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<title>linux.git/arch/um/drivers, branch v2.6.14</title>
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<title>[PATCH] uml: revert block driver use of host AIO</title>
<updated>2005-10-12T15:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
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<published>2005-10-11T03:10:32+00:00</published>
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The patch to use host AIO support that I submitted early after 2.6.13 exposed
some problems in the block driver.  I have fixes for these, but am not
comfortable putting them into 2.6.14 at this late date.  So, this patch reverts
the use of host AIO.

I will resubmit the original patch, plus fixes to the driver after 2.6.14
in order to get a reasonable amount of testing before they're exposed to
the general public.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The patch to use host AIO support that I submitted early after 2.6.13 exposed
some problems in the block driver.  I have fixes for these, but am not
comfortable putting them into 2.6.14 at this late date.  So, this patch reverts
the use of host AIO.

I will resubmit the original patch, plus fixes to the driver after 2.6.14
in order to get a reasonable amount of testing before they're exposed to
the general public.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] uml: cleanup whitespace for COW driver</title>
<updated>2005-10-10T15:36:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-09T19:37:53+00:00</published>
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Fix whitespace - I split this off the previous patch for easier review.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Fix whitespace - I split this off the previous patch for easier review.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] uml: cleanup byte order macros for COW driver</title>
<updated>2005-10-10T15:36:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-09T19:37:45+00:00</published>
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After restoring the existing code, make it work also when included in
kernelspace code (which isn't currently the case, but at least this will prevent
people from "fixing" it as just happened).
Whitespace is fixed in next patch - it cluttered the diff too much.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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After restoring the existing code, make it work also when included in
kernelspace code (which isn't currently the case, but at least this will prevent
people from "fixing" it as just happened).
Whitespace is fixed in next patch - it cluttered the diff too much.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] uml: restore include breakage, breaking binary format of COW driver</title>
<updated>2005-10-10T15:36:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-09T19:37:35+00:00</published>
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Commit 44456d37b59d8e541936ed26d8b6e08d27e88ac1, between 2.6.13-rc3 and -rc4,
was a "nice cleanup" which broke something. Revert the offending part.

It broke because:
a) because this part doesn't fall under the description
b) the author didn't know what he was doing here
c) the author didn't try to compile the existing code and see that it worked
   perfectly.
d) the author didn't ask us what was happening
e) you didn't either, and somebody there should have learned that UML is a bit
   different.

In fact, UML is special in linking to host libc and using its includes.

In particular, since host includes always define both __BIG_ENDIAN and
__LITTLE_ENDIAN, ntohll() macros started thinking to be in a big-endian world;
and on-disk compatibility was broken.

Many thanks go to Nix for reporting the problem and correctly diagnosing an
endianness problem.

Btw, this patch restores the previous code, which worked; but the definitions
would be uncorrect if used in kernelspace files.

Next patch addresses that.

Cc: Nix &lt;nix@esperi.org.uk&gt;, Olaf Hering &lt;olh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Commit 44456d37b59d8e541936ed26d8b6e08d27e88ac1, between 2.6.13-rc3 and -rc4,
was a "nice cleanup" which broke something. Revert the offending part.

It broke because:
a) because this part doesn't fall under the description
b) the author didn't know what he was doing here
c) the author didn't try to compile the existing code and see that it worked
   perfectly.
d) the author didn't ask us what was happening
e) you didn't either, and somebody there should have learned that UML is a bit
   different.

In fact, UML is special in linking to host libc and using its includes.

In particular, since host includes always define both __BIG_ENDIAN and
__LITTLE_ENDIAN, ntohll() macros started thinking to be in a big-endian world;
and on-disk compatibility was broken.

Many thanks go to Nix for reporting the problem and correctly diagnosing an
endianness problem.

Btw, this patch restores the previous code, which worked; but the definitions
would be uncorrect if used in kernelspace files.

Next patch addresses that.

Cc: Nix &lt;nix@esperi.org.uk&gt;, Olaf Hering &lt;olh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: revert "run mconsole "sysrq" in process context"</title>
<updated>2005-09-30T19:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-30T18:59:00+00:00</published>
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Revert commit 12ebcd73e40e09f0dfddf89e465cc0541e0ff8b1, i.e.  [PATCH] uml: run
mconsole "sysrq" in process context on request from Jeff Dike.

a) sysrq may be run when the scheduler is non-functioning

b) the warning I wanted to fix actually came from the fault handler run in
   atomic context.  But I fixed that not to take the semaphore in a separate
   patch.

c) the fault handler is run because of a fault, and that fault was
   unaffected by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Revert commit 12ebcd73e40e09f0dfddf89e465cc0541e0ff8b1, i.e.  [PATCH] uml: run
mconsole "sysrq" in process context on request from Jeff Dike.

a) sysrq may be run when the scheduler is non-functioning

b) the warning I wanted to fix actually came from the fault handler run in
   atomic context.  But I fixed that not to take the semaphore in a separate
   patch.

c) the fault handler is run because of a fault, and that fault was
   unaffected by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] useless linux/irq.h includes (arch/um)</title>
<updated>2005-09-30T15:42:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-30T02:16:43+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: replace printk with "stack-friendly" printf - to report console failure</title>
<updated>2005-09-23T05:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-23T04:44:22+00:00</published>
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User get *a lot* confused when consoles don't work but we don't report
anything.  And, as reported in the comment, using printk to report "your
console doesn't work" isn't likely to go that far.

Fix the problem on the base of this: stack consumption by host printf().  Use
kernel sprintf() and os_write_file, using a wild guess that one page will be
enough for the message, to preallocate the buffer with kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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User get *a lot* confused when consoles don't work but we don't report
anything.  And, as reported in the comment, using printk to report "your
console doesn't work" isn't likely to go that far.

Fix the problem on the base of this: stack consumption by host printf().  Use
kernel sprintf() and os_write_file, using a wild guess that one page will be
enough for the message, to preallocate the buffer with kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] uml: use GFP_ATOMIC for allocations under spinlocks.</title>
<updated>2005-09-23T05:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-23T04:44:21+00:00</published>
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setup_initial_poll is only called with sigio_lock() held, so use appropriate
allocation.

Also, parse_chan() can also be called when holding a spinlock (see line_open()
 -&gt; parse_chan_pair()).

I have sporadic problems (spinlock taken twice, with spinlock debugging on UP)
which could be caused by a sequence like "take spinlock, alloc and go to
sleep, take again the spinlock in the other thread".

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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setup_initial_poll is only called with sigio_lock() held, so use appropriate
allocation.

Also, parse_chan() can also be called when holding a spinlock (see line_open()
 -&gt; parse_chan_pair()).

I have sporadic problems (spinlock taken twice, with spinlock debugging on UP)
which could be caused by a sequence like "take spinlock, alloc and go to
sleep, take again the spinlock in the other thread".

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] uml: run mconsole "sysrq" in process context</title>
<updated>2005-09-23T05:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-23T04:44:19+00:00</published>
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Things are breaking horribly with sysrq called in interrupt context.  I want
to try to fix it, but probably this is simpler.  To tell the truth, sysrq is
normally run in interrupt context, so there shouldn't be any problem.

There's also a warning from the fault handler because it's run in atomic
context (I have a patch for that, only I deferred it).  This is why I'm doing
this.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Things are breaking horribly with sysrq called in interrupt context.  I want
to try to fix it, but probably this is simpler.  To tell the truth, sysrq is
normally run in interrupt context, so there shouldn't be any problem.

There's also a warning from the fault handler because it's run in atomic
context (I have a patch for that, only I deferred it).  This is why I'm doing
this.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: preserve errno in error paths</title>
<updated>2005-09-17T18:50:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-17T02:27:49+00:00</published>
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The poster child for this patch is the third tuntap_user hunk.  When an ioctl
fails, it properly closes the opened file descriptor and returns.  However,
the close resets errno to 0, and the 'return errno' that follows returns 0
rather than the value that ioctl set.  This caused the caller to believe that
the device open succeeded and had opened file descriptor 0, which caused no
end of interesting behavior.

The rest of this patch is a pass through the UML sources looking for places
where errno could be reset before being passed back out.  A common culprit is
printk, which could call write, being called before errno is returned.

In some cases, where the code ends up being much smaller, I just deleted the
printk.

There was another case where a caller of run_helper looked at errno after a
failure, rather than the return value of run_helper, which was the errno value
that it wanted.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The poster child for this patch is the third tuntap_user hunk.  When an ioctl
fails, it properly closes the opened file descriptor and returns.  However,
the close resets errno to 0, and the 'return errno' that follows returns 0
rather than the value that ioctl set.  This caused the caller to believe that
the device open succeeded and had opened file descriptor 0, which caused no
end of interesting behavior.

The rest of this patch is a pass through the UML sources looking for places
where errno could be reset before being passed back out.  A common culprit is
printk, which could call write, being called before errno is returned.

In some cases, where the code ends up being much smaller, I just deleted the
printk.

There was another case where a caller of run_helper looked at errno after a
failure, rather than the return value of run_helper, which was the errno value
that it wanted.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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