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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers</title>
<updated>2011-04-26T01:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-25T18:01:36+00:00</published>
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Now that the whole dcache_hash_bucket crap is gone, go all the way and
also remove the weird locking layering violations for locking the hash
buckets.  Add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers to move the locking into the
list abstraction instead of requiring each caller to open code it.
After all allowing for the bit locks is the whole point of these helpers
over the plain hlist variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now that the whole dcache_hash_bucket crap is gone, go all the way and
also remove the weird locking layering violations for locking the hash
buckets.  Add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers to move the locking into the
list abstraction instead of requiring each caller to open code it.
After all allowing for the bit locks is the whole point of these helpers
over the plain hlist variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bit_spinlock: don't play preemption games inside the busy loop</title>
<updated>2011-04-26T01:10:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-26T01:10:58+00:00</published>
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When we are waiting for the bit-lock to be released, and are looping
over the 'cpu_relax()' should not be doing anything else - otherwise we
miss the point of trying to do the whole 'cpu_relax()'.

Do the preemption enable/disable around the loop, rather than inside of
it.

Noticed when I was looking at the code generation for the dcache
__d_drop usage, and the code just looked very odd.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When we are waiting for the bit-lock to be released, and are looping
over the 'cpu_relax()' should not be doing anything else - otherwise we
miss the point of trying to do the whole 'cpu_relax()'.

Do the preemption enable/disable around the loop, rather than inside of
it.

Noticed when I was looking at the code generation for the dcache
__d_drop usage, and the code just looked very odd.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'dcache-cleanup'</title>
<updated>2011-04-24T15:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-24T15:51:15+00:00</published>
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* dcache-cleanup:
  vfs: get rid of insane dentry hashing rules
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* dcache-cleanup:
  vfs: get rid of insane dentry hashing rules
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<entry>
<title>libata: Implement ATA_FLAG_NO_DIPM and apply it to mcp65</title>
<updated>2011-04-24T15:32:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-16T10:14:55+00:00</published>
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NVIDIA mcp65 familiy of controllers cause command timeouts when DIPM
is used.  Implement ATA_FLAG_NO_DIPM and apply it.

This problem was reported by Stefan Bader in the following thread.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48841

stable: applicable to 2.6.37 and 38.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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NVIDIA mcp65 familiy of controllers cause command timeouts when DIPM
is used.  Implement ATA_FLAG_NO_DIPM and apply it.

This problem was reported by Stefan Bader in the following thread.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48841

stable: applicable to 2.6.37 and 38.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata: Kill unused ATA_DFLAG_{H|D}IPM flags</title>
<updated>2011-04-24T15:32:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-16T10:14:25+00:00</published>
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ATA_DFLAG_{H|D}IPM flags are no longer used.  Kill them.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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ATA_DFLAG_{H|D}IPM flags are no longer used.  Kill them.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: get rid of insane dentry hashing rules</title>
<updated>2011-04-24T14:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-24T14:58:46+00:00</published>
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The dentry hashing rules have been really quite complicated for a long
while, in odd ways.  That made functions like __d_drop() very fragile
and non-obvious.

In particular, whether a dentry was hashed or not was indicated with an
explicit DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.  That's despite the fact that the hash
abstraction that the dentries use actually have a 'is this entry hashed
or not' model (which is a simple test of the 'pprev' pointer).

The reason that was done is because we used the normal 'is this entry
unhashed' model to mark whether the dentry had _ever_ been hashed in the
dentry hash tables, and that logic goes back many years (commit
b3423415fbc2: "dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries").

That, in turn, meant that __d_drop had totally different unhashing logic
for the dentry hash table case and for the anonymous dcache case,
because in order to use the "is this dentry hashed" logic as a flag for
whether it had ever been on the RCU hash table, we had to unhash such a
dentry differently so that we'd never think that it wasn't 'unhashed'
and wouldn't be free'd correctly.

That's just insane.  It made the logic really hard to follow, when there
were two different kinds of "unhashed" states, and one of them (the one
that used "list_bl_unhashed()") really had nothing at all to do with
being unhashed per se, but with a very subtle lifetime rule instead.

So turn all of it around, and make it logical.

Instead of having a DENTRY_UNHASHED bit in d_flags to indicate whether
the dentry is on the hash chains or not, use the hash chain unhashed
logic for that.  Suddenly "d_unhashed()" just uses "list_bl_unhashed()",
and everything makes sense.

And for the lifetime rule, just use an explicit DENTRY_RCUACCEES bit.
If we ever insert the dentry into the dentry hash table so that it is
visible to RCU lookup, we mark it DENTRY_RCUACCESS to show that it now
needs the RCU lifetime rules.  Now suddently that test at dentry free
time makes sense too.

And because unhashing now is sane and doesn't depend on where the dentry
got unhashed from (because the dentry hash chain details doesn't have
some subtle side effects), we can re-unify the __d_drop() logic and use
common code for the unhashing.

Also fix one more open-coded hash chain bit_spin_lock() that I missed in
the previous chain locking cleanup commit.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The dentry hashing rules have been really quite complicated for a long
while, in odd ways.  That made functions like __d_drop() very fragile
and non-obvious.

In particular, whether a dentry was hashed or not was indicated with an
explicit DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.  That's despite the fact that the hash
abstraction that the dentries use actually have a 'is this entry hashed
or not' model (which is a simple test of the 'pprev' pointer).

The reason that was done is because we used the normal 'is this entry
unhashed' model to mark whether the dentry had _ever_ been hashed in the
dentry hash tables, and that logic goes back many years (commit
b3423415fbc2: "dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries").

That, in turn, meant that __d_drop had totally different unhashing logic
for the dentry hash table case and for the anonymous dcache case,
because in order to use the "is this dentry hashed" logic as a flag for
whether it had ever been on the RCU hash table, we had to unhash such a
dentry differently so that we'd never think that it wasn't 'unhashed'
and wouldn't be free'd correctly.

That's just insane.  It made the logic really hard to follow, when there
were two different kinds of "unhashed" states, and one of them (the one
that used "list_bl_unhashed()") really had nothing at all to do with
being unhashed per se, but with a very subtle lifetime rule instead.

So turn all of it around, and make it logical.

Instead of having a DENTRY_UNHASHED bit in d_flags to indicate whether
the dentry is on the hash chains or not, use the hash chain unhashed
logic for that.  Suddenly "d_unhashed()" just uses "list_bl_unhashed()",
and everything makes sense.

And for the lifetime rule, just use an explicit DENTRY_RCUACCEES bit.
If we ever insert the dentry into the dentry hash table so that it is
visible to RCU lookup, we mark it DENTRY_RCUACCESS to show that it now
needs the RCU lifetime rules.  Now suddently that test at dentry free
time makes sense too.

And because unhashing now is sane and doesn't depend on where the dentry
got unhashed from (because the dentry hash chain details doesn't have
some subtle side effects), we can re-unify the __d_drop() logic and use
common code for the unhashing.

Also fix one more open-coded hash chain bit_spin_lock() that I missed in
the previous chain locking cleanup commit.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SECURITY: Move exec_permission RCU checks into security modules</title>
<updated>2011-04-22T23:17:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-22T00:23:19+00:00</published>
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Right now all RCU walks fall back to reference walk when CONFIG_SECURITY
is enabled, even though just the standard capability module is active.
This is because security_inode_exec_permission unconditionally fails
RCU walks.

Move this decision to the low level security module. This requires
passing the RCU flags down the security hook. This way at least
the capability module and a few easy cases in selinux/smack work
with RCU walks with CONFIG_SECURITY=y

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Right now all RCU walks fall back to reference walk when CONFIG_SECURITY
is enabled, even though just the standard capability module is active.
This is because security_inode_exec_permission unconditionally fails
RCU walks.

Move this decision to the low level security module. This requires
passing the RCU flags down the security hook. This way at least
the capability module and a few easy cases in selinux/smack work
with RCU walks with CONFIG_SECURITY=y

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2011-04-20T16:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-20T16:48:52+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_store
  block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()
  block: remove stale kerneldoc member from __blk_run_queue()
  block: get rid of QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER
  cfq-iosched: read_lock() does not always imply rcu_read_lock()
  block: kill blk_flush_plug_list() export
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_store
  block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()
  block: remove stale kerneldoc member from __blk_run_queue()
  block: get rid of QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER
  cfq-iosched: read_lock() does not always imply rcu_read_lock()
  block: kill blk_flush_plug_list() export
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T22:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-19T22:16:41+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (51 commits)
  netfilter: ipset: Fix the order of listing of sets
  ip6_pol_route panic: Do not allow VLAN on loopback
  bnx2x: Fix port identification problem
  r8169: add Realtek as maintainer.
  ip: ip_options_compile() resilient to NULL skb route
  bna: fix memory leak during RX path cleanup
  bna: fix for clean fw re-initialization
  usbnet: Fix up 'FLAG_POINTTOPOINT' and 'FLAG_MULTI_PACKET' overlaps.
  iwlegacy: fix tx_power initialization
  Revert "tcp: disallow bind() to reuse addr/port"
  qlcnic: limit skb frags for non tso packet
  net: can: mscan: fix build breakage in mpc5xxx_can
  netfilter: ipset: set match and SET target fixes
  netfilter: ipset: bitmap:ip,mac type requires "src" for MAC
  sctp: fix oops while removed transport still using as retran path
  sctp: fix oops when updating retransmit path with DEBUG on
  net: Disable NETIF_F_TSO_ECN when TSO is disabled
  net: Disable all TSO features when SG is disabled
  sfc: Use rmb() to ensure reads occur in order
  ieee802154: Remove hacked CFLAGS in net/ieee802154/Makefile
  ...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (51 commits)
  netfilter: ipset: Fix the order of listing of sets
  ip6_pol_route panic: Do not allow VLAN on loopback
  bnx2x: Fix port identification problem
  r8169: add Realtek as maintainer.
  ip: ip_options_compile() resilient to NULL skb route
  bna: fix memory leak during RX path cleanup
  bna: fix for clean fw re-initialization
  usbnet: Fix up 'FLAG_POINTTOPOINT' and 'FLAG_MULTI_PACKET' overlaps.
  iwlegacy: fix tx_power initialization
  Revert "tcp: disallow bind() to reuse addr/port"
  qlcnic: limit skb frags for non tso packet
  net: can: mscan: fix build breakage in mpc5xxx_can
  netfilter: ipset: set match and SET target fixes
  netfilter: ipset: bitmap:ip,mac type requires "src" for MAC
  sctp: fix oops while removed transport still using as retran path
  sctp: fix oops when updating retransmit path with DEBUG on
  net: Disable NETIF_F_TSO_ECN when TSO is disabled
  net: Disable all TSO features when SG is disabled
  sfc: Use rmb() to ensure reads occur in order
  ieee802154: Remove hacked CFLAGS in net/ieee802154/Makefile
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T17:56:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-19T17:56:46+00:00</published>
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* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  RTC: rtc-omap: Fix a leak of the IRQ during init failure
  posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore
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* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  RTC: rtc-omap: Fix a leak of the IRQ during init failure
  posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore
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