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Miklos Szeredi
10ded9493e [PATCH] uml: fix compile failure for TT mode
Without this patch, uml compile fails with:

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/um/kernel/built-in.o: In function `config_gdb_cb':
arch/um/kernel/tt/gdb.c:129: undefined reference to `TASK_EXTERN_PID'

Tested on i386, but fix needed on x86_64 too AFAICS.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:59:25 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a69ac4a78d [PATCH] posix-timers: fix posix_cpu_timer_set() vs run_posix_cpu_timers() race
This might be harmless, but looks like a race from code inspection (I
was unable to trigger it).  I must admit, I don't understand why we
can't return TIMER_RETRY after 'spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock)'
without doing bump_cpu_timer(), but this is what original code does.

posix_cpu_timer_set:

	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);

	spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock);
	list_del_init(&timer->it.cpu.entry);
	spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock);

We are probaly deleting the timer from run_posix_cpu_timers's 'firing'
local list_head while run_posix_cpu_timers() does list_for_each_safe.

Various bad things can happen, for example we can just delete this timer
so that list_for_each() will not notice it and run_posix_cpu_timers()
will not reset '->firing' flag. In that case,

	....

	if (timer->it.cpu.firing) {
		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
		timer->it.cpu.firing = -1;
		return TIMER_RETRY;
	}

sys_timer_settime() goes to 'retry:', calls posix_cpu_timer_set() again,
it returns TIMER_RETRY ...

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:13:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ca531a0a5e [PATCH] posix-timers: exit path cleanup
No need to rebalance when task exited

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:12:35 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3de463c7d9 [PATCH] posix-timers: remove false BUG_ON() from run_posix_cpu_timers()
do_exit() clears ->it_##clock##_expires, but nothing prevents
another cpu to attach the timer to exiting process after that.

After exit_notify() does 'write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)' and
before do_exit() calls 'schedule() local timer interrupt can find
tsk->exit_state != 0. If that state was EXIT_DEAD (or another cpu
does sys_wait4) interrupted task has ->signal == NULL.

At this moment exiting task has no pending cpu timers, they were cleaned
up in __exit_signal()->posix_cpu_timers_exit{,_group}(), so we can just
return from irq.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:12:35 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
108150ea78 [PATCH] posix-timers: fix cleanup_timers() and run_posix_cpu_timers() races
1. cleanup_timers() sets timer->task = NULL under tasklist + ->sighand locks.
   That means that this code in posix_cpu_timer_del() and posix_cpu_timer_set()

   		lock_timer(timer);
		if (timer->task == NULL)
			return;
		read_lock(tasklist);
		put_task_struct(timer->task)

   is racy. With this patch timer->task modified and accounted only under
   timer->it_lock. Sadly, this means that dead task_struct won't be freed
   until timer deleted or armed.

2. run_posix_cpu_timers() collects expired timers into local list under
   tasklist + ->sighand again. That means that posix_cpu_timer_del()
   should check timer->it.cpu.firing under these locks too.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:12:35 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
340601043d powerpc: Add a shutdown member to vio_driver
Add a shutdown member to struct vio_driver. We also need vio_bus_shutdown()
which converts from struct device to struct vio_dev and knows how to extract
the struct vio_driver.

Original patch adjusted for different location of vio.c.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 17:40:23 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
915124d811 powerpc: set the driver.owner field for all vio drivers
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 16:59:13 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
7c7eb28481 powerpc: iseries: Fix a bogus comment
A comment in lpevents.c refers to code that's actually in HvCallEvent.h.
The code in HvCallEvent.h is pretty obvious, so just remove the comment
altogether.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 15:42:24 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
6fdf5392ca powerpc: don't duplicate name between vio_driver and device_driver
Just set the name field directly in the device_driver structure
contained in the vio_driver struct.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 15:42:12 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
f38d87f566 powerpc: Move include/asm-ppc64/vio.h to include/asm-powerpc/vio.h
Move include/asm-ppc64/vio.h to include/asm-powerpc/vio.h, that's it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 15:41:58 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
580460194e powerpc: Merge arch/ppc64/kernel/vio.c into arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
Merge arch/ppc64/kernel/vio.c into arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c, update
the Makefiles to make it work, and make ARCH=ppc64 still work.

Michael's version put vio.c in arch/powerpc/sysedv but after consolting
Paulus, this one puts it in arch/powerpc/kernel.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 15:41:44 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
ba9e358fd0 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 2005-10-23 17:13:14 -07:00
Roland Dreier
75eeec2f3f [PATCH] ib: mthca: Always re-arm EQs in mthca_tavor_interrupt()
We should always re-arm an event queue's interrupt in
mthca_tavor_interrupt() if the corresponding bit is set in the event cause
register (ECR), even if we didn't find any entries in the EQ.  If we don't,
then there's a window where we miss an EQ entry and then get stuck because
we don't get another EQ event.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:39 -07:00
Andrew Morton
8d3b35914a [PATCH] inotify/idr leak fix
Fix a bug which was reported and diagnosed by
Stefan Jones <stefan.jones@churchillrandoms.co.uk>

IDR trees include a cache of idr_layer objects.  There's no way to destroy
this cache, so when we discard an overall idr tree we end up leaking some
memory.

Add and use idr_destroy() for this.  v9fs and infiniband also need to use
idr_destroy() to avoid leaks.

Or, we make the cache global, like radix_tree_preload().  Which is probably
better.  Later.

Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:39 -07:00
Mike Krufky
c0fef676bb [PATCH] Kconfig: saa7134-dvb should not select cx22702
On 2005-05-01, Gerd Knorr sent in a patch to add cx22702 to cx88-dvb:

 [PATCH] dvb: cx22702 frontend driver update
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9990d744bea7d28e83c420e2c9d524c7a8a2d136

...but as we can see, the Kconfig portion of his patch was incorrectly
applied to saa7134-dvb instead of cx88-dvb.

On 2005-06-24, Adrian bunk fixed cx88-dvb:

 [PATCH] VIDEO_CX88_DVB must select DVB_CX22702
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d6988588e13616587aa879c2e0bd7cd811705e5d

...but we never removed the original patch from Gerd.

This patch sets things straight:

saa7134-dvb should not select cx22702

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:39 -07:00
Davi Arnaut
20c19e4179 [PATCH] SELinux: handle sel_make_bools() failure in selinuxfs
This patch fixes error handling in sel_make_bools(), where currently we'd
get a memory leak via security_get_bools() and try to kfree() the wrong
pointer if called again.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:39 -07:00
Stephen Smalley
282c1f5eba [PATCH] selinux: Fix NULL deref in policydb_destroy
This patch fixes a possible NULL dereference in policydb_destroy, where
p->type_attr_map can be NULL if policydb_destroy is called to clean up a
partially loaded policy upon an error during policy load.  Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:38 -07:00
Kostik Belousov
8766ce4101 [PATCH] aio syscalls are not checked by lsm
Another case of missing call to security_file_permission: aio functions
(namely, io_submit) does not check credentials with security modules.

Below is the simple patch to the problem.  It seems that it is enough to
check for rights at the request submission time.

Signed-off-by: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:38 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
a991304496 [PATCH] kernel-parameters cleanup
Fix typos & trailing whitespace.
Add blank lines in a few places.
Remove "AM53C974=" option:  driver does not exist.
Restrict to < 80 columns in most places (but don't split formatted
  command-line arguments).
Add a few option arguments for completeness.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4196c3af25 cardbus: limit IO windows to 256 bytes
That's what we've always historically done, and bigger windows seem to
confuse some cardbus bridges. Or something.

Alan reports that this makes the ThinkPad 600x series work properly
again: the 4kB IO window for some reason made IDE DMA not work, which
makes IDE painfully slow even if it works after DMA timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:31:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9092b20803 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2005-10-23 10:10:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e80eda94d3 Posix timers: limit number of timers firing at once
Bursty timers aren't good for anybody, very much including latency for
other programs when we trigger lots of timers in interrupt context.  So
set a random limit, after which we'll handle the rest on the next timer
tick.

Noted by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 10:02:50 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
85e568ea58 powerpc: Make coff boot wrapper load the kernel at 8M
Previously it claimed 7MB starting at the 9M point and loaded the
kernel there.  That meant that prom_init put the flattened device
tree above 16M.  On the 601 that caused the early device tree scan
to fail, since only 16MB are mapped with BATs on the 601.  Moving
this down to 8MB allows prom_init to put the flattened device tree
between 15M and 16M, so it works on the 601.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-23 17:26:32 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
a575b80717 powerpc: Run on old powermacs.
Old powermacs have a number of differences from current machines:
- there is no interrupt tree in the device tree, just interrupt
  or AAPL,interrupt properties
- the chosen node in the device tree is called /chosen@0
- the OF claim method doesn't map the memory, so we have to do
  an explicit map call as well
- there is no /chosen/cpu property on SMP machines
- the NVRAM isn't structured as a set of partitions.

This adapts the merged powermac support code to cope with these
issues.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-23 17:23:21 +10:00
Herbert Xu
49636bb128 [NEIGH] Fix timer leak in neigh_changeaddr
neigh_changeaddr attempts to delete neighbour timers without setting
nud_state.  This doesn't work because the timer may have already fired
when we acquire the write lock in neigh_changeaddr.  The result is that
the timer may keep firing for quite a while until the entry reaches
NEIGH_FAILED.

It should be setting the nud_state straight away so that if the timer
has already fired it can simply exit once we relinquish the lock.

In fact, this whole function is simply duplicating the logic in
neigh_ifdown which in turn is already doing the right thing when
it comes to deleting timers and setting nud_state.

So all we have to do is take that code out and put it into a common
function and make both neigh_changeaddr and neigh_ifdown call it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-23 17:18:00 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
96c4450760 powerpc: Fix time code for 601 processors
The 601 doesn't have the timebase register; instead it has an RTCL
register that counts nanoseconds and wraps at 1000000000, and an
RTCU register that counts seconds.  This makes the necessary changes
for the merged time code to use the RTCL/U registers when the kernel
is running on a 601.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-23 17:14:56 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6fb9974f49 [NEIGH] Fix add_timer race in neigh_add_timer
neigh_add_timer cannot use add_timer unconditionally.  The reason is that
by the time it has obtained the write lock someone else (e.g., neigh_update)
could have already added a new timer.

So it should only use mod_timer and deal with its return value accordingly.

This bug would have led to rare neighbour cache entry leaks.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-23 16:37:48 +10:00
Herbert Xu
203755029e [NEIGH] Print stack trace in neigh_add_timer
Stack traces are very helpful in determining the exact nature of a bug.
So let's print a stack trace when the timer is added twice.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-23 16:11:39 +10:00
Ivan Kokshaysky
d475f3f47a [PATCH] alpha: additional smp barriers
As stated in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt, atomic functions
returning values must have the memory barriers both before and after
the operation.

Thanks to DaveM for pointing that out.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-22 19:38:33 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
4595f25105 [AX.25]: Fix signed char bug
On architectures where the char type defaults to unsigned some of the
arithmetic in the AX.25 stack to fail, resulting in some packets being dropped
on receive.

Credits for tracking this down and the original patch to
Bob Brose N0QBJ <linuxhams@n0qbj-11.ampr.org>.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-22 17:20:50 -02:00
Julian Anastasov
c98d80edc8 [SK_BUFF]: ipvs_property field must be copied
IPVS used flag NFC_IPVS_PROPERTY in nfcache but as now nfcache was removed the
new flag 'ipvs_property' still needs to be copied. This patch should be
included in 2.6.14.

Further comments from Harald Welte:

Sorry, seems like the bug was introduced by me.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-22 17:06:01 -02:00
Paul Mackerras
985990137e Merge changes from linux-2.6 by hand 2005-10-22 16:51:34 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
8342894475 ppc64: Use arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac for powermac build.
This switches the ARCH=ppc64 build to use arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac
instead of arch/ppc64/kernel/pmac*, and deletes the latter set of files.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 16:06:27 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
35499c0195 powerpc: Merge in 64-bit powermac support.
This brings in a lot of changes from arch/ppc64/kernel/pmac_*.c to
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/*.c and makes various minor tweaks
elsewhere.  On the powermac we now initialize ppc_md by copying
the whole pmac_md structure into it, which required some changes in
the ordering of initializations of individual fields of it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 16:02:39 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
b6ba92819d powerpc: Make set_rtc_time() return error code from lower-level function
Previously it ignored the return value from ppc_md.set_rtc_time,
but in fact the functions that that can point to do return a
useful error code, so return it from set_rtc_time().

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 15:57:55 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
ef1a12817a ppc64: Simplify secondary CPU startup on powermacs
... for consistency with ppc32, and because this way is neater.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 15:55:58 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
529294d59f ppc64: Rearrange btext initialization for consistency with ppc32
Moved init_boot_display from arch/ppc64/kernel/pmac_setup.c to
arch/ppc64/kernel/btext.c and declared it in asm-ppc64/btext.h.
Call it from init_early rather than pmac_init_early.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 15:36:52 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
f7abbc190b ppc64: Add a `primary' argument to pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges
... for consistency with ppc32 and to make the powermac merge easier.
Also make it use just a single resource in the host bridge for multiple
consecutive elements of the ranges property.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 15:03:21 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
a5b518ed31 ppc64/powerpc: Fix time initialization on SMP systems
This moves smp_space_timers from arch/ppc64/kernel/smp.c to
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c and makes it initialize last_jiffy[]
instead of paca[].next_jiffy_update_tb, since last_jiffy[] is
now what the time code uses.  It also declares smp_space_timers
in include/asm-powerpc/time.h and gets rid of an ifdef in
div128_by_32.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 14:55:23 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
e2b5530698 ppc64: Fix delivery of RT signals to 32-bit processes.
An error in merging led to 32-bit processes getting the wrong link
register value on entry to RT signal handlers, and the wrong stack
chain as well.  This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 14:46:33 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
5c8c56ebdf powerpc: Move agp_special_page export to where it is defined
... instead of exporting it in arch/*/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-22 14:42:51 +10:00
Chris Wright
63172cb3d5 [PATCH] typo fix in last cpufreq powernow patch
Not sure how it slipped by, but here's a trivial typo fix for powernow.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
[ It's "nurter" backwards.. Maybe we have a hillbilly The Shining fan? ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21 17:08:30 -07:00
Roland McGrath
25f407f0b6 [PATCH] Call exit_itimers from do_exit, not __exit_signal
When I originally moved exit_itimers into __exit_signal, that was the only
place where we could reliably know it was the last thread in the group
dying, without races.  Since then we've gotten the signal_struct.live
counter, and do_exit can reliably do group-wide cleanup work.

This patch moves the call to do_exit, where it's made without locks.  This
avoids the deadlock issues that the old __exit_signal code's comment talks
about, and the one that Oleg found recently with process CPU timers.

[ This replaces e03d13e985, which is why
  it was just reverted. ]

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21 15:38:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9465bee863 Revert "Fix cpu timers exit deadlock and races"
Revert commit e03d13e985, to be replaced
by a much nicer fix from Roland.
2005-10-21 15:36:00 -07:00
Dave Jones
0213df7431 [PATCH] cpufreq: fix pending powernow timer stuck condition
AMD recently discovered that on some hardware, there is a race condition
possible when a C-state change request goes onto the bus at the same
time as a P-state change request.

Both requests happen, but the southbridge hardware only acknowledges the
C-state change.  The PowerNow! driver is then stuck in a loop, waiting
for the P-state change acknowledgement.  The driver eventually times
out, but can no longer perform P-state changes.

It turns out the solution is to resend the P-state change, which the
southbridge will acknowledge normally.

Thanks to Johannes Winkelmann for reporting this and testing the fix.

Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21 14:28:58 -07:00
David Gibson
3078fcc1d1 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix typo bug in iSeries hash code
This fixes a stupid typo bug in the iSeries hash table code.

When we place a hash PTE in the secondary bucket, instead of setting the
SECONDARY flag bit, as we should, we (redundantly) set the VALID flag.

This was introduced with the patch abolishing bitfields from the hash
table code.  Mea culpa, oops.  It hasn't been noticed until now because
in practice we don't hit the secondary bucket terribly often.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21 12:24:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2c86c83bf4 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-10-21 12:23:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cffc7b38a2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2005-10-21 12:22:33 -07:00
Dave Airlie
e29971f9a4 [PATCH] drm: another mga bug
The wrong state emission routines were being called for G550, and
consistent maps weren't correctly mapped...

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21 12:18:09 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
5d96551541 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix pages marked dirty abusively
While working on 64K pages, I found this little buglet in our
update_mmu_cache() implementation.

The code calls __hash_page() passing it an "access" parameter (the type
of access that triggers the hash) containing the bits _PAGE_RW and
_PAGE_USER of the linux PTE.  The latter is useless in this case and the
former is wrong.  In fact, if we have a writeable PTE and we pass
_PAGE_RW to hash_page(), it will set _PAGE_DIRTY (since we track dirty
that way, by hash faulting !dirty) which is not what we want.

In fact, the correct fix is to always pass 0. That means that only
read-only or already dirty read write PTEs will be preloaded. The
(hopefully rare) case of a non dirty read write PTE can't be preloaded
this way, it will have to fault in hash_page on the actual access.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21 12:17:43 -07:00