linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/kernel, branch v2.6.25-rc5

[MIPS] Wire up the timerfd_*() o32 system calls

2008-02-19T17:01:31+00:00

This patch enables the system calls timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime()
and timerfd_gettime() for MIPS architecture.

Please see the following Bugzilla entry for more details:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10038

This was tested using a Malta 4Kc board in both little-endian and
big-endian modes. The unit test program is available from the URL
above.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev 

[Ralf: Added N64, N32 and O32 bits on 64-bit kernels.]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

[MIPS] Fix broken rm7000/rm9000 interrupt handling

2008-02-19T17:01:31+00:00

Properly acknowledge RM7K and RM9K interrupts. Before this, interrupts were
permanently masked after their first occurrence, making them non-functional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

[MIPS] Use find_task_by_vpid in system calls

2008-02-19T17:01:30+00:00

There are some places left in mips, that lookup task in initial namespace,
while the code doing so gets the pid from the user space and thus must
treat it as virtual.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Introduce path_put()

2008-02-15T05:13:33+00:00

* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
  vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Steven French 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}

2008-02-15T05:13:33+00:00

This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
   pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
  struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:

without patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5321639  858418  715768 6895825  6938d1 vmlinux

with patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5320026  858418  715768 6894212  693284 vmlinux

This patch:

Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

MIPS: Mark all but i8259 interrupts as no-probe.

2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00

Use set_irq_noprobe() to mark all MIPS interrupts as non-probe.  Override that
default for i8259 interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-and-tested-by: Rob Landley 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pid: fix mips irix emulation pid usage

2008-02-08T17:22:28+00:00

[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: fix unbalanced parenthesis in irix_BSDsetpgrp()]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem()

2008-02-07T16:42:25+00:00

This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
between crashkernel area and already used memory.

This patch:

Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.

Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
inside reserve_bootmem_core().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle 
Cc: 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

calibrate_delay() must be __cpuinit

2008-02-06T18:41:08+00:00

calibrate_delay() must be __cpuinit, not __{dev,}init.

I've verified that this is correct for all users.

While doing the latter, I also did the following cleanups:
- remove pointless additional prototypes in C files
- ensure all users #include 

This fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1128d): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:calibrate_delay (between 'check_cx686_slop' and 'set_cx86_reorder')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x25102): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:calibrate_delay (between 'smp_callin' and 'cpu_coregroup_map')

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Christian Zankel 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open

2008-02-06T18:41:06+00:00

NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.

Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.

This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds