- 18 Nov, 2010 21 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [libata] remove SCSI host lock and serial number usage from ata_scsi_queuecmd
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Randy Dunlap authored
Update kernel-doc and Documentation maintainers info. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andres Salomon authored
Document things that I would've liked to have known when submitting a driver to gregkh for staging. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andres Salomon authored
This is confusing, as we have "staging" trees for drivers/staging. Call them -next trees. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hans J. Koch authored
My old mail address doesn't exist anymore. This changes all occurrences to my new address. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernhard Walle authored
Add a bit more information how to use poll(2) on GPIO value files correctly. For me it was not clear that I need to poll(2) for POLLPRI|POLLERR or select(2) for exceptfds. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Carpenter authored
If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to simple_strtoul(). In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the check. I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that we are testing whether p points to the NUL char. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
scripts/kernel-doc was leaving unescaped '<', '>', and '&' in generated xml output for structs. This causes xml parser errors. Convert these characters to "<", ">", and "&" as needed to prevent errors. Most of the conversion was already done; complete it just before output. Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml:41883: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name #define INPUT_KEYMAP_BY_INDEX (1 << 0) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Youquan Song authored
Kernel build fail for cx25821-video has depends on smp_lock.h header file, but the dependency is removed in recent commit 451a3c24. Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This really isn't the right thing to do, and strictly speaking we should have the BKL depth count in the thread info right next to the preempt count. The two really do go together. However, since that would involve a patch to all architectures, and the BKL is finally going away, it's simply not worth the effort to do the RightThing(tm). Just re-instate the <linux/sched.h> include that we used to get accidentally from the smp_lock.h one. This is all fallout from the same old "BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>" commit. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: VMX: Fix host userspace gsbase corruption KVM: Correct ordering of ldt reload wrt fs/gs reload
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdbLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,ppc: Fix regression in evr register handling kgdb,x86: fix regression in detach handling kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceeded kdb: fix memory leak in kdb_main.c
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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: Update a BKL related comment powerpc/mm: Fix module instruction tlb fault handling on Book-E 64 powerpc: Fix call to subpage_protection() powerpc: Set CONFIG_32BIT on ppc32 powerpc/mm: Fix build error in setup_initial_memory_limit powerpc/pseries: Don't override CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES_DEBUG powerpc: Fix div64 in bootloader
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Alessio Igor Bogani authored
The commit 5e3d20a6 remove bkl from startup code so setup_arch() it isn't called with bkl held anymore. Update the comment on top of that function. Fix also a typo. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Kumar Gala authored
We were seeing oops like the following when we did an rmmod on a module: Unable to handle kernel paging request for instruction fetch Faulting instruction address: 0x8000000000008010 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=2 P5020 DS last sysfs file: /sys/devices/qman-portals.2/qman-pool.9/uevent Modules linked in: qman_tester(-) NIP: 8000000000008010 LR: c000000000074858 CTR: 8000000000008010 REGS: c00000002e29bab0 TRAP: 0400 Not tainted (2.6.34.6-00744-g2d21f14) MSR: 0000000080029000 <EE,ME,CE> CR: 24000448 XER: 00000000 TASK = c00000007a8be600[4987] 'rmmod' THREAD: c00000002e298000 CPU: 1 GPR00: 8000000000008010 c00000002e29bd30 8000000000012798 c00000000035fb28 GPR04: 0000000000000002 0000000000000002 0000000024022428 c000000000009108 GPR08: fffffffffffffffe 800000000000a618 c0000000003c13c8 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000022000444 c00000000fffed00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 00000000100c0000 0000000000000000 00000000100dabc8 0000000010099688 GPR20: 0000000000000000 00000000100cfc28 0000000000000000 0000000010011a44 GPR24: 00000000100017b2 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000880 GPR28: c00000000035fb28 800000000000a7b8 c000000000376d80 c0000000003cce50 NIP [8000000000008010] .test_exit+0x0/0x10 [qman_tester] LR [c000000000074858] .SyS_delete_module+0x1f8/0x2f0 Call Trace: [c00000002e29bd30] [c0000000000748b4] .SyS_delete_module+0x254/0x2f0 (unreliable) [c00000002e29be30] [c000000000000580] syscall_exit+0x0/0x2c Instruction dump: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX 38600000 4e800020 60000000 60000000 <4e800020> 60000000 60000000 60000000 ---[ end trace 4f57124939a84dc8 ]--- This appears to be due to checking the wrong permission bits in the instruction_tlb_miss handling if the address that faulted was in vmalloc space. We need to look at the supervisor execute (_PAGE_BAP_SX) bit and not the user bit (_PAGE_BAP_UX/_PAGE_EXEC). Also removed a branch level since it did not appear to be used. Reported-by: Jeffrey Ladouceur <Jeffrey.Ladouceur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Neuling authored
In: powerpc/mm: Fix pgtable cache cleanup with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT commit d28513bc Author: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> subpage_protection() was changed to to take an mm rather a pgdir but it didn't change calling site in hashpage_preload(). The change wasn't noticed at compile time since hashpage_preload() used a void* as the parameter to subpage_protection(). This is obviously wrong and can trigger the following crash when CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT are enabled. Freeing unused kernel memory: 704k freed Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6c49b7 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000410f4 cpu 0x2: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000004233f590] pc: c0000000000410f4: .hash_preload+0x258/0x338 lr: c000000000041054: .hash_preload+0x1b8/0x338 sp: c00000004233f810 msr: 8000000000009032 dar: 6b6b6b6b6b6c49b7 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc00000007e2c0070 paca = 0xc000000007fe0500 pid = 1, comm = init enter ? for help [c00000004233f810] c000000000041020 .hash_preload+0x184/0x338 (unreliable) [c00000004233f8f0] c00000000003ed98 .update_mmu_cache+0xb0/0xd0 [c00000004233f990] c000000000157754 .__do_fault+0x48c/0x5dc [c00000004233faa0] c000000000158fd0 .handle_mm_fault+0x508/0xa8c [c00000004233fb90] c0000000006acdd4 .do_page_fault+0x428/0x6ac [c00000004233fe30] c000000000005260 handle_page_fault+0x20/0x74 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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kerstin jonsson authored
commit ffe8018c of the -mm tree fixes the initramfs size calculation for e.g. s390 but breaks it for 32bit architectures which do not define CONFIG_32BIT. This patch fix the problem for PPC32 which will elsewise end up with a __initramfs_size of 0. Signed-off-by: Kerstin Jonsson <kerstin.jonsson@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Kumar Gala authored
arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c: In function 'setup_initial_memory_limit': arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c:588:29: error: 'ppc64_memblock_base' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c:588:29: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in Due to a copy/paste typo with the following commit: commit cd3db0c4 Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Tue Jul 6 15:39:02 2010 -0700 memblock: Remove rmo_size, burry it in arch/powerpc where it belongs Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
EEH and pci_dlpar #undef DEBUG, but I think they were added before the ability to control this from Kconfig. It's really annoying to only get some of the debug messages from these files. Leave the lpar.c #undef alone as it produces so much output as to make the kernel unusable. Update the Kconfig text to indicate this particular quirk :) Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The code is missing a fix that went into the main kernel variant (we should try to share that code again at some stage) Reported-by: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 451a3c24 ("BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>") removed the #include line that was the only thing that was surrounded by the #ifdef/#endif. So now that #ifdef is guarding nothing at all. Just remove it. Reported-by: Byeong-ryeol Kim <brofkims@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 Nov, 2010 13 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Arnd Bergmann did an automated scripting run to find left-over instances of <linux/smp_lock.h>, and had made it trigger it on the normal BKL use of lock_kernel and unlock_lernel (and apparently release_kernel_lock and reacquire_kernel_lock too, used by the scheduler). That resulted in commit 451a3c24 ("BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>"). However, hardirq.h was the only remaining user of the old 'kernel_locked()' interface, and Arnd's script hadn't checked for that. So depending on your configuration and what header files had been included, you would get errors like "implicit declaration of function 'kernel_locked'" during the build. The right fix is not to just re-instate the smp_lock.h include - it is to just remove 'kernel_locked()' entirely, since the only use was this one special low-level detail. Just make hardirq.h do it directly. In fact this simplifies and clarifies the code, because some trivial analysis makes it clear that hardirq.h only ever used _one_ of the two definitions of kernel_locked(), so we can remove the other one entirely. Reported-by: Zimny Lech <napohybelskurwysynom2010@gmail.com> Reported-and-acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avi Kivity authored
We now use load_gs_index() to load gs safely; unfortunately this also changes MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, which we managed separately. This resulted in confusion and breakage running 32-bit host userspace on a 64-bit kernel. Fix by - saving guest MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE before we we reload the host's gs - doing the host save/load unconditionally, instead of only when in guest long mode Things can be cleaned up further, but this is the minmal fix for now. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity authored
If fs or gs refer to the ldt, they must be reloaded after the ldt. Reorder the code to that effect. Userspace code that uses the ldt with kvm is nonexistent, so this doesn't fix a user-visible bug. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Dongdong Deng authored
Commit ff10b88b (kgdb,ppc: Individual register get/set for ppc) introduced a problem where memcpy was used incorrectly to read and write the evr registers with a kernel that has: CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE=y CONFIG_SPE=y CONFIG_KGDB=y This patch also fixes the following compilation problems: arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'dbg_get_reg': arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:341: error: passing argument 2 of 'memcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'dbg_set_reg': arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:366: error: passing argument 1 of 'memcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast [jason.wessel@windriver.com: Remove void * casts and fix patch header] Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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Jason Wessel authored
The fix from ba773f7c (x86,kgdb: Fix hw breakpoint regression) was not entirely complete. The kgdb_remove_all_hw_break() function also needs to call the hw_break_release_slot() or else a breakpoint can get activated again after the debugger has detached. The kgdb test suite exposes the behavior in the form of either a hang or repetitive failure. The kernel config that exposes the problem contains all of the following: CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS=y CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT=y CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_BOOT_STRING="V1F100" Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Jovi Zhang authored
When the number of dyanmic kdb commands exceeds KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX, the kernel will fault. Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Jovi Zhang authored
Call kfree in the error path as well as the success path in kdb_ll(). Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Jeff Garzik authored
cmd->serial_number is never tested in any path we reach; therefore we may remove the call to scsi_cmd_get_serial() inside DEF_SCSI_QCMD, the SCSI host_lock acquisition surrounding it, and our own SCSI host_lock unlock+relock cycle. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Lock_kernel is gone from the code, so the comments should be updated, too. nfsd now uses lock_flocks instead of lock_kernel to protect against posix file locks. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The stradis driver is on its way out, but it should still be marked correctly as depending on the big kernel lock. It could easily be changed to not require it if someone decides to revive the driver and port it to v4l2 in the process. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> Cc: Nathan Laredo <laredo@gnu.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marcus Meissner authored
Making /proc/kallsyms readable only for root by default makes it slightly harder for attackers to write generic kernel exploits by removing one source of knowledge where things are in the kernel. This is the second submit, discussion happened on this on first submit and mostly concerned that this is just one hole of the sieve ... but one of the bigger ones. Changing the permissions of at least System.map and vmlinux is also required to fix the same set, but a packaging issue. Target of this starter patch and follow ups is removing any kind of kernel space address information leak from the kernel. [ Side note: the default of root-only reading is the "safe" value, and it's easy enough to then override at any time after boot. The /proc filesystem allows root to change the permissions with a regular chmod, so you can "revert" this at run-time by simply doing chmod og+r /proc/kallsyms as root if you really want regular users to see the kernel symbols. It does help some tools like "perf" figure them out without any setup, so it may well make sense in some situations. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: nfs: Ignore kmemleak false positive in nfs_readdir_make_qstr SUNRPC: Simplify rpc_alloc_iostats by removing pointless local variable nfs: trivial: remove unused nfs_wait_event macro NFS: readdir shouldn't read beyond the reply returned by the server NFS: Fix a couple of regressions in readdir. Revert "NFSv4: Fall back to ordinary lookup if nfs4_atomic_open() returns EISDIR" Regression: fix mounting NFS when NFSv3 support is not compiled NLM: Fix a regression in lockd
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- 16 Nov, 2010 6 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption sched: Fix runnable condition for stoptask sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resume
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list
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Jeff Garzik authored
Move the mid-layer's ->queuecommand() invocation from being locked with the host lock to being unlocked to facilitate speeding up the critical path for drivers who don't need this lock taken anyway. The patch below presents a simple SCSI host lock push-down as an equivalent transformation. No locking or other behavior should change with this patch. All existing bugs and locking orders are preserved. Additionally, add one parameter to queuecommand, struct Scsi_Host * and remove one parameter from queuecommand, void (*done)(struct scsi_cmnd *) Scsi_Host* is a convenient pointer that most host drivers need anyway, and 'done' is redundant to struct scsi_cmnd->scsi_done. Minimal code disturbance was attempted with this change. Most drivers needed only two one-line modifications for their host lock push-down. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fix offset check for sysfs mmapped files
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] kprobes: Fix the return address of multiple kretprobes [S390] kprobes: disable interrupts throughout [S390] ftrace: build without frame pointers on s390 [S390] mm: add devmem_is_allowed() for STRICT_DEVMEM checking [S390] vmlogrdr: purge after recording is switched off [S390] cio: fix incorrect ccw_device_init_count [S390] tape: add medium state notifications [S390] fix get_user_pages_fast
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