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* [PATCH] wireless: Changes to ieee80211.h for user space regulatory daemonLarry Finger2006-06-151-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attached are two small patches for include/net/ieee80211.h to prepare for later submission of code to implement a user-space daemon that supplies 802.11 regulatory information. The first change adds a bit indicating that 802.11h rules are to be applied to a channel. As discussed earlier in this list, a single bit is unlikely to be sufficient; however, at this time I have been unable to find any regulations implementing differences between 802.11a and 802.11h other than DFS, radar detection and passive scanning. A single bit is thus sufficient to convey to the driver that these rules should be obeyed. The second change adds comments to the freq and max_power fields of struct ieee80211_channel to indicate the units that are used. Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'from-linus' into upstreamJohn W. Linville2006-06-13139-627/+1181
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| * [PATCH] tmpfs: Decrement i_nlink correctly in shmem_rmdir()Sergey Vlasov2006-06-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | shmem_rmdir() must undo the increment of i_nlink done in shmem_get_inode() for directories, otherwise at least IN_DELETE_SELF inotify event generation is broken. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] tmpfs: time granularity fix for [acm]time going backwardsRobin H. Johnson2006-06-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed a strange behavior in a tmpfs file system the other day, while building packages - occasionally, and seemingly at random, make decided to rebuild a target. However, only on tmpfs. A file would be created, and if checked, it had a sub-second timestamp. However, after an utimes related call where sub-seconds should be set, they were zeroed instead. In the case that a file was created, and utimes(...,NULL) was used on it in the same second, the timestamp on the file moved backwards. After some digging, I found that this was being caused by tmpfs not having a time granularity set, thus inheriting the default 1 second granularity. Hugh adds: yes, we missed tmpfs when the s_time_gran mods went into 2.6.11. Unfortunately, the granularity of CURRENT_TIME, often used in filesystems, does not match the default granularity set by alloc_super. A few more such discrepancies have been found, but this is the most important to fix now. Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-121-1/+0
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Do not double-export sys_close() when CONFIG_SOLARIS_EMUL_MODULE
| | * [SPARC64]: Do not double-export sys_close() when CONFIG_SOLARIS_EMUL_MODULEDavid S. Miller2006-06-111-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is already exported by fs/open.c Noticed by Ben Collins. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-123-3/+3
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [IPV4]: Increment ipInHdrErrors when TTL expires. [TCP]: continued: reno sacked_out count fix [DCCP] Ackvec: fix soft lockup in ackvec handling code
| | * | [IPV4]: Increment ipInHdrErrors when TTL expires.Weidong2006-06-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Weidong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | [TCP]: continued: reno sacked_out count fixAki M Nyrhinen2006-06-111-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Aki M Nyrhinen <anyrhine@cs.helsinki.fi> IMHO the current fix to the problem (in_flight underflow in reno) is incorrect. it treats the symptons but ignores the problem. the problem is timing out packets other than the head packet when we don't have sack. i try to explain (sorry if explaining the obvious). with sack, scanning the retransmit queue for timed out packets is fine because we know which packets in our retransmit queue have been acked by the receiver. without sack, we know only how many packets in our retransmit queue the receiver has acknowledged, but no idea which packets. think of a "typical" slow-start overshoot case, where for example every third packet in a window get lost because a router buffer gets full. with sack, we check for timeouts on those every third packet (as the rest have been sacked). the packet counting works out and if there is no reordering, we'll retransmit exactly the packets that were lost. without sack, however, we check for timeout on every packet and end up retransmitting consecutive packets in the retransmit queue. in our slow-start example, 2/3 of those retransmissions are unnecessary. these unnecessary retransmissions eat the congestion window and evetually prevent fast recovery from continuing, if enough packets were lost. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | [DCCP] Ackvec: fix soft lockup in ackvec handling codeAndrea Bittau2006-06-111-0/+1
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A soft lockup existed in the handling of ack vector records. Specifically, when a tail of the list of ack vector records was removed, it was possible to end up iterating infinitely on an element of the tail. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2006-06-127-8/+18
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] Fix Integrator and Versatile interrupt initialisation [ARM] 3546/1: PATCH: subtle lost interrupts bug on i.MX [ARM] 3547/1: PXA-OHCI: Allow platforms to specify a power budget [ARM] Fix Neponset IRQ handling
| | * | [ARM] Fix Integrator and Versatile interrupt initialisationRussell King2006-06-102-7/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both Integrator and Versatile were using set_irq_handler() and enable_irq(), and working around the initialisation of the chained interrupt, instead of the more correct set_irq_chained_handler() function. Fix Integrator and Versatile to use the right function, and remove these work-arounds. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * | [ARM] 3546/1: PATCH: subtle lost interrupts bug on i.MXMatt Reimer2006-06-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Matt Reimer There is a subtle bug in the GPIO interrupt status register handling in arch/arm/mach-imx/irq.c:imx_gpio_ack_irq(). The documentation states that a 1 should be written to the relevant bit to acknowledge a GPIO interrupt, but that is not what the code does. The problem is that the |= writes back 1s for all the *other* interrupts represented in the register, so interrupts could get lost. For example, if interrupts are pending for GPIO B10 and B12, ISR_B would have the value 0x00001400. Then when the interrupt code handles GPIO B10, it eventually calls imx_gpio_ack_irq(IRQ_GPIOB(10)), which effectively does this: ISR_B |= 1 << 10; with the result that (0x00001400 | 0x00000400) is written, clearing the interrupt status bits for *both* GPIO B10 and B12. The fix is to write 1s only for the interrupts we want to clear. The same problem seems to be occurring in the DMA code; this patch does not address those issues. Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Matt Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * | [ARM] 3547/1: PXA-OHCI: Allow platforms to specify a power budgetRichard Purdie2006-06-083-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Richard Purdie Add a power budget variable to the PXA OHCI platform data and add a default value for the spitz platform(s) which prevents known failures with certain USB devices. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * | [ARM] Fix Neponset IRQ handlingRussell King2006-06-081-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing the genirq code on ARM, a condition was found whereby the Neponset IRQ handler was being re-entered, causing the system to deadlock. Under the ARM IRQ code, this would not have been a visible problem because the "simple" IRQ handling had no re-entrancy protection. Resolve this by acknowledging the parent interrupt after we mask it when we are going to handle one of our "special" level-based sources (from ethernet or USAR chip.) Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | [sky2] Fix sky2 network driver suspend/resumeLinus Torvalds2006-06-121-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes two independent problems: it would not save the PCI state on suspend (and thus try to resume a nonexistent state on resume), and while shut off, if an interrupt happened on the same shared irq, the irq handler would react very badly to the interrupt status being an invalid all-ones state. Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-06-121-0/+3
| |\ \ \ | | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] sata_mv: grab host lock inside eng_timeout
| | * | [PATCH] sata_mv: grab host lock inside eng_timeoutMark Lord2006-06-111-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix: mv_eng_timeout() calls mv_err_intr() without first grabbing the host lock, which can lead to all sorts of interesting scenarios. This whole error-handling portion of sata_mv is nasty (and will get fixed for the new EH stuff), but for now this patch will help keep it on life-support. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reportedPaul Mackerras2006-06-111-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | People have been reporting that PPP connections over ptys, such as used with PPTP, will hang randomly when transferring large amounts of data, for instance in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530. I have managed to reproduce the problem, and the patch below fixes the actual cause. The problem is not in fact in ppp_async.c but in n_tty.c. What happens is that when pptp reads from the pty, we call read_chan() in drivers/char/n_tty.c on the master side of the pty. That copies all the characters out of its buffer to userspace and then calls check_unthrottle(), which calls the pty unthrottle routine, which calls tty_wakeup on the slave side, which calls ppp_asynctty_wakeup, which calls tasklet_schedule. So far so good. Since we are in process context, the tasklet runs immediately and calls ppp_async_process(), which calls ppp_async_push, which calls the tty->driver->write function to send some more output. However, tty->driver->write() returns zero, because the master tty->receive_room is still zero. We haven't returned from check_unthrottle() yet, and read_chan() only updates tty->receive_room _after_ calling check_unthrottle. That means that the driver->write call in ppp_async_process() returns 0. That would be fine if we were going to get a subsequent wakeup call, but we aren't (we just had it, and the buffer is now empty). The solution is for n_tty.c to update tty->receive_room _before_ calling the driver unthrottle routine. The patch below does this. With this patch I was able to transfer a 900MB file over a PPTP connection (taking about 25 minutes), whereas without the patch the connection would always stall in under a minute. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-113-8/+25
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: [PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore order [PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writeback [PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resume [PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled
| | * | | [PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore orderYu, Luming2006-06-111-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to Intel ICH spec, there are several rules that Base Address should be programmed before IOSE (PCICMD register ) enabled. For example ICH7: 12.1.3 SATA : the base address register for the bus master register should be programmed before this bit is set. 11.1.3: PCICMD (USB): The base address register for USB should be programmed before this bit is set. .... To make sure kernel code follow this rule , and prevent unnecessary confusion. I proposal this patch. Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| | * | | [PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writebackDave Jones2006-06-111-3/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At least one laptop blew up on resume from suspend with a black screen due to a lack of this patch. By only writing back config space that is different, we minimise the possibility of accidents like this. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| | * | | [PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resumeJean Delvare2006-06-111-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We currently don't handle errors properly when resuming a PCI device: * In pci_default_resume() we capture the error code returned by pci_enable_device() but don't pass it up to the caller. Introduced by commit 95a629657dbe28e44a312c47815b3dc3f1ce0970 * In pci_resume_device(), the errors possibly returned by the driver's .resume method or by the generic pci_default_resume() function are ignored. This patch fixes both issues. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| | * | | [PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabledakpm@osdl.org2006-06-111-1/+1
| | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix build error when CONFIG_ACPI not defined Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | [PATCH] typo in vmscan.cChristoph Lameter2006-06-111-1/+1
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Looks like a comma was left from the conversion from a struct to an assignment. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.Krzysztof Helt2006-06-101-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | [SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.David S. Miller2006-06-101-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-105-107/+177
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems. [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set. [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly. [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
| | * | [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.David S. Miller2006-06-101-6/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Doing PCI config space accesses to non-present PCI slots can result in fatal JBUS errors if the PCI config access hypervisor call is performed on cpus other than the boot cpu. PCI config space accesses to present PCI slots works just fine. Recursively traverse the OBP device tree under the PCI controller node and record all present device IDs into a small hash table. Avoid the hypervisor call for any PCI config space access attempt for a device not recorded in the hash table. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.Tom "spot" Callaway2006-06-091-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.David S. Miller2006-06-092-97/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of all the SUN_570X logic and instead: 1) Make sure MEMARB_ENABLE is set when we probe the SRAM for config information. If that is off we will get timeouts. 2) Always try to sync with the firmware, if there is no firmware running do not treat it as an error and instead just report it the first time we notice this condition. 3) If there is no valid SRAM signature, assume the device is onboard by setting TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT. Update driver version and release date. With help from Michael Chan and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()David S. Miller2006-06-091-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes the debugging information more usable. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [PATCH] powerpc: console_initcall ordering issuesMilton Miller2006-06-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> The add_preferred_console call in rtas_console.c was not causing the console to be selected. It turns out that the add_preferred_console was being called after the hvc_console driver was registered. It only works when it is called before the console driver is registered. Reorder hvc_console.o after the hvc_console drivers to allow the selection during console_initcall processing. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working againMarkus Lidel2006-06-103-39/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> - Fixed locking of struct i2o_exec_wait in Executive-OSM - Removed LCT Notify in i2o_exec_probe() which caused freeing memory and accessing freed memory during first enumeration of I2O devices - Added missing locking in i2o_exec_lct_notify() - removed put_device() of I2O controller in i2o_iop_remove() which caused the controller structure get freed to early - Fixed size of mempool in i2o_iop_alloc() - Fixed access to freed memory in i2o_msg_get() See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561 Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaroundAndrew Morton2006-06-101-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Work around the oops reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478. Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and reporting. Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier documentDavid Howells2006-06-101-78/+270
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan Stern. The following changes were made: (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory barriers was wrong. (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier. This isn't entirely true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both. (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the opposite order to the stores around the write barrier. (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to the stores. (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences" section to make them clearer. Added a couple of diagrams to make it more clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier. (*) Added a section on memory speculation. (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory barriers. They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on. This may be worthy of further documentation later. (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-06-105-7/+35
| |\ \ \ | | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
| | * | [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detectionArnd Bergmann2006-06-093-6/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is needed. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| | * | [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-supportBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-06-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in prom_init.c calling the firmware ibm,client-architecture-support method on pSeries has a bug where it fails to properly pass the instance handle of the firmware object when trying to call a method. Result ranges from the call doing nothing to the firmware crashing. (Found by Segher, thanks !) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| | * | powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernelsPaul Mackerras2006-06-092-1/+12
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels. This also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems by inspection. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-06-083-16/+28
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->data e1000: fix ethtool test irq alloc as "probe" [PATCH] bcm43xx: add DMA rx poll workaround to DMA4
| | * \ Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Jeff Garzik2006-06-082-7/+6
| | |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/netdev-2.6 into upstream-fixes
| | | * | e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->dataAuke Kok2006-06-081-6/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was brought to our attention that the prefetches break e1000 traffic on xscale/arm architectures. Remove them for now. We'll let them stay in mm for a while, or find a better solution to enable. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
| | | * | e1000: fix ethtool test irq alloc as "probe"Auke Kok2006-06-081-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New code added in 2.6.17 caused setup_irq to print a warning when running ethtool -t eth0 offline. This test marks the request_irq call made by this test as a "probe" to see if the interrupt is shared or not. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
| | * | | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Jeff Garzik2006-06-081-9/+22
| | |\ \ \ | | | |_|/ | | |/| | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes
| * | | | [PATCH] s390: fix in-user atomic futex operation.Martin Schwidefsky2006-06-081-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> __futex_atomic_op needs to do an atomic operation in the user address space, not the kernel address space. Add the missing sacf 256/sacf 0 to switch to the secondary mode before doing the compare-and-swap. In addition add another fixup for catch specification exceptions if the compare-and-swap address is not aligned. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | [PATCH] debugfs inode leakJens Axboe2006-06-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Looking at the reiser4 crash, I found a leak in debugfs. In debugfs_mknod(), we create the inode before checking if the dentry already has one attached. We don't free it if that is the case. These bugs happen quite often, I'm starting to think we should disallow such coding in CodingStyle. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | [PATCH] elevator switching raceJens Axboe2006-06-086-46/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be invoked with bad or NULL data. To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer. Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be run without the lock held. This isn't easily fixable, without also changing the mempool API. So split the initialization into two parts, and alloc-init operation and an attach operation. Then we can preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach inside the lock after we detach the old one. This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching with a very busy io load. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | [PATCH] fbcon: fix limited scroll in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW modeMalcom Parsons2006-06-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Malcom Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com> When scrolling up in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW mode with a large limited scroll region, the bottom few lines have to be redrawn. Without this patch, the wrong text is drawn into these lines, corrupting the display. Observed in 2.6.14 when running an IRC client in the Nintendo DS linux port. I haven't tested if scrolling down has the same problem. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | [PATCH] Fix mempolicy.h build errorRalf Baechle2006-06-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> <linux/mempolicy.h> uses struct mm_struct and relies on a definition or declaration somehow magically being dragged in which may result in a build: [...] CC mm/mempolicy.o In file included from mm/mempolicy.c:69: include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: ‘struct mm_struct’ declared inside parameter list include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: warning: ‘struct mm_struct’ declared inside parameter list mm/mempolicy.c:622: error: conflicting types for ‘do_migrate_pages’ include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: error: previous declaration of ‘do_migrate_pages’ was here mm/mempolicy.c:1661: error: conflicting types for ‘mpol_rebind_mm’ include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: error: previous declaration of ‘mpol_rebind_mm’ was here make[1]: *** [mm/mempolicy.o] Error 1 make: *** [mm] Error 2 [ralf@denk linux-ip35]$ Including <linux/sched.h> is a step into direction of include hell so fixed by adding a forward declaration of struct mm_struct instead. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>