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Olaf Hering f7c80c9f77 [PATCH] aic byteorder fixes after recent cleanup
Rebuild the aic7xxx firmware doesn't work anymore after this change
which appeared int 2.6.13-rc1:

   [SCSI] aic7xxx/aic79xx: remove useless byte order macro cruft

Two files did not include byteorder.h, resulting in aic dying with a panic

	"Unknown opcode encountered in seq program"

This fixes it for me.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02 08:43:59 -07:00
Paul Mackerras f7d1d23c30 [PATCH] Obvious bugfix for yenta resource allocation
Recent changes (well, dating from 12 July) have broken cardbus on my
powerbook: I get 3 messages saying "no resource of type xxx available,
trying to continue", and if I plug in my wireless card, it complains
that there are no resources allocated to the card.  This all worked in
2.6.12.

Looking at the code in yenta_socket.c, function yenta_allocate_res,
it's obvious what is wrong: if we get to line 639 (i.e. there wasn't a
usable preassigned resource), we will always flow through to line 668,
which is the printk that I was seeing, even if a resource was
successfully allocated.  It looks to me as though there should be a
return statement after the two config_writel's in each of the 3
branches of the if statements, so that the function returns after
successfully setting up the resource.

The patch below adds these return statements, and with this patch,
cardbus works on my powerbook once again.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02 08:28:48 -07:00
Kai Makisara c2c96f46f4 [SCSI] Fix SCSI tape oops at module removal
Removing the SCSI tape module results in an oops in class_device_destroy if
any devices are present. The patch at the end of this message fixes the bug
by moving class_destroy() later in exit_st() so that the class still exists
when devices are removed. (The bug is old but class_simple_device_remove() did
nothing when the class did not exist.)

The patch also fixes a "class leak" in init_st() error path.

I would like to get this into 2.6.13 but it may be too late?

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-08-02 10:14:36 -05:00
Jack Hammer c1a15468d5 [SCSI] ServeRAID V7.12.02
I am resubmitting the 2.6 kernel patch for the Version 7.12.02 ips driver.
I have eliminated a couple of inappropriate changes pointed out by Arjan.

Signed-off-by: Jack Hammer <jack_hammer@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-08-02 10:09:03 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 9a351e30d7 Linux v2.6.13-rc5
Ok, let's get it right this time
2005-08-01 21:45:48 -07:00
Mike Kravetz 96cd5b0856 [PATCH] ppc64: POWER 4 fails to boot with NUMA
If CONFIG_NUMA is set, some POWER 4 systems will fail to boot.  This is
because of special processing needed to handle invalid node IDs (0xffff) on
POWER 4.  My previous patch to handle memory 'holes' within nodes forgot to
add this special case for POWER 4 in one place.

In reality, I'm not sure that configuring the kernel for NUMA on POWER 4 makes
much sense.  Are there POWER 4 based systems with NUMA characteristics that
are presented by the firmware?  But, distros want one kernel for all systems
so NUMA is on by default in their kernels.  The patch handles those cases.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:01 -07:00
Rusty Russell 842bbaaa73 [PATCH] Module per-cpu alignment cannot always be met
The module code assumes noone will ever ask for a per-cpu area more than
SMP_CACHE_BYTES aligned.  However, as these cases show, gcc asks sometimes
asks for 32-byte alignment for the per-cpu section on a module, and if
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT is 4, we hit that BUG_ON().  This is obviously an
unusual combination, as there have been few reports, but better to warn
than die.

See:
	http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html

And more recently:
	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97006

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:01 -07:00
Anton Blanchard 561fb765b9 [PATCH] ppc64: topology API fix
Dont include asm-generic/topology.h unconditionally, we end up overriding
all the ppc64 specific functions when NUMA is on.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:01 -07:00
Andrew Morton 6ade43fbbc [PATCH] shm: CONFIG_SHMEM=n build fix
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup.

shmem_set_policy() and shmem_get_policy() are macros if !CONFIG_SHMEM, so this
doesn't work.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Andrew Morton 39bbb07d7c [PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Eric Dumazet ba17101b41 [PATCH] sys_set_mempolicy() doesnt check if mode < 0
A kernel BUG() is triggered by a call to set_mempolicy() with a negative
first argument.  This is because the mode is declared as an int, and the
validity check doesnt check < 0 values.  Alternatively, mode could be
declared as unsigned int or unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 690dbe1ced [PATCH] x86_64: access of some bad address
x86_64 has a large sparse gate area between VSYSCALL_START and
VSYSCALL_END, not all of it presently backed by pmds.  Alexander Nyberg has
found that in some circumstances gdb may try to ptrace here, and hit
get_user_pages BUG_ON.  It seems odd that gdb should be accessing here, but
it certainly shouldn't crash in this way: relax BUG_ON to -EFAULT.  Fixes
kernel bugzilla #4801.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Roman Zippel 74f9c9c258 [PATCH] hfs: don't reference missing page
If there was a read error, the bnode might miss some pages, so skip them.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Roman Zippel f76d28d235 [PATCH] hfs: don't dirty unchanged inode
If inode size hasn't changed, don't do anything further in truncate, which
also prevents a dirty inode, what might upset some readonly devices quite
badly.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0072b1389c [PATCH] include/linux/dcookies.h: dummy functions must be "static inline"
We don't want these to be global functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 001abc93bf [PATCH] v4l: bug fix to correct tea5767 autodetection
This patch does correct radio chip autodetection to avoid misdetecting
mt20xx microtune as tea5767 chip.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Mark Haverkamp 43f2f3d343 [PATCH] aacraid: Fix for controller load based timeouts
Martin Drab found that he could get aacraid timeouts with high load on his
controller / disk drive combinations.  After some experimentation Mark
Salyzyn has come up with a patch to reduce the default max_sectors to
something that will keep the controller from being overloaded and will
eliminate the timeout issues.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Hirokazu Takata 2757a71c31 [PATCH] m32r: Fix local-timer event handling
There was a scheduling problem of the m32r SMP kernel; A process rarely
stopped and gave no responding but the other process have been handled by
the other CPU still lives, then if we did something in the other terminal
or something like that, the stopped process came back to life and continued
its operation...  (ex.  LMbench: lat_sig)

In the m32r SMP kernel, a local-timer event is delivered by using an
IPI(inter processor interrupts); LOCAL_TIMER_IPI.  And a function
smp_send_timer() is prepared to send the LOCAL_TIMER_IPI from the current
CPU to the other CPUs.

The funtion smp_send_timer() was placed and used in do_IRQ() in
former times (before 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 kernel), however, it was
unintentionally removed when arch/m32r/kernel/irq.c was modified to
employ the generic hardirq framework (CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ) in
my previous patch.

  [PATCH 2.6.10-rc3-mm1] m32r: Use generic hardirq framework
  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.2/0358.html

The following patch fixes the above problem.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <hitoshiy@isl.melco.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky d2013485a5 [PATCH] s390: ioprio & inotify system calls.
Add system calls for io priorities and inotify.

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>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 5d3f229fcd [PATCH] s390: kexec fixes and improvements.
Disable pseudo page fault handling before starting the new kernel and try
to use diag308 to reset the machine.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Eugene Surovegin 4374ae10e5 [PATCH] ppc32: add missing 4xx EMAC sysfs nodes
Add missing 4xx EMAC data sysfs nodes.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:02 -07:00
Matt Porter 61d44c777a [PATCH] ppc32: add bamboo defconfig
Add Bamboo platform defconfig

Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Matt Porter 497799d368 [PATCH] ppc32: add bamboo platform
Add Bamboo platform support.  This is an AMCC 440EP-based reference platform.

Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Matt Porter c9cf73aee1 [PATCH] ppc32: add 440ep support
Add PPC440EP core support.  PPC440EP is a PPC440-based SoC with a classic PPC
FPU and another set of peripherals.

Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Kumar Gala e8be1c8e06 [PATCH] ppc32: Mark boards that don't build as BROKEN
Marked APUS and GEMINI as BROKEN since they do not build at the platform
level.  We have requested that the maintainers of these boards/platforms
fix them by the time 2.6.15 is released or we plan on concerning them
unmaintained and thus removing them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Denis Vlasenko 01bdc0336f [PATCH] silence cs89x0
cs89x0 talks a lot at boot.  Seems like debug leftover.  This patch
downgrades printks to KERN_DEBUG.  While we're at it, make these messages a
bit less obscure.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
NeilBrown b158156618 [PATCH] md: make sure raid5/raid6 resync uses correct 'max_sectors'
The default resync_max_sector is set to "mddev->size << 1".  If the
raid-personality-module updates mddev->size, it must update
resync_max_sectors too.

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>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 57ee67af35 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix CONFIG_ALTIVEC not set
The code that sets the altivec capability of the CPU based on firmware
informations can enable altivec when the kernel has CONFIG_ALTIVEC
disabled.  This results in "interesting" crashes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:00 -07:00
Paul Jackson 1caf1f0f18 [PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the
MAN-PAGES maintainer.

This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice
range for RLIMIT NICE"

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:00 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk faf1668c95 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS record -- MAN-PAGES
Michael maintains the kernel manpages.  He wants us to tell him when we
change or augment the userspace API.  Add his contact details to
MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:00 -07:00
Michael Krufky 9fef07ca85 [PATCH] v4l: cx88 card support and documentation finishing touches
Peter Missel:
- Add support for the SVideo input on the GDI Black Gold.

Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Linux/version.h removed. Replaced by linux/utsname.h

Michael Krufky:
- Added analog support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold.

CC: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:00 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab fd3113e84e [PATCH] V4L: Miscellaneous fixes
- Fixed some bttv card numbers.

- BTTV and SAA7134 version numbers incremented to reflect changes.

- pci_dma_supported() is called after pci_set_dma_mask() which
  already did check that for us. This patch removes the unneeded call to
  pci_dma_supported() at bttv-driver.c

- Ensure a sufficient I2C bus idle time between 2 messages for
  saa7134-i2c.c

- It is important to write at first to MO_GP3_IO for cx88-tvaudio.c

- Use try_to_freeze() instead of refrigerator at msp3400.c

- Recognizing the MFPE05-2 Tuner at tveeprom.c

- Add new parameter to help identify radio chipsets at tuner module:
  show_i2c=1 will show 16 reading bytes from detected tuners.

- BTTV does generate some Unimplemented IOCTL log at tuner module:
  0x40046d11(dir=1,tp=0x6d,nr=17,sz=4) means that it is sending
  MSP3400 calls to non-msp3400 tuners. Warning eliminated.
  VIDIOSAUDIO is also called, so debug messages updated. It is still
  requiring IOCTL implementation.

- Added two more tuners.

- Add support for the SVideo input on the GDI Black Gold.

Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Graham Bevan <graham.bevan@ntlworld.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Seeboth <Torsten.Seeboth@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t.online.de>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:13:59 -07:00
Eric Lammerts cdf32eaa4e [PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUs
We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs
by quite large amounts.  We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the
same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after
a fork+exec.

So disable randomization by default on those CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:13:59 -07:00
Andrew Morton 3fef3fa24d [PATCH] skge build fix
Make it compile with CONFIG_PM=n

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:13:59 -07:00
Andrew Morton de5b31101f [PATCH] i2c-mpc.c: revert duplicate patch
Seems that both Greg and I submitted the same patch and it just kept on
applying...

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:13:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 697a2d63a3 Revert ACPI interrupt resume changes
If there are devices that use interrupts over a suspend event, ACPI must
restore the PCI interrupt links on resume.  Anything else breaks any
device that hasn't been converted to the new (dubious) PM rules.

Drivers that need the irq free/re-aquire sequence can be done one by one
independently of this one.
2005-08-01 12:37:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4ceb5db975 Fix get_user_pages() race for write access
There's no real guarantee that handle_mm_fault() will always be able to
break a COW situation - if an update from another thread ends up
modifying the page table some way, handle_mm_fault() may end up
requiring us to re-try the operation.

That's normally fine, but get_user_pages() ended up re-trying it as a
read, and thus a write access could in theory end up losing the dirty
bit or be done on a page that had not been properly COW'ed.

This makes get_user_pages() always retry write accesses as write
accesses by making "follow_page()" require that a writable follow has
the dirty bit set.  That simplifies the code and solves the race: if the
COW break fails for some reason, we'll just loop around and try again.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 11:14:49 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 8d894c4797 [PATCH] tridentfb: Fix scrolling artifacts during disk IO
Reported by: Jochen Hein (Bugzilla Bug 4312)

When there is disk I/O happening, the framebuffer has a little snow on
the screen.  Once I/O has finished, no garbage remains on screen.

This bug was explained by: Knut Petersen

Most important is CRTC register 2f, signal quality is also improved for
higher vclk values by changing set_vclk() according to the X drivers and
cyblafb.c

The fix is to set the performance register (0x2f) with a more stable
value.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:07:53 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 8dad46cf38 [PATCH] tridentfb: Fix scrolling artifacts if acceleration is enabled
Reported by: Jochen Hein (Bugzilla Bug 4386)

booting leaves the end of long lines in the last line on screen when
scrolling.  When X is running, scrolling puts garbage on the screen
(looks like X data) Console switch fixes the screen.  Behaviour seems to
be identical with noaccel and without on the video=tridentfb parameter
in lilo.conf.

This bug was explained by: Knut_Petersen

Acceleration is broken for all BLADE 3D chips for all versions of kernel
2.6 except for 32bit modes.  Most important reason is that the u32 col
parameter of the graphics engine needs the color value replicated to all
u8 of the u32 (8bit modes) and to both u16 of the u32.

Fix color value passed to graphics engine, verified by the reporter.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:07:13 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 6cb54819d7 [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.  While i'm sure Martin is
trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and
insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much
for eternity.  I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not
hit v2.6.13 in its current form.

Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the
global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an
Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting
over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they
try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ]

Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin:

 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2

where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way:

 ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't
   terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still
   finishes in a reasonable amount of time. '

in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only
a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a
handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results,
without showing the variability data. How much variance is there
run-to-run?

I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get
stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before
adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which
approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed
and understood!

The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning
internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to
have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for
reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or
so.

The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the
underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes.  We
could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive
when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of
external factors in the VM balance picture.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:03:56 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski 5d546f5432 [PATCH] pcmcia: fix multiple insertion of multifunction cards
The ordering of setting and clearing device_add_pending went wrong on some
occasions, causing multifunction cards only to be handled correctly on the
first insertion, not on subsequent ones.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:03:56 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski 2b8d466937 [PATCH] pcmcia: defer ide-cs initialization after other IDE drivers started up
Avoid registering PCMCIA CF cards before other IDE stuff. This means the risk
of /dev/hd* being re-ordered is lessened. The _sane_ thing to assert any
ordering is to use udev, nameif and so on, of course.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:03:55 -07:00
John McCutchan b9c55d29e9 [PATCH] inotify: fix race between the kernel and user space
When you rm a watch, an IN_IGNORED event is sent down the event queue
with the watch descriptor that you just rm'd.

If you then add a watch you could get the ignored watch's wd and if you
haven't read the entire event queue, user space will think that it's
newly created watch was just ignored.

To avoid this problem we just use idr_get_new_above instead of
idr_get_new.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 09:16:53 -07:00
John McCutchan 7544953685 [PATCH] inotify: fix file deletion by rename detection
When a file is moved over an existing file that you are watching,
inotify won't send you a DELETE_SELF event and it won't unref the inode
until the inotify instance is closed by the application.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 09:16:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds be2ac68f7b Merge head 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-07-31 16:49:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e0b98c79e6 Merge head 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2005-07-31 16:48:39 -07:00
James Simmons 02459eaab9 [PATCH] Display name of fbdev device
This patch displays the name of the fbdev driver in sysfs.
Down the road this will replace the current proc handle we have.

Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-31 12:50:46 -07:00
Ralf Baechle e064cd7e3a [PATCH] SMP fix for 6pack driver
Drivers really only work well in SMP if they actually can be selected.
This is a leftover from the time when the 6pack drive only used to be
a bitrotten variant of the slip driver.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>

 Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-07-31 01:07:41 -04:00
Tony Lindgren af44f5bf77 [PATCH] Fix OMAP specific typo in smc91x.h
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Hi Jeff,

Here's a little patch fixing a typo in smc91x.h.

Regards,

Tony

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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-07-31 00:55:11 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger 3f309db33e [PATCH] sk98lin: fix workaround for yukon-lite chipset (> rev 7)
Yukon-Lite chipset needs workaround for revision 7 (or later).
Without this patch, chip gets stuck in low power mode and never
boots. Newer SysKonnect vendor code already had same patch.

Related bug in skge is http://bugs.gentoo.org/87822

Chris, please add for 2.6.12.2

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-07-31 00:52:56 -04:00