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Alexander Schulz
b7523418f6 [PATCH] ARM: 2815/1: Shark: new defconfig, fixes with __io and serial ports
Patch from Alexander Schulz

This patch brings a new default config file for the shark and
fixes a compilation issue with io addressing and a runtime
problem with the serial ports, where I corrected a wrong
regshift value.
These are all shark specific files so I hope it is ok to
put them in one patch.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Schulz <alex@shark-linux.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 17:17:18 +01:00
Michael Burian
878cf4e1c7 [PATCH] ARM: 2794/1: Add "Image" and "mach-types.h" to dontdiff list
Patch from Michael Burian

comment in "mach-types.h" tells that it should not be patched
"Image" is a binary, just as zImage, uImage and friends are

Signed-off-by: Michael Burian <dynmail1@gassner-waagen.at>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 16:43:49 +01:00
Russell King
109d89ca0e [PATCH] ARM: Allow register_undef_hook to be called with IRQs off
Preserve the interrupt status across a call to register_undef_hook.
This allows it to be called while interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 16:43:33 +01:00
Russell King
54ea06f6af [PATCH] ARM: Convert bitops to use ARMv6 ldrex/strex instructions
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16 15:21:51 +01:00
Siddha, Suresh B
9fb1759a31 [PATCH] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes
A malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000.  During
exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is
not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not
freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page.

Check the return value and free the vma incase of failure.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 22:56:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d6e1860312 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2005-07-15 17:52:13 -07:00
Patrick Boettcher
38d84c3bd6 [PATCH] dvb: cx88 output mode fix
The output_mode needs to be set for the Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T
(cx88-dvb.c).

Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 12:30:15 -07:00
Robert Love
c9f04f5847 [PATCH] inotify: MAINTAINERS
Add a MAINTAINERS entry for Inotify.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
NeilBrown
6a806c510d [PATCH] md/raid1: clear bitmap when fullsync completes
We need to be careful differentiating between a resync of a complete array,
in which we can clear the bitmap, and a resync of a degraded array, in
which we cannot.

This patch cleans all that up.

Cc: 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>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
Michal Ostrowski
a1287ba1ba [PATCH] rocket.c: Fix ldisc ref count handling
If bailing out because there is nothing to receive in rp_do_receive(),
tty_ldisc_deref is not called.  Failure to do so increases the ref count
and causes release_dev() to hang since it can't get the ref count to 0.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
Robert Love
6f97933d0f [PATCH] inotify: documentation update
Clean up and expand some of the inotify documentation.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
35e422c967 [PATCH] visws: reexport pm_power_off
More fallout from the i386_ksyms.c cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:51 -07:00
Carsten Otte
afa597ba20 [PATCH] execute-in-place fixes
This patch includes feedback from Andrew and Christoph. Thanks for
taking time to review.

Use of empty_zero_page was eliminated to fix compilation for architectures
that don't have it.

This patch removes setting pages up-to-date in ext2_get_xip_page and all
bug checks to verify that the page is indeed up to date.  Setting the page
state on mapping to userland is bogus.  None of the code patchs involved
with these pages in mm cares about the page state.

still on my ToDo list: identify a place outside second extended where
__inode_direct_access should reside

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:50 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c5287ba132 [PATCH] v4l: bug fixes for tuner, cx88 and tea5767
- In CX88 code, some cards needs to have audio reprogramed after changing
  video channel;

- Tuner autodetection code seems not to work on some cards.  Now,
  no_autodetect insmod option allows disabling autodetection code;

- Minor fixes in tea5767 to reduce integer trunc;

- There are some new Pixelview Ultra Pro cards that doesn't use TEA5767
  for radio.  As autodetection is capable of checking for tea, radio tuners
  and addresses removed.

- CX88 version number incremented.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:50 -07:00
Neil Brown
1eb29128c6 [PATCH] Fix raid0's attempt to divide by 64bit numbers
Apparently sector_div is only guaranteed to work with a 32bit divisor, even
on 64bit architectures.  So allow for this in raid0.

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>
2005-07-15 09:54:50 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
030babac6a [PATCH] vt.c build fix
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 09:54:50 -07:00
Ian Wienand
46906c4415 [IA64] Fix undefined reference to can_cpei_retarget for simulator
The simulator build doesn't turn on ACPI, so doesn't have a definition
of can_cpei_retarget.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-14 09:21:47 -07:00
Matthias Urlichs
ba460e4806 [PATCH] Option Card driver update, Maintainer entry
This patch updates the Option Card driver:
- remove a deadlock
- add sponsor notice
- add new card
- renamed the device to what's usually printed on it
- removed some dead code
- clean up a bunch of irregular whitespace (end-of-line, tabs)

Also add a MAINTAINERS entry for the Option Card driver.

Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:26 -07:00
Olaf Hering
98848fa83b [PATCH] ratelimit the ieee1394 IR legacy activated messages
running coriander1 with an Apple iSight produces lots of dmesg output.

Jul 13 22:14:17 ibook kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jul 13 22:15:28 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated
Jul 13 22:15:59 ibook last message repeated 208 times
Jul 13 22:17:00 ibook last message repeated 762 times
Jul 13 22:18:01 ibook last message repeated 914 times
Jul 13 22:18:17 ibook last message repeated 238 times
Jul 13 22:18:17 ibook kernel: ieee1394: unsolicited response packet received - no tlabel match
Jul 13 22:18:17 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated

its less noisy with the patch:

Jul 14 08:03:08 ibook kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jul 14 08:03:26 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated
Jul 14 08:03:42 ibook last message repeated 10 times
Jul 14 08:03:47 ibook kernel: printk: 63 messages suppressed.
Jul 14 08:03:47 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated
Jul 14 08:03:52 ibook kernel: printk: 74 messages suppressed.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:26 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
a2d2b5cb8e [PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL for root_dev
Remove ROOT_DEV after unexporting it in the previous patch, as requested time
ago by Christoph Hellwig.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:25 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
a0d43df931 [PATCH] uml: hostfs: unuse ROOT_DEV
Minimal patch removing uses of ROOT_DEV; next patch unexports it.  I've
opposed this, but I've planned to reintroduce the functionality without using
ROOT_DEV.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:25 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
20d0021394 [PATCH] uml: allow building as 32-bit binary on 64bit host
This patch makes the command:

make ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386

work on x86_64 hosts (with support for building 32-bit binaries).  This is
especially needed since 64-bit UMLs don't support 32-bit emulation for guest
binaries, currently.  This has been tested in all possible cases and works.

Only exception is that I've built but not tested a 64-bit binary, because I
hadn't a 64-bit filesystem available.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:25 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
ecc354a90a [PATCH] uml: reintroduce pcap support
The pcap support was not working because of some linking problems (expressing
the construct in Kbuild was a bit difficult) and because there was no user
request.  Now that this has come back, here's the support.

This has been tested and works on both 32 and 64-bit hosts, even when
"cross-"building 32-bit binaries.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:25 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
8e0a218124 [PATCH] uml: fix hppfs error path
Fix the error message to refer to the error code, i.e.  err, not count, plus
add some cosmetical fixes.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:25 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
1c30385ae4 [PATCH] uml: gcc 2.95 fix and Makefile cleanup
1) Cleanup an ugly hyper-nested code in Makefile (now only the arith.
   expression is passed through the host bash).

2) Fix a problem with GCC 2.95: according to a report from Raphael Bossek,
   .remap_data : { arch/um/sys-SUBARCH/unmap_fin.o (.data .bss) } is expanded
   into: .remap_data : { arch/um/sys-i386 /unmap_fin.o (.data .bss) }

(because I didn't use ## to join the two tokens), thus stopping linking.  Pass
the whole path from the Makefile as a simple and nice fix.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Raphael Bossek <raphael.bossek@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:24 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2e5e55923e [PATCH] uml: consolidate modify_ldt
*) Reorganize the two cases of sys_modify_ldt to share all the reasonably
   common code.

*) Avoid memory allocation when unneeded (i.e.  when we are writing and the
   passed buffer size is known), thus not returning ENOMEM (which isn't
   allowed for this syscall, even if there is no strict "specification").

*) Add copy_{from,to}_user to modify_ldt for TT mode.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:24 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
1feb8d2d73 [PATCH] uml: workaround host bug in "TT mode vs. NPTL link fix"
A big bug has been diagnosed on hosts running the SKAS patch and built with
CONFIG_REGPARM, due to some missing prevent_tail_call().

On these hosts, this workaround is needed to avoid triggering that bug,
because "to" is kept by GCC only in EBX, which is corrupted at the return of
mmap2().

Since to trigger this bug int 0x80 must be used when doing the call, it rarely
manifests itself, so I'd prefer to get this merged to workaround that host
bug, since it should cause no functional change.  Still, you might prefer to
drop it, I'll leave this to you.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:24 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
bcb01b8a67 [PATCH] uml: fix lvalue for gcc4
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>

This construct is refused by GCC 4, so here's the (corrected) fix.  Thanks to
Russell for noticing a stupid mistake I did when first sending this.

As he noted, the code is largely suboptimal however it currently works, and
will be fixed shortly.  Just read the access_ok check on fp which is NULL, or
the pointer arithmetic below which should be done with a cast to void*:

 	frame = (struct rt_sigframe __user *)
 		round_down(stack_top - sizeof(struct rt_sigframe), 16) - 8;

The code shows clearly that has been taken from
arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c:setup_rt_frame(), maybe in a bit of a hurry.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:24 -07:00
Michael Krufky
3952db66ef [PATCH] dvb: LGDT3302 QAM lock bug fix
Fix QAM lock bug.  Previously, it was necessary to first scan in VSB before
attempting to get a QAM lock.

Signed-off-by: Mac Michaels <wmichaels1@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 09:00:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
514fd7fd01 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2005-07-13 15:48:33 -07:00
Miles Bader
1e279dd855 [PATCH] v850: Align ___start___param to match parameter alignment
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 12:25:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3720bd8b1e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6 2005-07-13 12:19:30 -07:00
Tony Luck
99ad25a313 Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linus 2005-07-13 12:15:43 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
f62c4a96f7 [IA64] Make PCDP work again.
Mark's patch added "attribute((packed))" for pcdp_uart, without
accounting for the fact that the structure definition _relied_ on
implicit padding by 6 bytes.  Fix is to make the padding explicit.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-13 11:56:32 -07:00
Dean Nelson
59a0a8aa6a [IA64] fix call of smp_processor_id() by XPC while
XPC calls smp_processor_id() twice from xpc_setup_infrastructure() with
preemption enabled, which gets flagged if 'DEBUG_PREEMPT=y'. This patch
replaces the two calls to smp_processor_id() by a single call to
raw_smp_processor_id() since any CPU within the partition will do.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-13 11:52:45 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
a61caa8523 [PATCH] Amiga joystick: Fix typo introduced by the open/close race fixes
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:44:27 -07:00
Olof Johansson
f264cc2824 [PATCH] ppc64: add 970MP PVR
Add PVR value and tests for 970MP.  Also switch to a simpler (but slightly
longer) check at init time for simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:25 -07:00
David Gibson
96e2844999 [PATCH] ppc64: kill bitfields in ppc64 hash code
This patch removes the use of bitfield types from the ppc64 hash table
manipulation code.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:25 -07:00
Olaf Hering
f13487c66c [PATCH] ppc32: make -j12 all fails in uImage target
make -j zImage may call if_changed twice at the same time, the result is a
corrupted vmlinux.gz

Write to a temporary file for the time being until someone with make skills
fix the serialization properly.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:25 -07:00
Steve Dickson
7ee91ec14b [PATCH] NFS: procfs/sysctl interfaces for lockd do not work on x86_64
Allow the setting of NLM timeouts and grace periods through the proc and
sysclt interfaces on x86_64 architectures

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
068e1b94bb [PATCH] s390: fadvise hint values.
Add special case for the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE hint
values for s390-64.  The user space values in the s390-64 glibc headers for
these two defines have always been 6 and 7 instead of 4 and 5.  All 64 bit
applications therefore use the "wrong" values.  To get these applications
working without recompiling the kernel needs to accept the "wrong" values.
Since the values for s390-31 are 4 and 5 the compat wrapper for fadvise64
and fadvise64_64 need to rewrite the values for 31 bit system calls.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Guillaume Autran
ddca3b80ce [PATCH] ppc32: fix destroy_context() race condition
Fix for a race condition when a task gets preempted by another task while
executing the destroy_context(...) in a FEW_CONTEXTS environment.
mm->context == NO_CONTEXT but the context_map may indicate all contexts are
in use.

The solution to this problem is to disable kernel preemption while
destroying a MMU context.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Autran <gautran@mrv.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
88bd5121d6 [PATCH] Fix soft lockup due to NTFS: VFS part and explanation
Something has changed in the core kernel such that we now get concurrent
inode write outs, one e.g via pdflush and one via sys_sync or whatever.
This causes a nasty deadlock in ntfs.  The only clean solution
unfortunately requires a minor vfs api extension.

First the deadlock analysis:

Prerequisive knowledge: NTFS has a file $MFT (inode 0) loaded at mount
time.  The NTFS driver uses the page cache for storing the file contents as
usual.  More interestingly this file contains the table of on-disk inodes
as a sequence of MFT_RECORDs.  Thus NTFS driver accesses the on-disk inodes
by accessing the MFT_RECORDs in the page cache pages of the loaded inode
$MFT.

The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty.  For same
inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk inode,
which is as explained above in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging to the
table of inodes ($MFT, inode 0).

What happens:

Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever...  calls __sync_single_inode() for
$MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for the dirty page containing the
on-disk inode X, the page is now locked -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which
clears PageUptodate() on the page to prevent anyone else getting hold of it
whilst it does the write out (this is necessary as the on-disk inode needs
"fixups" applied before the write to disk which are removed again after the
write and PageUptodate is then set again).  It then analyses the page
looking for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this on-disk
inode.  This then calls ilookup5() to check if the corresponding VFS inode
is in icache().  This in turn calls ifind() which waits on the inode lock
via wait_on_inode whilst holding the global inode_lock.

Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the same
VFS inode X on the ntfs volume.  This locks the inode (I_LOCK) then calls
write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() -> read_cache_page() of
the page (in page cache of table of inodes $MFT, inode 0) containing the
on-disk inode.  This page has PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1
(see above) so read_cache_page() blocks when tries to take the page lock
for the page so it can call ntfs_read_page().

Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the on-disk
inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in ifind() so it
can write the page out and then unlock the page.

And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for the
page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover that
Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.

Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.

The only sensible solution: NTFS does not care whether the VFS inode is
locked or not when it calls ilookup5() (it doesn't use the VFS inode at
all, it just uses it to find the corresponding ntfs_inode which is of
course attached to the VFS inode (both are one single struct); and it uses
the ntfs_inode which is subject to its own locking so I_LOCK is irrelevant)
hence we want a modified ilookup5_nowait() which is the same as ilookup5()
but it does not wait on the inode lock.

Without such functionality I would have to keep my own ntfs_inode cache in
the NTFS driver just so I can find ntfs_inodes independent of their VFS
inodes which would be slow, memory and cpu cycle wasting, and incredibly
stupid given the icache already exists in the VFS.

Below is a patch that does the ilookup5_nowait() implementation in
fs/inode.c and exports it.

ilookup5_nowait.diff:

Introduce ilookup5_nowait() which is basically the same as ilookup5() but
it does not wait on the inode's lock (i.e. it omits the wait_on_inode()
done in ifind()).

This is needed to avoid a nasty deadlock in NTFS.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:25:24 -07:00
Robert Love
9a556e8908 [PATCH] inotify: misc cleanup
Really simple, basic cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
Robert Love
5995f16b4a [PATCH] inotify: event ordering
This rearranges the event ordering for "open" to be consistent with the
ordering of the other events.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
Robert Love
0399cb08c5 [PATCH] inotify: move sysctl
This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from
"/proc/sys/fs".  Also some related cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:09:31 -07:00
James Bottomley
153f805781 [PATCH] fix voyager subarchitecture EXPORT_SYMBOL breakage caused by i386_ksym reduction
This patch:

	[PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost

made files like smp.c do their own EXPORT_SYMBOLS.  This means that all
subarchitectures that override these symbols now have to do the exports
themselves.  This patch adds the exports for voyager (which is the most
affected since it has a separate smp harness).  However, someone should
audit all the other subarchitectures to see if any others got broken.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 11:07:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c327ff6250 Merge head 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6 2005-07-13 10:37:36 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney
c0ac515e29 [PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.pro
When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro
 options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore
 the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the command
 line.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 10:28:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6cd59f7a41 Merge /home/torvalds/linux-2.6-arm 2005-07-13 10:12:50 -07:00