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2008-03-24revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"Andrew Morton
Revert commit f1a9ee758de7de1e040de849fdef46e6802ea117: Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800 kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight. This problem is notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages, causing unnecessary stalls in the VM. Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be written out. This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while the direct reclaim task sleeps. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos, here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211 Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current: - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the current code: it's a framework now, a "core" with a small sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to. Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end. - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file and better explains what this really does. Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with that important task. Signed-off-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>
2008-03-24smackfs: remove redundant lock, fix open(,O_RDWR)Ahmed S. Darwish
Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking write sessions on open() was needed. This lock is no longer useful now since each rule is handled by a single write() call. This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an Oops. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24markers: remove ACCESS_ONCEMathieu Desnoyers
As Paul pointed out, the ACCESS_ONCE are not needed because we already have the explicit surrounding memory barriers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24markers: update preempt_disable. call_rcu, rcu_barrier commentsMathieu Desnoyers
Add comments requested by Andrew. Updated comments about synchronize_sched(). Since we use call_rcu and rcu_barrier now, these comments were out of sync with the code. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_coreYinghai Lu
With numa enabled, some callers could have a range of memory on one node but try to free that on other node. This can cause some pages to be freed wrongly. For example: when we try to allocate 128g boot ram early for gart/swiotlb, and free that range later so gart/swiotlb can get some range afterwards. With this patch, we don't need to care which node holds the range, just loop to call free_bootmem_node for all online nodes. This patch makes free_bootmem_core() more robust by trimming the sidx and eidx according the ram range that the node has. And make the free_bootmem_core handle this out of range case. We could use bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure. So next time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use free_bootmem directly. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.cIngo van Lil
The block2mtd driver (drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c) will kfree an on-stack pointer when handling an invalid argument line (e.g. block2mtd=/dev/loop0,xxx). The kfree was added some time ago when "name" was dynamically allocated. Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option betterPavel Machek
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory. Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Fix Oops with TQM5200 on TQM5200 [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix null dereference if bestcomm fails to initialize [POWERPC] mpc5200-fec: Fix possible NULL dereference in mdio driver [POWERPC] Fix crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika [POWERPC] Don't use 64k pages for ioremap on pSeries
2008-03-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: exec PT_DTRACE [SPARC64]: Use shorter list_splice_init() for brevity. [SPARC64]: Remove most limitations to kernel image size.
2008-03-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: sch_htb: fix "too many events" situation connector: convert to single-threaded workqueue [ATM]: When proc_create() fails, do some error handling work and return -ENOMEM. [SUNGEM]: Fix NAPI assertion failure. BNX2X: prevent ethtool from setting port type [9P] net/9p/trans_fd.c: remove unused variable [IPV6] net/ipv6/ndisc.c: remove unused variable [IPV4] fib_trie: fix warning from rcu_assign_poinger [TCP]: Let skbs grow over a page on fast peers [DLCI]: Fix tiny race between module unload and sock_ioctl. [SCTP]: Fix build warnings with IPV6 disabled. [IPV4]: Fix null dereference in ip_defrag
2008-03-24SVCRDMA: Use only 1 RDMA read scatter entry for iWARP adaptersRoland Dreier
The iWARP protocol limits RDMA read requests to a single scatter entry. NFS/RDMA has code in rdma_read_max_sge() that is supposed to limit the sge_count for RDMA read requests to 1, but the code to do that is inside an #ifdef RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP block. In the mainline kernel at least, RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP is an enum and not a preprocessor #define, so the #ifdef'ed code is never compiled. In my test of a kernel build with -j8 on an NFS/RDMA mount, this problem eventually leads to trouble starting with: svcrdma: Error posting send = -22 svcrdma : RDMA_READ error = -22 and things go downhill from there. The trivial fix is to delete the #ifdef guard. The check seems to be a remnant of when the NFS/RDMA code was not merged and needed to compile against multiple kernel versions, although I don't think it ever worked as intended. In any case now that the code is upstream there's no need to test whether the RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP constant is defined or not. Without this patch, my kernel build on an NFS/RDMA mount using NetEffect adapters quickly and 100% reproducibly failed with an error like: ld: final link failed: Software caused connection abort With the patch applied I was able to complete a kernel build on the same setup. (Tom Tucker says this is "actually an _ancient_ remnant when it had to compile against iWARP vs. non-iWARP enabled OFA trees.") Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24x86-32: Pass the full resource data to ioremap()Linus Torvalds
It appears that 64-bit PCI resources cannot possibly ever have worked on x86-32 even when the RESOURCES_64BIT config option was set, because any driver that tried to [pci_]ioremap() the resource would have been unable to do so because the high 32 bits would have been silently dropped on the floor by the ioremap() routines that only used "unsigned long". Change them to use "resource_size_t" instead, which properly encodes the whole 64-bit resource data if RESOURCES_64BIT is enabled. Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24Don't 'printk()' while holding xtime lock for writingLinus Torvalds
The printk() can deadlock because it can wake up klogd(), and task enqueueing will try to read the time in order to set a hrtimer. Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Debugged-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24[POWERPC] Fix Oops with TQM5200 on TQM5200Anatolij Gustschin
The "bestcomm-core" driver defines its of_match table as follows static struct of_device_id mpc52xx_bcom_of_match[] = { { .type = "dma-controller", .compatible = "fsl,mpc5200-bestcomm", }, { .type = "dma-controller", .compatible = "mpc5200-bestcomm", }, {}, }; so while registering the driver, the driver's probe function won't be called, because the device tree node doesn't have a device_type property. Thus the driver's bcom_engine structure won't be allocated. Referencing this structure later causes observed Oops. Checking bcom_eng pointer for NULL before referencing data pointed by it prevents oopsing, but fec driver still doesn't work (because of the lost bestcomm match and resulted task allocation failure). Actually the compatible property exists and should match and so the fec driver should work. This removes .type = "dma-controller" from the bestcomm driver's mpc52xx_bcom_of_match table to solve the problem. Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-24[POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix null dereference if bestcomm fails to initializeGrant Likely
If the bestcomm initialization fails, calls to the task allocate function should fail gracefully instead of oopsing with a NULL deref. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-24[POWERPC] mpc5200-fec: Fix possible NULL dereference in mdio driverGrant Likely
If the reg property is missing from the phy node (unlikely, but possible), then the kernel will oops with a NULL pointer dereference. This fixes it by checking the pointer first. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-24[POWERPC] Fix crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efikaOlaf Hering
The global primary_ipic in arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c can remain NULL if ipic_init() fails, which will happen on machines that don't have an ipic interrupt controller. init_ipic_sysfs() will crash in that case. Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-24[POWERPC] Don't use 64k pages for ioremap on pSeriesPaul Mackerras
On pSeries, the hypervisor doesn't let us map in the eHEA ethernet adapter using 64k pages, and thus the ehea driver will fail if 64k pages are configured. This works around the problem by always using 4k pages for ioremap on pSeries (but not on other platforms). A better fix would be to check whether the partition could ever have an eHEA adapter, and only force 4k pages if it could, but this will do for 2.6.25. This is based on an earlier patch by Tony Breeds. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-23[SPARC64]: exec PT_DTRACERoland McGrath
The PT_DTRACE flag is meaningless and obsolete. Don't touch it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23[SPARC64]: Use shorter list_splice_init() for brevity.Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23sch_htb: fix "too many events" situationMartin Devera
HTB is event driven algorithm and part of its work is to apply scheduled events at proper times. It tried to defend itself from livelock by processing only limited number of events per dequeue. Because of faster computers some users already hit this hardcoded limit. This patch limits processing up to 2 jiffies (why not 1 jiffie ? because it might stop prematurely when only fraction of jiffie remains). Signed-off-by: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23connector: convert to single-threaded workqueueEvgeniy Polyakov
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> We don't need one cqueue thread for each CPU. cqueue is used for receiving userspace datagrams, which are very rare and thus will happily live with a single queue. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23[ATM]: When proc_create() fails, do some error handling work and return -ENOMEM.Wang Chen
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23[SUNGEM]: Fix NAPI assertion failure.David S. Miller
As reported by Johannes Berg: I started getting this warning with recent kernels: [ 773.908927] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 773.908954] Badness at net/core/dev.c:2204 ... If we loop more than once in gem_poll(), we'll use more than the real budget in our gem_rx() calls, thus eventually trigger the caller's assertions in net_rx_action(). Subtract "work_done" from "budget" for the second arg to gem_rx() to fix the bug. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23BNX2X: prevent ethtool from setting port typeEliezer Tamir
On 10GBaseT boards setting the type to TP will cause the driver to try to configure 1GBaseT. Since there are currently no boards that support setting of the port type, disable this for now. Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezert@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-22[9P] net/9p/trans_fd.c: remove unused variableJulia Lawall
The variable cb is initialized but never used otherwise. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T; identifier i; constant C; @@ ( extern T i; | - T i; <+... when != i - i = C; ...+> ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-22[IPV6] net/ipv6/ndisc.c: remove unused variableJulia Lawall
The variable hlen is initialized but never used otherwise. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T; identifier i; constant C; @@ ( extern T i; | - T i; <+... when != i - i = C; ...+> ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-22[IPV4] fib_trie: fix warning from rcu_assign_poingerStephen Hemminger
This gets rid of a warning caused by the test in rcu_assign_pointer. I tried to fix rcu_assign_pointer, but that devolved into a long set of discussions about doing it right that came to no real solution. Since the test in rcu_assign_pointer for constant NULL would never succeed in fib_trie, just open code instead. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: RDMA/nes: Fix MSS calculation on RDMA path
2008-03-22Merge 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: Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months" ide: mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted ide: mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted ide: Documentation/ide/ide.txt fixes ide: mark special "ide0=" kernel parameters as obsoleted ide: remove commented out entries from ide_pio_blacklist[]
2008-03-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] Fix mem leak on dfs referral [CIFS] file create with acl support enabled is slow [CIFS] Fix mtime on cp -p when file data cached but written out too late [CIFS] Fix build problem [CIFS] cifs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences [CIFS] DFS patch that connects inode with dfs handling ops
2008-03-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86: revert: reserve dma32 early for gart
2008-03-22Change pagemap output format to allow for future reporting of huge pagesHans Rosenfeld
Change pagemap output format to allow for future reporting of huge pages. (Format comment and minor cleanups: mpm@selenic.com) Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-22mmc: use sysfs groups to handle conditional attributesPierre Ossman
Suppressing uevents turned out to be a bad idea as it screws up the order of events, making user space very confused. Change the system to use sysfs groups instead. This is a regression that, for some odd reason, has gone unnoticed for some time. It confuses hal so that the block devices (which have the mmc device as a parent) are not registered. End result being that desktop magic when cards are inserted won't work. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-22PNP: increase the number of PnP memory resources from 12 to 24Darren Salt
Increase the number of PnP memory resources from 12 to 24. This removes an "exceeded the max num of mem resources" warning on boot. I also noticed the reservation of two more iomem ranges on the computer on which this was tested. Signed-off-by: Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-22ISAPNP: fix limits of logical device register setBjorn Helgaas
PNP_MAX_MEM and PNP_MAX_PORT are mainly used to size tables of PNP device resources. In 2.6.24, we increased their values to accomodate ACPI devices that have many resources: 2.6.23 2.6.24 ------ ------ PNP_MAX_MEM 4 12 PNP_MAX_PORT 8 40 However, ISAPNP also used these constants as the size of parts of the logical device register set. This register set is fixed by hardware, so increasing the constants meant that we were reading and writing unintended parts of the register set. This patch changes ISAPNP to use the correct register set sizes (the same values we used prior to 2.6.24). Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-22[CIFS] Fix mem leak on dfs referralSteve French
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-03-22[TCP]: Let skbs grow over a page on fast peersHerbert Xu
While testing the virtio-net driver on KVM with TSO I noticed that TSO performance with a 1500 MTU is significantly worse compared to the performance of non-TSO with a 16436 MTU. The packet dump shows that most of the packets sent are smaller than a page. Looking at the code this actually is quite obvious as it always stop extending the packet if it's the first packet yet to be sent and if it's larger than the MSS. Since each extension is bound by the page size, this means that (given a 1500 MTU) we're very unlikely to construct packets greater than a page, provided that the receiver and the path is fast enough so that packets can always be sent immediately. The fix is also quite obvious. The push calls inside the loop is just an optimisation so that we don't end up doing all the sending at the end of the loop. Therefore there is no specific reason why it has to do so at MSS boundaries. For TSO, the most natural extension of this optimisation is to do the pushing once the skb exceeds the TSO size goal. This is what the patch does and testing with KVM shows that the TSO performance with a 1500 MTU easily surpasses that of a 16436 MTU and indeed the packet sizes sent are generally larger than 16436. I don't see any obvious downsides for slower peers or connections, but it would be prudent to test this extensively to ensure that those cases don't regress. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-22x86: revert: reserve dma32 early for gartThomas Gleixner
Revert commit f62f1fc9ef94f74fda2b456d935ba2da69fa0a40 Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Date: Fri Mar 7 15:02:50 2008 -0800 x86: reserve dma32 early for gart The patch has a dependency on bootmem modifications which are not .25 material that late in the -rc cycle. The problem which is addressed by the patch is limited to machines with 256G and more memory booted with NUMA disabled. This is not a .25 regression and the audience which is affected by this problem is very limited, so it's safer to do the revert than pulling in intrusive bootmem changes right now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-22Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
This reverts commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb. Borislav is working on ide-tape "light" version instead. Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted (they are layering violation and should be dealt with in the same way as done by libata - device-mapper should be used instead). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted (nowadays device-driver binding can be changed at runtime through sysfs and it can also be dealt with using per device driver parameters). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: Documentation/ide/ide.txt fixesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* "hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq" should be "hdx=cyls,heads,sects". * "hdx=" is for "x" from 'a' to 'u', "idex=" is for "x" from '0' to '9'. * "idex=noautotune" is long gone. * Obsoleted "ide0=" parameters were already removed from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark special "ide0=" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "ide0=ali14xx|cmd640_vlb|dtc2278|ht6560b|qd65xx|umc8672" kernel parameters as obsoleted (per host driver replacements have been available for a long time). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: remove commented out entries from ide_pio_blacklist[]Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-21[SPARC64]: Remove most limitations to kernel image size.David S. Miller
Currently kernel images are limited to 8MB in size, and this causes problems especially when enabling features that take up a lot of kernel image space such as lockdep. The code now will align the kernel image size up to 4MB and map that many locked TLB entries. So, the only practical limitation is the number of available locked TLB entries which is 16 on Cheetah and 64 on pre-Cheetah sparc64 cpus. Niagara cpus don't actually have hw locked TLB entry support. Rather, the hypervisor transparently provides support for "locked" TLB entries since it runs with physical addressing and does the initial TLB miss processing. Fully utilizing this change requires some help from SILO, a patch for which will be submitted to the maintainer. Essentially, SILO will only currently map up to 8MB for the kernel image and that needs to be increased. Note that neither this patch nor the SILO bits will help with network booting. The openfirmware code will only map up to a certain amount of kernel image during a network boot and there isn't much we can to about that other than to implemented a layered network booting facility. Solaris has this, and calls it "wanboot" and we may implement something similar at some point. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-21[DLCI]: Fix tiny race between module unload and sock_ioctl.Pavel Emelyanov
This is a narrow pedantry :) but the dlci_ioctl_hook check and call should not be parted with the mutex lock. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-21[SCTP]: Fix build warnings with IPV6 disabled.David S. Miller
Introduced by 270637abff0cdf848b910b9f96ad342e1da61c66 ("[SCTP]: Fix a race between module load and protosw access") Reported by Gabriel C: In file included from net/sctp/sm_statetable.c:50: include/net/sctp/sctp.h: In function 'sctp_v6_pf_init': include/net/sctp/sctp.h:392: warning: 'return' with a value, in function returning void In file included from net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c:62: include/net/sctp/sctp.h: In function 'sctp_v6_pf_init': include/net/sctp/sctp.h:392: warning: 'return' with a value, in function returning void ... Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-21[IPV4]: Fix null dereference in ip_defragPhil Oester
Been seeing occasional panics in my testing of 2.6.25-rc in ip_defrag. Offending line in ip_defrag is here: net = skb->dev->nd_net where dev is NULL. Bisected the problem down to commit ac18e7509e7df327e30d6e073a787d922eaf211d ([NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the inet_frag_queue lookup work in namespaces). Below patch (idea from Patrick McHardy) fixes the problem for me. Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>