linux-toradex.git/lib, branch v2.6.17.13

[PATCH] lib: add idr_replace

2006-09-09T03:23:01+00:00

This patch adds idr_replace() to replace an existing pointer in a single
operation.

Device-mapper will use this to update the pointer it stored against a given
id.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TEXTSEARCH: Fix Boyer Moore initialization bug

2006-09-08T21:51:36+00:00

[TEXTSEARCH]: Fix Boyer Moore initialization bug

The pattern is set after trying to compute the prefix table, which tries
to use it. Initialize it before calling compute_prefix_tbl, make
compute_prefix_tbl consistently use only the data from struct ts_bm
and remove the now unnecessary arguments.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rash 
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Acked-by: David Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

disable debugging version of write_lock()

2006-08-23T21:13:31+00:00

We've confirmed that the debug version of write_lock() can get stuck for long
enough to cause NMI watchdog timeouts and hence a crash.

We don't know why, yet.   Disable it for now.

Also disable the similar read_lock() code.  Just in case.

Thanks to Dave Olson  for reporting and testing.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] idr: fix race in idr code

2006-06-30T00:17:17+00:00

From: Sonny Rao 

I ran into a bug where the kernel died in the idr code:

cpu 0x1d: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000b7096f710]
    pc: c0000000001f8984: .idr_get_new_above_int+0x140/0x330
    lr: c0000000001f89b4: .idr_get_new_above_int+0x170/0x330
    sp: c000000b7096f990
   msr: 800000000000b032
   dar: 0
 dsisr: 40010000
  current = 0xc000000b70d43830
  paca    = 0xc000000000556900
    pid   = 2022, comm = hwup
1d:mon> t
[c000000b7096f990] c0000000000d2ad8 .expand_files+0x2e8/0x364 (unreliable)
[c000000b7096faa0] c0000000001f8bf8 .idr_get_new_above+0x18/0x68
[c000000b7096fb20] c00000000002a054 .init_new_context+0x5c/0xf0
[c000000b7096fbc0] c000000000049dc8 .copy_process+0x91c/0x1404
[c000000b7096fcd0] c00000000004a988 .do_fork+0xd8/0x224
[c000000b7096fdc0] c00000000000ebdc .sys_clone+0x5c/0x74
[c000000b7096fe30] c000000000008950 .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc
-- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 000000000fde887c
SP (f8b4e7a0) is in userspace

Turned out to be a race-condition and NULL ptr deref, here's my fix:

Users of the idr code are supposed to call idr_pre_get without locking, so the
idr code must serialize itself with respect to layer allocations.  However, it
fails to do so in an error path in idr_get_new_above_int().  I added the
missing locking to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] kobject: quiet errors in kobject_add

2006-05-21T19:59:21+00:00

People don't like released kernels yelling at them, no matter how real the
error might be.  So only report it if CONFIG_KOBJECT_DEBUG is enabled.

Sent on request of Andrew Morton.

(akpm: should bring this back post-2.6.17)

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SPARC]: Handle UNWIND_INFO properly.

2006-05-12T19:45:50+00:00

For sparc32 we need R_SPARC_UA32 relocation support, for
sparc64 we need the handle R_SPARC_DISP32 relocations.

Based upon reports and initial patch by Martin Habets.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] Kobject: possible cleanups

2006-04-27T20:08:56+00:00

This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- #if 0 the following unused global function:
  - subsys_remove_file()
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - kset_find_obj
  - subsystem_init
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL:
  - kobject_add_dir

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Kobject: fix build error

2006-04-27T20:08:56+00:00

This fixes a build error for various odd combinations of CONFIG_HOTPLUG
and CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Cc: Nigel Cunningham 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Set DEBUG_MUTEX to off by default

2006-04-19T16:13:51+00:00

DEBUG_MUTEX flag is on by default in current kernel configuration.

During performance testing, we saw mutex debug functions like
mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed (called by kfree()) is expensive as it
goes through a global list of memory areas with mutex lock and do the
checking.  For benchmarks such as Volanomark and Hackbench, we have seen
more than 40% drop in performance on some platforms.  We suggest to set
DEBUG_MUTEX off by default.  Or at least do that later when we feel that
the mutex changes in the current code have stabilized.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable

2006-04-14T18:41:24+00:00

It works like this:
  Open the file
  Read all the contents.
  Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works)
  When poll returns,
     close the file and go to top of loop.
   or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'.

Events are signaled by an object manager calling
   sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr);

If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which
contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group).

This has a cost of one int  per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject,
one int per open file.

The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify
functionality.  Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs
attributes as well?

This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action
to be pollable

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman