I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the
incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name.
Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does.
Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this
because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application
might want this behavior.
We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior.
For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new
flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new
behavior could be invoked.
I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the
parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we
get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the
syscall API?
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Recent GDT changes broke the SMP boot sequence if the booting CPU is
numbered anything other than zero. There's also a subtle source of error
in that the boot time CPU now uses cpu_gdt_table (which is actually the GDT
for booting CPUs in head.S). This patch fixes both problems by making GDT
descriptors themselves allocated from a per_cpu area and switching to them
in cpu_init(), which now means that cpu_gdt_table is exclusively used for
booting CPUs again.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix a problem seen on i686 machine with NX support where the instruction
could not be single stepped because of NX bit set on the memory pages
allocated by kprobes module. This patch provides allocation of instruction
solt so that the processor can execute the instruction from that location
similar to x86_64 architecture. Thanks to Bibo and Masami for testing this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix and update for gcc-4.0.
- arch/m32r/kernel/signal.c:
Change type of the 8th parameter of sys_rt_sigsuspend() from
'struct pt_regs' to 'struct pt_regs *'.
This functions make use of the 'regs' parameter to return status value,
but gcc-4.0 optimizes and removes it as a dead code.
Functions, sys_sigaltstack() and sys_rt_sigreturn(), have also modified.
- arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c, include/asm-m32r/uaccess.h:
Add early-clobber constraints('&') to output values of asm statements;
these constraints seems to be required for gcc-4.0 register assignment.
Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The runlatch SPR can take a lot of time to write. My original runlatch
code would set it on every exception entry even though most of the time
this was not required. It would also continually set it in the idle
loop, which is an issue on an SMT capable processor.
Now we cache the runlatch value in a threadinfo bit, and only check for
it in decrementer and hardware interrupt exceptions as well as the idle
loop. Boot on POWER3, POWER5 and iseries, and compile tested on pmac32.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
On the 83xx platform to ensure the PCI inbound memory is handled properly we
have to turn on coherency for all pages in the MMU. Otherwise we see
corruption if inbound "prefetching/streaming" is enabled on the PCI controller.
Signed-off-by: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
For kexec we need to know the size of the MMU hash table.
Currently we calculate the size once in the htab code, and then twice more in
the kexec code, once using htab_hash_mask and once using ppc64_pft_size.
On some machines the ppc64_pft_size calculation is broken because
ppc64_pft_size is not set.
So we need to fix the second calculation, but better still we should just
calculate the size once and use it everywhere else.
Tested on Power5 LPAR, Power4 non-LPAR and Power3.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We often just do an atomic_dec(&x->refcnt) on an xfrm_state object
because we know there is more than 1 reference remaining and thus
we can elide the heavier xfrm_state_put() call.
Do this behind an inline function called __xfrm_state_put() so that is
more obvious and also to allow us to more cleanly add refcount
debugging later.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patch from Andrew Victor
This patch adds the at91_set_multi_drive() function to enable/disable
the multi-drive (open collector) pin capability on the AT91RM9200
processor.
This is necessary to fix the UDC (USB Gadget) driver for the AT91RM9200
board as it will not allow the board reset line to be pulled low if the
pullup is not driven as an open collector output as the boards are wired
to the USB connector on both the DK/EK.
This version of the patch updates it to 2.6.16-rc4.
Orignal patch by Jeff Warren.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Alessandro Zummo
The I2C pin assignment for the Iomega NAS100d board was incorrect. This
patch fixes it. The correct assignment has now been tested using the
new RTC class and a new driver for the RTC on the NAS100d.
Signed-off-by: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This change reverts the 033b96fd30 commit
from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel.
Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a
new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted,
and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any
future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to
properly detect this kind of event.
A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this
interface will be removed from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It seems current get_user() incorrectly sign-extend an unsigned int
value on 64bit kernel. I think this is because '(__typeof__(val))'
cast in final assignment. I suppose the cast should be
'(__typeof__(*(addr))'.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch fixes a bug of include/asm-m32r/system.h:__cmpxchg_u32().
static __inline__ unsigned long
__cmpxchg_u32(volatile unsigned int *p, unsigned int old, unsigned int new);
In __cmpxchg_u32(), the "old" value must not be changed to the previous "*p"
value. But the former code modifies the previous "*p" value.
A deadlock at _atomic_dec_and_lock sometimes happened due to this bug.
Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Revert dasd eer module until we have a common understanding of how the
interface should be.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds
Ulrich Drepper
James Bottomley
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hirokazu Takata
Anton Blanchard
Kumar Gala
Michael Ellerman
Herbert Xu
Michal Janusz Miroslaw
Andrew Victor
Alessandro Zummo
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Russell King
Ralf Baechle
Atsushi Nemoto
Heiko Carstens