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2007-10-17shrink_dcache_sb speedupDenis V. Lunev2-3/+15
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>
2007-10-17lk201: remove obsolete driverMaciej W. Rozycki9-1375/+0
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>
2007-10-17lib/iomap.c:bad_io_access(): print 0x hex prefixRene Herman1-1/+1
Be explicit about printing hex. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17reiserfs: fix kernel panic on corrupted directoryLepton Wu1-0/+10
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>
2007-10-17doc: about email clients for Linux patchesRandy Dunlap1-0/+217
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>
2007-10-17Make the pr_*() family of macros in kernel.h completeEmil Medve5-22/+25
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>
2007-10-17KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronousDavid Howells14-435/+605
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>
2007-10-17try to reap reiserfs pages left around by invalidatepageChris Mason1-10/+32
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>
2007-10-17maintainers: linux-omap list is subscribers onlyRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at linux-omap-open-source-owner@linux.omap.com. 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>
2007-10-17Remove dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functionsRalf Baechle24-193/+19
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>
2007-10-17dcache: trivial comment fixJ. Bruce Fields1-2/+2
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>
2007-10-17Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timersMatti Linnanvuori2-2/+4
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>
2007-10-17Spelling fix: weired -> weirdRalf Baechle1-1/+1
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>
2007-10-17ipc namespace: remove config ipc ns fixCedric Le Goater1-4/+0
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>
2007-10-17I2O: Fix "defined but not used" build warningsSatyam Sharma1-47/+47
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>
2007-10-17update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10Andy Whitcroft1-58/+196
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>
2007-10-17add CONFIG_VT_UNICODEBill Nottingham6-5/+27
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>
2007-10-17avoid negative (and full-width) shifts in radix-tree.cPeter Lund1-6/+8
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>
2007-10-17constify string/array kparam tracking structuresJan Beulich2-17/+18
.. 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>
2007-10-17store __setup_str_* in a more compact wayJan Beulich1-1/+1
__setup_str_* are referenced only during boot, hence there's no need to waste image space for aligning these strings (with the aim of improving performance). 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>
2007-10-17handle recursive calls to bust_spinlocks()Jan Beulich1-3/+3
Various architectures may call bust_spinlocks() recursively; the function itself, however, doesn't appear to be meant to be called in this manner. Nevertheless, this doesn't appear to be a problem as long as bust_spinlocks(0) doesn't get called twice in a row (otherwise, unblank_screen() may enter the scheduler). However, at least on i386 die() has been capable of returning (and on other architectures this should really be that way, too) when notify_die() returns NOTIFY_STOP. Short of getting a reply to a respective query, this patch makes bust_spinlocks() increment/decrement oops_in_progress, and wake klogd only when the count drops back to zero. 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>
2007-10-17Add a "rounddown_pow_of_two" routine to log2.hRobert P. J. Day1-0/+25
To go along with the existing "roundup_pow_of_two" routine, add one for rounding down since that operation appears to crop up on a regular basis in the source tree. [m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: fix unbalanced parentheses] Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17make dmapool code use __set_current_state()Arjan van de Ven1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@Linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17quota: send messages via netlinkJan Kara4-30/+222
Implement sending of quota messages via netlink interface. The advantage is that in userspace we can better decide what to do with the message - for example display a dialogue in your X session or just write the message to the console. As a bonus, we can get rid of problems with console locking deep inside filesystem code once we remove the old printing mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> 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>
2007-10-17Remove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parmRobert P. J. Day4-19/+3
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs correctionsRandy Dunlap4-22/+27
initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs: - fix typos/spellos/grammar - clarify RAM disk config location - correct cpio option Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-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>
2007-10-17local_t: update documentationMathieu Desnoyers1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17atomic_ops.txt: mention local_tGrant Grundler1-0/+4
local_t is a variant of atomic_t and has related ops to match. Add reference for local_t documentation to atomic_ops.txt. Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17local_t Documentation update 2Mathieu Desnoyers1-0/+23
Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to local_ops.txt. "Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful." Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Remove valueless definition of hard-selected RAMFS optionRobert P. J. Day3-16/+2
Since CONFIG_RAMFS is currently hard-selected to "y", and since Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt reads as follows: "The amount of code required to implement ramfs is tiny, because all the work is done by the existing Linux caching infrastructure. Basically, you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem. Because of this, ramfs is not an optional component removable via menuconfig, since there would be negligible space savings." It seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.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>
2007-10-17drivers/block/cciss.c: fix check-after-useAdrian Bunk1-29/+27
The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "disk" was NULL. Since "disk" being NULL seems impossible at this point this patch removes the NULL check. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17make kernel/profile.c:time_hook staticAdrian Bunk2-4/+1
{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17kernel/sys_ni.c: add dummy sys_ni_syscall() prototypeAdrian Bunk1-0/+4
kernel/sys_ni.c can't #include <linux/syscalls.h> due to cond_syscall(), but let's tell gcc to not warn with -Wmissing-prototypes. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17n_hdlc.c: fix check-after-useAdrian Bunk1-1/+1
The Coverity checker spotted that we'd have already oops'ed if "tty" was NULL. Since "tty" can't be NULL when we reach this line of code this patch removes the NULL check. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17remove include/asm-*/ipc.hAdrian Bunk47-77/+47
All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>. This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Drop some headers from mm.hAlexey Dobriyan5-4/+4
mm.h doesn't use directly anything from mutex.h and backing-dev.h, so remove them and add them back to files which need them. Cross-compile tested on many configs and archs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17cciss: fix error reporting for SG_IOSteve Cameron1-18/+61
This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" field of the request structure upon completion of requests. Previously, it just put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation of this as the uptodate parameter to one of the functions in the block layer, being a block device. For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not sufficient, and we noticed that, for example, sg_turs from sg3_utils did not correctly detect problems due to cciss having set rq->errors incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17NBD: allow hung network I/O to be cancelledPaul Clements2-31/+64
Allow NBD I/O to be cancelled when a network outage occurs. Previously, I/O would just hang, and if enough I/O was hung in nbd, the system (at least user-level) would completely hang until a TCP timeout (default, 15 minutes) occurred. The patch introduces a new ioctl NBD_SET_TIMEOUT that allows a transmit timeout value (in seconds) to be specified. Any network send that exceeds the timeout will be cancelled and the nbd connection will be shut down. I've tested with various timeout values and 6 seconds seems to be a good choice for the timeout. If the NBD_SET_TIMEOUT ioctl is not called, you get the old (I/O hang) behavior. Signed-off-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>
2007-10-17NBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0Paul Clements1-2/+5
This fixes errors with utilities (such as LVM's vgscan) that try to scan all devices. Previously this would generate read errors when uninitialized nbd devices were scanned: # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Input/output error /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error /dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error /dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error From now on, uninitialized nbd devices will have size zero, which prevents these errors. Signed-off-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>
2007-10-17CodingStyle: relax the 80-cole ruleAlan Cox1-2/+5
I would suggest this change to make CodingStyle properly reflect the style used by the kernel, rather than the current wording which is wishful thinking and misleading, and comes from the same school of thought that gets off on prescriptive grammar, latin and comp.std.c 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>
2007-10-17cleanup floppy.hJan Beulich12-35/+0
AUTO_DMA and FLOPPY_MOTOR_MASK in include/asm-*/floppy.h are dead symbols - remove them. 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>
2007-10-17floppy: tolerate DMA channel unavailabilityJan Beulich1-5/+9
The floppy driver is already written to be able to operate in virtual DMA mode. Thus it can easily be adjusted to tolerate failure from fd_request_dma() as long as virtual DMA mode is not disallowed. 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>
2007-10-17Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included KconfigAvi Kivity2-3/+3
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k). On those archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt). So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by everyone. Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.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>
2007-10-17tty.h: remove dead defineAlan Cox1-5/+0
No longer used. TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE will also go soon but needs a couple of other cleanups first 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>
2007-10-17Shrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=nAlexey Dobriyan3-3/+9
robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are really used if futexes are on. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17add-vmcore: add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macrosKen'ichi Ohmichi5-56/+56
Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros. Old vmcoreinfo macros were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is impossible to grep for them. So these names should be changed. This discussion is the following: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17add-vmcore: use the existing ia64_tpa() instead of asm codeKen'ichi Ohmichi1-4/+2
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17add-vmcore: add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_dataKen'ichi Ohmichi2-0/+7
[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data. The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint. So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch to let the kernel output them. makedumpfile site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/ Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's commentsKen'ichi Ohmichi3-13/+15
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html - vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that the compiler can check its use. - vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t. - Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec. - Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE. Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add vmcoreinfoKen'ichi Ohmichi8-1/+200
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system. makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump. It creates a small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging information. These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is hard to install it into each system. To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml. As the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html) Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html) And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models. (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html) Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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