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NeilBrown
6b8b3e8a8b [PATCH] md: make sure md bitmap updates are flushed when array is stopped.
The recent change to never ignore the bitmap, revealed that the bitmap isn't
begin flushed properly when an array is stopped.

We call bitmap_daemon_work three times as there is a three-stage pipeline for
flushing updates to the bitmap file.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 13:00:54 -07:00
Nick Piggin
f33ea7f404 [PATCH] fix get_user_pages bug
Checking pte_dirty instead of pte_write in __follow_page is problematic
for s390, and for copy_one_pte which leaves dirty when clearing write.

So revert __follow_page to check pte_write as before, and make
do_wp_page pass back a special extra VM_FAULT_WRITE bit to say it has
done its full job: once get_user_pages receives this value, it no longer
requires pte_write in __follow_page.

But most callers of handle_mm_fault, in the various architectures, have
switch statements which do not expect this new case.  To avoid changing
them all in a hurry, make an inline wrapper function (using the old
name) that masks off the new bit, and use the extended interface with
double underscores.

Yes, we do have a call to do_wp_page from do_swap_page, but no need to
change that: in rare case it's needed, another do_wp_page will follow.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
[ Cleanups by Nick Piggin ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-03 09:12:05 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
0072b1389c [PATCH] include/linux/dcookies.h: dummy functions must be "static inline"
We don't want these to be global functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
John McCutchan
7544953685 [PATCH] inotify: fix file deletion by rename detection
When a file is moved over an existing file that you are watching,
inotify won't send you a DELETE_SELF event and it won't unref the inode
until the inotify instance is closed by the application.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 09:16:53 -07:00
Len Brown
adbedd3424 merge 2.6.13-rc4 with ACPI's to-linus tree 2005-07-30 01:55:32 -04:00
Len Brown
d6ac1a7910 /home/lenb/src/to-linus branch 'acpi-2.6.12' 2005-07-29 23:31:17 -04:00
David Shaohua Li
87bec66b96 [ACPI] suspend/resume ACPI PCI Interrupt Links
Add reference count and disable ACPI PCI Interrupt Link
when no device still uses it.

Warn when drivers have not released Link at suspend time.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3469

Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-29 22:49:38 -04:00
Kumar Gala
a46e812620 [PATCH] PCI: fix up errors after dma bursting patch and CONFIG_PCI=n -- bug?
In the patch from:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0506.3/0985.html

Is the the following line suppose inside the if CONFIG_PCI=n

  #define pci_dma_burst_advice(pdev, strat, strategy_parameter) do { } while (0)

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 13:12:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e0d7ff168a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2005-07-29 09:48:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2ac6608c41 Revert broken "statement with no effect" warning fix
It may shut up gcc, but it also incorrectly changes the semantics of the
smp_call_function() helpers.

You can fix the warning other ways if you are interested (create another
inline function that takes no arguments and returns zero), but
preferably gcc just shouldn't complain about unused return values from
statement expressions in the first place.
2005-07-28 10:34:47 -07:00
Richard Henderson
79a8810221 [PATCH] alpha: fix "statement with no effect" warnings
Apparently gcc 4.0 complains about "({ 0; });", which leads to -Werror
breakage in one of the alpha oprofile modules.

One might could argue that this is a gcc bug, in that statement-expressions
should be considered to be function-like rather than statement-like for the
purposes of this warning.  But it's just as easy to use an inline function
in the first place, side-stepping the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 08:39:02 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
e5c2d74917 [PATCH] serial_core whitespace fix
Use tabs for formatting like anywhere else in this file.

Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:09 -07:00
Olaf Hering
44456d37b5 [PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string
turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some
warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:08 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
8c52ab42c1 [PATCH] mbcache: Remove unused mb_cache_shrink parameter
The cache parameter to mb_cache_shrink isn't used.  We may as well remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:07 -07:00
Peter Staubach
c293621bbf [PATCH] stale POSIX lock handling
I believe that there is a problem with the handling of POSIX locks, which
the attached patch should address.

The problem appears to be a race between fcntl(2) and close(2).  A
multithreaded application could close a file descriptor at the same time as
it is trying to acquire a lock using the same file descriptor.  I would
suggest that that multithreaded application is not providing the proper
synchronization for itself, but the OS should still behave correctly.

SUS3 (Single UNIX Specification Version 3, read: POSIX) indicates that when
a file descriptor is closed, that all POSIX locks on the file, owned by the
process which closed the file descriptor, should be released.

The trick here is when those locks are released.  The current code releases
all locks which exist when close is processing, but any locks in progress
are handled when the last reference to the open file is released.

There are three cases to consider.

One is the simple case, a multithreaded (mt) process has a file open and
races to close it and acquire a lock on it.  In this case, the close will
release one reference to the open file and when the fcntl is done, it will
release the other reference.  For this situation, no locks should exist on
the file when both the close and fcntl operations are done.  The current
system will handle this case because the last reference to the open file is
being released.

The second case is when the mt process has dup(2)'d the file descriptor.
The close will release one reference to the file and the fcntl, when done,
will release another, but there will still be at least one more reference
to the open file.  One could argue that the existence of a lock on the file
after the close has completed is okay, because it was acquired after the
close operation and there is still a way for the application to release the
lock on the file, using an existing file descriptor.

The third case is when the mt process has forked, after opening the file
and either before or after becoming an mt process.  In this case, each
process would hold a reference to the open file.  For each process, this
degenerates to first case above.  However, the lock continues to exist
until both processes have released their references to the open file.  This
lock could block other lock requests.

The changes to release the lock when the last reference to the open file
aren't quite right because they would allow the lock to exist as long as
there was a reference to the open file.  This is too long.

The new proposed solution is to add support in the fcntl code path to
detect a race with close and then to release the lock which was just
acquired when such as race is detected.  This causes locks to be released
in a timely fashion and for the system to conform to the POSIX semantic
specification.

This was tested by instrumenting a kernel to detect the handling locks and
then running a program which generates case #3 above.  A dangling lock
could be reliably generated.  When the changes to detect the close/fcntl
race were added, a dangling lock could no longer be generated.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
951f22d5b1 [PATCH] s390: spin lock retry
Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done
inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock
before doing the cpu_relax().  Add a system control to set the number of
retries before a cpu is yielded.

The reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to
give up the virtual cpu is quite expensive.  For spin locks that are held only
for a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings
for spin locks that are held for a longer timer.  The default retry count is
1000.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:04 -07:00
Andrey Panin
4bfdf37830 [PATCH] consolidate CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT handling
Attached patch removes #ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT mess duplicated in
almost every watchdog driver and replaces it with common define in
linux/watchdog.h.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:25:54 -07:00
Olivier Blin
49f2991585 [PATCH] i4l: add Olitec ISDN PCI card in hisax gazel driver
This patch adds support for the Olitec ISDN PCI card in the hisax gazel
driver.  The gazel driver supports this card, but wasn't aware of its PCI
ids.  Users used to modify the PCI ids of a supported card in
include/linux/pci_ids.h and recompile their kernel to get this card
running, as said in most Howtos.  This patch makes the hisax gazel driver
recognize the PCI ids of the Olitec ISDN PCI card.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:25:51 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c10b873695 [PATCH] Really __nocast-annotate kmalloc_node()
One chunk was lost somewhere between my and Andrew's machine.

Noticed by Victor Fusco.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:25:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4d7de66e2c Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-07-26 16:43:39 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
cadf01c2fc [NETFILTER]: Fix ip_conntrack_put() prototype.
The function is not inline.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-26 15:39:28 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7c9034735e [PATCH] Add emergency_restart()
When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly
kernel_restart is the function to use.   But in many instances
the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working
very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler.

This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that
callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling
restart.  emergency_restart() is expected to be callable
from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more
trying circumstances.

This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:41 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
4a00ea1e18 [PATCH] Refactor sys_reboot into reusable parts
Because the factors of sys_reboot don't exist people calling
into the reboot path duplicate the code badly, leading to
inconsistent expectations of code in the reboot path.

This patch should is just code motion.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2d986010ad Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 2005-07-26 13:28:47 -07:00
Michael Chan
4cf78e4fb6 [TG3]: add 5780 basic support
Add 5780 PCI IDs, chip IDs, and other basic support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-25 12:29:19 -07:00
David S. Miller
48647feed9 [W1]: Do not use NFLOG netlink number.
Use the reserved by never used NETLINK_SKIP value instead.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-24 19:30:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2c2a68b847 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-07-23 17:01:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
38afd6adf6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-07-22 16:33:00 -07:00
David S. Miller
261688d01e [PKT_SCHED]: em_meta: Kill TCF_META_ID_{INDEV,SECURITY,TCVERDICT}
More unusable TCF_META_* match types that need to get eliminated
before 2.6.13 goes out the door.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2005-07-22 14:43:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
28e212fb36 [PKT_SCHED]: Kill TCF_META_ID_REALDEV from meta ematch.
It won't exist any longer when we shrink the SKB in 2.6.14,
and we should kill this off before anyone in userspace starts
using it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2005-07-22 11:47:25 -07:00
Rusty Russell
4acdbdbe50 [NETFILTER]: ip_conntrack_expect_related must not free expectation
If a connection tracking helper tells us to expect a connection, and
we're already expecting that connection, we simply free the one they
gave us and return success.

The problem is that NAT helpers (eg. FTP) have to allocate the
expectation first (to see what port is available) then rewrite the
packet.  If that rewrite fails, they try to remove the expectation,
but it was freed in ip_conntrack_expect_related.

This is one example of a larger problem: having registered the
expectation, the pointer is no longer ours to use.  Reference counting
is needed for ctnetlink anyway, so introduce it now.

To have a single "put" path, we need to grab the reference to the
connection on creation, rather than open-coding it in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-21 13:14:46 -07:00
Victor Fusco
e2bf521d97 [NET]: Fix "nocast type" warnings in skbuff.h
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>

Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18 13:36:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
23af27eb8f [PKT_SCHED]: Kill TCF_META_ID_TCCLASSID.
Thomas Graf states:

> I used to mark such ids as obsolete in the header but since
> skb is on diet anyway and there has been no official
> iproute2 release with the ematch bits included it might be
> a better idea to remove the ids from the header completely.
> Those that have picked up my patch on netdev shouldn't care
> about a ABI breakage, actually I doubt that someone is using
> it already.

So here's the patch to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18 13:34:35 -07:00
Andrey Panin
fbc0dc0df5 [PATCH] Serial: Add support for SIIG Quartet serial card
Add support for SIIG Quartet Serial card.  This card has Oxford
Semiconducor 16954 quad UART which is clocked by 10x faster
(18.432 MHz) quartz.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-18 11:38:09 +01:00
Olaf Hering
6d283d2716 [PATCH] Serial: Remove linux/version.h
changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 09:59:00 +01:00
Russell King
661f83a67c [PATCH] Serial: Move deprecation of register_serial forward to September
I think it's about time to make the build a little more vocal about the
expiry of these functions.  Due to recent discussions with problems in
the console initialisation vs power manglement, I'd like to move the
date forward to September.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 09:30:53 +01:00
NeilBrown
6a806c510d [PATCH] md/raid1: clear bitmap when fullsync completes
We need to be careful differentiating between a resync of a complete array,
in which we can clear the bitmap, and a resync of a degraded array, in
which we cannot.

This patch cleans all that up.

Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
Andrew Vasquez
ac96202ba0 [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add pci ids for new ISP types.
Add pci ids for new ISP types.

Move old definitions in local qla_def.h file to pci_ids.h as
well.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-07-14 10:54:20 -04:00
Martin Schwidefsky
068e1b94bb [PATCH] s390: fadvise hint values.
Add special case for the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE hint
values for s390-64.  The user space values in the s390-64 glibc headers for
these two defines have always been 6 and 7 instead of 4 and 5.  All 64 bit
applications therefore use the "wrong" values.  To get these applications
working without recompiling the kernel needs to accept the "wrong" values.
Since the values for s390-31 are 4 and 5 the compat wrapper for fadvise64
and fadvise64_64 need to rewrite the values for 31 bit system calls.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
88bd5121d6 [PATCH] Fix soft lockup due to NTFS: VFS part and explanation
Something has changed in the core kernel such that we now get concurrent
inode write outs, one e.g via pdflush and one via sys_sync or whatever.
This causes a nasty deadlock in ntfs.  The only clean solution
unfortunately requires a minor vfs api extension.

First the deadlock analysis:

Prerequisive knowledge: NTFS has a file $MFT (inode 0) loaded at mount
time.  The NTFS driver uses the page cache for storing the file contents as
usual.  More interestingly this file contains the table of on-disk inodes
as a sequence of MFT_RECORDs.  Thus NTFS driver accesses the on-disk inodes
by accessing the MFT_RECORDs in the page cache pages of the loaded inode
$MFT.

The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty.  For same
inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk inode,
which is as explained above in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging to the
table of inodes ($MFT, inode 0).

What happens:

Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever...  calls __sync_single_inode() for
$MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for the dirty page containing the
on-disk inode X, the page is now locked -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which
clears PageUptodate() on the page to prevent anyone else getting hold of it
whilst it does the write out (this is necessary as the on-disk inode needs
"fixups" applied before the write to disk which are removed again after the
write and PageUptodate is then set again).  It then analyses the page
looking for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this on-disk
inode.  This then calls ilookup5() to check if the corresponding VFS inode
is in icache().  This in turn calls ifind() which waits on the inode lock
via wait_on_inode whilst holding the global inode_lock.

Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the same
VFS inode X on the ntfs volume.  This locks the inode (I_LOCK) then calls
write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() -> read_cache_page() of
the page (in page cache of table of inodes $MFT, inode 0) containing the
on-disk inode.  This page has PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1
(see above) so read_cache_page() blocks when tries to take the page lock
for the page so it can call ntfs_read_page().

Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the on-disk
inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in ifind() so it
can write the page out and then unlock the page.

And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for the
page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover that
Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.

Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.

The only sensible solution: NTFS does not care whether the VFS inode is
locked or not when it calls ilookup5() (it doesn't use the VFS inode at
all, it just uses it to find the corresponding ntfs_inode which is of
course attached to the VFS inode (both are one single struct); and it uses
the ntfs_inode which is subject to its own locking so I_LOCK is irrelevant)
hence we want a modified ilookup5_nowait() which is the same as ilookup5()
but it does not wait on the inode lock.

Without such functionality I would have to keep my own ntfs_inode cache in
the NTFS driver just so I can find ntfs_inodes independent of their VFS
inodes which would be slow, memory and cpu cycle wasting, and incredibly
stupid given the icache already exists in the VFS.

Below is a patch that does the ilookup5_nowait() implementation in
fs/inode.c and exports it.

ilookup5_nowait.diff:

Introduce ilookup5_nowait() which is basically the same as ilookup5() but
it does not wait on the inode's lock (i.e. it omits the wait_on_inode()
done in ifind()).

This is needed to avoid a nasty deadlock in NTFS.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Robert Love
5995f16b4a [PATCH] inotify: event ordering
This rearranges the event ordering for "open" to be consistent with the
ordering of the other events.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
Robert Love
0399cb08c5 [PATCH] inotify: move sysctl
This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from
"/proc/sys/fs".  Also some related cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
Robert Love
0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bd4c625c06 reiserfs: run scripts/Lindent on reiserfs code
This was a pure indentation change, using:

	scripts/Lindent fs/reiserfs/*.c include/linux/reiserfs_*.h

to make reiserfs match the regular Linux indentation style.  As Jeff
Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> writes:

 The ReiserFS code is a mix of a number of different coding styles, sometimes
 different even from line-to-line. Since the code has been relatively stable
 for quite some time and there are few outstanding patches to be applied, it
 is time to reformat the code to conform to the Linux style standard outlined
 in Documentation/CodingStyle.

 This patch contains the result of running scripts/Lindent against
 fs/reiserfs/*.c and include/linux/reiserfs_*.h. There are places where the
 code can be made to look better, but I'd rather keep those patches separate
 so that there isn't a subtle by-hand hand accident in the middle of a huge
 patch. To be clear: This patch is reformatting *only*.

 A number of patches may follow that continue to make the code more consistent
 with the Linux coding style.

 Hans wasn't particularly enthusiastic about these patches, but said he
 wouldn't really oppose them either.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:21:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3f603ed319 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6 2005-07-12 16:04:50 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
67bc4eb0b1 [PATCH] hardirq uses preempt
hardirq.h uses preempt_count() from preempt.h

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:03 -07:00
Andrew Morton
542d1c88bd [PATCH] tlb.h warning fix
free_pages_and_swap_cache() and free_page_and_swap_cache() use release_pages()
and page_cache_release() respectively, so make sure that we have the
declarations in scope.

Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:02 -07:00
Jan Kara
08c6a96fd7 [PATCH] ext3: fix options parsing
Fix a problem with ext3 mount option parsing.  When remount of a filesystem
fails, old options are now restored.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:01 -07:00
Andrew Morton
d53d9f16ea [PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fix
kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope.  mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:00:58 -07:00
Len Brown
5028770a42 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00