linux-toradex.git/kernel/timer.c, branch v2.6.18.8

[PATCH] sys_getppid oopses on debug kernel

2006-08-14T19:54:29+00:00

sys_getppid() optimization can access a freed memory.  On kernels with
DEBUG_SLAB turned ON, this results in Oops.  As Dave Hansen noted, this
optimization is also unsafe for memory hotplug.

So this patch always takes the lock to be safe.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] timer: Fix tvec_bases initializer

2006-07-31T20:28:44+00:00

kernel/timer.c defines a (per-cpu) pointer to tvec_base_t, but initializes
it using { &a_tvec_base_t }, which sparse warns about; change this to just
&a_tvec_base_t.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix bad macro param in timer.c

2006-07-31T20:28:40+00:00

We have

#define INDEX(N) (base->timer_jiffies >> (TVR_BITS + N * TVN_BITS)) & TVN_MASK

and it's used via

	list = varray[i + 1]->vec + (INDEX(i + 1));

So, due to underparenthesisation, this INDEX(i+1) is now a ...  (TVR_BITS + i
+ 1 * TVN_BITS)) ...

So this bugfix changes behaviour.  It worked before by sheer luck:

  "If i was anything but 0, it was broken.  But this was only used by
   s390 and arm.  Since it was for the next interrupt, could that next
   interrupt be a problem (going into the second cascade)? But it was
   probably seldom wrong.  That is, this would fail if the next
   interrupt was in the second cascade, and was wrapped.  Which may
   never of happened.  Also if it did happen, it would have just missed
   the interrupt.

   If an interrupt was missed, and no one was there to miss it, was it
   really missed :-)"

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace devinit* with cpuinit* for cpu notifications

2006-07-31T20:28:39+00:00

Few of the callback functions and notifier blocks that are associated with cpu
notifications incorrectly have __devinit and __devinitdata.  They should be
__cpuinit and __cpuinitdata instead.

It makes no functional difference but wastes text area when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is
enabled and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not.

This patch fixes all those instances.

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

[PATCH] improve timekeeping resume robustness

2006-07-15T04:53:54+00:00

Resolve problems seen w/ APM suspend.

Due to resume initialization ordering, its possible we could get a timer
interrupt before the timekeeping resume() function is called.  This patch
ensures we don't do any timekeeping accounting before we're fully resumed.

(akpm: fixes the machine-freezes-on-APM-resume bug)

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] del_timer_sync(): add cpu_relax()

2006-07-15T04:53:52+00:00

Relax the CPU in the del_timer_sync() busywait loop.

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

[PATCH] adjust clock for lost ticks

2006-07-10T20:24:18+00:00

A large number of lost ticks can cause an overadjustment of the clock.  To
compensate for this we look at the current error and the larger the error
already is the more careful we are at adjusting the error.  As small extra
fix reset the error when the clock is set.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel 
Acked-by: john stultz 
Cc: Uwe Bugla 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct

2006-07-03T22:27:11+00:00

cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I
introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake.

Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all
secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand.

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

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate timer base locks

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

Split the per-CPU timer base locks up into separate lock classes, because they
are used recursively.

Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement

2006-07-03T22:27:02+00:00

Locking init improvement:

 - introduce and use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED for array initializations,
   to pass in the name string of locks, used by debugging

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds