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Ned Forrester 393df744e0 pxa2xx_spi: bugfix full duplex dma data corruption
Fixes a data corruption bug in pxa2xx_spi.c when operating in full duplex
mode with DMA and using buffers that overlap.

SPI transmit and receive buffers are allowed to be the same or to overlap.
 However, this driver fails if such overlap is attempted in DMA mode
because it maps the rx and tx buffers in the wrong order.  By mapping
DMA_FROM_DEVICE (read) before DMA_TO_DEVICE (write), it invalidates the
cache before flushing it, thus discarding data which should have been
transmitted.

The patch corrects the order of mapping.  This bug exists in all versions
of pxa2xx_spi.c; similar bugs are in the drivers for two other SPI
controllers (au1500, imx).

A version of this patch has been tested on kernel 2.6.20 using
verification of loopback data with: random transfer length, random
bits-per-word, random positive offsets (both larger and smaller than
transfer length) between the start of the rx and tx buffers, and varying
clock rates.

Signed-off-by: Ned Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu>
Cc: Vernon Sauder <vernoninhand@gmail.com>
Cc: J. Scott Merritt <merrij3@rpi.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven f652c521e0 lib/scatterlist.c: fix kunmap() argument in sg_miter_stop()
kunmap() takes as argument the struct page that orginally got kmap()'d,
however the sg_miter_stop() function passed it the kernel virtual address
instead, resulting in weird stuff.

Somehow I ended up fixing this bug by accident while looking for a bug in
the same area.

Reported-by: kerneloops.org
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
Dmitry Baryshkov a495a6d35a tmiofb: fix compilation with ACCEL disabled
Restore support for compiling tmiofb with acceleration disabled.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
Jack Steiner 415d8cfa84 GRU: fix for debug option
Enable -D DEBUG in the GRU Makefile if CONFIG_SGI_GRU_DEBUG is selected.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Jarkko Nikula 6e8ba729b6 gpiolib: extend gpio label column width in debugfs file
There are already various drivers having bigger label than 12 bytes.  Most
of them fit well under 20 bytes but make column width exact so that
oversized labels don't mess up output alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 1c207f952a Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: add min_addr, fix max_addr
Add "min_addr" documentation.
For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this
is consistent with other uses of [KMG].

Signed-off-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>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
David Miller f8b2256e9c sparc64: wire up accept4()
This adds the sparc syscall hookups.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper de11defebf reintroduce accept4
Introduce a new accept4() system call.  The addition of this system call
matches analogous changes in 2.6.27 (dup3(), evenfd2(), signalfd4(),
inotify_init1(), epoll_create1(), pipe2()) which added new system calls
that differed from analogous traditional system calls in adding a flags
argument that can be used to access additional functionality.

The accept4() system call is exactly the same as accept(), except that
it adds a flags bit-mask argument.  Two flags are initially implemented.
(Most of the new system calls in 2.6.27 also had both of these flags.)

SOCK_CLOEXEC causes the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag to be enabled
for the new file descriptor returned by accept4().  This is a useful
security feature to avoid leaking information in a multithreaded
program where one thread is doing an accept() at the same time as
another thread is doing a fork() plus exec().  More details here:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html "Secure File Descriptor Handling",
Ulrich Drepper).

The other flag is SOCK_NONBLOCK, which causes the O_NONBLOCK flag
to be enabled on the new open file description created by accept4().
(This flag is merely a convenience, saving the use of additional calls
fcntl(F_GETFL) and fcntl (F_SETFL) to achieve the same result.

Here's a test program.  Works on x86-32.  Should work on x86-64, but
I (mtk) don't have a system to hand to test with.

It tests accept4() with each of the four possible combinations of
SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK set/clear in 'flags', and verifies
that the appropriate flags are set on the file descriptor/open file
description returned by accept4().

I tested Ulrich's patch in this thread by applying against 2.6.28-rc2,
and it passes according to my test program.

/* test_accept4.c

  Copyright (C) 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
       <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

  Licensed under the GNU GPLv2 or later.
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define PORT_NUM 33333

#define die(msg) do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

/**********************************************************************/

/* The following is what we need until glibc gets a wrapper for
  accept4() */

/* Flags for socket(), socketpair(), accept4() */
#ifndef SOCK_CLOEXEC
#define SOCK_CLOEXEC    O_CLOEXEC
#endif
#ifndef SOCK_NONBLOCK
#define SOCK_NONBLOCK   O_NONBLOCK
#endif

#ifdef __x86_64__
#define SYS_accept4 288
#elif __i386__
#define USE_SOCKETCALL 1
#define SYS_ACCEPT4 18
#else
#error "Sorry -- don't know the syscall # on this architecture"
#endif

static int
accept4(int fd, struct sockaddr *sockaddr, socklen_t *addrlen, int flags)
{
   printf("Calling accept4(): flags = %x", flags);
   if (flags != 0) {
       printf(" (");
       if (flags & SOCK_CLOEXEC)
           printf("SOCK_CLOEXEC");
       if ((flags & SOCK_CLOEXEC) && (flags & SOCK_NONBLOCK))
           printf(" ");
       if (flags & SOCK_NONBLOCK)
           printf("SOCK_NONBLOCK");
       printf(")");
   }
   printf("\n");

#if USE_SOCKETCALL
   long args[6];

   args[0] = fd;
   args[1] = (long) sockaddr;
   args[2] = (long) addrlen;
   args[3] = flags;

   return syscall(SYS_socketcall, SYS_ACCEPT4, args);
#else
   return syscall(SYS_accept4, fd, sockaddr, addrlen, flags);
#endif
}

/**********************************************************************/

static int
do_test(int lfd, struct sockaddr_in *conn_addr,
       int closeonexec_flag, int nonblock_flag)
{
   int connfd, acceptfd;
   int fdf, flf, fdf_pass, flf_pass;
   struct sockaddr_in claddr;
   socklen_t addrlen;

   printf("=======================================\n");

   connfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (connfd == -1)
       die("socket");
   if (connect(connfd, (struct sockaddr *) conn_addr,
               sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1)
       die("connect");

   addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
   acceptfd = accept4(lfd, (struct sockaddr *) &claddr, &addrlen,
                      closeonexec_flag | nonblock_flag);
   if (acceptfd == -1) {
       perror("accept4()");
       close(connfd);
       return 0;
   }

   fdf = fcntl(acceptfd, F_GETFD);
   if (fdf == -1)
       die("fcntl:F_GETFD");
   fdf_pass = ((fdf & FD_CLOEXEC) != 0) ==
              ((closeonexec_flag & SOCK_CLOEXEC) != 0);
   printf("Close-on-exec flag is %sset (%s); ",
           (fdf & FD_CLOEXEC) ? "" : "not ",
           fdf_pass ? "OK" : "failed");

   flf = fcntl(acceptfd, F_GETFL);
   if (flf == -1)
       die("fcntl:F_GETFD");
   flf_pass = ((flf & O_NONBLOCK) != 0) ==
              ((nonblock_flag & SOCK_NONBLOCK) !=0);
   printf("nonblock flag is %sset (%s)\n",
           (flf & O_NONBLOCK) ? "" : "not ",
           flf_pass ? "OK" : "failed");

   close(acceptfd);
   close(connfd);

   printf("Test result: %s\n", (fdf_pass && flf_pass) ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
   return fdf_pass && flf_pass;
}

static int
create_listening_socket(int port_num)
{
   struct sockaddr_in svaddr;
   int lfd;
   int optval;

   memset(&svaddr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
   svaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
   svaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
   svaddr.sin_port = htons(port_num);

   lfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (lfd == -1)
       die("socket");

   optval = 1;
   if (setsockopt(lfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &optval,
                  sizeof(optval)) == -1)
       die("setsockopt");

   if (bind(lfd, (struct sockaddr *) &svaddr,
            sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1)
       die("bind");

   if (listen(lfd, 5) == -1)
       die("listen");

   return lfd;
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   struct sockaddr_in conn_addr;
   int lfd;
   int port_num;
   int passed;

   passed = 1;

   port_num = (argc > 1) ? atoi(argv[1]) : PORT_NUM;

   memset(&conn_addr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
   conn_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
   conn_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
   conn_addr.sin_port = htons(port_num);

   lfd = create_listening_socket(port_num);

   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, 0, 0))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, 0, SOCK_NONBLOCK))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, SOCK_CLOEXEC, SOCK_NONBLOCK))
       passed = 0;

   close(lfd);

   exit(passed ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE);
}

[mtk.manpages@gmail.com: rewrote changelog, updated test program]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.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>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Clemens Ladisch cf7ee554f3 fbdev: clean the penguin's dirty feet
When booting in a direct color mode, the penguin has dirty feet, i.e.,
some pixels have the wrong color.  This is caused by
fb_set_logo_directpalette() which does not initialize the last 32 palette
entries.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Nadia Derbey e00b4ff7eb sysvipc: fix the ipc structures initialization
A problem was found while reviewing the code after Bugzilla bug
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796.

In ipc_addid(), the newly allocated ipc structure is inserted into the
ipcs tree (i.e made visible to readers) without locking it.  This is not
correct since its initialization continues after it has been inserted in
the tree.

This patch moves the ipc structure lock initialization + locking before
the actual insertion.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reported-by: Clement Calmels <cboulte@gmail.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Julien Brunel cf7b9a1e11 drivers/video: bad error test before a dereference
The error test that follows the call to backlight_device_register semms
not to concern the right variable.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@def0@
expression x;
position p0;
@@
x@p0 = backlight_device_register(...)

@protected@
expression def0.x,E;
position def0.p0;
position p;
statement S;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
if (!IS_ERR(x) && ...) {<... x@p ...>} else S

@unprotected@
expression def0.x;
identifier fld;
position def0.p0;
position p != protected.p;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
* x@p->fld
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Henrik Rydberg 9ca791bbd4 hwmon: applesmc: Add support for iMac 6
Add temperature sensor support for iMac 6.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Tested-by: Caleb Hyde <caleb.hyde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Mike Frysinger 66359f8490 Parport driver: disable pc-style parport on Blackfin systems
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-18 08:10:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 7f0f598a00 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: hold extra reference to bio in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  relay: fix cpu offline problem
  Release old elevator on change elevator
  block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
  block/md: fix md autodetection
  block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
  block: fix add_partition() error path
2008-11-18 08:07:51 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven a6a0c4ca7e suspend: use WARN not WARN_ON to print the message
By using WARN(), kerneloops.org can collect which component is causing
the delay and make statistics about that. suspend_test_finish() is
currently the number 2 item but unless we can collect who's causing
it we're not going to be able to fix the hot topic ones..

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-18 08:07:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 72b51a6b4d Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  kernel/profile.c: fix section mismatch warning
  function tracing: fix wrong pos computing when read buffer has been fulfilled
  tracing: fix mmiotrace resizing crash
  ring-buffer: no preempt for sched_clock()
  ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
2008-11-18 08:06:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 8c60bfb066 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpuset: fix regression when failed to generate sched domains
  sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers
  sched: fix kernel warning on /proc/sched_debug access
  sched: correct sched-rt-group.txt pathname in init/Kconfig
2008-11-18 08:06:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b6584065ee Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  swiotlb: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
  MAINTAINERS: remove me as RAID maintainer
2008-11-18 08:06:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 376fdd2a5d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6:
  Blackfin arch: fix a broken define in dma-mapping
  Blackfin arch: fix bug - Turn on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT, booting SMP kernel crash
  Blackfin arch: fix bug - shared lib function in L2 failed be called
  Blackfin arch: fix incorrect limit check for bf54x check_gpio
  Blackfin arch: fix bug - Cpufreq assumes clocks in kHz and not Hz.
  Blackfin arch: dont warn when running a kernel on the oldest supported silicon
  Blackfin arch: fix bug - kernel build with write back policy fails to be booted up
  Blackfin arch: fix bug - dmacopy test case fail on all platform
  Blackfin arch: Fix typo when adding CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE
  Blackfin arch: don't copy bss when copying L1
  Blackfin arch: fix bug - Fail to boot jffs2 kernel for BF561 with SMP patch
  Blackfin arch: handle case of d_path() returning error in decode_address()
2008-11-18 08:05:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds af94ce063c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Fix resume of GPIO unsol event for STAC/IDT
  ALSA: hda - Add quirks for HP Pavilion DV models
  ALSA: hda - Fix GPIO initialization in patch_stac92hd71bxx()
  ALSA: hda - Check model type instead of SSID in patch_92hd71bxx()
  ALSA: sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr.c: introduce missing kfree and pci_disable_device
  ALSA: hda: STAC_VREF_EVENT value change
  ALSA: hda - Missing NULL check in hda_beep.c
  ALSA: hda - Add digital beep playback switch for STAC/IDT codecs
2008-11-18 08:05:05 -08:00
Jens Axboe c26156b253 block: hold extra reference to bio in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
If the size passed in is OK but we end up mapping too many segments,
we call the unmap path directly like from IO completion. But from IO
completion we have an extra reference to the bio, so this error case
goes OOPS when it attempts to free and already free bio.

Fix it by getting an extra reference to the bio before calling the
unmap failure case.

Reported-by: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan 98ba4031ab relay: fix cpu offline problem
relay_open() will close allocated buffers when failed.
but if cpu offlined, some buffer will not be closed.
this patch fixed it.

and did cleanup for relay_reset() too.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Zhaolei 68aee07f9b Release old elevator on change elevator
We should release old elevator when change to use a new one.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Zhang, Yanmin 561ec68e4d block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a
couple of machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another
HPC NX6325 notebook.  All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9.
With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, system boot doesn't fail.

I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517

As a matter of fact, there are 2 bugs.

1)root=/dev/sda1, system boot randomly fails. Mostly, boot for 5 times
and fails once. nash has a bug. Some of its functions misuse return
value 0.  Sometimes, 0 means timeout and no uevent available. Sometimes,
0 means nash gets an uevent, but the uevent isn't block-related (for
exmaple, usb). If by coincidence, kernel tells nash that uevents are
available, but kernel also set timeout, nash might stops collecting
other uevents in queue if current uevent isn't block-related.  I work
out a patch for nash to fix it.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18858

2) root=LABEL=/, system always can't boot. initrd init reports
switchroot fails. Here is an executation branch of nash when booting:
    (1) nash read /sys/block/sda/dev; Assume major is 8 (on my desktop)
    (2) nash query /proc/devices with the major number; It found line
	"8 sd";
    (3) nash use 'sd' to search its own probe table to find device (DISK)
	type for the device and add it to its own list;
    (4) Later on, it probes all devices in its list to get filesystem
	labels; scsi register "8 sd" always.

When major is 259, nash fails to find the device(DISK) type. I enables
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y when compiling kernel, so 259 is picked up
for device /dev/sda1, which causes nash to fail to find device (DISK)
type.

To fixing issue 2), I create a patch for nash and another patch for
kernel.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18859
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18837

Below is the patch for kernel 2.6.28-rc4. It registers blkext, a new
block device in proc/devices.

With 2 patches on nash and 1 patch on kernel, I boot my machines for
dozens of times without failure.

Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Tejun Heo 55e8e30c38 block/md: fix md autodetection
Block ext devt conversion missed md_autodetect_dev() call in
rescan_partitions() leaving md autodetect unable to see partitions.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00