linux-toradex.git/drivers/char/random.c, branch v2.6.29

random: don't try to look at entropy_count outside the lock

2009-01-06T23:59:30+00:00

As a non-atomic value, it's only safe to look at entropy_count when the
pool lock is held, so we move the BUG_ON inside the lock for correctness.

Also remove the spurious comment.  It's ok for entropy_count to
temporarily exceed POOLBITS so long as it's left in a consistent state
when the lock is released.

This is a more correct, simple, and idiomatic fix for the bug in
8b76f46a2db.  I've left the reorderings introduced by that patch in place
as they're harmless, even though they don't properly deal with potential
atomicity issues.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparseirq: move set/get_timer_rand_state back to .c

2009-01-03T20:01:23+00:00

those two functions only used in that C file

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes

2008-12-08T13:31:51+00:00

Impact: new feature

Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.

To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.

When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).

This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

saner FASYNC handling on file close

2008-11-01T16:49:46+00:00

As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync()
need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that
creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget.

So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in
file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set.  And lose that
crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we
don't have to bother anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-10-20T20:23:01+00:00

This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu
and x86/uv.

The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are
actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added
while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to
irq_desc[]).  The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively
small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target.

* 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits)
  genirq: improve include files
  intr_remapping: fix typo
  io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too
  genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/*
  genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c
  genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops
  proc: fixup irq iterator
  genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc
  x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c
  x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers
  x86: cleanup show_interrupts
  genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications
  genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal
  genirq: revert dynarray
  genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc
  genirq: remove sparse irq code
  genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc
  genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc()
  x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
  genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
  ...

sysctl: simplify ->strategy

2008-10-16T18:21:47+00:00

name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: David S. Miller  [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

genirq: revert dynarray

2008-10-16T14:53:15+00:00

Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

genirq: remove sparse irq code

2008-10-16T14:53:15+00:00

This code is not ready, but we need to rip it out instead of rebasing
as we would lose the APIC/IO_APIC unification otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86: put timer_rand_state pointer into irq_desc

2008-10-16T14:52:31+00:00

irq_timer_state[] is a NR_IRQS sized array that is a side-by array to
the real irq_desc[] array.

Integrate that field into the (now dynamic) irq_desc dynamic array and
save some RAM.

v2: keep the old way to support arch not support irq_desc

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

irqs: make irq_timer_state to use dyn_array

2008-10-16T14:52:07+00:00

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar