elevator: don't sort reads between writes

Don't allow elv_dispatch_sort() to mix reads and writes together,
it's rarely a good idea.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

elevator: abstract out the activate and deactivate functions

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6

* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (33 commits)
  [XFS] Don't use kmap in xfs_iozero.
  [XFS] Remove a bunch of unused functions from XFS.
  [XFS] Remove unused arguments from the XFS_BTREE_*_ADDR macros.
  [XFS] Remove unused header files for MAC and CAP checking functionality.
  [XFS] Make freeze code a little cleaner.
  [XFS] Remove unused argument to xfs_bmap_finish
  [XFS] Clean up use of VFS attr flags
  [XFS] Remove useless memory barrier
  [XFS] XFS sysctl cleanups
  [XFS] Fix assertion in xfs_attr_shortform_remove().
  [XFS] Fix callers of xfs_iozero() to zero the correct range.
  [XFS] Ensure a frozen filesystem has a clean log before writing the dummy
  [XFS] Fix sub-block zeroing for buffered writes into unwritten extents.
  [XFS] Re-initialize the per-cpu superblock counters after recovery.
  [XFS] Fix block reservation changes for non-SMP systems.
  [XFS] Fix block reservation mechanism.
  [XFS] Make growfs work for amounts greater than 2TB
  [XFS] Fix inode log item use-after-free on forced shutdown
  [XFS] Fix attr2 corruption with btree data extents
  [XFS] Workaround log space issue by increasing XFS_TRANS_PUSH_AIL_RESTARTS
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: remove scan_keyb driver
  Input: i8042 - fix AUX IRQ delivery check
  Input: wistron - add support for Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D88x0
  Input: inport - use correct config option for ATIXL
  Input: HIL - handle erros from input_register_device()
  Input: tsdev - schedule removal
  Input: add Atlas button driver
  Input: ads7846 - be more compatible with the hwmon framework
  Input: ads7846 - detect pen up from GPIO state
  Input: ads7846 - select correct SPI mode
  Input: ads7846 - switch to using hrtimer
  Input: ads7846 - optionally leave Vref on during differential measurements
  Input: ads7846 - pluggable filtering logic
  Input: gpio-keys - keyboard driver for GPIO buttons
  Input: hid-ff - add support for Logitech Momo racing wheel
  Input: i8042 - really suppress ACK/NAK during panic blink
  Input: pc110pad - return proper error

[PATCH] fix fatal kernel-doc error

Teach kernel-doc to handle functions that look like the new
pcim_iomap_table().  Fixes this fatal error in scripts/kernel-doc:

  DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.xml
Error(/tester/linsrc/linux-2.6.20-git6//drivers/pci/pci.c:1351): cannot understand prototype: 'void __iomem * const * pcim_iomap_table(struct pci_dev *pdev) '
make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.xml] Error 1
make: *** [htmldocs] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (97 commits)
  [SCSI] zfcp: removed wrong comment
  [SCSI] zfcp: use of uninitialized variable
  [SCSI] zfcp: Invalid locking order
  [SCSI] aic79xx: use dma_get_required_mask()
  [SCSI] aic79xx: fix bracket mismatch in unused macro
  [SCSI] BusLogic: Replace 'boolean' by 'bool'
  [SCSI] advansys: clean up warnings
  [SCSI] 53c7xx: brackets fix in uncompiled code
  [SCSI] nsp_cs: remove old scsi code
  [SCSI] aic79xx: make ahd_match_scb() static
  [SCSI] DAC960: kmalloc->kzalloc/Casting cleanups
  [SCSI] scsi_kmap_atomic_sg(): check that local irqs are disabled
  [SCSI] Buslogic: local_irq_disable() is redundant after local_irq_save()
  [SCSI] aic94xx: update for v28 firmware
  [SCSI] scsi_error: Fix lost EH commands
  [SCSI] aic94xx: Add default bus reset handler
  [SCSI] aic94xx: Remove TMF result code munging
  [SCSI] libsas: Add an LU reset mechanism to the error handler
  [SCSI] libsas: Don't BUG when connecting two expanders via wide port
  [SCSI] st: fix Tape dies if wrong block size used, bug 7919
  ...

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/upstream-linus

* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] signal: do not inline handle_signal()
  [MIPS] signal: do not use save_static_function() anymore
  [MIPS] signal32: no need to save c0_status register in setup_sigcontext32()
  [MIPS] signal32: reduce {setup,restore}_sigcontext32 sizes
  [MIPS] signal: factorize debug code
  [MIPS] signal: test return value of install_sigtramp()
  [MIPS] signal32: remove duplicate code
  [MIPS] signal: clean up sigframe structure
  [MIPS] signal: do not inline functions in signal-common.h
  [MIPS] signals: reduce {setup,restore}_sigcontext sizes
  [MIPS] Fix warning in get_user when fetching pointer object from userspace.
  [MIPS] Fix eth2 platform device id for jaguar_atx and ocelot_3 platforms
  [MIPS] JMR3927 and RBTX49x7 support little endian
  [MIPS] RBTX49x7: declare prom_getcmdline()
  [MIPS] RTLX: Sprinkle device model code into code to make udev happier.
  [MIPS] VPE: Sprinkle device model code into code to make udev happier.

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
  tifm_sd: treat "status error" as normal command completion
  mmc: wbsd: Remove stray kunmap_atomic()
  mmc: sdhci: Stop asking for mail
  mmc: sdhci: Remove driver version
  mmc: wbsd: Remove driver version

Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (45 commits)
  [IPV4]: Restore multipath routing after rt_next changes.
  [XFRM] IPV6: Fix outbound RO transformation which is broken by IPsec tunnel patch.
  [NET]: Reorder fields of struct dst_entry
  [DECNET]: Convert decnet route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [IPV6]: Convert ipv6 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [IPV4]: Convert ipv4 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [NET]: Introduce union in struct dst_entry to hold 'next' pointer
  [DECNET]: fix misannotation of linkinfo_dn
  [DECNET]: FRA_{DST,SRC} are le16 for decnet
  [UDP]: UDP can use sk_hash to speedup lookups
  [NET]: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] XFRM: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] X25: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] WANROUTER: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] UNIX: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SUNRPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SCTP: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SCHED: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] RXRPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  ...

Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC64]: Add PCI MSI support on Niagara.
  [SPARC64] IRQ: Use irq_desc->chip_data instead of irq_desc->handler_data
  [SPARC64]: Add obppath sysfs attribute for SBUS and PCI devices.
  [PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.

[PATCH] add missing io...._rep() on sparc32

same as on sparc64

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Switch s390 to NO_IOMEM

Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
  "s390 does not even need (in|out)b(_p|).  I wondered what else from
   io.h do we not need.  The answer is: almost nothing.  With the devres
   patch from Al and the dma-mapping patch from Heiko we can get rid of
   iomem and all associated definitions."

So we'll just need to replace NO_IOPORT with NO_IOMEM in Kconfig and
kill arch/s390/mm/ioremap.c.

BTW, there's an annoying bit of junk in there - IO_SPACE_LIMIT.  We
only need it for /proc/ioports, which AFAICS shouldn't even be there
on s390 (or uml).  OTOH, removing that thing would mean a user-visible
change - we go from "empty file in /proc" to "no such file in /proc"...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] sort the devres mess out

* Split the implementation-agnostic stuff in separate files.
* Make sure that targets using non-default request_irq() pull
  kernel/irq/devres.o
* Introduce new symbols (HAS_IOPORT and HAS_IOMEM) defaulting to positive;
  allow architectures to turn them off (we needed these symbols anyway for
  dependencies of quite a few drivers).
* protect the ioport-related parts of lib/devres.o with CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] FRA_{DST,SRC} are le16 for decnet

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] fix misannotation of linkinfo_dn

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] fix DocBook build

Fix DocBook build.  Regression was introduced by
gregkh-usb-usb-linux-usb_ch9h-becomes-linux-usb-ch9h.patch

Tested by `make htmldocs`.

Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] fix gregkh-usb-usbcore-remove-unused-bandwith-related-code

drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c: In function 'dump_urb':
drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c:258: error: 'struct urb' has no member named 'bandwidth'

Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] CHAR-Amiserial: turn local_save_flags() + local_irq_disable() into local_irq_save()

drivers/char/amiserial.c::rs_write() contains local_irq_disable() after
local_save_flags().  Turn it into local_irq_save().

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] rapidio: fix multi-switch enumeration

This patch contains two fixes for RapisIO enumeration logic:

1. Fix enumeration in configurations with multiple switches. The patch adds:

   a. Enumeration of an empty switch.  Empty switch is a switch that
      does not have any endpoint devices attached to it (except host device
      or previous switch in a chain).  New code assigns a phony destination
      ID associated with the switch and sets up corresponding routes.

   b. Adds a second pass to the enumeration to setup routes to
      devices discovered after switch was scanned.

2. Fix enumeration failure when riohdid parameter has non-zero value.
   Current version fails to setup response path to the host when it has
   destination ID other that 0.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandreb@tundra.com>
Acked-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] tty: cleanup release_mem

release_mem contains two copies of exactly the same code.  Refactor these
into a new helper, release_tty.  The only change in behaviour is that the
driver reference count is now decremented after the master tty has been
freed instead of before.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix use-after-free in release_tty.]
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] ifdef ->rchar, ->wchar, ->syscr, ->syscw from task_struct

They are fat: 4x8 bytes in task_struct.
They are uncoditionally updated in every fork, read, write and sendfile.
They are used only if you have some "extended acct fields feature".

And please, please, please, read(2) knows about bytes, not characters,
why it is called "rchar"?

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Move TASK_XACCT, TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING up in menus

Since they depends on TASKSTATS, it would be nice to move them closer to
another options depending on TASKSTATS.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] _proc_do_string(): fix short reads

If you try to read things like /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease with single-byte
reads, you get just one byte and then EOF.  This is because _proc_do_string()
assumes that the caller is read()ing into a buffer which is large enough to
fit the whole string in a single hit.

Fix.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Fix sparse annotation of spin unlock macros in one case

SMP systems without premption and spinlock debugging enabled use unlock
macros that don't tell sparse that the lock is being released.  Add sparse
annotations in this case.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Change constant zero to NOTIFY_DONE in ratelimit_handler()

Change a hard-coded constant 0 to the symbolic equivalent NOTIFY_DONE in
the ratelimit_handler() CPU notifier handler function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] highmem: catch illegal nesting

Catch illegally nested kmap_atomic()s even if the page that is mapped by
the 'inner' instance is from lowmem.

This avoids spuriously zapped kmap-atomic ptes and turns hard to find
crashes into clear asserts at the bug site.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] jbd layer function called instead of fs specific one

jbd function called instead of fs specific one.

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Fix apparent typo CONFIG_LOCKDEP_DEBUG

Replace the apparent typo CONFIG_LOCKDEP_DEBUG with the correct
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] mxser: remove useless fields

the session and pgrp fields in mxser_struct are unused.

Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] drivers/block/DAC960: convert 'boolean' to 'bool'

Converts 'boolean' to 'bool' and removes the 'boolean' typedef.

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] some rtc documentation updates

Fix typo when describing RTC_WKALM.  Add some helpful pointers to people
developing their own RTC driver.  Change a bunch of the error messages in the
test program to be a bit more helpful.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] order of lockdep off/on in vprintk() should be changed

The order of locking between lockdep_off/on() and local_irq_save/restore() in
vprintk() should be changed.

* In kernel/printk.c :

vprintk() does :

preempt_disable()
local_irq_save()
lockdep_off()
spin_lock(&logbuf_lock)
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock)
if(!down_trylock(&console_sem))
   up(&console_sem)
lockdep_on()
local_irq_restore()
preempt_enable()

The goals here is to make sure we do not call printk() recursively from
kernel/lockdep.c:__lock_acquire() (called from spin_* and down/up) nor from
kernel/lockdep.c:trace_hardirqs_on/off() (called from local_irq_restore/save).
It can then potentially call printk() through mark_held_locks/mark_lock.

It correctly protects against the spin_lock call and the up/down call, but it
does not protect against local_irq_restore. It could cause infinite recursive
printk/trace_hardirqs_on() calls when printk() is called from the
mark_lock() error handing path.

We should change the locking so it becomes correct :

preempt_disable()
lockdep_off()
local_irq_save()
spin_lock(&logbuf_lock)
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock)
if(!down_trylock(&console_sem))
   up(&console_sem)
local_irq_restore()
lockdep_on()
preempt_enable()

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove unused kernel config option PARIDE_PARPORT

Remove the unused kernel config option PARIDE_PARPORT.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove unused kernel config option ZISOFS_FS

Remove the kernel config option ZISOFS_FS, since it appears that the actual
option is simply ZISOFS.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove references to obsolete kernel config option DEBUG_RWSEMS

Remove the few references to the obsolete kernel config option
DEBUG_RWSEMS.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove dead kernel config option AEDSP16_MPU401.

Remove the dead kernel config option AEDSP16_MPU401.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <mindspring.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Replace regular code with appropriate calls to container_of()

Replace a small number of expressions with a call to the "container_of()"
macro.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] cleanup include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h

- #ifdef guard this header for multiple inclusion
- adjust the #include's to what is actually required by this header
- remove an unneeded #ifdef
- #endif comments

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] cleanup include/linux/xattr.h

- reduce the userspace visible part
- fix the in-kernel compilation

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence()

Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete
smp_commence() call.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] buffer: memorder fix

unlock_buffer(), like unlock_page(), must not clear the lock without
ensuring that the critical section is closed.

Mingming later sent the same patch, saying:

  We are running SDET benchmark and saw double free issue for ext3 extended
  attributes block, which complains the same xattr block already being freed (in
  ext3_xattr_release_block()).  The problem could also been triggered by
  multiple threads loop untar/rm a kernel tree.

  The race is caused by missing a memory barrier at unlock_buffer() before the
  lock bit being cleared, resulting in possible concurrent h_refcounter update.
  That causes a reference counter leak, then later leads to the double free that
  we have seen.

  Inside unlock_buffer(), there is a memory barrier is placed *after* the lock
  bit is being cleared, however, there is no memory barrier *before* the bit is
  cleared.  On some arch the h_refcount update instruction and the clear bit
  instruction could be reordered, thus leave the critical section re-entered.

  The race is like this: For example, if the h_refcount is initialized as 1,

  cpu 0:                                   cpu1
  --------------------------------------   -----------------------------------
  lock_buffer() /* test_and_set_bit */
  clear_buffer_locked(bh);
                                          lock_buffer() /* test_and_set_bit */
  h_refcount = h_refcount+1; /* = 2*/     h_refcount = h_refcount + 1; /*= 2 */
                                          clear_buffer_locked(bh);
  ....                                    ......

  We lost a h_refcount here. We need a memory barrier before the buffer head lock
  bit being cleared to force the order of the two writes.  Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt

Documentation for lib/rbtree.c.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros

Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical
(and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files.

based on a page at robert love's blog:

http://rlove.org/log/2005102601

extend the set of shortcut macros defined in compiler-gcc.h with the
following:

#define __packed                       __attribute__((packed))
#define __weak                         __attribute__((weak))
#define __naked                        __attribute__((naked))
#define __noreturn                     __attribute__((noreturn))
#define __pure                         __attribute__((pure))
#define __aligned(x)                   __attribute__((aligned(x)))
#define __printf(a,b)                  __attribute__((format(printf,a,b)))

Once these are in place, it's up to subsystem maintainers to decide if they
want to take advantage of them.  there is already a strong precedent for
using shortcuts like this in the source tree.

The ones that might give people pause are "__aligned" and "__printf", but
shortcuts for both of those are already in use, and in some ways very
confusingly.  note the two very different definitions for a macro named
"ALIGNED":

  drivers/net/sgiseeq.c:#define ALIGNED(x) ((((unsigned long)(x)) + 0xf) & ~(0xf))
  drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c:#define ALIGNED(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))

also:

  include/acpi/platform/acgcc.h:
    #define ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE(c) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, c, c+1)))

Given the precedent, then, it seems logical to at least standardize on a
consistent set of these macros.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Extract and use wake_up_klogd()

Remove hack with printing space to wake up klogd.  Use explicit
wake_up_klogd().

See earlier discussion
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/75f496668409f58d/1a8f28983a51e1ff?lnk=st&q=wake_up_klogd+group%3Afa.linux.kernel&rnum=2#1a8f28983a51e1ff

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Consolidate bust_spinlocks()

Part of long forgotten patch
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/e98e941ce1cf29f6?dmode=source
Since then, m32r grabbed two copies.

Leave s390 copy because of important absence of CONFIG_VT, but remove
references to non-existent timerlist_lock.  ia64 also loses timerlist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove the last reference to rwlock_is_locked() macro.

Remove the lone, remaining reference to the long-deceased
rwlock_is_locked() macro.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] remove ext[34]_inc_count and _dec_count

- Naming is confusing, ext3_inc_count manipulates i_nlink not i_count
- handle argument passed in is not used
- ext3 and ext4 already call inc_nlink and dec_nlink directly in other places

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink

Return -ENOENT from ext[34]_link if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is
0.  Doing otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list,
because we'd wind up with an inode with a non-zero link count on the list,
and it will never get properly cleaned up & removed from the orphan list
before it is freed.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] seq_file conversion: toshiba.c

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs

Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or
ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by a
kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating
inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666,
and mkdir creates directories as 0777.

This appears to have worked right until 2.6.11, when a fix to the default
mode on symlinks (always 0777) assumed VFS applies umask: which it does,
unless the mount is marked for ACLs; but ext[234] set MS_POSIXACL in
s_flags according to s_mount_opt set according to def_mount_opts.

We could revert to the 2.6.10 ext[234]_init_acl (adding an S_ISLNK test);
but other filesystems only set MS_POSIXACL when ACLs are configured.  We
could fix this at another level; but it seems most robust to avoid setting
the s_mount_opt flag in the first place (at the expense of more ifdefs).

Likewise don't set the XATTR_USER flag when built without XATTR support.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] seq_file conversion: coda

Compile-tested.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] sn2: use static ->proc_fops

fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries.patch doesn't want dynamically
allocated ->proc_fops, because it will set it to NULL at module unload time.

Regardless of module status, switch to statically allocated ->proc_fops which
leads to simpler code without wrappers.

AFAICS, also fix the following bug: "sn_force_interrupt" proc entry set
->write for itself, but was created with 0444 permissions. Change to 0644.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0

Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device
file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings.  However,
the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying a raw device
with minor number 0:

$ sudo ./raw /dev/raw/raw0 /dev/VolGroup00/swap
/dev/raw/raw0:  bound to major 253, minor 2
$ ls -l /dev/rawctl
ls: /dev/rawctl: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /dev/raw/raw0
crw------- 1 root root 162, 0 Jan 12 10:51 /dev/raw/raw0
$ sudo ./raw -qa
Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory)

As you can see, this prevents any further raw operations from
succeeding.  The fix (from Steve Fernandez) is quite simple--do not
allow the allocation of minor number 0.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Fernandez <sfernand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] audit: fix audit_filter_user_rules() initialization bug

gcc emits this warning:

 kernel/auditfilter.c: In function 'audit_filter_user':
 kernel/auditfilter.c:1611: warning: 'state' is used uninitialized in this function

I tend to agree with gcc - there are a couple of plausible exit paths from
audit_filter_user_rules() where it does not set 'state', keeping the
variable uninitialized.  For example if a filter rule has an AUDIT_POSSIBLE
action.  Initialize to 'wont audit'.  Fix whitespace damage too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] ext4: refuse ro to rw remount of fs with orphan inodes

In the rare case where we have skipped orphan inode processing due to a
readonly block device, and the block device subsequently changes back to
read-write, disallow a remount,rw transition of the filesystem when we have an
unprocessed orphan inodes as this would corrupt the list.

Ideally we should process the orphan inode list during the remount, but that's
trickier, and this plugs the hole for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] ext3: refuse ro to rw remount of fs with orphan inodes

In the rare case where we have skipped orphan inode processing due to a
readonly block device, and the block device subsequently changes back to
read-write, disallow a remount,rw transition of the filesystem when we have an
unprocessed orphan inodes as this would corrupt the list.

Ideally we should process the orphan inode list during the remount, but that's
trickier, and this plugs the hole for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] cleanup linux/byteorder/swabb.h

- no longer a userspace header
- add #include <linux/types.h> for in-kernel compilation

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] serial: support for new board

Add support for the CPCI-ASIO4 quad port CompactPCI UART board from
electronic system design gmbh.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Perle multimodem card (PCI-RAS) detection

Get the Perle quad-modem PCI card (PCI-RAS4) detected by serial driver.  It
may also get the PCI-RAS8 running, but can't guarantee as I didn't had one for
testing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hoehn <thomas.hoehn@avocent.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc: fix some odd spacing issues

- in man and text mode output, if the function return type is empty (like it
  is for macros), don't print the return type and a following space; this
  fixes an output malalignment;

- in the function short description, strip leading, trailing, and multiple
  embedded spaces (to one space); this makes function name/description output
  spacing consistent;

- fix a comment typo;

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] docbook: add edd firmware interfaces

Cleanup kernel-doc notation in drivers/firmware/edd.c.

Add edd.c to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] RTC framework driver for CMOS RTCs

This is an "RTC framework" driver for the "CMOS" RTCs which are standard on
PCs and some other platforms.  That's MC146818 compatible silicon.
Advantages of this vs.  drivers/char/rtc.c (use one _or_ the other, only
one will be able to claim the RTC irq) include:

 - This leverages both the new RTC framework and the driver model; both
   PNPACPI and platform device modes are supported.  (A separate patch
   creates a platform device on PCs where PNPACPI isn't configured.)

 - It supports common extensions like longer alarms.  (A separate patch
   exports that information from ACPI through platform_data.)

 - Likewise, system wakeup events use "real driver model support", with
   policy control via sysfs "wakeup" attributes and and using normal rtc
   ioctls to manage wakeup.  (Patch in the works.  The ACPI hooks are
   known; /proc/acpi/alarm can vanish.  Making it work with EFI will
   be a minor challenge to someone with e.g. a MiniMac.)

It's not yet been tested on non-x86 systems, without ACPI, or with HPET.
And the RTC framework will surely have teething pains on "mainstream"
PC-based systems (though must embedded Linux systems use it heavily), not
limited to sorting out the "/dev/rtc0" issue (udev easily tweaked).  Also,
the ALSA rtctimer code doesn't use the new RTC API.

Otherwise, this should be a no-known-regressions replacement for the old
drivers/char/rtc.c driver, and should help the non-embedded distros (and
the new timekeeping code) start to switch to the framework.

Note also that any systems using "rtc-m48t86" are candidates to switch over
to this more functional driver; the platform data is different, and the way
bytes are read is different, but otherwise those chips should be compatible.

[akpm@osdl.org: sparc32 fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] local_t: Documentation

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo

I noticed that almost all architectures implemented exactly the same
sys32_sysinfo...  except parisc, where a bug was to be found in handling of
the uptime.  So let's remove a whole whack of code for fun and profit.
Cribbed compat_sys_sysinfo from x86_64's implementation, since I figured it
would be the best tested.

This patch incorporates Arnd's suggestion of not using set_fs/get_fs, but
instead extracting out the common code from sys_sysinfo.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.

A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:

  * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
  * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
  * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
  * reword some text for clarity

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Discuss a couple common errors in kernel-doc usage.

Explain a couple of the most common errors in kernel-doc usage.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] tty: improve encode_baud_rate logic

Mostly so people can see the work in progress.  This enhances the encode
function which isn't currently used in the base tree but is when using some of
the testing tty patches.

This resolves a problem with some hardware where applications got confusing
information from the tty ioctls.  Correct but confusing.

In some situations asking for, say, 9600 baud actually gets you 9595 baud or
similar near-miss values.  With the old code this meant that a request for
B9600 got a return of BOTHER, 9595 which programs interpreted as a failure.

The new code now works on the following basis

- If you ask for specific rate via BOTHER, you get a precise return

- If you ask for a standard Bfoo rate and the result is close you get a Bfoo
  return

- If you ask for a standard Bfoo rate and get something way off you get a
  BOTHER/rate return

This seems to fix up the cases I've found where this broke compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc: allow more whitespace

Allow whitespace in pointer-to-function
[accept "(* done)", not just "(*done)"].

Allow tabs (spaces are already allowed) between "#define" and a macro name.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] sysrq: alphabetize command keys doc

Alphabetize the sysrq command keys list.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings

Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc: allow a little whitespace

In kernel-doc syntax, be a little flexible:  allow whitespace between
a function parameter name and the colon that must follow it, such as:
@pdev : PCI device to unplug

(This allows lots of megaraid kernel-doc to work without tons of
editing.)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Remove unnecessary memset(0) calls after kzalloc() calls.

Delete the few remaining unnecessary calls to memset(0) after a call to
kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] proc_misc warning fix

fs/proc/proc_misc.c: In function 'proc_misc_init':
fs/proc/proc_misc.c:764: warning: unused variable 'entry'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] sysctl warning fix

kernel/sysctl.c:2816: warning: 'sysctl_ipc_data' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 3rd round

Schedule obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same
hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/305

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-By: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Add const for time{spec,val}_compare arguments

The arguments are really const.  Mark them const to allow these functions
being called from places where the arguments are const without getting
useless compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] msdos partitions: fix logic error in AIX detection

Correct the AIX magic check to let 'echo > /dev/sdb' actually work.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] relax check for AIX in msdos partition table

The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one
machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117

The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes
of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it,
then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC.

The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix
is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4
bytes.

The whole partition info for primary partitions is in this block:

  dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be ))

All other data do not matter, beside the 0x55aa marker at the end of the
first block.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Get rid of "double zeroing" of allocated pages

Simplify the few instances where a call to "get_zeroed_page()" is closely
followed by an unnecessary call to memset() to clear that page.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] IPMI: Fix some RCU problems

Fix some RCU problem pointed out by Paul McKenney of IBM.  These are:

The wholesale move of the command receivers list into a new list was not
safe because the list will point to the new tail during a traversal, so the
traversal will never end on a reader if this happens during a read.

Memory barriers were needed to handle proper ordering of the setting of the
IPMI interface as valid.  Readers might not see proper ordering of data
otherwise.

In ipmi_smi_watcher_register(), the use of the _rcu suffix on the list is
unnecessary.

This require the list_splice_init_rcu() patch previously posted.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] add an RCU version of list splicing

This patch is in support of the IPMI driver.  I have tested this with the
IPMI driver changes coming in the next patch.

Add a list_splice_init_rcu() function to splice an RCU-protected list into
another list.  This takes the sync function as an argument, so one would do
something like:

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
list_splice_init_rcu(&source, &dest, synchronize_rcu);

The idea being to keep the RCU API proliferation down to a dull roar.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] fix sparse warnings from {asm,net}/checksum.h

Rename the variable "sum" in the __range_ok macros to avoid name collisions
causing lots of "symbol shadows an earlier one" warnings by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] use cycle_t instead of u64 in struct time_interpolator

The 32bit and 64bit PARISC Linux kernels suffers from the problem, that the
gettimeofday() call sometimes returns non-monotonic times.

The easiest way to fix this, is to drop the PARISC-specific implementation
and switch over to the generic TIME_INTERPOLATION framework.

But in order to make it even compile on 32bit PARISC, the patch below which
touches the generic Linux code, is mandatory.

More information and the full patch with the parisc-specific changes is included in this thread: http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2006-December/031003.html

As far as I could see, this patch does not change anything for the existing
architectures which use this framework (IA64 and SPARC64), since "cycles_t"
is defined there as unsigned 64bit-integer anyway (which then makes this
patch a no-change for them).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()

Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to
invalidate_mapping_pages().

Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules

It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not
invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages()
because of its range specification ability...

akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an
inlined wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] DocBook/HTML: correction of recursive A tags in HTML output

The malformed HTML was generated after switch to XSLTPROC
from SGML tools. The reference title

  <refentrytitle><phrase id="API-struct-x">struct x</phrase></refentrytitle>

is converted into two recursive <a> tags

  <a href="re02.html"><span><a id="API-struct-x"></a>struct x</span></a>

There is more possible solutions for this problem.
One can be found at

  http://darkk.livejournal.com/

The proposed solution is based on suggestion provided by Jiri Kosek.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] DocBook/HTML: Generate chapter/section level TOCs for functions

Simple increase of section TOC level generation significantly enhances
navigation experience through generated kernel API documentation.

This change restores back state from SGML tools time.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, pci probing

Alter the driver to use the pci probing.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, pci_probing prepare

- change pci conf prototype and rename it to moxa_pci_probe
- move some code to moxa_pci_probe
- create moxa_pci_remove

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, remove useless variables

Remove temporary or once used variables, that can be defined locally to
save some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, variables cleanup

- rename moxaChannels to moxa_port
- rename moxa_str to moxa_ports
- move board global variables into moxa_board
- move port global variables into moxa_port

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, remove moxa_pci_devinfo

Nothing is used from this struct but *pdev. Remove it and store only pdev.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, use del_timer_sync

Use del_timer_sync in most timer deletions, we don't want to oops in the timer
function.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, macros cleanup

Remove yet defined or unused macros and whitespace cleanup around the rest.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, eliminate typedefs

Do not use typedefs, use directly struct <something> instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, use PCI_DEVICE

Use PCI_DEVICE macro in pci_device_id list.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, devids cleanup

Move them to pci_ids.h

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, remove unused functions

Remove ifdeffed functions and cleanup comments including too long license
terms.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, remove hangup bottomhalf

Call tty_hangup directly, we do not need a bottomhalf for this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH] Char: moxa, timers cleanup

Use kernel macros and functions for timer encapsulation -- do not access
fileds directly.  Also del_timer on inactive is legal, so that noting if it
runs is senseless, delete these variables.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>