Remove do_sync_file_range() and convert callers to just use
do_sync_mapping_range().
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While researching the tty layer pid leaks I found a weird case in selinux when
we drop a controlling tty because of inadequate permissions we don't do the
normal hangup processing. Which is a problem if it happens the session leader
has exec'd something that can no longer access the tty.
We already have code in the kernel to handle this case in the form of the
TIOCNOTTY ioctl. So this patch factors out a helper function that is the
essence of that ioctl and calls it from the selinux code.
This removes the inconsistency in handling dropping of a controlling tty and
who knows it might even make some part of user space happy because it received
a SIGHUP it was expecting.
In addition since this removes the last user of proc_set_tty outside of
tty_io.c proc_set_tty is made static and removed from tty.h
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch should contain no functional changes.
At some point I got confused and thought put_pid could not be called while a
spin lock was held. While it may be nice to avoid that to reduce lock hold
times put_pid can be safely called while we hold a spin lock.
This patch removes all of the complications from the code introduced by my
misunderstanding, making the code a little more readable.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All of the users of proc_clear_tty are compiled into the kernel so exporting
this symbol appears gratuitous.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the
CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major
problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore
any other console devices (unless explicitly specified on the kernel
command line).
This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot
console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will
become the default console instead. This way the unregister call for the
boot console in the register_console() function actually triggers and the
handover from the boot console to the real console device works smoothly.
Added a printk for the handover, so you know which console device the
output goes to when the boot console stops printing messages.
The disable_early_printk() call is obsolete with that patch, explicitly
disabling the early console isn't needed any more as it works automagically
with that patch.
I've walked through the tree, dropped all disable_early_printk() instances
found below arch/ and tagged the consoles with CON_BOOT if needed. The
code is tested on x86, sh (thanks to Paul) and mips (thanks to Ralf).
Changes to last version: Rediffed against -rc3, adapted to mips cleanups by
Ralf, fixed "udbg-immortal" cmd line arg on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@exsuse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The jsm driver doesn't currently use the uart_handle_*_change helper
functions, which are the obvious place for things like linuxpps to tie
into (which it now does of course), and as a result the jsm driver can
not be used with linuxpps and anything else that ties into the
serial_core helper functions. This patch adds calls to these helper
functions whenever the value they manage changes. That actual storage
of the state is not modified since the jsm driver caches the current
settings (The 8250 driver reads them everytime a user asks for the
state), and only updates them whenever they change.
Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Scott H Kilau <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The jsm driver fails when you try to use the TIOCSSERIAL ioctl. The reason
is that the driver never sets uart_port.uartclk, causing the data received
using TIOCGSERIAL to not match the internal state of the driver. This
patch fixes this problem by settings the uartclk to the value used by the
serial_core (16 times the baud base).
Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Scott H Kilau <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Switch from private uclong, etc over to standard types.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At least on x86_64 the present cyclades.h is broken due to the wrong size
of uclong. This affects, of course, both the kernel and the user-level
utilities. The symptom is that cyzload refuses to load the firmware. I
also managed to freeze the machine when unloading the module.
The patch below fixes this in an architecture-independent way. I have
tested it with 2.6.19 and the driver works fine again with a Cyclades-Z on
an Athlon 64 X2.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:eisa_root_register from .text between 'virtual_eisa_root_init' (at
offset 0xc026b80f) and 'cpufreq_debug_disable_ratelimit'
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It misspelled "MODVERSIONS" preprocessor variable with "CONFIG_MODVERSIONS".
Just kill it all.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch kills the "ignoring return value of 'device_create_file'"
warning message.
Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cleaning up of pci_find_device in drivers/telephony/ixj.c.
Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar <surya.prabhakar@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
tAdd adds support for devices living in MMIO space to the Infineon TPM
driver. These can be found on some of the newer HP ia64 systems.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PNP now initializes device dma masks, which prevents oopses when generic
dma calls are made using pnp device nodes.
This assumes PNP only uses ISA DMA, with 24 bit addresses; and that it's
safe to init those masks for all devices (rather than finding out which
devices have been assigned DMA channels, and handling only those).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace call_smp_function with stop_machine_run in the Intel RNG driver.
CPU A has done read_lock(&lock)
CPU B has done write_lock_irq(&lock) and is waiting for A to release the lock.
A third CPU calls call_smp_function and issues the IPI. CPU A takes CPU
C's IPI. CPU B is waiting with interrupts disabled and does not see the
IPI. CPU C is stuck waiting for CPU B to respond to the IPI.
Deadlock.
The solution is to use stop_machine_run instead of call_smp_function
(call_smp_function should not be called in situations where the CPUs may be
suspended).
[haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp: fix a typo in mod_init()]
[haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp: fix memory leak]
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Tomita, Haruo" <haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This driver provides support for the Apple System Management Controller, which
provides an accelerometer (Apple Sudden Motion Sensor), light sensors,
temperature sensors, keyboard backlight control and fan control. Only
Intel-based Apple's computers are supported (MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacMini).
[bunk@stusta.de: make drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c:backlight_work stati]
[khali@linux-fr.org: fix temperature attribute file names]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add pci_remove handling to the driver, so it will clean up if
the device is hot-removed.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an
NMI. This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs
and if it has an NMI post processing call. Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog
to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in.
It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The IPMI driver used enable_irq and disable_irq when it got into situations
where it couldn't allocate memory; it did this to avoid having the interrupt
just lock the machine when it couldn't get memory to perform the transaction
to disable the interrupt.
This patch modifies the driver to not use disable_irq and enable_irq. It
instead sends the messages to the BMC to perform this operation. It also
makes sure interrupts are cleanly disabled when the interface is shut down and
cleans up some shutdown things that are no longer necessary.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for of_platform_driver to the ipmi_si module. When loading the
module, the driver will be registered to of_platform. The driver will be
probed for all devices with the type ipmi. It's supporting devices with
compatible settings ipmi-kcs, ipmi-smic and ipmi-bt. Only ipmi-kcs could be
tested.
Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko J Schick <schihei@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is to fix many section mismatches of code related to memory hotplug.
I checked compile with memory hotplug on/off on ia64 and x86-64 box.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'drm-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/i915: Add 965GM pci id update
drm: just use io_remap_pfn_range on all archs..
drm: fix DRM_CONSISTENT mapping
drm: fix up mmap locking in preparation for ttm changes
drm: fix driver deadlock with AIGLX and reclaim_buffers_locked
drm: fix warning in drm_fops.c
drm: allow for more generic drm ioctls
drm: fix alpha domain handling
via: fix CX700 pci id
drm: make drm_io_prot static.
drm: remove via_mm.h
drm: add missing NULL assignment
drm/radeon: Fix u32 overflows when determining AGP base address in card space.
drm: port over use_vmalloc code from git hashtab
drm: fix crash with fops lock and fixup sarea/page size locking
drm: bring bufs code from git tree.
drm: move protection stuff into separate function
drm: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate
drm: update README.drm (bugzilla #7933)
drm: remove unused exports
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NET]: rfkill: add support for input key to control wireless radio
[NET] net/core: Fix error handling
[TG3]: Update version and reldate.
[TG3]: Eliminate spurious interrupts.
[TG3]: Add ASPM workaround.
[Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer for another Broadcom based dongle
[Bluetooth] Add support for Targus ACB10US USB dongle
[Bluetooth] Disconnect L2CAP connection after last RFCOMM DLC
[Bluetooth] Check that device is in rfcomm_dev_list before deleting
[Bluetooth] Use in-kernel sockets API
[Bluetooth] Attach host adapters to the Bluetooth bus
[Bluetooth] Fix L2CAP and HCI setsockopt() information leaks
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SERIAL] sunsu: Fix section mismatch warnings.
[SPARC64]: pgtable_cache_init() should be __init.
[SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/prom.c
[SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/pci.c
[SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/console.c
[MM]: sparse_init() should be __init.
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
[VIDEO]: Add Sun XVR-2500 framebuffer driver.
[VIDEO]: Add Sun XVR-500 framebuffer driver.
[SPARC64]: SUN4U PCI-E controller support.
[SPARC]: Fix comment typo in smp4m_blackbox_current().
[SCSI] SUNESP: sun_esp.c needs linux/delay.h
Fix up conflict in arch/sparc64/mm/init.c manually due to removal of
pgtable_cache_init() through the -mm patches (even though that patch was
also by David ;)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IPoIB: Convert to NAPI
IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq()
IB: Add CQ comp_vector support
IB/ipath: Fix a race condition when generating ACKs
IB/ipath: Fix two more spin lock problems
IB/fmr_pool: Add prefix to all printks
IB/srp: Set proc_name
IB/srp: Add orig_dgid sysfs attribute to scsi_host
IPoIB/cm: Don't crash if remote side uses one QP for both directions
RDMA/cxgb3: Support for new abort logic
RDMA/cxgb3: Initialize cpu_idx field in cpl_close_listserv_req message
RDMA/cxgb3: Fail qp creation if the requested max_inline is too large
RDMA/cxgb3: Fix TERM codes
IPoIB/cm: Fix error handling in ipoib_cm_dev_open()
IB/ipath: Don't corrupt pending mmap list when unmapped objects are freed
IB/mthca: Work around kernel QP starvation
IB/ipath: Don't put QP in timeout queue if waiting to send
IB/ipath: Don't call spin_lock_irq() from interrupt context
Commit a836f5856a removes the shutdown
member of the bitbang structure, breaking the build of spi_s3c24xx.c.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rename config for TANBAC TB0219 GPIO support to something more appropriate.
Fixes this:
drivers/char/Kconfig:906:warning: type of 'TANBAC_TB0219' redefined from 'boolean' to 'tristate'
drivers/char/Kconfig:907:warning: choice values currently only support a single
prompt
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As seen on powerpc-cell et al:
CC [M] drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.o
In file included from drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c:941:
drivers/usb/host/ehci-ps3.c:79: error: conflicting types for 'dev_dbg'
include/linux/device.h:576: error: previous definition of 'dev_dbg' was here
make[4]: *** [drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.o] Error 1
CC [M] drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.o
In file included from drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c:921:
drivers/usb/host/ohci-ps3.c:83: error: conflicting types for 'dev_dbg'
include/linux/device.h:576: error: previous definition of 'dev_dbg' was here
dev_dbg() will check format string for you in dummy case also, so remove
buggers.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alpha:
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c: In function 'cx8800_initdev':
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c:1782: error: 'DMA_32BIT_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c:1782: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c:1782: error: for each function it appears in.)
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove software_suspend() and all its users since
pm_suspend(PM_SUSPEND_DISK) should be equivalent and there's no point in
having two interfaces for the same thing.
The patch also changes the valid_state function to return 0 (false) for
PM_SUSPEND_DISK when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not configured instead of
accepting it and having the whole thing fail later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices Blackfin
processor's SPI Port.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices Blackfin
processor's on-chip RTC controller.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As SMC91X ethernet controller are used in blackfin STAMP 533 development
board, this patch add blackfin support to the smc91x linux driver.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices Blackfin
processor's Serial Port.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.
I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.
I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free. That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.
Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).
There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.
This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan