This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings
from userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the
final \0 after the strlen_user().
Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing
softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup
watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds
scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task.
(the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup
phase and does small style fixes)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain,
__set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference
acquired by lookup_exec_domain().
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In filesystems with the meta block group flag on, ext3_bg_num_gdb() fails
to report the correct number of blocks used to store the group descriptor
backups in a given group. It happens because meta_bg follows a different
logic from the original ext3 backup placement in groups multiples of 3, 5
and 7.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should. I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero
seconds. But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does.
Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new
it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead
of overloading the value of it_prof_expires).
Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has
expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's
zero-seconds as one second.
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Whitespace cleanups
- Make that expression comprehensible.
There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to
zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison
between raw cputime_t's.
But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change
anything.
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock.
The only possibly modular users left are:
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c
which I'll send out fixes for soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Remove more unused headers
- Remove various typedefs
- Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong)
- Kill use of bcopy
- More printk cleanups
- Kill true/false
- Clean up direct access to pci BARs
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Remove more unused headers
- Remove various typedefs
- Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong)
- Kill use of bcopy
- More printk cleanups
- Kill true/false
- Clean up direct access to pci BARs
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Final polish. There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left. We also no
longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Third large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Second large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
First large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is
fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These
patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning
up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get
removed and that causes a lot of noise.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
More header cleanups, strip out typedefs and remove cruft. There are a lot of
magic macros that can go and also a great deal of abuse of volatile that is
not needed any more as this patch set cleans up the misuse of pointer access
to ISA and PCI space.
It now builds cleanly on 64bit, although there is more work left to do
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
After the indent we can now clean up unused code, and fix all myriad cases
that don't use readb/writeb properly.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the result of indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Strip some of the typedef mess out Remove a small subset of unused defines
and the like.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit
or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case
and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On architectures like i386, the "Multimedia Capabilities Port drivers" menu is
visible, but it can't be visited since it contains nothing usable for
!ARCH_SA1100.
This patch therefore shows this menu only on ARCH_SA1100.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If we don't want sys_newfstatat because __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined, then
we certainly don't want compat_sys_newfstatat either.
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It appears that console_setup() code only gets compiled into the kernel if
CONFIG_PRINTK is enabled. One detrimental side-effect of this is that
serial8250_console_setup() never gets invoked when CONFIG_PRINTK is not
set, resulting in baud rate not being read/parsed from command line (i.e.
console=ttyS0,115200n8 is ignored, at least the baud rate part...)
Attached patch moves console_setup() code from inside
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
to outside (in printk.c), removing dependence on said config. option.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.
This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
