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WARNING: drivers/char/esp.o(.text+0x278): Section mismatch in reference from the function show_serial_version() to the variable .init.data:serial_version
The function show_serial_version() references
the variable __initdata serial_version.
This is often because show_serial_version lacks a __initdata
annotation or the annotation of serial_version is wrong.
WARNING: drivers/char/esp.o(.text+0x27d): Section mismatch in reference from the function show_serial_version() to the variable .init.data:serial_name
The function show_serial_version() references
the variable __initdata serial_name.
This is often because show_serial_version lacks a __initdata
annotation or the annotation of serial_name is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew J. Robinson <arobinso@nyx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mxser_check_modem_status is called with tty parameter, so the
reference should be increased by callers already -- for ioctl
syscall it is held whole time gap since open to close, for
interrupt, the reference count is increased in the irq handler.
There is no tty_kref_put in that function, so this also fixes
a refcounting bug.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is missing tty_kref_put on some paths in moxa_poll_port,
although the reference is always taken. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jan 'Yenya' Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The isicom driver leaks a kref on the shutdown path. Drop the additional
kref we took
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The riscom8 module is missing the char-major-48-* alias that would cause
it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This patch
adds the alias.
Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The specialix module is missing the char-major-75-* alias that would
cause it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This
patch adds the alias.
Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The cyclades module is missing the char-major-19-* alias that would
cause it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This
patch adds the alias.
Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The applicom module is missing the char-major-10-157 alias that would
cause it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This
patch adds the alias.
Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
function-graph: allow unregistering twice
trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
blktrace: extract duplidate code
blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
blktrace: make classic output more classic
blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
blktrace: fix the original blktrace
blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
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Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
include/linux/memory.h
kernel/extable.c
kernel/module.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
trivial: Update my email address
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: ixp4xx - Fix handling of chained sg buffers
crypto: shash - Fix unaligned calculation with short length
hwrng: timeriomem - Use phys address rather than virt
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c
Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225
Trim includes of fdtable.h
Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som
Trim includes in binfmt_elf
Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
New helper - current_umask()
check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
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We are wasting 2 words in signal_struct without any reason to implement
task_pgrp_nr() and task_session_nr().
task_session_nr() has no callers since
2e2ba22ea4fd4bb85f0fa37c521066db6775cbef, we can remove it.
task_pgrp_nr() is still (I believe wrongly) used in fs/autofsX and
fs/coda.
This patch reimplements task_pgrp_nr() via task_pgrp_nr_ns(), and kills
__pgrp/__session and the related helpers.
The change in drivers/char/tty_io.c is cosmetic, but hopefully makes sense
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu> [tty parts]
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hpet_calibrate() has a possibility of miss-calibration due to SMI. If SMI
interrupts in the while loop of calibration, then return value will be
big. This change calibrates until stabilizing by the return value with a
small value.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: trivial style tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Acked-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Robert Picco <Robert.Picco@hp.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for x8 asynchronous sample rate and ability to specify base
clock frequency.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Align rekey_work. Even though it's infrequent, we may as well line it up.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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filp->f_flags is unsigned, so use that type for the local copy.
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
include/linux/slub_def.h
lib/Kconfig.debug
mm/slob.c
mm/slub.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] cio: online_store - trigger recognition for boxed devices
[S390] cio: disallow online setting of device in transient state
[S390] cio: introduce notifier for boxed state
[S390] cio: introduce ccw_device_schedule_sch_unregister
[S390] cio: wake up on failed recognition
[S390] fix hypfs build failure
[PATCH] sysrq: include interrupt.h instead of irq.h
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Introduce keyed event wakeups inside the TTY code.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that the filesystem freeze operation has been elevated to the VFS, and
is just an ioctl away, some sort of safety net for unintentionally frozen
root filesystems may be in order.
The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but perhaps
something like this would be useful in emergencies.
For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your root filesystem if
you forgot that you had that unmounted.
I chose 'j' as the last remaining character other than 'h' which is sort
of reserved for help (because help is generated on any unknown character).
I've tested this on a non-root fs with multiple (nested) freezers, as well
as on a system rendered unresponsive due to a frozen root fs.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: emergency thaw only if CONFIG_BLOCK enabled]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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With "cpumask: update irq_desc to use cpumask_var_t"
we get this build failure on s390:
CC drivers/char/sysrq.o
In file included from drivers/char/sysrq.c:38:
include/linux/irq.h: In function 'init_alloc_desc_masks':
include/linux/irq.h:442: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/char/sysrq.c should include interrupt.h instead of irq.h.
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.
We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops
and ->data.
But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.
->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for
protection.
rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.
Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller.
So, let's nuke it.
Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Fix a lockdep warning in fasync_helper()
Add a missing unlock_kernel() in raw_open()
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The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:
The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the
beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an
obsolescent feature.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Conflicts:
sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-i2s.c
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This is a G33-like desktop and mobile chipset.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There is no ioremap'ing or anything in timeriomem-rng.c as I foolishly
used already remapped virtual addresses instead of passing the physical
address to be polled.
This patch fixes this flaw and lets developers do the Right Thing(tm).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Rationalize fasync return values
Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
Use f_lock to protect f_flags
Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
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* 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (32 commits)
x86: disable __do_IRQ support
sparseirq, powerpc/cell: fix unused variable warning in interrupt.c
genirq: deprecate obsolete typedefs and defines
genirq: deprecate __do_IRQ
genirq: add doc to struct irqaction
genirq: use kzalloc instead of explicit zero initialization
genirq: make irqreturn_t an enum
genirq: remove redundant if condition
genirq: remove unused hw_irq_controller typedef
irq: export remove_irq() and setup_irq() symbols
irq: match remove_irq() args with setup_irq()
irq: add remove_irq() for freeing of setup_irq() irqs
genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed running in hardirq context
irq: name 'p' variables a bit better
irq: further clean up the free_irq() code flow
irq: refactor and clean up the free_irq() code flow
irq: clean up manage.c
irq: use GFP_KERNEL for action allocation in request_irq()
kernel/irq: fix sparse warning: make symbol static
irq: optimize init_kstat_irqs/init_copy_kstat_irqs
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (81 commits)
[S390] remove duplicated #includes
[S390] cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper
[S390] cpumask: Use accessors code.
[S390] cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.
[S390] cpumask: remove cpu_coregroup_map
[S390] fix clock comparator save area usage
[S390] Add hwcap flag for the etf3 enhancement facility
[S390] Ensure that ipl panic notifier is called late.
[S390] fix dfp elf hwcap/facility bit detection
[S390] smp: perform initial cpu reset before starting a cpu
[S390] smp: fix memory leak on __cpu_up
[S390] ipl: Improve checking logic and remove switch defaults.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove needless check for NULL pointer.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove redundant initilizations.
[S390] use kzfree()
[S390] BUG to BUG_ON changes
[S390] zfcpdump: Prevent zcore from beeing built as a kernel module.
[S390] Use csum_partial in checksum.h
[S390] cleanup lowcore.h
[S390] eliminate ipl_device from lowcore
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (61 commits)
Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
dynamic debug: update docs
dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
driver core: fix passing platform_data
driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
driver core: move klist_children into private structure
driver core: create a private portion of struct device
driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
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Fixed conflicts in drivers/sh/maple/maple.c manually
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
crypto: Fix dead links
hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
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This patch introduces the kernel parameter hvc_iucv_allow= that specifies
a comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, the z/VM IUCV hypervisor console device driver accepts IUCV
connections from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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If the hvc_iucv= kernel parameter specifies a value that is not
valid, display an error message.
Minor changes to existing kernel messages.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of
vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace
uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless.
A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the
work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers:
$ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
real 0m1.142s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.540s
If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the
tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what
the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers:
$ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
real 0m0.152s
user 0m0.030s
sys 0m0.072s
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Randy Dunlap
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