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inaky@linux.intel.com
4370525167 usb/hub: allow hubs up to 31 children
Current Wireless USB host hardware (Intel i1480 for example) allows up
to 22 devices to connect, thus bringing up the max number of children
in the WUSB Host Controller to 22 'fake' ports. Upcoming hardware
might raise that limit.

Makes almost no difference to go to 31, as the bit arrays are
byte-aligned (plus an extra bit in general), so 22 bits fit in 4 bytes
as 31 do.

As well, the only other array that depends on USB_MAXCHILDREN is
'struct usb_hub->indicator'. By declaring it 'u8' instead of 'enum
hub_led_mode', we reduce the size of each entry from 4 bytes (in i386)
to 1, which will add as we when are doubling USB_MAXCHILDREN
(with 16 the size of that array is 64 bytes, with 31 would be 128; by
using u8 that goes down to 31 bytes).

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:23:26 -08:00
Pierre Ossman
7ccd266e67 mmc: Support for high speed SD cards
Modern SD cards support a clock speed of 50 MHz. Make sure we test for
this capability and do the song and dance required to activate it.

Activating high speed support actually modifies the TRAN_SPEED field
of the CSD. But as the spec says that the cards must report 50 MHz,
we might as well skip re-reading the CSD.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2006-12-01 18:53:37 +01:00
Philip Langdale
e45a1bd20f mmc: Add support for mmc v4 wide-bus modes
This change adds support for the mmc4 4-bit wide-bus mode.

The mmc4 spec defines 8-bit and 4-bit transfer modes. As we do not support
any 8-bit hardware, this patch only adds support for the 4-bit mode, but
it can easily be built upon when the time comes.

The 4-bit mode is electrically compatible with SD's 4-bit mode but the
procedure for turning it on is different. This patch implements only
the essential parts of the procedure as defined by the spec. Two additional
steps are recommended but not compulsory. I am documenting them here so
that there's a record.

1) A bus-test mechanism is implemented using dedicated mmc commands which allow
for testing the functionality of the data bus at the electrical level. This is
pretty paranoid and they way the commands work is not compatible with the mmc
subsystem (they don't set valid CRC values).

2) MMC v4 cards can indicate they would like to draw more than the default
amount of current in wide-bus modes. We currently will never switch the card
into a higher draw mode. Supposedly, allowing the card to draw more current
will let it perform better, but the specs seem to indicate that the card will
function correctly without the mode change. Empirical testing supports this
interpretation.

Signed-off-by: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2006-12-01 18:22:44 +01:00
Philip Langdale
bce40a36de [PATCH] mmc: Add support for mmc v4 high speed mode
This adds support for the high-speed modes defined by mmc v4
(assuming the host controller is up to it). On a TI sdhci controller,
it improves read speed from 1.3MBps to 2.3MBps. The TI controller can
only go up to 24MHz, but everything helps. Another person has taken
this basic patch and used it on a Nokia 770 to get a bigger boost
because that controller can run at 48MHZ.

Signed-off-by: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2006-12-01 18:21:32 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bb37b94c68 [BLOCK] Cleanup unused variable passing
- ->init_queue() does not need the elevator passed in
- ->put_request() is a hot path and need not have the queue passed in
- cfq_update_io_seektime() does not need cfqd passed in

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:42:33 +01:00
Mike Christie
0e75f9063f [PATCH] block: support larger block pc requests
This patch modifies blk_rq_map/unmap_user() and the cdrom and scsi_ioctl.c
users so that it supports requests larger than bio by chaining them together.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:40:55 +01:00
Olaf Kirch
be1c63411a [PATCH] blktrace: add timestamp message
This adds a new timestamp message to blktrace, giving the timeofday when
we starting tracing. This helps user space correlate block trace events
with eg an application strace.

This requires a (compatible) update to blkparse. The changed blkparse
is still able to process traces generated by older kernels, and older
versions of blkparse should silently ignore the new records (because
they have a pid of 0).

Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 10:39:12 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
f6e58f01e8 [GFS2] Don't copy meta_header for rgrp in and out
The meta_header for an ondisk rgrp never changes, so there is no point
copying it in and back out to disk. Also there is no reason to keep
a copy for each rgrp in memory.

The code already checks to ensure that the header is correct before
it calls the routine to copy the data in, so that we don't even need
to check whether its correct on disk in the functions in ondisk.c

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:36 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
a9583c7983 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (7) - di_payload_format
This is almost never used. Its there for backward
compatibility with GFS1. It doesn't need its own
field since it can always be calculated from the
inode mode & flags. This saves a bit more space
in the gfs2_inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:26 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
1a7b1eed58 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (6) - di_atime/di_mtime/di_ctime
Remove the di_[amc]time fields and use inode->i_[amc]time
fields instead. This saves 24 bytes from the gfs2_inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:23 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
4f56110a00 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (5) - di_nlink
Remove the di_nlink field in favour of inode->i_nlink and
update the nlink handling to use the proper macros. This
saves 4 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:20 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
2933f9254a [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (4) - di_uid/di_gid
Remove duplicate di_uid/di_gid fields in favour of using
inode->i_uid/inode->i_gid instead. This saves 8 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:17 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
b60623c238 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (3) - di_mode
This removes the duplicate di_mode field in favour of using the
inode->i_mode field. This saves 4 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:14 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
e7f14f4d09 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (2) - di_major/di_minor
This removes the device numbers from this structure by using
inode->i_rdev instead. It also cleans up the code in gfs2_mknod.
It results in shrinking the gfs2_inode by 8 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:11 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
af339c0241 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (1) - di_header/di_num
The metadata header doesn't need to be stored in the incore
struct gfs2_inode since its constant, and this patch removes it.
Also, there is already a field for the inode's number in the
struct gfs2_inode, so we don't need one in struct gfs2_dinode_host
as well.

This saves 28 bytes of space in the struct gfs2_inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:07 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
4cc14f0b88 [GFS2] Change argument to gfs2_dinode_print
Change argument for gfs2_dinode_print in order to prepare
for removal of duplicate fields between struct inode and
struct gfs2_dinode_host.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:03 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
ea744d01c6 [GFS2] Move gfs2_dinode_in to inode.c
gfs2_dinode_in() is only ever called from one place, so move it
to that place (in inode.c) and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:00 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
891ea14712 [GFS2] Change argument to gfs2_dinode_in
This is a preliminary patch to enable the removal of fields
in gfs2_dinode_host which are duplicated in struct inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:57 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
539e5d6b7a [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out
Everywhere this was called, a struct gfs2_inode was available,
but despite that, it was always called with a struct gfs2_dinode
as an argument. By making this change it paves the way to start
eliminating fields duplicated between the kernel's struct inode
and the struct gfs2_dinode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:54 -05:00
Al Viro
b62f963e1f [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_quota_change
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:41 -05:00
Al Viro
bd209cc017 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_statfs_change
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:38 -05:00
Al Viro
b5bc9e8b06 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_quota
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:35 -05:00
Al Viro
629a21e7ec [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_inum
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:32 -05:00
Al Viro
1e81c4c3e0 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs_rindex
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:29 -05:00
Al Viro
e928a76f95 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_meta_header
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:26 -05:00
Al Viro
5516762261 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_log_head
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:14 -05:00
Al Viro
e697264709 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_inum_range
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:11 -05:00
Al Viro
68826664d1 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_rgrp
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:07 -05:00
Al Viro
bc558c87bb [GFS2] fields of gfs2_sb_host are host-endian
... and several could be killed, but that's another story.
Annotate scalar ones, kill completely unused.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:04 -05:00
Al Viro
f50dfaf78c [GFS2] split gfs2_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:00 -05:00
Al Viro
5c6edb576f [GFS2] gfs2_dinode_host fields are host-endian
Annotated scalar fields, dropped unused ones.  Note that
it's not at all obvious that we want to convert all of them
to host-endian...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:32:55 -05:00
Al Viro
3ca68df6ee [GFS2] split gfs2_dinode into on-disk and host variants
The latter is used as part of gfs2-private part of struct inode.
It actually stores a lot of fields differently; for now the
declaration is just cloned, inode field is swtiched and changes
propagated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:32:50 -05:00
Russell King
beea494d5e [ARM] Remove EEPROM slave emulation from i2c-pxa driver.
The i2c-pxa driver should not contain EEPROM slave-mode emulation;
this is something the platform should provide where required.  Remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-11-30 12:24:45 +00:00
Jan Engelhardt
03a67a46af Fix typos in doc and comments
Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know
persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can
spell in more than one correct way, let me know.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:32:19 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
0779bf2d2e Fix misc .c/.h comment typos
Fix various .c/.h typos in comments (no code changes).

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:24:39 +01:00
Chase Venters
98c4f0c336 Fix jiffies.h comment
jiffies.h includes a comment informing that jiffies_64 must be read with the
assistance of the xtime_lock seqlock. The comment text, however, calls
jiffies_64 "not volatile", which should probably read "not atomic".

Signed-off-by: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:53:49 +01:00
Jim Cromie
e20ec9911b fix spelling error in include/linux/kernel.h
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:46:13 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
139a7bdc2b mqueue.h: don't include linux/types.h
This #include is not required.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:40:22 +01:00
Nicolas Schichan
583bb86fbb [MIPS] Add support for kexec
A tiny userland application loading the kernel and invoking kexec_load for 
mips is available here:

http://chac.le-poulpe.net/~nico/kexec/kexec-2006-10-18.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-11-30 01:14:44 +00:00
David S. Miller
e81c735967 [NET]: Fix MAX_HEADER setting.
MAX_HEADER is either set to LL_MAX_HEADER or LL_MAX_HEADER + 48, and
this is controlled by a set of CONFIG_* ifdef tests.

It is trying to use LL_MAX_HEADER + 48 when any of the tunnels are
enabled which set hard_header_len like this:

dev->hard_header_len = LL_MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct xxx);

The correct set of tunnel drivers which do this are:

ipip
ip_gre
ip6_tunnel
sit

so make the ifdef test match.

Noticed by Patrick McHardy and with help from Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-28 20:59:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2ea5814472 Fix 'ALIGN()' macro, take 2
You wouldn't think that doing an ALIGN() macro that aligns something up
to a power-of-two boundary would be likely to have bugs, would you?

But hey, in the wonderful world of mixing integer types, you have to be
careful.  This just makes sure that the alignment is interpreted in the
same type as the thing to be aligned.

Thanks to Roland Dreier, who noticed that the amso1100 driver got broken
by the previous fix (that just extended the mask to "unsigned long", but
was still broken in "unsigned long long" - it just happened to be the
same on 64-bit architectures).

See commit 4c8bd7eeee for the history of
bugs here...

Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-26 19:05:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b8e6ec865f Revert "[PATCH] Enforce "unsigned long flags;" when spinlocking"
This reverts commit ee3ce191e8, since it
broke on at least ARM, MIPS and PA-RISC due to complicated header file
dependencies.

Conflicts in include/linux/spinlock.h (due to the "nested" variety
fixes) fixed up by hand.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-26 16:27:17 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
cfd3ef2346 [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested()
Introduce spin_lock_irqsave_nested(); implementation from:
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/1/122
Patch from:
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/13/258

[akpm@osdl.org: two compile fixes]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ee3ce191e8 [PATCH] Enforce "unsigned long flags;" when spinlocking
Make it break or warn if you pass to spin_lock_irqsave() and friends
something different from "unsigned long flags;".  Suprisingly large amount
of these was caught by recent commit
c53421b18f and others.

Idea is largely from FRV typechecking. Suggestions from Andrew Morton.
All stupid typos in first version fixed.

Passes allmodconfig on i386, x86_64, alpha, arm as well as my usual config.

Note #1: checking with sparse is still needed, because a driver can save
	 and pass around flags or something. So far patch is very intrusive.
Note #2: techically, we should break only if
		sizeof(flags) < sizeof(unsigned long),
	 however, the more pain for getting suspicious code into kernel,
	 the better.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
Vasily Tarasov
701e054e0c [PATCH] mounstats NULL pointer dereference
OpenVZ developers team has encountered the following problem in 2.6.19-rc6
kernel. After some seconds of running script

while [[ 1 ]]
do
	find  /proc -name mountstats | xargs cat
done

this Oops appears:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000010
 printing eip:
c01a6b70
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: xt_length ipt_ttl xt_tcpmss ipt_TCPMSS iptable_mangle
iptable_filter xt_multiport xt_limit ipt_tos ipt_REJECT ip_tables x_tables
parport_pc lp parport sunrpc af_packet thermal processor fan button battery
asus_acpi ac ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore i2c_nforce2 i2c_core tg3 floppy
pata_amd
ide_cd cdrom sata_nv libata
CPU:    1
EIP:    0060:[<c01a6b70>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.19-rc6 #2)
EIP is at mountstats_open+0x70/0xf0
eax: 00000000   ebx: e6247030   ecx: e62470f8   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000   edi: c01a6b00   ebp: c33b83c0   esp: f4105eb4
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process cat (pid: 6044, ti=f4105000 task=f4104a70 task.ti=f4105000)
Stack: c33b83c0 c04ee940 f46a4a80 c33b83c0 e4df31b4 c01a6b00 f4105000 c0169231
       e4df31b4 c33b83c0 c33b83c0 f4105f20 00000003 f4105000 c0169445 f2503cf0
       f7f8c4c0 00008000 c33b83c0 00000000 00008000 c0169350 f4105f20 00008000
Call Trace:
 [<c01a6b00>] mountstats_open+0x0/0xf0
 [<c0169231>] __dentry_open+0x181/0x250
 [<c0169445>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x50
 [<c0169350>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
 [<c01873d6>] seq_read+0xc6/0x300
 [<c0169511>] get_unused_fd+0x31/0xc0
 [<c01696d3>] do_sys_open+0x63/0x110
 [<c01697a7>] sys_open+0x27/0x30
 [<c01030bd>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79
 =======================
Code: 45 74 8b 54 24 20 89 44 24 08 8b 42 f0 31 d2 e8 47 cb f8 ff 85 c0 89 c3
74 51 8d 80 a0 04 00 00 e8 46 06 2c 00 8b 83 48 04 00 00 <8b> 78 10 85 ff 74
03
f0 ff 07 b0 01 86 83 a0 04 00 00 f0 ff 4b
EIP: [<c01a6b70>] mountstats_open+0x70/0xf0 SS:ESP 0068:f4105eb4

The problem is that task->nsproxy can be equal NULL for some time during
task exit. This patch fixes the BUG.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-25 13:28:33 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
e4477d2d1b Input: add to kernel-api docbook
Add input subsystem to kernel-api docbook.
Enhance some function and parameter comments.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-11-24 00:43:09 -05:00
Dmitry Torokhov
ed7b1f6d6e Input: serio - make serio_register_driver() return errors
Perform actual driver registration right in serio_register_driver()
instead of offloading it to kseriod and return proper error code to
callers if driver registration fails.

Note that driver <-> port matching is still done by kseriod to
speed up boot process since probing for PS/2 mice and keyboards
is pretty slow.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-11-23 23:34:49 -05:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
David Howells
65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
David Howells
365970a1ea WorkStruct: Merge the pending bit into the wq_data pointer
Reclaim a word from the size of the work_struct by folding the pending bit and
the wq_data pointer together.  This shouldn't cause misalignment problems as
all pointers should be at least 4-byte aligned.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:54:49 +00:00