linux-toradex.git/lib, branch v2.6.22-rc3

prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel

2007-05-24T03:14:12+00:00

There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally compiled
rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which has never been
useful, and has often resulted in great frustration.

The attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the
kernel.  It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module.  People
wishing to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot
are free to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m"
line.

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Josh Triplett 
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Detach sched.h from mm.h

2007-05-21T16:18:19+00:00

First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fault injection: disable stacktrace filter for x86-64

2007-05-12T17:55:39+00:00

Disable stacktrace filter support for x86-64 for now.  Will be enable when we
can get the dwarf2 unwinder back.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current

2007-05-11T16:57:16+00:00

* 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes
  [PATCH] match audit name data
  [PATCH] complete message queue auditing
  [PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls
  [PATCH] initialize name osid
  [PATCH] audit signal recipients
  [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)
  [PATCH] auditing ptrace

lib/hexdump

2007-05-11T15:29:34+00:00

Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx SystemACE
CompactFlash interface.

Add print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.

This patch adds the functions print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper().
print_hex_dump() can be used to perform a hex + ASCII dump of data to
syslog, in an easily viewable format, thus providing a common text hex dump
format.

hex_dumper() provides a dump-to-memory function.  It converts one "line" of
output (16 bytes of input) at a time.

Example usages:
	print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, frame->data, frame->len);
	hex_dumper(frame->data, frame->len, linebuf, sizeof(linebuf));

Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET:
0009ab42: 40414243 44454647 48494a4b 4c4d4e4f-@ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO
Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS:
ffffffff88089af0: 70717273 74757677 78797a7b 7c7d7e7f-pqrstuvw xyz{|}~.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, add export]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] audit signal recipients

2007-05-11T09:38:25+00:00

When auditing syscalls that send signals, log the pid and security
context for each target process. Optimize the data collection by
adding a counter for signal-related rules, and avoiding allocating an
aux struct unless we have more than one target process. For process
groups, collect pid/context data in blocks of 16. Move the
audit_signal_info() hook up in check_kill_permission() so we audit
attempts where permission is denied.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)

2007-05-11T09:38:25+00:00

Add a syscall class for sending signals.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6

2007-05-10T20:30:08+00:00

* 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits)
  firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling.
  firewire: Always use parens with sizeof.
  firewire: Drop single buffer request support.
  firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list.
  firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand.
  firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases.
  firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata.
  firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
  firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile.
  firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file.
  firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files.
  firewire: Uppercase most macro names.
  firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names.
  firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex.
  firewire: Clean up comment style.
  firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
  CRC ITU-T V.41
  firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux.
  firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context.
  firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers.
  ...

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

CRC ITU-T V.41

2007-05-10T16:24:13+00:00

This will add the CRC calculation according
to the CRC ITU-T V.41 to the kernel lib/ folder.

This code has been derived from the rt2x00 driver,
currently found only in the wireless-dev tree, but
this library is generic and could be used by more
drivers who currently use their own implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 

Also useful for the new firewire stack.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg 
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

2007-05-09T20:10:11+00:00

* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (21 commits)
  [MTD] [CHIPS] Remove MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS (jedec, amd_flash, sharp)
  [MTD] Delete allegedly obsolete "bank_size" field of mtd_info.
  [MTD] Remove unnecessary user space check from mtd.h.
  [MTD] [MAPS] Remove flash maps for no longer supported 405LP boards
  [MTD] [MAPS] Fix missing printk() parameter in physmap_of.c MTD driver
  [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: add driver
  [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: update header
  [JFFS2] Simplify and clean up jffs2_add_tn_to_tree() some more.
  [JFFS2] Remove another bogus optimisation in jffs2_add_tn_to_tree()
  [JFFS2] Remove broken insert_point optimisation in jffs2_add_tn_to_tree()
  [JFFS2] Remember to calculate overlap on nodes which replace older nodes
  [JFFS2] Don't advance c->wbuf_ofs to next eraseblock after wbuf flush
  [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand.c: CMDLINE_PARTS support
  [MTD] [NAND] Tidy up handling of page number in nand_block_bad()
  [MTD] block2mtd_paramline[] mustn't be __initdata
  [MTD] [NAND] Support multiple chips in CAFÉ driver
  [MTD] [NAND] Rename cafe.c to cafe_nand.c and remove the multi-obj magic
  [MTD] [NAND] Use rslib for CAFÉ ECC
  [RSLIB] Support non-canonical GF representations
  [JFFS2] Remove dead file histo_mips.h
  ...