Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:58:40PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> This change:
>
> diff-tree 8ca2bdc7a9 (from feee207e44d3643d19e648aAuthor: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Date: Wed Nov 9 12:07:18 2005 -0800
>
> [SPARC] sbus rtc: implement ->compat_ioctl
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> results in the console now getting spewed on sparc64 systems
> with messages like:
>
> [ 11.968298] ioctl32(hwclock:464): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(401c7014){00} arg(efc
> What's happening is hwclock tries first the SBUS rtc device ioctls
> then the normal rtc driver ones.
>
> So things actually worked better when we had the SBUS rtc compat ioctl
> directly handled via the generic compat ioctl code.
>
> There are _so_ many rtc drivers in the kernel implementing the
> generic rtc ioctls that I don't think putting a ->compat_ioctl
> into all of them to fix this problem is feasible. Unless we
> write a single rtc_compat_ioctl(), export it to modules, and hook
> it into all of those somehow.
>
> But even that doesn't appear to have any pretty implementation.
>
> Any better ideas?
We had similar problems with other ioctls where userspace did things
like that. What we did there was to put the compat handler to generic
code. The patch below does that, adding a big comment about what's
going on and removing the COMPAT_IOCTL entires for these on powerpc
that not only weren't ever useful but are duplicated now aswell.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
void * __iomem foo is not a pointer to iomem - it's an iomem variable
containing void *. A pile of such guys in arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c,
drivers/sbus/char/rtc.c and include/asm-sparc64/mostek.h turned into
intended void __iomem *.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Provide support for drivers/char/rtc.c ioctls in the
Mostek rtc driver as well as the Sparc specific RTCGET
and RTCSET.
This allows userspace to be much less messy. Currently
util-linux and other spots jump through hoops trying
various ioctl variants until it hits the right one whatever
driver actually being used supports.
Eventually all of this should move over to the genrtc.c
driver, but not today...
While we are here, fix up the register types for sparse.
Thanks to Frans Pop for helping point out this issue.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Arjan van de Ven
Christoph Hellwig
Al Viro
David S. Miller
Linus Torvalds