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2008-10-16Fix Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txtfrans
First a file hello.c is created, then the file hello2.c is compiled. Change this to hello.c Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16eeepc: depends on RFKILLRandy Dunlap
EEEPC_LAPTOP uses RFKILL, so the former should depend on RFKILL. Build errors happen when EEEPC_LAPTOP=y and RFKILL=m. eeepc-laptop.c:(.text+0xd5a7b): undefined reference to `rfkill_allocate' eeepc-laptop.c:(.text+0xd5b04): undefined reference to `rfkill_register' eeepc-laptop.c:(.text+0xd5b48): undefined reference to `rfkill_allocate' eeepc-laptop.c:(.text+0xd5bd4): undefined reference to `rfkill_register' eeepc-laptop.c:(.text+0xd5ece): undefined reference to `rfkill_unregister' eeepc-laptop.c:(.text+0xd5ef6): undefined reference to `rfkill_unregister' make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Karol Kozimor <sziwan@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16drivers/misc: Use DIV_ROUND_UPJulia Lawall
The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @haskernel@ @@ #include <linux/kernel.h> @depends on haskernel@ expression n,d; @@ ( - (n + d - 1) / d + DIV_ROUND_UP(n,d) | - (n + (d - 1)) / d + DIV_ROUND_UP(n,d) ) @depends on haskernel@ expression n,d; @@ - DIV_ROUND_UP((n),d) + DIV_ROUND_UP(n,d) @depends on haskernel@ expression n,d; @@ - DIV_ROUND_UP(n,(d)) + DIV_ROUND_UP(n,d) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16init.h: remove long-dead __setup_null_param() macroRobert P. J. Day
This macro appears to have been unused for ages, and there are no invocations of it anywhere in the source tree. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16kernel/dma.c: remove a CVS keywordAdrian Bunk
Remove a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16include/linux/mount.h: remove CVS keywordAdrian Bunk
Remove a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16misc: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__Harvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__Harvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16olpc: olpc_battery.c sparse endian annotationsHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16uml: remove the dead TTY_LOG codeAdrian Bunk
Remove the dead CONFIG_TTY_LOG (no kconfig option). Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16pm: document use of RTC in pm_traceFrans Pop
As pm_trace uses the system's hardware clock to save its magic value, users of that option should be warned that using this debug option will result in an incorrect system time after resume. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16pm: rework disabling of user mode helpers during suspend/hibernationRafael J. Wysocki
We currently use a PM notifier to disable user mode helpers before suspend and hibernation and to re-enable them during resume. However, this is not an ideal solution, because if any drivers want to upload firmware into memory before suspend, they have to use a PM notifier for this purpose and there is no guarantee that the ordering of PM notifiers will be as expected (ie. the notifier that disables user mode helpers has to be run after the driver's notifier used for uploading the firmware). For this reason, it seems better to move the disabling and enabling of user mode helpers to separate functions that will be called by the PM core as necessary. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdefs] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16alpha: notify_cpu_starting() compile fixletAlexey Dobriyan
arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c:153: error: implicit declaration of function 'notify_cpu_starting' Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Alpha Miata: remove dead URLAdrian Bunk
Remove a dead URL. Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16asm-h8300/md.h: remove CVS keywordAdrian Bunk
Remove a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16h8300: GENERIC_BUG supportYoshinori Sato
CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG support. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16h8300: update timer handler - misc updateYoshinori Sato
- Update selection - Update common timer handler - Add support functions Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16h8300: update timer handler - new filesYoshinori Sato
New timer handler files. Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16h8300: update timer handler - delete filesYoshinori Sato
Delete old timer handler. Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16uclinux: fix gzip header parsing in binfmt_flat.cVolodymyr G. Lukiianyk
There are off-by-one errors in decompress_exec() when calculating the length of optional "original file name" and "comment" fields: the "ret" index is not incremented when terminating '\0' character is reached. The check of the buffer overflow (after an "extra-field" length was taken into account) is also fixed. I've encountered this off-by-one error when tried to reuse gzip-header-parsing part of the decompress_exec() function. There was an "original file name" field in the payload (with miscalculated length) and zlib_inflate() returned Z_DATA_ERROR. But after the fix similar to this one all worked fine. Signed-off-by: Volodymyr G Lukiianyk <volodymyrgl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16mm: do_generic_file_read() never gets a NULL 'filp' argumentKrishna Kumar
The 'filp' argument to do_generic_file_read() is never NULL. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16hugetlb: handle updating of ACCESSED and DIRTY in hugetlb_fault()David Gibson
The page fault path for normal pages, if the fault is neither a no-page fault nor a write-protect fault, will update the DIRTY and ACCESSED bits in the page table appropriately. The hugepage fault path, however, does not do this, handling only no-page or write-protect type faults. It assumes that either the ACCESSED and DIRTY bits are irrelevant for hugepages (usually true, since they are never swapped) or that they are handled by the arch code. This is inconvenient for some software-loaded TLB architectures, where the _PAGE_ACCESSED (_PAGE_DIRTY) bits need to be set to enable read (write) access to the page at the TLB miss. This could be worked around in the arch TLB miss code, but the TLB miss fast path can be made simple more easily if the hugetlb_fault() path handles this, as the normal page fault path does. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_nodes() fix inappropriate use of enumAndrew Morton
Local variable `i' is a) misleadingly-named for an `enum zone_type' and b) used for indexing zones as well as nodes as well as node_maps. Make it an `int'. Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16memrlimit: cgroup mm owner callback changes to add task infoBalbir Singh
This patch adds an additional field to the mm_owner callbacks. This field is required to get to the mm that changed. Hold mmap_sem in write mode before calling the mm_owner_changed callback [hugh@veritas.com: fix mmap_sem deadlock] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16introduce generic header file for the software IO/TLBJoerg Roedel
A series of patches introduce a generic header file for the software IO/TLB implementation in lib/swiotlb.c. Currently each architecture using this code defines the prototypes itself. The prototypes are moved to include/linux/swiotlb.h and this file is included in architecture specific code for X86 and IA64. This patch: Create include/linux/swiotlb.h file which contains all function prototypes for the lib/swiotlb.c file. (akpm: the dependent patches will be trickled through arch trees) Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatchesAndi Kleen
Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies to submit difficult kernel patches. Add a reference to it to SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensionsAndi Kleen
Add documentation in kerneldoc for new printk format extensions This patch documents the new %pS/%pF options in printk in kernel doc. Hope I didn't miss any other extension. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Remove videobook.tmplJonathan Corbet
This document describes the long-deprecated V4L1 interface. In-tree, it can only serve to encourage developers to write drivers to the wrong API. Remove it in favor of the V4L2 documentation which must surely show up someday. Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16doc: Test-by?Hidetoshi Seto
Commonly used is "Tested-by." Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Add the development process documentJonathan Corbet
This is an extended document intended to help interested developers, their managers, and their employers work with the kernel development process. This work was supported by the Linux Foundation. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbersAlberto Bertogli
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memoryAndrew G. Harvey
mmap() doesn't work as expected for UIO_MEM_LOGICAL or UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL mappings. The offset into the memory needs to be added, otherwise uio_vma_fault always returns the first page only. Note that for UIO userspace calls mmap() with offset = N * getpagesize() to access mapping N. This must be compensated when calculating the offset. A comment was added to explain this since it is not obvious. Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Harvey <agh@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card supportJohn Ogness
Here is a new version of the patch to support the Automata Sercos III PCI card driver. I now check that the IRQ is enabled before accepting the interrupt. I still use a logical OR to store the enabled interrupts and I've added a second use of a logical OR when restoring the enabled interrupts. I added an explanation of why I do this in comments at the top of the source file. Since I use a logical OR, I also removed the extra checks if the Interrupt Enable Register and ier0_cache are 0. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrvHans J. Koch
The generic UIO platform device driver should be given a unique driver ID and not just "uio". This is especially important since we now have a similar driver named uio_pdrv_genirq. Currently, there's no user of this driver in the mainline kernel. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-memHans J. Koch
This patch adds an "offset" attribute for UIO mappings. It shows the difference between the actual start address of the memory and the start address of the page. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() functionGreg Kroah-Hartman
The PCI core wants to reorder the devices in the bus list. So move this functionality out of the pci core and into the driver core so that anyone else can also do this if needed. This also lets us change how struct device is attached to drivers in the future without messing with the PCI core. Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_nameGreg Kroah-Hartman
The driver core now has this helper function, so might as well use it instead of forcing the phy code to roll their own version. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman
It finally dawned on me what the clean fix to sysfs_rename_dir calling kobject_set_name is. Move the work into kobject_rename where it belongs. The callers serialize us anyway so this is safe. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman
When looking at kobject_rename I found two bugs with that exist when sysfs support is disabled in the kernel. kobject_rename does not change the name on the kobject when sysfs support is not compiled in. kobject_rename without locking attempts to check the validity of a rename operation, which the kobject layer simply does not have the infrastructure to do. This patch documents the previously unstated requirement of kobject_rename that is the responsibility of the caller to provide mutual exclusion and to be certain that the new_name for the kobject is valid. This patch modifies sysfs_rename_dir in !CONFIG_SYSFS case to call kobject_set_name to actually change the kobject_name. This patch removes the bogus and misleading check in kobject_rename that attempts to see if a rename is valid. The check is bogus because we do not have the proper locking. The check is misleading because it looks like we can and do perform checking at the kobject level that we don't. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() constTrent Piepho
Because they can be, and because code like this produces a warning if they're not: struct device_attribute dev_attr; sysfs_notify(&kobj, NULL, dev_attr.attr.name); Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16platform: add new device registration helperDmitry Baryshkov
Add a helper that registers simple platform_device w/o resources but with parent and device data. This is usefull to cleanup platform code from code that registers such simple devices as leds-gpio, generic-bl, etc. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()Tejun Heo
As inode creation is protected by sysfs_mutex, ilookup5_nowait() always either fails to find at all or finds one which is fully initialized, so using ilookup5_nowait() or ilookup5() doesn't make any difference. Switch to ilookup5() as it's planned to be removed. This change also makes lookup return value handling a bit simpler. This change was suggested by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@hera.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16PNP: create device attributes via default device attributesDrew Moseley
This creates the attributes before the uevent is sent. Signed-off-by: Drew Moseley <dmoseley@mvista.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robustPeter Korsgaard
Use sysfs_streq() in bus_find_device_by_name() so trailing newlines are ignored (E.G. in bind/unbind). Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARNArjan van de Ven
dev_WARN is both compacter and gives better debug information than just a WARN_ON, since people and tools will copy the device information message together with the WARN_ON in bug reports. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()Arjan van de Ven
device_pm_add() has a WARN_ON that is showing relatively high on kerneloops.org, but unfortunately the WARN_ON is less than useful in that it doesn't print any information about what device is causing the issue. This patch fixes this by turning the WARN_ON() into the newly introduces dev_WARN() which will print information about the device in question. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() functionArjan van de Ven
in the line of dev_printk(), this patch introduces a dev_WARN() function, that takes a struct device and then a printk format/args set of arguments. Unlike dev_printk(), the effect is that of WARN() in that a full warning message (including filename/line, module list, versions and a backtrace) is printed in addition to the device name and the arguments. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16sysfs: fix deadlockNick Piggin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:27:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > and it's working fine on most boxes. One testbox found this new locking > scenario: > > PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7 > EDAC DEBUG: MC0: i82860_check() > > ======================================================= > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 2.6.27-rc6-tip #1 > ------------------------------------------------------- > X/4873 is trying to acquire lock: > (&bb->mutex){--..}, at: [<c020ba20>] mmap+0x40/0xa0 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c0125a1e>] sys_mmap2+0x8e/0xc0 > > which lock already depends on the new lock. > > > the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: > > -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){----}: > [<c017dc96>] validate_chain+0xa96/0xf50 > [<c017ef2b>] __lock_acquire+0x2cb/0x5b0 > [<c017f299>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0 > [<c01aa8fb>] might_fault+0x6b/0x90 > [<c040b618>] copy_to_user+0x38/0x60 > [<c020bcfb>] read+0xfb/0x170 > [<c01c09a5>] vfs_read+0x95/0x110 > [<c01c1443>] sys_pread64+0x63/0x80 > [<c012146f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x43 > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff > > -> #0 (&bb->mutex){--..}: > [<c017d8b7>] validate_chain+0x6b7/0xf50 > [<c017ef2b>] __lock_acquire+0x2cb/0x5b0 > [<c017f299>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0 > [<c0d6f2ab>] __mutex_lock_common+0xab/0x3c0 > [<c0d6f698>] mutex_lock_nested+0x38/0x50 > [<c020ba20>] mmap+0x40/0xa0 > [<c01b111e>] mmap_region+0x14e/0x450 > [<c01b170f>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ef/0x310 > [<c0125a3d>] sys_mmap2+0xad/0xc0 > [<c012146f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x43 > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff > > other info that might help us debug this: > > 1 lock held by X/4873: > #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c0125a1e>] sys_mmap2+0x8e/0xc0 > > stack backtrace: > Pid: 4873, comm: X Not tainted 2.6.27-rc6-tip #1 > [<c017cd09>] print_circular_bug_tail+0x79/0xc0 > [<c017d8b7>] validate_chain+0x6b7/0xf50 > [<c017a5b5>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x15/0xb0 > [<c017ef2b>] __lock_acquire+0x2cb/0x5b0 > [<c017f299>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0 > [<c020ba20>] ? mmap+0x40/0xa0 > [<c0d6f2ab>] __mutex_lock_common+0xab/0x3c0 > [<c020ba20>] ? mmap+0x40/0xa0 > [<c0d6f698>] mutex_lock_nested+0x38/0x50 > [<c020ba20>] ? mmap+0x40/0xa0 > [<c020ba20>] mmap+0x40/0xa0 > [<c01b111e>] mmap_region+0x14e/0x450 > [<c01afb88>] ? arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown+0xf8/0x160 > [<c01b170f>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ef/0x310 > [<c0125a3d>] sys_mmap2+0xad/0xc0 > [<c012146f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x43 > [<c0120000>] ? __switch_to+0x130/0x220 > ======================= > evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 20, Code: 0, Value: 500 > warning: `sudo' uses deprecated v2 capabilities in a way that may be insecure. > > i've attached the config. > > at first sight it looks like a genuine bug in fs/sysfs/bin.c? Yes, it is a real bug by the looks. bin.c takes bb->mutex under mmap_sem when it is mmapped, and then does its copy_*_user under bb->mutex too. Here is a basic fix for the sysfs lor. From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive checkArjan van de Ven
This patch adds a quick check for the driver<->device match before taking the locks and doin gthe expensive checks. Taking the lock hurts in asynchronous boot context where the device lock gets hit; one of the init functions takes the lock and goes to do an expensive hardware init; the other init functions walk the same PCI list and get stuck on the lock as a result. For the common case, we can know there's no chance whatsoever of a match if the device isn't in the drivers ID table... so this patch does that check as a best-effort-avoid-the-lock approach. Bootcharts for before and after can be seen at http://www.fenrus.org/before.svg http://www.fenrus.org/after.svg Note the long time "agp_ali_init" takes in the first graph; my laptop doesn't even have an ALI chip in it! (the bootgraphs look a bit dissimilar, but that's the point, the first one has a bunch of arbitrary delays in it that cause it to look very different) This reduces my kernel boot time by about 20% Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().Cornelia Huck
If device_register() in device_create_vargs() fails, the device must be cleaned up with put_device() (which is also fine on NULL) instead of kfree(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>