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Johannes Weiner 23751be009 memcg: fix hierarchical oom locking
Commit 79dfdaccd1 ("memcg: make oom_lock 0 and 1 based rather than
counter") tried to oom lock the hierarchy and roll back upon
encountering an already locked memcg.

The code is confused when it comes to detecting a locked memcg, though,
so it would fail and rollback after locking one memcg and encountering
an unlocked second one.

The result is that oom-locking hierarchies fails unconditionally and
that every oom killer invocation simply goes to sleep on the oom
waitqueue forever.  The tasks practically hang forever without anyone
intervening, possibly holding locks that trip up unrelated tasks, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Axel Lin 86383b5579 leds: add missing include of linux/module.h
Add missing include of linux/module.h for drivers that use interfaces from
linux/module.h.  This patch fixes build errors.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Acked-by: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Axel Lin 15b1a8f2b9 drivers/video/backlight/ep93xx_bl.c: add missing include of linux/module.h
ep93xx_bl.c uses interfaces from linux/module.h, so it should include
that file.  This patch fixes build errors:

    CC [M]  drivers/video/backlight/ep93xx_bl.o
  drivers/video/backlight/ep93xx_bl.c:138: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function)
  drivers/video/backlight/ep93xx_bl.c:158: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
  drivers/video/backlight/ep93xx_bl.c:158: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
  ...

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Alexandre Bounine 284fb68d00 rapidio: fix use of non-compatible registers
Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not
forward-compatible with newer versions of RapidIO specification.

RapidIO specification v.1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR,
Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR.

Use of removed (since RIO v.1.3) register bits affects users of
currently available 1.3 and 2.x compliant devices who may use not so
recent kernel versions.

Removing checks for unsupported bits makes corresponding routines
compatible with all versions of RapidIO specification.  Therefore,
backporting makes stable kernel versions compliant with RIO v.1.3 and
later as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com>
Cc: Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Shaohua Li 439423f689 vmscan: clear ZONE_CONGESTED for zone with good watermark
ZONE_CONGESTED is only cleared in kswapd, but pages can be freed in any
task.  It's possible ZONE_CONGESTED isn't cleared in some cases:

 1. the zone is already balanced just entering balance_pgdat() for
    order-0 because concurrent tasks free memory.  In this case, later
    check will skip the zone as it's balanced so the flag isn't cleared.

 2. high order balance fallbacks to order-0.  quote from Mel: At the
    end of balance_pgdat(), kswapd uses the following logic;

	If reclaiming at high order {
		for each zone {
			if all_unreclaimable
				skip
			if watermark is not met
				order = 0
				loop again

			/* watermark is met */
			clear congested
		}
	}

    i.e. it clears ZONE_CONGESTED if it the zone is balanced.  if not,
    it restarts balancing at order-0.  However, if the higher zones are
    balanced for order-0, kswapd will miss clearing ZONE_CONGESTED as
    that only happens after a zone is shrunk.  This can mean that
    wait_iff_congested() stalls unnecessarily.

This patch makes kswapd clear ZONE_CONGESTED during its initial
highmem->dma scan for zones that are already balanced.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 4c30c6f566 kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootcon
It seems that 7bf693951a ("console: allow to retain boot console via
boot option keep_bootcon") doesn't always achieve what it aims, as when
printk_late_init() runs it unconditionally turns off all boot consoles.
With this patch, I am able to see more messages on the boot console in
KVM guests than I can without, when keep_bootcon is specified.

I think it is appropriate for the relevant -stable trees.  However, it's
more of an annoyance than a serious bug (ideally you don't need to keep
the boot console around as console handover should be working -- I was
encountering a situation where the console handover wasn't working and
not having the boot console available meant I couldn't see why).

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.39.x, 3.0.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Wanlong Gao 47331231bb MAINTAINERS: Paul Menage has moved
Paul said: I left Google at the end of last week - if it's not bouncing
already, menage@google.com isn't going to work for much longer.

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Shaohua Li f51bdd2e97 mm: fix a vmscan warning
I get the below warning:

  BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: bash/746
  caller is native_sched_clock+0x37/0x6e
  Pid: 746, comm: bash Tainted: G        W   3.0.0+ #254
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff813435c6>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xc2/0xdc
   [<ffffffff8104158d>] native_sched_clock+0x37/0x6e
   [<ffffffff81116219>] try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0x7d/0x270
   [<ffffffff8114f1f8>] mem_cgroup_force_empty+0x24b/0x27a
   [<ffffffff8114ff21>] ? sys_close+0x38/0x138
   [<ffffffff8114ff21>] ? sys_close+0x38/0x138
   [<ffffffff8114f257>] mem_cgroup_force_empty_write+0x17/0x19
   [<ffffffff810c72fb>] cgroup_file_write+0xa8/0xba
   [<ffffffff811522d2>] vfs_write+0xb3/0x138
   [<ffffffff8115241a>] sys_write+0x4a/0x71
   [<ffffffff8114ffd9>] ? sys_close+0xf0/0x138
   [<ffffffff8176deab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

sched_clock() can't be used with preempt enabled.  And we don't need
fast approach to get clock here, so let's use ktime API.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Thomas Meyer 7e8aa04898 drivers/char/msm_smd_pkt.c: don't use IS_ERR()
The various basic memory allocation function return NULL, not an
ERR_PTR.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available in
scripts/coccinelle/null/eno.cocci.

More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Niranjana Vishwanathapura <nvishwan@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Hui Zhu 30ecad5184 checkpatch: add missing WARN argument for min_t and max_t tests
The test for bad usage of min_t() and max_t() is missing the --ignore
type.  Add it.

Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Ralf Thielow 3d1c2f72a9 scripts/get_maintainer.pl: update Linus's git repository
Change to new git tree -
(git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git).

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@googlemail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 5af12d0efd memcg: pin execution to current cpu while draining stock
Commit d1a05b6973 ("memcg do not try to drain per-cpu caches without
pages") added a drain_local_stock() call to a preemptible section.

The draining task looks up the cpu-local stock twice to set the
draining-flag, then to drain the stock and clear the flag again.  If the
task is migrated to a different CPU in between, noone will clear the
flag on the first stock and it will be forever undrainable.  Its charge
can not be recovered and the cgroup can not be deleted anymore.

Properly pin the task to the executing CPU while draining stocks.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov a801876638 MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Dan Carpenter 5829944925 w1: fix for loop in w1_f29_remove_slave()
The for loop was looking for i <= 0 instead of i >= 0 so this function
never did anything.  Also we started with i = NB_SYSFS_BIN_FILES instead
of "NB_SYSFS_BIN_FILES - 1" which is an off by one bug.

Reported-by: Bojan Prtvar <prtvar.b@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Franois Dagenais <dagenaisj@sonatest.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Sergei Trofimovich 2df7a7d1cd alpha: unbreak osf_setsysinfo(SSI_NVPAIRS, [SSIN_UACPROC, UAC_SIGBUS])
The bug was accidentally found by the following program:

    #include <asm/sysinfo.h>
    #include <asm/unistd.h>
    #include <sys/syscall.h>
    static int setsysinfo(unsigned long op, void *buffer, unsigned long size,
                          int *start, void *arg, unsigned long flag) {
        return syscall(__NR_osf_setsysinfo, op, buffer, size, start, arg, flag);
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv) {
        short x[10];
        unsigned int buf[2] = { SSIN_UACPROC, UAC_SIGBUS, };
        setsysinfo(SSI_NVPAIRS, buf, 1, 0, 0, 0);

        int  *y = (int*) (x+1);
        *y = 0;
        return 0;
    }

The program shoud fail on SIGBUS, but didn't.

The patch is a second part of userspace flag fix (commit 745dd2405e
"Alpha: Rearrange thread info flags fixing two regressions").

Deleted outdated out-of-sync 'UAC_SHIFT' (the cause of bug) in favour of
'ALPHA_UAC_SHIFT'.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Sergei Trofimovich 06ed4625fd drivers/misc/pti.c: add missing includes
Found on allmodconfig build (ARCH=alpha)

    drivers/misc/pti.c: In function 'get_id':
    drivers/misc/pti.c:249: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmalloc'
    drivers/misc/pti.c: In function 'pti_char_write':
    drivers/misc/pti.c:658: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_from_user'

Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Rocher <rocher.jeremy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski b4ca46e4e8 x86-32: Fix boot with CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG
entry_32.S contained a hardcoded alternative instruction entry, and the
format changed in commit 59e97e4d6f ("x86: Make alternative
instruction pointers relative").

Replace the hardcoded entry with the altinstruction_entry macro.  This
fixes the 32-bit boot with CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG=y.

Reported-and-tested-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 13:27:14 -07:00
Thomas Jarosch 0de3b48569 drm/i915: Fix wrong initializer for "locked" variable in assert_panel_unlocked
Otherwise it just contains random memory.

Issue detected by cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
2011-08-25 11:21:20 -07:00
Tejun Heo cbbfa38fcb mtrr: fix UP breakage caused during switch to stop_machine
While removing custom rendezvous code and switching to stop_machine,
commit 192d885742 ("x86, mtrr: use stop_machine APIs for doing MTRR
rendezvous") completely dropped mtrr setting code on !CONFIG_SMP
breaking MTRR settting on UP.

Fix it by removing the incorrect CONFIG_SMP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@fastmail.fm>
Tested-and-acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 11:02:29 -07:00
Josh Boyer e096d0c7e2 lockdep: Add helper function for dir vs file i_mutex annotation
Purely in-memory filesystems do not use the inode hash as the dcache
tells us if an entry already exists.  As a result, they do not call
unlock_new_inode, and thus directory inodes do not get put into a
different lockdep class for i_sem.

We need the different lockdep classes, because the locking order for
i_mutex is different for directory inodes and regular inodes.  Directory
inodes can do "readdir()", which takes i_mutex *before* possibly taking
mm->mmap_sem (due to a page fault while copying the directory entry to
user space).

In contrast, regular inodes can be mmap'ed, which takes mm->mmap_sem
before accessing i_mutex.

The two cases can never happen for the same inode, so no real deadlock
can occur, but without the different lockdep classes, lockdep cannot
understand that.  As a result, if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set, this
can lead to false positives from lockdep like below:

    find/645 is trying to acquire lock:
     (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff81109514>] might_fault+0x5c/0xac

    but task is already holding lock:
     (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81149f34>]
    vfs_readdir+0x5b/0xb4

    which lock already depends on the new lock.

    the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

    -> #1 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.+.}:
          [<ffffffff8108ac26>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0x103
          [<ffffffff814db822>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4c/0x361
          [<ffffffff814dbc46>] mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x45
          [<ffffffff811daa87>] hugetlbfs_file_mmap+0x82/0x110
          [<ffffffff81111557>] mmap_region+0x258/0x432
          [<ffffffff811119dd>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ac/0x306
          [<ffffffff81111b4f>] sys_mmap_pgoff+0x118/0x16a
          [<ffffffff8100c858>] sys_mmap+0x22/0x24
          [<ffffffff814e3ec2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

    -> #0 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}:
          [<ffffffff8108a4bc>] __lock_acquire+0xa1a/0xcf7
          [<ffffffff8108ac26>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0x103
          [<ffffffff81109541>] might_fault+0x89/0xac
          [<ffffffff81149cff>] filldir+0x6f/0xc7
          [<ffffffff811586ea>] dcache_readdir+0x67/0x205
          [<ffffffff81149f54>] vfs_readdir+0x7b/0xb4
          [<ffffffff8114a073>] sys_getdents+0x7e/0xd1
          [<ffffffff814e3ec2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This patch moves the directory vs file lockdep annotation into a helper
function that can be called by in-memory filesystems and has hugetlbfs
call it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 10:50:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e33f2d238e Merge branch 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback
* 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback:
  squeeze max-pause area and drop pass-good area
2011-08-25 10:40:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds be5378f3ba Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/cpupowerutils
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/cpupowerutils:
  cpupower: use man(1) when calling "cpupower help subcommand"
  cpupower: make NLS truly optional
  cpupower: fix Makefile typo
  cpupower: Make monitor command -c/--cpu aware
  cpupower: Better detect offlined CPUs
  cpupower: Do not show an empty Idle_Stats monitor if no idle driver is available
  cpupower: mperf monitor - Use TSC to calculate max frequency if possible
  cpupower: avoid using symlinks
2011-08-25 10:32:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e5b1d9cc1d Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging:
  hwmon: (i5k_amb) Drop i5k_channel_pci_id
  hwmon: (ntc_thermistor) Simplify if sequence
2011-08-25 10:31:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f385b6974b Merge branch '3.1-rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending
* '3.1-rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (21 commits)
  target: Convert acl_node_lock to be IRQ-disabling
  target: Make locking in transport_deregister_session() IRQ safe
  tcm_fc: init/exit functions should not be protected by "#ifdef MODULE"
  target: Print subpage too for unhandled MODE SENSE pages
  iscsi-target: Fix iscsit_allocate_se_cmd_for_tmr failure path bugs
  iscsi-target: Implement iSCSI target IPv6 address printing.
  target: Fix task SGL chaining breakage with transport_allocate_data_tasks
  target: Fix task count > 1 handling breakage and use max_sector page alignment
  target: Add missing DATA_SG_IO transport_cmd_get_valid_sectors check
  target: Fix SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE zero LBA + range breakage
  target: Remove duplicate task completions in transport_emulate_control_cdb
  target: Fix WRITE_SAME usage with transport_get_size
  target: Add WRITE_SAME (10) parsing and refactor passthrough checks
  target: Fix write payload exception handling with ->new_cmd_map
  iscsi-target: forever loop bug in iscsit_attach_ooo_cmdsn()
  iscsi-target: remove duplicate return
  target: Convert target_core_rd.c to use use BUG_ON
  iscsi-target: Fix leak on failure in iscsi_copy_param_list()
  target: Use ERR_CAST inlined function
  target: Make standard INQUIRY return 'not connected' for tpg_virt_lun0
  ...
2011-08-25 10:30:51 -07:00
Andi Kleen be27425dcc Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.

For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.

  $ uname -a
  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  $ hpacucli ctrl all show

  Error: No controllers detected.

  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
  hpacucli-8.75-12.0

Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
sys.platform() == "linux2":

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
programs.

This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.

I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
compatibility to existing programs is important.

Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)

To use:

  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
  ./uname26 program

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 10:17:28 -07:00