- 09 May, 2007 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Switch e1000 over to flush_work_keventd(). This probably fixes a netdev-close versus linkwatch rtnl_lock() deadlock which nobody knew about. (akpm: bypassed maintainers, sorry. There are other patches which depend on this) Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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
Convert tg3 over to flush_work_keventd(). Remove nasty now-unneeded deadlock avoidance logic. (akpm: bypassed maintainers, sorry. There are other patches which depend on this) Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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
Switch the kblockd flushing from a global flush to a more specific flush_work(). (akpm: bypassed maintainers, sorry. There are other patches which depend on this) Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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
Migrate AIO over to use flush_work(). Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Now when we have ->current_work we can avoid adding a barrier and waiting for its completition when cwq's queue is empty. Note: this change is also useful if we change flush_workqueue() to also check the dead CPUs. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.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
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
A basic problem with flush_scheduled_work() is that it blocks behind _all_ presently-queued works, rather than just the work whcih the caller wants to flush. If the caller holds some lock, and if one of the queued work happens to want that lock as well then accidental deadlocks can occur. One example of this is the phy layer: it wants to flush work while holding rtnl_lock(). But if a linkwatch event happens to be queued, the phy code will deadlock because the linkwatch callback function takes rtnl_lock. So we implement a new function which will flush a *single* work - just the one which the caller wants to free up. Thus we avoid the accidental deadlocks which can arise from unrelated subsystems' callbacks taking shared locks. flush_work() non-blockingly dequeues the work_struct which we want to kill, then it waits for its handler to complete on all CPUs. Add ->current_work to the "struct cpu_workqueue_struct", it points to currently running "struct work_struct". When flush_work(work) detects ->current_work == work, it inserts a barrier at the _head_ of ->worklist (and thus right _after_ that work) and waits for completition. This means that the next work fired on that CPU will be this barrier, or another barrier queued by concurrent flush_work(), so the caller of flush_work() will be woken before any "regular" work has a chance to run. When wait_on_work() unlocks workqueue_mutex (or whatever we choose to protect against CPU hotplug), CPU may go away. But in that case take_over_work() will move a barrier we queued to another CPU, it will be fired sometime, and wait_on_work() will be woken. Actually, we are doing cleanup_workqueue_thread()->kthread_stop() before take_over_work(), so cwq->thread should complete its ->worklist (and thus the barrier), because currently we don't check kthread_should_stop() in run_workqueue(). But even if we did, everything should be ok. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: add flush_work_keventd() wrapper] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Remove ->remove_sequence, ->insert_sequence, and ->work_done from struct cpu_workqueue_struct. To implement flush_workqueue() we can queue a barrier work on each CPU and wait for its completition. The barrier is queued under workqueue_mutex to ensure that per cpu wq->cpu_wq is alive, we drop this mutex before going to sleep. If CPU goes down while we are waiting for completition, take_over_work() will move the barrier on another CPU, and the handler will wake up us eventually. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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
We take workqueue_mutex in there to keep CPU hotplug away. But preempt_disable() will suffice for that. 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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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Now that the cpu_is_xxx() macros are available both on AVR32 and AT91, we can remove a couple of #ifdefs from this driver. One of them is actually wrong -- new_1 should be set on AVR32 but isn't. This causes the bus clock to run at twice the speed it is configured to. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Several drivers shared between AT91 and AVR32 chips use cpu_is_xxx() to handle CPU-specific differences. Currently, such code needs to be inside #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_AT91 because the macros don't exist on AVR32. By defining the same macros on both AT91 and AVR32, these #ifdefs can be eliminated. Since the macros will evaluate to a constant value for CPUs that aren't supported by the current architecture, any code that is only needed on AT91 will be optimized away on AVR32 and vice versa. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.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
Implement support for writing to regular AFS files, including: (1) write (2) truncate (3) fsync, fdatasync (4) chmod, chown, chgrp, utime. AFS writeback attempts to batch writes into as chunks as large as it can manage up to the point that it writes back 65535 pages in one chunk or it meets a locked page. Furthermore, if a page has been written to using a particular key, then should another write to that page use some other key, the first write will be flushed before the second is allowed to take place. If the first write fails due to a security error, then the page will be scrapped and reread before the second write takes place. If a page is dirty and the callback on it is broken by the server, then the dirty data is not discarded (same behaviour as NFS). Shared-writable mappings are not supported by this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a bunch of warnings] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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
Make some miscellaneous changes to the AFS filesystem: (1) Assert RCU barriers on module exit to make sure RCU has finished with callbacks in this module. (2) Correctly handle the AFS server returning a zero-length read. (3) Split out data zapping calls into one function (afs_zap_data). (4) Rename some afs_file_*() functions to afs_*() where they apply to non-regular files too. (5) Be consistent about the presentation of volume ID:vnode ID in debugging output. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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
Export a couple of core functions for AFS write support to use: find_get_pages_contig() find_get_pages_tag() Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Miller authored
u64 and s64 are not necessarily 'long long' on some 64-bit platforms, so explicit the type to kill the compiler warnings. Also consistently use '%Lu' which is unsigned. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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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Borislav Petkov authored
Get the kernel version string only once from the environment, thus slightly speeding up kernel-doc. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
It seems that we need to clarify that a patch series is a series of related patches rather than "here are some of my patches as multiple (numbered) emails." Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Josef 'Jeff' Sipek authored
Since path_walk sets the total_link_count to 0 and calls link_path_walk, we can just call path_walk directly. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Josef 'Jeff' Sipek authored
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Daniel Walker authored
There's more that need fixing, and fix my own subject spelling error too. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.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
It's not sane to use mutex_lock_interruptible() and to then ignore the result. Ditto down_interruptible(), but I'm lazy. 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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Paul Fulghum authored
Fix tty_set_ldisc in tty_io.c so that tty->receive_room is only cleared if actually changing line disciplines. Without this fix a problem occurs when requesting the line discipline to change to the same line discipline. In this case tty->receive_room is cleared but ldisc->open() is not called to set tty->receive_room back to a sane value. The result is that tty->receive_room is stuck at 0 preventing the tty flip buffer from passing receive data to the line discipline. For example: a switch from N_TTY to N_TTY followed by a select() call for read input results in data never being received because tty->receive_room is stuck at zero. A switch from N_TTY to N_TTY followed by a read() call works because the read() call itself sets tty->receive_room correctly (but select does not). Previously (< 2.6.18) this was not a problem because the tty flip buffer pushed data to the line discipline without regard for tty->receive room. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by: 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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Roland McGrath authored
This patch moves the sig_kernel_* and related macros from kernel/signal.c to linux/signal.h, and cleans them up slightly. I need the sig_kernel_* macros for default signal behavior in the utrace code, and want to avoid duplication or overhead to share the knowledge. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 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
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it] Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Olof Johansson authored
Driver for the on-chip hardware random number generator on PA Semi PA6T-1682M. Signed-off-by: Egor Martovetsky <egor@pasemi.com> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland Dreier authored
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ken Chen authored
When cpuset is configured, it breaks the strict hugetlb page reservation as the accounting is done on a global variable. Such reservation is completely rubbish in the presence of cpuset because the reservation is not checked against page availability for the current cpuset. Application can still potentially OOM'ed by kernel with lack of free htlb page in cpuset that the task is in. Attempt to enforce strict accounting with cpuset is almost impossible (or too ugly) because cpuset is too fluid that task or memory node can be dynamically moved between cpusets. The change of semantics for shared hugetlb mapping with cpuset is undesirable. However, in order to preserve some of the semantics, we fall back to check against current free page availability as a best attempt and hopefully to minimize the impact of changing semantics that cpuset has on hugetlb. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() for /dev/cpuset/tasks and /proc/config.gz. Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() in binfmt_misc, configfs, and sysfs. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Cleanup using bitrev8 in cm4000_cs driver. Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch fixes error paths in module_init and probe functions in cm4000_cs and cm4040_cs drivers. Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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James Bottomley authored
The MCA bus has a few "integrated" functions, which are effectively virtual slots on the bus. The problem is that these special functions don't have dedicated pos IDs, so we have to manufacture ids for them outside the pos space ... and these ids can't be matched by the standard matching function, so add a special registration that requests a list of pos ids or a particular integrated function. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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James Bottomley authored
There's a bug in the MCA bus matching algorithm in that it promotes from signed short to int before comparing with the actual id and does sign extension on anything > 0x7fff (which means that pos ids > 0x7fff never get correctly matched). Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao authored
Always ask the hardware to determine the hardware processor id in both UP and SMP kernels. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao authored
hard_smp_processor_id used to be just a macro that hard-coded hard_smp_processor_id to 0 in the non SMP case. When booting non SMP kernels on hardware where the boot ioapic id is not 0 this turns out to be a problem. This is happens frequently in the case of kdump and once in a great while in the case of real hardware. Use the APIC to determine the hardware processor id in both UP and SMP kernels to fix this issue. Notice that hard_smp_processor_id is only used by SMP code or by code that works with apics so we do not need to handle the case when apics are not present and hard_smp_processor_id should never be called there. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao authored
hard_smp_processor_id used to be just a macro that hard-coded hard_smp_processor_id to 0 in the non SMP case. When booting non SMP kernels on hardware where the boot ioapic id is not 0 this turns out to be a problem. This is happens frequently in the case of kdump and once in a great while in the case of real hardware. Use the APIC to determine the hardware processor id in both UP and SMP kernels to fix this issue. Notice that hard_smp_processor_id is only used by SMP code or by code that works with apics so we do not need to handle the case when apics are not present and hard_smp_processor_id should never be called there. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao authored
With the advent of kdump, the assumption that the boot CPU when booting an UP kernel is always the CPU with a particular hardware ID (often 0) (usually referred to as BSP on some architectures) is not valid anymore. The reason being that the dump capture kernel boots on the crashed CPU (the CPU that invoked crash_kexec), which may be or may not be that particular CPU. Move definition of hard_smp_processor_id for the UP case to architecture-specific code ("asm/smp.h") where it belongs, so that each architecture can provide its own implementation. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Gilbert authored
Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem is not mounted. This helps to track spell'o's and missing drivers. Updated to work with newer kernels. Example output: VFS: Cannot open root device "foobar" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 0800 8388608 sda driver: sd 0801 192748 sda1 0802 8193150 sda2 0810 4194304 sdb driver: sd Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix printk warnings] Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Dave Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
These haven't been fixed for ages. Just make comments out of them. arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:181:2: warning: #warning Need to look up +userspace_pid by cpu arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:187:2: warning: #warning Need to look up +userspace_pid by cpu arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:194:2: warning: #warning need to loop over +userspace_pids in kill_off_processes_skas Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Dike authored
A linuxdoc comment had fallen out of date - it refers to an argument which no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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