27 Aug, 2011

1 commit


27 Jul, 2011

6 commits

  • After changing all consumers of atomics to include , we
    ran into some compile time errors due to this dependency chain:

    linux/atomic.h
    -> asm/atomic.h
    -> asm-generic/atomic-long.h

    where atomic-long.h could use funcs defined later in linux/atomic.h
    without a prototype. This patches moves the code that includes
    asm-generic/atomic*.h to linux/atomic.h.

    Archs that need need to select
    CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 from now on (some of them used to include it
    unconditionally).

    Compile tested on i386 and x86_64 with allnoconfig.

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     
  • This is in preparation for more generic atomic primitives based on
    __atomic_add_unless.

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     
  • This allows us to move duplicated code in
    (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     
  • The majority of architectures implement ext2 atomic bitops as
    test_and_{set,clear}_bit() without spinlock.

    This adds this type of generic implementation in ext2-atomic-setbit.h and
    use it wherever possible.

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Suggested-by: Andreas Dilger
    Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     
  • Harmonise these return values with other architectures. In some cases
    this affects all compilers and in other cases non-gcc compilers only.

    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andrew Morton
     
  • [ poleg@redhat.com: no need to declare show_regs() in ptrace.h, sched.h does this ]
    Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Tejun Heo
    Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mike Frysinger
     

26 Jul, 2011

2 commits

  • * Merge akpm patch series: (122 commits)
    drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: remove unused local
    Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add RCU debug config options
    reiserfs: use hweight_long()
    reiserfs: use proper little-endian bitops
    pnpacpi: register disabled resources
    drivers/rtc/rtc-tegra.c: properly initialize spinlock
    drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: check return value of twl_rtc_write_u8() in twl_rtc_set_time()
    drivers/rtc: add support for Qualcomm PMIC8xxx RTC
    drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: support clock gating
    drivers/rtc/rtc-mpc5121.c: add support for RTC on MPC5200
    init: skip calibration delay if previously done
    misc/eeprom: add eeprom access driver for digsy_mtc board
    misc/eeprom: add driver for microwire 93xx46 EEPROMs
    checkpatch.pl: update $logFunctions
    checkpatch: make utf-8 test --strict
    checkpatch.pl: add ability to ignore various messages
    checkpatch: add a "prefer __aligned" check
    checkpatch: validate signature styles and To: and Cc: lines
    checkpatch: add __rcu as a sparse modifier
    checkpatch: suggest using min_t or max_t
    ...

    Did this as a merge because of (trivial) conflicts in
    - Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
    - arch/xtensa/include/asm/uaccess.h
    that were just easier to fix up in the merge than in the patch series.

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Fix the following build error:

    arch/xtensa/include/asm/uaccess.h:403: error: implicit declaration of function 'prefetch'
    arch/xtensa/include/asm/uaccess.h:412: error: implicit declaration of function 'prefetchw'

    Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    WANG Cong
     

20 Jun, 2011

1 commit


29 May, 2011

1 commit

  • 32bit and 64bit on x86 are tested and working. The rest I have looked
    at closely and I can't find any problems.

    setns is an easy system call to wire up. It just takes two ints so I
    don't expect any weird architecture porting problems.

    While doing this I have noticed that we have some architectures that are
    very slow to get new system calls. cris seems to be the slowest where
    the last system calls wired up were preadv and pwritev. avr32 is weird
    in that recvmmsg was wired up but never declared in unistd.h. frv is
    behind with perf_event_open being the last syscall wired up. On h8300
    the last system call wired up was epoll_wait. On m32r the last system
    call wired up was fallocate. mn10300 has recvmmsg as the last system
    call wired up. The rest seem to at least have syncfs wired up which was
    new in the 2.6.39.

    v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano
    v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman
    v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch
    v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6
    v6: rebased onto parisc-next and net-next to avoid syscall conflicts.
    v7: ported to Linus's latest post 2.6.39 tree.

    >  arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h     |    3 ++-
    >  arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S      |    1 +
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger

    Oh - ia64 wiring looks good.
    Acked-by: Tony Luck

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     

25 May, 2011

1 commit

  • This is not useful: it provides page->virtual and is used with highmem.
    xtensa has no support for highmem and those HIGHMEM bits which are found
    by grep are partly implemented. The interesting functions like kmap() are
    missing. If someone actually implements the complete HIGHMEM support he
    could use HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL like most others do.

    Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
     

31 Mar, 2011

1 commit


24 Mar, 2011

3 commits

  • minix bit operations are only used by minix filesystem and useless by
    other modules. Because byte order of inode and block bitmaps is different
    on each architecture like below:

    m68k:
    big-endian 16bit indexed bitmaps

    h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu:
    big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps

    m32r, mips, sh, xtensa:
    big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps for big-endian mode
    little-endian bitmaps for little-endian mode

    Others:
    little-endian bitmaps

    In order to move minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h to architecture
    independent code in minix filesystem, this provides two config options.

    CONFIG_MINIX_FS_BIG_ENDIAN_16BIT_INDEXED is only selected by m68k.
    CONFIG_MINIX_FS_NATIVE_ENDIAN is selected by the architectures which use
    native byte order bitmaps (h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu,
    m32r, mips, sh, xtensa). The architectures which always use little-endian
    bitmaps do not select these options.

    Finally, we can remove minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h for all
    architectures.

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Acked-by: Greg Ungerer
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Andreas Schwab
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Paul Mundt
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     
  • As the result of conversions, there are no users of ext2 non-atomic bit
    operations except for ext2 filesystem itself. Now we can put them into
    architecture independent code in ext2 filesystem, and remove from
    asm/bitops.h for all architectures.

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     
  • Introduce little-endian bit operations to the big-endian architectures
    which do not have native little-endian bit operations and the
    little-endian architectures. (alpha, avr32, blackfin, cris, frv, h8300,
    ia64, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, sh, sparc, tile, x86, xtensa)

    These architectures can just include generic implementation
    (asm-generic/bitops/le.h).

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Grant Grundler
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
    Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     

23 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • All architectures can use the common dma_addr_t typedef now. We can
    remove the arch specific dma_addr_t.

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Chris Metcalf
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     

17 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (76 commits)
    pch_uart: reference clock on CM-iTC
    pch_phub: add new device ML7213
    n_gsm: fix UIH control byte : P bit should be 0
    n_gsm: add a documentation
    serial: msm_serial_hs: Add MSM high speed UART driver
    tty_audit: fix tty_audit_add_data live lock on audit disabled
    tty: move cd1865.h to drivers/staging/tty/
    Staging: tty: fix build with epca.c driver
    pcmcia: synclink_cs: fix prototype for mgslpc_ioctl()
    Staging: generic_serial: fix double locking bug
    nozomi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
    tty/serial: Relax the device_type restriction from of_serial
    MAINTAINERS: Update HVC file patterns
    tty: phase out of ioctl file pointer for tty3270 as well
    tty: forgot to remove ipwireless from drivers/char/pcmcia/Makefile
    pch_uart: Fix DMA channel miss-setting issue.
    pch_uart: fix exclusive access issue
    pch_uart: fix auto flow control miss-setting issue
    pch_uart: fix uart clock setting issue
    pch_uart : Use dev_xxx not pr_xxx
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/misc/pch_phub.c (same patch applied
    twice, then changes to the same area in one branch)

    Linus Torvalds
     

18 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • This is useful for system management software so that it can kick
    off things like gettys and everything that's started from a tty,
    before we reuse it from/for something else or shut it down.

    Without this ioctl it would have to temporarily become the owner of
    the tty, then call vhangup() and then give it up again.

    Cc: Lennart Poettering
    Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Kay Sievers
     

27 Jan, 2011

6 commits

  • All architecture specific rwsem headers carry the same function
    prototypes. Just x86 adds asmregparm, which is an empty define on all
    other architectures. S390 has a stale rwsem_downgrade_write()
    prototype.

    Remove the duplicates and add the prototypes to linux/rwsem.h

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Acked-by: Tony Luck
    Acked-by: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: David Miller
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Thomas Gleixner
     
  • Instead of having the same implementation in each architecture, move
    it to linux/rwsem.h and remove the duplicates. It's unlikely that an
    arch will ever implement something different, but we can deal with
    that when it happens.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Acked-by: Tony Luck
    Acked-by: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: David Miller
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Thomas Gleixner
     
  • The rwsem initializers and related macros and functions are mostly the
    same. Some of them lack the lockdep initializer, but having it in
    place does not matter for architectures which do not support lockdep.

    powerpc, sparc, x86: No functional change

    sh, s390: Removes the duplicate init_rwsem (inline and #define)

    alpha, ia64, xtensa: Use the lockdep capable init function in
    lib/rwsem.c which is just uninlining the init
    function for the LOCKDEP=n case

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Acked-by: Tony Luck
    Acked-by: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: David Miller
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    LKML-Reference:

    Thomas Gleixner
     
  • The difference between these declarations is the data type of the
    count member and the lack of lockdep in some architectures/

    long is equivivalent to signed long and the #ifdef guarded dep_map
    member does not hurt anyone.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Acked-by: Tony Luck
    Acked-by: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: David Miller
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Thomas Gleixner
     
  • All rwsem implementations include the same headers. Include them from
    include/linux/rwsem.h

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Acked-by: Tony Luck
    Acked-by: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: David Miller
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    LKML-Reference:

    Thomas Gleixner
     
  • SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCK is deprecated. Use the lockdep capable variant
    instead.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Chris Zankel

    Thomas Gleixner
     

14 Jan, 2011

2 commits


17 Dec, 2010

1 commit


27 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
    API is now redundant, remove it.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Chris Metcalf
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Rik van Riel
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Zijlstra
     

25 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
    Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
    Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
    Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
    Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially
    ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
    ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
    drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
    arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
    Fix typo configue => configure in comments
    Fix typo: configuation => configuration
    Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed]
    Fix various typos of valid in comments
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in:
    drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
    drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
    net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c

    Linus Torvalds
     

07 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Fix the IRQ flag handling naming. In linux/irqflags.h under one configuration,
    it maps:

    local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable()
    local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable()
    local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save()
    ...

    and under the other configuration, it maps:

    raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable()
    raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable()
    raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save()
    ...

    This is quite confusing. There should be one set of names expected of the
    arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected
    by users of this facility.

    Change this to have the arch provide:

    flags = arch_local_save_flags()
    flags = arch_local_irq_save()
    arch_local_irq_restore(flags)
    arch_local_irq_disable()
    arch_local_irq_enable()
    arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
    arch_irqs_disabled()
    arch_safe_halt()

    Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide:

    raw_local_save_flags(flags)
    raw_local_irq_save(flags)
    raw_local_irq_restore(flags)
    raw_local_irq_disable()
    raw_local_irq_enable()
    raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
    raw_irqs_disabled()
    raw_safe_halt()

    with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide:

    local_save_flags(flags)
    local_irq_save(flags)
    local_irq_restore(flags)
    local_irq_disable()
    local_irq_enable()
    irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
    irqs_disabled()
    safe_halt()

    with tracing included if enabled.

    The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them
    having to be macros.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells [X86, FRV, MN10300]
    Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf [Tile]
    Signed-off-by: Michal Simek [Microblaze]
    Tested-by: Catalin Marinas [ARM]
    Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen [AVR]
    Acked-by: Tony Luck [IA-64]
    Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata [M32R]
    Acked-by: Greg Ungerer [M68K/M68KNOMMU]
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle [MIPS]
    Acked-by: Kyle McMartin [PA-RISC]
    Acked-by: Paul Mackerras [PowerPC]
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [S390]
    Acked-by: Chen Liqin [Score]
    Acked-by: Matt Fleming [SH]
    Acked-by: David S. Miller [Sparc]
    Acked-by: Chris Zankel [Xtensa]
    Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson [Alpha]
    Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato [H8300]
    Cc: starvik@axis.com [CRIS]
    Cc: jesper.nilsson@axis.com [CRIS]
    Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com

    David Howells
     

11 Aug, 2010

6 commits

  • Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
    misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt). So it hasn't been so
    useful for drivers. We have only one user of the API in tree. Unlikely
    out-of-tree drivers use the API.

    Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
    useful at all. It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
    allocate coherent memory at all. It's better to export only APIs that are
    definitely necessary for drivers.

    Let's remove this API.

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     
  • dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
    defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN). So we
    can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

    Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly.
    dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment. So
    fully-coherent architectures should return 1. This patch also fixes this
    issue.

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     
  • Now each architecture has the own dma_get_cache_alignment implementation.

    dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
    define it as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (it's used to make sure that malloc'ed
    buffer is DMA-safe; the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others). So
    we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

    This patch:

    dma_get_cache_alignment() needs to know if an architecture defines
    ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or not (needs to know if architecture has DMA
    alignment restriction). However, slab.h define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if
    architectures doesn't define it.

    Let's rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
    ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is used only in the internals of slab/slob/slub
    (except for crypto).

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     
  • Conflicts:
    fs/exofs/inode.c

    Jiri Kosina
     
  • * 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
    block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
    xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
    blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
    block: update request stacking methods to support discards
    block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
    writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
    drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
    drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
    drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
    writeback: cleanup bdi_register
    writeback: add new tracepoints
    writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
    writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
    writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
    writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
    writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
    writeback: move last_active to bdi
    writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
    writeback: simplify bdi code a little
    writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
    ...

    Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
    drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • This patch is against the 2.6.34 source.

    Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com:

    These are the changes needed for the kernel to support
    LINEMODE in the server.

    There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC.
    When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver
    are disabled. Input line editing, character echo, and mapping
    of signals are all disabled. This allows the telnetd to turn
    off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of
    what state the user wants the terminal to be in.

    New ioctl:
    TIOCSIG Generate a signal to processes in the
    current process group of the pty.

    There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit.
    When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit
    is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the
    next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL
    bit set. This allows the process on the server side of the pty
    to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then
    issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state.

    Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet
    I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for
    any remote terminal protocol, including ssh.

    The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989.
    For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found
    here:

    http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741

    Signed-off-by: Howard Chu
    Cc: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    hyc@symas.com
     

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  • To avoid more patches, I also fixed other spelling
    and grammar bugs when they were in the same or
    following line:

    successfull -> successful
    parse -> parses
    controler -> controller
    controlers -> controllers

    Cc: Jiri Kosina
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Stefan Weil
     

08 Aug, 2010

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