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<title>Linus 3.14-rc1</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T00:42:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-02-03T00:42:13+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'parisc-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T00:32:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-02-03T00:32:53+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "The three major changes in this patchset is a implementation for
  flexible userspace memory maps, cache-flushing fixes (again), and a
  long-discussed ABI change to make EWOULDBLOCK the same value as
  EAGAIN.

  parisc has been the only platform where we had EWOULDBLOCK != EAGAIN
  to keep HP-UX compatibility.  Since we will probably never implement
  full HP-UX support, we prefer to drop this compatibility to make it
  easier for us with Linux userspace programs which mostly never checked
  for both values.  We don't expect major fall-outs because of this
  change, and if we face some, we will simply rebuild the necessary
  applications in the debian archives"

* 'parisc-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: add flexible mmap memory layout support
  parisc: Make EWOULDBLOCK be equal to EAGAIN on parisc
  parisc: convert uapi/asm/stat.h to use native types only
  parisc: wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr
  parisc: fix cache-flushing
  parisc/sti_console: prefer Linux fonts over built-in ROM fonts
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "The three major changes in this patchset is a implementation for
  flexible userspace memory maps, cache-flushing fixes (again), and a
  long-discussed ABI change to make EWOULDBLOCK the same value as
  EAGAIN.

  parisc has been the only platform where we had EWOULDBLOCK != EAGAIN
  to keep HP-UX compatibility.  Since we will probably never implement
  full HP-UX support, we prefer to drop this compatibility to make it
  easier for us with Linux userspace programs which mostly never checked
  for both values.  We don't expect major fall-outs because of this
  change, and if we face some, we will simply rebuild the necessary
  applications in the debian archives"

* 'parisc-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: add flexible mmap memory layout support
  parisc: Make EWOULDBLOCK be equal to EAGAIN on parisc
  parisc: convert uapi/asm/stat.h to use native types only
  parisc: wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr
  parisc: fix cache-flushing
  parisc/sti_console: prefer Linux fonts over built-in ROM fonts
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<title>hpfs: optimize quad buffer loading</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T00:24:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz</email>
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<published>2014-01-28T23:11:33+00:00</published>
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HPFS needs to load 4 consecutive 512-byte sectors when accessing the
directory nodes or bitmaps.  We can't switch to 2048-byte block size
because files are allocated in the units of 512-byte sectors.

Previously, the driver would allocate a 2048-byte area using kmalloc,
copy the data from four buffers to this area and eventually copy them
back if they were modified.

In the current implementation of the buffer cache, buffers are allocated
in the pagecache.  That means that 4 consecutive 512-byte buffers are
stored in consecutive areas in the kernel address space.  So, we don't
need to allocate extra memory and copy the content of the buffers there.

This patch optimizes the code to avoid copying the buffers.  It checks
if the four buffers are stored in contiguous memory - if they are not,
it falls back to allocating a 2048-byte area and copying data there.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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HPFS needs to load 4 consecutive 512-byte sectors when accessing the
directory nodes or bitmaps.  We can't switch to 2048-byte block size
because files are allocated in the units of 512-byte sectors.

Previously, the driver would allocate a 2048-byte area using kmalloc,
copy the data from four buffers to this area and eventually copy them
back if they were modified.

In the current implementation of the buffer cache, buffers are allocated
in the pagecache.  That means that 4 consecutive 512-byte buffers are
stored in consecutive areas in the kernel address space.  So, we don't
need to allocate extra memory and copy the content of the buffers there.

This patch optimizes the code to avoid copying the buffers.  It checks
if the four buffers are stored in contiguous memory - if they are not,
it falls back to allocating a 2048-byte area and copying data there.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>hpfs: remember free space</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T00:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz</email>
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<published>2014-01-28T23:10:44+00:00</published>
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Previously, hpfs scanned all bitmaps each time the user asked for free
space using statfs.  This patch changes it so that hpfs scans the
bitmaps only once, remembes the free space and on next invocation of
statfs it returns the value instantly.

New versions of wine are hammering on the statfs syscall very heavily,
making some games unplayable when they're stored on hpfs, with load
times in minutes.

This should be backported to the stable kernels because it fixes
user-visible problem (excessive level load times in wine).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Previously, hpfs scanned all bitmaps each time the user asked for free
space using statfs.  This patch changes it so that hpfs scans the
bitmaps only once, remembes the free space and on next invocation of
statfs it returns the value instantly.

New versions of wine are hammering on the statfs syscall very heavily,
making some games unplayable when they're stored on hpfs, with load
times in minutes.

This should be backported to the stable kernels because it fixes
user-visible problem (excessive level load times in wine).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>parisc: add flexible mmap memory layout support</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T20:00:13+00:00</updated>
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<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2014-01-31T21:19:52+00:00</published>
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Add support for the flexible mmap memory layout (as described in
http://lwn.net/Articles/91829). This is especially very interesting on
parisc since we currently only support 32bit userspace (even with a
64bit Linux kernel).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Add support for the flexible mmap memory layout (as described in
http://lwn.net/Articles/91829). This is especially very interesting on
parisc since we currently only support 32bit userspace (even with a
64bit Linux kernel).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Make EWOULDBLOCK be equal to EAGAIN on parisc</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guy Martin</name>
<email>gmsoft@tuxicoman.be</email>
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<published>2014-01-16T16:17:53+00:00</published>
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On Linux, only parisc uses a different value for EWOULDBLOCK which
causes a lot of troubles for applications not checking for both values.
Since the hpux compat is long dead, make EWOULDBLOCK behave the same as
all other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Guy Martin &lt;gmsoft@tuxicoman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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On Linux, only parisc uses a different value for EWOULDBLOCK which
causes a lot of troubles for applications not checking for both values.
Since the hpux compat is long dead, make EWOULDBLOCK behave the same as
all other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Guy Martin &lt;gmsoft@tuxicoman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: convert uapi/asm/stat.h to use native types only</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:57:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2014-01-31T22:00:38+00:00</published>
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The stat.h header file is exported to userspace. Some userspace
applications failed to compile due to missing/unknown types, so we
better convert it to use native types only (like it's done on other
architectures too).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The stat.h header file is exported to userspace. Some userspace
applications failed to compile due to missing/unknown types, so we
better convert it to use native types only (like it's done on other
architectures too).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2014-01-31T21:29:17+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: fix cache-flushing</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:57:16+00:00</updated>
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<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2014-01-31T20:33:17+00:00</published>
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This commit:
f8dae00684d678afa13041ef170cecfd1297ed40: parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap
caused negative caching side-effects, e.g. hanging processes with expect and
too many inequivalent alias messages from flush_dcache_page() on Debian 5 systems.

This patch now partly reverts it and has been in production use on our debian buildd
makeservers since a week without any major problems.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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This commit:
f8dae00684d678afa13041ef170cecfd1297ed40: parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap
caused negative caching side-effects, e.g. hanging processes with expect and
too many inequivalent alias messages from flush_dcache_page() on Debian 5 systems.

This patch now partly reverts it and has been in production use on our debian buildd
makeservers since a week without any major problems.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc/sti_console: prefer Linux fonts over built-in ROM fonts</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2014-01-31T14:39:40+00:00</published>
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The built-in ROM fonts lack many necessary ASCII characters, which is
why it makes sens to prefer the Linux fonts instead if they are
available.  This makes consoles on STI graphics cards which are not
supported by the stifb driver (e.g. Visualize FXe) looks much nicer.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13
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The built-in ROM fonts lack many necessary ASCII characters, which is
why it makes sens to prefer the Linux fonts instead if they are
available.  This makes consoles on STI graphics cards which are not
supported by the stifb driver (e.g. Visualize FXe) looks much nicer.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13
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