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Roel Kluin
f7a75f0a40 spin_lock_unlocked cleanups
Replace some SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED with DEFINE_SPINLOCK

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu
d68c9d6ae8 Break ELF_PLATFORM and stack pointer randomization dependency
Currently arch_align_stack() is used by fs/binfmt_elf.c to randomize
stack pointer inside a page. But this happens only if ELF_PLATFORM
symbol is defined.

ELF_PLATFORM is normally set if the architecture wants ld.so to load
implementation specific libraries for optimization. And currently a
lot of architectures just yield this symbol to NULL.

This is the case for MIPS architecture where ELF_PLATFORM is NULL but
arch_align_stack() has been redefined to do stack inside page
randomization. So in this case no randomization is actually done.

This patch breaks this dependency which seems to be useless and allows
platforms such MIPS to do the randomization.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
96358de6bc rename signalfd_siginfo fields
For Michael Kerrisk request, the following patch renames signalfd_siginfo
fields in order to keep them consistent with the siginfo_t ones.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
059590f495 ext3: remove #ifdef CONFIG_EXT3_INDEX
CONFIG_EXT3_INDEX is not an exposed config option in the kernel, and it is
unconditionally defined in ext3_fs.h.  tune2fs is already able to turn off
dir indexing, so at this point it's just cluttering up the code.  Remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Alan Cox
a9c62a18a2 fs: correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options
The early LFS work that Linux uses favours EFBIG in various places. SuSv3
specifically uses EOVERFLOW for this as noted by Michael (Bug 7253)

[EOVERFLOW]
    The named file is a regular file and the size of the file cannot be
represented correctly in an object of type off_t. We should therefore
transition to the proper error return code

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
28e3fed8b7 Compile handle_percpu_irq even for uniprocessor kernels
Compiling handle_percpu_irq only on uniprocessor generates an artificial
special case so a typical use like:

  set_irq_chip_and_handler(irq, &some_irq_type, handle_percpu_irq);

needs to be conditionally compiled only on SMP systems as well and an
alternative UP construct is usually needed - for no good reason.

This fixes uniprocessor configurations for some MIPS SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Ahmed S. Darwish
b4471cbb09 Completely remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)
Only very little files use the deprecated SA_* IRQ flags in latest pull.  This
patch series removes such macros from the tree and transfrom old code to the
new IRQF_* flags.

I've grepped the whole tree to make sure that no more files than the patched
ones use such deprecated macros.  I hope this series won't introduce build
errors.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Ahmed S. Darwish
38d090b080 NCR53C8XX: Remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)
Stop using deprecated IRQ flags in ncr53c8xx documentaion.  The new IRQF_*
macros are used instead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
96fdc72ddf anon-inodes use open coded atomic_inc for the shared inode
Since we know the shared inode count is always >0, we can avoid igrab()
and use an open coded atomic_inc().

This also fixes a bug noticed by Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>: were checking
for an IS_ERR() return from igrab(), but it actually returns NULL on error.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
5e3c3ac9db Fix wrong filename reference in drivers-testing.txt
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
James Pearson
315e28c8d6 Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters
/proc/PID/environ currently truncates at 4096 characters, patch based on
the /proc/PID/mem code.

Signed-off-by: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
WANG Cong
3ad90ec090 fs/udf/balloc.c: mark a variable as uninitialized_var()
Kill a may-be-used-uninitialized warning.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
ea0985ad79 menuconfig: transform Network Filesystems menu
Turn Network File Systems into a menuconfig so that it can be disabled at
once.

(Note: I added a "default y". If you do not like that, speak up.)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
a77b645609 menuconfig: transform NLS and DLM menus
Changes NLS and DLM menus into a 'menuconfig' object so that it can be
disabled at once without having to enter the menu first to disable the config
option.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Rusty Russell
2d1df8153c HVC console is also used by iSeries, so add that to HVC_DRIVER help.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Rusty Russell
3e6c6f630a Delay creation of khcvd thread
This changes hvc_init() to be called only when someone actually uses the
hvc_console driver.  Dave Jones complained when profiling bootup.

hvc_console used to only be for Power aka pSeries: now lguest and Xen both
want it built-in in case the kernel is a guest under one of those, even
though usually it will be a native boot.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Andrey Mirkin
fd5eea4214 change inotifyfs magic as the same magic is used for futexfs
Right now futexfs and inotifyfs have one magic 0xBAD1DEA, that looks a
little bit confusing.  Use 0xBAD1DEA as magic for futexfs and 0x2BAD1DEA as
magic for inotifyfs.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Olaf Hering
4f9a58d75b increase AT_VECTOR_SIZE to terminate saved_auxv properly
include/asm-powerpc/elf.h has 6 entries in ARCH_DLINFO.  fs/binfmt_elf.c
has 14 unconditional NEW_AUX_ENT entries and 2 conditional NEW_AUX_ENT
entries.  So in the worst case, saved_auxv does not get an AT_NULL entry at
the end.

The saved_auxv array must be terminated with an AT_NULL entry.  Make the
size of mm_struct->saved_auxv arch dependend, based on the number of
ARCH_DLINFO entries.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Denis Cheng
f77e349870 vfs: use the predefined d_unhashed inline function instead
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
db8906da59 Use KMEM_CACHE macro to create the nsproxy cache
The blessed way for standard caches is to use it.  Besides, this may give
this cache a better alignment.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
1efd24fa05 Remove unused member from nsproxy
The nslock spinlock is not used in the kernel at all.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
970a8645ca user.c: #ifdef ->mq_bytes
For those who deselect POSIX message queues.

Reduces SLAB size of user_struct from 64 to 32 bytes here, SLUB size -- from
40 bytes to 32 bytes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
40aeb400f6 user.c: deinline
Save some space because uid_hash_find() has 3 callsites.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
b1e7a4b1bb UDF: coding style fixups
This patch does additional coding style fixup.  Initially the code is being
distorted by Lindent (in my patches sent not very long ago) and fixed in
the followup patches but this stuff was accidently missed.

New and old compiled files were compared with cmp to check for being
identically.  So the patch will not break the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Matti Linnanvuori
8d7b52dfc9 atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information [Bug 9020]
atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information about
semantics of initializer, atomic_set, atomic_read and atomic_xchg.

It also incorrectly implies that operations mentioned above are not actual
atomic operations.

Included is most of the patch Document non-semantics of atomic_read() and
atomic_set() by Chris Snook, except the word "assignment".

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Alan Cox
5f519d7281 tty: expose new methods needed for drivers to get termios right
This adds three new functions (or in one case to be more exact makes it
always available)

tty_termios_copy_hw

Copies all the hardware settings from one termios structure to the other.
This is intended for drivers that support little or no hardware setting

tty_termios_encode_baud_rate

Allows you to set the input and output baud rate in a termios structure.  A
driver is supposed to set the resulting baud rate from a request so most
will want to use this function to set the resulting input and output rates
to match the hardware values.  Internally it knows about keeping Bxxx
encoding when possible to maximise compatibility.

tty_encode_baud_rate

As above but for the tty's own current termios structure

I suspect this will initially need some tweaking as it gets enabled by
driver patches over the next few mm cycles so consider this lot -mm only
for the moment so it can stabilize and end up neat before it goes to base.

I've tried not to break any obscure architectures - if you get a speed you
can't represent the code will print warnings on non updated termios systems
but not break.

Once this is merged and seems sane I've got a growing pile of driver
updates to use it - notably for USB serial drivers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Alan Cox
ca025282e9 ide-cd is unmaintained
I simply don't have any old IDE systems any more or time to really look
after this.  Nobody responded to the previous linux-ide mail about
maintainers so...

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>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
cd215237d2 fs/isofs/namei.c: Remove uninitialized local vars warning
shut up those:
fs/isofs/namei.c: In function 'isofs_lookup':
fs/isofs/namei.c:161: warning: 'offset' may be used uninitialized in this function
fs/isofs/namei.c:161: warning: 'block' may be used uninitialized in this function

By the way, they get overwritten at the end of isofs_find_entry().

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>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
bda5b655fe Delete gcc-2.95 compatible structure definition.
Since nothing earlier than gcc-3.2 is supported for kernel
compilation, that 2.95 hack can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Lepton Wu
fb46f341d9 reiserfs: workaround for dead loop in finish_unfinished
There is possible dead loop in finish_unfinished function.

In most situation, the call chain iput -> ...  -> reiserfs_delete_inode ->
remove_save_link will success.  But for some reason such as data
corruption, reiserfs_delete_inode fails on reiserfs_do_truncate ->
search_for_position_by_key.

Then remove_save_link won't be called.  We always get the same
"save_link_key" in the while loop in finish_unfinished function.  The
following patch adds a check for the possible dead loop and just remove
save link when deap loop.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Denys Vlasenko
b9ec0339d8 add consts where appropriate in fs/nls/*
Add const modifiers to a few struct nls_table's member pointers in
include/linux/nls.h and adds a lot of const's in fs/nls/*.c files.

Resulting changes as visible by size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 113612  481216    2368  597196   91ccc nls.org/built-in.o
 593548    3296     288  597132   91c8c nls/built-in.o

Apparently compiler managed to optimize code a bit better
because of const-ness.

No other changes are made.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
37c42524d6 shrink_dcache_sb speedup
This patch makes shrink_dcache_sb consistent with dentry pruning policy.

On the first pass we iterate over dentry unused list and prepare some
dentries for removal.

However, since the existing code moves evicted dentries to the beginning of
the LRU it can happen that fresh dentries from other superblocks will be
inserted *before* our dentries.

This can result in significant slowdown of shrink_dcache_sb().  Moreover,
for virtual filesystems like unionfs which can call dput() during dentries
kill existing code results in O(n^2) complexity.

We observed 2 minutes shrink_dcache_sb() with only 35000 dentries.

To avoid this effects we propose to isolate sb dentries at the end
of LRU list.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@openvz.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
44a2db43eb lk201: remove obsolete driver
Remove the old-fashioned lk201 driver under drivers/tc/ that used to be
used by the old dz.c and zs.c drivers, which is now orphan code referred to
from nowhere and does not build anymore.  A modern replacement is available
as drivers/input/keyboard/lkkbd.c.

There are no plans to do anything about this piece of code and it does not
fit anywhere anymore, so it is not just a matter of maintenance or the lack
of.  There are still some bits that might be added to the new lkkbd.c
driver based on the old code, and the embedded hardware documentation which
is otherwise quite hard to get hold of might be useful to keep too.  Both
of these can be done separately though.  RIP.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Rene Herman
debe621468 lib/iomap.c:bad_io_access(): print 0x hex prefix
Be explicit about printing hex.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Lepton Wu
80eb68d238 reiserfs: fix kernel panic on corrupted directory
When reading corrupted reiserfs directory data, d_reclen could be a
negative number or a big positive number, this can lead to kernel panic or
oop.  The following patch adds a sanity check.

Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
a6cd6bf9f8 doc: about email clients for Linux patches
Requested by Jeff Garzik.
v3, updated from lkml comments.

Add info about various email clients and their applicability
in being used to send Linux kernel patches.

Some notes takes from http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients
Portions used with permission.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Emil Medve
1f7c8234c7 Make the pr_*() family of macros in kernel.h complete
Other/Some pr_*() macros are already defined in kernel.h, but pr_err() was
defined multiple times in several other places

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
David Howells
76181c134f KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous
Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous to make it easier for
NFS to make use of them.  There are now accessor functions that do
asynchronous constructions, a wait function to wait for construction to
complete, and a completion function for the key type to indicate completion
of construction.

Note that the construction queue is now gone.  Instead, keys under
construction are linked in to the appropriate keyring in advance, and that
anyone encountering one must wait for it to be complete before they can use
it.  This is done automatically for userspace.

The following auxiliary changes are also made:

 (1) Key type implementation stuff is split from linux/key.h into
     linux/key-type.h.

 (2) AF_RXRPC provides a way to allocate null rxrpc-type keys so that AFS does
     not need to call key_instantiate_and_link() directly.

 (3) Adjust the debugging macros so that they're -Wformat checked even if
     they are disabled, and make it so they can be enabled simply by defining
     __KDEBUG to be consistent with other code of mine.

 (3) Documentation.

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: keys: missing word in documentation]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Chris Mason
398c95bdf2 try to reap reiserfs pages left around by invalidatepage
reiserfs_invalidatepage will refuse to free pages if they have been logged
in data=journal mode, or were pinned down by a data=ordered operation.  For
data=journal, this is fairly easy to trigger just with fsx-linux, and it
results in a large number of pages hanging around on the LRUs with
page->mapping == NULL.

Calling try_to_free_buffers when reiserfs decides it is done with the page
allows it to be freed earlier, and with much less VM thrashing.  Lock
ordering rules mean that reiserfs can't call lock_page when it is releasing
the buffers, so TestSetPageLocked is used instead.  Contention on these
pages should be rare, so it should be sufficient most of the time.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e82ce35233 maintainers: linux-omap list is subscribers only
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Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
622a9edd91 Remove dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functions
dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) were the earliest attempt on a generalized
cache managment API for I/O purposes.  Originally it was basically the raw
MIPS low level cache API exported to the entire world.  The API has
suffered from a lack of documentation, was not very widely used unlike it's
more modern brothers and can easily be replaced by dma_cache_sync.  So
remove it rsp.  turn the surviving bits back into an arch private API, as
discussed on linux-arch.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
bc154b1efb dcache: trivial comment fix
As it stands this comment is confusing, and not quite grammatical.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Matti Linnanvuori
f20fda4861 Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
1019f96d2d Spelling fix: weired -> weird
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Cedric Le Goater
a08b4be74c ipc namespace: remove config ipc ns fix
Finish the work : kill all #ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS.

Thanks Robert !

Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmision.com>
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
c98673fee2 I2O: Fix "defined but not used" build warnings
drivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c:539: warning: `i2o_exec_lct_notify' defined but not used

comes when CONFIG_I2O_LCT_NOTIFY_ON_CHANGES=n, because its only callsite
is #ifdef'ed as such. So let's #ifdef the function definition also. Also
move the definition to before the callsite, to get rid of forward prototype.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
9c0ca6f9a0 update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10
This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes.  Of note:

  - better categorisation and space checks for dual use unary/binary
    operators
  - warn on deprecated use of {SPIN,RW}_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  - check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
  - detect DOS line endings
  - detect redundant casts for kalloc()

Andy Whitcroft (18):
      Version: 0.10
      asmlinkage is also a storage type
      pull out inline specifiers
      allow only some operators before a unary operator
      parenthesised values may span line ends
      add additional attribute matching
      handle sparse annotations within pointer type space checks
      support alternative function definition syntax for typedefs
      check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
      fix output format for case checks
      deprecate SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED
      allow complex macros with bracketing braces
      detect and report DOS line endings
      fastcall is a valid function attribute
      bracket spacing is ok for 'for'
      categorise operators into unary/binary/definitions
      add heuristic to pick up on unannotated types
      remove spurious warnings from cat_vet

Dave Jones (1):
      Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Bill Nottingham
2e8ecb9db0 add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE
As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard.
We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults
in the kernel.

The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in
unicode mode by default on boot, including both the virtual terminal and
the keyboard driver.

Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Peter Lund
430d275a39 avoid negative (and full-width) shifts in radix-tree.c
Negative shifts are not allowed in C (the result is undefined).  Same thing
with full-width shifts.

It works on most platforms but not on the VAX with gcc 4.0.1 (it results in an
"operand reserved" fault).

Shifting by more than the width of the value on the left is also not
allowed.  I think the extra '>> 1' tacked on at the end in the original
code was an attempt to work around that.  Getting rid of that is an extra
feature of this patch.

Here's the chapter and verse, taken from the final draft of the C99
standard ("6.5.7 Bitwise shift operators", paragraph 3):

  "The integer promotions are performed on each of the operands. The
  type of the result is that of the promoted left operand. If the
  value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal
  to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is
  undefined."

Thank you to Jan-Benedict Glaw, Christoph Hellwig, Maciej Rozycki, Pekka
Enberg, Andreas Schwab, and Christoph Lameter for review.  Special thanks
to Andreas for spotting that my fix only removed half the undefined
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Peter Lund <firefly@vax64.dk>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Jan Beulich
22e48eaf58 constify string/array kparam tracking structures
.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00