- 30 9月, 2006 40 次提交
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Remove some code which is unneeded if CONFIG_PM=n. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Ackde-by: NMuli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Remove some code which is unneeded if CONFIG_PM=n. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Johannes Berg 提交于
Make it possible to include linux/leds.h without first including list.h and spinlock.h. Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dave Jones 提交于
After the asm/ uses of #include <linux/config.h> this one is the next biggest source of noise. Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Ernie Petrides 提交于
The problem is that close() syscalls can call a file system's flush handler, which in turn might sleep interruptibly and ultimately pass back an -ERESTARTSYS return value. This happens for files backed by an interruptible NFS mount under nfs_file_flush() when a large file has just been written and nfs_wait_bit_interruptible() detects that there is a signal pending. I have a test case where the "strace" command is used to attach to a process sleeping in such a close(). Since the SIGSTOP is forced onto the victim process (removing it from the thread's "blocked" mask in force_sig_info()), the RPC wait is interrupted and the close() is terminated early. But the file table entry has already been cleared before the flush handler was called. Thus, when the syscall is restarted, the file descriptor appears closed and an EBADF error is returned (which is wrong). What's worse, there is the hypothetical case where another thread of a multi-threaded application might have reused the file descriptor, in which case that file would be mistakenly closed. The bottom line is that close() syscalls are not restartable, and thus -ERESTARTSYS return values should be mapped to -EINTR. This is consistent with the close(2) manual page. The fix is below. Signed-off-by: NErnie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Jesper Juhl 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Both __kfifo_put() and __kfifo_get() have header comments stating that if there is but one concurrent reader and one concurrent writer, locking is not necessary. This is almost the case, but a couple of memory barriers are needed. Another option would be to change the header comments to remove the bit about locking not being needed, and to change the those callers who currently don't use locking to add the required locking. The attachment analyzes this approach, but the patch below seems simpler. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dave Jones 提交于
Lets do the same thing we do for oopses - print out the version in the report. It's an extra line of output though. We could tack it on the end of the INFO: lines, but that screws up Ingo's pretty output. Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Anatoli Antonovitch 提交于
Support SB600 SATA legacy IDE (DMA enable). Signed-off-by: NAnatoli Antonovitch <antonovi@ati.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Amos Waterland 提交于
The code in __register_chrdev_region checks that if the driver wishing to register has the same major as an existing driver the new minor range is strictly less than the existing minor range. However, it does not also check that the new minor range is strictly greater than the existing minor range. That is, if driver X has registered with major=x and minor=0-3, __register_chrdev_region will allow driver Y to register with major=x and minor=1-4. Signed-off-by: NAmos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Cc: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Sukadev Bhattiprolu 提交于
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init(). Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other patches for now. Eric's original description: There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init because we give it special properties. Most significantly init must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test ->pid == 1. Introduce is_init to capture this case. With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are looking for only the first process on the system, not some other process that has pid == 1. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Biederman 提交于
This appears to be the only usage of is_init in the kernel besides the usage in sched.h. On ia64 the same function is called in_init. So to remove the conflict and make the kernel more consistent rename is_init is_core is_local and is_local_section to in_init in_core in_local and in_local_section respectively. Thanks to Adrian Bunk who spotted this, and to Matthew Wilcox who suggested this fix. Signed-off-by: NEric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Kirill Korotaev 提交于
Fixed race on put_files_struct on exec with proc. Restoring files on current on error path may lead to proc having a pointer to already kfree-d files_struct. ->files changing at exit.c and khtread.c are safe as exit_files() makes all things under lock. Found during OpenVZ stress testing. [akpm@osdl.org: add export] Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
Convert i386 apm.c from kernel_thread(), whose export is deprecated, to kthread API. Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alan Cox 提交于
The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the resize against the tty structure updates. This means that while two parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results reported. Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the console. This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any longer so I switched it to "deallocate". Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Chris Mason 提交于
Fat is commonly used on removable media. Mounting with -o flush tells the FS to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like -o sync, but much faster (and not as safe). Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Arun Sharma 提交于
Need to enable/disable all the counters instead of just counter 0. This affects all cpus with family=6, including i386/core. Usual symptom: only counter 0 provides samples. Other counters don't produce samples. Signed-off-by: NArun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
[assuming BSD security levels are deleted] The only user of i_security, f_security, s_security fields is SELinux, however, quite a few security modules are trying to get into kernel. So, wrap them under CONFIG_SECURITY. Adding config option for each security field is likely an overkill. Following Stephen Smalley's suggestion, i_security initialization is moved to security_inode_alloc() to not clutter core code with ifdefs and make alloc_inode() codepath tiny little bit smaller and faster. The user of (highly greppable) struct fown_struct::security field is still to be found. I've checked every "fown_struct" and every "f_owner" occurence. Additionally it's removal doesn't break i386 allmodconfig build. struct inode, struct file, struct super_block, struct fown_struct become smaller. P.S. Combined with two reiserfs inode shrinking patches sent to linux-fsdevel, I can finally suck 12 reiserfs inodes into one page. /proc/slabinfo -ext2_inode_cache 388 10 +ext2_inode_cache 384 10 -inode_cache 280 14 +inode_cache 276 14 -proc_inode_cache 296 13 +proc_inode_cache 292 13 -reiser_inode_cache 336 11 +reiser_inode_cache 332 12 <= -shmem_inode_cache 372 10 +shmem_inode_cache 368 10 Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Shrink reiserfs inode more (by 8 bytes) for ACL non-users: -reiser_inode_cache 344 11 +reiser_inode_cache 336 11 Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Shrink reiserfs inode by 12 bytes for xattr non-users (me). -reiser_inode_cache 356 11 +reiser_inode_cache 344 11 Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Chuck Ebbert 提交于
Fix "variable defined but not used" compiler warning in unwind.c when CONFIG_MODULES is not set. Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
All suppliers of ->quota_read, ->quota_write (I've found ext2, ext3, UFS, reiserfs) already have them properly ifdeffed. All callers of ->quota_read, ->quota_write are under CONFIG_QUOTA umbrella, so... Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Chris Mason 提交于
ReiserFS does periodic cleanup of old transactions in order to limit the length of time a journal replay may take after a crash. Sometimes, writing metadata from an old (already committed) transaction may require committing a newer transaction, which also requires writing all data=ordered buffers. This can cause very long stalls on journal_begin. This patch makes sure new transactions will not need to be committed before trying a periodic reclaim of an old transaction. It is low risk because if a bad decision is made, it just means a slightly longer journal replay after a crash. Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Chris Mason 提交于
make sure that reiserfs_fsync only triggers barriers when mounted with -o barrier=flush Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Adam Tlalka 提交于
Fix utf-8 mode so alternate charset modes always work according to control sequences interpreted in do_con_trol function preserving backward US-ASCII and VT100 semigraphics compatibility. Malformed utf-8 sequences are represented as sequences of replacement glyphs,original codes or '?' as a last resort. unicode-xterm, gnome-terminal, kconsole and other terminal emulators in utf-8 mode respect acsc, enacs, rmacs sequences. Also I found that some important system programs (from Debian distro) uses acsc in utf-8 mode - dselect, aptitude, w3m for example. Signed-off-by: NAdam Tlalka <atlka@pg.gda.pl> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dmitry Torokhov 提交于
ucb1x00-ts: handle errors from input_register_device() Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dave Jones 提交于
In cases where we detect a single bit has been flipped, we spew the usual slab corruption message, which users instantly think is a kernel bug. In a lot of cases, single bit errors are down to bad memory, or other hardware failure. This patch adds an extra line to the slab debug messages in those cases, in the hope that users will try memtest before they report a bug. 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b Single bit error detected. Possibly bad RAM. Run memtest86. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Just comment and next "while" look _very_ wrong. Place { correctly to hint unsuspecting ones that it's the end of the loop actually. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Chris Wright 提交于
This code has suffered from broken core design and lack of developer attention. Broken security modules are too dangerous to leave around. It is time to remove this one. Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Rolf Eike Beer 提交于
Now that the generic DMA code has a function to decide if a given DMA mapping is valid use it. This will catch cases where direction is not any of the defined enum values but some random number outside the valid range. The current implementation will only catch the defined but invalid case DMA_NONE. Signed-off-by: NRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by: NMuli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Rolf Eike Beer 提交于
As suggested by Muli Ben-Yehuda this function is moved to generic code as may be useful for all archs. [akpm@osdl.org: fix] Signed-off-by: NRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alan Cox 提交于
Jon Smirl noted a couple of tty driver functions now are quite misleadingly named with the death of devfs. A quick grep found another case in the lp driver. Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Rolf Eike Beer 提交于
Some of the kerneldoc comments in this file are ignored since the lead-in is malformed, using either "/*" or "/***" instead of "/**". [rdunlap@xenotime.net: kerneldoc fixes] Signed-off-by: NRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Jan-Frode Myklebust 提交于
I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes. Here's a small documentation patch for /proc/<pid>/oom_adj and /proc/<pid>/oom_score. Signed-off-by: NJan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Oleg brought up some interesting points about grabbing the pi_lock for some protections. In this discussion, I realized that there are some places that the pi_lock is being grabbed when it really wasn't necessary. Also this patch does a little bit of clean up. This patch basically does three things: 1) renames the "boost" variable to "chain_walk". Since it is used in the debugging case when it isn't going to be boosted. It better describes what the test is going to do if it succeeds. 2) moves get_task_struct to just before the unlocking of the wait_lock. This removes duplicate code, and makes it a little easier to read. The owner wont go away while either the pi_lock or the wait_lock are held. 3) removes the pi_locking and owner blocked checking completely from the debugging case. This is because the grabbing the lock and doing the check, then releasing the lock is just so full of races. It's just as good to go ahead and call the pi_chain_walk function, since after releasing the lock the owner can then block anyway, and we would have missed that. For the debug case, we really do want to do the chain walk to test for deadlocks anyway. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: more of the same] Signed-of-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Previously, since determination whether there was an Intel random number generator was based on a single bit, on systems with a matching bridge device but without a firmware hub, there was a 50% chance that the code would incorrectly decide that the system had an RNG. This patch adds detection of the firmware hub to better qualify the existence of an RNG. There is one issue with the patch: I was unable to determine the LPC equivalent for the PCI bridge 8086:2430 (since the old code didn't care about which of the many devices provided by the ICH/ESB it was chose to use the PCI bridge device, but the FWH settings live in the LPC device, so the device list needed to be changed). Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Sandeen 提交于
There's a bug where a UDF_PART_FLAG_READ_ONLY udf partition gets mounted read-write, then subsequent problems happen; files seem to be able to be removed, but file creation results in EIO or worse, oops. EIO is coming from udf_new_block(), which returns EIO if the right flags aren't set; only UDF_PART_FLAG_READ_ONLY is set in this case. We probably s hould not have gotten this far... Attached patch seems to fix it - and includes a printk to alert the user that their "rw" mount request has been converted to "ro." Here's the testcase I used: [root@magnesium ~]# mkisofs -R -J -udf -o testiso /tmp/ ... Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 342923 Total directory bytes: 382312 Path table size(bytes): 104 Max brk space used 103000 105059 extents written (205 MB) [root@magnesium ~]# mount -o loop testiso /mnt/test/ [root@magnesium ~]# ls /mnt/test/fsfile /mnt/test/fsfile [root@magnesium ~]# rm /mnt/test/fsfile [root@magnesium ~]# ls /mnt/test/fsfile ls: /mnt/test/fsfile: No such file or directory [root@magnesium ~]# touch /mnt/test/fsfile touch: cannot touch `/mnt/test/fsfile': Input/output error [root@magnesium tmp]# grep udf /proc/mounts /dev/loop1 /mnt/test udf rw 0 0 Force readonly mounts of UDF partitions marked as read-only. Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
ipc/sem.c only. $ agrep sysvsem -w -n ipc/sem.c:912: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:932: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:954: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:963: current->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list; ipc/sem.c:1247: tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list; ipc/sem.c:1249: tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = NULL; ipc/sem.c:1271: undo_list = tsk->sysvsem.undo_list; include/linux/sched.h:876: struct sysv_sem sysvsem; Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Olaf Hering 提交于
The on-disk data structures from AIX are not known, also the filesystem layout is not known. There is a msdos partition signature at the end of the first block, and the kernel recognizes 3 small (and overlapping) partitions. But they are not usable. Maybe the firmware uses it to find the bootloader for AIX, but AIX boots also if the first block is cleared. This is the content of the partition table: # dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be )) | xxd 0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0000010: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8... 0000020: 00ff ffff 41ff ffff 0211 0000 1900 0000 ....A........... 0000030: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8... Handle the whole disk as empty disk. This fixes also YaST which compares the output from parted (and formerly fdisk) with /proc/partitions. fdisk recognizes the AIX label since a long time, SuSE has a patch for parted to handle the disk label as unknown. dmesg will look like this: sda: [AIX] unknown partition table Tested on an IBM B50 with AIX V4.3.3. Signed-off-by: NOlaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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