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2005-07-27[PATCH] stale POSIX lock handlingPeter Staubach
I believe that there is a problem with the handling of POSIX locks, which the attached patch should address. The problem appears to be a race between fcntl(2) and close(2). A multithreaded application could close a file descriptor at the same time as it is trying to acquire a lock using the same file descriptor. I would suggest that that multithreaded application is not providing the proper synchronization for itself, but the OS should still behave correctly. SUS3 (Single UNIX Specification Version 3, read: POSIX) indicates that when a file descriptor is closed, that all POSIX locks on the file, owned by the process which closed the file descriptor, should be released. The trick here is when those locks are released. The current code releases all locks which exist when close is processing, but any locks in progress are handled when the last reference to the open file is released. There are three cases to consider. One is the simple case, a multithreaded (mt) process has a file open and races to close it and acquire a lock on it. In this case, the close will release one reference to the open file and when the fcntl is done, it will release the other reference. For this situation, no locks should exist on the file when both the close and fcntl operations are done. The current system will handle this case because the last reference to the open file is being released. The second case is when the mt process has dup(2)'d the file descriptor. The close will release one reference to the file and the fcntl, when done, will release another, but there will still be at least one more reference to the open file. One could argue that the existence of a lock on the file after the close has completed is okay, because it was acquired after the close operation and there is still a way for the application to release the lock on the file, using an existing file descriptor. The third case is when the mt process has forked, after opening the file and either before or after becoming an mt process. In this case, each process would hold a reference to the open file. For each process, this degenerates to first case above. However, the lock continues to exist until both processes have released their references to the open file. This lock could block other lock requests. The changes to release the lock when the last reference to the open file aren't quite right because they would allow the lock to exist as long as there was a reference to the open file. This is too long. The new proposed solution is to add support in the fcntl code path to detect a race with close and then to release the lock which was just acquired when such as race is detected. This causes locks to be released in a timely fashion and for the system to conform to the POSIX semantic specification. This was tested by instrumenting a kernel to detect the handling locks and then running a program which generates case #3 above. A dangling lock could be reliably generated. When the changes to detect the close/fcntl race were added, a dangling lock could no longer be generated. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: use __cpcmd in vmcp_writeChristian Borntraeger
vmcp_write uses GPF_DMA for the memory allocation of the response buffer, so it can use the low level function __cpcmd directly, no need to call the wrapper. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: cpu timer reset in machine check handlerHeiko Carstens
Fix wrong move direction of timer values for cpu accounting in case of a machine check that indicates a broken cpu timer. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: 31 bit memory size limitHeiko Carstens
Limit reported memory size to 2GB if running in 31 bit mode. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: channel tape fixesStefan Bader
Tape driver fixes: - Added deferred condition handling to tape driver core. - Added ability to handle busy conditions. - Code cleanup. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: free dasd slab cacheHorst Hummel
Free dasd slab cache on module unload. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: fba dasd i/o errorsHorst Hummel
The FBA discipline does not use retries for failed requests. A request fails after the first unsuccessful start attempt. There are some rare conditions (e.g. CIO path recovery) in which the start of an i/o on a fba device can fail. A tiny amount of retries is therefore reasonable. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: resource accessibility event handlingCornelia Huck
When processing resource accessibility events, continue searching for further affected subchannels if a link address is provided in the event information. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: debug data for ifcc/cccCornelia Huck
Fix debug data in case of an interface-control or channel-control check: don't log the not yet accumulated interrupt-response-block, but the one we just received. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: external call performanceHeiko Carstens
The kernel uses the SIGP external call order code to signal other CPUs. When running with dedicated CPUs external calls don't get delivered immediately but within a fixed polling invervall. This can lead to delays where the system appears to do nothing. Replace the SIGP external call order with the SIGP emergency call order since this one gets delivered immediately. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: atomic64 inline functionsHeiko Carstens
The atomic64 primitives are supposed to have 64-bit parameters instead of int. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: find_next_{zero}_bit fixesMartin Schwidefsky
The find_next_{zero}_bit primitives on s390* should never return a bit number bigger then the bit field size. In the case of a bitfield that doesn't end on a word boundary, an offset that makes the search start at the last word of the bit field and the last word doesn't contain any zero/one bits the search is continued with a call to find_first_bit with a negative size. The search normally ends pretty quickly because the words following the bit field contain a mix of zeros and ones. But the bit number that is returned in this case is too big. To fix this and additional if to check for this case is needed. To make the code easier to read I removed the assembler parts from the find_next_{zero}_bit functions, the C-ified code is as good. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] s390: spin lock retryMartin Schwidefsky
Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock before doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the number of retries before a cpu is yielded. The reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to give up the virtual cpu is quite expensive. For spin locks that are held only for a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings for spin locks that are held for a longer timer. The default retry count is 1000. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: Define L1_CACHE_SHIFT and L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAXMiles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: Update PCI supportMiles Bader
These changes are untested (I no longer have the hardware). Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: Add pte_fileMiles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: Update ioremap return type and add ioread/iowrite functionsMiles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: Add defconfigsMiles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: const-qualify first parameter of find_next_zero_bitMiles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] v850: Define pfn_validMiles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS IDE driverMikael Starvik
* Added abstraction layer for subarchs. * Added v32 support. * Renamed driver. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: new subarchitecture v32Mikael Starvik
New CRIS sub architecture named v32. From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Fix swapped kmalloc args Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: updates for 2.6.12Mikael Starvik
Patches to make CRIS work with 2.6.12. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: synchronous serial port driverMikael Starvik
Include file for synchronous serial port driver. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: SMPMikael Starvik
Patches to support SMP. * Each CPU has its own current_pgd. * flush_tlb_range is implemented as flush_tlb_mm. * Atomic operations implemented with spinlocks. * Semaphores implemented with spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: profilerMikael Starvik
System-level profiler. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: pciMikael Starvik
Patches to make it possible to add PCI support. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: mmMikael Starvik
Memory management patches. * SMP support. * Non-executable stack (on v32). * 4-level page tables. * Added simple Thread Local Storage support. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: misc patchesMikael Starvik
* Start threads with IRQs enabled. * Move symbol exports to arch specific file. * Prepare for real command line in the future. * Handle csum for partition that crosses flash boundary. * Set utsname. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: IRQMikael Starvik
Use the generic IRQ framework Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: I/O and DMA allocatorMikael Starvik
Added I/O and DMA allocators to be used by drivers. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: driversMikael Starvik
Updates to device drivers. * Use I/O and DMA allocators. * Use wait_event_interruptible instead of interrutiple_sleep_on. * Added spinlocks SMP. * Changed restore_flags to local_irq_restore etc. * Updated IDE driver include to fit 2.6.12. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: debugMikael Starvik
Improvements to crash debug code. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: consoleMikael Starvik
Changes to console. * Added LF->CRLF translation * Make use of real console framework. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: configuration and buildMikael Starvik
Changes to configuration and build system. * Added v32 sub architecture. * Use generic hard IRQ. * Added SMP options. * Added options to OOPS at NMI and reboot at OOM. * Made it possible to set objtree. * Added option to select Kernel GDB serial port. * Corrected Kconfig usage. * Added system profiler. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] CRIS update: arch splitMikael Starvik
Changes necessary to make the sub-arch split complete. Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] m32r: add missing Kconfig help textAdrian Bunk
There's no help text for CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - add one. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] i386: add missing Kconfig help textAdrian Bunk
There's no help text for CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - add one. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] mips: remove obsolete GIU driver for vr41xxYoichi Yuasa
This patch has removed obsolete GIU driver for vr41xx. This patch already has been applied to mips tree. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc64: remove another fixed address constraintDavid Gibson
Presently the LparMap, one of the structures the kernel shares with the legacy iSeries hypervisor has a fixed offset address in head.S. This patch changes this so the LparMap is a normally initialized structure, without fixed address. This allows us to use macros to compute some of the values in the structure, which wasn't previously possible because the assembler always uses signed-% which gets the wrong answers for the computations in question. Unfortunately, a gcc bug means that doing this requires another structure (hvReleaseData) to be initialized in asm instead of C, but on the whole the result is cleaner than before. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc64: dynamically allocate segment tablesDavid Gibson
PPC64 machines before Power4 need a segment table page allocated for each CPU. Currently these are allocated statically in a big array in head.S for all CPUs. The segment tables need to be in the first segment (so do_stab_bolted doesn't take a recursive fault on the stab itself), but other than that there are no constraints which require the stabs for the secondary CPUs to be statically allocated. This patch allocates segment tables dynamically during boot, using lmb_alloc() to ensure they are within the first 256M segment. This reduces the kernel image size by 192k... Tested on RS64 iSeries, POWER3 pSeries, and POWER5. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] make a few functions static in pmac_setup.cOlaf Hering
Making a few functions static saves a few bytes, but only on ppc32. text data bss dec hex filename 3752421 1605208 345608 5703237 570645 ../O-ppc64_iSeries_defconfig/vmlinux 3709411 2042552 339992 6091955 5cf4b3 ../O-ppc64_maple_defconfig/vmlinux 5397329 3054824 679856 9132009 8b57e9 ../O-ppc64_pSeries_defconfig/vmlinux -3882695 417552 197760 4498007 44a257 ../O-ppc_common_defconfig/vmlinux -3414510 574500 241440 4230450 408d32 ../O-ppc_pmac_defconfig/vmlinux +3882627 417168 197760 4497555 44a093 ../O-ppc_common_defconfig/vmlinux +3414442 575428 241440 4231310 40908e ../O-ppc_pmac_defconfig/vmlinux Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc64: genrtc build fixAndrew Morton
genrtc.c won't compile on ppc64. Seems that ppc32 does support it though? We do this wrong btw - we should be selecting GEN_RTC in each arch/xxx/Kconfig. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc64: hide CONFIG_ADBOlaf Hering
This bites me all day when I use our default config for ppc64. We use a patch to fix the compile errors and provide the CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN functionality (which is behind CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID). But Benh doesnt like it. http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc64-dev/2005-March/003423.html Just hide all the ADB parts from via-pmu on ppc64 instead. drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c: In function `adbhid_init': drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c:1199: error: `_MACH_chrp' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c:1199: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c:1199: error: for each function it appears in.) Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc64: update defconfigsOlaf Hering
update defconfig, use new CONFIG_HZ and set it to 100 just for the kicks. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc32: Fix building of TQM8260 boardKumar Gala
Added missing include of cpm2.h in correct order to allow TQM8260 to build Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc32: fix 440SP MAL channels countEugene Surovegin
Fix the MAL channels count in PPC 440SP OCP definition. PPC 440SP has only 1 EMAC attached to MAL. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc32: fix dma_map_page() to use page_to_bus()Matt Porter
The following trivial patch changes dma_map_page() to use page_to_bus() instead of open-coding it (incorrectly in some cases). Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc32: Fix building of radstone_ppc7dKumar Gala
Updated radstone_ppc7d_defconfig to include the ds1337 driver which is used by the platform code. This fixes the link error when building. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] ppc32: Fix building of prpmc750Kumar Gala
Updated prpmc750 platform code to include serial_reg.h to fix building. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>