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<title>BKL: remove extraneous #include &lt;smp_lock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2010-11-17T16:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T15:26:55+00:00</published>
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T17:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T17:43:11+00:00</published>
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* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
  dabusb: remove the BKL
  sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
  init/main.c: remove BKL notations
  blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
  rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
  dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
  dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
  tlclk: remove big kernel lock
  fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
  uml: kill big kernel lock
  parisc: remove big kernel lock
  cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
  alpha: kill big kernel lock
  isapnp: BKL removal
  s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
  hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
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* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
  dabusb: remove the BKL
  sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
  init/main.c: remove BKL notations
  blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
  rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
  dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
  dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
  tlclk: remove big kernel lock
  fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
  uml: kill big kernel lock
  parisc: remove big kernel lock
  cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
  alpha: kill big kernel lock
  isapnp: BKL removal
  s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
  hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
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<entry>
<title>init/main.c: remove BKL notations</title>
<updated>2010-10-19T09:29:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-27T07:06:54+00:00</published>
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According to commit 5e3d20a68f63fc5a310687d81956c3b96e488b84
(init: Remove the BKL from startup code) these sparse notations
should be removed also.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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According to commit 5e3d20a68f63fc5a310687d81956c3b96e488b84
(init: Remove the BKL from startup code) these sparse notations
should be removed also.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Remove early_init_irq_lock_class()</title>
<updated>2010-10-12T14:39:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-22T13:58:45+00:00</published>
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early_init_irq_lock_class() is called way before anything touches the
irq descriptors. In case of SPARSE_IRQ=y this is a NOP operation
because the radix tree is empty at this point. For the SPARSE_IRQ=n
case it's sufficient to set the lock class in early_init_irq(). 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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early_init_irq_lock_class() is called way before anything touches the
irq descriptors. In case of SPARSE_IRQ=y this is a NOP operation
because the radix tree is empty at this point. For the SPARSE_IRQ=n
case it's sufficient to set the lock class in early_init_irq(). 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer</title>
<updated>2010-08-18T01:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-17T22:52:56+00:00</published>
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>param: make param sections const.</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T13:34:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-12T05:04:18+00:00</published>
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Since this section can be read-only (they're in .rodata), they should
always have been const.  Minor flow-through various functions.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Tested-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
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Since this section can be read-only (they're in .rodata), they should
always have been const.  Minor flow-through various functions.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Tested-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>init/main.c: mark do_one_initcall* as __init_or_module</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T03:45:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Winchester</name>
<email>kjwinchester@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T00:20:32+00:00</published>
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Andrew Morton suggested that the do_one_initcall and do_one_initcall_debug
functions can be marked __init_or_module such that they can be discarded
for the CONFIG_MODULES=N case.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester &lt;kjwinchester@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Andrew Morton suggested that the do_one_initcall and do_one_initcall_debug
functions can be marked __init_or_module such that they can be discarded
for the CONFIG_MODULES=N case.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester &lt;kjwinchester@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>init/main.c: fix warning: 'calltime.tv64' may be used uninitialized</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T03:45:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Winchester</name>
<email>kjwinchester@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T00:20:32+00:00</published>
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Using:

	gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100610 (prerelease)

The following warning appears:

	init/main.c: In function `do_one_initcall':
	init/main.c:730:10: warning: `calltime.tv64' may be used uninitialized in this function

This warning is actually correct, as the global initcall_debug could
arguably be changed by the initcall.

Correct this warning by extracting a new function, do_one_initcall_debug,
that performs the initcall for the debug case.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester &lt;kjwinchester@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Using:

	gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100610 (prerelease)

The following warning appears:

	init/main.c: In function `do_one_initcall':
	init/main.c:730:10: warning: `calltime.tv64' may be used uninitialized in this function

This warning is actually correct, as the global initcall_debug could
arguably be changed by the initcall.

Correct this warning by extracting a new function, do_one_initcall_debug,
that performs the initcall for the debug case.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester &lt;kjwinchester@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing</title>
<updated>2010-08-08T00:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-08T00:06:54+00:00</published>
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* 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  do_coredump: Do not take BKL
  init: Remove the BKL from startup code
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* 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  do_coredump: Do not take BKL
  init: Remove the BKL from startup code
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T19:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-07T19:42:58+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
  workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
  workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
  fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  slow-work: kill it
  gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: drop references to slow-work
  fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work-&gt;data
  workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
  workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
  workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
  async: use workqueue for worker pool
  workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
  workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
  workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
  libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
  workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
  workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
  workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
  fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  slow-work: kill it
  gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: drop references to slow-work
  fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work-&gt;data
  workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
  workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
  workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
  async: use workqueue for worker pool
  workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
  workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
  workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
  libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
  workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
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