simple_prepare_write leaks uninitialised kernel data. This happens because
the it leaves an uninitialised "hole" over the part of the page that the
write is expected to go to. This is fine, but it then marks the page
uptodate, which means a concurrent read can come in and copy the
uninitialised memory into userspace before it written to.
Fix it by simply marking it uptodate in simple_commit_write instead, after
the hole has been filled in. This could theoretically break an fs that
uses simple_prepare_write and not simple_commit_write, and that relies on
the incorrect simple_prepare_write behaviour. Luckily, none of those
exists in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch from Mohan Kumar M to add the ppc64 portions of the kdump
documentation.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/481689/focus=3375
Cc: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
hwmon/vt1211: Add probing of alternate config index port
hwmon/f71805f: Fix a race condition
hwmon/abituguru: Fix unchecked return status
hwmon: New driver for the Analog Devices ADM1029
hwmon/w83627ehf: Add support for the W83627DHG chip
hwmon: Use subsys_initcall
hwmon/lm70: Make lm70_remove a __devexit function
hwmon: Cleanup a bogus legacy comment
hwmon: Simplify the locking model of two drivers
hwmon: Drop unused mutexes in two drivers
hwmon/it87: Add PWM base frequency control
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
9p: implement optional loose read cache
9p: Use kthread_stop instead of sending a SIGKILL.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
Storage class should be before const qualifier
kernel/printk.c: comment fix
update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
kbuild: more doc. cleanups
doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
Fix typos concerning hierarchy
Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
Fix misspellings of "agressive".
drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
...
* 'acpi' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[PATCH] libata: wrong sizeof for BUFFER
[PATCH] libata: change order of _SDD/_GTF execution (resend #3)
[PATCH] libata: ACPI _SDD support
[PATCH] libata: ACPI and _GTF support
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (117 commits)
[ARM] 4058/2: iop32x: set ->broken_parity_status on n2100 onboard r8169 ports
[ARM] 4140/1: AACI stability add ac97 timeout and retries
[ARM] 4139/1: AACI record support
[ARM] 4138/1: AACI: multiple channel support for IRQ handling
[ARM] 4211/1: Provide a defconfig for ns9xxx
[ARM] 4210/1: base for new machine type "NetSilicon NS9360"
[ARM] 4222/1: S3C2443: Remove reference to missing S3C2443_PM
[ARM] 4221/1: S3C2443: DMA support
[ARM] 4220/1: S3C24XX: DMA system initialised from sysdev
[ARM] 4219/1: S3C2443: DMA source definitions
[ARM] 4218/1: S3C2412: fix CONFIG_CPU_S3C2412_ONLY wrt to S3C2443
[ARM] 4217/1: S3C24XX: remove the dma channel show at startup
[ARM] 4090/2: avoid clash between PXA and SA1111 defines
[ARM] 4216/1: add .gitignore entries for ARM specific files
[ARM] 4214/2: S3C2410: Add Armzone QT2410
[ARM] 4215/1: s3c2410 usb device: per-platform vbus_draw
[ARM] 4213/1: S3C2410 - Update definition of ADCTSC_XY_PST
[ARM] 4098/1: ARM: rtc_lock only used with rtc_cmos
[ARM] 4137/1: Add kexec support
[ARM] 4201/1: SMP barriers pair needed for the secondary boot process
...
Fix up conflict due to typedef removal in sound/arm/aaci.h
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (34 commits)
[POWERPC] 86xx: Cleaned up platform dts files
[POWERPC] 85xx: Renamed MPC8568 MDS board code to match other boards
[POWERPC] 85xx: Cleaning up machine probing
[POWERPC] QE: clean up ucc_slow.c and ucc_fast.c
[POWERPC] 85xx: Cleaned up platform dts files
[POWERPC] 83xx: Renamed MPC8323 MDS dts and defconfig to match other boards
[POWERPC] 83xx: Updated and renamed MPC8360PB to MPC836x MDS
[POWERPC] 83xx: Use of_platform_bus_probe to setup QE devices
[POWERPC] 83xx: use default value of loops_per_jiffy
[POWERPC] 83xx: Remove obsolete setting of ROOT_DEV.
[POWERPC] 83xx: Cleaning up machine probing and board initcalls
[POWERPC] Dispose irq mapping when done in mpc52xx_serial.c
[POWERPC] 86xx: Add missing of_node_put() in mpc86xx_hpcn_init_irq().
[POWERPC] 8[56]xx: Remove obsolete setting of ROOT_DEV for 85xx and 86xx platforms.
[POWERPC] pseries: Enabling auto poweron after power is restored.
[POWERPC] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives
[POWERPC] powerpc: remove references to the obsolete linux,platform property
[POWERPC] add of_get_mac_address and update fsl_soc.c to use it
[POWERPC] 83xx: Cleaned up 83xx platform dts files
[POWERPC] Fix bug with early ioremap and 64k pages
...
While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its
place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is
exclusive and/or read-only. The vacfs views of venti content addressable
store are a real-world instance of such a situation. To facilitate higher
performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches),
we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain
any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache. This results in over
two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads
in the Bonnie benchmark. The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems
to improve metadata operational performance.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Some people are confused about maxcpus=1 and maxcpus=0,
so put the documentation text from init/main.c into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt also.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Found a couple of typos in the Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
file. This patch fixes both of them.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Correct mis-spellings of "algorithm", "appear", "consistent" and
(shame, shame) "kernel".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size might
result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some platforms
(for example typical 32bit MIPS). Make it (and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE too)
customizable by "pci=" option for such platforms.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> spotted a brainfart where I had
failed to update copied text with *_remove and __devexit().
Marin made a good comment in his email to me:
| mydriver_probe() is _always_ executed, while mydriver_remove() is not.
| See: include/linux/init.h
Which says:
/* Functions marked as __devexit may be discarded at kernel link time, depending
on config options. Newer versions of binutils detect references from
retained sections to discarded sections and flag an error. Pointers to
__devexit functions must use __devexit_p(function_name), the wrapper will
insert either the function_name or NULL, depending on the config options.
*/
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Remove references to the linux,platform property from
booting-without-of.txt since it is obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
_GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive. It returns
a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to restore
it to boot up defaults.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
(cherry picked from 9c69cab24b51a89664f4c0dfaf8a436d32117624 commit)
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the
clockevents / tick-management framework. This provides accurate timers for
all hrtimer subsystem users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers. The code
which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared
between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks. The dyntick
functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline. Provide also the
infrastructure to support high resolution timers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the initial hrtimers.txt document to the new directory
"Documentation/hrtimers"
Add design notes for the high resolution timer and dynamic tick functionality.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Small updates to the GPIO documentation, addressing feedback and
fixing a few spelling errors.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The 'linux,boot-cpu' property is obsolete, so remove it from all of the DTS
files and from booting-without-of.txt. The boot CPU is actually defined in
the device tree header, and U-Boot sets that field. The device tree compiler
also complains if the property exists.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Let the user select the base PWM frequency when using the it87
hardware monitoring driver. Different frequencies can give better
control on some fans.
Also update the documentation to mention the PWM frequency control
files, with misc cleanups to the PWM section.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Update Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt
with the new directory layout.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The S3C2412 and S3C2413 are supported, so document
this as so
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Allow the CPU code, and any board specific initialisation
code to change the allocation order of the DMA channels,
or stop a peripheral allocating any DMA at-all.
This is due to the scarce mapping of DMA channels on
some earlier S3C24XX cpus, where the selection changes
depending on the channel in use.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This simple patch adds support to i2c-parport for the One For All remote
JP1 parallel port interfaces which can be found detailed at:
http://www.hifi-remote.com/jp1/hardware.shtml
These allow access to the internal configuration EEPROM on various
remote controls and there are a variety of Windows tools that make use
of this hardware. I have tested this patch with the "simple" parallel
port device and a One For All URC-7562 and confirmed that the data read
using the eeprom i2c driver matches that returned by the Windows "IR"
JP1 tool.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
We do not have any documentation for the CX700, but it was reported
to work fine. Thanks to Claas Langbehn for testing.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Driver model updates for the I2C core:
- Add new suspend(), resume(), and shutdown() methods. Use them in the
standard driver model style; document them.
- Minor doc updates to highlight zero-initialized fields in drivers, and
the driver model accessors for "clientdata".
If any i2c drivers were previously using the old suspend/resume calls
in "struct driver", they were getting warning messages ... and will
now no longer work. Other than that, this patch changes no behaviors;
and it lets I2C drivers use conventional PM and shutdown support.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Sometimes developers need to see more object code in an oops report,
e.g. when kernel may be corrupted at runtime.
Add the "code_bytes" option for this.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When a machine check event is detected (including a AMD RevF threshold
overflow event) allow to run a "trigger" program. This allows user space
to react to such events sooner.
The trigger is configured using a new trigger entry in the
machinecheck sysfs interface. It is currently shared between
all CPUs.
I also fixed the AMD threshold handler to run the machine
check polling code immediately to actually log any events
that might have caused the threshold interrupt.
Also added some documentation for the mce sysfs interface.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Fix typos.
Lots of whitespace changes for readability and consistency.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
- add SWIOTLB config help text
- mention Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- remove the duplication of the iommu kernel parameter documentation.
- Better explanation of some of the iommu kernel parameter options.
- "32MB<<order" instead of "32MB^order".
- Mention the default "order" value.
- list the four existing PCI-DMA mapping implementations of arch x86_64
- group the iommu= option keywords by PCI-DMA mapping implementation.
- Distinguish iommu= option keywords from number arguments.
- Explain the meaning of DAC and SAC.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Weiss <knweiss@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Update documentation to be consistent with current implementation
(backlight subsys and platform_device).
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Randy Dunlap