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2005-11-28	[PATCH] Fix hardcoded cpu=0 in workqueue for per_cpu_ptr() calls	Ben Collins	1	-6/+6
	Tracked this down on an Ultra Enterprise 3000. It's a 6-way machine. Odd thing about this machine (and it's good for finding bugs like this) is that the CPU id's are not 0 based. For instance, on my machine the CPU's are 6/7/10/11/14/15. This caused some NULL pointer dereference in kernel/workqueue.c because for single_threaded workqueue's, it hardcoded the cpu to 0. I changed the 0's to any_online_cpu(cpu_online_mask), which cpumask.h claims is "First cpu in mask". So this fits the same usage. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07	[PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code	Heiko Carstens	1	-1/+1
	Replace smp_processor_id() with any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map) in order to avoid lots of "BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code:..." messages in case taking a cpu online fails. All the traces start at the last notifier_call_chain(...) in kernel/cpu.c. Since we hold the cpu_control semaphore it shouldn't be any problem to access cpu_online_map. The reason why cpu_up failed is simply that the cpu that was supposed to be taken online wasn't even there. That is because on s390 we never know when a new cpu comes and therefore cpu_possible_map consists of only ones and doesn't reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30	[PATCH] Use alloc_percpu to allocate workqueues locally	Christoph Lameter	1	-13/+20
	This patch makes the workqueus use alloc_percpu instead of an array. The workqueues are placed on nodes local to each processor. The workqueue structure can grow to a significant size on a system with lots of processors if this patch is not applied. 64 bit architectures with all debugging features enabled and configured for 512 processors will not be able to boot without this patch. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07	[PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc	Pekka J Enberg	1	-2/+1
	This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it. It saves a little program text. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07	[PATCH] create_workqueue_thread() signedness fix	Mika Kukkonen	1	-1/+1
	With "-W -Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare" I get the following compile warning: CC kernel/workqueue.o kernel/workqueue.c: In function `workqueue_cpu_callback': kernel/workqueue.c:504: warning: ordered comparison of pointer with integer zero On error create_workqueue_thread() returns NULL, not negative pointer, so following trivial patch suggests itself. Signed-off-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-10	[PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue	James Bottomley	1	-2/+0
	We have a chek in there to make sure that the name won't overflow task_struct.comm[], but it's triggering for scsi with lots of HBAs, only scsi is using single-threaded workqueues which don't append the "/%d" anyway. All too hard. Just kill the BUG_ON. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ kthread_create() uses vsnprintf() and limits the thing, so no actual overflow can actually happen regardless ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	[PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue	James Bottomley	1	-2/+3
	This was unexported by Arjan because we have no current users. However, during a conversion from tasklets to workqueues of the parisc led functions, we ran across a case where this was needed. In particular, the open coded equivalent of cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue was implemented incorrectly, which is, I think, all the evidence necessary that this is a useful API. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+555
	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!