lwn.git/kernel, branch v2.6.36-rc1

time: Workaround gcc loop optimization that causes 64bit div errors

2010-08-13T19:03:24+00:00

Early 4.3 versions of gcc apparently aggressively optimize the raw time accumulation loop, replacing it with a divide. On 32bit systems, this causes the following link errors: undefined reference to `__umoddi3' undefined reference to `__udivdi3' The gcc issue has been fixed in 4.4 and greater. This patch replaces the accumulation loop with a do_div, as suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by: John Stultz CC: Jason Wessel CC: Larry Finger CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"

2010-08-12T21:23:04+00:00

This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e (and the accompanying commit c1e5c954020e "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at all). The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with f_count handling. Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus

2010-08-12T17:01:59+00:00

* 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (22 commits) param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checks param: update drivers/acpi/debug.c to new scheme param: use module_param in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c ide: use module_param_named rather than module_param_call param: update drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c to new scheme param: lock if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes. param: lock myri10ge_fw_name against sysfs changes. param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters param: remove unnecessary writable charp param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.h param: locking for kernel parameters param: make param sections const. param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters) param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops. param: silence .init.text references from param ops Add param ops struct for hvc_iucv driver. nfs: update for module_param_named API change AppArmor: update for module_param_named API change param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions. ...

timekeeping: Fix overflow in rawtime tv_nsec on 32 bit archs

2010-08-12T16:53:39+00:00

The tv_nsec is a long and when added to the shifted interval it can wrap and become negative which later causes looping problems in the getrawmonotonic(). The edge case occurs when the system has slept for a short period of time of ~2 seconds. A trace printk of the values in this patch illustrate the problem: ftrace time stamp: log 43.716079: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 3d0913 tv_nsec d687faa 43.718513: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 3d0913 tv_nsec da588bd 43.722161: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 3d0913 tv_nsec de291d0 46.349925: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 7a122600 tv_nsec e1f9ae3 46.349930: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 1e848980 tv_nsec 8831c0e3 The kernel starts looping at 46.349925 in the getrawmonotonic() due to the negative value from adding the raw value to tv_nsec. A simple solution is to accumulate into a u64, and then normalize it to a timespec_t. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel [ Reworked variable names and simplified some of the code. - John ] Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks

2010-08-12T16:51:35+00:00

Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: add secure discard

2010-08-12T15:43:30+00:00

Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be erased. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Jens Axboe Cc: Kyungmin Park Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ben Gardiner Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/kfifo.c: add handling of chained scatterlists

2010-08-12T15:43:29+00:00

The current kfifo scatterlist implementation will not work with chained scatterlists. It assumes that struct scatterlist arrays are allocated contiguously, which is not the case when chained scatterlists (struct sg_table) are in use. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-08-11T16:23:32+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: isofs: Fix lseek() to position beyond 4 GB vfs: remove unused MNT_STRICTATIME vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc vfs: only add " (deleted)" where necessary vfs: add prepend_path() helper vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry ia64: perfmon: add d_dname method vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd cachefiles: use path_get instead of lone dget fs/sysv/super.c: add support for non-PDP11 v7 filesystems V7: Adjust sanity checks for some volumes Add v7 alias v9fs: fixup for inode_setattr being removed Manual merge to take Al's version of the fs/sysv/super.c file: it merged cleanly, but Al had removed an unnecessary header include, so his side was better.

kfifo: replace the old non generic API

2010-08-11T15:59:23+00:00

Simply replace the whole kfifo.c and kfifo.h files with the new generic version and fix the kerneldoc API template file. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kfifo: add the new generic kfifo API

2010-08-11T15:59:23+00:00

Add the new version of the kfifo API files kfifo.c and kfifo.h. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds