This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in the
IPX code with lock_sock. As far as I can tell, this
is safe to do, because there is no global state
that needs to be locked in IPX, and the code does
not recursively take the lock or sleep indefinitely
while holding it.
Compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
This changes appletalk to use lock_sock instead of
lock_kernel for serialization. I tried to make sure
that we don't hold the socket lock during sleeping
functions, but I did not try to prove whether the
locks are necessary in the first place.
Compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in x25
with lock_sock, taking care to release the socket
lock around sleeping functions (sock_alloc_send_skb
and skb_recv_datagram). It is not clear whether
this is a correct solution, but it seem to be what
other protocols do in the same situation.
Includes a fix suggested by Eric Dumazet.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-x25@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
This introduces a new per-superblock mutex in UFS to replace
the big kernel lock. I have been careful to avoid nested
calls to lock_ufs and to get the lock order right with
respect to other mutexes, in particular lock_super.
I did not make any attempt to prove that the big kernel
lock is not needed in a particular place in the code,
which is very possible.
The mutex has a significant performance impact, so it is only
used on SMP or PREEMPT configurations.
As Nick Piggin noticed, any allocation inside of the lock
may end up deadlocking when we get to ufs_getfrag_block
in the reclaim task, so we now use GFP_NOFS.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
This removes the BKL in hpfs in a rather awful
way, by making the code only work on uniprocessor
systems without kernel preemption, as suggested
by Andi Kleen.
The HPFS code probably has close to zero remaining
users on current kernels, all archeological uses of
the file system can probably be done with the significant
restrictions.
The hpfs_lock/hpfs_unlock functions are left in the
code, sincen Mikulas has indicated that he is still
interested in fixing it in a better way.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
These were missed the last time I cleaned this up
globally, because of code moving around or new code
getting merged.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
According to Russell King, adfs was written to not require the big
kernel lock, and all inode updates are done under adfs_dir_lock.
All other metadata in adfs is read-only and does not require locking.
The use of the BKL is the result of various pushdowns from the VFS
operations.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stuart Swales <stuart.swales.croftnuisk@gmail.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6:
eCryptfs: Copy up lower inode attrs in getattr
ecryptfs: read on a directory should return EISDIR if not supported
eCryptfs: Handle NULL nameidata pointers
eCryptfs: Revert "dont call lookup_one_len to avoid NULL nameidata"
The current code does not follow Intel documentation: It misses some things
and does other, undocumented things. This causes wrong backlight values in
certain conditions. Instead of adding tricky code handling badly documented
and rare corner cases, don't handle combination mode specially at all. This
way PCI_LBPC is never touched and weird things shouldn't happen.
If combination mode is enabled, then the only downside is that changing the
brightness has a greater granularity (the LBPC value), but LBPC is at most
254 and the maximum is in the thousands, so this is no real functional loss.
A potential problem with not handling combined mode is that a brightness of
max * PCI_LBPC is not bright enough. However, this is very unlikely because
from the documentation LBPC seems to act as a scaling factor and doesn't look
like it's supposed to be changed after boot. The value at boot should always
result in a bright enough screen.
IMPORTANT: However, although usually the above is true, it may not be when
people ran an older (2.6.37) kernel which messed up the LBPC register, and
they are unlucky enough to have a BIOS that saves and restores the LBPC value.
Then a good kernel may seem to not work: Max brightness isn't bright enough.
If this happens people should boot back into the old kernel, set brightness
to the maximum, and then reboot. After that everything should be fine.
For more information see the below links. This fixes bugs:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23472http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25072
Signed-off-by: Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>
Tested-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We force particular alignment when we generate attribute structures
when generation MODULE_VERSION() data and we need to make sure that
this alignment is followed when we iterate over these structures,
otherwise we may crash on platforms whose natural alignment is not
sizeof(void *), such as m68k.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
[ There are more issues here, but the fixes are incredibly ugly - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The '[KMG]' suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
parameter values documentation. Explicitly state its semantics.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: 6745/1: kprobes insn decoding fix
ARM: tlb: move noMMU tlb_flush() to asm/tlb.h
ARM: tlb: delay page freeing for SMP and ARMv7 CPUs
ARM: Keep exit text/data around for SMP_ON_UP
ARM: Ensure predictable endian state on signal handler entry
ARM: 6740/1: Place correctly notes section in the linker script
ARM: 6700/1: SPEAr: Correct SOC config base address for spear320
ARM: 6722/1: SPEAr: sp810: switch to slow mode before reset
ARM: 6712/1: SPEAr: replace readl(), writel() with relaxed versions in uncompress.h
ARM: 6720/1: SPEAr: Append UL to VMALLOC_END
ARM: 6676/1: Correct the cpu_architecture() function for ARMv7
ARM: 6739/1: update .gitignore for boot/compressed
ARM: 6743/1: errata: interrupted ICALLUIS may prevent completion of broadcasted operation
ARM: 6742/1: pmu: avoid setting IRQ affinity on UP systems
ARM: 6741/1: errata: pl310 cache sync operation may be faulty
It is found on Dell Inspiron 1018 that the firmware reports that the hardware
killswitch is not supported. This makes the rfkill key not functional.
This patch forces the driver to toggle the firmware rfkill status in the case
that the hardware killswitch is indicated as unsupported by the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Arnd Bergmann
Linus Torvalds
Indan Zupancic
Dmitry Torokhov
Randy Dunlap
Ahmed S. Darwish
Steve French
Keng-Yu Lin