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Jesper Juhl
b2111217df isapnp: remove pointless check of 'type' against 0 in isapnp_read_tag()
In drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c::isapnp_read_tag() there is a test of 'type'
being == 0 a bit down in the function.  That test doesn't make any sense.
If 'type' could indeed be NULL, then the test happens way too late as we'd
already have tried to dereference the pointer earlier and looking at the
callers it also turns out that there is no way type can ever actually be
NULL.

So the test is completely pointless and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3f1b0e1f28 .gitignore update
headers_install by default puts headers into usr/include/ .
They're auto-generated, so should be ignored.

Same for *.orig, *.rej .

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
8f8a68ee48 remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()
congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
1492192b4a kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler
kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler

The printk's comment states that it can be called from every context,
which might lead to false illusion that it could be called from everywhere
without any restrictions.

This is however not true - a call to printk() could deadlock if called from
scheduler code (namely from schedule(), wake_up(), etc) on runqueue lock
when it tries to wake up klogd. Document this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
017f021c7e docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OK
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization
when it is practical.  This patch updates documentation for consistency
with comments in spinlock_types.h.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
7e7d136e9e serial: remove termios checks from various old char serial drivers
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
d471d340ef 68360serial: remove broken optimisation
Remove the broken 'no termios change' optimisation for this driver.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Alan Cox
de1764af27 synclink: remove bogus 'no change' termios optimisation from synclink drivers
Again this check is wrong now, and un-needed

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Alan Cox
35426128ad genericserial: remove bogus optimisation check and dead code paths
We've been using the 'new locking' for a long time now so it seems
pointless keeping the old one around.  Remove it and undo the macros it
uses back into real code for readability.  Remove the bogus 'no termios
change' checks.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Morten Helgesen <morten@sourcepoet.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Alan Cox
db0ef08efa amiserial: remove incorrect 'no termios change' check
Lots of serial drivers check and optimise for setting the termios values to
the ones they were before.  This is pointless and the check is wrong
anyway.  Remove the checks on the serial drivers.  If we ever do need such
a check put it back in the tty layer instead _once_!

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Rusty Russell
24da1cbff9 modules: remove modlist_lock
Now we always use stop_machine for module insertion or deletion, we no
longer need the modlist_lock: merely disabling preemption is sufficient to
block against list manipulation.  This avoids deadlock on OOPSen where we
can potentially grab the lock twice.

Bug: 8695
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
6c675bd43c ext4: fix error handling in ext4_create_journal
Fix error handling in ext4_create_journal according to kernel conventions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
952d9de116 ext3: fix error handling in ext3_create_journal()
Fix error handling in ext3_create_journal according to kernel conventions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1f1f642e2f make cancel_xxx_work_sync() return a boolean
Change cancel_work_sync() and cancel_delayed_work_sync() to return a boolean
indicating whether the work was actually cancelled.  A zero return value means
that the work was not pending/queued.

Without that kind of change it is not possible to avoid flush_workqueue()
sometimes, see the next patch as an example.

Also, this patch unifies both functions and kills the (unlikely) busy-wait
loop.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
f5a421a450 rename cancel_rearming_delayed_work() to cancel_delayed_work_sync()
Imho, the current naming of cancel_xxx workqueue functions is very confusing.

	cancel_delayed_work()
	cancel_rearming_delayed_work()
	cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue()	// obsolete

	cancel_work_sync()

This looks as if the first 2 functions differ in "type" of their argument
which is not true any longer, nowadays the difference is the behaviour.

The semantics of cancel_rearming_delayed_work(dwork) was changed
significantly, it doesn't require that dwork rearms itself, and cancels dwork
synchronously.

Rename it to cancel_delayed_work_sync().  This matches cancel_delayed_work()
and cancel_work_sync().  Re-create cancel_rearming_delayed_work() as a simple
inline obsolete wrapper, like cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
422b14c2e2 update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
d52988023a Remove the last few UMSDOS leftovers
The UMSDOS filesystem was removed back in 2.6.11, but some tiny bits stuck
around.  This patch removes the few remaining leftovers.  The only things
left behind after this are the entries in the CREDITS file and the ioctl
number in Documentation/ioctl-number.txt as documentation.

This third (hopefully final) version of the patch doesn't edit the
arch/um/config.release file, since Jeff Dike pointed out to me that it
should die completely, and asked me to remove it from my patch as he'll
send in a seperate patch removing the file completely.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
f6b07d39d7 Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/
Add descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the
Documentation/00-INDEX file.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
2618c60b8b dma: make dma pool to use kmalloc_node
Using dev_to_node(&dev->dev) to get node, and kmalloc_node to dma buffer on
corresponding node dma pool

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
d375b97037 UDF: fix function name from udf_crc16 to udf_crc
We have to change udf_crc16() name to udf_crc() to be able to play with CRC
test.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
608e261968 generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()
The current generic bug implementation has a call to dump_stack() in case a
WARN_ON(whatever) gets hit.  Since report_bug(), which calls dump_stack(),
gets called from an exception handler we can do better: just pass the
pt_regs structure to report_bug() and pass it to show_regs() in case of a
warning.  This will give more debug informations like register contents,
etc...  In addition this avoids some pointless lines that dump_stack()
emits, since it includes a stack backtrace of the exception handler which
is of no interest in case of a warning.  E.g.  on s390 the following lines
are currently always present in a stack backtrace if dump_stack() gets
called from report_bug():

 [<000000000001517a>] show_trace+0x92/0xe8)
 [<0000000000015270>] show_stack+0xa0/0xd0
 [<00000000000152ce>] dump_stack+0x2e/0x3c
 [<0000000000195450>] report_bug+0x98/0xf8
 [<0000000000016cc8>] illegal_op+0x1fc/0x21c
 [<00000000000227d6>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Dave Jones
94bed2a9c4 Add -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
Add -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
This makes builds fail sooner if something is implicitly defined instead
of having to wait half an hour for it to fail at the linking stage.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Andrew Morton
cc2ea416b2 uninline check_signature()
This is a rather bizarre thing to have inlined in io.h.  Stick it in lib/
instead.

While we're there, despaghetti it a bit, and fix its off-by-one behaviour when
passed a zero length.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Josh Triplett
4e7bd66318 CodingStyle: add information about editor modelines
I recently received a patch including a file that had a vim modeline,
and I realized that nothing specifically proscribed that practice.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Josh Triplett
a923fd6ae7 CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
vignesh babu
9e8c4273ef is_power_of_2: ufs/super.c
Replace (n & (n-1)) with is_power_of_2

Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Niels de Vos
e7c310c36e parport_pc: it887x fix
The IO port range requested by parport_pc.c:sio_ite_8872_probe is too small.
The IO-ports of ttyS1 (0x2f8) will be missconfigured by the ITE-chip.  The ITE
starts looking for the chip a 0x2a0.  An IO-portrange of 32 will not overwrite
the ports of ttyS1.  Therefore register 0x60 should be written with
0xe5000000, enabling the ITE and setting IO-portsize to 32 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
vignesh babu
f84d5a76c5 is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c
Replace (n & (n-1)) with is_power_of_2()

Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Acked-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
cf99abace7 make seccomp zerocost in schedule
This follows a suggestion from Chuck Ebbert on how to make seccomp
absolutely zerocost in schedule too.  The only remaining footprint of
seccomp is in terms of the bzImage size that becomes a few bytes (perhaps
even a few kbytes) larger, measure it if you care in the embedded.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
1d9d02feee move seccomp from /proc to a prctl
This reduces the memory footprint and it enforces that only the current
task can enable seccomp on itself (this is a requirement for a
strightforward [modulo preempt ;) ] TIF_NOTSC implementation).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
be0ef957c9 nbd.c: sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code
sock_xmit() re-implements sigprocmask() and dequeue_signal_lock().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3e1ac130d0 kcdrwd: remove unneeded flush_signals() call
kcdrwd() is a kernel thread, all signals are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1b6dd9baa7 adb_probe_task: remove unneeded flush_signals() call
adb_probe_task() is forked by "events" thread, all signals are ignored, no
need to play with signal blocking/flushing.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Andrew Morton
4210df283c bd_claim_by_disk: fix warning
Fix this:

fs/block_dev.c: In function 'bd_claim_by_disk':
fs/block_dev.c:970: warning: 'found' may be used uninitialized in this function

and given that free_bd_holder() now needs free(NULL)-is-legal behaviour, we
can simplify bd_release_from_kobject().

Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
4e91672c76 Replace obscure constructs in fs/block_dev.c
Replace some funky codepaths in fs/block_dev.c with cleaner versions of the
affected places.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix return value]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
948730b0e3 fs/namespace.c should #include "internal.h"
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for
its global functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Andrew Morton
19769b7626 sprint_symbol() cleanup
Remove pointless `else'.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Duane Griffin
d45bce8faf HFS+: add custom dentry hash and comparison operations
Add custom dentry hash and comparison operations for HFS+ filesystems that are
case-insensitive and/or do automatic unicode decomposition.  The new
operations reuse the existing HFS+ ASCII to unicode conversion, unicode
decomposition and case folding functionality.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Duane Griffin
1e96b7ca1e HFS+: refactor ASCII to unicode conversion routine for later reuse
The HFS+ filesystem is case-insensitive and does automatic unicode
decomposition by default, but does not provide custom dentry operations.  This
can lead to multiple dentries being cached for lookups on a filename with
varying case and/or character (de)composition.

These patches add custom dentry hash and comparison operations for
case-sensitive and/or automatically decomposing HFS+ filesystems.  Unicode
decomposition and case-folding are performed as required to ensure equivalent
filenames are hashed to the same values and compare as equal.

This patch:

Refactor existing HFS+ ASCII to unicode string conversion routine to split out
character conversion functionality.  This will be reused by the custom dentry
hash and comparison routines.  This approach avoids unnecessary memory
allocation compared to using the string conversion routine directly in the new
functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid use-of-uninitialised]
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Toshiyuki Okajima
29bc5b4f73 mistaken ext4_inode_bitmap for ext4_block_bitmap
In ext4_new_blocks(), one of two ext4_block_bitmap() calls should be
ext4_inode_bitmap() call.  It is not harmful in normal processing, but it
should be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
2be7fe075a sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL_UNNUMBERED
Hopefully this will help people to understand the new regime.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
97d8f83cb7 Add Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
Poeple keep on adding new numbered sysctls, when they're supposed not to.

Add a documentation file which explain why new sysctls should use
CTL_UNNUMBERED.  The next patch will sprinkle pointers to this throughout
sysctl.c.

Eric provided the text (thanks)

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
36cf3b5c3b FUTEX: Tidy up the code
The recent PRIVATE and REQUEUE_PI changes to the futex code made it hard to
read.  Tidy it up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
0746aec3c7 update description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Update the description of struct file_system_type and get_sb() in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to match the current code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
132e4b0a04 cdrom: replace hard-coded constants by kernel.h macro.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
4e44f3497d sys_time() speedup
Improve performance of sys_time().  sys_time() returns time in seconds, but
it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the tv_sec
portion of the GTOD time.  But the data structure "xtime", which is updated
by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity time.

The patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly:

2.6.22-rc6:

#threads
   1:        transactions:                        3733   (373.21 per sec.)
   2:        transactions:                        6676   (667.46 per sec.)
   3:        transactions:                        6957   (695.50 per sec.)
   4:        transactions:                        7055   (705.48 per sec.)
   5:        transactions:                        6596   (659.33 per sec.)

2.6.22-rc6 + sys_time.patch:

   1:        transactions:                        4005   (400.47 per sec.)
   2:        transactions:                        7379   (737.77 per sec.)
   3:        transactions:                        7347   (734.49 per sec.)
   4:        transactions:                        7468   (746.65 per sec.)
   5:        transactions:                        7428   (742.47 per sec.)

Mixed API uses of gettimeofday() and time() are guaranteed to be coherent
via the use of a at-most-once-per-second slowpath that updates xtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
vignesh babu
f482394ccb is_power_of_2(): jbd
Replace (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with
is_power_of_2().

Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
vignesh babu
3fc74269c8 is_power_of_2: ext3/super.c
Replace (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2()

Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
681dcd9543 drop obsolete sys_ioctl export
sys_ioctl() was only exported for our first version of compat ioctl
handling.  Now that the whole compat ioctl handling mess is more or less
sorted out there are no more modular users left and we can kill it.

There's one exception and that's sparc64's solaris compat module, but
sparc64 has it's own export predating the generic one by years for that
which this patch leaves untouched.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
dcecc6c700 doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info
Add info that the Code: bytes line contains <xy> or (wxyz) in some
architecture oops reports and what that means.

Add a script by Andi Kleen that reads the Code: line from an Oops report
file and generates assembly code from the hex bytes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00