Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We do *not* want to add some crazy "spin_is_nt_locked". We just want
> to get rid of these idiotic debug tests.
Generally, I think you are right, though there are also some checks in
deallocation routines that check that a spinlock is not currently held before
releasing t
Date: Thu Oct 11 17:32:41 2012 -0400
Subject: mn10300: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
Reported-by: Ken Cox
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
Acked-by: Al Viro
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch
5a8>] task_work_run+0x64/0x78
[<9010bda7>] ? sys_connect+0x5b/0x80
[<90002399>] do_notify_resume+0x53d/0x544
[<90067dc6>] ? fput+0xce/0xd4
[<90065117>] ? filp_close+0x5f/0x68
[<9007bba0>] ? __close_fd+0x7c/0xb0
[<900026c6>] work_notifysig+0xa/0xc
Signed
mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c:481: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c:481: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
---
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
.c: In function 'reset_ivb_igd':
drivers/pci/quirks.c:3133: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
---
arch/mn10300/include/asm/pci.h |2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/includ
Date: Thu Oct 11 17:32:41 2012 -0400
Subject: mn10300: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
Reported-by: Ken Cox
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
Acked-by: Al Viro
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch
5a8>] task_work_run+0x64/0x78
[<9010bda7>] ? sys_connect+0x5b/0x80
[<90002399>] do_notify_resume+0x53d/0x544
[<90067dc6>] ? fput+0xce/0xd4
[<90065117>] ? filp_close+0x5f/0x68
[<9007bba0>] ? __close_fd+0x7c/0xb0
[<900026c6>] work_notifysig+0xa/0xc
Signed
mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c:481: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c:481: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
---
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
.c: In function 'reset_ivb_igd':
drivers/pci/quirks.c:3133: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
---
arch/mn10300/include/asm/pci.h |2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/includ
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What kernel version are these patches against?
>
> You explicitly mention commit ddf23e87a804, but the patch contains
> ret_from_kernel_execve that was *removed* by that commit.
>
> So the whole thing seems very confused. I'm dropping this series.
Sorry about that. It
Date: Thu Oct 11 17:32:41 2012 -0400
Subject: mn10300: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
Reported-by: Ken Cox
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
Acked-by: Al Viro
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch
5a8>] task_work_run+0x64/0x78
[<9010bda7>] ? sys_connect+0x5b/0x80
[<90002399>] do_notify_resume+0x53d/0x544
[<90067dc6>] ? fput+0xce/0xd4
[<90065117>] ? filp_close+0x5f/0x68
[<9007bba0>] ? __close_fd+0x7c/0xb0
[<900026c6>] work_notifysig+0xa/0xc
Signed
mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c:481: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c:481: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
---
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/pci.c |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
.c: In function 'reset_ivb_igd':
drivers/pci/quirks.c:3133: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Ken Cox
---
arch/mn10300/include/asm/pci.h |2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/includ
Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Remove empty Kbuild files as they cause problems with the patch program
> > which removes files that become empty.
> >
> > Should I also remove include/Kbuild as that now does nothing? Or should
> > it be left as an anchor just in case we want it in future?
>
> I think
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Obviously, I thought you were referring to build-time operations.
I want to know whether I should extend my patch to remove include/Kbuild and
any refs to it.
> > so I don't see the problem.
>
> Well damn. I tested this a few days ago and a `make mrproper' didn't
> remov
Michal Marek wrote:
> > I want to know whether I should extend my patch to remove include/Kbuild and
> > any refs to it.
>
> make headers_install starts at include/uapi, so include/Kbuild is not
> needed. And new exported headers end up in inclde/uapi, so there will
> probably not be need for in
Michal Marek wrote:
> >>> I want to know whether I should extend my patch to remove include/Kbuild
> >>> and any refs to it.
> >>
> >> make headers_install starts at include/uapi, so include/Kbuild is not
> >> needed. And new exported headers end up in inclde/uapi, so there will
> >> probably not
Michal Marek wrote:
> The format only supports one signature, so discard any previous
> signature before signing the module.
That's not totally true. The format does not preclude multiple signatures.
You can just add another signature block on the end that signs everything
inside of that, inclu
Use ilog2() rather than __ffs() for calculating SEGMENT_SHIFT as ilog2() can
be worked out at compile time, whereas __ffs() must be calculated at runtime.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: Sarah Sharp
cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/usb/host/xhci.h |2
Rename SEGMENT_SIZE and SEGMENT_SHIFT as the former is used in a.out.h.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: Sarah Sharp
cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 16
drivers/usb/host/xhci.h |4 ++--
2 files changed, 10
Sarah Sharp wrote:
> I'm a little bit confused about your description for the second one.
> Did you need to change the #defines names because they could conflict
> with other drivers when the xHCI driver is built in? Or is there some
> other point I'm missing?
Sorry, I should say. I'm trying t
Hi Linus,
Looking at commit 13da9e200fe4740b02cd51e07ab454627e228920, I suspect the
answer will be no, but can we please revisit the use of __BYTE_ORDER in the
kernel?
The reason for this is that I've noticed a number of places in the UAPI
headers where __LITTLE_ENDIAN and __BIG_ENDIAN are assu
changing the actual userspace API.
David
---
David Howells (4):
UAPI: Fix endianness conditionals in linux/aio_abi.h
UAPI: Fix endianness conditionals in linux/acct.h
UAPI: Fix endianness conditionals in linux/raid/md_p.h
UAPI: Fix endianness conditionals in M32R's asm/stat.h
e little-endian variant on big-endian machines -
depending on header inclusion order.
[!!!] NOTE [!!!] This patch may adversely change the userspace API. It might
be better to fix the ordering of aio_key and aio_reserved1 in struct iocb.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: Benjamin LaHaise
cc: linu
- depending on header inclusion order.
[!!!] NOTE [!!!] This patch may adversely change the userspace API. It might
be better to fix the value of ACCT_BYTEORDER.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
---
include/uapi/linux/acct.h |6 --
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff
ttle-endian machines - depending on header inclusion
order.
[!!!] NOTE [!!!] This patch may adversely change the userspace API. It might
be better to fix the ordering of st_blocks and __pad4 in struct stat64.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: Hirokazu Takata
cc: linux-m...@ml.linux-m32r.org
cc: li
an variant on a little-endian machines - depending
on header inclusion order.
[!!!] NOTE [!!!] This patch may adversely change the userspace API. It might
be better to fix the ordering of events_hi, events_lo, cp_events_hi and
cp_events_lo in struct mdp_superblock_s / typedef mdp_super_t.
Signe
eciding whether to return.
Alternatively, the test could be done away with entirely as it is checked
inside the mutex - but since the mutex is global, that may not be the best way.
Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik
Signed-off-by: David Howells
---
security/keys/process_keys.c |2 +-
1 fi
ets application.
>
> Reported-by: David Howells
> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov
> Signed-off-by: Andy King
Acked-by: David Howells
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Greg KH wrote:
> David, is there any rush to get stuff like this into 3.9 for any
> uapi-type changes, or can it just wait for 3.10?
Not especially. It won't appear in userspace due to the __KERNEL__ guards.
David
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I've posted new versions of my module signing patches to my GIT trees.
>
> Now I get to punt this discussion to KS.
:-)
See you there!
Dmitry, Mimi: We should discuss if there's any way to integrate our two
approaches. Are you going to the security summit?
David
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> never freed. The duplicate code is removed from
> smack_setprocattr.
>
> Targeted for git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git
>
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler
Acked-by: David Howells
Note that I do have a patch to make Smack share rule lists - I've p
Alan Cox wrote:
> Why do this in the kernel.That appears to be completely insane.
A number of reasons:
(1) The UEFI signature/key database may contain ASN.1 X.509 certificates and
we may need to use those very early in the boot process, during initrd.
(2) Even if userspace is available,
David Howells wrote:
> > has it been fuzz tested extensively ?
Also, here's a generator of random binary ASN.1. I think it should mostly
produce valid X.509, but invalid ASN.1 is okay too.
Run with something like:
while :; do ./asn1random.pl | keyctl padd asymmetric vl
David Howells wrote:
> Also, here's a generator of random binary ASN.1. I think it should mostly
> produce valid X.509, but invalid ASN.1 is okay too.
> ...
> $len = 4; #
With this line removed, obviously...
David
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David Howells wrote:
> > has it been fuzz tested extensively ?
Here's a perl script to generate validly structured X.509 certificates with
random data in them. It can be run as follows:
while :; do ./x509random.pl | keyctl padd asymmetric vlad @s; done
and it can also
James Morris wrote:
> I'd like to see some serious effort at code review and testing before this
> code is merged.
With regard to testing, I've run multiple simultaneous instances of a number
of test scripts against it continuously for the best part of a day:
(1) A script to generate complete
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hence shouldn't we ask the gcc people what's the purpose of
> __builtin_expect(), if it doesn't live up to its promise?
__builtin_expect() is useful on FRV where you _have_ to give each branch and
conditional branch instruction a measure of probabil
Call update_process_times() outside of the xtime_lock. Somewhere somewhere
inside one of the functions called by that, xtime_lock is readlocked, which
ends up in a deadlock situation.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/time.c |4 +++-
1 files c
Introduce into the MN10300 gdbstub a couple of barrier() calls to replace the
removed volatility of the input/output index variables for the Rx ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-ttysm.c |2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions
rts a SIGABRT to the compiler and reports the
program counter at the original BUG, allowing the execution state at the time
of the BUG to be examined with GDB.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/traps.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+),
Update the ASB2303 default configuration.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/mn10300/configs/asb2303_defconfig | 33 +++-
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/configs/asb2303_defconfig
b/arch/m
Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> being see over vmlinux.lds for FRV architecture I found the string:
>
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
>
> though the PAGE_SIZE is 16K. Can't figure out why is that...
> Do you have a few spare minutes to explain,
These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS.
The patches can roughly be broken down into a number of sets:
(*) 01-keys-inc-payload.diff
(*) 02-keys-search-keyring.diff
(*) 03-keys-callout-blob.diff
Three patches to the keyring code made to help the CIFS peop
()
request_key_async()
request_key_async_with_auxdata()
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/keys-request-key.txt | 11 +---
Documentation/keys.txt | 14 +++---
include/linux/key.h|9 ---
security/keys/inte
ropriately (see set_security_override[_from_ctx]()).
NOTE! This patch must be rolled in to one of the earlier security patches to
make it compile fully.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfsd/auth.c| 37 +++-
fs/nfsd/nfs4
Provide an add_wait_queue_tail() function to add a waiter to the back of a
wait queue instead of the front.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/pagemap.h |7 +--
include/linux/wait.h|1 +
kernel/wait.c | 18
Change current->fs[ug]id to current_fs[ug]id() so that fsgid and fsuid can be
separated from the task_struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c|4 ++--
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c |4 ++--
drivers/
S != 2 */
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
new file mode 100644
index 000..497af5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* Credential management
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells ([EMAIL PRO
is given and
2) check whether that top-level keyring is the thing being searched for
Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
security/keys/keyring.c | 35 +++
1 files changed, 31 insert
Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS in the kernel
configuration.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/Kconfig |8
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index c42ec50..fa8e978 100644
--
checked when a new
NFS in-memory inode is set up that matches an already existing data storage
object in the cache. If the coherency data is the same, the on-disk object is
retained and used; if not, it is scrapped and a new one created.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
. The cachefilesd
daemon will nominate the security ID to be used.
The second vector is used to grant a process the right to nominate a file
creation label for a kernel service to use.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
security/selinux/include/av_perm_to_string.h
do the honours.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/readahead.c | 39 +--
1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index c9c50ca..75aa6b6 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
++
igned-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
security/keys/keyctl.c | 38 ++
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index d9ca15c..8ec8432 100644
--- a/security/keys/key
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/fscache.c | 131
fs/nfs/fscache.h | 19 +++
fs/nfs/inode.c | 39 --
include
must have view permission on the key for this function to be
successful.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/keys.txt | 21 +++
include/linux/keyctl.h |1 +
include/linux/security.h |
cache", won't end up
trying to share the on-disk cache. It will be possible to manually provide a
uniquifier through a mount option with a later patch to avoid the error
otherwise produced.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/fscache-index.c|
Add FS-Cache option bit to nfs_server struct. This is set to indicate local
on-disk caching is enabled for a particular superblock.
Also add debug bit for local caching operations.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/nfs_fs.h|1 +
include
hen made use of by
the generic hook in the next patch, which is used by CacheFiles to write
pages to a file without setting up a file struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/ext3/inode.c |6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -
make the checks for both
PG_private and PG_private_2 at the same time.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/splice.c|2 +-
include/linux/page-flags.h | 39 +--
include/linux/pagemap.h| 11 +++
mm/fil
Invalidate the FsCache page flags on the pages belonging to an inode when the
cache backing that NFS inode is removed.
This allows a live cache to be withdrawn.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/fscache-index.c | 40
1
key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (4).
The server object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/Makefile |2 +
fs/nfs/client.c |5 +++
f
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a
fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the
cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/read.c |4 ++--
include/linux/nfs_fs.h |2 ++
2 files c
Display the local caching state in /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/client.c |7 ---
fs/nfs/fscache.h | 15 +++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an
NFS inode.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/fscache.c | 112 ++
fs/nfs/fscache.h | 47 +++
fs/nfs/read.c
-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/pagemap.h |5 +
mm/filemap.c| 18 ++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index c8bd762..76b5307 100644
--- a/i
Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated
with that inode.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/fscache.c | 26 ++
fs/nfs/fscache.h | 16
fs/nfs/read.c|5 +
3 files chang
.
Supply a generic implementation for this that uses the write_begin() and
write_end() address_space operations to bind a copy directly into the page
cache.
Hook the Ext2 and Ext3 operations to the generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/ext2/inode.c
FS-Cache page management for NFS. This includes hooking the releasing and
invalidation of pages marked with PG_fscache (aka PG_private_2) and waiting for
completion of the write-to-cache flag (PG_fscache_write aka PG_owner_priv_2).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Add some new NFS I/O event counters for FS-Cache events. They have to be
added as byte counters because I may need to be able to increase the numbers
by more than 1 at a time.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/iostat.h |7 +++
1 files changed, 7 inse
Add read context retention so that FS-Cache can call back into NFS when a read
operation on the cache fails EIO rather than reading data. This permits NFS to
then fetch the data from the server instead using the appropriate security
context.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTEC
This one-line patch fixes the missing export of copy_page introduced
by the cachefile patches. This patch is not yet upstream, but is required
for cachefile on ia64. It will be pushed upstream when cachefile goes
upstream.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by:
ng and give
a warning into the kernel log.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/client.c |2 ++
fs/nfs/internal.h |1 +
fs/nfs/super.c| 25 +
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c
Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/Makefile|1 +
fs/nfs/fscache-index.c | 53
fs/nfs/fscache.h
Add comment banners to some NFS functions so that they can be modified by the
NFS fscache patches for further information.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/nfs/file.c | 26 ++
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --gi
Export a number of functions for CacheFiles's use.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/super.c |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 88811f6..1133b43 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -2
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There is no .data.idt section for FRV, so drop it from the linker script.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/frv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arc
Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam, maybe we should just eliminate this section at least for FRV?
You should have a patch in your inbox to do just that.
David
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From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There is no .data.idt section for FRV, so drop it from the linker script.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/frv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arc
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Change the FRV timerfd syscalls to be the same as i386 timerfd syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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arch/frv/kernel/entry.S |4 +++-
include/asm-frv/unistd.h |4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+),
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Change the FRV timerfd syscalls to be the same as i386 timerfd syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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arch/frv/kernel/entry.S |4 +++-
include/asm-frv/unistd.h |4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+),
Serge E. Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems *really* weird that every time you send this, patch 6 doesn't seem
> to reach me in any of my mailboxes... (did get it from the url
> you listed)
It's the largest of the patches, so that's not entirely surprising. Hence why
I included the URL t
The section .data.idt is not used at all - so drop it.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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vmlinux.lds.S |3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS.
>
> Have you got before/after benchmark results?
I need to get a new hard drive for my test machine before I can go and get
some more up to date benchmark results. It does seem, h
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you got before/after benchmark results?
See attached.
These show a couple of things:
(1) Dealing with lots of metadata slows things down a lot. Note the result of
looking and reading lots of small files with tar (the last result). The
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div(). Make it
instead hand 64-bit unsigned values. This gets rid of a couple of warnings.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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kernel/time/ntp.c |8
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Make is_vmalloc_addr() contingent on CONFIG_MMU=y, as it won't compile in !MMU
mode (commit 9e2779fa281cfda13ac060753d674bbcaa23367e).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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include/linux/mm.h |2 ++
1 files changed, 2
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix macro argument substitution in PageHead() and PageTail() - 'page' should
have brackets surrounding it (commit 6d7779538f765963ced45a3fa4bed7ba8d2c277d).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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include/linux/page-
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div(). Make it
instead hand 64-bit unsigned values. This gets rid of a couple of warnings.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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kernel/time/ntp.c |8
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div(). Make it
instead hand 64-bit unsigned values. This gets rid of a couple of warnings.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
kernel/time/ntp.c | 1
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] Make the kernel NTP code hand 64-bit *unsigned* values to
> do_div() [try #2]
Ignore try #2. I forgot to commit the changes before mailing.
David
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Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> do_div previously modified temp64 by side effect, now it no longer does
> that.
Good point.
David
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Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you say Ext3 cache vs NFS cache is the first on the server and the
> second on the client?
The filesystem on the server is pretty much irrelevant as long as (a) it
doesn't change, and (b) all the data is in memory on the server anyway.
The way t
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The way the client works is like this:
>
> Thanks for the excellent ascii art, that cleared up the confusion right
> away.
You know what they say about pictures... :-)
> > What are you trying to do exactly? Are you actually playing with it, or
> >
y could be calling it
> from irq context and if that happens while delayed_work_timer_fn()
> is running, it could deadlock. __cancel_delayed_work() users are
> dropped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> Acked-by: Dmitry
Hi Rusty,
I've fixed up my patch for ARM and pulled Jonas's patch on top of that. Do
you want me to merge them together?
David
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> Yep, thanks. And might as well sent them straight to Linus; since
> linux-next didn't catch this, there's little point baking them there if
> we have some acks.
>
> If he misses it, I'll grab them.
It might have to wait for the next merge window.
David
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