- 24 Feb, 2010 7 commits
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
virtio is communicating with a virtual "device" that actually runs on another host processor. Thus SMP barriers can be used to control memory access ordering. Where possible, we should use SMP barriers which are more lightweight than mandatory barriers, because mandatory barriers also control MMIO effects on accesses through relaxed memory I/O windows (which virtio does not use) (compare specifically smp_rmb and rmb on x86_64). We can't just use smp_mb and friends though, because we must force memory ordering even if guest is UP since host could be running on another CPU, but SMP barriers are defined to barrier() in that configuration. So, for UP fall back to mandatory barriers instead. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
With DEBUG defined, we add an ->in_use flag to detect if the caller invokes two virtio methods in parallel. The barriers attempt to ensure timely update of the ->in_use flag. But they're voodoo: if we need these barriers it implies that the calling code doesn't have sufficient synchronization to ensure the code paths aren't invoked at the same time anyway, and we want to detect it. Also, adding barriers changes timing, so turning on debug has more chance of hiding real problems. Thanks to MST for drawing my attention to this code... CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
Two years ago 5bbf89fc removed the horrible bzImage unpacking code. Now it's time to remove the unneeded zlib.h include, too. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
When running under qemu-kvm-0.11.0: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 56e58955 ... Process vballoon (pid: 1297, ti=c7976000 task=c70a6ca0 task.ti=c7 ... Call Trace: [<c88253a3>] ? balloon+0x1b3/0x440 [virtio_balloon] [<c041c2d7>] ? schedule+0x327/0x9d0 [<c88251f0>] ? balloon+0x0/0x440 [virtio_balloon] [<c014a2d4>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80 [<c014a260>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80 [<c0103b36>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x30 need_stats_update should be zero-initialized. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
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Adam Litke authored
This is a fix for my earlier patch: "virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)". I discovered that all_vm_events() can sleep and therefore stats collection cannot be done in interrupt context. One solution is to handle the interrupt by noting that stats need to be collected and waking the existing vballoon kthread which will complete the work via stats_handle_request(). Rusty, is this a saner way of doing business? There is one issue that I would like a broader opinion on. In stats_request, I update vb->need_stats_update and then wake up the kthread. The kthread uses vb->need_stats_update as a condition variable. Do I need a memory barrier between the update and wake_up to ensure that my kthread sees the correct value? My testing suggests that it is not needed but I would like some confirmation from the experts. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Adam Litke authored
Changes since V3: - Do not do endian conversions as they will be done in the host - Report stats that reference a quantity of memory in bytes - Minor coding style updates Changes since V2: - Increase stat field size to 64 bits - Report all sizes in kb (not pages) - Drop anon_pages stat and fix endianness conversion Changes since V1: - Use a virtqueue instead of the device config space When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests. The current method employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics to a host daemon at a specified time interval. The host daemon aggregates this information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of host memory pressure. This approach is effective but overly complex since a daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate with the host. A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor. This patch enables the guest-side support by adding stats collection and reporting to the virtio balloon driver. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor fixes)
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Jamie Lokier authored
This is needed to compile with CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y, because virtio_pci_remove is marked __devexit. Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 23 Feb, 2010 8 commits
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: BCM47xx: Fix 128MB RAM support MIPS: Highmem: Fix build error
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'parisc/tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland * 'parisc/tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland: Revert "parisc: HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK"
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Michael Neuling authored
803bf5ec ("fs/exec.c: restrict initial stack space expansion to rlimit") attempts to limit the initial stack to 20*PAGE_SIZE. Unfortunately, in attempting ensure the stack is not reduced in size, we ended up not changing the stack at all. This size reduction check is not necessary as the expand_stack call does this already. This caused a regression in UML resulting in most guest processes being killed. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marcin Slusarz authored
Commit 4410f391 ("fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers") didn't add fb_destroy operation to efifb. Fix it and change aperture_size to match size passed to request_mem_region. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15151Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alex Zhavnerchik <alex.vizor@gmail.com> Tested-by: Alex Zhavnerchik <alex.vizor@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jens Rottmann authored
geode-mfgpt: restore previous behavior for selecting IRQ The MFGPT IRQ used to be, in order of decreasing priority, * IRQ supplied by the user as a boot-time parameter, * IRQ previously set by the BIOS or another driver, * default IRQ given at compile time. Return to this behavior, which got broken when splitting the MFGPT/clocksource driver for 2.6.33-rc1. Signed-off-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann@LiPPERTEmbedded.de> Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: 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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Tejun Heo authored
This is retry of reverted 859ddf09 ("idr: fix a critical misallocation bug") which contained two bugs. * pa[idp->layers] should be cleared even if it's not used by sub_alloc() because it's used by mark idr_mark_full(). * The original condition check also assigned pa[l] to p which the new code didn't do thus leaving p pointing at the wrong layer. Both problems have been fixed and the idr code has received good amount testing using userland testing setup where simple bitmap allocator is run parallel to verify the result of idr allocation. The bug this patch fixes is caused by sub_alloc() optimization path bypassing out-of-room condition check and restarting allocation loop with starting value higher than maximum allowed value. For detailed description, please read commit message of 859ddf09. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Based-on-patch-from: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@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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Tetsuo Handa authored
find_task_by_vpid() is not safe without rcu_read_lock(). 2.6.33-rc7 got RCU protection for sys_setpriority() but missed it for sys_getpriority(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: 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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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
Presently the oom-killer is memcg aware and it finds the worst process from processes under memcg(s) in oom. Then, it kills victim's child first. It may kill a child in another cgroup and may not be any help for recovery. And it will break the assumption users have. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 22 Feb, 2010 10 commits
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Hauke Mehrtens authored
Ignoring the last page when ddr size is 128M. Cached accesses to last page is causing the processor to prefetch using address above 128M stepping out of the DDR address space. Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/981/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Yoichi Yuasa authored
arch/mips/mm/highmem.c: In function 'kmap_init': arch/mips/mm/highmem.c:130: error: 'init_mm' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/mips/mm/highmem.c:130: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once arch/mips/mm/highmem.c:130: error: for each function it appears in.) Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/980/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This reverts commit 81bf550d. HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK requires defining the user_regset interfaces, including task_user_regset_view(). parisc doesn't do that yet, so don't lie about it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf probe: Init struct probe_point and set counter correctly hw-breakpoint: Keep track of dr7 local enable bits hw-breakpoints: Accept breakpoints on NULL address perf_events: Fix FORK events
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: usbtouchscreen - extend coordinate range for Generaltouch devices Input: polldev can cause crash in case when polling disabled
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Commit 84b79f8d (drm/i915: Fix crash while aborting hibernation) attempted to fix a regression introduced by commit cbda12d7 (drm/i915: implement new pm ops for i915), but it went too far trying to split the freeze/suspend and resume/thaw parts of the code. As a result, it introduced another regression, which only is visible on some systems. Fix the problem by merging i915_drm_suspend() with i915_drm_freeze() and moving some code from i915_resume() into i915_drm_thaw(), so that intel_opregion_free() and intel_opregion_init() are also executed in the freeze and thaw code paths, respectively. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-and-tested-by: Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Clear struct probe_point before using it in show_perf_probe_events(), and set pp->found counter correctly in synthesize_perf_probe_point(). Without this initialization, clear_probe_point() will free random addresses. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20100218181652.26547.57790.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Roy Yin authored
Generaltouch protocol allows for coordinates in [0, 0xffff] range and there are devices reporting coordinates as high as 0x7fff so let's update the driver to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Roy Yin <yhch@generaltouch.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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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: sparc32: Fix struct stat uid/gid types.
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David S. Miller authored
Commit 085219f7 ("sparc32: use proper types in struct stat") Accidently changed the struct stat uid/gid members to uid_t and gid_t, but those get set to __kernel_uid32_t and __kernel_gid32_t respectively. Those are of type 'int' but the structure is meant to have 'short'. So use uid16_t and gid16_t to correct this. Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 21 Feb, 2010 7 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] bfin: fix max timeout calculation
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Mike Frysinger authored
Relying on overflow/wrap around isn't exact because if you wrap far enough, you get back to "valid" values. Reported-by: Thorsten Pohlmann <pohlmann@tetronik.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
x86-32 has had a static test for copy_on_user() overflow for a while. This test currently fails in mm/migrate.c resulting in an allyesconfig/allmodconfig build failure on x86-32: In function ‘copy_from_user’, inlined from ‘do_pages_stat’ at /home/hpa/kernel/git/mm/migrate.c:1012: /home/hpa/kernel/git/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:212: error: call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared Make the logic more explicit and therefore easier for gcc to understand. v2: rewrite the loop entirely using a more normal structure for a chunked-data loop (Linus Torvalds) Reported-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Reviewed-and-Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: CacheFiles: Fix a race in cachefiles_delete_object() vs rename vfs: don't call ima_file_check() unconditionally in nfsd_open() fs: inode - remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bits allowing 1 more objects/slab under slub Switch proc/self to nd_set_link() fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: V4L/DVB: bttv: Move I2C IR initialization V4L/DVB: Video : pwc : Fix regression in pwc_set_shutter_speed caused by bad constant => sizeof conversion. soc-camera: mt9t112: modify exiting conditions from standby mode V4L/DVB: cxusb: Select all required frontend and tuner modules V4L/DVB: dvb: l64781.ko broken with gcc 4.5
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 * 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: omap: Remove DEBUG_FS dependency for mux name checking
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot ARM: Update mach-types ARM: 5951/1: ARM: fix documentation of the PrimeCell bus ARM: 5950/1: ARM: Fix build error for arm1026ej-s processor MAINTAINERS: fix my e-mail and status for Gemini and FA526 Gemini: wrong registers used to set reg_level in gpio_set_irq_type() ARM: 5944/1: scsi: fix timer setup in fas216.c ARM: 5938/1: ARM: L2: export outer_cache_fns
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- 20 Feb, 2010 8 commits
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Russell King authored
Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during boot. This can prevent systems booting properly. There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be booted. So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
cachefiles_delete_object() can race with rename. It gets the parent directory of the object it's asked to delete, then locks it - but rename may have changed the object's parent between the get and the completion of the lock. However, if such a circumstance is detected, we abandon our attempt to delete the object - since it's no longer in the index key path, it won't be seen again by lookups of that key. The assumption is that cachefilesd may have culled it by renaming it to the graveyard for later destruction. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Linus Walleij authored
This fixes the filepath encoded in <linux/amba/bus.h> and adds some documentation as to what this bus really means. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye authored
This patch fix the below build error for arm1026ej-s processor (IntegratorCP/arm1026ej-s board). CC init/main.o In file included from include/linux/highmem.h:8, from include/linux/pagemap.h:10, from include/linux/mempolicy.h:62, from init/main.c:52: arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h:134:2: error: #error Unknown cache maintainence model make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Erreur 1 make: *** [init] Erreur 2 Signed-off-by: Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye <walsimou@walsimou.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Samu Onkalo authored
When polled input device is opened and closed and there are no other users of polled device, the workqueue is created and destroyed in every open / close operation. It is probable that at some point dynamic allocation of internal parts of the workqueue cause changes to the workqueue. When a work is queued to the workqueue the work struct contains pointers to the workqueue data. If the workqueue has been changed and the work has never been queued to the new workqueue, work-struct contains pointers to the non-existing workqueue. This will cause crash at the work cancellation during device close since cancellation of a work assumes that the workqueue exists. To prevent that, work struct is cleaned up at device close. This keeps work struct clean for the next use. Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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Chuck Ebbert authored
commit 1e41568d ("Take ima_path_check() in nfsd past dentry_open() in nfsd_open()") moved this code back to its original location but missed the "else". Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix for 32bit apps [SCSI] fcoe: Only rmmod fcoe.ko if there are no active connections [SCSI] libfcoe: Send port LKA every FIP_VN_KA_PERIOD secs. [SCSI] libfc: Don't assume response request present. [SCSI] libfc: Fix e_d_tov ns -> ms scaling factor in PLOGI response. [SCSI] libfc: call ddp setup for only FCP reads to avoid accessing junk fsp pointer [SCSI] iscsi_tcp regression: remove bogus warn on in write path
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