linux-toradex.git/kernel, branch v2.6.25-rc2

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt

2008-02-15T05:27:52+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt:
  hrtimer: catch expired CLOCK_REALTIME timers early
  hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow

d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path

2008-02-15T05:17:09+00:00

d_path() is used on a  pair.  Lets use a struct path to
reflect this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build in mm/memory.c]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Acked-by: Bryan Wu 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

d_path: Use struct path in struct avc_audit_data

2008-02-15T05:17:08+00:00

audit_log_d_path() is a d_path() wrapper that is used by the audit code.  To
use a struct path in audit_log_d_path() I need to embed it into struct
avc_audit_data.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Use struct path in fs_struct

2008-02-15T05:13:33+00:00

* Use struct path in fs_struct.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Introduce path_put()

2008-02-15T05:13:33+00:00

* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
  vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Steven French 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}

2008-02-15T05:13:33+00:00

This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
   pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
  struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:

without patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5321639  858418  715768 6895825  6938d1 vmlinux

with patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5320026  858418  715768 6894212  693284 vmlinux

This patch:

Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Dont touch fs_struct in usermodehelper

2008-02-15T05:13:32+00:00

This test seems to be unnecessary since we always have rootfs mounted before
calling a usermodehelper.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hrtimer: catch expired CLOCK_REALTIME timers early

2008-02-14T21:08:30+00:00

A CLOCK_REALTIME timer, which has an absolute expiry time less than
the clock realtime offset calls with a negative delta into the clock
events code and triggers the WARN_ON() there.

This is a false positive and needs to be prevented. Check the result
of timer->expires - timer->base->offset right away and return -ETIME
right away.

Thanks to Frans Pop, who reported the problem and tested the fixes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Tested-by: Frans Pop

hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow

2008-02-14T21:08:30+00:00

Various user space callers ask for relative timeouts. While we fixed
that overflow issue in hrtimer_start(), the sites which convert
relative user space values to absolute timeouts themself were uncovered.

Instead of putting overflow checks into each place add a function
which does the sanity checking and convert all affected callers to use
it.

Thanks to Frans Pop, who reported the problem and tested the fixes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: Frans Pop

Linux Kernel Markers: support multiple probes

2008-02-14T00:21:20+00:00

RCU style multiple probes support for the Linux Kernel Markers.  Common case
(one probe) is still fast and does not require dynamic allocation or a
supplementary pointer dereference on the fast path.

- Move preempt disable from the marker site to the callback.

Since we now have an internal callback, move the preempt disable/enable to the
callback instead of the marker site.

Since the callback change is done asynchronously (passing from a handler that
supports arguments to a handler that does not setup the arguments is no
arguments are passed), we can safely update it even if it is outside the
preempt disable section.

- Move probe arm to probe connection. Now, a connected probe is automatically
  armed.

Remove MARK_MAX_FORMAT_LEN, unused.

This patch modifies the Linux Kernel Markers API : it removes the probe
"arm/disarm" and changes the probe function prototype : it now expects a
va_list * instead of a "...".

If we want to have more than one probe connected to a marker at a given
time (LTTng, or blktrace, ssytemtap) then we need this patch. Without it,
connecting a second probe handler to a marker will fail.

It allow us, for instance, to do interesting combinations :

Do standard tracing with LTTng and, eventually, to compute statistics
with SystemTAP, or to have a special trigger on an event that would call
a systemtap script which would stop flight recorder tracing.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Mike Mason 
Cc: Dipankar Sarma 
Cc: David Smith 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds