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<title>[PATCH] kjournald keeps reference to namespace</title>
<updated>2006-02-21T04:27:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Björn Steinbrink</name>
<email>B.Steinbrink@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2006-02-18T17:12:43+00:00</published>
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In daemonize() a new thread gets cleaned up and 'merged' with init_task.
The current fs_struct is handled there, but not the current namespace.

This adds the namespace part.

[ Eric Biederman pointed out the namespace wrappers, and also notes that
  we can't ever count on using our parents namespace because we already
  have called exit_fs(), which is the only way to the namespace from a
  process. ]

Signed-off-by: BjÃ¶rn Steinbrink &lt;B.Steinbrink@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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In daemonize() a new thread gets cleaned up and 'merged' with init_task.
The current fs_struct is handled there, but not the current namespace.

This adds the namespace part.

[ Eric Biederman pointed out the namespace wrappers, and also notes that
  we can't ever count on using our parents namespace because we already
  have called exit_fs(), which is the only way to the namespace from a
  process. ]

Signed-off-by: BjÃ¶rn Steinbrink &lt;B.Steinbrink@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes.b8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird</title>
<updated>2006-02-21T04:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2006-02-21T04:09:44+00:00</published>
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<title>[PATCH] Fix compile for CONFIG_SYSVIPC=n or CONFIG_SYSCTL=n</title>
<updated>2006-02-21T04:00:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
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<published>2006-02-21T02:28:08+00:00</published>
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The compat syscalls are added to sys_ni.c since they are not defined if the
above CONFIG options are off.  Also, nfs would not build with CONFIG_SYSCTL
off.

Noticed by Arthur Othieno.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&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 compat syscalls are added to sys_ni.c since they are not defined if the
above CONFIG options are off.  Also, nfs would not build with CONFIG_SYSCTL
off.

Noticed by Arthur Othieno.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&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] Fix undefined symbols for nommu architecture</title>
<updated>2006-02-21T04:00:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luke Yang</name>
<email>luke.adi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-21T02:28:07+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Luke Yang &lt;luke.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.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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Signed-off-by: Luke Yang &lt;luke.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.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] suspend-to-ram: allow video options to be set at runtime</title>
<updated>2006-02-21T04:00:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Machek</name>
<email>pavel@ucw.cz</email>
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<published>2006-02-21T02:27:58+00:00</published>
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Currently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line.  That's
little inflexible; I'd like userland s2ram application that just works, and
modifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun.  It is better
to just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend
(according to the whitelist).

This implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot.

(akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Brown, Len" &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&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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Currently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line.  That's
little inflexible; I'd like userland s2ram application that just works, and
modifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun.  It is better
to just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend
(according to the whitelist).

This implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot.

(akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Brown, Len" &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&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] GFP_KERNEL allocations in atomic (auditsc)</title>
<updated>2006-02-18T20:41:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-18T20:41:50+00:00</published>
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audit_log_exit() is called from atomic contexts and gets explicit
gfp_mask argument; it should use it for all allocations rather
than doing some with gfp_mask and some with GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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audit_log_exit() is called from atomic contexts and gets explicit
gfp_mask argument; it should use it for all allocations rather
than doing some with gfp_mask and some with GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] swsusp: fix breakage with swap on LVM</title>
<updated>2006-02-17T21:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-17T21:52:51+00:00</published>
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Restore the compatibility with the older code and make it possible to
suspend if the kernel command line doesn't contain the "resume=" argument

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&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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Restore the compatibility with the older code and make it possible to
suspend if the kernel command line doesn't contain the "resume=" argument

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&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] Introduce CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST</title>
<updated>2006-02-17T21:59:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-17T21:52:44+00:00</published>
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Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; wrote:

  The boot sequence on s390 sometimes takes ages and we spend a very long
  time (up to one or two minutes) in calibrate_migration_costs.  The time
  spent there differs from boot to boot.  Also the calculated costs differ
  a lot.  I've seen differences by up to a factor of 15 (yes, factor not
  percent).  Also I doubt that making these measurements make much sense on
  a completely virtualized architecture where you cannot tell how much cpu
  time you will get anyway.

So introduce the CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST method for an architecture
to set the scheduler migration costs.  This turns off automatic detection
of migration costs.  Makes sense on virtual platforms, where migration
costs are hard to measure accurately.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&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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Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; wrote:

  The boot sequence on s390 sometimes takes ages and we spend a very long
  time (up to one or two minutes) in calibrate_migration_costs.  The time
  spent there differs from boot to boot.  Also the calculated costs differ
  a lot.  I've seen differences by up to a factor of 15 (yes, factor not
  percent).  Also I doubt that making these measurements make much sense on
  a completely virtualized architecture where you cannot tell how much cpu
  time you will get anyway.

So introduce the CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST method for an architecture
to set the scheduler migration costs.  This turns off automatic detection
of migration costs.  Makes sense on virtual platforms, where migration
costs are hard to measure accurately.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&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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<title>[PATCH] Provide an interface for getting the current tick length</title>
<updated>2006-02-17T16:24:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-16T23:30:23+00:00</published>
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This provides an interface for arch code to find out how many
nanoseconds are going to be added on to xtime by the next call to
do_timer.  The value returned is a fixed-point number in 52.12 format
in nanoseconds.  The reason for this format is that it gives the
full precision that the timekeeping code is using internally.

The motivation for this is to fix a problem that has arisen on 32-bit
powerpc in that the value returned by do_gettimeofday drifts apart
from xtime if NTP is being used.  PowerPC is now using a lockless
do_gettimeofday based on reading the timebase register and performing
some simple arithmetic.  (This method of getting the time is also
exported to userspace via the VDSO.)  However, the factor and offset
it uses were calculated based on the nominal tick length and weren't
being adjusted when NTP varied the tick length.

Note that 64-bit powerpc has had the lockless do_gettimeofday for a
long time now.  It also had an extremely hairy routine that got called
from the 32-bit compat routine for adjtimex, which adjusted the
factor and offset according to what it thought the timekeeping code
was going to do.  Not only was this only called if a 32-bit task did
adjtimex (i.e. not if a 64-bit task did adjtimex), it was also
duplicating computations from kernel/timer.c and it wasn't clear that
it was (still) correct.

The simple solution is to ask the timekeeping code how long the
current jiffy will be on each timer interrupt, after calling
do_timer.  If this jiffy will be a different length from the last one,
we then need to compute new values for the factor and offset used in
the lockless do_gettimeofday.  In this way we can keep xtime and
do_gettimeofday in sync, even when NTP is varying the tick length.

Note that when adjtimex varies the tick length, it almost always
introduces the variation from the next tick on.  The only case I could
see where adjtimex would vary the length of the current tick is when
an old-style adjtime adjustment is being cancelled.  (It's not clear
to me why the adjustment has to be cancelled immediately rather than
from the next tick on.)  Thus I don't see any real need for a hook in
adjtimex; the rare case of an old-style adjustment being cancelled can
be fixed up at the next tick.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: john stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This provides an interface for arch code to find out how many
nanoseconds are going to be added on to xtime by the next call to
do_timer.  The value returned is a fixed-point number in 52.12 format
in nanoseconds.  The reason for this format is that it gives the
full precision that the timekeeping code is using internally.

The motivation for this is to fix a problem that has arisen on 32-bit
powerpc in that the value returned by do_gettimeofday drifts apart
from xtime if NTP is being used.  PowerPC is now using a lockless
do_gettimeofday based on reading the timebase register and performing
some simple arithmetic.  (This method of getting the time is also
exported to userspace via the VDSO.)  However, the factor and offset
it uses were calculated based on the nominal tick length and weren't
being adjusted when NTP varied the tick length.

Note that 64-bit powerpc has had the lockless do_gettimeofday for a
long time now.  It also had an extremely hairy routine that got called
from the 32-bit compat routine for adjtimex, which adjusted the
factor and offset according to what it thought the timekeeping code
was going to do.  Not only was this only called if a 32-bit task did
adjtimex (i.e. not if a 64-bit task did adjtimex), it was also
duplicating computations from kernel/timer.c and it wasn't clear that
it was (still) correct.

The simple solution is to ask the timekeeping code how long the
current jiffy will be on each timer interrupt, after calling
do_timer.  If this jiffy will be a different length from the last one,
we then need to compute new values for the factor and offset used in
the lockless do_gettimeofday.  In this way we can keep xtime and
do_gettimeofday in sync, even when NTP is varying the tick length.

Note that when adjtimex varies the tick length, it almost always
introduces the variation from the next tick on.  The only case I could
see where adjtimex would vary the length of the current tick is when
an old-style adjtime adjustment is being cancelled.  (It's not clear
to me why the adjustment has to be cancelled immediately rather than
from the next tick on.)  Thus I don't see any real need for a hook in
adjtimex; the rare case of an old-style adjustment being cancelled can
be fixed up at the next tick.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: john stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] x86_64: Add boot option to disable randomized mappings and cleanup</title>
<updated>2006-02-17T16:00:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-16T22:41:58+00:00</published>
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AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution
installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option.

Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make
it independent from sysctl

And marked __read_mostly which it is.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution
installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option.

Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make
it independent from sysctl

And marked __read_mostly which it is.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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