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2006-01-05[PATCH] kobject_uevent CONFIG_NET=n fixakpm@osdl.org
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x25f): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `__alloc_skb' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x2a1): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `skb_over_panic' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x31d): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `skb_over_panic' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x356): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `netlink_broadcast' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.init.text+0x9): In function `kobject_uevent_init': : undefined reference to `netlink_kernel_create' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Netlink is unconditionally enabled if CONFIG_NET, so that's OK. kobject_uevent.o is compiled even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG, which is lazy. Let's compound the sin. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] klist: Fix broken kref counting in find functionsFrank Pavlic
The klist reference counting in the find functions that use klist_iter_init_node is broken. If the function (for example driver_find_device) is called with a NULL start object then everything is fine, the first call to next_device()/klist_next increases the ref-count of the first node on the list and does nothing for the start object which is NULL. If they are called with a valid start object then klist_next will decrement the ref-count for the start object but nobody has incremented it. Logical place to fix this would be klist_iter_init_node because the function puts a reference of the object into the klist_iter struct. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com> Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplugKay Sievers
The distinction between hotplug and uevent does not make sense these days, netlink events are the default. udev depends entirely on netlink uevents. Only during early boot and in initramfs, /sbin/hotplug is needed. So merge the two functions and provide only one interface without all the options. The netlink layer got a nice generic interface with named slots recently, which is probably a better facility to plug events for subsystem specific events. Also the new poll() interface to /proc/mounts is a nicer way to notify about changes than sending events through the core. The uevents should only be used for driver core related requests to userspace now. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] remove mount/umount uevents from superblock handlingKay Sievers
The names of these events have been confusing from the beginning on, as they have been more like claim/release events. We needed these events for noticing HAL if storage devices have been mounted. Thanks to Al, we have the proper solution now and can poll() /proc/mounts instead to get notfied about mount tree changes. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-05[PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT optionKay Sievers
It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-12-20[PATCH] fix spinlock-debugging smp_processor_id() usageIngo Molnar
When a spinlock debugging check hits, we print the CPU number as an informational thing - but there is no guarantee that preemption is off at that point - hence we should use raw_smp_processor_id(). Otherwise DEBUG_PREEMPT will print a warning. With this fix the warning goes away and only the spinlock-debugging info is printed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-20[PATCH] Fix swiotlb pci_map_sg error handlingAndi Kleen
The overflow checking condition in lib/swiotlb.c was wrong. It would first run a NULL pointer through virt_to_phys before testing it. Since pci_map_sg overflow is not that uncommon and causes data corruption (including broken file systems) when not properly detected I think it's better to fix it in 2.6.15. This affects x86-64 and IA64. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28[PATCH] fix broken lib/genalloc.cChris Humbert
genalloc improperly stores the sizes of freed chunks, allocates overlapping memory regions, and oopses after its in-band data is overwritten. Signed-off-by: Chris Humbert <mahadri-kernel@drigon.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
Some manual fixups for clashing kfree() cleanups etc.
2005-11-07[PATCH] reiser4: add radix_tree_lookup_slot()Hans Reiser
Reiser4 uses radix trees to solve a trouble reiser4_readdir has serving nfs requests. Unfortunately, radix tree api lacks an operation suitable for modifying existing entry. This patch adds radix_tree_lookup_slot which returns pointer to found item within the tree. That location can be then updated. Both Nick and Christoph Lameter have patches which need this as well. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[LIB] reed_solomon: Clean up trailing white spacesThomas Gleixner
2005-10-31manual update from upstream:Tony Luck
Applied Al's change 06a544971fad0992fe8b92c5647538d573089dd4 to new location of swiotlb.c Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-31Merge ../linux-2.6 by handPaul Mackerras
2005-10-31[PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] lib/string.c cleanup: restore useful memmove constPaul Jackson
A couple of (char *) casts removed in a previous cleanup patch in lib/string.c:memmove() were actually useful, as they suppressed a couple of warnings: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type Fix by declaring the local variable const in the first place, so casts aren't needed to strip the const qualifier. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel modulePaul E. McKenney
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2). This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed due to the continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks, CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how to run the test and interpret the output is also included. This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of the PREEMPT_RT patchset. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] extable: remove needless declarationNicolas Pitre
They aren't used anywhere in that file. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERJesper Juhl
Fix-up the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER help text language a bit. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] cpusets: bitmap and mask remap operatorsPaul Jackson
In the forthcoming task migration support, a key calculation will be mapping cpu and node numbers from the old set to the new set while preserving cpuset-relative offset. For example, if a task and its pages on nodes 8-11 are being migrated to nodes 24-27, then pages on node 9 (the 2nd node in the old set) should be moved to node 25 (the 2nd node in the new set.) As with other bitmap operations, the proper way to code this is to provide the underlying calculation in lib/bitmap.c, and then to provide the usual cpumask and nodemask wrappers. This patch provides that. These operations are termed 'remap' operations. Both remapping a single bit and a set of bits is supported. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] Whitespace and CodingStyle cleanup for lib/idr.cJesper Juhl
Cleanup trailing whitespace, blank lines, CodingStyle issues etc, for lib/idr.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] lib/string.c cleanup: remove pointless explicit castsJesper Juhl
The first two hunks of the patch really belongs in patch 1, but I missed them on the first pass and instead of redoing all 3 patches I stuck them in this one. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] lib/string.c cleanup: remove pointless register keywordJesper Juhl
Removes a few pointless register keywords. register is merely a compiler hint that access to the variable should be optimized, but gcc (3.3.6 in my case) generates the exact same code with and without the keyword, and even if gcc did something different with register present I think it is doubtful we would want to optimize access to these variables - especially since this is generic library code and there are supposed to be optimized versions in asm/ for anything that really matters speed wise. (akpm: iirc, keyword register is a gcc no-op unless using -O0) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] lib/string.c cleanup: whitespace and CodingStyle cleanupsJesper Juhl
Removes some blank lines, removes some trailing whitespace, adds spaces after commas and a few similar changes. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] CONFIG_IA32Brian Gerst
Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply to 32-bit systems. (X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32 (X86 || X86_64) becomes X86 Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29[PATCH] ppc64 boot: remove include from lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.cOlaf Hering
There is no need to include module.h in inflate.c Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-28Merge ../bleed-2.6Greg KH
2005-10-28[PATCH] kobject_uevent.c has a typo in a commentErik Hovland
This patch changes trough to through in a comment in kobject_uevent.c. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28[PATCH] gfp_t: lib/*Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23[PATCH] inotify/idr leak fixAndrew Morton
Fix a bug which was reported and diagnosed by Stefan Jones <stefan.jones@churchillrandoms.co.uk> IDR trees include a cache of idr_layer objects. There's no way to destroy this cache, so when we discard an overall idr tree we end up leaking some memory. Add and use idr_destroy() for this. v9fs and infiniband also need to use idr_destroy() to avoid leaks. Or, we make the cache global, like radix_tree_preload(). Which is probably better. Later. Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-20Update from upstream with manual merge of Yasunori Goto'sTony Luck
changes to swiotlb.c made in commit 281dd25cdc0d6903929b79183816d151ea626341 since this file has been moved from arch/ia64/lib/swiotlb.c to lib/swiotlb.c Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-18Add some basic .gitignore filesLinus Torvalds
This still leaves driver and architecture-specific subdirectories alone, but gets rid of the bulk of the "generic" generated files that we should ignore. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-05[TEXTSEARCH]: fix sparse gfp nocast warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix nocast sparse warnings: include/linux/textsearch.h:165:57: warning: implicit cast to nocast type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-29[PATCH] Removed remaining PCI specific references from swiotlb.cTony Luck
Matthew Wilcox pointed out that swiotlb.c implements a generic interface that is not tied to just PCI. Remove includes of <linux/pci.h>, <asm/pci.h>. Fix comments and printk() messages to no longer refer to PCI. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-29[PATCH] swiotlb: file header commentsJohn W. Linville
Change comment at top of swiotlb.c to reflect that the code is shared with EM64T (i.e. Intel x86_64). Also add an entry for myself so that if I "broke it", everyone knows who "bought it"... :-) Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-29[PATCH] swiotlb: support syncing DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL mappingsJohn W. Linville
The current implementation of sync_single in swiotlb.c chokes on DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL mappings. This patch adds the capability to sync those mappings, and optimizes other syncs by accounting for the sync target (i.e. cpu or device) in addition to the DMA direction of the mapping. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-29[PATCH] swiotlb: support syncing sub-ranges of mappingsJohn W. Linville
This patch implements swiotlb_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device}. This is intended to support an x86_64 implementation of dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device}. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-29[PATCH] swiotlb: cleanup some code duplication cruftJohn W. Linville
The implementations of swiotlb_sync_single_for_{cpu,device} are identical. Likewise for swiotlb_syng_sg_for_{cpu,device}. This patch move the guts of those functions to two new inline functions, and calls the appropriate one from the bodies of those functions. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-29[PATCH] swiotlb: move from arch/ia64/lib/ to lib/John W. Linville
The swiotlb implementation is shared by both IA-64 and EM64T. However, the source itself lives under arch/ia64. This patch moves swiotlb.c from arch/ia64/lib to lib/ and fixes-up the appropriate Makefile and Kconfig files. No actual changes are made to swiotlb.c. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-15[LIB]: Consolidate _atomic_dec_and_lock()David S. Miller
Several implementations were essentialy a common piece of C code using the cmpxchg() macro. Put the implementation in one spot that everyone can share, and convert sparc64 over to using this. Alpha is the lone arch-specific implementation, which codes up a special fast path for the common case in order to avoid GP reloading which a pure C version would require. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-12[PATCH] x86-64: Allow frame pointer and fix help text.Andi Kleen
Allow frame pointer and fix help text. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] lib/sort.c: small cleanupsAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the following small cleanups: - make two needlessly global functions static - every file should #include the header files containing the prototypes of it's 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>
2005-09-10[PATCH] lib/radix-tree: Fix "nocast type" warningsVictor Fusco
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: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] spinlock consolidationIngo Molnar
This patch (written by me and also containing many suggestions of Arjan van de Ven) does a major cleanup of the spinlock code. It does the following things: - consolidates and enhances the spinlock/rwlock debugging code - simplifies the asm/spinlock.h files - encapsulates the raw spinlock type and moves generic spinlock features (such as ->break_lock) into the generic code. - cleans up the spinlock code hierarchy to get rid of the spaghetti. Most notably there's now only a single variant of the debugging code, located in lib/spinlock_debug.c. (previously we had one SMP debugging variant per architecture, plus a separate generic one for UP builds) Also, i've enhanced the rwlock debugging facility, it will now track write-owners. There is new spinlock-owner/CPU-tracking on SMP builds too. All locks have lockup detection now, which will work for both soft and hard spin/rwlock lockups. The arch-level include files now only contain the minimally necessary subset of the spinlock code - all the rest that can be generalized now lives in the generic headers: include/asm-i386/spinlock_types.h | 16 include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h | 16 I have also split up the various spinlock variants into separate files, making it easier to see which does what. The new layout is: SMP | UP ----------------------------|----------------------------------- asm/spinlock_types_smp.h | linux/spinlock_types_up.h linux/spinlock_types.h | linux/spinlock_types.h asm/spinlock_smp.h | linux/spinlock_up.h linux/spinlock_api_smp.h | linux/spinlock_api_up.h linux/spinlock.h | linux/spinlock.h /* * here's the role of the various spinlock/rwlock related include files: * * on SMP builds: * * asm/spinlock_types.h: contains the raw_spinlock_t/raw_rwlock_t and the * initializers * * linux/spinlock_types.h: * defines the generic type and initializers * * asm/spinlock.h: contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. lowlevel * implementations, mostly inline assembly code * * (also included on UP-debug builds:) * * linux/spinlock_api_smp.h: * contains the prototypes for the _spin_*() APIs. * * linux/spinlock.h: builds the final spin_*() APIs. * * on UP builds: * * linux/spinlock_type_up.h: * contains the generic, simplified UP spinlock type. * (which is an empty structure on non-debug builds) * * linux/spinlock_types.h: * defines the generic type and initializers * * linux/spinlock_up.h: * contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. version of UP * builds. (which are NOPs on non-debug, non-preempt * builds) * * (included on UP-non-debug builds:) * * linux/spinlock_api_up.h: * builds the _spin_*() APIs. * * linux/spinlock.h: builds the final spin_*() APIs. */ All SMP and UP architectures are converted by this patch. arm, i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390/s390x, x64 was build-tested via crosscompilers. m32r, mips, sh, sparc, have not been tested yet, but should be mostly fine. From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Booted and lightly tested on a500-44 (64-bit, SMP kernel, dual CPU). Builds 32-bit SMP kernel (not booted or tested). I did not try to build non-SMP kernels. That should be trivial to fix up later if necessary. I converted bit ops atomic_hash lock to raw_spinlock_t. Doing so avoids some ugly nesting of linux/*.h and asm/*.h files. Those particular locks are well tested and contained entirely inside arch specific code. I do NOT expect any new issues to arise with them. If someone does ever need to use debug/metrics with them, then they will need to unravel this hairball between spinlocks, atomic ops, and bit ops that exist only because parisc has exactly one atomic instruction: LDCW (load and clear word). From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> ia64 fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-08[PATCH] lib/crc16: added crc16 algorithm.Evgeniy Polyakov
Add the crc16 routines, as used by w1 devices. Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08[PATCH] fix klist semantics for lists which have elements removed on traversalJames Bottomley
The problem is that klists claim to provide semantics for safe traversal of lists which are being modified. The failure case is when traversal of a list causes element removal (a fairly common case). The issue is that although the list node is refcounted, if it is embedded in an object (which is universally the case), then the object will be freed regardless of the klist refcount leading to slab corruption because the klist iterator refers to the prior element to get the next. The solution is to make the klist take and release references to the embedding object meaning that the embedding object won't be released until the list relinquishes the reference to it. (akpm: fast-track this because it's needed for the 2.6.13 scsi merge) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] radix_tag_get(): differentiate between no present node and tag unset ↵Marcelo Tosatti
cases Simple patch to radix_tree_tag_get() to return different values for non present node and tag unset. The function is not used by any in-kernel callers (yet), but this information is definitely useful. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] radix-tree: Remove unnecessary indirections and clean up codeChristoph Lameter
- There is frequent use of indirections in the radix code. This patch removes those indirections, makes the code more readable and allows the compilers to generate better code. - Removing indirections allows the removal of several casts. - Removing indirections allows the reduction of the radix_tree_path size from 3 to 2 words. - Use pathp-> consistently. - Remove unnecessary tmp variable in radix_tree_insert - Separate the upper layer processing from the lowest layer in __lookup() in order to make it easier to understand what is going on and allow compilers to generate better code for the loop. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] detect soft lockupsIngo Molnar
This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>