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2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3646): Added support for the new Lifeview hybrid cardbus modulesHartmut Hackmann4-0/+54
There seem to be many variants of this cards with different feature sets. This entry supports analog TV, CVBS and s-video input, FM radio and DVB-T if they are supported by the hardware. Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3645): Corrected CVBS input for the AVERMEDIA 777 DVB-THartmut Hackmann1-1/+1
The .vmux entry needs to be 1 instead of 0 Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3644): Added PCI IDs of 2 LifeView CardsHartmut Hackmann2-4/+16
Added ID entries for the Genius VideoWonder DVB-T and the LifeView FlyTV Platinum Gold Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3643): Fix default values for tvp5150 controlsMauro Carvalho Chehab1-4/+4
Default values were wrong. Fixing it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3639): Reduce FWSEND due to certain I2C bus adapter limitsMike Isely1-1/+11
The FWSEND parameter controls the size of the firmware chunks sent down the I2C bus to the chip. Previously this had been set to 1024 but unfortunately some I2C implementations can't transfer data in such big gulps. Specifically, the pvrusb2 driver has a hard limit of around 60 bytes, due to the encapsulation there of I2C traffic into USB messages. So we have to significantly reduce this parameter. Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3621): Fix camera key on FusionHDTV portable remote controlMichael Krufky1-5/+1
Thanks to: Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3620): Fix video-buf PCI wrappersRicardo Cerqueira1-3/+9
After the recent video-buf "generic" adaptation, the PCI wrappers got completely broken, and all of the DMA sound modules stopped working (and failed with an oops) Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3619): Whitespace cleanupMauro Carvalho Chehab1-12/+12
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3617): Cxusb: add support for FusionHDTV USB portable remote controlMichael Krufky1-0/+58
- Added keycodes for the DViCO FusionHDTV portable remote control. - Enabled the remote control for both versions of FusionHDTV DVB-T USB and the FusionHDTV 5 USB Gold (ATSC) Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3616): Bt8xx: select FW_LOADERmaximilian attems1-0/+1
The bt8xx drivers uses request_firmware() and thus needs to select FW_LOADER. Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3616a): cpia cleanupsRandy Dunlap1-7/+6
one printk needs a newline at end; better MODULE_PARM_DESC text formatting; don't need to init static data to 0; Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3615): Saa7134: select FW_LOADERmaximilian attems1-0/+1
The saa7134 drivers uses request_firmware() and thus needs to select FW_LOADER. Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3614): Fix compilation warning at powerpc platformMauro Carvalho Chehab4-5/+6
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3610): Added the new routing commands to cx25840.Hans Verkuil6-56/+87
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3609): Remove VIDIOC_S_AUDIO from tvaudio: no longer used.Hans Verkuil1-15/+0
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3608): Implement new routing commands in saa7127.cHans Verkuil2-25/+59
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3607): Implement routing command for saa7115.cHans Verkuil2-0/+78
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3606): Minor layout changes to make it consistentHans Verkuil1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02V4L/DVB (3605): Add support for I2C_HW_B_CX2341X board adapterHans Verkuil2-3/+7
- Add missing class check to tveeprom_attach_adapter. - Add CX2341X specific IR probe address list. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-03-31Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds2-7/+32
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] Allow 8250 PCI, PNP, GSC and HP300 support to be disabled
2006-03-31Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmcLinus Torvalds10-53/+1325
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc: [MMC] Pass -DDEBUG on compiler command line if MMC_DEBUG selected [MMC] Add OMAP MMC host driver
2006-03-31Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds14-234/+478
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3424/2: ixp23xx: fix uncompress.h for recent CRLF decompressor change [ARM] 3434/1: pxa i2s amsl define [ARM] 3425/1: xsc3: need to include pgtable-hwdef.h [ARM] Allow un-muxed syscalls to be available for everyone [ARM] 3420/1: Missing clobber in example code [ARM] nommu: fixups for the exception vectors [ARM] nommu: add nommu specific Kconfig and MMUEXT variable in Makefile [ARM] nommu: start-up code [ARM] nommu: MPU support in boot/compressed/head.S
2006-03-31Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds4-8/+403
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Avoid "u64 foo : 32;" for gcc3 vs. gcc4 compatibility [IA64] Export cpu cache info by sysfs
2006-03-31Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds20-156/+524
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] Fix typo in earlier cifs_unlink change and protect one [CIFS] Incorrect signature sent on SMB Read [CIFS] Fix unlink oops when indirectly called in rename error path [CIFS] Fix two remaining coverity scan tool warnings. [CIFS] Set correct lock type on new posix unlock call [CIFS] Upate cifs change log [CIFS] Fix slow oplock break response when mounts to different [CIFS] Workaround various server bugs found in testing at connectathon [CIFS] Allow fallback for setting file size to Procom SMB server when [CIFS] Make POSIX CIFS Extensions SetFSInfo match exactly what we want [CIFS] Move noisy debug message (triggerred by some older servers) from [CIFS] Use correct pid on new cifs posix byte range lock call [CIFS] Add posix (advisory) byte range locking support to cifs client [CIFS] CIFS readdir perf optimizations part 1 [CIFS] Free small buffers earlier so we exceed the cifs [CIFS] Fix large (ie over 64K for MaxCIFSBufSize) buffer case for wrapping [CIFS] Convert remaining places in fs/cifs from [CIFS] SessionSetup cleanup part 2 [CIFS] fix compile error (typo) and warning in cifssmb.c [CIFS] Cleanup NTLMSSP session setup handling
2006-03-31[CIFS] Fix typo in earlier cifs_unlink change and protect oneSteve French1-5/+7
extra path. Since cifs_unlink can also be called from rename path and there was one report of oops am making the extra check for null inode. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2006-03-31[CIFS] Incorrect signature sent on SMB ReadSteve French1-13/+23
Fixes Samba bug 3621 and kernel.org bug 6147 For servers which require SMB/CIFS packet signing, we were sending the wrong signature (all zeros) on SMB Read request. The new cifs routine to do signatures across an iovec was not complete - and SMB Read, unlike the new SMBWrite2, did not fall back to the older routine (ie use SendReceive vs. the more efficient SendReceive2 ie used the older cifs_sign_smb vs. the disabled cifs_sign_smb2) for calculating signatures. This finishes up cifs_sign_smb2/cifs_calc_signature2 so that the callers of SendReceive2 can get SMB/CIFS packet signatures. Now that cifs_sign_smb2 is supported, we could start using it in the write path but this smaller fix does not include the change to use SMBWrite2 when signatures are required (which when enabled will make more Writes more efficient and alloc less memory). Currently Write2 is only used when signatures are not required at the moment but after more testing we will enable that as well). Thanks to James Slepicka and Sam Flory for initial investigation. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2006-03-31Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds8-63/+117
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET]: Allow skb headroom to be overridden [TCP]: Kill unused extern decl for tcp_v4_hash_connecting() [NET]: add SO_RCVBUF comment [NET]: Deinline some larger functions from netdevice.h [DCCP]: Use NULL for pointers, comfort sparse. [DECNET]: Fix refcount
2006-03-31[PATCH] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stackJes Sorensen1-3/+5
Commit 70674f95c0a2ea694d5c39f4e514f538a09be36f: [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack resulted in the poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit architectures, causing misaligned accesses to elements in the array. This patch fixes it by declaring the stack in terms of 'long' instead of 'char'. Force alignment of poll and select stacks to long to avoid unaligned access on 64 bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds5-24/+22
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] libata: fix ata_xfer_tbl termination [PATCH] libata: make ata_qc_issue complete failed qcs [PATCH] libata: fix ata_qc_issue failure path [PATCH] ata_piix: fix ich6/m_map_db [libata] ahci: add ATI SB600 PCI IDs
2006-03-31[PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #7]David Howells1-0/+1913
The attached patch documents the Linux kernel's memory barriers. I've updated it from the comments I've been given. The per-arch notes sections are gone because it's clear that there are so many exceptions, that it's not worth having them. I've added a list of references to other documents. I've tried to get rid of the concept of memory accesses appearing on the bus; what matters is apparent behaviour with respect to other observers in the system. Interrupts barrier effects are now considered to be non-existent. They may be there, but you may not rely on them. I've added a couple of definition sections at the top of the document: one to specify the minimum execution model that may be assumed, the other to specify what this document refers to by the term "memory". I've made greater mention of the use of mmiowb(). I've adjusted the way in which caches are described, and described the fun that can be had with cache coherence maintenance being unordered and data dependency not being necessarily implicit. I've described (smp_)read_barrier_depends(). I've rearranged the order of the sections, so that memory barriers are discussed in abstract first, and then described the memory barrier facilities available on Linux, before going on to more real-world discussions and examples. I've added information about the lack of memory barriering effects with atomic ops and bitops. I've added information about control dependencies. I've added more diagrams to illustrate caching interactions between CPUs. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] wrong error path in dup_fd() leading to oopses in RCUKirill Korotaev1-1/+1
Wrong error path in dup_fd() - it should return NULL on error, not an address of already freed memory :/ Triggered by OpenVZ stress test suite. What is interesting is that it was causing different oopses in RCU like below: Call Trace: [<c013492c>] rcu_do_batch+0x2c/0x80 [<c0134bdd>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x3d/0x70 [<c0126cf3>] tasklet_action+0x73/0xe0 [<c01269aa>] __do_softirq+0x10a/0x130 [<c01058ff>] do_softirq+0x4f/0x60 ======================= [<c0113817>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x110 [<c0103b54>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x24 Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-Off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] mutex: some cleanupsNicolas Pitre2-30/+33
Turn some macros into inline functions and add proper type checking as well as being more readable. Also a minor comment adjustment. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in jsm_tty.cJesper Juhl1-12/+17
Decrease the number of pointer derefs in drivers/serial/jsm/jsm_tty.c Benefits of the patch: - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster. - Size of generated code is smaller - Improved readability Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: "V. ANANDA KRISHNAN" <mansarov@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] fs/namei.c: make lookup_hash() staticAdrian Bunk3-10/+1
As announced, lookup_hash() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] unexport get_wchanAdrian Bunk12-19/+0
The only user of get_wchan is the proc fs - and proc can't be built modular. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] md: Raid-6 did not create sysfs entries for stripe cacheNeilBrown1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] md: Remove some code that can sleep from under a spinlockNeilBrown1-5/+3
And remove the comments that were put in inplace of a fix too.... Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] md: Don't clear bits in bitmap when writing to one device fails during recoveryNeilBrown1-1/+12
Currently a device failure during recovery leaves bits set in the bitmap. This normally isn't a problem as the offending device will be rejected because of errors. However if device re-adding is being used with non-persistent bitmaps, this can be a problem. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] fbdev: Remove old radeon driverMichael Hanselmann3-3180/+0
This patch removes the old radeon driver which has been replaced by a newer one. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] fbcon: Fix big-endian bogosity in slow_imageblit()Antonino A. Daplas2-3/+1
The monochrome->color expansion routine that handles bitmaps which have (widths % 8) != 0 (slow_imageblit) produces corrupt characters in big-endian. This is caused by a bogus bit test in slow_imageblit(). Fix. This patch may deserve to go to the stable tree. The code has already been well tested in little-endian machines. It's only in big-endian where there is uncertainty and Herbert confirmed that this is the correct way to go. It should not introduce regressions. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] pxafb: Minor driver fixesRichard Purdie1-4/+4
Fixes for the pxafb driver: * Return -EINVAL for resolutions that are too large as per framebuffer driver policy. * Increase the error timeout for disabling the LCD controller. The current timeout is sometimes too short on the Sharp Zaurus Cxx00 hardware and an extra delay in an error path shouldn't pose any problems. * Fix a dev reference which causes a compile error when DEBUG is defined. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] backlight: corgi_bl: Generalise to support other Sharp SL hardwareRichard Purdie5-20/+21
Generalise the Corgi backlight driver by moving the default intensity and limit mask settings into the platform specific data structure. This enables the driver to support other Zaurus hardware, specifically the SL-6000x (Tosa) model. Also change the spinlock to a mutex (the spinlock is overkill). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] backlight: HP Jornada 680 Backlight driver updates/fixesRichard Purdie1-80/+59
Updates to the HP Jornada 680 Backlight driver: - Correct the suspend/resume functions so the driver compiles (SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN/RESUME_POWER_ON no longer exist). - Convert the driver to match the recent platform device changes. - Replace the unsafe static struct platform_device with dynamic allocation. - Convert the driver to the new backlight code. This has not been tested on a device due to lack of hardware but wouldn't compile beforehand. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] backlight: Backlight Class ImprovementsRichard Purdie3-101/+107
Backlight class attributes are currently easy to implement incorrectly. Moving certain handling into the backlight core prevents this whilst at the same time makes the drivers simpler and consistent. The following changes are included: The brightness attribute only sets and reads the brightness variable in the backlight_properties structure. The power attribute only sets and reads the power variable in the backlight_properties structure. Any framebuffer blanking events change a variable fb_blank in the backlight_properties structure. The backlight driver has only two functions to implement. One function is called when any of the above properties change (to update the backlight brightness), the second is called to return the current backlight brightness value. A new attribute "actual_brightness" is added to return this brightness as determined by the driver having combined all the above factors (and any driver/device specific factors). Additionally, the backlight core takes care of checking the maximum brightness is not exceeded and of turning off the backlight before device removal. The corgi backlight driver is updated to reflect these changes. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] w100fb: Add acceleration support to ATI ImageonAlberto Mardegan2-299/+611
Add acceleration support in w100fb.c (i.e. ATI Imageons) for the copyarea and fillrect operations. Signed-off-by: Alberto Mardegan <mardy@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] fbcon: Save current display during initializationAntonino A. Daplas1-0/+1
The current display was not saved during initialization. This leads to hard to track console corruption, such as a misplaced cursor, which is correctible by switching consoles. Fix this minor bug. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] dcache: Add helper d_hash_and_lookupEric W. Biederman2-16/+29
It is very common to hash a dentry and then to call lookup. If we take fs specific hash functions into account the full hash logic can get ugly. Further full_name_hash as an inline function is almost 100 bytes on x86 so having a non-inline choice in some cases can measurably decrease code size. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] pidhash: Refactor the pid hash tableEric W. Biederman4-90/+238
Simplifies the code, reduces the need for 4 pid hash tables, and makes the code more capable. In the discussions I had with Oleg it was felt that to a large extent the cleanup itself justified the work. With struct pid being dynamically allocated meant we could create the hash table entry when the pid was allocated and free the hash table entry when the pid was freed. Instead of playing with the hash lists when ever a process would attach or detach to a process. For myself the fact that it gave what my previous task_ref patch gave for free with simpler code was a big win. The problem is that if you hold a reference to struct task_struct you lock in 10K of low memory. If you do that in a user controllable way like /proc does, with an unprivileged but hostile user space application with typical resource limits of 1000 fds and 100 processes I can trigger the OOM killer by consuming all of low memory with task structs, on a machine wight 1GB of low memory. If I instead hold a reference to struct pid which holds a pointer to my task_struct, I don't suffer from that problem because struct pid is 2 orders of magnitude smaller. In fact struct pid is small enough that most other kernel data structures dwarf it, so simply limiting the number of referring data structures is enough to prevent exhaustion of low memory. This splits the current struct pid into two structures, struct pid and struct pid_link, and reduces our number of hash tables from PIDTYPE_MAX to just one. struct pid_link is the per process linkage into the hash tables and lives in struct task_struct. struct pid is given an indepedent lifetime, and holds pointers to each of the pid types. The independent life of struct pid simplifies attach_pid, and detach_pid, because we are always manipulating the list of pids and not the hash table. In addition in giving struct pid an indpendent life it makes the concept much more powerful. Kernel data structures can now embed a struct pid * instead of a pid_t and not suffer from pid wrap around problems or from keeping unnecessarily large amounts of memory allocated. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] task: RCU protect task->usageEric W. Biederman2-2/+7
A big problem with rcu protected data structures that are also reference counted is that you must jump through several hoops to increase the reference count. I think someone finally implemented atomic_inc_not_zero(&count) to automate the common case. Unfortunately this means you must special case the rcu access case. When data structures are only visible via rcu in a manner that is not determined by the reference count on the object (i.e. tasks are visible until their zombies are reaped) there is a much simpler technique we can employ. Simply delaying the decrement of the reference count until the rcu interval is over. What that means is that the proc code that looks up a task and later wants to sleep can now do: rcu_read_lock(); task = find_task_by_pid(some_pid); if (task) { get_task_struct(task); } rcu_read_unlock(); The effect on the rest of the kernel is that put_task_struct becomes cheaper and immediate, and in the case where the task has been reaped it frees the task immediate instead of unnecessarily waiting an until the rcu interval is over. Cleanup of task_struct does not happen when its reference count drops to zero, instead cleanup happens when release_task is called. Tasks can only be looked up via rcu before release_task is called. All rcu protected members of task_struct are freed by release_task. Therefore we can move call_rcu from put_task_struct into release_task. And we can modify release_task to not immediately release the reference count but instead have it call put_task_struct from the function it gives to call_rcu. The end result: - get_task_struct is safe in an rcu context where we have just looked up the task. - put_task_struct() simplifies into its old pre rcu self. This reorganization also makes put_task_struct uncallable from modules as it is not exported but it does not appear to be called from any modules so this should not be an issue, and is trivially fixed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] cleanup in proc_check_chroot()Herbert Poetzl1-5/+8
proc_check_chroot() does the check in a very unintuitive way (keeping a copy of the argument, then modifying the argument), and has uncommented sideeffects. Signed-off-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>