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Eric W. Biederman
99f8955183 [PATCH] proc: don't lock task_structs indefinitely
Every inode in /proc holds a reference to a struct task_struct.  If a
directory or file is opened and remains open after the the task exits this
pinning continues.  With 8K stacks on a 32bit machine the amount pinned per
file descriptor is about 10K.

Normally I would figure a reasonable per user process limit is about 100
processes.  With 80 processes, with a 1000 file descriptors each I can trigger
the 00M killer on a 32bit kernel, because I have pinned about 800MB of useless
data.

This patch replaces the struct task_struct pointer with a pointer to a struct
task_ref which has a struct task_struct pointer.  The so the pinning of dead
tasks does not happen.

The code now has to contend with the fact that the task may now exit at any
time.  Which is a little but not muh more complicated.

With this change it takes about 1000 processes each opening up 1000 file
descriptors before I can trigger the OOM killer.  Much better.

[mlp@google.com: task_mmu small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Meda <mlp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:25 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
48e6484d49 [PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization
To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit.  However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.

I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit.  This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
aed7a6c476 [PATCH] proc: Replace proc_inode.type with proc_inode.fd
The sole renaming use of proc_inode.type is to discover the file descriptor
number, so just store the file descriptor number and don't wory about
processing this field.  This removes any /proc limits on the maximum number of
file descriptors, and clears the path to make the hard coded /proc inode
numbers go away.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:24 -07:00
Hansjoerg Lipp
5024ad4af6 [PATCH] i4l: Gigaset drivers: add IOCTLs to compat_ioctl.h
Add the IOCTLs of the Gigaset drivers to compat_ioctl.h in order to make
them available for 32 bit programs on 64 bit platforms.  Please merge.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:23 -07:00
Roman Zippel
19923c190e [PATCH] fix and optimize clock source update
This fixes the clock source updates in update_wall_time() to correctly
track the time coming in via current_tick_length().  Optimize the fast
paths to be as short as possible to keep the overhead low.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
Jim Cromie
7f9f303aa3 [PATCH] generic-time: add macro to simplify/hide mask constants
Add a CLOCKSOURCE_MASK macro to simplify initializing the mask for a struct
clocksource, and use it to replace literal mask constants in the various
clocksource drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
john stultz
a275254975 [PATCH] time: rename clocksource functions
As suggested by Roman Zippel, change clocksource functions to use
clocksource_xyz rather then xyz_clocksource to avoid polluting the
namespace.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
john stultz
cf3c769b4b [PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessors
Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor
functions that use the clocksource infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
john stultz
5eb6d20533 [PATCH] Time: Use clocksource abstraction for NTP adjustments
Instead of incrementing xtime by tick_nsec + ntp adjustments, use the
clocksource abstraction to increment and scale time.  Using the clocksource
abstraction allows other clocksources to be used consistently in the face of
late or lost ticks, while preserving the existing behavior via the jiffies
clocksource.

This removes the need to keep time_phase adjustments as we just use the
current_tick_length() function as the NTP interface and accumulate time using
shifted nanoseconds.

The basics of this design was by Roman Zippel, however it is my own
interpretation and implementation, so the credit should go to him and the
blame to me.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
john stultz
260a42309b [PATCH] Time: Let user request precision from current_tick_length()
Change the current_tick_length() function so it takes an argument which
specifies how much precision to return in shifted nanoseconds.  This provides
a simple way to convert between NTPs internal nanoseconds shifted by
(SHIFT_SCALE - 10) to other shifted nanosecond units that are used by the
clocksource abstraction.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
john stultz
ad596171ed [PATCH] Time: Use clocksource infrastructure for update_wall_time
Modify the update_wall_time function so it increments time using the
clocksource abstraction instead of jiffies.  Since the only clocksource driver
currently provided is the jiffies clocksource, this should result in no
functional change.  Additionally, a timekeeping_init and timekeeping_resume
function has been added to initialize and maintain some of the new timekeping
state.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fixlet]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
john stultz
734efb467b [PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure
This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure.  A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter.  This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.

Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
Michael Buesch
844dd05fec [PATCH] Add new generic HW RNG core
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
David Howells
7e047ef5fe [PATCH] keys: sort out key quota system
Add the ability for key creation to overrun the user's quota in some
circumstances - notably when a session keyring is created and assigned to a
process that didn't previously have one.

This means it's still possible to log in, should PAM require the creation of a
new session keyring, and fix an overburdened key quota.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:18 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
d6e05edc59 spelling fixes
acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26 18:35:02 +02:00
Hans Verkuil
8cbde94be3 V4L/DVB (4223): Add V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_VBI_FMT control
V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_VBI_FMT controls if and how VBI data is embedded in
an MPEG stream. Currently only one format is supported: the format designed
for the ivtv driver. This should be extended with new standard formats
(such as defined for DVB) in the future.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-06-26 09:21:45 -03:00
Hans Verkuil
91a972910d V4L/DVB (4221): Add HM12 YUV format define.
HM12 is a YUV 4:1:1 format used by the cx2341x MPEG encoder/decoder for
the raw YUV input/output. The Y and UV planes are broken up in 16x16
macroblocks and each macroblock is transmitted in turn (row by row).

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-06-26 09:21:32 -03:00
Herbert Xu
d913ea0d6b [CRYPTO] api: Removed const from cra_name/cra_driver_name
We do need to change these names now and even more so in future with
instantiated algorithms.  So let's stop lying to the compiler and get
rid of the const modifiers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:40 +10:00
Herbert Xu
c7fc05992a [CRYPTO] api: Added cra_init/cra_exit
This patch adds the hooks cra_init/cra_exit which are called during a tfm's
construction and destruction respectively.  This will be used by the instances
to allocate child tfm's.

For now this lets us get rid of the coa_init/coa_exit functions which are
used for exactly that purpose (unlike the dia_init function which is called
for each transaction).

In fact the coa_exit path is currently buggy as it may get called twice
when an error is encountered during initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:40 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6c2bb98bc3 [CRYPTO] all: Pass tfm instead of ctx to algorithms
Up until now algorithms have been happy to get a context pointer since
they know everything that's in the tfm already (e.g., alignment, block
size).

However, once we have parameterised algorithms, such information will
be specific to each tfm.  So the algorithm API needs to be changed to
pass the tfm structure instead of the context pointer.

This patch is basically a text substitution.  The only tricky bit is
the assembly routines that need to get the context pointer offset
through asm-offsets.h.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:39 +10:00
Neil Horman
068c6e98bc [NET] netpoll: break recursive loop in netpoll rx path
The netpoll system currently has a rx to tx path via:

netpoll_rx
 __netpoll_rx
  arp_reply
   netpoll_send_skb
    dev->hard_start_tx

This rx->tx loop places network drivers at risk of inadvertently causing a
deadlock or BUG halt by recursively trying to acquire a spinlock that is
used in both their rx and tx paths (this problem was origionally reported
to me in the 3c59x driver, which shares a spinlock between the
boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_xmit routines).

This patch breaks this loop, by queueing arp frames, so that they can be
responded to after all receive operations have been completed.  Tested by
myself and the reported with successful results.

Specifically it was tested with netdump.  Heres the BZ with details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194055

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-26 00:04:27 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
6048126440 [NET]: make net/core/dev.c:netdev_nit static
netdev_nit can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25 23:58:10 -07:00
Jerome Pinot
b9ab58dd8e Input: fix misspelling of Hangeul key
Fix a mispelling of the korean alphabet name in the input subsystem.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangeul#Names for more details.

KEY_HANGUEL left to not break people

Signed-off-by: Jerome Pinot <ngc891@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-06-26 01:51:23 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov
f60d2b111c Input: reset name, phys and uniq when unregistering
Name, phys and uniq are quite often constant strings in moules implementing
particular input device. If a module unregisters input device and then gets
unloaded, the device could still be present in memory (pinned via sysfs),
but aforementioned members would point to some random memory. Set them all
to NULL when unregistering so sysfs handlers won't try dereferencing them.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-06-26 01:48:36 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
3448097fcc Revert "swsusp special saveable pages support" commits
This reverts commits

  3e3318dee0 [PATCH] swsusp: x86_64 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages
  b6370d96e0 [PATCH] swsusp: i386 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages
  ce4ab0012b [PATCH] swsusp: add architecture special saveable pages support

because not only do they apparently cause page faults on x86, the
infrastructure doesn't compile on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 18:41:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d77062b14 Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (51 commits)
  nfs: remove nfs_put_link()
  nfs-build-fix-99
  git-nfs-build-fixes
  Merge branch 'odirect'
  NFS: alloc nfs_read/write_data as direct I/O is scheduled
  NFS: Eliminate nfs_get_user_pages()
  NFS: refactor nfs_direct_free_user_pages
  NFS: remove user_addr, user_count, and pos from nfs_direct_req
  NFS: "open code" the NFS direct write rescheduler
  NFS: Separate functions for counting outstanding NFS direct I/Os
  NLM: Fix reclaim races
  NLM: sem to mutex conversion
  locks.c: add the fl_owner to nlm_compare_locks
  NFS: Display the chosen RPCSEC_GSS security flavour in /proc/mounts
  NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c
  NFS: Fix typo in nfs_do_clone_mount()
  NFS: Fix compile errors introduced by referrals patches
  NFSv4: Ensure that referral mounts bind to a reserved port
  NFSv4: A root pathname is sent as a zero component4
  NFSv4: Follow a referral
  ...
2006-06-25 10:54:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
25581ad107 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (244 commits)
  V4L/DVB (4210b): git-dvb: tea575x-tuner build fix
  V4L/DVB (4210a): git-dvb versus matroxfb
  V4L/DVB (4209): Added some BTTV PCI IDs for newer boards
  Fixes some sync issues between V4L/DVB development and GIT
  V4L/DVB (4206): Cx88-blackbird: always set encoder height based on tvnorm->id
  V4L/DVB (4205): Merge tda9887 module into tuner.
  V4L/DVB (4203): Explicitly set the enum values.
  V4L/DVB (4202): allow selecting CX2341x port mode
  V4L/DVB (4200): Disable bitrate_mode when encoding mpeg-1.
  V4L/DVB (4199): Add cx2341x-specific control array to cx2341x.c
  V4L/DVB (4198): Avoid newer usages of obsoleted experimental MPEGCOMP API
  V4L/DVB (4197): Port new MPEG API to saa7134-empress with saa6752hs
  V4L/DVB (4196): Port cx88-blackbird to the new MPEG API.
  V4L/DVB (4193): Update cx2341x fw encoding API doc.
  V4L/DVB (4192): Use control helpers for saa7115, cx25840, msp3400.
  V4L/DVB (4191): Add CX2341X MPEG encoder module.
  V4L/DVB (4190): Add helper functions for control processing to v4l2-common.
  V4L/DVB (4189): Add videodev support for VIDIOC_S/G/TRY_EXT_CTRLS.
  V4L/DVB (4188): Add new MPEG control/ioctl definitions to videodev2.h
  V4L/DVB (4186): Add support for the DNTV Live! mini DVB-T card.
  ...
2006-06-25 10:09:31 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
d84a84775b [PATCH] Fix "biovec-(256)" in /proc/slabinfo
Stringify does what it was told to do.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:26 -07:00
KaiGai Kohei
77787bfb44 [PATCH] pacct: none-delayed process accounting accumulation
In current 2.6.17 implementation, signal_struct refered from task_struct is
used for per-process data structure.  The pacct facility also uses it as a
per-process data structure to store stime, utime, minflt, majflt.  But those
members are saved in __exit_signal().  It's too late.

For example, if some threads exits at same time, pacct facility has a
possibility to drop accountings for a part of those threads.  (see, the
following 'The results of original 2.6.17 kernel') I think accounting
information should be completely collected into the per-process data structure
before writing out an accounting record.

This patch fixes this matter.  Accumulation of stime, utime, minflt and majflt
are done before generating accounting record.

[mingo@elte.hu: fix acct_collect() siglock bug found by lockdep]
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:25 -07:00
KaiGai Kohei
f6ec29a42d [PATCH] pacct: avoidance to refer the last thread as a representation of the process
When pacct facility generate an 'ac_flag' field in accounting record, it
refers a task_struct of the thread which died last in the process.  But any
other task_structs are ignored.

Therefore, pacct facility drops ASU flag even if root-privilege operations are
used by any other threads except the last one.  In addition, AFORK flag is
always set when the thread of group-leader didn't die last, although this
process has called execve() after fork().

We have a same matter in ac_exitcode.  The recorded ac_exitcode is an exit
code of the last thread in the process.  There is a possibility this exitcode
is not the group leader's one.
2006-06-25 10:01:25 -07:00
KaiGai Kohei
0e4648141a [PATCH] pacct: add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs.
The pacct facility need an i/o operation when an accounting record is
generated.  There is a possibility to wake OOM killer up.  If OOM killer is
activated, it kills some processes to make them release process memory
regions.

But acct_process() is called in the killed processes context before calling
exit_mm(), so those processes cannot release own memory.  In the results, any
processes stop in this point and it finally cause a system stall.
2006-06-25 10:01:25 -07:00
Paul Fulghum
6f84be84b4 [PATCH] synclink_gt: add GT2 adapter support
Add support for SyncLink GT2 adapter to driver.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:24 -07:00
Paul Fulghum
643f3319b9 [PATCH] add synclink_gt custom hdlc idle
Add custom HDLC idle pattern feature.

It allows the user to specify an arbitrary 8 or 16 bit repeating pattern on
the transmit data pin between HDLC frames.

In most cases the idle pattern is continuous ones or flags as supported by off
the shelf synchronous controllers and defined in the ISO3309 standard.  Some
applications (radio/satellite modems, connections to legacy military hardware)
require non-standard patterns.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:24 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
9e37bd301e [PATCH] kthread: move kernel-doc and put it into DocBook
Move kthread API kernel-doc from kthread.h to kthread.c & fix it.
Add kthread API to kernel-api DocBook.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:24 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e905914f96 [PATCH] Implement kasprintf
Implement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf.  This allocates the
memory required for the formatted string, including the trailing '\0'.
Returns NULL on allocation failure.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
fa9799e33d [PATCH] ktime/hrtimer: fix kernel-doc comments
Fix kernel-doc formatting in ktime.h and hrtimer.[ch] files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:23 -07:00
Ulrich Drepper
45c9b11a1d [PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat
When the linkat() syscall was added the flag parameter was added in the
last minute but it wasn't used so far.  The following patch should change
that.  My tests show that this is all that's needed.

If OLDNAME is a symlink setting the flag causes linkat to follow the
symlink and create a hardlink with the target.  This is actually the
behavior POSIX demands for link() as well but Linux wisely does not do
this.  With this flag (which will most likely be in the next POSIX
revision) the programmer can choose the behavior, defaulting to the safe
variant.  As a side effect it is now possible to implement a
POSIX-compliant link(2) function for those who are interested.

  touch file
  ln -s file symlink

  linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", 0)
    -> newlink is hardlink of symlink

  linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW)
    -> newlink is hardlink of file

The value of AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW is determined by the definition we already
use in glibc.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
c7b2eff059 [PATCH] kthread: update loop.c to use kthread
Update loop.c to use a kthread instead of a deprecated kernel_thread for
loop devices.

[akpm@osdl.org: don't change the thread's name]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
a4d27e75ff [PATCH] fuse: add request interruption
Add synchronous request interruption.  This is needed for file locking
operations which have to be interruptible.  However filesystem may implement
interruptibility of other operations (e.g.  like NFS 'intr' mount option).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
7142125937 [PATCH] fuse: add POSIX file locking support
This patch adds POSIX file locking support to the fuse interface.

This implementation doesn't keep any locking state in kernel.  Unlocking on
close() is handled by the FLUSH message, which now contains the lock owner id.

Mandatory locking is not supported.  The filesystem may enfoce mandatory
locking in userspace if needed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
3e8c54fad8 [PATCH] fuse: use MISC_MAJOR
The following patches add POSIX file locking to the fuse interface.

Additional changes ralated to this are:

  - asynchronous interrupt of requests by SIGKILL no longer supported

  - separate control filesystem, instead of using sysfs objects

  - add support for synchronously interrupting requests

Details are documented in Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt throughout the
patches.

This patch:

Have fuse.h use MISC_MAJOR rather than a hardcoded '10'.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
eab03ac7bd [PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/proc
The table is empty, why does it still exist?

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
Andrew Victor
8232212e0b [PATCH] RTC: Add rtc_year_days() to calculate tm_yday
RTC: Add exported function rtc_year_days() to calculate the tm_yday value.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Raphael Assenat
362600fe60 [PATCH] Add v3020 RTC support
This patch adds support for the v3020 RTC from EM Microelectronic.

The v3020 RTC is designed to be connected on a bus using only one data bit.
 Since any data bit may be used, it is necessary to specify this to the
driver by passing a struct v3020_platform_data pointer (see
include/linux/rtc-v3020.h) to the driver.

Part of the following code comes from the kernel patchs produced by
Compulab for their products.  The original file (available here:
http://raph.people.8d.com/misc/emv3020.c) was released under the terms of
the GPL license.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Raphael Assenat <raph@raphnet.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo
110d693d58 [PATCH] rtc subsystem: add capability checks
Centralize CAP_SYS_XXX checks to avoid duplicate code and missing checks in
the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
655066c383 [PATCH] RTC: rtc-dev UIE emulation
Import genrtc's RTC UIE emulation (CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X) to rtc-dev driver with
slight adjustments/refinements.  This makes UIE-less rtc drivers work
better with programs doing read/poll on /dev/rtc, such as hwclock.  This
emulation should not harm rtc drivers with UIE support, since
rtc_dev_ioctl() calls underlaying rtc driver's ioctl() first.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
3419b23a91 [PATCH] epoll: use unlocked wqueue operations
A few days ago Arjan signaled a lockdep red flag on epoll locks, and
precisely between the epoll's device structure lock (->lock) and the wait
queue head lock (->lock).

Like I explained in another email, and directly to Arjan, this can't happen
in reality because of the explicit check at eventpoll.c:592, that does not
allow to drop an epoll fd inside the same epoll fd.  Since lockdep is
working on per-structure locks, it will never be able to know of policies
enforced in other parts of the code.

It was decided time ago of having the ability to drop epoll fds inside
other epoll fds, that triggers a very trick wakeup operations (due to
possibly reentrant callback-driven wakeups) handled by the
ep_poll_safewake() function.  While looking again at the code though, I
noticed that all the operations done on the epoll's main structure wait
queue head (->wq) are already protected by the epoll lock (->lock), so that
locked-style functions can be used to manipulate the ->wq member.  This
makes both a lock-acquire save, and lockdep happy.

Running totalmess on my dual opteron for a while did not reveal any problem
so far:

http://www.xmailserver.org/totalmess.c

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4ad3bcf314 [PATCH] nbd: endian annotations
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:13 -07:00
Andrew Morton
9de9adb615 [PATCH] for_each_cpu_mask() warning fix
On UP, this:

       cpumask_t mask = node_to_cpumask(numa_node_id());

       for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask)

does this:

mm/readahead.c: In function `node_readahead_aging':
mm/readahead.c:850: warning: unused variable `mask'

which is unpleasantly fixed by this:

Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:12 -07:00
Mingming Cao
43d23f9039 [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: the rest of in-kernel filesystem blocks conversion
Convert the ext3 in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t.  Convert the
rest of all unsigned long type in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t,
and replace the printk format string respondingly.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:10 -07:00