The via-pmu backlight code (introduced in 2.6.18) has various design issues
causing crashes on machines using it like the old Wallstreet powerbook
(Michael, the author, never managed to test on these and I just got my hand
on one of those old beasts).

This fixes them by no longer trying to hijack the backlight device of the
frontmost framebuffer (causing that framebuffer to crash) but having it's
own local bits instead.  Might look weird but it's better that way on those
old machines, at least as a last-minute fix for 2.6.18.  We might rework
the whole thing later.  This patch also changes the way it gets notified of
sleep and wakeup in order to properly shut the backlight down on sleep and
bring it back on wakeup.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch works around a complex dm-related deadlock/livelock down in the
mempool allocator.

Alasdair said:

  Several dm targets suffer from this.

  Mempools are not yet used correctly everywhere in device-mapper: they can
  get shared when devices are stacked, and some targets share them across
  multiple instances.  I made fixing this one of the prerequisites for this
  patch:

    md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

  which in some cases makes people more likely to hit the problem.

  There's been some progress on this recently with (unfinished) dm-crypt
  patches at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/
      (dm-crypt-move-io-to-workqueue.patch plus dependencies)

and:

  I've no problems with a temporary workaround like that, but Milan Broz (a
  new Redhat developer in the Czech Republic) has started reviewing all the
  mempool usage in device-mapper so I'm expecting we'll soon have a proper fix
  for this associated problems.  [He's back from holiday at the start of next
  week.]

For now, this sad-but-safe little patch will allow the machine to recover.

[akpm@osdl.org: rewrote changelog]
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI
driver would occasionally result in Oopses.  He tracked that down to a
variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations.  This
patch initializes that variable.  Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the
data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do
that.  Thanks Olaf!
Signed-off-by: NCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Adds the description of the parameters from handle_bad_irq().
Signed-off-by: NHenrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value.
Acked-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M

The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late,
when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized.
check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks
the device-tree looking for a floppy node.
Signed-off-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> reports that an HP DL380 g4 fails using the
default arch due to the ISA bus having an ID of 32.

It would have worked OK with the generic arch - for some reason the default
arch doesn't support as many busses.

So bump that up to support 256 busses, but leave it at 32 if we're building a
tiny system to save a bit of memory.

Cc: Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We're testing the wrong task_struct field.
Acked-by: NChris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting.
This solves two problems reported for delay accounting:

1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html

Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can
cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats.
 The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when
task_struct itself is freed up.  As a result, it also eliminates the use of
tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard
access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting.

2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html

The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was
missing earlier.

The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress
tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface
(which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc
interface causing the oops above).
Signed-off-by: NShailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Apparently some systems export valid HPET addresses, but hpet_enable()
fails.  Then when the HPET clocksource starts up, it only checks for a
valid HPET address, and the result is a system where time does not advance.

See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7062 for details.

This patch just makes sure we better check that the HPET is functional
before registering the HPET clocksource.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix receive tty error handling in synclink_gt driver.  Adrian reported
compiler warning for incorrect bit test against char variable.  I
determined these and other device specific error bits were incorrectly
defined.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We need to be careful when referencing mirrors[i].rdev.  It can disappear
under us at various times.

So:
  fix a couple of problem places.
  comment a couple of non-problem places
  move an 'atomic_add' which deferences rdev down a little
    way to some where where it is sure to not be NULL.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32.
This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and
the sizes of the zones in the system.

With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention
when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters.  The
contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used
Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch).

However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors.  So we need higher
values for larger systems.

But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller
systems.  Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters.  For
example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or
ZONE_DMA32.  These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems.

The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the
system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for.  The
threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy
approximation.

Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM)

The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently
on each processor (Forking the process.  So contention on mmap_sem and the
pte locks is not a factor):

                       X                   MIN
TYPE:               CPUS       WALL       WALL        SYS     USER     TOTCPU
fork                   1      0.552      0.552      0.540    0.012      0.552
fork                   4      0.552      0.548      2.164    0.036      2.200
fork                  16      0.564      0.548      8.812    0.164      8.976
fork                 128      0.580      0.572     72.204    1.208     73.412
fork                 256      1.300      0.660    310.400    2.160    312.560
fork                 512      3.512      0.696   1526.836    4.816   1531.652
fork                1020     20.024      0.700  17243.176    6.688  17249.863

So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention
becomes a factor.

Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit:

fork                   4      0.552      0.548      2.164    0.040      2.204
fork                  16      0.552      0.548      8.640    0.148      8.788
fork                 128      0.556      0.548     69.676    0.956     70.632
fork                 256      0.876      0.636    212.468    2.108    214.576
fork                 512      2.276      0.672    997.324    4.260   1001.584
fork                1020     13.564      0.680  11586.436    6.088  11592.523

Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third.
256 still has a slight bit of contention.

After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces
contention significantly:

fork                 128      0.560      0.548     69.776    0.932     70.708
fork                 256      0.636      0.556    143.460    2.036    145.496
fork                 512      0.640      0.548    284.244    4.236    288.480
fork                1020      1.500      0.588   1326.152    8.892   1335.044

[akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Increments and decrements are usually grouped rather than mixed.  We can
optimize the inc and dec functions for that case.

Increment and decrement the counters by 50% more than the threshold in
those cases and set the differential accordingly.  This decreases the need
to update the atomic counters.

The idea came originally from Andrew Morton.  The overstepping alone was
sufficient to address the contention issue found when updating the global
and the per zone counters from 160 processors.

Also remove some code in dec_zone_page_state.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IB/mthca: Use IRQ safe locks to protect allocation bitmaps

It is supposed to be OK to call mthca_create_ah() and mthca_destroy_ah()
from any context.  However, for mem-full HCAs, these functions use the
mthca_alloc() and mthca_free() bitmap helpers, and those helpers use
non-IRQ-safe spin_lock() internally.  Lockdep correctly warns that
this could lead to a deadlock.  Fix this by changing mthca_alloc() and
mthca_free() to use spin_lock_irqsave().
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

  When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics
"ipFragFails",found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The
criteria is RFC2011:
RFC2011
  ipFragFails OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX      Counter32
    MAX-ACCESS  read-only
    STATUS      current
    DESCRIPTION
            "The number of IP datagrams that have been discarded because
            they needed to be fragmented at this entity but could not
            be, e.g., because their Don't Fragment flag was set."
    ::= { ip 18 }

When I send big IP packet to a router with DF bit set to 1 which need to
be fragmented, and router just sends an ICMP error message
ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED but no increments for this counter(in the function
ip_fragment).
Signed-off-by: NWei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch limits the warning messages when socket allocation failures
happen. It happens under memory pressure.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Bug noticed by Remi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>.
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] cio: unsolicited interrupts during sense pgid.
  [S390] cio: no path after machine check.
  [S390] cio: kernel stack overflow.
  [S390] dasd: fix device shutdown process.
  [S390] broken copy_in_user function.

Commit 8c749327 ("i386: Remove
alternative_smp") did not actually compile on x86 with CONFIG_SMP.

This fixes the __build_read/write_lock helpers.  I've boot tested on
SMP.

[ Andi: "Oops, I think that was a quilt unrefreshed patch.  Sorry.  I
  fixed those before testing, but then still send out the old patch." ]
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy
  [POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile
  [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase
  [POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms
  [POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
  [POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition
  [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases
  [POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2
  [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
  [POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking
  [POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file
  [POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts
  [POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer
  [POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense
  [POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc
  [POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree.
  [POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too.
  [POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build
  [POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export

This fixes a hang on ppc32.

The problem was that I was comparing a 32-bit quantity with a 64-bit
quantity, and consequently time wasn't advancing.  This makes us use a
64-bit quantity on all platforms, which ends up simplifying the code
since we can now get rid of the tb_last_stamp variable (which actually
fixes another bug that Ben H and I noticed while going carefully through
the code).

This works fine on my G4 tibook.  Let me know how it goes on your
machines.
Acked-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: NMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The backlight changes that went in had a bug where they could cause the
kernel to access an unitialized pointer when blanking if there is no
backlight control on a machine.

The bug affects atyfb, aty128fb, nvidiafb and rivafb.  radeonfb seems to
be ok.  This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As pointed out by Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, our
memcpy implementation didn't return the destination pointer as its
return value, and there is code in the kernel that expects that.
This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Increase default nodes shift to 10, nr_cpus to 1024
  [IA64] remove redundant local_irq_save() calls from sn_sal.h
  [IA64] panic if topology_init kzalloc fails
  [IA64-SGI] Silent data corruption caused by XPC V2.

The radeon requires a VAP state flush when enabling/disabling
vertex programs on the r200 cards.
Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The following change from -mm is important to 2.6.18 (actually to 2.6.17
but its too late for that). This was contributed over three months ago
by VIA to Bartlomiej and nothing happened. As a result the new chipset
is now out and Linux won't run on it. By the time 2.6.18 is finalised
this will be the defacto standard VIA chipset so support would be a good
plan.

Tested in -mm for a while, its essentially a PCI ident update but for
the bridge chip because VIA do things in weird ways.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

It's possible to get an invalid page fault in kernel mode when we try to
write out segments from vsyscall32 when dumping core for a 32bit process if
the vsyscall32 DSO is not mapped in its address space (which can happen if,
for example, ulimit -v 100 is run).
Signed-off-by: NSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The values in init_tss.ist[] can change when an IST event occurs.  Save
the original IST values for checking stack addresses when debugging or
doing stack traces.
Signed-off-by: NKeith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

After all their only point is having them in user space.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

There was a bogus hunk from the genirq merge that essentially
broke stack switching for hard interrupts. Remove it since it isn't
needed.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

After all their only point is having them in user space. On x86-64
they don't even work in kernel space.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.

This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version.

Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the
majority of the cost and should be good enough.

Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version.

Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the
majority of the cost and should be good enough.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Noticed by Jan Beulich.

When the kernel was moved from 1MB to 2MB in 2.6.17 the kernel reservation
code wasn't adjusted and it still reserved starting with 1MB. This means 1MB always
were lost.

This patch fixes this by reserving only starting with _text.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The unwinder fallback logic still had potential for falling through to
the legacy stack trace code without printing an indication (at once
serving as a separator) of this.

Further, the stack pointer retrieval for the fallback should be as
restrictive as possible (in order to avoid having the legacy stack
tracer try to access invalid memory). The patch tightens that, but
this could certainly be further improved.

Also making the call_trace command line option now conditional upon
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND (as it's meaningless otherwise).
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

By hard-coding the cpuid keys for alternative_smp() rather than using
the symbolic constant it turned out that incorrect values were used on
both i386 (0x68 instead of 0x69) and x86-64 (0x66 instead of 0x68).
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>