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2008-07-11[SCSI] ipr: Fix HDIO_GET_IDENTITY oops for SATA devicesBrian King
Currently, ipr does not support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY to SATA devices. An oops occurs if userspace attempts to send the command. Since hald issues the command, ensure we fail the ioctl in ipr. This is a temporary solution to the oops. Once the ipr libata EH conversion is upstream, ipr will fully support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY. Tested-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-08[SCSI] mptspi: fix oops in mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work()James Bottomley
The problem here is that if the ioc faults too early in the bring up sequence (as it usually does for an irq routing problem), ioc_reset gets called before the scsi host is even allocated. This causes an oops when it later schedules a renegotiation. Fix this by checking ioc->sh before trying to renegotiate. Cc: "Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsi.com> Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-06[SCSI] erase invalid data returned by deviceAlan Stern
This patch (as1108) fixes a problem that can occur with certain USB mass-storage devices: They return invalid data together with a residue indicating that the data should be ignored. Rather than leave the invalid data in a transfer buffer, where it can get misinterpreted, the patch clears the invalid portion of the buffer. This solves a problem (wrong write-protect setting detected) reported by Maciej Rutecki and Peter Teoh. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Tested-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-05Linux 2.6.26-rc9v2.6.26-rc9Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05Fix pagemap_read() use of struct mm_walkAndrew Morton
Fix some issues in pagemap_read noted by Alexey: - initialize pagemap_walk.mm to "mm" , so the code starts working as advertised - initialize ->private to "&pm" so it wouldn't immediately oops in pagemap_pte_hole() - unstatic struct pagemap_walk, so two threads won't fsckup each other (including those started by root, including flipping ->mm when you don't have permissions) - pagemap_read() contains two calls to ptrace_may_attach(), second one looks unneeded. - avoid possible kmalloc(0) and integer wraparound. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Personally, I'd just remove the functionality entirely - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-05Move _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.hEduard - Gabriel Munteanu
These two macros are useful beyond lock debugging. Moved definitions from include/linux/debug_locks.h to include/linux/kernel.h, so code that needs them does not have to include the former, which would have been a less intuitive choice of a header. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-05Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
2008-07-05Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64 x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resume
2008-07-05Fix clear_refs_write() use of struct mm_walkAndrew Morton
Don't use a static entry, so as to prevent races during concurrent use of this function. Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: ide: ide_unregister() locking bugfix ide: ide_unregister() warm-plug bugfix ide: fix hwif->gendev refcounting
2008-07-05ahci: give another shot at clearing all bits in irq_statTejun Heo
Commit ea0c62f7cf70f13a67830471b613337bd0c9a62e tried to clear all bits in irq_stat but it didn't actually achieve that as irq_stat was anded with port_map right after read. This patch makes ahci driver always use the unmasked value to clear irq_status. While at it, add explanation on the peculiarities of ahci IRQ clearing. This was spotted by Linus Torvalds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-05ide: ide_unregister() locking bugfixBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Holding ide_lock for ide_release_dma_engine() call is unnecessary and triggers WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) in dma_free_coherent(). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-05ide: ide_unregister() warm-plug bugfixBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Fix ide_unregister() to work for ports with no devices attached to them. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-05ide: fix hwif->gendev refcountingBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
class->dev_release is called by device_release() iff dev->release is not present so ide_port_class_release() is never called and the last hwif->gendev reference is not dropped. Fix it by removing ide_port_class_release() and get_device() call from ide_register_port() (device_create_drvdata() takes a hwif->gendev reference anyway). This patch fixes hang on wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp) in ide_unregister() reported by Pavel Machek. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-05softlockup: print a module list on being stuckArjan van de Ven
Most places in the kernel that go BUG: print a module list (which is very useful for doing statistics and finding patterns), however the softlockup detector does not do this yet. This patch adds the one line change to fix this gap. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-05Merge branch 'x86/s2ram-fix' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-07-05x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64Rafael J. Wysocki
Since the trampoline code is now used for ACPI resume from suspend to RAM, the trampoline page tables have to be fixed up during boot not only on SMP systems, but also on UP systems that use the trampoline. Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10923 Reported-by: Dionisus Torimens <djtm@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-05x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resumeH. Peter Anvin
Some Dell laptops enter resume with apparent garbage in the segment descriptor registers (almost certainly the result of a botched transition from protected to real mode.) The only way to clean that up is to enter protected mode ourselves and clean out the descriptor registers. This fixes resume on Dell XPS M1210 and Dell D620. Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10927 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-04mempolicy: mask off internal flags for userspace APIDavid Rientjes
Flags considered internal to the mempolicy kernel code are stored as part of the "flags" member of struct mempolicy. Before exposing a policy type to userspace via get_mempolicy(), these internal flags must be masked. Flags exposed to userspace, however, should still be returned to the user. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: fix address truncation in pte mfn<->pfn conversion arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: early_memtest(): fix types x86: fix Intel Mac booting with EFI
2008-07-04mmc: don't use DMA on newer ENE controllersPierre Ossman
Even the newer ENE controllers have bugs in their DMA engine that make it too dangerous to use. Disable it until someone has figured out under which conditions it corrupts data. This has caused problems at least once, and can be found as bug report 10925 in the kernel bugzilla. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argumentPaul Jackson
Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04devcgroup: fix odd behaviour when writing 'a' to devices.allowLi Zefan
# cat /devcg/devices.list a *:* rwm # echo a > devices.allow # cat /devcg/devices.list a *:* rwm a 0:0 rwm This is odd and maybe confusing. With this patch, writing 'a' to devices.allow will add 'a *:* rwm' to the whitelist. Also a few fixes and updates to the document. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Update MAINTAINERS file for the TPM device driverRajiv Andrade
Acked-By: Debora Velarde <debora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04mm: switch node meminfo Active & Inactive pages to KbytesJohn Blackwood
There is a bug in the output of /sys/devices/system/node/node[n]/meminfo where the Active and Inactive values are in pages instead of Kbytes. Looks like this occurred back in 2.6.20 when the code was changed over to use node_page_state(). Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04cpumask: introduce new APIsStephen Rothwell
In linux-next there is a commit ("x86: Add performance variants of cpumask operators") which, as part of the 4096 cpu support work adds some new APIs for dealing with cpu masks. Add trivial versions of these now so that subsystems can update in a timely manner and avoid conflicts in linux-next and the next merge window. Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04olpc: sdhci: add quirk for the Marvell CaFe's interrupt timeoutAndres Salomon
The CaFe chip has a hardware bug that ends up with us getting a timeout value that's too small, causing the following sorts of problems: [ 60.525138] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data [ 60.531477] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1484353 [ 60.533371] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 181632 [ 60.533371] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2 Presumably this is an off-by-one error in the hardware. Incrementing the timeout count value that we stuff into the TIMEOUT_CONTROL register gets us a value that works. This bug was originally discovered by Pierre Ossman, I believe. [thanks to Robert Millan for proving that this was still a problem] Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04olpc: sdhci: add quirk for the Marvell CaFe's vdd/powerup issueAndres Salomon
This has been sitting around unloved for way too long.. The Marvell CaFe chip's SD implementation chokes during card insertion if one attempts to set the voltage and power up in the same SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL register write. This adds a quirk that does that particular dance in two steps. It also adds an entry to pci_ids.h for the CaFe chip's SD device. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04cciss: read config to obtain max outstanding commands per controllerMike Miller
This patch changes the way we determine the maximum number of outstanding commands for each controller. Most Smart Array controllers can support up to 1024 commands, the notable exceptions are the E200 and E200i. The next generation of controllers which were just added support a mode of operation called Zero Memory Raid (ZMR). In this mode they only support 64 outstanding commands. In Full Function Raid (FFR) mode they support 1024. We have been setting the queue depth by arbitrarily assigning some value for each controller. We needed a better way to set the queue depth to avoid lots of annoying "fifo full" messages. So we made the driver a little smarter. We now read the config table and subtract 4 from the returned value. The -4 is to allow some room for ioctl calls which are not tracked the same way as io commands are tracked. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04MAINTAINERS: update the email address of Andreas DilgerGeert Uytterhoeven
The old one bounces. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04cpusets: document proc status cpus and mems allowed listsPaul Jackson
Provide a little documentation for the two new fields, Cpus_allowed_list and Mems_allowed_list, that were added to each /proc/<pid>/status file a while back. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms dataBastian Blank
The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel. The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol. This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the __end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data. On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some space between that two areas. [1]: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6&arch=alpha&ver=2.6.25-5&stamp=1213919009&file=log&as=raw Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> 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>
2008-07-04security: filesystem capabilities: fix CAP_SETPCAP handlingAndrew G. Morgan
The filesystem capability support meaning for CAP_SETPCAP is less powerful than the non-filesystem capability support. As such, when filesystem capabilities are configured, we should not permit CAP_SETPCAP to 'enhance' the current process through strace manipulation of a child process. Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04security: filesystem capabilities: fix fragile setuid fixup codeAndrew G. Morgan
This commit includes a bugfix for the fragile setuid fixup code in the case that filesystem capabilities are supported (in access()). The effect of this fix is gated on filesystem capability support because changing securebits is only supported when filesystem capabilities support is configured.) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.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>
2008-07-04doc: doc maintainersRandy Dunlap
Maintain the kernel's Documentation/ tree. This includes tree layout and contents, although not much in terms of new content production. That will usually have to be done by someone familiar with the software, at least in some rough form. Includes review and editorial assistance for people contributing changes to /Documentation. Also includes prodding people for content if something is in need of documentation. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04spi: fix the read path in spidevSebastian Siewior
This got broken by the recent "fix rmmod $spi_driver while spidev-user is active". I tested the rmmod & write path but didn't check the read path. I am sorry. The read logic changed and spidev_sync_read() + spidev_sync_write() do not return zero on success anymore but the number of bytes that has been transfered over the bus. This patch changes the logic and copy_to_user() gets called again. The write path returns the number of bytes which are written to the underlying device what may be less than the requested size. This patch makes the same change to the read path or else we request a read of 20 bytes, get 10, don't call copy to user and report to the user that we read 10 bytes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove test of known-to-be-zero local] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04cgroups: document the effect of attaching PID 0 to a cgroupLi Zefan
Document that a pid of zero(0) can be used to refer to the current task when attaching a task to a cgroup, as in the following usage: # echo 0 > /dev/cgroup/tasks This is consistent with existing cpuset behavior. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04MFD maintainerSamuel Ortiz
We probably need someone to look after the few drivers/mfd patches coming every now and then. As agreed with Andrew, I'm ok to do so and my employer is fine with me spending a few working hours on it, if needed. Ben, Philipp, feel free to add your names there too if you wish. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> Cc: "pHilipp Zabel" <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04w100fb: add 80 MHz modelinePhilipp Zabel
This is needed for HTC Blueangel (w3200). At 96MHz its screen flickers. Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04w100fb: do not depend on SHARPSLPhilipp Zabel
Apart from Sharp SL-Cxx series, there are a few other devices that have ATI Imageon chips, among them HP iPAQ hx4700. Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04add kernel-doc for simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_bufferAkinobu Mita
Add kernel-doc comments describing simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_buffer. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04ntfs: update help textJess Guerrero
The url in the help text for ntfs should be updated. Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04man-pages is supportedMichael Kerrisk
Starting last month, I reached a long-time goal: man-pages finally has a paid, full-time maintainer, thanks to a fellowship from the Linux Foundation. It's still a little unclear how long the LF money will last for the fellowship, but for the foreseeable future, I'll be working on: * Properly documenting every new Linux kernel-userland (and glibc) API, and every API change, that is released into the mainline kernel, ideally before actual release. (That's the ideal, but there's a quite a backlog, so I'm not going to achieve the ideal immediately.) * Testing new APIs, again ideally before they are released into the mainline kernel, and probably doing some light bug fixing while I'm at it (e.g., the recent utimensat() work). * Design review of new APIs, which of course can only usefully be done before they are released into the mainline kernel. * And of course accepting patches and dealing with bug reports for existing man pages. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Introduce rculist.hStephen Rothwell
In linux-next there is a commit ("rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.h") that moved the rcu related list iterators from list.h to rculist.h. Add a trivial version of the file now so that various subsystem trees can start using it now for -next changes and so reduce the build errors caused by adding uses of the moved functions. Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04mn10300: provide __ucmpdi2() for MN10300David Howells
Provide __ucmpdi2() for MN10300 so that allmodconfig can be built. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04mn10300: export certain arch symbols required to build allmodconfigDavid Howells
Export kernel_thread() and empty_zero_page so that allmodconfig can be built for MN10300. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04hdaps: add support for various newer Lenovo thinkpadsmaximilian attems
Adds R61, T61p, X61s, X61, Z61m, Z61p models to whitelist. Fixes this: cullen@lenny:~$ sudo modprobe hdaps FATAL: Error inserting hdaps (/lib/modules/2.6.22-10-generic/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko): No such device [25192.888000] hdaps: supported laptop not found! [25192.888000] hdaps: driver init failed (ret=-19)! Originally based on an Ubuntu patch that got it wrong, the dmidecode output of the corresponding laptops shows LENOVO as the manufacturer. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/133636 tested on X61s: [ 184.893588] hdaps: inverting axis readings. [ 184.893588] hdaps: LENOVO ThinkPad X61s detected. [ 184.893588] input: hdaps as /class/input/input12 [ 184.924326] hdaps: driver successfully loaded. Cc: Klaus S. Madsen <ubuntu@hjernemadsen.org> Cc: Chuck Short <zulcss@ubuntu.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Doc*/kernel-parameters.txt: fix stale referencesPavel Machek
Fix stale references to source files in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04delay accounting: maintainer updateBalbir Singh
Update the delay accounting and taskstats maintainer to Balbir Singh. I spoke to Shailabh and he is now busy with other things. Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04cciss: fix regression that no device nodes are created if no logical drives ↵Stephen M. Cameron
are configured. Fix regression in cciss driver that if no logical drives are configured, no device nodes at all get created. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>