02 Nov, 2017
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Jul, 2017
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Presently, the order of the char devices listed in /proc/devices is not
entirely sequential. If a char device has a major number greater than
CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE (255), it will be ordered as if its major were
module 255. For example, 511 appears after 1.This patch cleans that up and prints each major number in the correct
order, regardless of where they are stored in the hash table.In order to do this, we introduce CHRDEV_MAJOR_MAX as an artificial
limit (chosen to be 511). It will then print all devices in major
order number from 0 to the maximum.Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Linus Walleij
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We've run into problems with running out of dynamicly assign char
device majors particullarly on automated test systems with
all-yes-configs. Roughly 40 dynamic assignments can be made with such
kernels at this time while space is reserved for only 20.Currently, the kernel only prints a warning when dynamic allocation
overflows the reserved region. And when this happens drivers that have
fixed assignments can randomly fail depending on the order of
initialization of other drivers. Thus, adding a new char device can cause
unexpected failures in completely unrelated parts of the kernel.This patch solves the problem by extending dynamic major number
allocations down from 511 once the 234-254 region fills up. Fixed
majors already exist above 255 so the infrastructure to support
high number majors is already in place. The patch reserves an
additional 128 major numbers which should hopefully last us a while.Kernels that don't require more than 20 dynamic majors assigned (which
is pretty typical) should not be affected by this change.Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Linus Walleij
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/4/107
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
21 Mar, 2017
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Credit for this patch goes is shared with Dan Williams [1]. I've
taken things one step further to make the helper function more
useful and clean up calling code.There's a common pattern in the kernel whereby a struct cdev is placed
in a structure along side a struct device which manages the life-cycle
of both. In the naive approach, the reference counting is broken and
the struct device can free everything before the chardev code
is entirely released.Many developers have solved this problem by linking the internal kobjs
in this fashion:cdev.kobj.parent = &parent_dev.kobj;
The cdev code explicitly gets and puts a reference to it's kobj parent.
So this seems like it was intended to be used this way. Dmitrty Torokhov
first put this in place in 2012 with this commit:2f0157f char_dev: pin parent kobject
and the first instance of the fix was then done in the input subsystem
in the following commit:4a215aa Input: fix use-after-free introduced with dynamic minor changes
Subsequently over the years, however, this issue seems to have tripped
up multiple developers independently. For example, see these commits:0d5b7da iio: Prevent race between IIO chardev opening and IIO device
(by Lars-Peter Clausen in 2013)ba0ef85 tpm: Fix initialization of the cdev
(by Jason Gunthorpe in 2015)5b28dde [media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits
after driver unbind
(by Shauh Khan in 2016)This technique is similarly done in at least 15 places within the kernel
and probably should have been done so in another, at least, 5 places.
The kobj line also looks very suspect in that one would not expect
drivers to have to mess with kobject internals in this way.
Even highly experienced kernel developers can be surprised by this
code, as seen in [2].To help alleviate this situation, and hopefully prevent future
wasted effort on this problem, this patch introduces a helper function
to register a char device along with its parent struct device.
This creates a more regular API for tying a char device to its parent
without the developer having to set members in the underlying kobject.This patch introduce cdev_device_add and cdev_device_del which
replaces a common pattern including setting the kobj parent, calling
cdev_add and then calling device_add. It also introduces cdev_set_parent
for the few cases that set the kobject parent without using device_add.[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/13/700
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/10/370Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
24 Aug, 2016
1 commit
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In support of enabling resize / truncate of device-dax instances, define
a pseudo-fs to provide a unified inode/address space for vm operations.Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
14 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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To fix super long dmesg error lines like
CHRDEV "dummy_stm.0" major number 224 goes below the dynamic allocation rangeCHRDEV "dummy_stm.1" major number 223 goes below the dynamic allocation rangeswapper: page allocation failure: order:8, mode:0x26040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOTRACK)
After fix, it should look like
CHRDEV "dummy_stm.0" major number 224 goes below the dynamic allocation range
CHRDEV "dummy_stm.1" major number 223 goes below the dynamic allocation range
swapper: page allocation failure: order:8, mode:0x26040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOTRACK)Reported-by: Philip Li
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
30 Mar, 2016
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Currently a dynamically allocated character device major is taken
from 254 and downward. This mechanism is used for RTC, IIO and a
few other subsystems.The kernel currently has no check prevening these dynamic
allocations from eating into the assigned numbers at 233 and
downward.In a recent test it was reported that so many dynamic device
majors were used on a test server, that the major number for
infiniband (231) was stolen. This occurred when allocating a new
major number for GPIO chips. The error messages from the kernel
were not helpful. (See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/14/124)This patch adds a defined lower limit of the dynamic major
allocation region will henceforth emit a warning if we start to
eat into the assigned numbers. It does not do any semantic
changes and will not change the kernels behaviour: numbers will
still continue to be stolen, but we will know from dmesg what
is going on.This also updates the Documentation/devices.txt to clearly
reflect that we are using this range of major numbers for dynamic
allocation.Reported-by: Ying Huang
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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The current documentation for unregister_chrdev_region says that it return
a range of device numbers which is incorrect. Instead it unregister a
range of device numbers. Fix the documentation to make this clear.Signed-off-by: Partha Pratim Mukherjee
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
21 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Brian Norris
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
11 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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At one place we assign major number we found to ret. That assignment is
then never used and actually doesn't make any sense given how the code is
currently structured (the assignment comes from pre-git times). Just
remove it.Coverity id: 1226852.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Alexander Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Pull block IO core updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the pull request for the core changes in the block layer for
3.13. It contains:- The new blk-mq request interface.
This is a new and more scalable queueing model that marries the
best part of the request based interface we currently have (which
is fully featured, but scales poorly) and the bio based "interface"
which the new drivers for high IOPS devices end up using because
it's much faster than the request based one.The bio interface has no block layer support, since it taps into
the stack much earlier. This means that drivers end up having to
implement a lot of functionality on their own, like tagging,
timeout handling, requeue, etc. The blk-mq interface provides all
these. Some drivers even provide a switch to select bio or rq and
has code to handle both, since things like merging only works in
the rq model and hence is faster for some workloads. This is a
huge mess. Conversion of these drivers nets us a substantial code
reduction. Initial results on converting SCSI to this model even
shows an 8x improvement on single queue devices. So while the
model was intended to work on the newer multiqueue devices, it has
substantial improvements for "classic" hardware as well. This code
has gone through extensive testing and development, it's now ready
to go. A pull request is coming to convert virtio-blk to this
model will be will be coming as well, with more drivers scheduled
for 3.14 conversion.- Two blktrace fixes from Jan and Chen Gang.
- A plug merge fix from Alireza Haghdoost.
- Conversion of __get_cpu_var() from Christoph Lameter.
- Fix for sector_div() with 64-bit divider from Geert Uytterhoeven.
- A fix for a race between request completion and the timeout
handling from Jeff Moyer. This is what caused the merge conflict
with blk-mq/core, in case you are looking at that.- A dm stacking fix from Mike Snitzer.
- A code consolidation fix and duplicated code removal from Kent
Overstreet.- A handful of block bug fixes from Mikulas Patocka, fixing a loop
crash and memory corruption on blk cg.- Elevator switch bug fix from Tomoki Sekiyama.
A heads-up that I had to rebase this branch. Initially the immutable
bio_vecs had been queued up for inclusion, but a week later, it became
clear that it wasn't fully cooked yet. So the decision was made to
pull this out and postpone it until 3.14. It was a straight forward
rebase, just pruning out the immutable series and the later fixes of
problems with it. The rest of the patches applied directly and no
further changes were made"* 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor
kernel: trace: blktrace: remove redundent memcpy() in compat_blk_trace_setup()
block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations
block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector()
block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list
block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device
elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization
block: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
bdi: test bdi_init failure
block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region
loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails
blk-core: Fix memory corruption if blkcg_init_queue fails
block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling
blktrace: Send BLK_TN_PROCESS events to all running traces
blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set
blk-mq: mq plug list breakage
blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock
...
08 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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There were two places where return value from bdi_init was not tested.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
25 Oct, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
22 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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In certain cases (for example when a cdev structure is embedded into
another object whose lifetime is controlled by a separate kobject) it is
beneficial to tie lifetime of another object to the lifetime of
character device so that related object is not freed until after
char_dev object is freed.To achieve this let's pin kobject's parent when doing cdev_add() and
unpin when last reference to cdev structure is being released.Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Acked-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Remove some minor whitespace errors (2 trailing spaces, and one space
needed for a comma) to make the file checkpatch.pl clean with the
exception of the exports, which is fine for now.Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
14 Jan, 2011
2 commits
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* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
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Commit 66fa12c571d3 ("ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack")
eliminated the only user of cdev_index(). So it can be removed too.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Stefan Richter
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
15 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Julia Lawall
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
22 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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These devices don't do any writeback but their device inodes still can get
dirty so mark bdi appropriately so that bdi code does the right thing and files
inodes to lists of bdi carrying the device inodes.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
07 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Make /dev/console get initialised before any initialisation routine that
invokes modprobe because if modprobe fails, it's going to want to open
/dev/console, presumably to write an error message to.The problem with that is that if the /dev/console driver is not yet
initialised, the chardev handler will call request_module() to invoke
modprobe, which will fail, because we never compile /dev/console as a
module.This will lead to a modprobe loop, showing the following in the kernel
log:request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1This can happen, for example, when the built in md5 module can't find
the built in cryptomgr module (because the latter fails to initialise).
The md5 module comes before the call to tty_init(), presumably because
'crypto' comes before 'drivers' alphabetically.Fix this by calling tty_init() from chrdev_init().
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c.
In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228 /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229 while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230 s[0] = '!';kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s]
Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (377 commits)
ASoC: au1x: PSC-AC97 bugfixes
ALSA: dummy - Increase MAX_PCM_SUBSTREAMS to 128
ALSA: dummy - Add debug proc file
ALSA: Add const prefix to proc helper functions
ALSA: Re-export snd_pcm_format_name() function
ALSA: hda - Use auto model for HP laptops with ALC268 codec
ALSA: cs46xx - Fix minimum period size
ASoC: Fix WM835x Out4 capture enumeration
ALSA: Remove unneeded ifdef from sound/core.h
ALSA: Remove struct snd_monitor_file from public sound/core.h
ASoC: Remove unuused hw_read_t
sound: oxygen: work around MCE when changing volume
ALSA: dummy - Fake buffer allocations
ALSA: hda/realtek: Added support for CLEVO M540R subsystem, 6 channel + digital
ASoC: fix pxa2xx-ac97.c breakage
ALSA: dummy - Fix the timer calculation in systimer mode
ALSA: dummy - Add more description
ALSA: dummy - Better jiffies handling
ALSA: dummy - Support high-res timer mode
ALSA: Release v1.0.21
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11 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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[un]register_chrdev() assume minor range 0-255. This patch adds __
prefixed versions which take @minorbase and @count explicitly.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai
13 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPTThis will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers. As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
07 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as
was allocated in structure. It seems it was not intended behaviour.At least chrdev_show does not like it.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Use a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
16 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Just always compile the code when the kernel is modular.
Convert load_nls to use try_then_request_module to tidy
up the code.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
21 Jun, 2008
2 commits
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All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own
lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one.Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
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I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before
understanding crept into my slow brain. Hopefully this makes life easier
for the next person to happen on it.Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
29 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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struct char_device_struct::fops is no longer used: remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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There is an outdated comment in serial_core.c also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jan, 2008
2 commits
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Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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unregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value. This patch makes it
return void like most unregister_* functions.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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Revert all this. It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from
earlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar,
apparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups.Which is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn't important
enough to justify the churn.Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
