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Alexey Dobriyan
e8edc6e03a Detach sched.h from mm.h
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: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b46522394d Revert "[PATCH] x86: Drop cc-options call for all options supported in gcc 3.2+"
This reverts commit c8fdd24725.

It turns out the kernel was correct, and the gcc complaint was a gcc
bug.  The preferred stack boundary is expressed not in bytes, but in the
the log2() of the preferred boundary, so "-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2"
is in fact exactly what we want, but a gcc that is compiled for x86-64
will consider it an error (because the 64-bit calling sequence says that
the stack should be 16-byte aligned) even if we are then using "-m32" to
generate 32-bit code.

Noted-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 20:18:11 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
bb49b32fec i386: don't check_pgt_cache in flush_tlb_mm
No other architecture calls check_pgt_cache() from within flush_tlb_mm(),
and i386 is already calling check_pgt_cache() from the usual places,
tlb_finish_mmu() and cpu_idle() (the latter being odd, but not unusual).
flush_tlb_mm() has no business to be freeing pages: remove that line, which
sneaked in with slub's i386 support.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:05 -07:00
Bernhard Walle
df652fe173 i386/x86-64: fix section mismatch
WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:mtrr_bp_init from .text between 'id entify_cpu' (at offset 0x6571)
and 'IRQ0x20_interrupt'

It's because identify_cpu() which is __cpuinit calls mtrr_bp_init() which is
__init(). __cpuinit() expands to nothing if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y and so the
call is illegal.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
28aa483f80 x86: Fix discontigmem + non-HIGHMEM compile
It's not necessarily a very sane configuration, but people running "make
randconfig" noticed it wouldn't compile.  This fixes some obvious
problems in discontig.c to allow a clean compile.

Acked-by: andrew hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-15 18:45:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1ca9bc4f2a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Correct revision mask for powernow-k8
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k7: fix MHz rounding issue with perflib
  [CPUFREQ] Support rev H AMD64s in powernow-k8
2007-05-15 12:10:00 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6a3ee3d552 i386: fix voyager build
This adds an smp_ops for voyager, and hooks things up appropriately.  This is
the first baby-step to making subarch runtime switchable.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.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>
2007-05-15 08:54:01 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
297d9c035e i386: move common parts of smp into their own file
Several parts of kernel/smp.c and smpboot.c are generally useful for other
subarchitectures and paravirt_ops implementations, so make them available for
reuse.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.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>
2007-05-15 08:54:00 -07:00
Dave Jones
99fbe1ac21 [CPUFREQ] Correct revision mask for powernow-k8
Mark Langsdorf points out that the correct define for this
revision bump is 0x80000.  Also to save us having to keep
renaming the #define, give it a more meaningful name.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-05-14 18:27:29 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
faa8b6c3c2 Revert "ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling"
This reverts commit f64da958df.

Andi Kleen is unhappy with the changes, and they really do not seem
worth it.  IPMI could use DIE_NMI_IPI instead of the new callback, even
though that ends up having its own set of problems too, mainly because
the IPMI code cannot really know the NMI was from IPMI or not.

Manually fix up conflicts in arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c and
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-14 15:24:24 -07:00
Daniel Drake
dc2585eb47 [CPUFREQ] powernow-k7: fix MHz rounding issue with perflib
When the PST tables are broken, powernow-k7 uses ACPI's processor_perflib to
deduce the available frequency multipliers from the _PSS tables.

Upon frequency change, processor_perflib performs some verification on the
frequency (checks that it's within allowable bounds).

powernow-k7 deals with absolute frequencies in KHz, whereas perflib only
deals with MHz values. When performing the above verification, perflib
multiplies the MHz values by 1000 to obtain the KHz value.

We then end up with situations like the following:
 - powernow-k7 multiplies the multiplier by the FSB, and obtains a value
   such as 1266768 KHz
 - perflib belives the same state has frequency of 1266 MHz
 - acpi_processor_ppc_notifier calls cpufreq_verify_within_limits to verify
   that 1266768 is in the allowable range of 0 to 1266000 (i.e. 1266 * 1000)
 - it's not, so that frequency is rejected
 - the maximum CPU frequency is not reachable

This patch solves the problem by rounding up the MHz values stored in perflib's
tables. Additionally it corrects a broken URL.

It also fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8255 although this
case is a bit different: the frequencies in the _PSS tables are wildly wrong,
but we get better results if we force ACPI to respect the fsb * multiplier
calculations (even though it seems that the multiplier values aren't entirely
correct either).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-05-13 17:25:13 -04:00
Dave Jones
30046e5885 [CPUFREQ] Support rev H AMD64s in powernow-k8
Reported-by: Calvin Dodge <caldodge@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-05-13 11:55:14 -04:00
Christoph Lameter
f1d1a842d8 SLUB: i386 support
SLUB cannot run on i386 at this point because i386 uses the page->private and
page->index field of slab pages for the pgd cache.

Make SLUB run on i386 by replacing the pgd slab cache with a quicklist.
Limit the changes as much as possible. Leave the improvised linked list in place
etc etc. This has been working here for a couple of weeks now.

Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-12 11:26:22 -07:00
Andi Kleen
fd0581bbb4 i386: Fix compilation of verify_cpu.S on old binutils
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11 12:53:00 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
fdb902b122 signal/timer/event: eventfd wire up x86 arches
This patch wires the eventfd system call to the x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11 08:29:37 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
57ac889850 signal/timer/event: timerfd wire up x86 arches
This patch wires the timerfd system call to the x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
2121e24bd8 signal/timer/event: signalfd wire up x86 arches
This patch wires the signalfd system call to the x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
5a18c92aab Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization"
This reverts commit c9ccf30d77.

Entering the kernel at startup_32 without passing our real mode data in
%esi, and without guaranteeing that physical and virtual addresses are
identity mapped makes head.S impossible to maintain.

The only user of this infrastructure is lguest which is not merged so
nothing we currently support will break by removing this over designed
nightmare, and only the pending lguest patches will be affected.  The
pending Xen patches have a different entry point that they use.

We are currently discussing what Xen and lguest need to do to boot the
kernel in a more normal fashion so using startup_32 in this weird manner is
clearly not their long term direction.

So let's remove this code in head.S before it causes brain damage to people
trying to maintain head.S

Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-10 09:26:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9a9136e270 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
  MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
  include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
  general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
  documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
  Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
  remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
  Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
  trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
  fix file specification in comments
  drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
  misc doc and kconfig typos
  Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
  Fix occurrences of "the the "
  Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
  Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
  Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
  Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
  Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
  Fix "deprecated" typoes.
  ...

Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
2007-05-09 12:54:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
21c42bd8db i386: cpu/transmeta.c: fix definition of USER686
The definition of USER686 is supposed to be a mask of feature bits,
not an OR of feature numbers!  It happened to work anyway on the only
processor affected, simply by pure coincidence.  Fix.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:49:33 -07:00
David Rientjes
affd872ebb i386: voyager: use __maybe_unused
Replace automatic variable instances of __attribute__((unused)) with
__maybe_unused in mca_nmi_hook().

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:57 -07:00
David Rientjes
f6744c02bc i386 pci: use __maybe_unused
Use the new macro here

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Roman Zippel
c9f4f06d31 wrap access to thread_info
Recently a few direct accesses to the thread_info in the task structure snuck
back, so this wraps them with the appropriate wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
455c017ae3 microcode: use suspend-related CPU hotplug notifications
Make the microcode driver use the suspend-related CPU hotplug notifications
to handle the CPU hotplug events occuring during system-wide suspend and
resume transitions.  Remove the global variable suspend_cpu_hotplug
previously used for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8bb7844286 Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
a36166c6ef Use the APIC to determine the hardware processor id - i386
hard_smp_processor_id used to be just a macro that hard-coded
hard_smp_processor_id to 0 in the non SMP case.  When booting non SMP kernels
on hardware where the boot ioapic id is not 0 this turns out to be a problem.
This is happens frequently in the case of kdump and once in a great while in
the case of real hardware.

Use the APIC to determine the hardware processor id in both UP and SMP kernels
to fix this issue.

Notice that hard_smp_processor_id is only used by SMP code or by code that
works with apics so we do not need to handle the case when apics are not
present and hard_smp_processor_id should never be called there.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:48 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
5886269962 fix file specification in comments
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:58:16 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
fd2dbc92e3 Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
Fix a couple grammatical errors in arch/i386/Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 07:23:41 +02:00
David Sterba
3dde6ad8fc Fix trivial typos in Kconfig* files
Fix several typos in help text in Kconfig* files.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 07:12:20 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
01e73be3c8 Revert "fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled"
This reverts commit 464bdd33e9.

Peter Anvin correctly points out that VESA modes have nothing to do with
frame buffers per se - they are often just regular extended text modes.
Disabling them just because we don't have frame buffer support is very
wrong.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 20:12:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
36f021b579 Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (32 commits)
  Use menuconfig objects - hwmon
  hwmon/smsc47b397: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/smsc47b397: Convert to a platform driver
  hwmon/w83781d: Deprecate W83627HF support
  hwmon/w83781d: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/w83781d: Be less i2c_client-centric
  hwmon/w83781d: Clean up conversion macros
  hwmon/w83781d: No longer use i2c-isa
  hwmon/ams: Do not print error on systems without apple motion sensor
  hwmon/ams: Fix I2C read retry logic
  hwmon: New AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418 driver
  hwmon/coretemp: Add documentation
  hwmon: New coretemp driver
  i386: Use functions from library in msr driver
  i386: Add safe variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu
  hwmon/lm75: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/lm78: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/lm78: Be less i2c_client-centric
  hwmon/lm78: No longer use i2c-isa
  hwmon: New max6650 driver
  ...
2007-05-08 12:07:28 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas
464bdd33e9 fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled
If the option vga=<VESA graphics mode> is added to the boot parameter, it will
activate graphics mode, but without any framebuffer support, the user is left
with an unusable display.

Change the behavior such that the user is instead prompted for another mode
(ala vga=ask).

NOTE: People can always use vbetool to set a graphics mode if this is really
desired, but the number of people doing this approaches zero.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:26 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
7e92b4fc34 x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices
Make x86 COM ports into platform devices and don't probe for them
if we have PNP.

This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by
the legacy probe and by 8250_pnp, e.g.,

    serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

This also means IRDA devices without a UART PNP ID will no longer be
claimed by the serial driver, which might require changes in IRDA
drivers and administration.

In addition to this patch, you may need to configure a setserial init
script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, so it doesn't poke legacy UART
stuff back in.  On Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure setserial" with the "kernel"
option does this.

To force the old legacy probe behavior even when we have PNPBIOS or
ACPI, load the new legacy_serial module (or build 8250 static) with
the "legacy_serial.force" option.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix makefiles]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:23 -07:00
Bernhard Walle
b34942fed0 Add IRQF_IRQPOLL flag on i386
Add IRQF_IRQPOLL to timer interrupts on i386.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:22 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
bf8f6e5b3e Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs
This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off

o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
  not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but
  not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case.
o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones
  registered in the intervening period) will be enabled
o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally
  enabled or not.
o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there
  also update the doc to make it current.

We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling
feature provided by this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels]
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390]
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
4c4308cb93 kprobes: kretprobes simplifications
- consolidate duplicate code in all arch_prepare_kretprobe instances
   into common code
 - replace various odd helpers that use hlist_for_each_entry to get
   the first elemenet of a list with either a hlist_for_each_entry_save
   or an opencoded access to the first element in the caller
 - inline add_rp_inst into it's only remaining caller
 - use kretprobe_inst_table_head instead of opencoding it

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
Ulrich Drepper
1c710c896e utimensat implementation
Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in that it

a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime or mtime
d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along the lines
   of the BSD lutimes(3) functions

For this change the internally used do_utimes() functions was changed to
accept a timespec time value and an additional flags parameter.

Additionally the sys_utime function was changed to match compat_sys_utime
which already use do_utimes instead of duplicating the work.

Also, the completely missing futimensat() functionality is added.  We have
such a function in glibc but we have to resort to using /proc/self/fd/* which
not everybody likes (chroot etc).

Test application (the syscall number will need per-arch editing):

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <syscall.h>

#define __NR_utimensat 280

#define UTIME_NOW       ((1l << 30) - 1l)
#define UTIME_OMIT      ((1l << 30) - 2l)

int
main(void)
{
  int status = 0;

  int fd = open("ttt", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666);
  if (fd == -1)
    error (1, errno, "failed to create test file \"ttt\"");

  struct stat64 st1;
  if (fstat64 (fd, &st1) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  struct timespec t[2];
  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  struct stat64 st2;
  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("atim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("mtim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  t[0] = st1.st_atim;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
    {
      puts ("atim not set");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("mtim changed from zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
  t[1] = st1.st_mtim;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
    {
      puts ("mtim changed from original time");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != st1.st_mtim.tv_nsec)
    {
      puts ("mtim not set");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  sleep (2);

  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  struct timeval tv;
  gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec <= st1.st_atim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_atim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
    {
      puts ("atim not set to NOW");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec <= st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_mtim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
    {
      puts ("mtim not set to NOW");
      status = 1;
    }

  if (symlink ("ttt", "tttsym") != 0)
    error (1, errno, "cannot create symlink");

  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "tttsym", t, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (lstat64 ("tttsym", &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "lstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("symlink atim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("symlink mtim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  t[0].tv_sec = 1;
  t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
  t[1].tv_sec = 1;
  t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, fd, NULL, t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("atim not reset to one");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("mtim not reset to one");
      status = 1;
    }

  if (status == 0)
     puts ("all OK");

 out:
  close (fd);
  unlink ("ttt");
  unlink ("tttsym");

  return status;
}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:18 -07:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
b247e8aaf2 dma_declare_coherent_memory wrong allocation
dma_declare_coherent_memory() allocates a bitmap 1 bit per page, it
calculates the bitmap size based on size of long, but allocates bytes...
Thanks to James Bottomley for clarifications and corrections.

Signed-off-by: G. Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.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>
2007-05-08 11:15:14 -07:00
Alan Cox
c991938018 apm: fix incorrect comment
HZ has not always been 100Hz for some time.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
873ec74615 EFI: warn only for pre-1.00 system tables
We used to warn unless the EFI system table major revision was exactly 1.
But EFI 2.00 firmware is starting to appear, and the 2.00 changes don't
affect anything in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
0f95b7fc83 Kprobes: print details of kretprobe on assertion failure
In certain cases like when the real return address can't be found or when
the number of tracked calls to a kretprobed function is less than the
number of returns, we may not be able to find the correct return address
after processing a kretprobe.  Currently we just do a BUG_ON, but no
information is provided about the actual failing kretprobe.

Print out details of the kretprobe before calling BUG().

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
1eeb66a1bb move die notifier handling to common code
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)

arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
Corey Minyard
f64da958df ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an
NMI.  This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs
and if it has an NMI post processing call.  Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog
to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in.

It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:14:58 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
0e6b9c98be use SLAB_PANIC flag cleanup
Use SLAB_PANIC and delete duplicated panic().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:14:57 -07:00
Nicolas Boichat
78a62d2c98 i386: Use functions from library in msr driver
Use safe MSR functions provided by arch/*/lib/msr-on-cpu.c in
arch/i386/kernel/msr.c.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-05-08 17:22:01 +02:00
Rudolf Marek
4e9baad8f5 i386: Add safe variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu
Add safe (exception handled) variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu.
You should use these when the target MSR may not actually exist, as
doing so could trigger an exception which the regular functions do not
handle. The safe variants are slower, though.

The upcoming coretemp hardware monitoring driver will need this.

Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-05-08 17:22:01 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
5a8130f2b1 get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on i386
Handle MAP_FIXED in i386 hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(), just call
prepare_hugepage_range.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
81819f0fc8 SLUB core
This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the
existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns
with the existing implementation.

A. Management of object queues

   A particular concern was the complex management of the numerous object
   queues in SLAB. SLUB has no such queues. Instead we dedicate a slab for
   each allocating CPU and use objects from a slab directly instead of
   queueing them up.

B. Storage overhead of object queues

   SLAB Object queues exist per node, per CPU. The alien cache queue even
   has a queue array that contain a queue for each processor on each
   node. For very large systems the number of queues and the number of
   objects that may be caught in those queues grows exponentially. On our
   systems with 1k nodes / processors we have several gigabytes just tied up
   for storing references to objects for those queues  This does not include
   the objects that could be on those queues. One fears that the whole
   memory of the machine could one day be consumed by those queues.

C. SLAB meta data overhead

   SLAB has overhead at the beginning of each slab. This means that data
   cannot be naturally aligned at the beginning of a slab block. SLUB keeps
   all meta data in the corresponding page_struct. Objects can be naturally
   aligned in the slab. F.e. a 128 byte object will be aligned at 128 byte
   boundaries and can fit tightly into a 4k page with no bytes left over.
   SLAB cannot do this.

D. SLAB has a complex cache reaper

   SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems. On SMP systems
   the per CPU slab may be pushed back into partial list but that
   operation is simple and does not require an iteration over a list
   of objects. SLAB expires per CPU, shared and alien object queues
   during cache reaping which may cause strange hold offs.

E. SLAB has complex NUMA policy layer support

   SLUB pushes NUMA policy handling into the page allocator. This means that
   allocation is coarser (SLUB does interleave on a page level) but that
   situation was also present before 2.6.13. SLABs application of
   policies to individual slab objects allocated in SLAB is
   certainly a performance concern due to the frequent references to
   memory policies which may lead a sequence of objects to come from
   one node after another. SLUB will get a slab full of objects
   from one node and then will switch to the next.

F. Reduction of the size of partial slab lists

   SLAB has per node partial lists. This means that over time a large
   number of partial slabs may accumulate on those lists. These can
   only be reused if allocator occur on specific nodes. SLUB has a global
   pool of partial slabs and will consume slabs from that pool to
   decrease fragmentation.

G. Tunables

   SLAB has sophisticated tuning abilities for each slab cache. One can
   manipulate the queue sizes in detail. However, filling the queues still
   requires the uses of the spin lock to check out slabs. SLUB has a global
   parameter (min_slab_order) for tuning. Increasing the minimum slab
   order can decrease the locking overhead. The bigger the slab order the
   less motions of pages between per CPU and partial lists occur and the
   better SLUB will be scaling.

G. Slab merging

   We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those
   on boot up and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This
   leads to more effective memory use. About 50% of all caches can
   be eliminated through slab merging. This will also decrease
   slab fragmentation because partial allocated slabs can be filled
   up again. Slab merging can be switched off by specifying
   slub_nomerge on boot up.

   Note that merging can expose heretofore unknown bugs in the kernel
   because corrupted objects may now be placed differently and corrupt
   differing neighboring objects. Enable sanity checks to find those.

H. Diagnostics

   The current slab diagnostics are difficult to use and require a
   recompilation of the kernel. SLUB contains debugging code that
   is always available (but is kept out of the hot code paths).
   SLUB diagnostics can be enabled via the "slab_debug" option.
   Parameters can be specified to select a single or a group of
   slab caches for diagnostics. This means that the system is running
   with the usual performance and it is much more likely that
   race conditions can be reproduced.

I. Resiliency

   If basic sanity checks are on then SLUB is capable of detecting
   common error conditions and recover as best as possible to allow the
   system to continue.

J. Tracing

   Tracing can be enabled via the slab_debug=T,<slabcache> option
   during boot. SLUB will then protocol all actions on that slabcache
   and dump the object contents on free.

K. On demand DMA cache creation.

   Generally DMA caches are not needed. If a kmalloc is used with
   __GFP_DMA then just create this single slabcache that is needed.
   For systems that have no ZONE_DMA requirement the support is
   completely eliminated.

L. Performance increase

   Some benchmarks have shown speed improvements on kernbench in the
   range of 5-10%. The locking overhead of slub is based on the
   underlying base allocation size. If we can reliably allocate
   larger order pages then it is possible to increase slub
   performance much further. The anti-fragmentation patches may
   enable further performance increases.

Tested on:
i386 UP + SMP, x86_64 UP + SMP + NUMA emulation, IA64 NUMA + Simulator

SLUB Boot options

slub_nomerge		Disable merging of slabs
slub_min_order=x	Require a minimum order for slab caches. This
			increases the managed chunk size and therefore
			reduces meta data and locking overhead.
slub_min_objects=x	Mininum objects per slab. Default is 8.
slub_max_order=x	Avoid generating slabs larger than order specified.
slub_debug		Enable all diagnostics for all caches
slub_debug=<options>	Enable selective options for all caches
slub_debug=<o>,<cache>	Enable selective options for a certain set of
			caches

Available Debug options
F		Double Free checking, sanity and resiliency
R		Red zoning
P		Object / padding poisoning
U		Track last free / alloc
T		Trace all allocs / frees (only use for individual slabs).

To use SLUB: Apply this patch and then select SLUB as the default slab
allocator.

[hugh@veritas.com: fix an oops-causing locking error]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various stupid cleanups and small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e3ebadd95c Revert "[PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation"
This was broken.  It adds complexity, for no good reason.  Rather than
separate __pa() and __pa_symbol(), we should deprecate __pa_symbol(),
and preferably __pa() too - and just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which
is more readable and has nicer semantics.

However, right now, just undo the separation, and make __pa_symbol() be
the exact same as __pa().  That fixes the bugs this patch introduced,
and we can do the fairly obvious cleanups later.

Do the new __phys_addr() function (which is now the actual workhorse for
the unified __pa()/__pa_symbol()) as a real external function, that way
all the potential issues with compile/link-time optimizations of
constant symbol addresses go away, and we can also, if we choose to, add
more sanity-checking of the argument.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 08:44:24 -07:00