User applications frequently hit problems when they try to use
the kernel headers directly, rather than the exported headers.

This adds an explicit warning for this case, and points to
a URL holding an explanation of why this is wrong and what
to do about it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

abs() will truncate the input if is it outside the 2^32 range.  Fix that
by assuming `long' input.

This might generate worse code in the common case.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

gcc permitting variable length arrays makes the current construct used for
BUILD_BUG_ON() useless, as that doesn't produce any diagnostic if the
controlling expression isn't really constant.  Instead, this patch makes
it so that a bit field gets used here.  Consequently, those uses where the
condition isn't really constant now also need fixing.

Note that in the gfp.h, kmemcheck.h, and virtio_config.h cases
MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON() really just serves documentation purposes - even if
the expression is compile time constant (__builtin_constant_p() yields
true), the array is still deemed of variable length by gcc, and hence the
whole expression doesn't have the intended effect.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h compile]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: more nonsensical assertions in tpm.c..]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using the type bool (instead of int) for the __print_once flag in the
printk_once() macro matches the intent of the code better, and allows the
compiler to generate smaller code; eg a typical callsite with gcc 4.3.3 on
i386:

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-6 (-6)
function                                     old     new   delta
static.__print_once                            4       1      -3
get_cpu_vendor                               146     143      -3

Saving 6 bytes of object size per callsite by slightly improving the
readability of the source seems like a win to me.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When syslog is not possible, at the same time there's no serial/net
console available, it will be hard to read the printk messages.  For
example oops/panic/warning messages in shutdown phase.

Add a printk delay feature, we can make each printk message delay some
milliseconds.

Setting the delay by proc/sysctl interface: /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay

The value range from 0 - 10000, default value is 0

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a preempt count base offset to compare against the current
preempt level count. It prepares to pull up the might_sleep
check from cond_resched() to cond_resched_lock() and
cond_resched_bh().

For these two helpers, we need to respectively ensure that once
we'll unlock the given spinlock / reenable local softirqs, we
will reach a sleepable state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ Move and rename preempt_count_equals() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Cover the off case for __might_sleep(), so that we avoid
#ifdefs in files that make use of it. Especially, this prepares
for the __might_sleep() pull up on cond_resched().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch introduces a new sysctl:

    /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi

which defaults to 0 (off).

When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI
caused by an IO error.

The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system
condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather
than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice,
so one can figure out what's causing the IO error.

This could be especially important to companies running IO
intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a
bank's databases.

[ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the
  request of a large database vendor, for their users. ]

Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Follow-up to "block: enable by default support for large devices
and files on 32-bit archs".

Rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF to:
- allow update of existing [def]configs for "default y" change
- reflect that it is used also for large files support nowadays

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (64 commits)
  debugfs: use specified mode to possibly mark files read/write only
  debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
  xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers
  usb: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  uml: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  block/ps3: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  s390: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  parport: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  parisc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  mips: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  ipmi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  infiniband: ehca: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  ibmvscsi: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  xen block: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  thermal: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  scsi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  pcmcia: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  PCIE: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
  ...

Manually fix up trivial conflicts due to different direct driver_data
direct access fixups in drivers/block/{ps3disk.c,ps3vram.c}