linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2007-02-12	[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3	Arjan van de Ven	1	-1/+1
	Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-07	Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write()	Oliver Neukum	1	-0/+1
	This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs. It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode. Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned. IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free associated data structures or be unloaded. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name> Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25	SYSFS: allow sysfs_create_link to create symlinks in the root of sysfs	Greg Kroah-Hartman	1	-2/+12
	This is needed to make the compatible link for /sys/block in the future. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20	[PATCH] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path	Greg Kroah-Hartman	1	-0/+1
	As pointed out by Oliver Neukum. Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20	[PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files	Maneesh Soni	1	-2/+3
	The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09	[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem	Jes Sorensen	1	-3/+2
	This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2005-08-19	Fix nasty ncpfs symlink handling bug.	Linus Torvalds	1	-3/+3
	This bug could cause oopses and page state corruption, because ncpfs used the generic page-cache symlink handlign functions. But those functions only work if the page cache is guaranteed to be "stable", ie a page that was installed when the symlink walk was started has to still be installed in the page cache at the end of the walk. We could have fixed ncpfs to not use the generic helper routines, but it is in many ways much cleaner to instead improve on the symlink walking helper routines so that they don't require that absolute stability. We do this by allowing "follow_link()" to return a error-pointer as a cookie, which is fed back to the cleanup "put_link()" routine. This also simplifies NFS symlink handling. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20	[PATCH] sysfs_{create\|remove}_link should take const char *	Dmitry Torokhov	1	-4/+4
	sysfs: make sysfs_{create\|remove}_link to take const char * name. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+180
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!