Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what
you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and
ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual
address from there).
So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to
add a cast.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
9p: fix error path during early mount
9p: make cryptic unknown error from server less scary
9p: fix flags length in net
9p: Correct fidpool creation failure in p9_client_create
9p: use struct mutex instead of struct semaphore
9p: propagate parse_option changes to client and transports
fs/9p/v9fs.c (v9fs_parse_options): Handle kstrdup and match_strdup failure.
9p: Documentation updates
add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust
Current module loader lookups ".data.percpu" ELF section to perform
per_cpu relocation. But DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() uses another
section (".data.percpu.shared_aligned"), currently only handled in
vmlinux.lds, not by module loader.
To correct this problem, instead of adding logic into module loader, or
using at build time a module.lds file for all arches to group
".data.percpu.shared_aligned" into ".data.percpu", just use ".data.percpu"
for modules.
Alignment requirements are correctly handled by ld and module loader.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it.
Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is
done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value.
Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many
places in the tree that will be consolidated.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.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>
match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.
There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.
The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().
The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.
We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. PATH_MAX is 4096. As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.
Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct. It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Disable Virtual DMA support for now (it causes system hangs).
Thanks to TAKADA Yoshihito for the help with debugging the problem.
Reported-by: TAKADA Yoshihito <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
SELECT_MASK() can now become static.
[bart: remove space between function name and open parenthesis]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
Driver core: struct class remove children list
block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (22 commits)
USB: atmel_usba_udc fixes, mostly disconnect()
USB: pxa27x_udc: minor fixes
usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos
USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb
USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant
USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface
USB: serial gadget: descriptor cleanup
USB: serial gadget: simplify endpoint handling
USB: serial gadget: remove needless data structure
USB: serial gadget: cleanup/reorg
usb: fix compile warning in isp1760
USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in 'option' driver
USB: Fix unusual_devs.h ordering
USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem in option driver
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem
usb: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings found by sparse
USB: isp1760: fix printk format
USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to option driver
USB: add association.h
...
because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.
This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (73 commits)
net: Fix typo in net/core/sock.c.
ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device.
netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange
netfilter: ctnetlink: dump conntrack ID in event messages
irda: Fix a misalign access issue. (v2)
sctp: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
cipso: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.
tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers
tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery
New maintainer for Intel ethernet adapters
DM9000: Use delayed work to update MII PHY state
DM9000: Update and fix driver debugging messages
DM9000: Add __devinit and __devexit attributes to probe and remove
sky2: fix simple define thinko
[netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support
[netdrvr] sfc: Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX
[netdrvr] sfc: Fix code formatting
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove garbage from comment
...
Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests. In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it. Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption. There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.
To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When mm destruction happens, we should pass mm_update_next_owner() the old mm.
But unfortunately new mm is passed in exec_mmap().
Thus, kernel panic is possible when a multi-threaded process uses exec().
Also, the owner member comment description is wrong. mm->owner does not
necessarily point to the thread group leader.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Cc: "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>
This patch adds needed_headroom/needed_tailroom members to struct
net_device and updates many places that allocate sbks to use them. Not
all of them can be converted though, and I'm sure I missed some (I
mostly grepped for LL_RESERVED_SPACE)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wireless networking, particularly with MESH enabled, has
quite strong requirements for link-layer header space.
Based upon some numbers and descriptions from Johannes Berg
we use 96 (same as AX25) for plain wireless, and with
mesh enabled we use 128.
In the process, simplify the cpp conditional logic here by
ordering the cases by those needing the most space down
to those needing the least case.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Because it's not correct with a non-preemptable BKL and just causes
PREEMPT kernels to have longer latencies than non-PREEMPT ones (which is
obviously not the point of it at all).
Of course, that config option actually got removed as an option earlier,
so for now this basically disables it entirely, but if BKL preemption is
ever resurrected it will be a meaningful optimization. And in the
meantime, it at least documents the intent of the code, while not doing
the wrong thing.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should not go through the task pointer to get at the thread info,
since it's usually cheaper to just access the thread info directly.
So don't make the code look up 'current', when we can just use the
thread info accessor functions directly. This generally avoids one
level of indirection and tends to work better together with code that
also looks at other thread flags (eg preempt_count).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The syncppp layer wants a mid-level netdev private pointer.
It was using netdev->priv but that only worked by accident,
and thus this scheme was broken when the device private
allocation strategy changed.
Add a proper mid-layer private pointer for uses like this,
update syncppp and all users, and remove the HDLC_PPP broken
tag from drivers/net/wan/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c: Convert some more new-style drivers to use module aliasing
i2c: Match dummy devices by type
i2c-sibyte: Mark i2c_sibyte_add_bus() as static
i2c-sibyte: Correct a comment about frequency
i2c: Improve the functionality documentation
i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentation
i2c-piix4: Blacklist two mainboards
i2c-piix4: Increase the intitial delay for the ServerWorks CSB5
i2c-mpc: Compare to NO_IRQ instead of zero
It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get
optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.
Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of
CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit
02b67cc3ba "sched: do not do
cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT").
But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you
need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL
equivalent of that.
Also make fs/locks.c use it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As the old driver_name/type matching scheme is going away soon, change
the dummy device mechanism to use the new matching scheme.
This has the downside that dummy i2c clients can no longer choose
their name, they'll all appear as "dummy" in sysfs and in log
messages. I don't think it is a problem in practice though, as there
is little reason to use these i2c clients to log messages.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
