- 15 11月, 2007 40 次提交
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
- Remove debug print. - Change #if to #ifdef to avoid compile time warning if CONFIG_PROFILING isn't set. - Number of parameters to profile_tick has changed, drop the regs parameter. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Corrects compile errors and the following: - Remove oldset parameter from do_signal and do_notify_resume. - Modified to fit new consolidated IRQ handling code. - Reverse check order between external nmi and watchdog nmi to avoid false watchdog oops in case of a glitch on the nmi pin. - Return from an pin-generated NMI the same way as for other interrupts. - Moved blocking of ethernet rx/tx irq from ethernet interrupt handler to low-level asm interrupt handlers. Fixed in the multiple interrupt handler also. - Add space for thread local storage in thread_info struct. - Add NO_DMA to Kconfig, and include arch specific Kconfig using arch independent path. Include subsystem Kconfigs for pcmcia, usb, i2c, rtc and pci. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
Fix locking bug noted by Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>. Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
New (updated) version of ethernet driver for cris v10. - First steps to simplify and make the MII code more similar between the etrax100 and etraxfs ports. - Start the transmit queue before enabling tx interrupts to avoid race with the first frame. - Flip the comparition statement to stick to physical addresses to avoid phys_to_virt mapping a potential null pointer. This was not an error but the change simplifies debugging of address-space mappings. - Made myPrevRxDesc local to e100_rx since it was only used there. Fixed out of memory handling in e100_rx. If dev_alloc_skb() fails persistently the system is hosed anyway but at least it won't loop in an interrupt handler. - Correct some code formatting issues. - Add defines SET_ETH_ENABLE_LEDS, SET_ETH_DISABLE_LEDS and SET_ETH_AUTONEG used in new cris v10 ethernet driver. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Add missing defines for (unsupported) baud rates. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Include linux/fs.h, needed for do_pipe. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
- New file include/asm-cris/irq_regs.h. - Change handling of registers for do_IRQ. - Add GENERIC_HARDIRQS to Kconfig. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Include file linux/compiler.h is needed for 'likely'. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Include asm/irq.h to avoid undefined value warning. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Add missing syscalls to cris architecture. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Remove int from prototype, no longer needed and causes compile error. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
arm: drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c:381:1: warning: "FLASH_SIZE" redefined In file included from include/asm/arch/irqs.h:22, from include/asm/irq.h:4, from include/asm/hardirq.h:6, from include/linux/hardirq.h:7, from include/asm-generic/local.h:5, from include/asm/local.h:1, from include/linux/module.h:19, from include/linux/device.h:21, from include/linux/pci.h:52, from drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c:28: include/asm/arch/platform.h:444:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition Cc: Gilbert Wu <gilbert_wu@adaptec.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andreas Herrmann 提交于
Fix regression introduced with d435d862 ("cpu hotplug: mce: fix cpu hotplug error handling"). A CPU which was not brought up during boot (using maxcpus and additional_cpus parameters) couldn't be onlined anymore. For such a CPU it seemed that MCE was not supported during CPU_UP_PREPARE-time which caused mce_cpu_callback to return NOTIFY_BAD to notifier_call_chain. To fix this we: - call mce_create_device for CPU_ONLINE event (instead of CPU_UP_PREPARE), - avoid mce_remove_device() for the CPU that is not correctly initialized by mce_create_device() failure, - make mce_cpu_callback always return NOTIFY_OK for CPU_ONLINE event. Because CPU_ONLINE callback return value is always ignored. [akinobu.mita@gmail.com: avoid mce_remove_device() for not initialized device] [akinobu.mita@gmail.com: make mce_cpu_callback always return NOTIFY_OK] Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jan Blunck 提交于
x86 32-bit isn't saving the stack pointer to pt_regs->esp when an interrupt occurs. Signed-off-by: NJan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Tested-by: NRobert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC. Fix it by disabling preemption. (I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles) Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Borislav Petkov 提交于
Remove redundant code leading to NULL ptr deref and let terminal config settings take place in the proper initialization path in usb_console_setup(). Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Cc: <lucy@keyspan.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Starikovskiy 提交于
Check if AC state has changed across resume and notify userspace if so. Fixes "[2.6.24-rc1 regression] AC adapter state does not change after resume" Signed-off-by: NAlexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Tested-by: NAndrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrey Borzenkov 提交于
Do not provide /proc/acpi/ac_adapter if ACPI_PROCFS is not defined. This eliminates duplicated power adapters in HAL and makes it consistent with battery module Signed-off-by: NAndrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Acked-by: NAlexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
We'd better not nlmsg_free on a pointer containing an undefined value (and without having anything allocated). Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
No reason to keep the feature-removal-schedule.txt entry after the code was removed. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9247 Allow sigcont to be sent to a process with greater capabilities if it is in the same session. Otherwise, a shell from which I've started a root shell and done 'suspend' can't be restarted by the parent shell. Also don't do file-capabilities signaling checks when uids for the processes don't match, since the standard check_kill_permission will have done those checks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NAndrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Tested-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Balbir Singh 提交于
The delay incurred in lock_page() should also be accounted in swap delay accounting Reported-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jeff Dike 提交于
Handle the case of CONFIG_PRINTK being disabled. This requires a do-nothing stub to be present in arch/um/include/user.h so that we don't get references to printk from libc code. Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jeff Dike 提交于
Make UML build in the absence of CONFIG_INET by making the inetaddr_notifier registration depend on it. Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jeff Dike 提交于
asm/page.h is disappearing from the libc headers and we don't need it anyway. Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jeff Dike 提交于
The spurious IRQ testing in request_irq is mishandled in um_request_irq, which sets the incoming file descriptors non-blocking only after request_irq succeeds. This results in the spurious irq calling read on a blocking descriptor, and a hang. Fixed by reversing the O_NONBLOCK setting and the request_irq call. Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
With 64KB blocksize, a directory entry can have size 64KB which does not fit into 16 bits we have for entry lenght. So we store 0xffff instead and convert value when read from / written to disk. The patch also converts some places to use ext3_next_entry() when we are changing them anyway. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jeff Layton 提交于
Fix some warnings with SMBFS_DEBUG_* builds. This patch makes it so that builds with -Werror don't fail. Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Johannes Berg 提交于
Lockdep reports a circular locking dependency in the hibernate code because - during system boot hibernate code (from an initcall) locks pm_mutex and then a sysfs buffer mutex via name_to_dev_t - during regular operation hibernate code locks pm_mutex under a sysfs buffer mutex because it's called from sysfs methods. The deadlock can never happen because during initcall invocation nothing can write to sysfs yet. This removes the lockdep report by marking the initcall locking as being in a different class. Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Russ Anderson 提交于
In __do_IRQ(), the normal case is that IRQ_DISABLED is checked and if set the handler (handle_IRQ_event()) is not called. Earlier in __do_IRQ(), if IRQ_PER_CPU is set the code does not check IRQ_DISABLED and calls the handler even though IRQ_DISABLED is set. This behavior seems unintentional. One user encountering this behavior is the CPE handler (in arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c). When the CPE handler encounters too many CPEs (such as a solid single bit error), it sets up a polling timer and disables the CPE interrupt (to avoid excessive overhead logging the stream of single bit errors). disable_irq_nosync() is called which sets IRQ_DISABLED. The IRQ_PER_CPU flag was previously set (in ia64_mca_late_init()). The net result is the CPE handler gets called even though it is marked disabled. If the behavior of not checking IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set is intentional, it would be worthy of a comment describing the intended behavior. disable_irq_nosync() does call chip->disable() to provide a chipset specifiec interface for disabling the interrupt, which avoids this issue when used. Signed-off-by: NRuss Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs with a single blow. After some intensive review (my apologies for not having gotten to this sooner) what we have looks like a good base to build on with the current pid namespace code but it is not complete, and it is still much to simple to find issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of the initial pid namespace. Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and the implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep process ID namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs we find as long as they are minor. Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply by ensuring their kernel does not have support for multiple pid namespaces. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@swsoft.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Mark start_cpu_timer() as __cpuinit instead of __devinit. Fixes this section warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x60e53): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_cpu_timer (between 'vmstat_cpuup_callback' and 'vmstat_show') Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Make 'default_mode' and 'default_var' be __initdata. Fixes these section warnings: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x128e0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:default_mode_CRT (between 'default_mode' and 'default_var') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x128e4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:default_var_CRT (between 'default_var' and 'dev_attr_size') Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Arjan van de Ven 提交于
sys_open / sys_read were used in the early 1.2 days to load firmware from disk inside drivers. Since 2.0 or so this was deprecated behavior, but several drivers still were using this. Since a few years we have a request_firmware() API that implements this in a nice, consistent way. Only some old ISA sound drivers (pre-ALSA) still straggled along for some time.... however with commit c2b1239a the last user is now gone. This is a good thing, since using sys_open / sys_read etc for firmware is a very buggy to dangerous thing to do; these operations put an fd in the process file descriptor table.... which then can be tampered with from other threads for example. For those who don't want the firmware loader, filp_open()/vfs_read are the better APIs to use, without this security issue. The patch below marks sys_open and sys_read unused now that they're really not used anymore, and for deletion in the 2.6.25 timeframe. Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jan Kiszka 提交于
Commit faf8c714 caused a regression: parameter names longer than MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME will now be rejected, although we just need to keep the module name part that short. This patch restores the old behaviour while still avoiding that memchr is called with its length parameter larger than the total string length. Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Currently we special case when we have only the initial pid namespace. Unfortunately in doing so the copied case for the other namespaces was broken so we don't properly flush the thread directories :( So this patch removes the unnecessary special case (removing a usage of proc_mnt) and corrects the flushing of the thread directories. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Roel Kluin 提交于
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Roel Kluin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
We have seen ramdisk based install systems, where some pages of mapped libraries and programs were suddendly zeroed under memory pressure. This should not happen, as the ramdisk avoids freeing its pages by keeping them dirty all the time. It turns out that there is a case, where the VM makes a ramdisk page clean, without telling the ramdisk driver. On memory pressure shrink_zone runs and it starts to run shrink_active_list. There is a check for buffer_heads_over_limit, and if true, pagevec_strip is called. pagevec_strip calls try_to_release_page. If the mapping has no releasepage callback, try_to_free_buffers is called. try_to_free_buffers has now a special logic for some file systems to make a dirty page clean, if all buffers are clean. Thats what happened in our test case. The simplest solution is to provide a noop-releasepage callback for the ramdisk driver. This avoids try_to_free_buffers for ramdisk pages. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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