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  1. Oct 17, 2007
  2. Oct 16, 2007
  3. Jul 20, 2007
    • Paul Mundt's avatar
      mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). · 20c2df83
      Paul Mundt authored
      
      
      Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
      c59def9f change. They've been
      BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
      either.
      
      This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
      completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
      about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
      or the documentation references).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      20c2df83
  4. Jul 10, 2007
  5. May 21, 2007
    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      Detach sched.h from mm.h · e8edc6e0
      Alexey Dobriyan authored
      
      
      First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
      function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
      mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
      
      This patch
      a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
      b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
      c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
      d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
      e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
         getting them indirectly
      
      Net result is:
      a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
         they don't need sched.h
      b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
         on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
         after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
      
      Cross-compile tested on
      
      	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
      	alpha alpha-up
      	arm
      	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
      	ia64 ia64-up
      	m68k
      	mips
      	parisc parisc-up
      	powerpc powerpc-up
      	s390 s390-up
      	sparc sparc-up
      	sparc64 sparc64-up
      	um-x86_64
      	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
      
      as well as my two usual configs.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8edc6e0
  6. May 17, 2007
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR · a35afb83
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      
      SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
      Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a35afb83
  7. May 08, 2007
  8. May 07, 2007
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag · 50953fe9
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      
      I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
      SLAB.
      
      I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
      to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
      performed before each freeing of an object.
      
      I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
      before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
      manipulation of the object.
      
      Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
      compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
      handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
      SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
      in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
      use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
      same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).
      
      There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
      clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
      pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.
      
      This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
      unimplemented flags from SLUB.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50953fe9
  9. Feb 12, 2007
  10. Feb 11, 2007
    • Robert P. J. Day's avatar
      [PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros · 82ddcb04
      Robert P. J. Day authored
      Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical
      (and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files.
      
      based on a page at robert love's blog:
      
      	http://rlove.org/log/2005102601
      
      
      
      extend the set of shortcut macros defined in compiler-gcc.h with the
      following:
      
      #define __packed                       __attribute__((packed))
      #define __weak                         __attribute__((weak))
      #define __naked                        __attribute__((naked))
      #define __noreturn                     __attribute__((noreturn))
      #define __pure                         __attribute__((pure))
      #define __aligned(x)                   __attribute__((aligned(x)))
      #define __printf(a,b)                  __attribute__((format(printf,a,b)))
      
      Once these are in place, it's up to subsystem maintainers to decide if they
      want to take advantage of them.  there is already a strong precedent for
      using shortcuts like this in the source tree.
      
      The ones that might give people pause are "__aligned" and "__printf", but
      shortcuts for both of those are already in use, and in some ways very
      confusingly.  note the two very different definitions for a macro named
      "ALIGNED":
      
        drivers/net/sgiseeq.c:#define ALIGNED(x) ((((unsigned long)(x)) + 0xf) & ~(0xf))
        drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c:#define ALIGNED(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))
      
      also:
      
        include/acpi/platform/acgcc.h:
          #define ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE(c) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, c, c+1)))
      
      Given the precedent, then, it seems logical to at least standardize on a
      consistent set of these macros.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      82ddcb04
  11. Dec 08, 2006
  12. Dec 07, 2006
  13. Nov 16, 2006
    • Eric Sandeen's avatar
      [PATCH] hfs_fill_super returns success even if no root inode · d6ddf554
      Eric Sandeen authored
      http://kernelfun.blogspot.com/2006/11/mokb-14-11-2006-linux-26x-selinux.html
      
      
      
      mount that image...
      fs: filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only.
      hfs: get root inode failed.
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018
       printing eip
      ...
      EIP is at superblock_doinit+0x21/0x767
      ...
       [] selinux_sb_kern_mount+0xc/0x4b
       [] vfs_kern_mount+0x99/0xf6
       [] do_kern_mount+0x2d/0x3e
       [] do_mount+0x5fa/0x66d
       [] sys_mount+0x77/0xae
       [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
      DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call+0x7/0xb
      
      hfs_fill_super() returns success even if
        root_inode = hfs_iget(sb, &fd.search_key->cat, &rec);
      or
        sb->s_root = d_alloc_root(root_inode);
      
      fails.  This superblock finds its way to superblock_doinit() which does:
      
              struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
              struct inode *inode = root->d_inode;
      
      and boom.  Need to make sure the error cases return an error, I think.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: return -ENOMEM on oom]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d6ddf554
  14. Oct 01, 2006
  15. Sep 27, 2006
  16. Jun 30, 2006
  17. Jun 28, 2006
  18. Jun 23, 2006
    • Pekka Enberg's avatar
      [PATCH] read_mapping_page for address space · 090d2b18
      Pekka Enberg authored
      
      
      Add read_mapping_page() which is used for callers that pass
      mapping->a_ops->readpage as the filler for read_cache_page.  This removes
      some duplication from filesystem code.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      090d2b18
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry · 726c3342
      David Howells authored
      
      
      Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
      pointer.
      
      This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
      sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
      require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
      the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.
      
      linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
      successfully.
      
      Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      726c3342
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount · 454e2398
      David Howells authored
      
      
      Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
      permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.
      
      The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
      pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
      which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
      superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).
      
      The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
      superblock pointer.
      
      This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
      points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
      such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
      and mnt_sb would be set directly.
      
      The patch also makes the following changes:
      
       (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
           pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
           very little.
      
       (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
           normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
           always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().
      
       (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
           dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().
      
           This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
           aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
           currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
           and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
           dentries being left unculled.
      
           However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
           implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
           simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
           inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
           with child trees.
      
           [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.
      
       (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
           changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
      Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      454e2398
  19. Mar 28, 2006
  20. Mar 26, 2006
  21. Jan 19, 2006
  22. Jan 09, 2006
  23. Nov 09, 2005
    • Olaf Hering's avatar
      [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason · 733482e4
      Olaf Hering authored
      
      
      This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h.  The 3
      #defines are unused in most of the touched files.
      
      A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
      unfortunatly in linux/version.h.
      
      There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
      touched.  In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
      the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.
      
      quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`
      
      search pattern:
      /UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOlaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      733482e4
  24. Oct 28, 2005
    • Al Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] gfp_t: fs/* · 27496a8c
      Al Viro authored
      
      
       - ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated
       - missing gfp_t in fs/* added
       - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks:
         XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator.
         The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a
         different type for those but for now let's leave them alone.  That,
         BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had
         been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with
         no way to catch misuses.  Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that
         immediately...
      
      One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is
      a mix of gfp_t and error indications.  Left alone for now.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      27496a8c
  25. Sep 07, 2005
  26. Aug 02, 2005
  27. May 01, 2005
  28. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
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