linux-toradex.git/block/ll_rw_blk.c, branch v2.6.18.4

[PATCH] md: check bio address after mapping through partitions.

2006-11-04T01:33:50+00:00

Partitions are not limited to live within a device.  So
we should range check after partition mapping.

Note that 'maxsector' was being used for two different things.  I have
split off the second usage into 'old_sector' so that maxsector can be
still be used for it's primary usage later in the function.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] Fix current_io_context() vs set_task_ioprio() race

2006-08-21T06:34:15+00:00

I know nothing about io scheduler, but I suspect set_task_ioprio() is not safe.

current_io_context() initializes "struct io_context", then sets ->io_context.
set_task_ioprio() running on another cpu may see the changes out of order, so
->set_ioprio(ioc) may use io_context which was not initialized properly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] Only the first two bits in bio->bi_rw and rq->flags match

2006-07-06T08:18:05+00:00

Not three, as assumed. This causes the barrier bit to be needlessly set
for some IO.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate on-stack completions

2006-07-03T22:27:09+00:00

lockdep needs to have the waitqueue lock initialized for on-stack waitqueues
implicitly initialized by DECLARE_COMPLETION().  Annotate on-stack completions
accordingly.

Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2006-06-30T22:39:30+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  Remove obsolete #include 
  remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
  arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
  Documentation/IPMI typos
  Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
  v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
  Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
  typo fixes: specfic -> specific
  typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
  typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
  typo fixes: infomation -> information
  typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
  typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
  typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
  typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
  fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
  smb is no longer maintained

Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

[PATCH] Light weight event counters

2006-06-30T18:25:36+00:00

The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches
have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat.  They have no
essential function for the VM.

We use a simple increment of per cpu variables.  In order to avoid the most
severe races we disable preempt.  Preempt does not prevent the race between
an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics
counter.  However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one
increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that
the vm event counters have to be accurate.

In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each
counter.  For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a
single instruction.  This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64.
 And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for
both architectures in most cases.

The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a
building of linux kernels without these counters.

The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully
results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted
(i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction
concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done).

Benefits:
- VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction
  on i386 and x86_64.
- No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case.
  Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock.
- Handling is similar to zoned VM counters.
- Simple and easily extendable.
- Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use.

References:

RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2
RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2
local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2
V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2
V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: use hotplug version of cpu notifier in appropriate places

2006-06-28T00:32:41+00:00

Make use the of newly defined hotplug version of cpu_notifier functionality
wherever appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman 
Cc: Ashok Raj 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17

2006-06-28T00:32:41+00:00

This patch reverts notifier_block changes made in 2.6.17

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman 
Cc: Ashok Raj 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

spelling fixes

2006-06-26T16:35:02+00:00

acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk