Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to
non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8).  Tested on x86 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/sys.c doesn't have anything in it relying on linux/init.h -
remove the include.
Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Provide a checklist of techniques to aid kernel patch submitters in
producing healthy patches and in lessening a burden on maintainers.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If invalidate_mapping_pages is called to invalidate a very large mapping
(e.g.  a very large block device) and if the only active page in that
device is near the end (or at least, at a very large index), such as, say,
the superblock of an md array, and if that page happens to be locked when
invalidate_mapping_pages is called, then

  pagevec_lookup will return this page and
  as it is locked, 'next' will be incremented and pagevec_lookup
  will be called again. and again. and again.
  while we count from 0 upto a very large number.

We should really always set 'next' to 'page->index+1' before going around
the loop again, not just if the page isn't locked.

Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Put the connector exports at the functions so people can see them in context.

Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Switch an open-coded strstrip() to use the new API.
Acked-by: NCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a new strstrip() function to lib/string.c for removing leading and
trailing whitespace from a string.

Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NIngo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Acked-by: NJoern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NMichael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Change the license on the process event structure passed between kernel and
userspace.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NGuillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Acked-by: NNguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Move connector header include to precisely where it's needed.

Remove unused time.h header file as well.  This was leftover from previous
iterations of the process events patches.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Cc: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The likely() profiling tools show that __alloc_page() causes a lot of misses:

!       132    119193 __alloc_pages():mm/page_alloc.c@937

Because most __alloc_page() calls are not atomic.
Signed-off-by: NHua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The percpu counter data type are changed in this set of patches to support
more users like ext3 who need more than 32 bit to store the free blocks
total in the filesystem.

- Generic perpcu counters data type changes.  The size of the global counter
  and local counter were explictly specified using s64 and s32.  The global
  counter is changed from long to s64, while the local counter is changed from
  long to s32, so we could avoid doing 64 bit update in most cases.

- Users of the percpu counters are updated to make use of the new
  percpu_counter_init() routine now taking an additional parameter to allow
  users to pass the initial value of the global counter.
Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- Move percpu_counter routines from mm/swap.c to lib/percpu_counter.c
Signed-off-by: NRavikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag
  SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(),
  the kernel still try to install the alternate stack.  This behavior is
  the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix Specifications
  V3.

- Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the flag
  SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on signal
  delivery.

These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery.
Signed-off-by: NLaurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove redundant casts from NEW_AUX_ENT() arguments in fs/binfmt_elf.c
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Do a CodingStyle cleanup of fs/binfmt_elf.c and also remove some pointless
casts of kmalloc() return values in the same file.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Update Documentation/devices.txt with a new version from the LANANA site
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txtSigned-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Use the new LED infrastructure to support the 6 LEDs present on the Amstrad
Delta.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: NJonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Ackde-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> points out that `rsv' here is usually
NULL, so we should avoid calling kfree().

Also, fix up some nearby whitespace damage.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

There are a couple of places where JBD has to check to see whether an unneeded
memory allocation was performed.  Usually it _was_ needed, so we end up
calling kfree(NULL).  We can micro-optimise that by checking the pointer
before calling kfree().

Thanks to Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> for identifying this.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The hardirq_ctx and softirq_ctx variables are written to on init only,
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If you get to that point in the code it means that desc->move_irq is set,
pending_irq_cpumask[irq] and cpu_online_map should have a value.  Still
pretty good chance anding those two you'll still have a value.  So these
two branch predictors should be inverted.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

isdn_writebuf_stub() forgets to detect memory allocation and uaccess errors.
And when that's fixed, if a error happens the caller will just keep on
looping.

So change the caller to detect the error, and to return it.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix leak of `rcvmsg' in sc_ioctl().

There are two returns in the switch in sc_ioctl (the SCIOCSTART case) that
may leak `rcvmsg'.  This patch fixes that by adding a kfree() call at the
beginning of that case.

Bug found by the coverity checker as #1098

Eric Sesterhenn send me a patch to fix the leak(s) by adding 2 kfree()
calls before the returns, I changed that into just a single call at the
beginning.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Here's a patch for cs46xx that
 - (mostly) cleans up the cs46xx driver according to CodingStyle
 - removes a bunch of pointless casts
 - fixes a small, potential use of uninitialized variable, bug
 - reduces the size of the compiled code by 36 bytes
 - reduces the size of the source file by 1831 bytes

I know I should probably have split this into bits, but since I only
thought of that *after* doing all the edits, splitting it up would have
been a royal pain. And since these are all pretty trivial changes I thought
I'd just submit the one huge patch and hope people could live with it (if
not, then just tell me and I'll split it).

The bug fix that's in there may be hard to spot, so I'll point it out. It's
the
   -       int val, valsave, mapped, ret;
   +       int val, valsave, ret;
   +       int mapped = 0;
bit.
Without that change we may use `mapped' uninitialized if, in cs_ioctl, the
first test of "if(state)" is false and the second "if(state)" test is true.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix possible assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() on
jh->b_next_transaction == NULL (when we are processing BJ_Forget list and
buffer is not jbddirty).

!jbddirty buffers can be placed on BJ_Forget list for example by
journal_forget() or by __dispose_buffer() - generally such buffer means
that it has been freed by this transaction.

Freed buffers should not be reallocated until the transaction has committed
(that's why we have the assertion there) but they *can* be reallocated when
the transaction has already been committed to disk and we are just
processing the BJ_Forget list (as soon as we remove b_committed_data from
the bitmap bh, ext3 will be able to reallocate buffers freed by the
committing transaction).  So we have to also count with the case that the
buffer has been reallocated and b_next_transaction has been already set.

And one more subtle point: it can happen that we manage to reallocate the
buffer and also mark it jbddirty.  Then we also add the freed buffer to the
checkpoint list of the committing trasaction.  But that should do no harm.

Non-jbddirty buffers should be filed to BJ_Reserved and not BJ_Metadata
list.  It can actually happen that we refile such buffers during the commit
phase when we reallocate in the running transaction blocks deleted in
committing transaction (and that can happen if the committing transaction
already wrote all the data and is just cleaning up BJ_Forget list).
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: N"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

add the __might_sleep() check back to cond_resched().
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Set errorp in dup_fd, it will be used in sys_unshare also.
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna Meda <mlp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'.
This patch removes wrong default for IP_DCCP_ACKVEC.
Signed-off-by: NJean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'.
This patch removes wrong default for USB_ISP116X_HCD, USB_SL811_HCD and
USB_SL811_CS.
Signed-off-by: NJean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'.
This patch removes wrong default for SYSCALL_DEBUG.
Signed-off-by: NJean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'.
This patch removes wrong default for SCHED_SMT.
Signed-off-by: NJean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

After a lot of reading the code and thinking about how it behaves I have
managed to figure out what the current ptrace locking rules are.  The
current code is in much better that it appears at first glance.  The
troublesome code paths are actually the code paths that violate the current
rules.

ptrace uses simple exclusive access as it's locking.  You can only touch
task->ptrace if the task is stopped and you are the ptracer, or if the task
is running and are the task itself.

Very simple, very easy to maintain.  It just needs to be documented so
people know not to touch ptrace from elsewhere.

Currently we do have a few pieces of code that are in violation of this
rule.  Particularly the core dump code, and ptrace_attach.  But so far the
code looks fixable.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The "count" and "pt" variables are declared and modified by do_poll(), as
well as accessed and written indirectly in the do_pollfd() subroutine.

This patch pulls all handling of these variables into the do_poll()
function, thereby eliminating the odd use of indirection in do_pollfd().
This is done by pulling the "struct pollfd" traversal loop from do_pollfd()
into its only caller do_poll().  As an added bonus, the patch saves a few
clock cycles, and also adds comments to make the code easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: NVadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

exit_aio() and exit_mmap() can sleep.  But it's easy to accidentally call
mmput() from inside locks.

Cc: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

It's wasn't referenced in Makefile since at least 2.2.8, unbuildable due to
trivial typos and things like DATA_LATCH and arc_write_control() which
doesn't exist.

Adrian Bunk:
adapted the patch to unrelated context changes
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

"Dual MIT/GPL" is also accepted (kernel/module.c), so updated comments.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We can now make posix_locks_deadlock() static.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>