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| * [PATCH] libata: implement ata_unpack_xfermask()Tejun Heo2006-03-241-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement ata_unpack_xfermask(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * [libata] Move some bmdma-specific code to libata-bmdma.cJeff Garzik2006-03-232-234/+234
| | | | | | | | No code changes, just moving code between files.
| * [libata sata_uli] kill scr_addr abuseJeff Garzik2006-03-231-10/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sata_uli was storing PCI config addresses in a variable intended for port addresses, a variable soon to become void __iomem *. Update the driver to store the SCR address, found in PCI config space, in the driver-private data area.
| * [libata sata_nv] eliminate duplicate codepaths with iomapJeff Garzik2006-03-221-44/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | eliminate a bunch of if (mmio) writel() else outl() code with the pci_iomap() and io{read,write}{8,16,32}() interface.
| * [libata sata_nv] cleanups: convert #defines to enums; remove in-file historyJeff Garzik2006-03-221-75/+49
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| * [libata sata_sil24] cleanups: use pci_iomap(), kzalloc()Jeff Garzik2006-03-221-13/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | * libata will soon move to iomap, so we should use pci_iomap() and pci_iounmap(). * Use kzalloc() where appropriate.
* | [PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=nAndrew Morton2006-03-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper are only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, CONFIG_NET=n. (I stole this back from Greg's tree - it makes allnoconfig work). Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] strndup_user: convert keyctlDavi Arnaut2006-03-241-105/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Copies user-space string with strndup_user() and moves the type string duplication code to a function (thus fixing a wrong check on the length of the type.) Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] strndup_user: convert moduleDavi Arnaut2006-03-241-16/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user. Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] strndup_user()Davi Arnaut2006-03-242-0/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings from userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the final \0 after the strlen_user(). Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanupsIngo Molnar2006-03-243-27/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task. (the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup phase and does small style fixes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()Sergey Vlasov2006-03-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain, __set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference acquired by lookup_exec_domain(). Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] ext3: Properly report backup block present in a groupGlauber de Oliveira Costa2006-03-241-7/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In filesystems with the meta block group flag on, ext3_bg_num_gdb() fails to report the correct number of blocks used to store the group descriptor backups in a given group. It happens because meta_bg follows a different logic from the original ext3 backup placement in groups multiples of 3, 5 and 7. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return valueAndrew Morton2006-03-241-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when it should. I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x.. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limitAndrew Morton2006-03-241-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero seconds. But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does. Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead of overloading the value of it_prof_expires). Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's zero-seconds as one second. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanupAndrew Morton2006-03-241-11/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Whitespace cleanups - Make that expression comprehensible. There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison between raw cputime_t's. But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change anything. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock exportChristoph Hellwig2006-03-241-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock. The only possibly modular users left are: arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c drivers/edac/edac_mc.c fs/binfmt_elf.c which I'll send out fixes for soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (2 of 2)Alan Cox2006-03-2418-912/+265
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove more unused headers - Remove various typedefs - Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong) - Kill use of bcopy - More printk cleanups - Kill true/false - Clean up direct access to pci BARs Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Yet more rio cleaning (1 of 2)Alan Cox2006-03-2415-524/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove more unused headers - Remove various typedefs - Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong) - Kill use of bcopy - More printk cleanups - Kill true/false - Clean up direct access to pci BARs Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #5Alan Cox2006-03-243-10/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Final polish. There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left. We also no longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #4Alan Cox2006-03-241-272/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Third large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #3Alan Cox2006-03-247-535/+232
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Second large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #2Alan Cox2006-03-244-154/+115
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #1Alan Cox2006-03-2410-167/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More header cleanups, strip out typedefs and remove cruft. There are a lot of magic macros that can go and also a great deal of abuse of volatile that is not needed any more as this patch set cleans up the misuse of pointer access to ISA and PCI space. It now builds cleanly on 64bit, although there is more work left to do Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rioboot: post-LindentAlan Cox2006-03-241-252/+177
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After the indent we can now clean up unused code, and fix all myriad cases that don't use readb/writeb properly. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rioboot: lindentAlan Cox2006-03-241-811/+704
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the result of indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rio: more header cleanupAlan Cox2006-03-2410-400/+243
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Strip some of the typedef mess out Remove a small subset of unused defines and the like. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Fix "value computed not used" warningsTakashi Iwai2006-03-243-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes for annoying gcc-4.1 compile warnings "value computed not used". Simply cast to void. (akpm: Linus will go ballistic...) Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread exportChristoph Hellwig2006-03-241-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year, after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan to do over the next month. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operationsKumar Gala2006-03-243-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] show MCP menu only on ARCH_SA1100Adrian Bunk2006-03-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On architectures like i386, the "Multimedia Capabilities Port drivers" menu is visible, but it can't be visited since it contains nothing usable for !ARCH_SA1100. This patch therefore shows this menu only on ARCH_SA1100. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Conditionalize compat_sys_newfstatatKyle McMartin2006-03-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we don't want sys_newfstatat because __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined, then we certainly don't want compat_sys_newfstatat either. Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] console_setup() depends (wrongly?) on CONFIG_PRINTKJohn Z. Bohach2006-03-241-38/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It appears that console_setup() code only gets compiled into the kernel if CONFIG_PRINTK is enabled. One detrimental side-effect of this is that serial8250_console_setup() never gets invoked when CONFIG_PRINTK is not set, resulting in baud rate not being read/parsed from command line (i.e. console=ttyS0,115200n8 is ignored, at least the baud rate part...) Attached patch moves console_setup() code from inside #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK to outside (in printk.c), removing dependence on said config. option. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txtNico Schottelius2006-03-241-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2, which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot. This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions available of loading the kernel and passing parameters. Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] mmc: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driverPierre Ossman2006-03-245-0/+1469
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Driver for the Secure Digital Host Controller Interface specification. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regsPierre Ossman2006-03-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Class code and register definitions for the Secure Digital Host Controller standard. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync()Andrew Morton2006-03-241-15/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No need to duplicate all that code. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fsync: extract internal codeAndrew Morton2006-03-242-20/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull the guts out of do_fsync() - we can use it elsewhere. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] msync: fix return valueAndrew Morton2006-03-241-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | msync() does a strange thing. Essentially: vma = find_vma(); for ( ; ; ) { if (!vma) return -ENOMEM; ... vma = vma->vm_next; } so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM. Fix. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncingAndrew Morton2006-03-241-23/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O. Alter the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levellingAndrew Morton2006-03-241-32/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixesAndrew Morton2006-03-245-9/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state. This wasn't right in a couple of places. Do a kernel-wide audit, fix things up. This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from set_page_dirty() sometime in the future. But we don't do that at present. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages argAndrew Morton2006-03-242-10/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument. For msync(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] HOTPLUG_CPU: avoid hitting too many cachelines in recalc_bh_state()Eric Dumazet2006-03-241-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of using for_each_cpu(i), we can use for_each_online_cpu(i). When a CPU goes offline (ie removed from online map), it might have a non null bh_accounting.nr, so this patch adds a transfer of this counter to an online CPU counter. We already have a hotcpu_notifier, (function buffer_cpu_notify()), where we can do this bh_accounting. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] sound: remove PC98-specific OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98Arthur Othieno2006-03-241-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98 #define isn't used anywhere; previously in sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_lib.c and sound/isa/cs423x/pc98.c, the latter of which went away with the rest of PC98 subarch. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] block: floppy98 removal, really.Arthur Othieno2006-03-241-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | floppy98 went out together with the rest of PC98 subarch. Remove stale Makefile entry that remained. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] shmdt: check address alignmentHugh Dickins2006-03-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SUSv3 says the shmdt() function shall fail with EINVAL if the value of shmaddr is not the data segment start address of a shared memory segment: our sys_shmdt needs to reject a shmaddr which is not page-aligned. Does it have the potential to break existing apps? Hugh says "sys_shmdt() just does the wrong (unexpected) thing with a misaligned address: it'll fail on what you might expect it to succeed on, and only succeed on what it should definitely fail on. "That is, I think it behaves as if shmaddr gets rounded up, when the only understandable behaviour would be if it rounded it down. "Which does mean you'd have to be devious to see anything but EINVAL from a misaligned shmaddr there, so it's not terribly important." Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] sb_set_blocksize cleanupCoywolf Qi Hunt2006-03-241-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sb_set_blocksize() cleanup: make sb_set_blocksize() use blksize_bits(). Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] early_printk: cleanup trailiing whitespaceRandy Dunlap2006-03-241-45/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove all trailing tabs and spaces. No other changes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fadvise(): write commandsAndrew Morton2006-03-244-10/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add two new linux-specific fadvise extensions(): LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. Any pages which are currently under writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. By combining these two operations the application may do several things: LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been written. It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data will be available after a crash. To complete this suite of operations I guess we should have a "sync file metadata only" operation. This gives applications access to all the building blocks needed for all sorts of sync operations. But sync-metadata doesn't fit well with the fadvise() interface. Probably it should be a new syscall: sys_fmetadatasync(). The patch also diddles with the meaning of `endbyte' in sys_fadvise64_64(). It is made to represent that last affected byte in the file (ie: it is inclusive). Generally, all these byterange and pagerange functions are inclusive so we can easily represent EOF with -1. As Ulrich notes, these two functions are somewhat abusive of the fadvise() concept, which appears to be "set the future policy for this fd". But these commands are a perfect fit with the fadvise() impementation, and several of the existing fadvise() commands are synchronous and don't affect future policy either. I think we can live with the slight incongruity. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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