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<title>Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00</published>
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* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
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* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T20:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T20:04:02+00:00</published>
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* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (38 commits)
  direct I/O fallback sync simplification
  ocfs: stop using do_sync_mapping_range
  cleanup blockdev_direct_IO locking
  make generic_acl slightly more generic
  sanitize xattr handler prototypes
  libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name
  vfs: force reval of target when following LAST_BIND symlinks (try #7)
  ima: limit imbalance msg
  Untangling ima mess, part 3: kill dead code in ima
  Untangling ima mess, part 2: deal with counters
  Untangling ima mess, part 1: alloc_file()
  O_TRUNC open shouldn't fail after file truncation
  ima: call ima_inode_free ima_inode_free
  IMA: clean up the IMA counts updating code
  ima: only insert at inode creation time
  ima: valid return code from ima_inode_alloc
  fs: move get_empty_filp() deffinition to internal.h
  Sanitize exec_permission_lite()
  Kill cached_lookup() and real_lookup()
  Kill path_lookup_open()
  ...

Trivial conflicts in fs/direct-io.c
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* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (38 commits)
  direct I/O fallback sync simplification
  ocfs: stop using do_sync_mapping_range
  cleanup blockdev_direct_IO locking
  make generic_acl slightly more generic
  sanitize xattr handler prototypes
  libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name
  vfs: force reval of target when following LAST_BIND symlinks (try #7)
  ima: limit imbalance msg
  Untangling ima mess, part 3: kill dead code in ima
  Untangling ima mess, part 2: deal with counters
  Untangling ima mess, part 1: alloc_file()
  O_TRUNC open shouldn't fail after file truncation
  ima: call ima_inode_free ima_inode_free
  IMA: clean up the IMA counts updating code
  ima: only insert at inode creation time
  ima: valid return code from ima_inode_alloc
  fs: move get_empty_filp() deffinition to internal.h
  Sanitize exec_permission_lite()
  Kill cached_lookup() and real_lookup()
  Kill path_lookup_open()
  ...

Trivial conflicts in fs/direct-io.c
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<entry>
<title>sanitize do_pipe_flags() callers in arch</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T17:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T05:34:13+00:00</published>
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* hpux_pipe() - no need to take BKL
* sys32_pipe() in arch/x86/ia32 and xtensa_pipe() in arch/xtensa -
	no need at all, since both functions are open-coded sys_pipe()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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* hpux_pipe() - no need to take BKL
* sys32_pipe() in arch/x86/ia32 and xtensa_pipe() in arch/xtensa -
	no need at all, since both functions are open-coded sys_pipe()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T15:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T00:47:37+00:00</published>
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Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define
USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP.  The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so
let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@petalogix.com&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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Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define
USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP.  The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so
let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@petalogix.com&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>kbuild: move asm-offsets.h to include/generated</title>
<updated>2009-12-12T12:08:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-19T20:35:10+00:00</published>
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The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h
file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file.

We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference
the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the
temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h
file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file.

We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference
the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the
temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Unify sys_mmap*</title>
<updated>2009-12-11T11:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-30T22:37:04+00:00</published>
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New helper - sys_mmap_pgoff(); switch syscalls to using it.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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New helper - sys_mmap_pgoff(); switch syscalls to using it.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
  block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
  cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
  blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
  blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
  blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
  block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
  block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
  cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
  io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
  cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
  cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
  blkio: Documentation
  blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
  blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
  blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
  blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
  blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
  blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
  blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
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* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
  block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
  cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
  blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
  blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
  blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
  block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
  block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
  cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
  io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
  cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
  cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
  blkio: Documentation
  blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
  blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
  blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
  blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
  blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
  blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
  blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages</title>
<updated>2009-11-26T08:16:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Loginov</name>
<email>isloginov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-26T08:16:19+00:00</published>
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Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov &lt;isloginov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Horton &lt;phorton@bitbox.co.uk&gt;
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" &lt;ecashin@coraid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov &lt;isloginov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Horton &lt;phorton@bitbox.co.uk&gt;
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" &lt;ecashin@coraid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall</title>
<updated>2009-10-13T06:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-13T06:40:10+00:00</published>
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Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
net stack entry/exit operations.

Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.

This takes into account comments made by:

. Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
  sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.

. Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
  works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.

  If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
  will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
  one) it has received so far.

. Rémi Denis-Courmont &amp; Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N &lt; vlen
  datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
  the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
  in the next call.

This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot-&gt;unlocked_recvmsg,
where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
every underlying recvmsg call.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
net stack entry/exit operations.

Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.

This takes into account comments made by:

. Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
  sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.

. Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
  works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.

  If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
  will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
  one) it has received so far.

. Rémi Denis-Courmont &amp; Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N &lt; vlen
  datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
  the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
  in the next call.

This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot-&gt;unlocked_recvmsg,
where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
every underlying recvmsg call.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Generalize socket rx gap / receive queue overflow cmsg</title>
<updated>2009-10-12T20:26:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Horman</name>
<email>nhorman@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-12T20:26:31+00:00</published>
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Create a new socket level option to report number of queue overflows

Recently I augmented the AF_PACKET protocol to report the number of frames lost
on the socket receive queue between any two enqueued frames.  This value was
exported via a SOL_PACKET level cmsg.  AFter I completed that work it was
requested that this feature be generalized so that any datagram oriented socket
could make use of this option.  As such I've created this patch, It creates a
new SOL_SOCKET level option called SO_RXQ_OVFL, which when enabled exports a
SOL_SOCKET level cmsg that reports the nubmer of times the sk_receive_queue
overflowed between any two given frames.  It also augments the AF_PACKET
protocol to take advantage of this new feature (as it previously did not touch
sk-&gt;sk_drops, which this patch uses to record the overflow count).  Tested
successfully by me.

Notes:

1) Unlike my previous patch, this patch simply records the sk_drops value, which
is not a number of drops between packets, but rather a total number of drops.
Deltas must be computed in user space.

2) While this patch currently works with datagram oriented protocols, it will
also be accepted by non-datagram oriented protocols. I'm not sure if thats
agreeable to everyone, but my argument in favor of doing so is that, for those
protocols which aren't applicable to this option, sk_drops will always be zero,
and reporting no drops on a receive queue that isn't used for those
non-participating protocols seems reasonable to me.  This also saves us having
to code in a per-protocol opt in mechanism.

3) This applies cleanly to net-next assuming that commit
977750076d98c7ff6cbda51858bb5a5894a9d9ab (my af packet cmsg patch) is reverted

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Create a new socket level option to report number of queue overflows

Recently I augmented the AF_PACKET protocol to report the number of frames lost
on the socket receive queue between any two enqueued frames.  This value was
exported via a SOL_PACKET level cmsg.  AFter I completed that work it was
requested that this feature be generalized so that any datagram oriented socket
could make use of this option.  As such I've created this patch, It creates a
new SOL_SOCKET level option called SO_RXQ_OVFL, which when enabled exports a
SOL_SOCKET level cmsg that reports the nubmer of times the sk_receive_queue
overflowed between any two given frames.  It also augments the AF_PACKET
protocol to take advantage of this new feature (as it previously did not touch
sk-&gt;sk_drops, which this patch uses to record the overflow count).  Tested
successfully by me.

Notes:

1) Unlike my previous patch, this patch simply records the sk_drops value, which
is not a number of drops between packets, but rather a total number of drops.
Deltas must be computed in user space.

2) While this patch currently works with datagram oriented protocols, it will
also be accepted by non-datagram oriented protocols. I'm not sure if thats
agreeable to everyone, but my argument in favor of doing so is that, for those
protocols which aren't applicable to this option, sk_drops will always be zero,
and reporting no drops on a receive queue that isn't used for those
non-participating protocols seems reasonable to me.  This also saves us having
to code in a per-protocol opt in mechanism.

3) This applies cleanly to net-next assuming that commit
977750076d98c7ff6cbda51858bb5a5894a9d9ab (my af packet cmsg patch) is reverted

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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