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2012-06-30Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver Core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality reported by Stephen and others. Yes, the changes seem a bit big this late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me. The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable kernel rules describing how some distro patches should be backported, to hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size" printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues
2012-06-25Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab. Trivial conflict due to new USB HID ID's being added next to each other (Baanto vs Axentia). * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (44 commits) [media] smia: Fix compile failures [media] Fix VIDIOC_DQEVENT docbook entry [media] s5p-fimc: Fix control creation function [media] s5p-mfc: Fix checkpatch error in s5p_mfc_shm.h file [media] s5p-mfc: Fix setting controls [media] v4l/s5p-mfc: added image size align in VIDIOC_TRY_FMT [media] v4l/s5p-mfc: corrected encoder v4l control definitions [media] v4l: mem2mem_testdev: Fix race conditions in driver [media] s5p-mfc: Bug fix of timestamp/timecode copy mechanism [media] cxd2820r: Fix an incorrect modulation type bitmask [media] em28xx: Show a warning if the board does not support remote controls [media] em28xx: Add remote control support for Terratec's Cinergy HTC Stick HD [media] USB: Staging: media: lirc: initialize spinlocks before usage [media] Revert "[media] media: mx2_camera: Fix mbus format handling" [media] bw-qcam: driver and pixfmt documentation fixes [media] cx88: fix firmware load on big-endian systems [media] cx18: support big-endian systems [media] ivtv: fix support for big-endian systems [media] tuner-core: return the frequency range of the correct tuner [media] v4l2-dev.c: fix g_parm regression in determine_valid_ioctls() ...
2012-06-25stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issuesMel Gorman
Distribution kernel maintainers routinely backport fixes for users that were deemed important but not "something critical" as defined by the rules. To users of these kernels they are very serious and failing to fix them reduces the value of -stable. The problem is that the patches fixing these issues are often subtle and prone to regressions in other ways and need greater care and attention. To combat this, these "serious" backports should have a higher barrier to entry. This patch relaxes the rules to allow a distribution maintainer to merge to -stable a backported patch or small series that fixes a "serious" user-visible performance issue. They should include additional information on the user-visible bug affected and a link to the bugzilla entry if available. The same rules about the patch being already in mainline still apply. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-20Merge tag 'staging-3.5-rc4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging Pull staging tree fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here are a number of small fixes for the drivers/staging tree, as well as iio and pstore drivers (which came from the staging tree in the 3.5-rc1 merge). All of these are tiny, but resolve issues that people have been reporting. There's also a documentation update to reflect what the iio drivers really are doing, which is good to get straightened out. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'staging-3.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: staging: r8712u: Add new USB IDs staging: gdm72xx: Release netlink socket properly iio: drop wrong reference from Kconfig pstore/inode: Make pstore_fill_super() static pstore/ram: Should zap persistent zone on unlink pstore/ram_core: Factor persistent_ram_zap() out of post_init() pstore/ram_core: Do not reset restored zone's position and size pstore/ram: Should update old dmesg buffer before reading staging:iio:ad7298: Fix linker error due to missing IIO kfifo buffer Revert "staging: usbip: bugfix for stack corruption on 64-bit architectures" staging: usbip: bugfix for stack corruption on 64-bit architectures staging/comedi: fix build for USB not enabled staging: omapdrm: fix crash when freeing bad fb staging:iio:ad7606: Re-add missing scale attribute iio: Fix potential use after free staging:iio: remove num_interrupt_lines from documentation iio: documentation: Add out_altvoltage and friends
2012-06-20Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (21 patches) mm/memblock: fix overlapping allocation when doubling reserved array c/r: prctl: Move PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS to a proper place pidns: find_new_reaper() can no longer switch to init_pid_ns.child_reaper pidns: guarantee that the pidns init will be the last pidns process reaped fault-inject: avoid call to random32() if fault injection is disabled Viresh has moved get_maintainer: Fix --help warning mm/memory.c: fix kernel-doc warnings mm: fix kernel-doc warnings mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec mm, thp: print useful information when mmap_sem is unlocked in zap_pmd_range h8300: use the declarations provided by <asm/sections.h> h8300: fix use of extinct _sbss and _ebss xtensa: use the declarations provided by <asm/sections.h> xtensa: use "test -e" instead of bashism "test -a" xtensa: replace xtensa-specific _f{data,text} by _s{data,text} memcg: fix use_hierarchy css_is_ancestor oops regression mm, oom: fix and cleanup oom score calculations nilfs2: ensure proper cache clearing for gc-inodes thp: avoid atomic64_read in pmd_read_atomic for 32bit PAE ...
2012-06-20Viresh has movedViresh Kumar
viresh.kumar@st.com email-id doesn't exist anymore as I have left the company. Replace ST's id with viresh.linux@gmail.com. It also updates .mailmap file to fix address for 'git shortlog' Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-18[media] Fix VIDIOC_DQEVENT docbook entryHans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-06-17hwmon: (coretemp) Document TjMax for 3rd generation i5/i7 processorsGuenter Roeck
Tjmax values from Intel datasheets. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2012-06-17hwmon: (coretemp) Add support for Atom D2000 and N2000 series CPU modelsGuenter Roeck
Document the Atom series D2000 and N2000 (Cedar Trail) as being supported. List and set TjMax for those series. Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2012-06-17hwmon: (coretemp) Improve support of recent Atom CPU modelsJean Delvare
Document the new Atom series (Tunnel Creek and Medfield) as being supported, and list TjMax for the Atom E600 series. Also enable the Atom tjmax heuristic for these Atom CPU models. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
2012-06-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
Pull networking fixes from David S. Miller: This has the fix for the wireless issues I ran into the other week as well as: 1) Fix CAN c_can driver transmit handling resulting in BUG check triggers, from AnilKumar Ch. 2) Fix packet drop monitor sleeping in atomic context, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Fix mv643xx_eth driver build regression, from Andrew Lunn. 4) Inetpeer freeing needs an RCU grace period in order to avoid races during tree invalidation. From Eric Dumazet. 5) Fix endianness bugs in xt_HMARK netfilter module, from Hans Schillstrom. 6) Add proper module refcounting to l2tp_eth to avoid crash on module unload, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Fix truncation of neighbour entry dumps due to logic errors in neigh_dump_info() and friends, from Eric Dumazet. 8) The conversion of fib6_age() to dst_neigh_lookup() accidently reversed the logic of a flags test, fix from Thomas Graf. 9) Fix checksum configuration in newer sky2 chips, from Stephen Hemminger. 10) Revert BQL support in NIU driver, doesn't work. 11) l2tp_ip_sendmsg() illegally uses a route without a proper reference. From Eric Dumazet. 12) be2net driver references an SKB after it's potentially been freed, also from Eric Dumazet. 13) Fix RCU stalls in dummy net driver init. Also from Eric Dumazet. 14) lpc_eth has several bugs in it's transmit engine leading to packet leaks and improper queue wakes, from Eric Dumazet. 15) Apply short DMA workaround to more tg3 chips, from Matt Carlson. 16) Add tilegx network driver. 17) Bonding queue mapping for a packet can get corrupted, fix from Eric Dumazet. 18) Fix bug in netpoll_send_udp() SKB management that can leave garbage in the payload in certain situations. From Eric Dumazet. 19) bnx2x driver interprets chip RX checksum offload incorrectly in encapsulation situations. Fix from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (75 commits) bnx2x: fix checksum validation netpoll: fix netpoll_send_udp() bugs bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping bonding:record primary when modify it via sysfs tilegx network driver: initial support tg3: Apply short DMA frag workaround to 5906 net: stmmac: Fix clock en-/disable calls lpc_eth: fix tx completion lpc_eth: add missing ndo_change_mtu() dummy: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls net: Reorder initialization in ip_route_output to fix gcc warning virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches r8169: avoid NAPI scheduling delay. net: Make linux/tcp.h C++ friendly (trivial) netdev: fix drivers/net/phy/ kernel-doc warnings net/core: fix kernel-doc warnings be2net: fix a race in be_xmit() l2tp: fix a race in l2tp_ip_sendmsg() mac80211: add back channel change flag NFC: Fix possible NULL ptr deref when getting the name of a socket ...
2012-06-11[media] bw-qcam: driver and pixfmt documentation fixesHans Verkuil
Fix the documentation of the Y4 and Y6 formats. Fix a poll() issue, add support for enum_frmsizes, set the proper parent device and fix a few compliance issues. Tested with an actual Connectix B&W parallel port webcam, both on a little-endian and a big-endian platform. This driver has never been so good, doing 320x240 at 1 frame per second :-) I know, nobody cares, but still it is cool that linux can still support this old webcam. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-06-11[media] V4L2 spec fixHans Verkuil
Two small docbook fixes: - prepare-buf was not positioned in alphabetical order, moved to the right place. - the format field in create_bufs had the wrong type in the documentation Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-06-11[media] v4l: Correct create_bufs documentationSakari Ailus
Patch id 6016af82eafcb6e086a8f2a2197b46029a843d68 ("[media] v4l2: use __u32 rather than enums in ioctl() structs") unintentionally changes the type of the format field in struct v4l2_create_buffers from struct v4l2_format to __u32. Revert that change. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-06-06stmmac: update driver's docGiuseppe CAVALLARO
Fixed the driver's documentation that was obsolete and didn't report new platform fields (recently added). Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-05Merge branch 'i2c-embedded/for-current' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux Pull embedded i2c update from Wolfram Sang: "This only contains one new driver which had multiple dependencies (pinctrl, i2c-mux-rework, new devm_* functions), so I decided to wait for rc1. Plus, it had to wait a little for the ack of a devicetree maintainer since the bindings were not trivial enough for me to pass through. So, given that, I hope there is still something like the "new driver rule", so we could have the driver in 3.5 and people can start using it. That would make merging support for some boards easier for 3.6 since the dependency on this driver is gone then." * 'i2c-embedded/for-current' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux: i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API
2012-06-04iio: documentation: Add out_altvoltage and friendsMichael Hennerich
Continuous frequency/clock generating devices, such as DDSs or PLLs should use out_altvoltage. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-04Merge tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with some changes to the existing backends." Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code changing a line next to the new frontswap entry. This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE users. Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it too. So in it goes. By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2) via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk * tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm: frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API mm: frontswap: config and doc files mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file
2012-06-04Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option is default off, well tested and non dangerous." * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol tick: Add tick skew boot option
2012-06-04i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl APIStephen Warren
This is useful for SoCs whose I2C module's signals can be routed to different sets of pins at run-time, using the pinctrl API. +-----+ +-----+ | dev | | dev | +------------------------+ +-----+ +-----+ | SoC | | | | /----|------+--------+ | +---+ +------+ | child bus A, on first set of pins | |I2C|---|Pinmux| | | +---+ +------+ | child bus B, on second set of pins | \----|------+--------+--------+ | | | | | +------------------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | dev | | dev | | dev | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2012-06-02Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon: "Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use." * tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata dm thin: use slab mempools dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
2012-06-03dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadataJoe Thornber
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This, read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the live target. Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status line will give the block location for the current msnap. Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows: thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev> Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things that have traditionally been kernel side tasks: i) Incremental backups. By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure the data doesn't change while we back it up. A short proof of concept script can be found here: https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another. iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin. iv) Asyncronous replication. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-06-02Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull straggler x86 fixes from Peter Anvin: "Three groups of patches: - EFI boot stub documentation and the ability to print error messages; - Removal for PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32 (obsolete interface which should never have been ported, and the port is broken and potentially dangerous.) - ftrace stack corruption fixes. I'm not super-happy about the technical implementation, but it is probably the least invasive in the short term. In the future I would like a single method for nesting the debug stack, however." * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, x32, ptrace: Remove PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32 x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support x86, efi: Only close open files in error path ftrace/x86: Do not change stacks in DEBUG when calling lockdep x86: Allow nesting of the debug stack IDT setting x86: Reset the debug_stack update counter ftrace: Use breakpoint method to update ftrace caller ftrace: Synchronize variable setting with breakpoints
2012-06-01Merge tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.5' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull fbdev updates from Florian Tobias Schandinat: - driver for AUO-K1900 and AUO-K1901 epaper controller - large updates for OMAP (e.g. decouple HDMI audio and video) - some updates for Exynos and SH Mobile - various other small fixes and cleanups * tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.5' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (130 commits) video: bfin_adv7393fb: Fix cleanup code video: exynos_dp: reduce delay time when configuring video setting video: exynos_dp: move sw reset prioir to enabling sw defined function video: exynos_dp: use devm_ functions fb: handle NULL pointers in framebuffer release OMAPDSS: HDMI: OMAP4: Update IRQ flags for the HPD IRQ request OMAPDSS: Apply VENC timings even if panel is disabled OMAPDSS: VENC/DISPC: Delay dividing Y resolution for managers connected to VENC OMAPDSS: DISPC: Support rotation through TILER OMAPDSS: VRFB: remove compiler warnings when CONFIG_BUG=n OMAPFB: remove compiler warnings when CONFIG_BUG=n OMAPDSS: remove compiler warnings when CONFIG_BUG=n OMAPDSS: DISPC: fix usage of dispc_ovl_set_accu_uv OMAPDSS: use DSI_FIFO_BUG workaround only for manual update displays OMAPDSS: DSI: Support command mode interleaving during video mode blanking periods OMAPDSS: DISPC: Update Accumulator configuration for chroma plane drivers/video: fsl-diu-fb: don't initialize the THRESHOLDS registers video: exynos mipi dsi: support reverse panel type video: exynos mipi dsi: Properly interpret the interrupt source flags video: exynos mipi dsi: Avoid races in probe() ...
2012-06-01Merge tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtdLinus Torvalds
Pull mtd update from David Woodhouse: - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2 - Updates to mxc_nand and gpmi drivers to support new boards and device tree - Improve consistency of information about ECC strength in NAND devices - Clean up partition handling of plat_nand - Support NAND drivers without dedicated access to OOB area - BCH hardware ECC support for OMAP - Other fixes and cleanups, and a few new device IDs Fixed trivial conflict in drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c due to added include files next to each other. * tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (75 commits) mtd: mxc_nand: move ecc strengh setup before nand_scan_tail mtd: block2mtd: fix recursive call of mtd_writev mtd: gpmi-nand: define ecc.strength mtd: of_parts: fix breakage in Kconfig mtd: nand: fix scan_read_raw_oob mtd: docg3 fix in-middle of blocks reads mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Slight cleanup of fixup messages mtd: add fixup for S29NS512P NOR flash. jffs2: allow to complete xattr integrity check on first GC scan jffs2: allow to discriminate between recoverable and non-recoverable errors mtd: nand: omap: add support for hardware BCH ecc ARM: OMAP3: gpmc: add BCH ecc api and modes mtd: nand: check the return code of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw' mtd: nand: remove 'sndcmd' parameter of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw' mtd: m25p80: Add support for Winbond W25Q80BW jffs2: get rid of jffs2_sync_super jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on sync jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on umount jffs2: remove lock_super mtd: gpmi: add gpmi support for mx6q ...
2012-06-01Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull slab updates from Pekka Enberg: "Mainly a bunch of SLUB fixes from Joonsoo Kim" * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node() slub: remove unused argument of init_kmem_cache_node() slub: fix a possible memory leak Documentations: Fix slabinfo.c directory in vm/slub.txt slub: fix incorrect return type of get_any_partial()
2012-06-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs changes from Al Viro. "A lot of misc stuff. The obvious groups: * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for all work in that area. * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in general. * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in mm/cleancache.c gone. * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user) * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts) * ->update_time() work from Josef. * other bits and pieces all over the place. Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/" Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the 'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby). * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits) nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open() vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp vfs: split __dentry_open() vfs: do_last() common post lookup vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe vfs: do_last(): use inode variable vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component() vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe vfs: split do_lookup() Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later ...
2012-06-01x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentationMatt Fleming
Since we can't expect every user to read the EFI boot stub code it seems prudent to have a couple of paragraphs explaining what it is and how it works. The "initrd=" option in particular is tricky because it only understands absolute EFI-style paths (backslashes as directory separators), and until now this hasn't been documented anywhere. This has tripped up a couple of users. Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331907517-3985-4-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-01fs: introduce inode operation ->update_timeJosef Bacik
Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify the inode, so updating time can fail. We've gotten around this by having our own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates. So introduce ->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and indicate which changes need to be made. The normal version just does what it has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then filesystems can choose to do something different. I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the generic fault path. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2012-05-31Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: - the "misc" tree - stuff from all over the map - checkpatch updates - fatfs - kmod changes - procfs - cpumask - UML - kexec - mqueue - rapidio - pidns - some checkpoint-restore feature work. Reluctantly. Most of it delayed a release. I'm still rather worried that we don't have a clear roadmap to completion for this work. * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 patches) kconfig: update compression algorithm info c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal() fs/nls: add Apple NLS pidns: make killed children autoreap pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv selftests: add mq_open_tests ...
2012-05-31c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to ↵Cyrill Gorcunov
/proc/$pid/stat We would like to have an ability to restore command line arguments and program environment pointers but first we need to obtain them somehow. Thus we put these values into /proc/$pid/stat. The exit_code is needed to restore zombie tasks. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entryCyrill Gorcunov
When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children the task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse parent->children chain from arbitrary <pid> (while a parent pid is provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status). So instead of walking over all pids in the system (creating one big process tree in memory, just to figure out which children a task has) -- we add explicit /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry, because the kernel already has this kind of information but it is not yet exported. This is a first level children, not the whole process tree. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum valueKOSAKI Motohiro
Commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed mqueue default value when attr parameter is specified NULL from hard coded value to fs.mqueue.{msg,msgsize}_max sysctl value. This made large side effect. When user need to use two mqueue applications 1) using !NULL attr parameter and it require big message size and 2) using NULL attr parameter and only need small size message, app (1) require to raise fs.mqueue.msgsize_max and app (2) consume large memory size even though it doesn't need. Doug Ledford propsed to switch back it to static hard coded value. However it also has a compatibility problem. Some applications might started depend on the default value is tunable. The solution is to separate default value from maximum value. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: report file/anon bit in /proc/pid/pagemapKonstantin Khlebnikov
This is an implementation of Andrew's proposal to extend the pagemap file bits to report what is missing about tasks' working set. The problem with the working set detection is multilateral. In the criu (checkpoint/restore) project we dump the tasks' memory into image files and to do it properly we need to detect which pages inside mappings are really in use. The mincore syscall I though could help with this did not. First, it doesn't report swapped pages, thus we cannot find out which parts of anonymous mappings to dump. Next, it does report pages from page cache as present even if they are not mapped, and it doesn't make that has not been cow-ed. Note, that issue with swap pages is critical -- we must dump swap pages to image file. But the issues with file pages are optimization -- we can take all file pages to image, this would be correct, but if we know that a page is not mapped or not cow-ed, we can remove them from dump file. The dump would still be self-consistent, though significantly smaller in size (up to 10 times smaller on real apps). Andrew noticed, that the proc pagemap file solved 2 of 3 above issues -- it reports whether a page is present or swapped and it doesn't report not mapped page cache pages. But, it doesn't distinguish cow-ed file pages from not cow-ed. I would like to make the last unused bit in this file to report whether the page mapped into respective pte is PageAnon or not. [comment stolen from Pavel Emelyanov's v1 patch] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31CodingStyle: add kmalloc_array() to memory allocatorsXi Wang
Add the new kmalloc_array() to the list of general-purpose memory allocators in chapter 14. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31Merge tag 'for-v3.5' of git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull battery updates from Anton Vorontsov: "A bunch of fixes for v3.5, nothing extraordinary." * tag 'for-v3.5' of git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6: (27 commits) smb347-charger: Include missing <linux/err.h> smb347-charger: Clean up battery attributes max17042_battery: Add support for max17047/50 chip sbs-battery.c: Capacity attr = remaining relative capacity isp1704_charger: Use after free on probe error ds2781_battery: Use DS2781_PARAM_EEPROM_SIZE and DS2781_USER_EEPROM_SIZE power_supply: Fix a typo in BATTERY_DS2781 Kconfig entry charger-manager: Provide cm_notify_event function for in-kernel use charger-manager: Poll battery health in normal state smb347-charger: Convert to regmap API smb347-charger: Move IRQ enabling to the end of probe smb347-charger: Rename few functions to match better what they are doing smb347-charger: Convert to use module_i2c_driver() smb347_charger: Cleanup power supply registration code in probe ab8500: Clean up probe routines ab8500_fg: Harden platform data check ab8500_btemp: Harden platform data check ab8500_charger: Harden platform data check MAINTAINERS: Fix 'F' entry for the power supply class max17042_battery: Handle irq request failure case ...
2012-05-31Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull final round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is primarily another round of driver updates (bnx2fc, qla2xxx, qla4xxx) including the target mode driver for qla2xxx. We've also got a couple of regression fixes (async scanning, broken this merge window and a fix to a long standing break in the scsi_wait_scan module)." * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (45 commits) [SCSI] fix scsi_wait_scan [SCSI] fix async probe regression [SCSI] be2iscsi: fix dma free size mismatch regression [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k17 [SCSI] qla4xxx: Capture minidump for ISP82XX on firmware failure [SCSI] qla4xxx: Add change_queue_depth API support [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix clear ddb mbx command failure issue. [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix kernel panic during discovery logout. [SCSI] qla4xxx: Correct early completion of pending mbox. [SCSI] fcoe, bnx2fc, libfcoe: SW FCoE and bnx2fc use FCoE Syfs [SCSI] libfcoe: Add fcoe_sysfs [SCSI] bnx2fc: Allocate fcoe_ctlr with bnx2fc_interface, not as a member [SCSI] fcoe: Allocate fcoe_ctlr with fcoe_interface, not as a member [SCSI] Fix dm-multipath starvation when scsi host is busy [SCSI] ufs: fix potential NULL pointer dereferencing error in ufshcd_prove. [SCSI] qla2xxx: don't free pool that wasn't allocated [SCSI] mptfusion: unlock on error in mpt_config() [SCSI] tcm_qla2xxx: Add >= 24xx series fabric module for target-core [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add LLD target-mode infrastructure for >= 24xx series [SCSI] Revert "qla2xxx: During loopdown perform Diagnostic loopback." ...
2012-05-31Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull follow-up block updates from Jens Axboe: "Includes the fix from Eric to resolve the infinite loop in looking up or creating an IO context for an exiting task. Also a bunch of mtip32xx patches. Fairly trivial stuff. It's fairly new though, but no point in keeping it out of the tree until 3.6 imho. I've thrown it through basic testing locally as well, works fine. The one contentious part is the patch that Greg complained about (sysfs file with multiple values, should be a debugfs file), which is perfectly valid, but not a regression from what the file contains now. That will be fixed up separately." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: avoid infinite loop in get_task_io_context() mtip32xx: Changes to sysfs entries mtip32xx: Convert macro definitions for flag bits to enum mtip32xx: minor performance tweak mtip32xx: Fix to support more than one sector in exec_drive_command() mtip32xx: Use plain spinlock for 'cmd_issue_lock' mtip32xx: Set block queue boundary variables mtip32xx: Fix to handle TFE for PIO(IOCTL/internal) commands mtip32xx: Change HDIO_GET_IDENTITY to return stored data mtip32xx: Set custom timeouts for PIO commands mtip32xx: fix clearing an incorrect register in mtip_init_port
2012-05-31Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
Pull networking changes from David S. Miller: 1) Fix IPSEC header length calculation for transport mode in ESP. The issue is whether to do the calculation before or after alignment. Fix from Benjamin Poirier. 2) Fix regression in IPV6 IPSEC fragment length calculations, from Gao Feng. This is another transport vs tunnel mode issue. 3) Handle AF_UNSPEC connect()s properly in L2TP to avoid OOPSes. Fix from James Chapman. 4) Fix USB ASIX driver's reception of full sized VLAN packets, from Eric Dumazet. 5) Allow drop monitor (and, more generically, all generic netlink protocols) to be automatically loaded as a module. From Neil Horman. Fix up trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt due to new entries added next to each other at the end. As usual. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (38 commits) net/smsc911x: Repair broken failure paths virtio-net: remove useless disable on freeze netdevice: Update netif_dbg for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG drop_monitor: Add module alias to enable automatic module loading genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias net: add MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME r6040: Do a Proper deinit at errorpath and also when driver unloads (calling r6040_remove_one) r6040: disable pci device if the subsequent calls (after pci_enable_device) fails skb: avoid unnecessary reallocations in __skb_cow net: sh_eth: fix the rxdesc pointer when rx descriptor empty happens asix: allow full size 8021Q frames to be received rds_rdma: don't assume infiniband device is PCI l2tp: fix oops in L2TP IP sockets for connect() AF_UNSPEC case mac80211: fix ADDBA declined after suspend with wowlan wlcore: fix undefined symbols when CONFIG_PM is not defined mac80211: fix flag check for QoS NOACK frames ath9k_hw: apply internal regulator settings on AR933x ath9k_hw: update AR933x initvals to fix issues with high power devices ath9k: fix a use-after-free-bug when ath_tx_setup_buffer() fails ath9k: stop rx dma before stopping tx ...
2012-05-31mtip32xx: Changes to sysfs entriesAsai Thambi S P
* Formatted the output of 'registers' entry * Added "Commands in Q' to output of 'registers' entry * Added a new entry 'flags' Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-05-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-clientLinus Torvalds
Pull ceph updates from Sage Weil: "There are some updates and cleanups to the CRUSH placement code, a bug fix with incremental maps, several cleanups and fixes from Josh Durgin in the RBD block device code, a series of cleanups and bug fixes from Alex Elder in the messenger code, and some miscellaneous bounds checking and gfp cleanups/fixes." Fix up trivial conflicts in net/ceph/{messenger.c,osdmap.c} due to the networking people preferring "unsigned int" over just "unsigned". * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (45 commits) libceph: fix pg_temp updates libceph: avoid unregistering osd request when not registered ceph: add auth buf in prepare_write_connect() ceph: rename prepare_connect_authorizer() ceph: return pointer from prepare_connect_authorizer() ceph: use info returned by get_authorizer ceph: have get_authorizer methods return pointers ceph: ensure auth ops are defined before use ceph: messenger: reduce args to create_authorizer ceph: define ceph_auth_handshake type ceph: messenger: check return from get_authorizer ceph: messenger: rework prepare_connect_authorizer() ceph: messenger: check prepare_write_connect() result ceph: don't set WRITE_PENDING too early ceph: drop msgr argument from prepare_write_connect() ceph: messenger: send banner in process_connect() ceph: messenger: reset connection kvec caller libceph: don't reset kvec in prepare_write_banner() ceph: ignore preferred_osd field ceph: fully initialize new layout ...
2012-05-30Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging Pull i2c updates from Jean Delvare. * 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: i2c: Split I2C_M_NOSTART support out of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING i2c-dev: Add support for I2C_M_RECV_LEN
2012-05-30Merge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdogLinus Torvalds
Pull second set of watchdog updates from Wim Van Sebroeck: "This changeset contains following changes: * Add support for multiple watchdog devices. We use dynamically allocated device id's for this. * Add locking into the generic watchdog infrastructure. * Add support for dynamically allocated watchdog_device structs so that we can deal with devices that get unbound. * convert following drivers to the generic watchdog framework: sch5627, sch5636 and sp805_wdt. * Add DA9052/53 PMIC watchdog support * Fix printk format warnings for iTCO_wdt.c" * git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog: watchdog: iTCO_wdt.c: fix printk format warnings watchdog: sp805_wdt: Add clk_{un}prepare support watchdog: sp805_wdt: convert to watchdog core hwmon/sch56xx: Depend on watchdog for watchdog core functions watchdog: sch56xx-common: set correct bits in register() Watchdog: DA9052/53 PMIC watchdog support watchdog: sch56xx-common: Add proper ref-counting of watchdog data watchdog: sch56xx: Remove unnecessary checks for register changes watchdog: sch56xx: Use watchdog core watchdog: Add support for dynamically allocated watchdog_device structs watchdog: Add Locking support watchdog: watchdog_dev: Rewrite wrapper code watchdog: use dev_ functions watchdog: create all the proper device files watchdog: Add a flag to indicate the watchdog doesn't reboot things watchdog: Add multiple device support watchdog: watchdog_core.h: make functions extern watchdog: correct the name of the watchdog_core inlude file watchdog: Add watchdog_active() routine watchdog: watchdog_dev: include private header to pickup global symbol prototypes
2012-05-30Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v3.5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: "Not much stuff this time. The only change to the IOMMU core code is the addition of a handle to the fault handling code. A few updates to the AMD IOMMU driver to work around new errata. The other patches are mostly fixes and enhancements to the existing ARM IOMMU drivers and documentation updates. A new IOMMU driver for the Exynos platform was also underway but got merged via the Samsung tree and is not part of this tree." * tag 'iommu-updates-v3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt Add amd_iommu_dump iommu/core: pass a user-provided token to fault handlers iommu/tegra: gart: Fix register offset correctly iommu: OMAP: device detach on domain destroy iommu: tegra/gart: Add device tree support iommu: tegra/gart: use correct gart_device iommu/tegra: smmu: Print device name correctly iommu/amd: Add workaround for event log erratum iommu/amd: Check for the right TLP prefix bit dma-debug: release free_entries_lock before saving stack trace
2012-05-30Merge branches 'iommu/fixes', 'dma-debug', 'arm/omap', 'arm/tegra', 'core' ↵Joerg Roedel
and 'x86/amd' into next
2012-05-30Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt Add amd_iommu_dumpShuah Khan
Add amd_iommu_dump to kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2012-05-30i2c: Split I2C_M_NOSTART support out of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLINGMark Brown
Since there are uses for I2C_M_NOSTART which are much more sensible and standard than most of the protocol mangling functionality (the main one being gather writes to devices where something like a register address needs to be inserted before a block of data) create a new I2C_FUNC_NOSTART for this feature and update all the users to use it. Also strengthen the disrecommendation of the protocol mangling while we're at it. In the case of regmap-i2c we remove the requirement for mangling as I2C_M_NOSTART is the only mangling feature which is being used. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2012-05-30Watchdog: DA9052/53 PMIC watchdog supportAshish Jangam
This driver adds support for the watchdog functionality provided by the Dialog Semiconductor DA9052 PMIC chip. Tested on samsung smdkv6410 and i.mx53 QS boards. Signed-off-by: Anthony Olech <Anthony.Olech@diasemi.com> Signed-off-by: Ashish Jangam <ashish.jangam@kpitcummins.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30watchdog: Add support for dynamically allocated watchdog_device structsHans de Goede
If a driver's watchdog_device struct is part of a dynamically allocated struct (which it often will be), merely locking the module is not enough, even with a drivers module locked, the driver can be unbound from the device, examples: 1) The root user can unbind it through sysfd 2) The i2c bus master driver being unloaded for an i2c watchdog I will gladly admit that these are corner cases, but we still need to handle them correctly. The fix for this consists of 2 parts: 1) Add ref / unref operations, so that the driver can refcount the struct holding the watchdog_device struct and delay freeing it until any open filehandles referring to it are closed 2) Most driver operations will do IO on the device and the driver should not do any IO on the device after it has been unbound. Rather then letting each driver deal with this internally, it is better to ensure at the watchdog core level that no operations (other then unref) will get called after the driver has called watchdog_unregister_device(). This actually is the bulk of this patch. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30watchdog: Add Locking supportHans de Goede
This patch fixes some potential multithreading issues, despite only allowing one process to open the /dev/watchdog device, we can still get called multiple times at the same time, since a program could be using thread, or could share the fd after a fork. This causes 2 potential problems: 1) watchdog_start / open do an unlocked test_n_set / test_n_clear, if these 2 race, the watchdog could be stopped while the active bit indicates it is running or visa versa. 2) Most watchdog_dev drivers probably assume that only one watchdog-op will get called at a time, this is not necessary true atm. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>