This patch fixes following sparse warnings:

include/linux/kfifo.h:127:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
kernel/kfifo.c:83:21: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After kfifo rework it's no longer possible to reliably know if kfifo is
usable, since after kfifo_free(), kfifo_initialized() would still return
true. The correct behaviour is needed for at least FHCI USB driver.

This patch fixes the issue by resetting the kfifo to zero values (the
same approach is used in kfifo_alloc() if allocation failed).
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix kfifo kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:361): No description found for parameter 'total'
Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:402): bad line:  @ @lenout: pointer to output variable with copied data
Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:412): No description found for parameter 'lenout'
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In some upcoming code it's useful to peek into a FIFO without permanentely
removing data.  This patch implements a new kfifo_out_peek() to do this.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Right now for kfifo_*_user it's not easily possible to distingush between
a user copy failing and the FIFO not containing enough data.  The problem
is that both conditions are multiplexed into the same return code.

Avoid this by moving the "copy length" into a separate output parameter
and only return 0/-EFAULT in the main return value.

I didn't fully adapt the weird "record" variants, those seem
to be unused anyways and were rather messy (should they be just removed?)

I would appreciate some double checking if I did all the conversions
correctly.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers.  Use void *
instead.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add kfifo_in_rec() - puts some record data into the FIFO
 Add kfifo_out_rec() - gets some record data from the FIFO
 Add kfifo_from_user_rec() - puts some data from user space into the FIFO
 Add kfifo_to_user_rec() - gets data from the FIFO and write it to user space
 Add kfifo_peek_rec() - gets the size of the next FIFO record field
 Add kfifo_skip_rec() - skip the next fifo out record
 Add kfifo_avail_rec() - determinate the number of bytes available in a record FIFO
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add kfifo_reset_out() for save lockless discard the fifo output
 Add kfifo_skip() to skip a number of output bytes
 Add kfifo_from_user() to copy user space data into the fifo
 Add kfifo_to_user() to copy fifo data to user space
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

rename kfifo_put...  into kfifo_in...  to prevent miss use of old non in
kernel-tree drivers

ditto for kfifo_get...  -> kfifo_out...

Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc
annotations more readable.

Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

change name of __kfifo_* functions to kfifo_*, because the prefix __kfifo
should be reserved for internal functions only.
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo.  Most users in
tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to
call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a
spinlock.
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.

The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
many constrains.  Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
resources.

I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:

 - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
 - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
 - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
 - There is no support for data records inside a fifo

So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
the API to much.  The new API has the following benefits:

 - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
 - Provide an API for the most use case.
 - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
 - Linux style habit.
 - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
 - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
 - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
   indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
 - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
   which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
 - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
   one is required.
 - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
   - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
     field of 1 bytes.
   - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
     field of 2 bytes.
   - Fixed size records, which no record size field.
 - Preserve memory resource.
 - Performance!
 - Easy to use!

This patch:

Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
structure.  This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them.  This
patch changes the implementation and all existing users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently kfifo cannot be used by parts of the kernel that use "const"
properly as kfifo itself does not use const for passed data blocks which
are indeed const.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Replace (n & (n-1)) with is_power_of_2()
Signed-off-by: Nvignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Acked-by: NStelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:

  * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
  * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
  * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
  * reword some text for clarity
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Both __kfifo_put() and __kfifo_get() have header comments stating that if
there is but one concurrent reader and one concurrent writer, locking is not
necessary.  This is almost the case, but a couple of memory barriers are
needed.  Another option would be to change the header comments to remove the
bit about locking not being needed, and to change the those callers who
currently don't use locking to add the required locking.  The attachment
analyzes this approach, but the patch below seems simpler.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

 - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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!