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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/base, branch v2.6.17.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] revert "swsusp add check for suspension of X controlled devices"</title>
<updated>2006-05-31T23:27:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-05-31T04:26:03+00:00</published>
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From: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;

Revert commit ff4da2e262d2509fe1bacff70dd00934be569c66.

It broke APM suspend, probably because APM doesn't switch back to a VT
when suspending.

Tracked down by Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;

Rafael sayeth:
  "It only fixed the theoretical issue that a quick-handed user could
   switch to X after processes have been frozen and before the devices
   are suspended.

   With the current userland suspend tools it shouldn't be necessary."

Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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From: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;

Revert commit ff4da2e262d2509fe1bacff70dd00934be569c66.

It broke APM suspend, probably because APM doesn't switch back to a VT
when suspending.

Tracked down by Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;

Rafael sayeth:
  "It only fixed the theoretical issue that a quick-handed user could
   switch to X after processes have been frozen and before the devices
   are suspended.

   With the current userland suspend tools it shouldn't be necessary."

Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] drivers/base/firmware_class.c: cleanups</title>
<updated>2006-05-21T19:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-05-20T22:00:16+00:00</published>
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- remove the following global function that is both unused and
  unimplemented:
  - register_firmware()

- make the following needlessly global function static:
  - firmware_class_uevent()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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- remove the following global function that is both unused and
  unimplemented:
  - register_firmware()

- make the following needlessly global function static:
  - firmware_class_uevent()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CLASS DEVICE]: add attribute_group creation</title>
<updated>2006-05-07T00:55:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-05-07T00:55:11+00:00</published>
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Extend the support of attribute groups in class_device's to allow
groups to be created as part of the registration process. This allows
network device's to avoid race between registration and creating
groups.

Note that unlike attributes that are a property of the class object,
the groups are a property of the class_device object. This is done
because there are different types of network devices (wireless for
example).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Extend the support of attribute groups in class_device's to allow
groups to be created as part of the registration process. This allows
network device's to avoid race between registration and creating
groups.

Note that unlike attributes that are a property of the class object,
the groups are a property of the class_device object. This is done
because there are different types of network devices (wireless for
example).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions</title>
<updated>2006-04-26T15:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chandra Seetharaman</name>
<email>sekharan@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-25T02:35:21+00:00</published>
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Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition
of notifier_call.  It is incorrect as the function definition should be
available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during
initializations).

This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init
section.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman &lt;sekharan@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition
of notifier_call.  It is incorrect as the function definition should be
available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during
initializations).

This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init
section.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman &lt;sekharan@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] pm: print name of failed suspend function</title>
<updated>2006-04-14T18:41:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-23T09:38:34+00:00</published>
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Print more diagnostic info to help identify the source of power management
suspend failures.

Example:

usb_hcd_pci_suspend(): pci_set_power_state+0x0/0x1af() returns -22
pci_device_suspend(): usb_hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x11b() returns -22
suspend_device(): pci_device_suspend+0x0/0x34() returns -22

Work-in-progress.  It needs lots more suspend_report_result() calls sprinkled
everywhere.

Cc: Patrick Mochel &lt;mochel@digitalimplant.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Nigel Cunningham &lt;nigel@suspend2.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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Print more diagnostic info to help identify the source of power management
suspend failures.

Example:

usb_hcd_pci_suspend(): pci_set_power_state+0x0/0x1af() returns -22
pci_device_suspend(): usb_hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x11b() returns -22
suspend_device(): pci_device_suspend+0x0/0x34() returns -22

Work-in-progress.  It needs lots more suspend_report_result() calls sprinkled
everywhere.

Cc: Patrick Mochel &lt;mochel@digitalimplant.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Nigel Cunningham &lt;nigel@suspend2.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] driver core: driver_bind attribute returns incorrect value</title>
<updated>2006-04-14T18:41:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Wilson</name>
<email>hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-22T21:26:25+00:00</published>
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The manual driver &lt;-&gt; device binding attribute in sysfs doesn't return
the correct value on failure or success of driver_probe_device.
driver_probe_device returns 1 on success (the driver accepted the
device) or 0 on probe failure (when the driver didn't accept the
device but no real error occured). However, the attribute can't just
return 0 or 1, it must return the number of bytes consumed from buf
or an error value. Returning 0 indicates to userspace that nothing
was written (even though the kernel has tried to do the bind/probe and
failed). Returning 1 indicates that only one character was accepted in
which case userspace will re-try the write with a partial string.

A more correct version of driver_bind would return count (to indicate
the entire string was consumed) when driver_probe_device returns 1
and -ENODEV when driver_probe_device returns 0. This patch makes that
change.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson &lt;hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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The manual driver &lt;-&gt; device binding attribute in sysfs doesn't return
the correct value on failure or success of driver_probe_device.
driver_probe_device returns 1 on success (the driver accepted the
device) or 0 on probe failure (when the driver didn't accept the
device but no real error occured). However, the attribute can't just
return 0 or 1, it must return the number of bytes consumed from buf
or an error value. Returning 0 indicates to userspace that nothing
was written (even though the kernel has tried to do the bind/probe and
failed). Returning 1 indicates that only one character was accepted in
which case userspace will re-try the write with a partial string.

A more correct version of driver_bind would return count (to indicate
the entire string was consumed) when driver_probe_device returns 1
and -ENODEV when driver_probe_device returns 0. This patch makes that
change.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson &lt;hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] driver core: fix unnecessary NULL check in drivers/base/class.c</title>
<updated>2006-04-14T18:41:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jayachandran C</name>
<email>jchandra@digeo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-03T19:31:53+00:00</published>
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This patch tries to fix an issue in drivers/base/class.c, please
review and apply if correct.

Patch Description:
  "parent_class" is checked for NULL already, so removed the unnecessary
  check.

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. &lt;c.jayachandran@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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This patch tries to fix an issue in drivers/base/class.c, please
review and apply if correct.

Patch Description:
  "parent_class" is checked for NULL already, so removed the unnecessary
  check.

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. &lt;c.jayachandran@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] driver core: safely unbind drivers for devices not on a bus</title>
<updated>2006-04-14T18:41:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-31T16:52:25+00:00</published>
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This patch (as667) changes the __device_release_driver() routine to
prevent it from crashing when it runs across a device not on any bus.
This seems logical, inasmuch as the corresponding bus_add_device()
routine has an explicit check allowing it to accept such devices.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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This patch (as667) changes the __device_release_driver() routine to
prevent it from crashing when it runs across a device not on any bus.
This seems logical, inasmuch as the corresponding bus_add_device()
routine has an explicit check allowing it to accept such devices.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Fix NULL pointer dereference in node_read_numastat()</title>
<updated>2006-04-11T13:18:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>clameter@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-04-11T05:52:47+00:00</published>
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zone_pcp() only returns valid values if the processor is online.

Change node_read_numastat() to only scan online processors.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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zone_pcp() only returns valid values if the processor is online.

Change node_read_numastat() to only scan online processors.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes</title>
<updated>2006-03-27T16:44:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-27T09:16:30+00:00</published>
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The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=113018709002036&amp;w=2

We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:

	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;

	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.

We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.

With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)

There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)

Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.

Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.

  ATOMIC CHAINS
  -------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain

  BLOCKING CHAINS
  ---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain

It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)

The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.

[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman &lt;sekharan@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;jes@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=113018709002036&amp;w=2

We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:

	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;

	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.

We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.

With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)

There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)

Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.

Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.

  ATOMIC CHAINS
  -------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain

  BLOCKING CHAINS
  ---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain

It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)

The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.

[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman &lt;sekharan@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;jes@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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