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2005-09-09[PATCH] md: support md/linear array with components greater than 2 terabytes.NeilBrown
linear currently uses division by the size of the smallest componenet device to find which device a request goes to. If that smallest device is larger than 2 terabytes, then the division will not work on some systems. So we introduce a pre-shift, and take care not to make the hash table too large, much like the code in raid0. Also get rid of conf->nr_zones, which is not needed. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: add write-behind support for md/raid1NeilBrown
If a device is flagged 'WriteMostly' and the array has a bitmap, and the bitmap superblock indicates that write_behind is allowed, then write_behind is enabled for WriteMostly devices. Write requests will be acknowledges as complete to the caller (via b_end_io) when all non-WriteMostly devices have completed the write, but will not be cleared from the bitmap until all devices complete. This requires memory allocation to make a local copy of the data being written. If there is insufficient memory, then we fall-back on normal write semantics. Signed-Off-By: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: support write-mostly device in raid1NeilBrown
This allows a device in a raid1 to be marked as "write mostly". Read requests will only be sent if there is no other option. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: all hot-add and hot-remove of md intent logging bitmapsNeilBrown
Both file-bitmaps and superblock bitmaps are supported. If you add a bitmap file on the array device, you lose. This introduces a 'default_bitmap_offset' field in mddev, as the ioctl used for adding a superblock bitmap doesn't have room for giving an offset. Later, this value will be setable via sysfs. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: improve handling of bitmap initialisation.NeilBrown
When we find a 'stale' bitmap, possibly because it is new, we should just assume every bit needs to be set, but rather base the setting of bits on the current state of the array (degraded and recovery_cp). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: don't allow new md/bitmap file to be set if one already existsNeilBrown
... otherwise we loose a reference and can never free the file. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] dm: fix rh_dec()/rh_inc() race in dm-raid1.cJun'ichi Nomura
Fix another bug in dm-raid1.c that the dirty region may stay in or be moved to clean list and freed while in use. It happens as follows: CPU0 CPU1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ rh_dec() if (atomic_dec_and_test(pending)) <the region is still marked dirty> rh_inc() if the region is clean mark the region dirty and remove from clean list mark the region clean and move to clean list atomic_inc(pending) At this stage, the region is in clean list and will be mistakenly reclaimed by rh_update_states() later. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: fail IO request to md that require a barrier.NeilBrown
md does not yet support BIO_RW_BARRIER, so be honest about it and fail (-EOPNOTSUPP) any such requests. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: fix minor error in raid10 read-balancing calculation.NeilBrown
'this_sector' is a virtual (array) address while 'head_position' is a physical (device) address, so substraction doesn't make any sense. devs[slot].addr should be used instead of this_sector. However, this patch doesn't make much practical different to the read balancing due to the effects of later code. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09Remove "must_check" attributes in PCI-landLinus Torvalds
Don't just irritate all other kernel developers. Fix the users first, then you can re-introduce the must-check infrastructure to avoid new cases creeping in. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09Preempt-safe RCU file usageLinus Torvalds
Fix up fs/compat.c fixes.
2005-09-09[PATCH] Update PCI IOMEM allocation startDaniel Ritz
This fixes the problem with "Averatec 6240 pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power", which was due to the CardBus IOMEM register region being allocated at an address that was actually inside the RAM window that had been reserved for video frame-buffers in an UMA setup. The BIOS _should_ have marked that region reserved in the e820 memory descriptor tables, but did not. It is fixed by rounding up the default starting address of PCI memory allocations, so that we leave a bigger gap after the final known memory location. The amount of rounding depends on how big the unused memory gap is that we can allocate IOMEM from. Based on example code by Linus. Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09Fix up lost patch in compat_sys_select() for new RCU files world orderLinus Torvalds
Andrew lost this in patch reject resolution, and never noticed, since the compat code isn't in use on x86. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09[PATCH] Lost sockfd_put() in routing_ioctl()Kirill Korotaev
This patch adds lost sockfd_put() in 32bit compat rounting_ioctl() on 64bit platforms Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Maxim Giryaev <gem@sw.ru> Signed-off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] lost fput in 32bit ioctl on x86-64Kirill Korotaev
This adds a lost fput in 32bit tiocgdev ioctl on x86-64 [ chrisw: Updated to use fget_light/fput_light ] Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Maxim Giryaev <gem@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09kbuild: um fix so it compile with generic asm-offsets.h supportSam Ravnborg
um has it own set of files for asm-offsets. So for now the gen-asm-offset macro is just duplicated in the um Makefile. This may well be the final solution since um is a bit special compared to other architectures - time will tell. Also added a dummy arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.h file to keep kbuild happy. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] trivial iomem annotations in qla2xxx/qla_dbg.cviro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] trivial __user annotations (md)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] trivial __user annotations (evdev)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] trivial __user cleanup (video1394)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] trivial __user annotations (ipmi)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversionsIngo Molnar
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts. (another 580 places are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK). Build tested on x86. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMERIngo Molnar
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been been in the -RT tree for some time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE: don't allow restarting of system callsMiklos Szeredi
This patch removes ability to interrupt and restart operations while there hasn't been any side-effect. The reason: applications. There are some apps it seems that generate signals at a fast rate. This means, that if the operation cannot make enough progress between two signals, it will be restarted for ever. This bug actually manifested itself with 'krusader' trying to open a file for writing under sshfs. Thanks to Eduard Czimbalmos for the report. The problem can be solved just by making open() uninterruptible, because in this case it was the truncate operation that slowed down the progress. But it's better to solve this by simply not allowing interrupts at all (except SIGKILL), because applications don't expect file operations to be interruptible anyway. As an added bonus the code is simplified somewhat. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE: add fsync operation for directoriesMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds a new FSYNCDIR request, which is sent when fsync is called on directories. This operation is available in libfuse 2.3-pre1 or greater. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] fuse: don't update file timesMiklos Szeredi
Don't change mtime/ctime/atime to local time on read/write. Rather invalidate file attributes, so next stat() will force a GETATTR call. Bug reported by Ben Grimm. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] fuse: more flexible cachingMiklos Szeredi
Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of per-mount. Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and 'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or later). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] fuse: transfer readdir data through deviceMiklos Szeredi
This patch removes a long lasting "hack" in FUSE, which used a separate channel (a file descriptor refering to a disk-file) to transfer directory contents from userspace to the kernel. The patch adds three new operations (OPENDIR, READDIR, RELEASEDIR), which have semantics and implementation exactly maching the respective file operations (OPEN, READ, RELEASE). This simplifies the directory reading code. Also disk space is not necessary, which can be important in embedded systems. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - direct I/OMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds support for the "direct_io" mount option of FUSE. When this mount option is specified, the page cache is bypassed for read and write operations. This is useful for example, if the filesystem doesn't know the size of files before reading them, or when any kind of caching is harmful. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] fuse: stricter mount option checkingMiklos Szeredi
Check for the presence of all mandatory mount options. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE: tighten check for processes allowed accessMiklos Szeredi
This patch tightens the check for allowing processes to access non-privileged mounts. The rational is that the filesystem implementation can control the behavior or get otherwise unavailable information of the filesystem user. If the filesystem user process has the same uid, gid, and is not suid or sgid application, then access is safe. Otherwise access is not allowed unless the "allow_other" mount option is given (for which policy is controlled by the userspace mount utility). Thanks to everyone linux-fsdevel, especially Martin Mares who helped uncover problems with the previous approach. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - readpages operationMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds readpages support to FUSE. With the help of the readpages() operation multiple reads are bundled together and sent as a single request to userspace. This can improve reading performace. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE: add paddingMiklos Szeredi
Add padding to structures to make sizes the same on 32bit and 64bit archs. Initial testing and test machine generously provided by Franco Broi. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - extended attribute operationsMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds the extended attribute operations to FUSE. The following operations are added: o getxattr o setxattr o listxattr o removexattr Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - mount optionsMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds miscellaneous mount options to the FUSE filesystem. The following mount options are added: o default_permissions: check permissions with generic_permission() o allow_other: allow other users to access files o allow_root: allow root to access files o kernel_cache: don't invalidate page cache on open Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - file operationsMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds the file operations of FUSE. The following operations are added: o open o flush o release o fsync o readpage o commit_write Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - read-write operationsMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds the write filesystem operations of FUSE. The following operations are added: o setattr o symlink o mknod o mkdir o create o unlink o rmdir o rename o link Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - read-only operationsMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds the read-only filesystem operations of FUSE. This contains the following files: o dir.c - directory, symlink and file-inode operations The following operations are added: o lookup o getattr o readlink o follow_link o directory open o readdir o directory release o permission o dentry revalidate o statfs Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - device functionsMiklos Szeredi
This adds the FUSE device handling functions. This contains the following files: o dev.c - fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll) - registers misc device - support for sending requests to userspace Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - coreMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds FUSE core. This contains the following files: o inode.c - superblock operations (alloc_inode, destroy_inode, read_inode, clear_inode, put_super, show_options) - registers FUSE filesystem o fuse_i.h - private header file Requirements ============ The most important difference between orinary filesystems and FUSE is the fact, that the filesystem data/metadata is provided by a userspace process run with the privileges of the mount "owner" instead of the kernel, or some remote entity usually running with elevated privileges. The security implication of this is that a non-privileged user must not be able to use this capability to compromise the system. Obvious requirements arising from this are: - mount owner should not be able to get elevated privileges with the help of the mounted filesystem - mount owner should not be able to induce undesired behavior in other users' or the super user's processes - mount owner should not get illegitimate access to information from other users' and the super user's processes These are currently ensured with the following constraints: 1) mount is only allowed to directory or file which the mount owner can modify without limitation (write access + no sticky bit for directories) 2) nosuid,nodev mount options are forced 3) any process running with fsuid different from the owner is denied all access to the filesystem 1) and 2) are ensured by the "fusermount" mount utility which is a setuid root application doing the actual mount operation. 3) is ensured by a check in the permission() method in kernel I started thinking about doing 3) in a different way because Christoph H. made a big deal out of it, saying that FUSE is unacceptable into mainline in this form. The suggested use of private namespaces would be OK, but in their current form have many limitations that make their use impractical (as discussed in this thread). Suggested improvements that would address these limitations: - implement shared subtrees - allow a process to join an existing namespace (make namespaces first-class objects) - implement the namespace creation/joining in a PAM module With all that in place the check of owner against current->fsuid may be removed from the FUSE kernel module, without compromising the security requirements. Suid programs still interesting questions, since they get access even to the private namespace causing some information leak (exact order/timing of filesystem operations performed), giving some ptrace-like capabilities to unprivileged users. BTW this problem is not strictly limited to the namespace approach, since suid programs setting fsuid and accessing users' files will succeed with the current approach too. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] FUSE - MAINTAINERS, Kconfig and Makefile changesMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds FUSE filesystem to MAINTAINERS, fs/Kconfig and fs/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] Documentation/sparse snapshot URLBen Dooks
The URL for Documentation/sparse is wrong now that it is in git. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] VFS: update documentationPekka J Enberg
This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt back to life. Thanks to Carsten Otte, Trond Myklebust, and Anton Altaparmakov for their help on updating this documentation. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] Kdump: Documentation UpdateVivek Goyal
There are minor changes in command line options in kexec-tools for kdump. This patch updates the documentation to reflect those changes. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-api documentation generationMartin Waitz
This patch changes a macro definition so that kernel-doc can understand it. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] update kfree, vfree, and vunmap kerneldocPekka Enberg
This patch clarifies NULL handling of kfree() and vfree(). I addition, wording of calling context restriction for vfree() and vunmap() are changed from "may not" to "must not." Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memoryChuck Ebbert
Someone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong. This patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>