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<title>linux.git/include/linux, branch v2.6.27-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fbdefio: add set_page_dirty handler to deferred IO FB</title>
<updated>2008-08-20T22:40:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Campbell</name>
<email>ijc@hellion.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-20T21:09:23+00:00</published>
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Fixes kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473.

Previously the handler was incidentally provided by tmpfs but this was
removed with:

  commit 14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1
  Author: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
  Date:   Mon Jul 28 15:46:19 2008 -0700

    tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode

relying on this behaviour was incorrect in any case and the BUG also
appeared when the device node was on an ext3 filesystem.

v2: override a_ops at open() time rather than mmap() time to minimise
races per AKPM's concerns.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ijc@hellion.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jaya Kumar &lt;jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@saeurebad.de&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: Kel Modderman &lt;kel@otaku42.de&gt;
Cc: Markus Armbruster &lt;armbru@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Helt &lt;krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [14fcc23fd is in 2.6.25.14 and 2.6.26.1]
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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Fixes kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473.

Previously the handler was incidentally provided by tmpfs but this was
removed with:

  commit 14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1
  Author: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
  Date:   Mon Jul 28 15:46:19 2008 -0700

    tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode

relying on this behaviour was incorrect in any case and the BUG also
appeared when the device node was on an ext3 filesystem.

v2: override a_ops at open() time rather than mmap() time to minimise
races per AKPM's concerns.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ijc@hellion.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jaya Kumar &lt;jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@saeurebad.de&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: Kel Modderman &lt;kel@otaku42.de&gt;
Cc: Markus Armbruster &lt;armbru@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Helt &lt;krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [14fcc23fd is in 2.6.25.14 and 2.6.26.1]
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>
<entry>
<title>mm: dirty page tracking race fix</title>
<updated>2008-08-20T22:40:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-20T21:09:18+00:00</published>
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There is a race with dirty page accounting where a page may not properly
be accounted for.

clear_page_dirty_for_io() calls page_mkclean; then TestClearPageDirty.

page_mkclean walks the rmaps for that page, and for each one it cleans and
write protects the pte if it was dirty.  It uses page_check_address to
find the pte.  That function has a shortcut to avoid the ptl if the pte is
not present.  Unfortunately, the pte can be switched to not-present then
back to present by other code while holding the page table lock -- this
should not be a signal for page_mkclean to ignore that pte, because it may
be dirty.

For example, powerpc64's set_pte_at will clear a previously present pte
before setting it to the desired value.  There may also be other code in
core mm or in arch which do similar things.

The consequence of the bug is loss of data integrity due to msync, and
loss of dirty page accounting accuracy.  XIP's __xip_unmap could easily
also be unreliable (depending on the exact XIP locking scheme), which can
lead to data corruption.

Fix this by having an option to always take ptl to check the pte in
page_check_address.

It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and
try_to_unmap.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@freenet.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&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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There is a race with dirty page accounting where a page may not properly
be accounted for.

clear_page_dirty_for_io() calls page_mkclean; then TestClearPageDirty.

page_mkclean walks the rmaps for that page, and for each one it cleans and
write protects the pte if it was dirty.  It uses page_check_address to
find the pte.  That function has a shortcut to avoid the ptl if the pte is
not present.  Unfortunately, the pte can be switched to not-present then
back to present by other code while holding the page table lock -- this
should not be a signal for page_mkclean to ignore that pte, because it may
be dirty.

For example, powerpc64's set_pte_at will clear a previously present pte
before setting it to the desired value.  There may also be other code in
core mm or in arch which do similar things.

The consequence of the bug is loss of data integrity due to msync, and
loss of dirty page accounting accuracy.  XIP's __xip_unmap could easily
also be unreliable (depending on the exact XIP locking scheme), which can
lead to data corruption.

Fix this by having an option to always take ptl to check the pte in
page_check_address.

It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and
try_to_unmap.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@freenet.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&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>
<entry>
<title>fix setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) thread iterator breakage</title>
<updated>2008-08-20T22:40:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ken Chen</name>
<email>kenchen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-20T21:09:17+00:00</published>
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When user calls sys_setpriority(PRIO_PGRP ...) on a NPTL style multi-LWP
process, only the task leader of the process is affected, all other
sibling LWP threads didn't receive the setting.  The problem was that the
iterator used in sys_setpriority() only iteartes over one task for each
process, ignoring all other sibling thread.

Introduce a new macro do_each_pid_thread / while_each_pid_thread to walk
each thread of a process.  Convert 4 call sites in {set/get}priority and
ioprio_{set/get}.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenchen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.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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When user calls sys_setpriority(PRIO_PGRP ...) on a NPTL style multi-LWP
process, only the task leader of the process is affected, all other
sibling LWP threads didn't receive the setting.  The problem was that the
iterator used in sys_setpriority() only iteartes over one task for each
process, ignoring all other sibling thread.

Introduce a new macro do_each_pid_thread / while_each_pid_thread to walk
each thread of a process.  Convert 4 call sites in {set/get}priority and
ioprio_{set/get}.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenchen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reserve NFS fileid values for btrfs</title>
<updated>2008-08-20T20:19:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-20T13:58:23+00:00</published>
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Purely cosmetic for now, but we might as well get it merged ASAP.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Purely cosmetic for now, but we might as well get it merged ASAP.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-08-19T20:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-19T20:55:47+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: add acpi_find_root_bridge_handle
  PCI: acpi_pcihp: run _OSC on a root bridge
  x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Ibex Peak PCHs
  x86/PCI: allow scanning of 255 PCI busses
  x86, pci: detect end_bus_number according to acpi/e820 reserved, v2
  pci: debug extra pci bus resources
  pci: debug extra pci resources range
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: add acpi_find_root_bridge_handle
  PCI: acpi_pcihp: run _OSC on a root bridge
  x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Ibex Peak PCHs
  x86/PCI: allow scanning of 255 PCI busses
  x86, pci: detect end_bus_number according to acpi/e820 reserved, v2
  pci: debug extra pci bus resources
  pci: debug extra pci resources range
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-08-19T16:59:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-19T16:59:02+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (94 commits)
  pkt_sched: Prevent livelock in TX queue running.
  Revert "pkt_sched: Add BH protection for qdisc_stab_lock."
  Revert "pkt_sched: Protect gen estimators under est_lock."
  pkt_sched: remove bogus block (cleanup)
  nf_nat: use secure_ipv4_port_ephemeral() for NAT port randomization
  netfilter: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix sleep in read-side lock section
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix double helper assignation for NAT'ed conntracks
  netfilter: ipt_addrtype: Fix matching of inverted destination address type
  dccp: Fix panic caused by too early termination of retransmission mechanism
  pkt_sched: Don't hold qdisc lock over qdisc_destroy().
  pkt_sched: Add lockdep annotation for qdisc locks
  pkt_sched: Never schedule non-root qdiscs.
  removed unused #include &lt;version.h&gt;
  rt2x00: Fix txdone_entry_desc_flags
  b43: Fix for another Bluetooth Coexistence SPROM Programming error for BCM4306
  mac80211: remove kdoc references to IEEE80211_HW_HOST_GEN_BEACON_TEMPLATE
  p54u: reset skb's data/tail pointer on requeue
  p54: move p54_vdcf_init to the right place.
  iwlwifi: fix printk newlines
  ...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (94 commits)
  pkt_sched: Prevent livelock in TX queue running.
  Revert "pkt_sched: Add BH protection for qdisc_stab_lock."
  Revert "pkt_sched: Protect gen estimators under est_lock."
  pkt_sched: remove bogus block (cleanup)
  nf_nat: use secure_ipv4_port_ephemeral() for NAT port randomization
  netfilter: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix sleep in read-side lock section
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix double helper assignation for NAT'ed conntracks
  netfilter: ipt_addrtype: Fix matching of inverted destination address type
  dccp: Fix panic caused by too early termination of retransmission mechanism
  pkt_sched: Don't hold qdisc lock over qdisc_destroy().
  pkt_sched: Add lockdep annotation for qdisc locks
  pkt_sched: Never schedule non-root qdiscs.
  removed unused #include &lt;version.h&gt;
  rt2x00: Fix txdone_entry_desc_flags
  b43: Fix for another Bluetooth Coexistence SPROM Programming error for BCM4306
  mac80211: remove kdoc references to IEEE80211_HW_HOST_GEN_BEACON_TEMPLATE
  p54u: reset skb's data/tail pointer on requeue
  p54: move p54_vdcf_init to the right place.
  iwlwifi: fix printk newlines
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-08-19T00:40:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-19T00:40:13+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
  ata: add missing ATA_* defines
  ata: add missing ATA_CMD_* defines
  ata: add missing ATA_ID_* defines (take 2)
  sgiioc4: fixup message on resource allocation failure
  ide-cd: use bcd2bin/bin2bcd
  cdrom: handle TOC
  gdrom: add dummy audio_ioctl handler
  viocd: add dummy audio ioctl handler
  cleanup powerpc/include/asm/ide.h
  drivers/ide/pci/: use __devexit_p()
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
  ata: add missing ATA_* defines
  ata: add missing ATA_CMD_* defines
  ata: add missing ATA_ID_* defines (take 2)
  sgiioc4: fixup message on resource allocation failure
  ide-cd: use bcd2bin/bin2bcd
  cdrom: handle TOC
  gdrom: add dummy audio_ioctl handler
  viocd: add dummy audio ioctl handler
  cleanup powerpc/include/asm/ide.h
  drivers/ide/pci/: use __devexit_p()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: add acpi_find_root_bridge_handle</title>
<updated>2008-08-18T20:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jirislaby@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-18T18:22:54+00:00</published>
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Consolidate finding of a root bridge and getting its handle to the one
inline function. It's cut &amp; pasted on multiple places. Use this new
inline in those.

Cc: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com
Acked-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
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Consolidate finding of a root bridge and getting its handle to the one
inline function. It's cut &amp; pasted on multiple places. Use this new
inline in those.

Cc: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com
Acked-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ata: add missing ATA_* defines</title>
<updated>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b59116205c54c89df9cc80721b59e1e8d14488f1'/>
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Add missing ATA_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATAPI_{LFS,EOM,ILI,IO,CODE} defines while at it.

Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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Add missing ATA_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATAPI_{LFS,EOM,ILI,IO,CODE} defines while at it.

Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ata: add missing ATA_CMD_* defines</title>
<updated>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</published>
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Add missing ATA_CMD_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATA_EXABYTE_ENABLE_NEST, SETFEATURES_AAM_* and ATA_SMART_*
defines while at it.

Partially based on earlier work by Chris Wedgwood.

Acked-by: Chris Wedgwood &lt;cw@f00f.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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Add missing ATA_CMD_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATA_EXABYTE_ENABLE_NEST, SETFEATURES_AAM_* and ATA_SMART_*
defines while at it.

Partially based on earlier work by Chris Wedgwood.

Acked-by: Chris Wedgwood &lt;cw@f00f.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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