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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.5-rc1 · f8f5701b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      f8f5701b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm · 912afc36
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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
      912afc36
    • Joe Thornber's avatar
      dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata · cc8394d8
      Joe Thornber authored
      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: default avatarJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      cc8394d8
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm thin: use slab mempools · a24c2569
      Mike Snitzer authored
      
      
      Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
      kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
      thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      a24c2569
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init · 35991652
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      
      
      After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
      need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
      the device.  Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.
      
      With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
      too.  The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.
      
      Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
      (that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
      milliseconds.
      
      Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
      to a path failure.  Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
      code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
      commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
      commands).  For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
      if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
      marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
      might fail too.  It can be determined if the failure happens on the
      device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
      SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      35991652
    • Mike Christie's avatar
      dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg · f220fd4e
      Mike Christie authored
      
      
      If I/O needs retrying and only bypassed priority groups are available,
      set the pg_init_delay_retry flag to wait before retrying.
      
      If, for example, the reason for the bypass is that the controller is
      getting reset or there is a firmware upgrade happening, retrying right
      away would cause a flood of log messages and retries for what could be a
      few seconds or even several minutes.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
      Acked-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      f220fd4e
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath · 1fbdd2b3
      Mike Snitzer authored
      
      
      Move multipath structure's 'lock' and 'queue_size' members to eliminate
      two 4-byte holes.  Also use a bit within a single unsigned int for each
      existing flag (saves 8-bytes).  This allows future flags to be added
      without each consuming an unsigned int.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      1fbdd2b3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 4fc3acf2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull networking updates from David Miller:
      
       1) Make syn floods consume significantly less resources by
      
          a) Not pre-COW'ing routing metrics for SYN/ACKs
          b) Mirroring the device queue mapping of the SYN for the SYN/ACK
             reply.
      
          Both from Eric Dumazet.
      
       2) Fix calculation errors in Byte Queue Limiting, from Hiroaki SHIMODA.
      
       3) Validate the length requested when building a paged SKB for a
          socket, so we don't overrun the page vector accidently.  From Jason
          Wang.
      
       4) When netlabel is disabled, we abort all IP option processing when we
          see a CIPSO option.  This isn't the right thing to do, we should
          simply skip over it and continue processing the remaining options
          (if any).  Fix from Paul Moore.
      
       5) SRIOV fixes for the mellanox driver from Jack orgenstein and Marcel
          Apfelbaum.
      
       6) 8139cp enables the receiver before the ring address is properly
          programmed, which potentially lets the device crap over random
          memory.  Fix from Jason Wang.
      
       7) e1000/e1000e fixes for i217 RST handling, and an improper buffer
          address reference in jumbo RX frame processing from Bruce Allan and
          Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, respectively.
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
        fec_mpc52xx: fix timestamp filtering
        mcs7830: Implement link state detection
        e1000e: fix Rapid Start Technology support for i217
        e1000: look into the page instead of skb->data for e1000_tbi_adjust_stats()
        r8169: call netif_napi_del at errpaths and at driver unload
        tcp: reflect SYN queue_mapping into SYNACK packets
        tcp: do not create inetpeer on SYNACK message
        8139cp/8139too: terminate the eeprom access with the right opmode
        8139cp: set ring address before enabling receiver
        cipso: handle CIPSO options correctly when NetLabel is disabled
        net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb()
        bql: Avoid possible inconsistent calculation.
        bql: Avoid unneeded limit decrement.
        bql: Fix POSDIFF() to integer overflow aware.
        net/mlx4_core: Fix obscure mlx4_cmd_box parameter in QUERY_DEV_CAP
        net/mlx4_core: Check port out-of-range before using in mlx4_slave_cap
        net/mlx4_core: Fixes for VF / Guest startup flow
        net/mlx4_en: Fix improper use of "port" parameter in mlx4_en_event
        net/mlx4_core: Fix number of EQs used in ICM initialisation
        net/mlx4_core: Fix the slave_id out-of-range test in mlx4_eq_int
      4fc3acf2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 63004afa
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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
      63004afa
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      tty: Revert the tty locking series, it needs more work · f309532b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts the tty layer change to use per-tty locking, because it's
      not correct yet, and fixing it will require some more deep surgery.
      
      The main revert is d29f3ef3 ("tty_lock: Localise the lock"), but
      there are several smaller commits that built upon it, they also get
      reverted here. The list of reverted commits is:
      
        fde86d31 - tty: add lockdep annotations
        8f6576ad - tty: fix ldisc lock inversion trace
        d3ca8b64 - pty: Fix lock inversion
        b1d679af - tty: drop the pty lock during hangup
        abcefe5f - tty/amiserial: Add missing argument for tty_unlock()
        fd11b42e - cris: fix missing tty arg in wait_event_interruptible_tty call
        d29f3ef3
      
       - tty_lock: Localise the lock
      
      The revert had a trivial conflict in the 68360serial.c staging driver
      that got removed in the meantime.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f309532b
    • Stephan Gatzka's avatar
      fec_mpc52xx: fix timestamp filtering · 9ca3cc6f
      Stephan Gatzka authored
      
      
      skb_defer_rx_timestamp was called with a freshly allocated skb but must
      be called with rskb instead.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephan Gatzka <stephan@gatzka.org>
      Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      9ca3cc6f
    • Ondrej Zary's avatar
      mcs7830: Implement link state detection · b1ff4f96
      Ondrej Zary authored
      Add .status callback that detects link state changes.
      Tested with MCS7832CV-AA chip (9710:7830, identified as rev.C by the driver).
      Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28532
      
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOndrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b1ff4f96
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge 'for-linus' branches from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{vfs,signal} · 233e562e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull vfs fix and a fix from the signal changes for frv from Al Viro.
      
      The __kernel_nlink_t for powerpc got scrogged because 64-bit powerpc
      actually depended on the default "unsigned long", while 32-bit powerpc
      had an explicit override to "unsigned short".  Al didn't notice, and
      made both of them be the unsigned short.
      
      The frv signal fix is fallout from simplifying the do_notify_resume()
      code, and leaving an extra parenthesis.
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
        powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
        frv: Remove bogus closing parenthesis
      233e562e
  5. Jun 02, 2012
    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit · 0fd7bee1
      Anton Blanchard authored
      commit e57f93cc
      
       (powerpc: get rid of nlink_t uses, switch to
      explicitly-sized type) changed the size of st_nlink on ppc64 from
      a long to a short, resulting in boot failures.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      0fd7bee1
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      frv: Remove bogus closing parenthesis · a3936249
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored
      Introduced by commit 6fd84c08
      
      
      ("TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK can be set only when TIF_SIGPENDING is set")
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      a3936249
    • Bruce Allan's avatar
      e1000e: fix Rapid Start Technology support for i217 · 6d7407bf
      Bruce Allan authored
      
      
      The definition of I217_PROXY_CTRL must use the BM_PHY_REG() macro instead
      of the PHY_REG() macro for PHY page 800 register 70 since it is for a PHY
      register greater than the maximum allowed by the latter macro, and fix a
      typo setting the I217_MEMPWR register in e1000_suspend_workarounds_ich8lan.
      
      Also for clarity, rename a few defines as bit definitions instead of masks.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarAaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
      6d7407bf
    • Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar
      e1000: look into the page instead of skb->data for e1000_tbi_adjust_stats() · 281a8f24
      Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
      
      
      This is another fixup where the data is not transfered into buffer
      addressed by skb->data but into a page.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
      Tested-by: default avatarAaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
      281a8f24
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixups for Andrew's patchbomb) · 829f51db
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge fixups for the mac NLS tables from Andrew.
      
      * emailed from Andrew Morton, and one cleanup by me:
        nls: fix (and rename) mac NLS table files and config options
        fs/nls/Makefile: remove bogus CONFIG_ assignments
      829f51db
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      nls: fix (and rename) mac NLS table files and config options · 8b8c0daa
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      The config options in the Kconfig file (with _CODEPAGE_ in the name)
      didn't match the config option name in the Makefile (no _CODEPAGE_).
      
      And both of them were of the hard-to-read MACXYZZY variety, which made
      them hard to parse for normal humans: MACROMAN easily reads as "macro
      man", not as "Mac Roman".
      
      So rename the options to be consistent, and be NLS_MAC_xyzzy.  Rename
      the files to be mac-xyzzy.c too, and drop the "nls" part entirely (it's
      already in the directory name).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8b8c0daa
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      fs/nls/Makefile: remove bogus CONFIG_ assignments · 92a89563
      Andrew Morton authored
      
      
      These were debug things which snuck through.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      92a89563
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.5' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6 · 804ce986
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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()
        ...
      804ce986
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd · f5e7e844
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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
        ...
      f5e7e844
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://cavan.codon.org.uk/platform-drivers-x86 · 48445159
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull x86 platform driver updates from Matthew Garrett:
       "Some significant improvements for the Sony driver on newer machines,
        but other than that mostly just minor fixes and a patch to remove the
        broken rfkill code from the Dell driver."
      
      * 'for_linus' of git://cavan.codon.org.uk/platform-drivers-x86: (35 commits)
        apple-gmux: Fix up the suspend/resume patch
        dell-laptop: Remove rfkill code
        toshiba_acpi: Fix mis-merge
        dell-laptop: Add touchpad led support for Dell V3450
        acer-wmi: add 3 laptops to video backlight vendor mode quirk table
        sony-laptop: add touchpad enable/disable function
        sony-laptop: add missing Fn key combos for 0x100 handlers
        sony-laptop: add support for more WWAN modems
        sony-laptop: new keyboard backlight handle
        sony-laptop: add high speed battery charging function
        sony-laptop: support automatic resume on lid open
        sony-laptop: adjust error handling in finding SNC handles
        sony-laptop: add thermal profiles support
        sony-laptop: support battery care functions
        sony-laptop: additional debug statements
        sony-laptop: improve SNC initialization and acpi notify callback code
        sony-laptop: use kstrtoul to parse sysfs values
        sony-laptop: generalise ACPI calls into SNC functions
        sony-laptop: fix return path when no ACPI buffer is allocated
        sony-laptop: use soft rfkill status stored in hw
        ...
      48445159
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux · af4f8ba3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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()
      af4f8ba3