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Linus Torvalds 2d986010ad Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 2005-07-26 13:28:47 -07:00
David S. Miller 48647feed9 [W1]: Do not use NFLOG netlink number.
Use the reserved by never used NETLINK_SKIP value instead.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-24 19:30:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2c2a68b847 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-07-23 17:01:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 38afd6adf6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-07-22 16:33:00 -07:00
David S. Miller 261688d01e [PKT_SCHED]: em_meta: Kill TCF_META_ID_{INDEV,SECURITY,TCVERDICT}
More unusable TCF_META_* match types that need to get eliminated
before 2.6.13 goes out the door.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2005-07-22 14:43:52 -07:00
David S. Miller 28e212fb36 [PKT_SCHED]: Kill TCF_META_ID_REALDEV from meta ematch.
It won't exist any longer when we shrink the SKB in 2.6.14,
and we should kill this off before anyone in userspace starts
using it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2005-07-22 11:47:25 -07:00
Rusty Russell 4acdbdbe50 [NETFILTER]: ip_conntrack_expect_related must not free expectation
If a connection tracking helper tells us to expect a connection, and
we're already expecting that connection, we simply free the one they
gave us and return success.

The problem is that NAT helpers (eg. FTP) have to allocate the
expectation first (to see what port is available) then rewrite the
packet.  If that rewrite fails, they try to remove the expectation,
but it was freed in ip_conntrack_expect_related.

This is one example of a larger problem: having registered the
expectation, the pointer is no longer ours to use.  Reference counting
is needed for ctnetlink anyway, so introduce it now.

To have a single "put" path, we need to grab the reference to the
connection on creation, rather than open-coding it in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-21 13:14:46 -07:00
Victor Fusco e2bf521d97 [NET]: Fix "nocast type" warnings in skbuff.h
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>

Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18 13:36:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 23af27eb8f [PKT_SCHED]: Kill TCF_META_ID_TCCLASSID.
Thomas Graf states:

> I used to mark such ids as obsolete in the header but since
> skb is on diet anyway and there has been no official
> iproute2 release with the ematch bits included it might be
> a better idea to remove the ids from the header completely.
> Those that have picked up my patch on netdev shouldn't care
> about a ABI breakage, actually I doubt that someone is using
> it already.

So here's the patch to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18 13:34:35 -07:00
Andrey Panin fbc0dc0df5 [PATCH] Serial: Add support for SIIG Quartet serial card
Add support for SIIG Quartet Serial card.  This card has Oxford
Semiconducor 16954 quad UART which is clocked by 10x faster
(18.432 MHz) quartz.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-18 11:38:09 +01:00
Olaf Hering 6d283d2716 [PATCH] Serial: Remove linux/version.h
changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 09:59:00 +01:00
Russell King 661f83a67c [PATCH] Serial: Move deprecation of register_serial forward to September
I think it's about time to make the build a little more vocal about the
expiry of these functions.  Due to recent discussions with problems in
the console initialisation vs power manglement, I'd like to move the
date forward to September.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 09:30:53 +01:00
NeilBrown 6a806c510d [PATCH] md/raid1: clear bitmap when fullsync completes
We need to be careful differentiating between a resync of a complete array,
in which we can clear the bitmap, and a resync of a degraded array, in
which we cannot.

This patch cleans all that up.

Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
Andrew Vasquez ac96202ba0 [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add pci ids for new ISP types.
Add pci ids for new ISP types.

Move old definitions in local qla_def.h file to pci_ids.h as
well.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-07-14 10:54:20 -04:00
Martin Schwidefsky 068e1b94bb [PATCH] s390: fadvise hint values.
Add special case for the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE hint
values for s390-64.  The user space values in the s390-64 glibc headers for
these two defines have always been 6 and 7 instead of 4 and 5.  All 64 bit
applications therefore use the "wrong" values.  To get these applications
working without recompiling the kernel needs to accept the "wrong" values.
Since the values for s390-31 are 4 and 5 the compat wrapper for fadvise64
and fadvise64_64 need to rewrite the values for 31 bit system calls.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov 88bd5121d6 [PATCH] Fix soft lockup due to NTFS: VFS part and explanation
Something has changed in the core kernel such that we now get concurrent
inode write outs, one e.g via pdflush and one via sys_sync or whatever.
This causes a nasty deadlock in ntfs.  The only clean solution
unfortunately requires a minor vfs api extension.

First the deadlock analysis:

Prerequisive knowledge: NTFS has a file $MFT (inode 0) loaded at mount
time.  The NTFS driver uses the page cache for storing the file contents as
usual.  More interestingly this file contains the table of on-disk inodes
as a sequence of MFT_RECORDs.  Thus NTFS driver accesses the on-disk inodes
by accessing the MFT_RECORDs in the page cache pages of the loaded inode
$MFT.

The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty.  For same
inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk inode,
which is as explained above in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging to the
table of inodes ($MFT, inode 0).

What happens:

Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever...  calls __sync_single_inode() for
$MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for the dirty page containing the
on-disk inode X, the page is now locked -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which
clears PageUptodate() on the page to prevent anyone else getting hold of it
whilst it does the write out (this is necessary as the on-disk inode needs
"fixups" applied before the write to disk which are removed again after the
write and PageUptodate is then set again).  It then analyses the page
looking for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this on-disk
inode.  This then calls ilookup5() to check if the corresponding VFS inode
is in icache().  This in turn calls ifind() which waits on the inode lock
via wait_on_inode whilst holding the global inode_lock.

Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the same
VFS inode X on the ntfs volume.  This locks the inode (I_LOCK) then calls
write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() -> read_cache_page() of
the page (in page cache of table of inodes $MFT, inode 0) containing the
on-disk inode.  This page has PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1
(see above) so read_cache_page() blocks when tries to take the page lock
for the page so it can call ntfs_read_page().

Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the on-disk
inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in ifind() so it
can write the page out and then unlock the page.

And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for the
page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover that
Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.

Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.

The only sensible solution: NTFS does not care whether the VFS inode is
locked or not when it calls ilookup5() (it doesn't use the VFS inode at
all, it just uses it to find the corresponding ntfs_inode which is of
course attached to the VFS inode (both are one single struct); and it uses
the ntfs_inode which is subject to its own locking so I_LOCK is irrelevant)
hence we want a modified ilookup5_nowait() which is the same as ilookup5()
but it does not wait on the inode lock.

Without such functionality I would have to keep my own ntfs_inode cache in
the NTFS driver just so I can find ntfs_inodes independent of their VFS
inodes which would be slow, memory and cpu cycle wasting, and incredibly
stupid given the icache already exists in the VFS.

Below is a patch that does the ilookup5_nowait() implementation in
fs/inode.c and exports it.

ilookup5_nowait.diff:

Introduce ilookup5_nowait() which is basically the same as ilookup5() but
it does not wait on the inode's lock (i.e. it omits the wait_on_inode()
done in ifind()).

This is needed to avoid a nasty deadlock in NTFS.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Robert Love 5995f16b4a [PATCH] inotify: event ordering
This rearranges the event ordering for "open" to be consistent with the
ordering of the other events.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
Robert Love 0399cb08c5 [PATCH] inotify: move sysctl
This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from
"/proc/sys/fs".  Also some related cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
Robert Love 0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bd4c625c06 reiserfs: run scripts/Lindent on reiserfs code
This was a pure indentation change, using:

	scripts/Lindent fs/reiserfs/*.c include/linux/reiserfs_*.h

to make reiserfs match the regular Linux indentation style.  As Jeff
Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> writes:

 The ReiserFS code is a mix of a number of different coding styles, sometimes
 different even from line-to-line. Since the code has been relatively stable
 for quite some time and there are few outstanding patches to be applied, it
 is time to reformat the code to conform to the Linux style standard outlined
 in Documentation/CodingStyle.

 This patch contains the result of running scripts/Lindent against
 fs/reiserfs/*.c and include/linux/reiserfs_*.h. There are places where the
 code can be made to look better, but I'd rather keep those patches separate
 so that there isn't a subtle by-hand hand accident in the middle of a huge
 patch. To be clear: This patch is reformatting *only*.

 A number of patches may follow that continue to make the code more consistent
 with the Linux coding style.

 Hans wasn't particularly enthusiastic about these patches, but said he
 wouldn't really oppose them either.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:21:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3f603ed319 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6 2005-07-12 16:04:50 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 67bc4eb0b1 [PATCH] hardirq uses preempt
hardirq.h uses preempt_count() from preempt.h

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:03 -07:00
Andrew Morton 542d1c88bd [PATCH] tlb.h warning fix
free_pages_and_swap_cache() and free_page_and_swap_cache() use release_pages()
and page_cache_release() respectively, so make sure that we have the
declarations in scope.

Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:02 -07:00
Jan Kara 08c6a96fd7 [PATCH] ext3: fix options parsing
Fix a problem with ext3 mount option parsing.  When remount of a filesystem
fails, old options are now restored.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:01 -07:00
Andrew Morton d53d9f16ea [PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fix
kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope.  mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:00:58 -07:00
Len Brown 5028770a42 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 9ffc7a0ebf Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-07-12 13:16:40 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan ab611487d8 [NET]: __be'ify *_type_trans()
tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-12 12:08:43 -07:00
david-b@pacbell.net 00ab997dd2 [PATCH] USB: another cdc descriptor
This adds another CDC descriptor type to <linux/usb_cdc.h>; the main claim
to fame for this is that some Motorola phones include it.  It's not currently
needed by any driver code; included for completeness.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-12 11:52:57 -07:00
Olav Kongas 5db539e49f [PATCH] USB: Fix kmalloc's flags type in USB
Greg,

This patch fixes the kmalloc() flags argument type in USB
subsystem; hopefully all of its occurences. The patch was
made against patch-2.6.12-git2 from Jun 20.

Cleanup of flags for kmalloc() in USB subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-12 11:52:56 -07:00
David Shaohua Li c9c3e457de [ACPI] PNPACPI vs sound IRQ
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4016

Written-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12 00:03:30 -04:00
Ashok Raj 55e59c511c [ACPI] Evaluate CPEI Processor Override flag
ACPI 3.0 added a Correctable Platform Error Interrupt (CPEI)
Processor Overide flag to MADT.Platform_Interrupt_Source.
Record the processor that was provided as hint from ACPI.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12 00:01:41 -04:00
David Shaohua Li 4e10d12a3d [ACPI] Bind PCI devices with ACPI devices
Implement the framework for binding physical devices
with ACPI devices. A physical bus like PCI bus
should create a 'acpi_bus_type', with:

.find_device:
        For device which has parent such as normal PCI devices.

.find_bridge:
        It's for special devices, such as PCI root bridge
	or IDE controller.  Such devices generally haven't a
	parent or ->bus. We use the special method
	to get an ACPI handle.

Uses new field in struct device: firmware_data

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4277

Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11 23:28:24 -04:00
Alexey Starikovskiy e2a5b420f7 [ACPI] ACPI poweroff fix
Register an "acpi" system device to be notified of shutdown preparation.
This depends on CONFIG_PM

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11 23:20:49 -04:00
David S. Miller 63522f7fdb [NETLINK]: Reserve NETLINK_NETFILTER.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-11 14:29:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 200d481f28 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6 2005-07-11 10:18:18 -07:00
David S. Miller f7ceba360c [SPARC64]: Add syscall auditing support.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-10 19:29:45 -07:00
David S. Miller d369ddd2fc [SPARC64]: Add __read_mostly support.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-10 15:45:11 -07:00
David L Stevens ca9b907d14 [IPV4]: multicast API "join" issues
This patch corrects a few problems with the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP
socket option:

1) The existing code makes an attempt at reference counting joins when
   using the ip_mreqn/imr_ifindex interface. Joining the same group
   on the same socket is an error, whatever the API. This leads to
   unexpected results when mixing ip_mreqn by index with ip_mreqn by
   address, ip_mreq, or other API's. For example, ip_mreq followed by
   ip_mreqn of the same group will "work" while the same two reversed
   will not.
           Fixed to always return EADDRINUSE on a duplicate join and
   removed the (now unused) reference count in ip_mc_socklist.

2) The group-search list in ip_mc_join_group() is comparing a full 
   ip_mreqn structure and all of it must match for it to find the
   group. This doesn't correctly match a group that was joined with
   ip_mreq or ip_mreqn with an address (with or without an index). It
   also doesn't match groups that are joined by different addresses on
   the same interface. All of these are the same multicast group,
   which is identified by group address and interface index.
           Fixed the check to correctly match groups so we don't get
   duplicate group entries on the ip_mc_socklist.

3) The old code allocates a multicast address before searching for
   duplicates requiring it to free in various error cases. This
   patch moves the allocate until after the search and
   igmp_max_memberships check, so never a need to allocate, then free
   an entry.

Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-08 17:38:07 -07:00
Victor Fusco 86a76caf87 [NET]: Fix sparse warnings
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>

Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-08 14:57:47 -07:00
NeilBrown 4c4cd222ee [PATCH] nfsd4: check lock type against openmode.
We shouldn't be allowing, e.g., write locks on files not open for read.  To
enforce this, we add a pointer from the lock stateid back to the open stateid
it came from, so that the check will continue to be correct even after the
open is upgraded or downgraded.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:11 -07:00
NeilBrown b700949b78 [PATCH] nfsd4: return better error on io incompatible with open mode
from RFC 3530:
"Share reservations are established by OPEN operations and by their
nature are mandatory in that when the OPEN denies READ or WRITE
operations, that denial results in such operations being rejected
with error NFS4ERR_LOCKED."

(Note that share_denied is really only a legal error for OPEN.)

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:09 -07:00
NeilBrown 7fb64cee34 [PATCH] nfsd4: seqid comments
Add some comments on the use of so_seqid, in an attempt to avoid some of the
confusion outlined in the previous patch....

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:09 -07:00
NeilBrown a6ccbbb886 [PATCH] nfsd4: fix sync'ing of recovery directory
We need to fsync the recovery directory after writing to it, but we weren't
doing this correctly.  (For example, we weren't taking the i_sem when calling
->fsync().)

Just reuse the existing nfsd fsync code instead.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:07 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 751c404b8f [PATCH] namespace: rename _mntput to mntput_no_expire
This patch renames _mntput() to something a little more descriptive:
mntput_no_expire().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 55e700b924 [PATCH] namespace: rename mnt_fslink to mnt_expire
This patch renames vfsmount->mnt_fslink to something a little more
descriptive: vfsmount->mnt_expire.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 1ce88cf466 [PATCH] namespace.c: fix race in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
This patch fixes a race found by Ram in mark_mounts_for_expiry() in
fs/namespace.c.

The bug can only be triggered with simultaneous exiting of a process having
a private namespace, and expiry of a mount from within that namespace.
It's practically impossible to trigger, and I haven't even tried.  But
still, a bug is a bug.

The race happens when put_namespace() is called by another task, while
mark_mounts_for_expiry() is between atomic_read() and get_namespace().  In
that case get_namespace() will be called on an already dead namespace with
unforeseeable results.

The solution was suggested by Al Viro, with his own words:

      Instead of screwing with atomic_read() in there, why don't we
      simply do the following:
      	a) atomic_dec_and_lock() in put_namespace()
      	b) __put_namespace() called without dropping lock
      	c) the first thing done by __put_namespace would be
      struct vfsmount *root = namespace->root;
      namespace->root = NULL;
      spin_unlock(...);
      ....
      umount_tree(root);
      ...
      	d) check in mark_... would be simply namespace && namespace->root.

      And we are all set; no screwing around with atomic_read(), no magic
      at all.  Dying namespace gets NULL ->root.
      All changes of ->root happen under spinlock.
      If under a spinlock we see non-NULL ->mnt_namespace, it won't be
      freed until we drop the lock (we will set ->mnt_namespace to NULL
      under that lock before we get to freeing namespace).
      If under a spinlock we see non-NULL ->mnt_namespace and
      ->mnt_namespace->root, we can grab a reference to namespace and be
      sure that it won't go away.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:51 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 6c036527a6 [PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 0db925af1d [PATCH] propagate __nocast annotations
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
Nick Piggin a39722034a [PATCH] page_uptodate locking scalability
Use a bit spin lock in the first buffer of the page to synchronise asynch
IO buffer completions, instead of the global page_uptodate_lock, which is
showing some scalabilty problems.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:45 -07:00