Perfmon associates vmalloc()ed memory with a file descriptor, and installs
a vma mapping that memory.  Unfortunately, the vm_file field is not filled
in, so processes with mappings to that memory do not prevent the file from
being closed and the memory freed.  This results in use-after-free bugs and
multiple freeing of pages, etc.

I saw this bug on an Altix on SLES9.  Haven't reproduced upstream but it
looks like the same issue is there.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Add VERIFY_WRITE check in the beginning like compat_sys_getdents() (EINVAL vs
EFAULT).
Signed-off-by: NAlexandr Andreev <aandreev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Always build ia64 xor.o because multiple config options now depend on it.

Necessary to build .20-mm* on ia64 when, e.g., CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_DMA is
defined.  Don't know if '_ASYNC_TX_DMA makes sense on ia64.  If not, maybe
Kconfig should preclude it.

Could have defined a Kconfig option that defaults to true if MD_RAID456 ||
ASYNC_TX_DMA to control building of xor.o, but xor.o is only 848 bytes and
this IS ia64...
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Un-Breaks pthreads, since Oct 2003.
Signed-off-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Make saved_max_pfn point to max_pfn of entire system.

Without this patch is so that vmcore is zero length on ia64.  This is
because saved_max_pfn was wrongly being set to the max_pfn of the crash
kernel's address space, rather than the max_pfg on the physical memory of
the machine - the whole purpose of vmcore is to access physical memory that
is not part of the crash kernel's addresss space.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NZou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Sort-Of-Acked-By: NJay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This reverts commit 51099005.

CONFIG_PARAVIRT broke old glibc bootup: it silently turned off the
selectability of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO and thus rendered distro kernels
unbootable on old-style VDSO glibc setups.

the proper solution is to keep COMPAT_VDSO available - if a hypervisor
needs any modification of that concept then we'll judge those changes in
full context, once those changes are submitted.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight:
  backlight: Allow enable/disable of fb backlights, fixing regressions
  backlight: Fix nvidia backlight initial brightness

there's a new NMI watchdog related problem: KVM crashes on certain
bzImages because ... we enable the NMI watchdog by default (even if the
user does not ask for it) , and no other OS on this planet does that so
KVM doesnt have emulation for that yet. So KVM injects a #GP, which
crashes the Linux guest:

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
 PREEMPT SMP
 Modules linked in:
 CPU:    0
 EIP:    0060:[<c011a8ae>]    Not tainted VLI
 EFLAGS: 00000246   (2.6.20-rc5-rt0 #3)
 EIP is at setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+0x26d/0x3d3

and no, i did /not/ request an nmi_watchdog on the boot command line!

Solution: turn off that darn thing! It's a debug tool, not a 'make life
harder' tool!!

with this patch the KVM guest boots up just fine.

And with this my laptop (Lenovo T60) also stopped its sporadic hard
hanging (sometimes in acpi_init(), sometimes later during bootup,
sometimes much later during actual use) as well. It hung with both
nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2, so it's generally the fact of NMI
injection that is causing problems, not the NMI watchdog variant, nor
any particular bootup code.

[ NMI breaks on some systems, esp in combination with SMM -Arjan ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

do not use default=y for CONFIG_VMI (we do not do that for any driver or
special-hardware feature): the overwhelming majority of Linux users does
not need it, and interested users and distributions can enable it
as-needed.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Clarify the description of the CONFIG_VMI option: describe the reality
that VMI is a VMWare-only interface for now. Once that changes and
another hypervisor adopts the VMI ABI we can change the text.

As can be seen from the Xen paravirtualization patches submitted to lkml
the Xen project has chosen its own, non-VMI interface between Xen and
the para-Linux - so remove Xen from the description.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Temove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on x86+PARAVIRT kernels.

It's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

CT based mach64 cards were reported to hang on sparc64 boxes when
compiled with gcc-4.1.x and later.

Looking at this piece of code, it's no surprise.  A critical
delay was implemented as an empty for() loop, and gcc 4.0.x
and previous did not optimize it away, so we did get a delay.

But gcc-4.1.x and later can optimize it away, and we get crashes.

Use a real udelay() to fix this.  Fix verified on SunBlade100.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

  CC      arch/i386/kernel/vmi.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c: In function 'vmi_map_pt_hook':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: 'KM_PTE0' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: 'KM_PTE1' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/vmi.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Replacing use of UTS_RELEASE with utsname()->release avoids that the
usb-storage driver is recompiled each time the kernel version changes.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.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>

Add some documentation for the new and very useful io-accounting feature.
It's being added to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Signed-off-by: NRoland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix the following compile error:

  MODPOST 327 modules
WARNING: "aty_st_lcd" [drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "aty_ld_lcd" [drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2
Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

"drivers/char/epca.c:2741: warning: 'get_termio' defined but not used"
Signed-off-by: NMichal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Doing something like this on a two cpu system

  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
  # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

will give me this:

  =======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  2.6.21-rc2-g562aa1d4-dirty #7
  -------------------------------------------------------
  bash/1282 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&cpu_base->lock_key){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f17e>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xc6/0x240

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&cpu_base->lock_key#2){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f174>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xbc/0x240

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

This happens because we have the following code in kernel/hrtimer.c:

  migrate_hrtimers(int cpu)
  [...]
  old_base = &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, cpu);
  new_base = &get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases);
  [...]
  spin_lock(&new_base->lock);
  spin_lock(&old_base->lock);

Which means the spinlocks are taken in an order which depends on which cpu
gets shut down from which other cpu. Therefore lockdep complains that there
might be an ABBA deadlock. Since migrate_hrtimers() gets only called on
cpu hotplug it's safe to assume that it isn't executed concurrently on a

The same problem exists in kernel/timer.c: migrate_timers().

As pointed out by Christian Borntraeger one possible solution to avoid
the locking order complaints would be to make sure that the locks are
always taken in the same order. E.g. by taking the lock of the cpu with
the lower number first.

To achieve this we introduce two new spinlock functions double_spin_lock
and double_spin_unlock which lock or unlock two locks in a given order.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch resolves the issue found here:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426

The basic summary is:
Currently we register most of i386/x86_64 clocksources at module_init
time. Then we enable clocksource selection at late_initcall time. This
causes some problems for drivers that use gettimeofday for init
calibration routines (specifically the es1968 driver in this case),
where durring module_init, the only clocksource available is the low-res
jiffies clocksource. This may cause slight calibration errors, due to
the small sampling time used.

It should be noted that drivers that require fine grained time may not
function on architectures that do not have better then jiffies
resolution timekeeping (there are a few). However, this does not
discount the reasonable need for such fine-grained timekeeping at init
time.

Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when
the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource
selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall).

This patch should probably get some testing time in -mm, since
clocksource selection is one of the most important issues for correct
timekeeping, and I've only been able to test this on a few of my own
boxes.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Removes unused 'flags' variable from setup_IO_APIC_irq().
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

ipmi_si_intf tries to access default ports, if no device could be found
elsewhere.  On PPC we have a function to check, if these legacy IO ports
are accessible.  This patch adds a check for these ports on PPC.  This
patch fixes a breakage of IPMI module on PPC machines without a BMC.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- In fact we don't have to fail if AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE was returned from
  prepare_write or commit_write. It is beter to retry attempt where it
  is possible.

- Rearange ecryptfs_get_lower_page() error handling logic, make it more clean.
Signed-off-by: NDmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- Currently after path_lookup succeed we dot't have any guarantie what
  it is DIR. This must be explicitly demanded.
- path_lookup can't return negative dentry, So inode check is useless.
Signed-off-by: NDmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

  Testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck (54->54)!
  CPU#1: NMI appears to be stuck (0->0)!

Keep the PIT/HPET alive when nmi_watchdog = 1 is given on the command
line.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Recent patch for raid6 reshape had a change missing that showed up in
subsequent review.

Many places in the raid5 code used "conf->raid_disks-1" to mean "number of
data disks".  With raid6 that had to be changed to "conf->raid_disk -
conf->max_degraded" or similar.  One place was missed.

This bug means that if a raid6 reshape were aborted in the middle the
recorded position would be wrong.  On restart it would either fail (as the
position wasn't on an appropriate boundary) or would leave a section of the
array unreshaped, causing data corruption.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Critical fixes for SMP.

Fix a couple functions which needed to be __devinit and fix a bogus parameter
to AP startup that just so happened to work because the low virtual mapping of
memory was still established.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Use para_fill instead of directly setting the APIC ops to the result of the
vmi_get_function call - this allows one to implement a VMI ROM without
implementing APIC functions, just using the native APIC functions.

While doing this, I realized that there is a lot more cleanup that should have
been done.  Basically, we should never assume that the ROM implements a
specific set of functions, and always allow fallback to the native
implementation.

This is critical for future compatibility.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

More goo from hrtimers integration.  We do compile and run properly with NO_HZ
enabled.  There was a period when we didn't because of a missing export, but
that was since fixed.

And with the clocksource code now firmly in place, we can get rid of code that
fixes up the wallclock, since this is done in the common infrastructure.  This
actually fixes a timer bug as well, that was caused by do_settimeofday no
longer being callable with interrupts disabled due to the use of
on_each_cpu().
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The time_init_hook in paravirt-ops no longer functions in the correct manner
after the integration of the hrtimers code.  The problem is that now the call
path for time initialization is:

  time_init :
       late_time_init = hpet_time_init;

  late_time_init -> hpet_time_init:
       setup_pit_timer (BAD)
       do_time_init --> (via paravirt.h)
          time_init_hook --> (via arch_hooks.h)
              time_init_hook (in SUBARCH/setup.c)

If this isn't confusing enough, the paravirt case goes through an indirect
function pointer in the paravirt-ops table.  The problem is, by the time the
paravirt hook is called, the pit timer is already enabled.

But paravirt guests have their own timer, and don't want to use the PIT.
Rather than intensify the struggle for power going on here, just make it all
nice and simple and just unconditionally do all timer setup in the
late_time_init hook.  This also has the advantage of enabling timers in the
same place in all code paths, so everyone has the same bugs and we don't have
outliers who break other code because they turn on timer too early or too
late.

So the paravirt-ops time init function is now by default hpet_time_init, which
is the time init function used for native hardware.  Paravirt guests have the
chance to override this when they setup the paravirt-ops table, and should
need no change.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Not respecting udelay causes problems with any virtual hardware that is passed
through to real hardware.  This can be noticed by any device that interacts
with the real world in real time - like AP startup, which takes real time.  Or
keyboard LEDs, which should blink in real-time.  Or floppy drives, but only
when passed through to a real floppy controller on OSes which can't
sufficiently buffer the floppy commands to emulate a zero latency floppy.  Or
IDE drives, when connecting to a physical CDROM.

This was mostly a hack to get the kernel to boot faster, but it introduced a
number of misvirtualization bugs, and Alan and Pavel argued pretty strongly
against it.  We were the only client, and now want to clean up this cruft.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Provide a PT map hook for HIGHPTE kernels to designate where they are mapping
page tables.  This information is required so the physical address of PTE
updates can be determined; otherwise, the mm layer would have to carry the
physical address all the way to each PTE modification callsite, which is even
more hideous that the macros required to provide the proper hooks.

So lets not mess up arch neutral code to achieve this, but keep the horror in
an #ifdef HIGHPTE in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h.  I had to use macros here
because some types are not yet defined in all the include paths for this
header.

This patch is absolutely required for HIGHPTE kernels to operate properly with
VMI.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In order to share the common code in tsc.c which does CPU Khz calibration, we
need to make an accurate value of CPU speed available to the tsc.c code.  This
value loses a lot of precision in a VM because of the timing differences with
real hardware, but we need it to be as precise as possible so the guest can
make accurate time calculations with the cycle counters.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The custom_sched_clock hook is broken.  The result from sched_clock needs to
be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles.  The TSC is insufficient for this
purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly
represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be
interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled).

To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time,
that is scheduled time.  So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it
into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along.  This allows the tsc.c
code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops
backends.

It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct
abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine
implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I
ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even
got in the wrong units.
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Critical bugfixes for the VMI-Timer code.

1) Do not setup a one shot alarm if we are keeping the periodic alarm
   armed.  Additionally, since the periodic alarm can be run at a lower rate
   than HZ, let's fixup the guard to the no-idle-hz mode appropriately.  This
   fixes the bug where the no-idle-hz mode might have a higher interrupt rate
   than the non-idle case.

2) The interrupt handler can no longer adjust xtime due to nested lock
   acquisition.  Drop this.  We don't need to check for wallclock time at
   every tick, it can be done in userspace instead.

3) Add a bypass to disable noidle operation.  This is useful as a last
   minute workaround, or testing measure.

4) The code to skip the IO_APIC timer testing (no_timer_check) should be
   conditional on IO_APIC, not SMP, since UP kernels can have this configured
   in as well.
Signed-off-by: NDan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently we do not check for vma flags if sys_move_pages is called to move
individual pages.  If sys_migrate_pages is called to move pages then we
check for vm_flags that indicate a non migratable vma but that still
includes VM_LOCKED and we can migrate mlocked pages.

Extract the vma_migratable check from mm/mempolicy.c, fix it and put it
into migrate.h so that is can be used from both locations.

Problem was spotted by Lee Schermerhorn
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently sm501fb_crtsrc_store() won't allow the routing to be changed via
echos from userspace in to the sysfs file.  The reason for this is that the
strnicmp() for both heads uses a sizeof() for the string length, which ends
up being strlen() + 1 (\0 in the normal case, but the echo gives a newline,
which is where the issue occurs), this then causes a mismatch and
subsequently bails with the -EINVAL.

In addition to this, the hardcoded lengths were then used for the store
length that was returned, which ended up being erroneous and resulting in a
write error.  There's also no point in returning anything but the full
length since it will -EINVAL out on a mismatch well before then anyways.

sizeof("string") is great for making sure you have space in your buffer,
but rather less so for string comparisons :-)
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
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>

Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to
facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared.  The idling of
cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to
break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an
architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be
unworkable.

Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by
this code.

Also:

  The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet
  further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code.  So
  either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely.  It was Ingo's preference
  to kill it off.  Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks
  has gone in.
Signed-off-by: NCon Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification;
and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s.
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: NJosef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick around
for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never really
used, this schedules it for removal.

The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the main
user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only have an
alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is incomplete.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.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>