evms configures md arrays by:
  open device
  send ioctl
  close device

for each different ioctl needed.
Since 2.6.29, the device can disappear after the 'close'
unless a significant configuration has happened to the device.
The change made by "SET_ARRAY_INFO" can too minor to stop the device
from disappearing, but important enough that losing the change is bad.

So: make sure SET_ARRAY_INFO sets mddev->ctime, and keep the device
active as long as ctime is non-zero (it gets zeroed with lots of other
things when the array is stopped).

This is suitable for -stable kernels since 2.6.29.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

* 'sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6:
  SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl
  SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once

* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6:
  HWPOISON: Add PROC_FS dependency to hwpoison injector v2

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (34 commits)
  classmate-laptop: add support for Classmate PC ACPI devices
  hp-wmi: Fix two memleaks
  acer-wmi, msi-wmi: Remove needless DMI MODULE_ALIAS
  dell-wmi: do not keep driver loaded on unsupported boxes
  wmi: Free the allocated acpi objects through wmi_get_event_data
  drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c: check BIOS information whether it begins with string of table
  acerhdf: add new BIOS versions
  acerhdf: limit modalias matching to supported
  toshiba_acpi: convert to seq_file
  asus_acpi: convert to seq_file
  ACPI: do not select ACPI_DOCK from ATA_ACPI
  sony-laptop: enumerate rfkill devices using SN06
  sony-laptop: rfkill support for newer models
  ACPI: fix OSC regression that caused aer and pciehp not to load
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for msi-wmi driver
  fujitu-laptop: fix tests of acpi_evaluate_integer() return value
  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: avoid cross-CPU interrupts by using smp_call_function_any()
  ACPI: processor: remove _PDC object list from struct acpi_processor
  ACPI: processor: change acpi_processor_set_pdc() interface
  ACPI: processor: open code acpi_processor_cleanup_pdc
  ...

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
  ocfs2/trivial: Use le16_to_cpu for a disk value in xattr.c
  ocfs2/trivial: Use proper mask for 2 places in hearbeat.c
  Ocfs2: Let ocfs2 support fiemap for symlink and fast symlink.
  Ocfs2: Should ocfs2 support fiemap for S_IFDIR inode?
  ocfs2: Use FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED
  fiemap: Add new extent flag FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED
  ocfs2: replace u8 by __u8 in ocfs2_fs.h
  ocfs2: explicit declare uninitialized var in user_cluster_connect()
  ocfs2-devel: remove redundant OCFS2_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL check in ocfs2_get_acl_nolock()
  ocfs2: return -EAGAIN instead of EAGAIN in dlm
  ocfs2/cluster: Make fence method configurable - v2
  ocfs2: Set MS_POSIXACL on remount
  ocfs2: Make acl use the default
  ocfs2: Always include ACL support

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  VIDEO: cyberpro: pci_request_regions needs a persistent name
  ARM: dma-isa: request cascade channel after registering it
  ARM: footbridge: trim down old ISA rtc setup
  ARM: fix PAGE_KERNEL
  ARM: Fix wrong shared bit for CPU write buffer bug test
  ARM: 5857/1: ARM: dmabounce: fix build
  ARM: 5856/1: Fix bug of uart0 platfrom data for nuc900
  ARM: 5855/1: putc support for nuc900
  ARM: 5854/1: fix compiling error for NUC900
  ARM: 5849/1: ARMv7: fix Oprofile events count
  ARM: add missing include to nwflash.c
  ARM: Kill CONFIG_CPU_32
  ARM: Convert VFP/Crunch/XscaleCP thread_release() to exit_thread()
  ARM: 5853/1: ARM: Fix build break on ARM v6 and v7

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp:
  edac, pci: remove pesky debug printk
  amd64_edac: restrict PCI config space access
  amd64_edac: fix forcing module load/unload
  amd64_edac: make driver loading more robust
  amd64_edac: fix driver instance freeing
  amd64_edac: fix K8 chip select reporting

* 'sh/for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: Ensure all PG_dcache_dirty pages are written back.
  sh: mach-ecovec24: setup.c detailed correction
  serial: sh-sci: Convert tremaining ctrl_xxx I/O routines to __raw_xxx.
  serial: sh-sci: earlyprintk zero uartclk fix
  sh: Only use bl bit toggling for sleeping idle.
  sh: Restore bl bit toggling in idle loop.
  sh: Fix up MAX_DMA_CHANNELS definition when DMA is disabled.
  sh: dmaengine support for SH7785
  sh: dmaengine support for sh7724.

Don't pass a name pointer from the kernel stack, it will not survive
and will result in corrupted /proc/iomem output.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

We can't request the cascade channel before it's been registered, so
move it afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

This fixes a "start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early".

rtc_cmos now takes care of initializing the ISA RTC and reading the
current time and date from it; there's no need to repeat that here,
thereby causing interrupts to be enabled too early.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

PAGE_KERNEL should not be executable; any area marked executable can
be prefetched into the instruction cache.  We don't want vmalloc areas
to be read in this way.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Do not spam the logs needlessly with the sole info that
edac_pci_dev_parity_clear is being called.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

Do not access F2x19[0,4] on K8 since they're undefined there.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

Clear the override flag after force-loading the module.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

Currently, the module does not initialize fully when the DIMMs aren't
ECC but remains still loaded. Propagate the error when no instance of
the driver is properly initialized and prevent further loading.

Reorganize and polish error handling in amd64_edac_init() while at it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

Fix use-after-free errors by pushing all memory-freeing calls to the end
of amd64_remove_one_instance().
Reported-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1261370306.11354.52.camel@ICE-BOX>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

Fix the case when amd64_debug_display_dimm_sizes() reports only half the
amount of DRAM on it because it doesn't account for when the single DCT
operates in 128-bit mode and merges chip selects from different DIMMs.
Reported-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
LKML-Reference: <200912112202.48173.johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

This add supports for devices like keyboard, backlight, tablet and
accelerometer.

This work is supported by International Syst S/A.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: cmpc_acpi: depends on ACPI]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

With some of the cache rework an address aliasing optimization was added,
but this managed to fail on certain mappings resulting in pages with
PG_dcache_dirty set never writing back their dcache lines. This patch
reverts to the earlier behaviour of simply always writing back when the
dirty bit is set.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pietrek <Markus.Pietrek@emtrion.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

o remove unused define
o add device name comment
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

ctrl_xxx() is an antiquated SH interface, while __raw_xxx is the standard
API that accomplishes the same thing. As such, this converts the
remaining sh-sci straggles over, which enables the driver to be wired up
for ARM SH-Mobile CPUs as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This establishes a sensible max baud rate for the earlyprintk cases where
the port's uartclk has not yet been determined.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Now that we have WMI autoloading
the DMI matching is not needed anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Acked-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

There is no point in having the driver loaded in memory if we fail
to locate particular WMI GUID.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

These function allocate an acpi object by calling wmi_get_event_data, which
then calls acpi_evaluate_object, and it is not freed afterwards.

And kernel doc is fixed for parameters of wmi_get_event_data.
Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

BIOS information is now checked whether it begins with the strings stored
in the BIOS table.  Previous method did a strcmp, what lead to problems if
BIOS information has appended whitespaces.
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Add new BIOS versions for following netbooks: Aspire 1810xx, Packard Bell
DOTMU.
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/435958

The module alias currently matches any Acer computer but when loaded the
BIOS checks will only succeed on Aspire One models.  This causes a invalid
BIOS warning for all other models (seen on Aspire 4810T).  This is not
fatal but worries users that see this message.  Limiting the moule alias
to models starting with AOA or DOA for Packard Bell.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>