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Zhang, Yanmin 9f271d576a ATA convert GSI to irq on ia64
If an ATA drive uses legacy mode, ata driver will choose 14 and 15
as the fixed irq number. On ia64 platform, such numbers are GSI and
should be converted to irq vector.

Below patch against kernel 2.6.20 fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-15 18:04:53 -05:00
Tejun Heo 81afe89318 libata: clear TF before IDENTIFYing
Some devices chock if Feature is not clear when IDENTIFY is issued.
Set ATA_TFLAG_ISADDR | ATA_TFLAG_DEVICE for IDENTIFY such that whole
TF is cleared when reading ID data.

Kudos to Art Haas for testing various futile patches over several
months and Mark Lord for pointing out the fix.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
Cc: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-15 18:04:01 -05:00
Alan Cox f834e49f1a libata: Add a host flag to indicate lack of IORDY capability
This is the first preparation to doing the !IORDY cases properly.  Further
diffs will then add the needed logic to do it right.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-15 18:04:01 -05:00
Tejun Heo 61f216c719 libata: fix drive side 80c cable check, take 3
The 80c wire bit is bit 13, not 14.  Bit 14 is always 1 if word93 is
implemented.  This increases the chance of incorrect wire detection
especially because host side cable detection is often unreliable and
we sometimes soley depend on drive side cable detection.  Fix the test
and add word93 validity check.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-15 18:04:01 -05:00
Mikael Pettersson 5387373bfe sata_promise: new EH conversion for 20619 chips, take 2
This patch updates the sata_promise driver to use new-style
libata error handling for 20619 (TX4000) chips. sata_promise
already uses new EH for the other chips it supports, so the
patch is quite simple:

* remove ->phy_reset and ->eng_timeout ops from pdc_pata_ops,
  and instead bind ->freeze, ->thaw, ->error_handler, and
  ->post_internal_cmd to existing new EH functions
* drop ATA_FLAG_SRST from board_20619's flags
* remove now unused pdc_pata_phy_reset() and pdc_eng_timeout()

Tested on a TX4000 with both modern working disks and old/quirky
disks. Also used a CD-RW drive to test reading and writing CDs.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-15 18:04:00 -05:00
Mikael Pettersson 2fb8b49fb2 sata_promise: fix missing PATA cable detection
This patch fixes an oversight which caused sata_promise to
not perform cable detection on the TX2plus chips' PATA ports.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-15 18:04:00 -05:00
Alexey Starikovskiy 5f7748cf91 Execute AML Notify() requests on stack.
HP nx6125/nx6325/... machines have a _GPE handler with an infinite
loop sending Notify() events to different ACPI subsystems.

The notify handler in the ACPI thermal driver is a C-routine,
which may invoke the ACPI interpreter again to get access
to some ACPI variables such as temperature.  (acpi_evaluate_xxx)
On these HP machines such an evaluation changes state of an ASL variable
and lets the loop above break.

In the current ACPI implementation, Notify requests are being deferred
to the same kacpid workqueue on which the above GPE handler with
infinite loop is executing. Thus we have a deadlock -- loop will
continue to spin, sending notify events, and at the same time
preventing these notify events from being run on a workqueue. All
notify events are deferred, thus we see explosion in memory consumption.

Also as GPE handling is blocked, machines overheat because ACPI-based
fan control is stalled.  Eventually by external poll of the same
acpi_evaluate, kacpid is released and all the queued notify events are
free to run, thus 100% CPU utilization by kacpid for several seconds
or more.

To prevent this failure,  Linux must not send notify events to the
kacpid workqueue -- either executing them immediately or putting them
on some other thread.

The first attempt to create a new thread was done by Peter Wainwright
He created a bunch of threads, which were stealing work from a kacpid
workqueue.
This patch appeared in 2.6.15-based kernel shipped with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Second attempt was done by Alexey Starikovskiy, who created a new thread
for each Notify event. This worked OK on HP nx machines,
but broke Linus' Compaq n620c, by producing threads with a speed what
they stopped the machine completely.
Thus this patch was reverted from 2.6.18-rc2.

Alexey re-made the patch to create second workqueue just for notify events,
thus hopping it will not break Linus' machine. Patch was tested on the
same HP nx machines in #5534 and #7122, but this broke Linus' machine
also and was reverted from 2.6.19-rc with much fanfair.

The 4th patch inserted schedule_timeout(1) into deferred
execution of kacpid, if we had any notify requests pending, but Linus
decided that it was too complex (involved either changes to workqueue
to see if it's empty or atomic inc/dec).  Then a 5th attempt did a
yield() to every GPE execution.

Finally, this 6th generation patch simply executes the notify handler
on the stack.  Previous attempts to do this simple solution failed
because of issues in AML mutex re-entrancy which are now fixed
by the previous patch in this series.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-02-15 16:13:51 -05:00
Alexey Starikovskiy c0d127b569 ACPICA: fix AML mutex re-entrancy
ACPI AML supports "serialized" methods which are protected
by an implicit mutex.  The mutex is re-entrant for that AML thread
to allow recursion.

However, Linux implements notify() by creating a new AML thread.
So for systems where notify() re-enters a serialized method,
deadlock results.

The fix is to use the Linux thread_id as the key to allowing
re-entrancy, not the AML thread pointer.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-02-15 16:13:16 -05:00
Linus Torvalds f99c6bb6e2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (35 commits)
  sh: rts7751r2d board updates.
  sh: Kill off dead bigsur and ec3104 boards.
  sh: Fixup r7780rp pata_platform for devres conversion.
  sh: Revert TLB miss fast-path changes that broke PTEA parts.
  sh: Compile fix for heartbeat consolidation.
  sh: heartbeat consolidation for banked LEDs.
  sh: define dma noncoherent API functions.
  sh: Missing flush_dcache_all() proto in cacheflush.h.
  sh: Kill dead/unused ISA code from __ioremap().
  sh: Add cpu-features header to asm/Kbuild.
  sh: Move __KERNEL__ up in asm/page.h.
  sh: Fix syscall numbering breakage.
  sh: dcache write-back for R7780RP PIO.
  sh: Switch to local TLB flush variants in additional callsites.
  sh: Local TLB flushing variants for SMP prep.
  sh: Fixup cpu_data references for the non-boot CPUs.
  sh: Use a per-cpu ASID cache.
  sh: add SH_CLK_MD Kconfig default.
  sh: Fixup SHMIN INTC register definitions.
  sh: SH-DMAC compile fixes
  ...
2007-02-15 10:01:15 -08:00
Nick Piggin e0a04cffa4 [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fix
My mincore also forgot about crossing vmas.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
Nick Piggin 4a76ef036a [PATCH] mincore: fill in results properly
Paper bag time. Thanks to Randy for noticing that I didn't actually assign
'present' to anything.

Unfortunately my original patch passed the few simple test cases I gave it,
purely by coincidence.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
Nick Piggin 30fcffed81 [PATCH] mincore: CONFIG_SWAP=n fix
Fix mincore-anon patch to compile with CONFIG_SWAP=n

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
Andrew Victor f7eee89b2a [ARM] 4192/1: AT91: Support for AT91SAM9XE processors.
Add support for the Atmel AT91SAM9XE range of processors.  These are
basically AT91SAM9260's with different amounts of internal SRAM and
Flash.

We make use of the existing AT91SAM9260 support, but just perform
run-time detection of the size of the internal SRAM.

Original patch from Nicolas Ferre.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 15:33:31 +00:00
Ben Dooks e9316f9be6 [ARM] 4196/1: S3C24XX: add S3C2410_IRQSUB() to define IRQ for sub-sources
Add a define of S3C2410_IRQSUB() to define all
the sources from the IRQSUB register, to make it
easier to work out the datasheet=>irq mappings

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 15:32:58 +00:00
Ben Dooks 092651c5a9 [ARM] 4195/1: S3C2443: include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/regs-serial.h updates
Updates for regs-serial.h for S3C2443

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 15:32:56 +00:00
Ben Dooks 6619d58a65 [ARM] 4194/1: S3C2443: include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/regs-gpio.h updates
Updates for regs-gpio.h for S3C2443

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 15:32:54 +00:00
Ben Dooks e9390ef845 [ARM] 4193/1: S3C2443: clock register definitions
Clock register definitions for the S3C2443

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 15:32:52 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 7770bddb27 [ARM] 4130/1: Add L220 support to RealView/EB
This patch enables the L220 on the RealView/EB MPCore platform.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 15:08:54 +00:00
Russell King 4ba9dcbeba Merge Realview GIC code 2007-02-15 15:07:40 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 4b17244c13 [ARM] 4109/2: Add support for the RealView/EB MPCore revC platform
The kernel originally supported revB only. This patch enables revC by
default and adds a config option for building the kernel for the revB
platform. Since the SCU base address was hard-coded in the proc-v6.S
file (and only valid for RealView/EB revB), this patch also adds a
more generic support for defining the SCU information.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 14:56:32 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 3edf22ab34 [ARM] 4190/2: Add the secondary GIC support for the RealView/EB
MPCore platform

This patch adds the registration of the secondary GIC on the
baseboard, together with the IRQ chaining setup.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 14:51:21 +00:00
Catalin Marinas b3a1bde4db [ARM] 4108/2: Allow multiple GIC interrupt controllers in a system
The current implementation only assumes one GIC to be present in the
system. However, there are platforms with more than one cascaded interrupt
controllers (RealView/EB MPCore for example).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-15 14:44:10 +00:00
Paul Mundt 9c57548f17 sh: rts7751r2d board updates.
This tidies up some of the rts7751r2d mess and gets it booting
again. Update the defconfig, too.

Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hosokawa <hosokawa@ace-jp.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-02-15 18:20:52 +09:00
Rafa Bilski 2b8c0e1302 [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Redo Longhaul ver. 2
Start using v2 version of Longhaul when available. It provides
voltage scaling and can use ACPI C3 state. That's curious. CPU
will not change frequency on ACPI C3 when v1 is in use, but it will
when v2 is used. Driver will return max frequency all the time if
this isn't true for all processors. There is strange thing with
mobile voltage. Looks like only Nehemiah (C3-M) supports it.
Earlier processors have different mobile VRM (in docs), but I can't
find any which is using it. Looks like all are using VRM 8.5. So
fail for non Nehemiah with mobile VRM.

Signed-off-by: Rafal Bilski <rafalbilski@interia.pl>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-14 17:32:06 -05:00
Juerg Haefliger 2219cd81a6 hwmon/vt1211: Add probing of alternate config index port
The configuration index port of the vt1211 can be accessed at two
different addresses 0x2e or 0x4e, depending on pin strappings. This
patch adds support to scan both addresses during module
initialization.

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:05 +01:00
Jean Delvare a117dddf6b hwmon/f71805f: Fix a race condition
I think I introduced a potential race condition bug with commit
51c997d80e. I didn't realize it
back then, but platform_device_put and platform_device_release
both appear to free the platform data associated with the device.
This makes an explicit kfree redundant at best, and maybe even
racy, as it might occur while someone still holds a reference
to the platform device.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:05 +01:00
Hans de Goede bc8f0a2685 hwmon/abituguru: Fix unchecked return status
Fix an unused return value warning for the abituguru driver.
Also make sure the sysfs files are created before we register with
the hwmon class, and delete the sysfs files on driver removal.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:05 +01:00
Corentin Labbe cae2caae78 hwmon: New driver for the Analog Devices ADM1029
Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <corentin.labbe@geomatys.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:04 +01:00
David Hubbard 657c93b10f hwmon/w83627ehf: Add support for the W83627DHG chip
Signed-off-by: David Hubbard <david.c.hubbard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:04 +01:00
David Brownell 37f54ee546 hwmon: Use subsys_initcall
Subsystem infrastructure should normally register with "subsys_initcall",
so that it's available to drivers that may need to initialize early.

This patch updates "hwmon" to do so.  It's common for embedded systems to
have multifunction chips with hardware monitoring interfaces, and to have
those chips be used during system bringup ... before a normal "module_init"
would kick, or maybe just linked so they'd init before hwmon.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:04 +01:00
Ralf Baechle 41be722b61 hwmon/lm70: Make lm70_remove a __devexit function
This fixes a potential broken reference.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:04 +01:00
Jean Delvare ed6bafbf60 hwmon: Cleanup a bogus legacy comment
Cleanup a bogus legacy comment that has been replicated to many
hardware monitoring drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:03 +01:00
Jean Delvare 7f999aa726 hwmon: Simplify the locking model of two drivers
Many hardware monitoring drivers use two different mutexes, one to
protect their per-device data structure, and one to protect the
access to the device registers. These mutexes are essentially
redundant, as the drivers are transfering values between the device
registers and the data cache, so they almost always end up holding
both mutexes at the same time. Using a single mutex will make the
code more simple and faster.

I am changing only two of the affected drivers here, the authors
of the other affected drivers are welcome to submit similar patches
if they want.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:03 +01:00
Jean Delvare 6a0b1013c6 hwmon: Drop unused mutexes in two drivers
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:03 +01:00
Jean Delvare f8d0c19a93 hwmon/it87: Add PWM base frequency control
Let the user select the base PWM frequency when using the it87
hardware monitoring driver. Different frequencies can give better
control on some fans.

Also update the documentation to mention the PWM frequency control
files, with misc cleanups to the PWM section.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14 21:15:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 724339d76d Merge branch 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa:
  [ALSA] version 1.0.14rc2
  [ALSA] Fix a typo in __dev* changes in portman2x4.c
  [ALSA] Change AT91 PDC register defines for 2.6.20 kernel
  [ALSA] SoC codecs - fix Kconfig - depends -> depends on
  [ALSA] Fix __devinit and __devexit issues with sound drivers
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Patch for enabling LFE on more Dell laptops
  [ALSA] hda-codec - More fixes for Conexant HD Audio support
  [ALSA] usb-audio: add PCR-A PCM support
  [ALSA] emu10k1: fix typo
  [ALSA] usbaudio - remove urb->bandwidth reference
  [ALSA] ac97 - Fix silent output problem with Cx20551 codec
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix Oops with probing sigmatel codec chips
2007-02-14 09:51:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 414f827c46 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (94 commits)
  [PATCH] x86-64: Remove mk_pte_phys()
  [PATCH] i386: Fix broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386
  [PATCH] i386: fix 32-bit ioctls on x64_32
  [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64
  [PATCH] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header.
  [PATCH] i386: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern declaration from smpboot.c
  [PATCH] i386: Move mce_disabled to asm/mce.h
  [PATCH] i386: paravirt unhandled fallthrough
  [PATCH] x86_64: Wire up compat epoll_pwait
  [PATCH] x86: Don't require the vDSO for handling a.out signals
  [PATCH] i386: Fix Cyrix MediaGX detection
  [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in cpu initialization
  [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in microcode.c
  [PATCH] x86: Enable NMI watchdog for AMD Family 0x10 CPUs
  [PATCH] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo
  [PATCH] i386: Remove fastcall in paravirt.[ch]
  [PATCH] x86-64: Fix wrong gcc check in bitops.h
  [PATCH] x86-64: survive having no irq mapping for a vector
  [PATCH] i386: geode configuration fixes
  [PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports
  ...
2007-02-14 09:46:06 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 86a71dbd3e [PATCH] sysctl: hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux
Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a sysctl file,
just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they are redundant on the
standard VFS constructs.  Since it is difficult to compute the security labels
on the standard VFS constructs we just mark the sysctl inodes in proc private
so selinux won't even bother with them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Stephen Smalley bbaca6c2e7 [PATCH] selinux: enhance selinux to always ignore private inodes
Hmmm...turns out to not be quite enough, as the /proc/sys inodes aren't truly
private to the fs, so we can run into them in a variety of security hooks
beyond just the inode hooks, such as security_file_permission (when reading
and writing them via the vfs helpers), security_sb_mount (when mounting other
filesystems on directories in proc like binfmt_misc), and deeper within the
security module itself (as in flush_unauthorized_files upon inheritance across
execve).  So I think we have to add an IS_PRIVATE() guard within SELinux, as
below.  Note however that the use of the private flag here could be confusing,
as these inodes are _not_ private to the fs, are exposed to userspace, and
security modules must implement the sysctl hook to get any access control over
them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman b599fdfdb4 [PATCH] sysctl: fix the selinux_sysctl_get_sid
I goofed and when reenabling the fine grained selinux labels for
sysctls and forgot to add the "/sys" prefix before consulting
the policy database.  When computing the same path using
proc_dir_entries we got the "/sys" for free as it was part
of the tree, but it isn't true for clt_table trees.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 3fbfa98112 [PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member for the sysctl tables
It isn't needed anymore, all of the users are gone, and all of the ctl_table
initializers have been converted to use explicit names of the fields they are
initializing.

[akpm@osdl.org: NTFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman d912b0cc1a [PATCH] sysctl: add a parent entry to ctl_table and set the parent entry
Add a parent entry into the ctl_table so you can walk the list of parents and
find the entire path to a ctl_table entry.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 77b14db502 [PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support
With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.

For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.

The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(

We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files.  Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in.  The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible.  By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 1ff007eb8e [PATCH] sysctl: allow sysctl_perm to be called from outside of sysctl.c
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 805b5d5e06 [PATCH] sysctl: factor out sysctl_head_next from do_sysctl
The current logic to walk through the list of sysctl table headers is slightly
painful and implement in a way it cannot be used by code outside sysctl.c

I am in the process of implementing a version of the sysctl proc support that
instead of using the proc generic non-caching monster, just uses the existing
sysctl data structure as backing store for building the dcache entries and for
doing directory reads.  To use the existing data structures however I need a
way to get at them.

[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman ae83681026 [PATCH] sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines
parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a
directory.  To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys
interface has no analog to it.

So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code
easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6703ddfcce [PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY
There are currently no users in the kernel for CTL_ANY and it only has effect
on the binary interface which is practically unused.

So this complicates sysctl lookups for no good reason so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 2abc26fc6b [PATCH] sysctl: create sys/fs/binfmt_misc as an ordinary sysctl entry
binfmt_misc has a mount point in the middle of the sysctl and that mount point
is created as a proc_generic directory.

Doing it that way gets in the way of cleaning up the sysctl proc support as it
continues the existence of a horrible hack.  So instead simply create the
directory as an ordinary sysctl directory.  At least that removes the magic
special case.

[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman a5494dcd8b [PATCH] sysctl: move SYSV IPC sysctls to their own file
This is just a simple cleanup to keep kernel/sysctl.c from getting to crowded
with special cases, and by keeping all of the ipc logic to together it makes
the code a little more readable.

[gcoady.lk@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00