Current stack dump code scans entire stack and check each entry
contains a pointer to kernel code. If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y it
could mark whether the pointer is valid or not based on value of
the frame pointer. Invalid entries could be preceded by '?' sign.

However this was not going to happen because scan start point
was always higher than the frame pointer so that they could not
meet.

Commit 9c0729dc ("x86: Eliminate bp argument from the stack
tracing routines") delayed bp acquisition point, so the bp was
read in lower frame, thus all of the entries were marked
invalid.

This patch fixes this by reverting above commit while retaining
stack_frame() helper as suggested by Frederic Weisbecker.

End result looks like below:

before:

 [    3.508329] Call Trace:
 [    3.508551]  [<ffffffff814f35c9>] ? panic+0x91/0x199
 [    3.508662]  [<ffffffff814f3739>] ? printk+0x68/0x6a
 [    3.508770]  [<ffffffff81a981b2>] ? mount_block_root+0x257/0x26e
 [    3.508876]  [<ffffffff81a9821f>] ? mount_root+0x56/0x5a
 [    3.508975]  [<ffffffff81a98393>] ? prepare_namespace+0x170/0x1a9
 [    3.509216]  [<ffffffff81a9772b>] ? kernel_init+0x1d2/0x1e2
 [    3.509335]  [<ffffffff81003894>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [    3.509442]  [<ffffffff814f6880>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [    3.509542]  [<ffffffff81a97559>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1e2
 [    3.509641]  [<ffffffff81003890>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10

after:

 [    3.522991] Call Trace:
 [    3.523351]  [<ffffffff814f35b9>] panic+0x91/0x199
 [    3.523468]  [<ffffffff814f3729>] ? printk+0x68/0x6a
 [    3.523576]  [<ffffffff81a981b2>] mount_block_root+0x257/0x26e
 [    3.523681]  [<ffffffff81a9821f>] mount_root+0x56/0x5a
 [    3.523780]  [<ffffffff81a98393>] prepare_namespace+0x170/0x1a9
 [    3.523885]  [<ffffffff81a9772b>] kernel_init+0x1d2/0x1e2
 [    3.523987]  [<ffffffff81003894>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [    3.524228]  [<ffffffff814f6880>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [    3.524345]  [<ffffffff81a97559>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1e2
 [    3.524445]  [<ffffffff81003890>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10

 -v5:
   * fix build breakage with oprofile

 -v4:
   * use 0 instead of regs->bp
   * separate out printk changes

 -v3:
   * apply comment from Frederic
   * add a couple of printk fixes
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Soren Sandmann <ssp@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1300416006-3163-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The many stray whitespaces and other uncleanlinesses made this code
almost unreadable to me - so fix those.

No changes to the code.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix 'upto' misspelling and align parameters.
Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-2-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: Merge upstream commits to avoid conflicts in upcoming patches.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Testing on the OLPC XO-1.5 (VIA C7-M 1000MHz CPU) shows a partial_csum()
speed increase by a factor of 1.5 when we switch to the Pentium-optimized
version.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: dilinger@queued.net
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: This is one followup commit that was not in x86/mm - merge it via the urgent path
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  smp: Document transitivity for memory barriers.
  rcu: add comment saying why DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD depends on PREEMPT.
  rcupdate: remove dead code
  rcu: add documentation saying which RCU flavor to choose
  rcutorture: Get rid of duplicate sched.h include
  rcu: call __rcu_read_unlock() in exit_rcu for tiny RCU

It turns out that while a maximum of 8 partitions may be what people
"should" have had, you can actually fit up to 18 entries(*) in a sector.

And some people clearly were taking advantage of that, like Michael
Cree, who had ten partitions on one of his OSF disks.

(*) The OSF partition data starts at byte offset 64 in the first sector,
    and the array of 16-byte partition entries start at offset 148 in
    the on-disk partition structure.
Reported-by: NMichael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.38)
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

iprune_sem is continously giving us lockdep warnings because we do take it in
read mode in the reclaim path, but we're also doing non-NOFS allocations under
it taken in write mode.

Taking a bit deeper look at it I think it's fixable quite trivially:

 - for invalidate_inodes we do not need iprune_sem at all.  We have an active
   reference on the superblock, so the filesystem is not going away until it
   has finished.
 - for evict_inodes we do need it, to make sure prune_icache has done it's
   work before we tear down the superblock.  But there is no reason to
   hold it over the actual reclaim operation - it's enough to cycle through
   it after the actual reclaim to make sure we wait for any pending
   prune_icache to complete.  We just have to remove the WARN_ON for
   otherwise busy inodes as they can actually happen now.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[AV: on architectures where default conflicts with existing
flags, that is]
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Support for Always Running APIC timer (ARAT) was introduced in
commit db954b58. This feature
allows us to avoid switching timers from LAPIC to something else
(e.g. HPET) and go into timer broadcasts when entering deep
C-states.

AMD processors don't provide a CPUID bit for that feature but
they also keep APIC timers running in deep C-states (except for
cases when the processor is affected by erratum 400). Therefore
we should set ARAT feature bit on AMD CPUs.
Tested-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: NMark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1300205624-4813-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Commit 7f74f8f2
(x86 quirk: Fix polarity for IRQ0 pin2 override on SB800
systems) introduced a regression. It removed some SB600 specific
code to determine the revision ID without adapting a
corresponding revision ID check for SB600.

See this mail thread:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129980296006380&w=2

This patch adapts the corresponding check to cover all SB600
revisions.
Tested-by: NWang Lei <f3d27b@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 38.x, 37.x, 32.x
LKML-Reference: <20110315143137.GD29499@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

commit 574197e0 had a missing
piece, breaking the loop detection ;-/
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
  x86: Clean up apic.c and apic.h
  x86: Remove superflous goal definition of tsc_sync
  x86: dt: Correct local apic documentation in device tree bindings
  x86: dt: Cleanup local apic setup
  x86: dt: Fix OLPC=y/INTEL_CE=n build
  rtc: cmos: Add OF bindings
  x86: ce4100: Use OF to setup devices
  x86: ioapic: Add OF bindings for IO_APIC
  x86: dtb: Add generic bus probe
  x86: dtb: Add support for PCI devices backed by dtb nodes
  x86: dtb: Add device tree support for HPET
  x86: dtb: Add early parsing of IO_APIC
  x86: dtb: Add irq domain abstraction
  x86: dtb: Add a device tree for CE4100
  x86: Add device tree support
  x86: e820: Remove conditional early mapping in parse_e820_ext
  x86: OLPC: Make OLPC=n build again
  x86: OLPC: Remove extra OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE_DT indirection
  x86: OLPC: Cleanup config maze completely
  x86: OLPC: Hide OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE config switch
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/platform/ce4100/ce4100.c

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (93 commits)
  x86, tlb, UV: Do small micro-optimization for native_flush_tlb_others()
  x86-64, NUMA: Don't call numa_set_distanc() for all possible node combinations during emulation
  x86-64, NUMA: Don't assume phys node 0 is always online in numa_emulation()
  x86-64, NUMA: Clean up initmem_init()
  x86-64, NUMA: Fix numa_emulation code with node0 without RAM
  x86-64, NUMA: Revert NUMA affine page table allocation
  x86: Work around old gas bug
  x86-64, NUMA: Better explain numa_distance handling
  x86-64, NUMA: Fix distance table handling
  mm: Move early_node_map[] reverse scan helpers under HAVE_MEMBLOCK
  x86-64, NUMA: Fix size of numa_distance array
  x86: Rename e820_table_* to pgt_buf_*
  bootmem: Move __alloc_memory_core_early() to nobootmem.c
  bootmem: Move contig_page_data definition to bootmem.c/nobootmem.c
  bootmem: Separate out CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM code into nobootmem.c
  x86-64, NUMA: Seperate out numa_alloc_distance() from numa_set_distance()
  x86-64, NUMA: Add proper function comments to global functions
  x86-64, NUMA: Move NUMA emulation into numa_emulation.c
  x86-64, NUMA: Prepare numa_emulation() for moving NUMA emulation into a separate file
  x86-64, NUMA: Do not scan two times for setup_node_bootmem()
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c

* 'x86-mem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug

Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, microcode, AMD: Fix signedness bug in generic_load_microcode()
  x86, microcode, AMD: Extend ucode size verification
  x86, microcode, AMD: Cleanup dmesg output
  x86, microcode, AMD: Remove unneeded memset call
  x86, microcode, AMD: Simplify get_next_ucode
  x86, microcode, AMD: Simplify install_equiv_cpu_table
  x86, microcode, AMD: Release firmware on error
  x86, microcode: Correct sysdev_add error path

* 'um-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  um: Select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
  um: Use proper accessors in show_interrupts()
  um: Convert irq_chips to new functions
  um: Remove stale irq_chip.end

Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (116 commits)
  x86: Enable forced interrupt threading support
  x86: Mark low level interrupts IRQF_NO_THREAD
  x86: Use generic show_interrupts
  x86: ioapic: Avoid redundant lookup of irq_cfg
  x86: ioapic: Use new move_irq functions
  x86: Use the proper accessors in fixup_irqs()
  x86: ioapic: Use irq_data->state
  x86: ioapic: Simplify irq chip and handler setup
  x86: Cleanup the genirq name space
  genirq: Add chip flag to force mask on suspend
  genirq: Add desc->irq_data accessor
  genirq: Add comments to Kconfig switches
  genirq: Fixup fasteoi handler for oneshot mode
  genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading
  sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule_hrtimeout()
  genirq: Add IRQF_NO_THREAD
  genirq: Allow shared oneshot interrupts
  genirq: Prepare the handling of shared oneshot interrupts
  genirq: Make warning in handle_percpu_event useful
  x86: ioapic: Move trigger defines to io_apic.h
  ...

Fix up trivial(?) conflicts in arch/x86/pci/xen.c due to genirq name
space changes clashing with the Xen cleanups.  The set_irq_msi() had
moved to xen_bind_pirq_msi_to_irq().

Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Combine printk()s in show_regs_common()
  x86: Don't call dump_stack() from arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler()

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix and clean up generic_processor_info()
  x86: Don't copy per_cpu cpuinfo for BSP two times
  x86: Move llc_shared_map out of cpu_info

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive
  x86: Remove dead config option X86_CPU
  x86: Really print supported CPUs if PROCESSOR_SELECT=y
  x86: Fix a bogus unwind annotation in lib/semaphore_32.S
  um, x86-64: Fix UML build after adding CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S
  x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.S
  x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more places
  x86-64: Add CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S
  x86, asm: Cleanup unnecssary macros in asm-offsets.c
  x86, system.h: Drop unused __SAVE/__RESTORE macros
  x86: Use bitmap library functions
  x86: Partly unify asm-offsets_{32,64}.c
  x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section

Merge branch 'timers-rtc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'timers-rtc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  RTC: Fix up rtc.txt documentation to reflect changes to generic rtc layer
  RTC: sa1100: Update the sa1100 RTC driver.
  RTC: Fix the cross interrupt issue on rtc-test.
  RTC: Remove UIE and PIE information from the sa1100 driver proc.
  RTC: Include information about UIE and PIE in RTC driver proc.
  RTC: Clean out UIE icotl implementations
  RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->update_irq_enable()
  RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_freq()
  RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_state
  RTC: Initialize kernel state from RTC

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits)
  posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls
  hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer()
  hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation
  hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly
  timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
  timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base
  time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep
  time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime
  hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids
  ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check
  mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update()
  posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
  posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
  posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
  x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86
  posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
  time: Splitout compat timex accessors
  ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit
  time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset
  posix-timer: Update comment
  ...

Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
(name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some
due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in:
	kernel/time.c

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
  sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
  sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
  sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
  sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
  sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
  sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
  sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
  sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
  sched: Fix the group_imb logic
  sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
  sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
  sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
  sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
  sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
  sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
  sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
  sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
  sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
  sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
  softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
  ...

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
  perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
  tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
  tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
  tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
  tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
  ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
  ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
  tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
  tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
  tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
  tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
  tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
  tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
  tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
  perf header: Stop using 'self'
  perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
  perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
  perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
  ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
  tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
  ...

Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rtmutex: tester: Remove the remaining BKL leftovers
  lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may cause
  rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock
  rwsem: Remove redundant asmregparm annotation
  rwsem: Move duplicate function prototypes to linux/rwsem.h
  rwsem: Unify the duplicate rwsem_is_locked() inlines
  rwsem: Move duplicate init macros and functions to linux/rwsem.h
  rwsem: Move duplicate struct rwsem declaration to linux/rwsem.h
  x86: Cleanup rwsem_count_t typedef
  rwsem: Cleanup includes
  locking: Remove deprecated lock initializers
  cred: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  kthread: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  xtensa: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  um: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  sparc: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  mips: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  cris: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  alpha: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization
  rtmutex-tester: Remove BKL tests

Merge branch 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  arm: Remove bogus comment in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
  futex: Deobfuscate handle_futex_death()
  plist: Add priority list test
  plist: Shrink struct plist_head
  futex,plist: Remove debug lock assignment from plist_node
  futex,plist: Pass the real head of the priority list to plist_del()
  futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
  futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
  futex: Remove redundant pagefault_disable in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
  futex: Avoid redudant evaluation of task_pid_vnr()
  futex: Update futex_wait_setup comments about locking

Merge branch 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (57 commits)
  tidy the trailing symlinks traversal up
  Turn resolution of trailing symlinks iterative everywhere
  simplify link_path_walk() tail
  Make trailing symlink resolution in path_lookupat() iterative
  update nd->inode in __do_follow_link() instead of after do_follow_link()
  pull handling of one pathname component into a helper
  fs: allow AT_EMPTY_PATH in linkat(), limit that to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
  Allow passing O_PATH descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams
  readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames
  Allow O_PATH for symlinks
  New kind of open files - "location only".
  ext4: Copy fs UUID to superblock
  ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock.
  vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
  unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to asm-generic
  x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64
  x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32
  fs: Remove i_nlink check from file system link callback
  fs: Don't allow to create hardlink for deleted file
  vfs: Add open by file handle support
  ...

The new vfs locking scheme introduced in 2.6.38 breaks NFS sillyrename
because the latter relies on being able to determine the parent
directory of the dentry in the ->iput() callback in order to send the
appropriate unlink rpc call.

Looking at the code that cares about races with dput(), there doesn't
seem to be anything that specifically uses d_parent as a test for
whether or not there is a race:
  - __d_lookup_rcu(), __d_lookup() all test for d_hashed() after d_parent
  - shrink_dcache_for_umount() is safe since nothing else can rearrange
    the dentries in that super block.
  - have_submount(), select_parent() and d_genocide() can test for a
    deletion if we set the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED flag when the dentry
    is removed from the parent's d_subdirs list.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.38, needs commit c826cb7d "dcache.c:
	create helper function for duplicated functionality" )
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This creates a helper function for he "try to ascend into the parent
directory" case, which was written out in triplicate before.  With all
the locking and subtle sequence number stuff, we really don't want to
duplicate that kind of code.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* pull the handling of current->total_link_count into
__do_follow_link()
* put the common "do ->put_link() if needed and path_put() the link"
  stuff into a helper (put_link(nd, link, cookie))
* rename __do_follow_link() to follow_link(), while we are at it
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

The last remaining place (resolution of nested symlink) converted
to the loop of the same kind we have in path_lookupat() and
path_openat().

Note that we still *do* have a recursion in pathname resolution;
can't avoid it, really.  However, it's strictly for nested symlinks
now - i.e. ones in the middle of a pathname.

link_path_walk() has lost the tail now - it always walks everything
except the last component.

do_follow_link() renamed to nested_symlink() and moved down.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Now that link_path_walk() is called without LOOKUP_PARENT
only from do_follow_link(), we can simplify the checks in
last component handling.  First of all, checking if we'd
arrived to a directory is not needed - the caller will check
it anyway.  And LOOKUP_FOLLOW is guaranteed to be there,
since we only get to that place with nd->depth > 0.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Now the only caller of link_path_walk() that does *not* pass
LOOKUP_PARENT is do_follow_link()
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and note that we only need to do it for LAST_BIND symlinks
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: walk_component().  Handles everything except symlinks;
returns negative on error, 0 on success and 1 on symlinks we decided
to follow.  Drops out of RCU mode on such symlinks.

link_path_walk() and do_last() switched to using that.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

We don't want to allow creation of private hardlinks by different application
using the fd passed to them via SCM_RIGHTS. So limit the null relative name
usage in linkat syscall to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>