17 Oct, 2008
2 commits
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This is an extended document intended to help interested developers, their
managers, and their employers work with the kernel development process.This work was supported by the Linux Foundation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
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Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
10 Oct, 2008
6 commits
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This is debatable, but while we're debating it, let's disallow the
combination of splice and an O_APPEND destination.It's not entirely clear what the semantics of O_APPEND should be, and
POSIX apparently expects pwrite() to ignore O_APPEND, for example. So
we could make up any semantics we want, including the old ones.But Miklos convinced me that we should at least give it some thought,
and that accepting writes at arbitrary offsets is wrong at least for
IS_APPEND() files (which always have O_APPEND set, even if the reverse
isn't true: you can obviously have O_APPEND set on a regular file).So disallow O_APPEND entirely for now. I doubt anybody cares, and this
way we have one less gray area to worry about.Reported-and-argued-for-by: Miklos Szeredi
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
hwmon: (abituguru3) Enable DMI probing feature on Abit AT8 32X
hwmon: (abituguru3) Enable reading from AUX3 fan on Abit AT8 32X
hwmon: (adt7473) Fix some bogosity in documentation file
hwmon: Define sysfs interface for energy consumption register
hwmon: (it87) Prevent power-off on Shuttle SN68PT
eeepc-laptop: Fix hwmon interface -
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] correct broken links and email addresses -
This fixes the previous fix, which was completely wrong on closer
inspection. This version has been manually tested with a user-space
test harness and generates sane values. A nearly identical patch has
been boot-tested.The problem arose from changing how kmalloc/kfree handled alignment
padding without updating ksize to match. This brings it in sync.Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall
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Replace the no longer working links and email address in the
documentation and in source code.Signed-off-by: Márton Németh
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones
09 Oct, 2008
9 commits
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Enable driver checking of the DMI product name (when enabled) on
an Abit AT8 32X, instead of falling back to a manual probe. This
eliminates false negatives and eventually will help avoid
unnecessary bus probes on unsupported mainboards.Signed-off-by: Alistair John Strachan
Tested-by: Daniel Exner
Acked-by: Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare -
The table for the Abit AT8 32X was incorrectly missing an entry
for the sixth ("AUX3") fan. Add this entry, exporting the fan
reading to userspace.Closes lm-sensors.org ticket #2339.
Signed-off-by: Alistair John Strachan
Tested-by: Daniel Exner
Acked-by: Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare -
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare -
Describe the sysfs files that were introduced in the ibmaem driver.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare -
On the Shuttle SN68PT, FAN_CTL2 is apparently not connected to a fan,
but to something else. One user has reported instant system power-off
when changing the PWM2 duty cycle, so we disable it.I use the board name string as the trigger in case the same board is
ever used in other systems.This closes lm-sensors ticket #2349:
pwmconfig causes a hard poweroff
http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2349Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
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Creates a name file in the sysfs directory, that
is needed for the libsensors library to work.
Also rename fan1_pwm to pwm1 and scale its value as needed.This fixes bug #11520:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11520Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Sibyte: Register PIO PATA device only for Swarm and Litte Sur -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd.
net: Fix netdev_run_todo dead-lock
tcp: Fix possible double-ack w/ user dma
net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP
netrom: Fix sock_orphan() use in nr_release
ax25: Quick fix for making sure unaccepted sockets get destroyed.
Revert "ax25: Fix std timer socket destroy handling."
[Bluetooth] Add reset quirk for A-Link BlueUSB21 dongle
[Bluetooth] Add reset quirk for new Targus and Belkin dongles
[Bluetooth] Fix double frees on error paths of btusb and bpa10x drivers -
Symbol name spaghetti which is too complicated to cleanup on this stage
of the release cycle breaks the build on BCM1480 platforms.Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
08 Oct, 2008
6 commits
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Because of rounding, in certain conditions, i.e. when in congestion
avoidance state rho is smaller than 1/128 of the current cwnd, TCP
Hybla congestion control starves and the cwnd is kept constant
forever.This patch forces an increment by one segment after #send_cwnd calls
without increments(newreno behavior).Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera
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Benjamin Thery tracked down a bug that explains many instances
of the errorunregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d
It turns out that netdev_run_todo can dead-lock with itself if
a second instance of it is run in a thread that will then free
a reference to the device waited on by the first instance.The problem is really quite silly. We were trying to create
parallelism where none was required. As netdev_run_todo always
follows a RTNL section, and that todo tasks can only be added
with the RTNL held, by definition you should only need to wait
for the very ones that you've added and be done with it.There is no need for a second mutex or spinlock.
This is exactly what the following patch does.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
From: Ali Saidi
When TCP receive copy offload is enabled it's possible that
tcp_rcv_established() will cause two acks to be sent for a single
packet. In the case that a tcp_dma_early_copy() is successful,
copied_early is set to true which causes tcp_cleanup_rbuf() to be
called early which can send an ack. Further along in
tcp_rcv_established(), __tcp_ack_snd_check() is called and will
schedule a delayed ACK. If no packets are processed before the delayed
ack timer expires the packet will be acked twice.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer reported a bug when setting a VLAN
device down that is in promiscous mode:When the VLAN device is set down, the promiscous count on the real
device is decremented by one by vlan_dev_stop(). When removing the
promiscous flag from the VLAN device afterwards, the promiscous
count on the real device is decremented a second time by the
vlan_change_rx_flags() callback.The root cause for this is that the ->change_rx_flags() callback is
invoked while the device is down. The synchronization is meant to mirror
the behaviour of the ->set_rx_mode callbacks, meaning the ->open function
is responsible for doing a full sync on open, the ->close() function is
responsible for doing full cleanup on ->stop() and ->change_rx_flags()
is meant to do incremental changes while the device is UP.Only invoke ->change_rx_flags() while the device is UP to provide the
intended behaviour.Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy
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SLOB's ksize calculation was braindamaged and generally harmlessly
underreported the allocation size. But for very small buffers, it could
in fact overreport them, leading code depending on krealloc to overrun
the allocation and trample other data.Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Oct, 2008
15 commits
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This reverts commit 135aedc38e812b922aa56096f36a3d72ffbcf2fb, as
requested by Hans Verkuil.It was a patch for 2.6.28 where the BKL was pushed down from v4l core to
the drivers, not for 2.6.27!Requested-by: Hans Verkuil
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds -
* Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:
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> I've been playing with adding some markers into ext4 to see if they
> could be useful in solving some problems along with Systemtap. It
> appears, though, that as of 2.6.27-rc8, markers defined in code which is
> compiled directly into the kernel (i.e., not as modules) don't show up
> in Module.markers:
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> kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
>
> (Note the lack of any of the kernel_sched_* markers, and the markers I
> added for ext4_* and jbd2_* are missing as wel.)
>
> Systemtap apparently depends on in-kernel trace_mark being recorded in
> Module.markers, and apparently it's been claimed that it used to be
> there. Is this a bug in systemtap, or in how Module.markers is getting
> built? And is there a file that contains the equivalent information
> for markers located in non-modules code?I think the problem comes from "markers: fix duplicate modpost entry"
(commit d35cb360c29956510b2fe1a953bd4968536f7216)Especially :
- add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
+ if (!mod->skip)
+ add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
}
return;
fail:Here is a fix that should take care if this problem.
Thanks for the bug report!
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Tested-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
CC: Greg KH
CC: David Smith
CC: Roland McGrath
CC: Sam Ravnborg
CC: Wenji Huang
CC: Takashi Nishiie
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* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb: call touch_softlockup_watchdog on resume
kgdb, x86: Avoid invoking kgdb_nmicallback twice per NMI -
…git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: gart iommu have direct mapping when agp is present too -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
ide: workaround for bogus gcc warning in ide_sysfs_register_port()
ide-cd: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A does play audio
IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver (v2)
ide-dma: fix ide_build_dmatable() for TRM290
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] IP27: Fix build errors if CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL=y
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (33 commits)
V4L/DVB (9103): em28xx: HVR-900 B3C0 - fix audio clicking issue
V4L/DVB (9099): em28xx: Add detection for K-WORLD DVB-T 310U
V4L/DVB (9092): gspca: Bad init values for sonixj ov7660.
V4L/DVB (9080): gspca: Add a delay after writing to the sonixj sensors.
V4L/DVB (9075): gspca: Bad check of returned status in i2c_read() spca561.
V4L/DVB (9053): fix buffer overflow in uvc-video
V4L/DVB (9043): S5H1420: Fix size of shadow-array to avoid overflow
V4L/DVB (9037): Fix support for Hauppauge Nova-S SE
V4L/DVB (9029): Fix deadlock in demux code
V4L/DVB (8979): sms1xxx: Add new USB product ID for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick
V4L/DVB (8978): sms1xxx: fix product name for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick
V4L/DVB (8967): Use correct XC3028L firmware for AMD ATI TV Wonder 600
V4L/DVB (8963): s2255drv field count fix
V4L/DVB (8961): zr36067: Fix RGBR pixel format
V4L/DVB (8960): drivers/media/video/cafe_ccic.c needs mm.h
V4L/DVB (8958): zr36067: Return proper bytes-per-line value
V4L/DVB (8957): zr36067: Restore the default pixel format
V4L/DVB (8955): bttv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in radio_open
V4L/DVB (8935): em28xx-cards: Remove duplicate entry (EM2800_BOARD_KWORLD_USB2800)
V4L/DVB (8933): gspca: Disable light frquency for zc3xx cs2102 Kokom.
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The atmel-mci driver sometimes fails data transfers like this:
mmcblk0: error -5 transferring data
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 2749769
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 2749777It turns out that this might be caused by the BLKR register (which
contains the block size and the number of blocks being transfered) being
initialized too late. This patch moves the initialization of BLKR so
that it contains the correct value before the block transfer command is
sent.This error is difficult to reproduce, but if you insert a long delay
(mdelay(10) or thereabouts) between the calls to atmci_start_command()
and atmci_submit_data(), all transfers seem to fail without this patch,
while I haven't seen any failures with this patch.Reported-by: Hein_Tibosch
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman
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While debugging another bug it was found that NetRom socks
are sometimes seen unorphaned in sk_free(). This patch moves
sock_orphan() in nr_release() to the beginning (like in ax25,
or rose).Reported-and-tested-by: Bernard Pidoux f6bvp
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Since we reverted 30902dc3cb0ea1cfc7ac2b17bcf478ff98420d74 ("ax25: Fix
std timer socket destroy handling.") we have to put some kind of fix
in to cure the issue whereby unaccepted connections do not get destroyed.The approach used here is from Tihomir Heidelberg - 9a4gl
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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This reverts commit 30902dc3cb0ea1cfc7ac2b17bcf478ff98420d74.
It causes all kinds of problems, based upon a report by
Bernard (f6bvp) and analysis by Jarek Poplawski.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the
kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the
debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold.Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel
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Stress-testing KVM's latest NMI support with kgdbts inside an SMP guest,
I came across spurious unhandled NMIs while running the singlestep test.
Looking closer at the code path each NMI takes when KGDB is enabled, I
noticed that kgdb_nmicallback is called twice per event: One time via
DIE_NMI_IPI notification, the second time on DIE_NMI. Removing the first
invocation cures the unhandled NMIs here.Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
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There is a bug in the BIOSes of some HP boxes with AMD Turions which
connects IO-APIC pins with ACPI thermal trip points in such a way that
if the state of the IO-APIC is not as expected by the (buggy) BIOS, the
thermal trip points are set to insanely low values (usually all of them
become 16 degrees Celsius). As a result, thermal throttling kicks in
and knock the system down to its shoes.Unfortunately some of the recent IO-APIC changes made the bug show up.
To prevent this from happening, blacklist machines that are known to be
affected (nx6115 and 6715b in this particular case).This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11516 listed as
a regression from 2.6.26.On my box it was caused by:
commit 691874fa96d6349a8b60f8ea9c2bae52ece79941
Author: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Tue May 27 21:19:51 2008 +0100x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A second-chance
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnarand the whole story is described in this (huge) thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121358440508410&w=4
Matthew Garrett told us about that happening on the nx6125:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121396307411930&w=4
and then Maciej analysed the breakage on the basis of a DSDT from the
nx6325:http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121401068718826&w=4
As far as the Dmitry's and Jason's boxes are concerned, I recognized the
symptoms and asked them to verify that the blacklisting helped.It appears that the buggy BIOS code has been copy-pasted to the entire
range of machines, for no good reason.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Tested-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Tested-by: Jason Vas Dias
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Oct, 2008
2 commits
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The new A-Link Bluetooth dongle is another one based on the BCM2046 chip
from Broadcom and it also needs to send HCI_Reset before it becomes fully
operational. Without the quirk it will show a lot of I/O errors.Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann
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Targus and Belkin have come out with new Bluetooth 2.1 capable dongles
using the latest BCM2046 chip from Broadcom. Both of them are so called
HID proxy dongles and they need to send HCI_Reset before they become
fully operational.Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann
