4ERR_DELAY, so this will be quite noticeable to users.  Sporadic long
      delays like this are likely to lead users to suspect a problem somewhere, when
      in fact there is none.
      
      The current scheme ensures that we can still process requests not depending on
      upcalls, even when all threads would otherwise be tied up waiting on upcalls. 
      However, this is not something that should happen under normal circumstances;
      if a server spends a significant portion of its time with all threads waiting
      for upcalls, this a sign that something is seriously wrong.
      
      In such a circumstance (e.g., an ldap server dies), we can, at least, bound
      the waiting time to a second without the need for counting threads.
      
      In short, removing the thread-counting will allow us to behave predictably
      when things are working, while still allowing some progress when they don't.
      
      It would be a worthwhile project to measure the amount of time threads spend
      waiting for upcalls (or for reads, for that matter); if a significant portion
      of the time they spend handling requests is spent sleeping, then there's an
      opportunity to improve nfsd performance: if we can break the one-to-one
      mapping between requests and threads, then we can lower the number of threads
      required to keep the nfs server busy.
      
      However, both the currently available options for doing this are problematic:
      returning JUKEBOX/DELAY errors at random times will lead to unpredictable
      performance, and saving a copy of the request to be processed from scratch
      again later is wasteful and makes it difficult to provide correct semantics,
      especially in the NFSv4 case.
      
      So for now I believe waits with short timeouts are the best option.
      95321936
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Reduce timeout when waiting for idmapper userspace daemon. · 5eb098e2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      1 second should be plenty of time; if we're going to take longer than that
      it's probably better just to return NFS4ERR_DELAY and let the client retry
      anyway.
      5eb098e2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Improve idmapper behaviour on failure. · 74d88830
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      Slightly better behavior on failed mapping (which may happen either because
      idmapd is not running, or because there it has told us it doesn't know the
      mapping.):
      
      	on name->id (setattr), return BADNAME.  (I used ESRCH to
      		communicate BADNAME, just because it was the first error in
      		include/asm-generic/errno-base.h that had something to
      		do with nonexistance of something, and that we weren't
      		already using.)
      
      	id->name (getattr), return a string representation of the numerical
      		id.  This is probably useless to the client, especially
      		since we're unlikely to accept such a string on a setattr,
      		but perhaps some client will find it mildly helpful.
      74d88830
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Fix race conditions in idmapper · 63b60615
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      
      Also fix leaks on error; split up code a bit to make it easier to verify
      correctness.
      63b60615
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Protect reference to exp across calls to nfsd_cross_mnt · 8dfec5a1
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      nfsd_cross_mnt can release the reference to the passed svc_export structure
      when it returns a different svc_export structure.  So we need to make sure we
      have a counted reference before, and drop the reference afterwards.
      8dfec5a1
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Change fh_compose to NOT consume a reference to the dentry. · a1de7361
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      fh_compose currently consumes a reference to the dentry but not the export
      point.  This is both inconsistent and confusing.
      
      It is better if a routine like this doesn't consume reference points, so with
      this patch, it doesn't.  This fixes a couple of very subtle and unusual
      reference counting errors.
      a1de7361
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Allow larger writes to sunrpc/svc caches. · 4fc69688
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      We currently serialize all writes to these caches with queue_io_sem, so we
      only needed one buffer.
      
      There is some need for larger-than-one-page writes, so we can just statically
      allocate a buffer.
      4fc69688
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Make sure CACHE_NEGATIVE is cleared when a cache entry is updates. · 00979a9f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      This is important for update-in-place caches which may change from being
      negative to posative.
      
      Thanks to "J.  Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> and Olaf Kirch
      <okir@suse.de>
      00979a9f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kNFSd: Use correct _bh locking on sv_lock. · fb4bb3a0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      
      With the _bh, we can deadlock.
      fb4bb3a0
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] initialise mca_bus_type even if !MCA_bus · 64e67fb0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      We need to call mca_system_init() to register MCA bus struct, otherwise
      find_mca_adapter() oopses with a NULL ptr dereference.
      
      Fixes this oops reported last week:
      	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108455738606747&w=2
      
      Thanks to James Bottomley for pointing this out.
      64e67fb0
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c warning fix. · a856abc9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>
      
      drivers/cdrom/azctd.c:379: warning: `pa_ok' defined but not used
      a856abc9
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] do_generic_mapping_read() cleanup · 6eb8058f
      Andrew Morton authored
      We just tested the page's uptodateness, no point in doing it again.
      6eb8058f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] efivars: add MODULE_VERSION, remove unnecessary check in exit · 54a50867
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
      
      * Adds MODULE_VERSION
      
      * Remove check for efi_enabled in efivars_exit() - we aborted module load at
        init based on this already.
      54a50867
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] EDD: remove unused SCSI header files · 17b62a72
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
      
      EDD: Remove no longer needed SCSI header file inclusion.
      
      Thanks to ArjanV for reminding me.
      17b62a72
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] SubmittingDrivers completeness · dc4ed52a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      
      I noticed a patch went in to Documentation/SubmittingDrivers which tweaked
      the URL for KernelTraffic.  Here's a self-serving patch which makes that
      section more complete; to be fair, I added two other sites too.  Just in
      case it's useful.
      dc4ed52a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Quota fix 3 - quota file corruption · e69c0c55
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      
      This patch fixes possible quota files corruption which could happen when root
      did not have any inodes&space allocated.
      
      Originally this could not happen as structure would not be written to disk in
      that case but with journalled quota we need to write even all-zero structure. 
      The fix is not very nice but change of the format on disk is probably worse (I
      made a mistake with not including the usage-bitmaps into format :().
      e69c0c55
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] SELinux: fix error handling in selinuxfs · cfeff004
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch against 2.6.6 fixes error handling for two out-of-memory conditions
      in selinuxfs, avoiding potential deadlock due to returning without releasing a
      semaphore.  The patch was submitted by Karl MacMillan of Tresys.
      cfeff004
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] correct ps2esdi module parm name · 5187778f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      The module parameter name is incorrect (looks like a thinko).
      5187778f
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Subject: [PATCH] kbuild SUBDIRS="more/ than/ one/" · 4da35e71
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
      
      Here is a patch that re-adds support for more than one directory in SUBDIRS.
      We have a number of packages that use this.
      
      The FORCE dependency of crmodverdir seems unnecessary; removing.
      
      (acked by Sam)
      4da35e71
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] mark the `planb' video driver broken · e6d0a0a2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      This one is missing updates from the v4l1 interfaces in 2.4 to the 2.6ish
      v4l2 and thus doesn't compile.  While we're at it also remove the
      MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT calls in it that were bogus even in 2.4 to avoid
      false positives in grep.
      e6d0a0a2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] don't mention MOD_INC_USE_COUNT/MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT in docs · 96595459
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      If we want new drivers to not use obsolete interfaces we're better off not
      mentioning it in the documentation.
      96595459
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] replace MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in cyber2000fb · 00541475
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      This driver is unloadable for the pci case, but not if vlb cards are found so
      we can't use the module_exit removal to lock it into memory.
      
      Replace the MOD_INC_USE_COUNT with __module_get in it's module_init routine.
      00541475