Linux does not gracefully deal with multiple processors going
through OS_MCA aa part of the same MCA event.  The first cpu
into OS_MCA grabs the ia64_mca_serialize lock.  Subsequent
cpus wait for that lock, preventing them from reporting in as
rendezvoused.  The first cpu waits 5 seconds then complains
that all the cpus have not rendezvoused.  The first cpu then
handles its MCA and frees up all the rendezvoused cpus and
releases the ia64_mca_serialize lock.  One of the subsequent
cpus going thought OS_MCA then gets the ia64_mca_serialize
lock, waits another 5 seconds and then complains that none of
the other cpus have rendezvoused.

This patch allows multiple CPUs to gracefully go through OS_MCA.

The first CPU into ia64_mca_handler() grabs a mca_count lock.
Subsequent CPUs into ia64_mca_handler() are added to a list of cpus
that need to go through OS_MCA (a bit set in mca_cpu), and report
in as rendezvoused, and but spin waiting their turn.

The first CPU sees everyone rendezvous, handles his MCA, wakes up
one of the other CPUs waiting to process their MCA (by clearing
one mca_cpu bit), and then waits for the other cpus to complete
their MCA handling.  The next CPU handles his MCA and the process
repeats until all the CPUs have handled their MCA.  When the last
CPU has handled it's MCA, it sets monarch_cpu to -1, releasing all
the CPUs.

In testing this works more reliably and faster.

Thanks to Keith Owens for suggesting numerous improvements
to this code.
Signed-off-by: NRuss Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Tell GCC to stop spewing out unnecessary warnings for unused variables
passed to functions as pointers for ia64 files.
Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Example memory map (HP rx7640 with 'default' acpiconfig setting, VGA disabled):
   0x00000000 - 0x3FFFBFFF  supports only WB (cacheable) access

If a user attempts to perform an MMIO mmap (using the PCIIOC_MMAP_IS_MEM ioctl)
to PCI config space (like mmap'ing and accessing memory at 0xA0000),
we will MCA because the kernel will attempt to use a mapping with the UC
attribute.

So check the memory attribute in kern_mmap and the EFI memmap. If WC is
requested, and WC or UC access is supported for the region, allow it.
Otherwise, use the same attribute the kernel uses.

Updates documentation and test cases as well.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Add wrapper function to make SN_SAL_REGISTER_PMI_HANDLER ia64_sal_oemcall.
Signed-off-by: NDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

SDM says that brl instruction must be followed by a stop bit.
Fix instance in BRL_COND_FSYS_BUBBLE_DOWN where it isn't.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Kandeler <christian.kandeler@hob.de>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

On SN systems, when setting the IORESOURCE_ROM_BIOS_COPY resource flag,
the resource length should be set to the actual size of the ROM image
so that a call to pci_map_rom() returns the correct size.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

It's not a good idea to use "ssm psr.ic | psr.i" to simultaneously
enable interrupts and interrupt state collection, the two bits can
take effect asynchronously, so it is possible for an interrupt to
be serviced while psr.ic is still zero.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Woo-hoo. I'm sure somebody will report a "this doesn't compile, and
I have a new root exploit" five minutes after release, but it still
feels good ;)
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
  qd65xx: fix PIO mode selection
  sis5513: adding PCI-ID

Commit 1c710c89 added the utimensat()
system call, but didn't handle the case of checking for the writability
of the target right, when the target was a file descriptor, not a
filename.

We cannot use vfs_permission(MAY_WRITE) for that case, and need to
simply check whether the file descriptor is writable.  The oops from
using the wrong function was noticed and narrowed down by Markus
Trippelsdorf.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix a post-2.6.21 regression.

read_cache_page_async() has two invocations of mark_page_accessed() which will
launch pages right onto the active list.

Remove the first one, keeping the latter one.  This avoids marking unwanted
pages active (in the retry loop).
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

PIO4 is a maximum PIO mode supported by a driver.  Using "255" as a max_mode
argument to ide_get_best_pio_mode() could result in wrong timings being used
by a driver (for "pio" equal to 5) or OOPS (for "pio" values > 5 && < 255).
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Reviewed-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

The SiS966 has one additional PCI-ID 1180.

If the chipset is using this PCI-ID, the primary channel is connected to the
first PATA-port. The secondary channel is connected to SATA-ports in IDE
emulation mode.  The legacy IO-ports are used.

The including of the PCI-ID into pata_sis is not sufficient, because the legacy
driver in drivers/ide is initialized before pata_sis.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Koziolek <uwe.koziolek@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

The dependency of DLM on SYSFS got lost in
commit 6ed7257b resulting in the
following compile error with CONFIG_DLM=y, CONFIG_SYSFS=n:

<--  snip  -->

...
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
fs/built-in.o: In function `dlm_lockspace_init':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/fs/dlm/lockspace.c:231: undefined reference to `kernel_subsys'
fs/built-in.o: In function `configfs_init':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/fs/configfs/mount.c:143: undefined reference to `kernel_subsys'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

<--  snip  -->
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The printk level in this printk is bogus, as the previous printk
didn't have a terminating \n resulting in ..

Intel E7520/7320/7525 detected.<6>Disabling irq balancing and affinity

It also never printed a \n at all in the case where we didn't do
the quirk.

Change it to only make noise if it actually does something useful.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch fixes the following 2.6.22 regression with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n:

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC      arch/m32r/kernel/traps.o
In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c:14:
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/include/linux/kallsyms.h: In function 'lookup_symbol_name':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/include/linux/kallsyms.h:66: error: 'ERANGE' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/include/linux/kallsyms.h:66: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/include/linux/kallsyms.h:66: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/include/linux/kallsyms.h: In function 'lookup_symbol_attrs':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/include/linux/kallsyms.h:71: error: 'ERANGE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [arch/m32r/kernel/traps.o] Error 1

<--  snip  -->
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When cleaning up HIDP sessions, we currently close the ACL connection
before deregistering the input device. Closing the ACL connection
schedules a workqueue to remove the associated objects from sysfs, but
the input device still refers to them -- and if the workqueue happens to
run before the input device removal, the kernel will oops when trying to
look up PHYSDEVPATH for the removed input device.

Fix this by deregistering the input device before closing the
connections.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kmem_cache_open is static. EXPORT_SYMBOL was leftover from some earlier
time period where kmem_cache_open was usable outside of slub.

(Fixes powerpc build error)
Signed-off-by: NChrsitoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

davem kindly moved the list from osdl to vger.
Signed-of-by: Nmaximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Writing to MSR 0x51400017 forces a hard reset on CS5536-based machines,
this has the reboot fixup do just that if such a board is detected.
Acked-by: NJordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NETPOLL]: Fixups for 'fix soft lockup when removing module'
  [NET]: net/core/netevent.c should #include <net/netevent.h>
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_h323: add checking of out-of-range on choices' index values
  [NET] skbuff: remove export of static symbol
  SCTP: Add scope_id validation for link-local binds
  SCTP: Check to make sure file is valid before setting timeout
  SCTP: Fix thinko in sctp_copy_laddrs()

* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] Fix scheduling latency issue on 24K, 34K and 74K cores
  [MIPS] Add macros to encode processor revisions.
  [MIPS] RM7000: Enable ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR.
  [MIPS] SMTC: Fix cut'n'paste bug in Kconfig.debug
  [MIPS] Change libgcc-style functions from lib-y to obj-y
  [MIPS] Fix timer/performance interrupt detection
  [MIPS] AP/SP: Avoid triggering the 34K E125 performance issue
  [MIPS] 64-bit TO_PHYS_MASK macro for RM9000 processors

Line up the vmstat_text with zone_stat_item

enum zone_stat_item {
	/* First 128 byte cacheline (assuming 64 bit words) */
	NR_FREE_PAGES,
	NR_INACTIVE,
	NR_ACTIVE,

We current have nr_active and nr_inactive reversed.

[ "OK with patch, though using initializers canbe handy to prevent such
   things in future:

	static const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
		[NR_FREE_PAGES] = "nr_free_pages",
		..."
							 - Alexey ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In 7d12e780 David Howells performed
this evolution:
 "IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers"

He correctly updated many of the function definitions that were using this
extra regs pointer parameter but forgot to update some caller sites of
those functions.  The reason the modifications was not properly done on all
drivers is that some drivers were rarely compiled because they are for
AMIGA, or that some code sites were inside #ifdefs where the option is not
set or inside #if 0.

Here is the semantic patch that found the occurences
and fixed the problem.

@ rule1 @
identifier fn;
identifier irq, dev_id;
typedef irqreturn_t;
@@

static irqreturn_t fn(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
   ...
}

@@
identifier rule1.fn;
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@

 fn(E1, E2
-   ,E3
   )
Signed-off-by: NYoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

o Commit 1833d6bc broke the build if
  compiled with CONFIG_ES7000=y and CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=n

arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x4fa9): In function `acpi_parse_madt':
: undefined reference to `acpi_madt_oem_check'
arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x7406): In function `smp_read_mpc':
: undefined reference to `mps_oem_check'
arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8990): In function
`connect_bsp_APIC':
: undefined reference to `enable_apic_mode'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

o Fix the build issue. Provided the definitions of missing functions.

o Don't have ES7000 machine. Only compile tested.

Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When we enable the SMCf010 IR device, the Toshiba Portege 4000 BIOS claims
the device is working, but it really isn't configured correctly.  The BIOS
*will* configure it, but only if we call _SRS after (1) reversing the order
of the SIR and FIR I/O port regions and (2) changing the IRQ from
active-high to active-low.

This patch addresses the 2.6.22 regression:
    "no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip"

I tested this on a Portege 4000.  The smsc-ircc2 driver correctly detects
the device, and "irattach irda0 -s && irdadump" shows transmitted and
received packets.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: "Linus Walleij (LD/EAB)" <linus.walleij@ericsson.com>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When calling a semctl(IPC_STAT) without IPC_64 the check if the memory is
unevaluated.  This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A bug in headers_install for ARCH=x86_64 yields an asm/ directory full of
files all of which are using the same #ifdef guard, "__ASM_STUB_" with no
postfix.  So the second and later asm files #included in the same C file
(often through standard headers like ioctl.h) yields no symbols.

Strangeness with the Ubuntu 'tell me if I support something that's not
explcitly mentioned in POSIX, and I'll strip it out' shell, I believe.

We don't need the 'export' but we do need a semicolon at the end of the
FNAME line:
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NRob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Processors synchronization in set_mtrr requires the .gate field to be set
after .count field is properly initialized.  Without an explicit barrier,
the compiler was reordering those memory stores.  That was sometimes
causing a processor (in ipi_handler) to see the .gate change and decrement
.count before the latter is set by set_mtrr() (which then hangs in a
infinite loop with irqs disabled).
Signed-off-by: NLoic Prylli <loic@myri.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The commit 635cf99a introduced a
regression.  Executing a ptrace single step after certain int80
accesses will infinitely loop and never advance the PC.

The TIF_SINGLESTEP check should be done on the return from the syscall
and not before it.

I loops on each single step on the pop right after the int80 which writes out
to the console.  At that point you can issue as many single steps as you want
and it will not advance any further.

The test case is below:

/* Test whether singlestep through an int80 syscall works.
 */
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <asm/user.h>
#include <string.h>

static int child, status;
static struct user_regs_struct regs;

static void do_child()
{
	char str[80] = "child: int80 test\n";

	ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
	kill(getpid(), SIGUSR1);
	write(fileno(stdout),str,strlen(str));
	asm ("int $0x80" : : "a" (20)); /* getpid */
}

static void do_parent()
{
	unsigned long eip, expected = 0;
again:
	waitpid(child, &status, 0);
	if (WIFEXITED(status) || WIFSIGNALED(status))
		return;

	if (WIFSTOPPED(status)) {
		ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS, child, 0, &regs);
		eip = regs.eip;
		if (expected)
			fprintf(stderr, "child stop @ %08lx, expected %08lx %s\n",
					eip, expected,
					eip == expected ? "" : " <== ERROR");

		if (*(unsigned short *)eip == 0x80cd) {
			fprintf(stderr, "int 0x80 at %08x\n", (unsigned int)eip);
			expected = eip + 2;
		} else
			expected = 0;

		ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, child, NULL, NULL);
	}
	goto again;
}

int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
{
	child = fork();
	if (child)
		do_parent();
	else
		do_child();
	return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

elf_core_dump() supports dumping arch specific ELF notes, via the #define
ELF_CORE_WRITE_EXTRA_NOTES.  Currently the only user of this is the powerpc
spu coredump code.

There is a bug in the handling of foffset WRT the arch notes, which causes
us to erroneously increment foffset by the size of the arch notes, leaving
a block of zeroes in the file, and causing all subsequent data in the file
to be at <supposed position> + <arch note size>.  eg:

  LOAD  0x050000 0x00100000 0x00000000 0x20000 0x20000 R E 0x10000

Tells us we should have a chunk of data at 0x50000.  The truth is the data
is at 0x90dbc = 0x50000 + 0x40dbc (the size of the arch notes).

This bug prevents gdb from reading the core file correctly.

The simplest fix is to simply remember the size of the arch notes, and add
it to foffset after we've written the arch notes.  The only drawback is
that if the arch code doesn't write as many bytes as it said it would, we
end up with a broken core dump again.  For now I think that's a reasonable
requirement.

Tested on a Cell blade, gdb no longer complains about the core file being
bogus.

While I'm here I should point out that the spu coredump code does not work
if we're dumping to a pipe - we'll have to wait for 23 to fix that.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The idle loop goes to sleep using the WAIT instruction if !need_resched().
This has is suffering from from a race condition that if if just after
need_resched has returned 0 an interrupt might set TIF_NEED_RESCHED but
we've just completed the test so go to sleep anyway.  This would be
trivial to fix by just disabling interrupts during that sequence as in:

        local_irq_disable();
        if (!need_resched())
                __asm__("wait");
        local_irq_enable();

but the processor architecture leaves it undefined if a processor calling
WAIT with interrupts disabled will ever restart its pipeline and indeed
some processors have made use of the freedom provided by the architecture
definition.  This has been resolved and the Config7.WII bit indicates that
the use of WAIT is safe on 24K, 24KE and 34K cores.  It also is safe on
74K starting revision 2.1.0 so enable the use of WAIT with interrupts
disabled for 74K based on a c0_prid of at least that.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Older processors used to encode processor version and revision in two
4-bit bitfields, the 4K seems to simply count up and even newer MTI cores
have switched to use the 8-bits as 3:3:2 bitfield with the last field as
the patch number.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

The RM7000 processors and the E9000 cores have a bug (though PMC-Sierra
opposes it being called that) where invalid instructions in the same
I-cache line worth of instructions being fetched may case spurious
exceptions.

The workaround for this was only enabled for E9000 cores; enable it also
for all RM7000-based platforms.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

This effectivly turned the SMTC_IDLE_HOOK_DEBUG debug option into a no-op.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Reported by Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>.

If only modules were users of these functions they did not get linked into
the kernel proper, so later module loads would fail as well.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NChris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

C0_status doesn't need to be initialized at this point anyway; the register
will be initialized later.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndrew Sharp <tigerand@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

>From my recent patch:

> >    #1
> >    Until kernel ver. 2.6.21 (including) cancel_rearming_delayed_work()
> >    required a work function should always (unconditionally) rearm with
> >    delay > 0 - otherwise it would endlessly loop. This patch replaces
> >    this function with cancel_delayed_work(). Later kernel versions don't
> >    require this, so here it's only for uniformity.

But Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> found:

> But 2.6.22 doesn't need this change, why it was merged?
> 
> In fact, I suspect this change adds a race,
...

His description was right (thanks), so this patch reverts #1.
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>