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James Chapman
c28a4f8947 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: use MII library for PHY management
Modify link up/down handling to use the functions from the MII
library.  Note that I track link state using the MII PHY registers
rather than the mv643xx chip's link state registers because I think
it's cleaner to use the MII library code rather than writing local
driver support code. It is also useful to make the actual MII
registers available to the user with maskable kernel printk messages
so the MII registers are being read anyway

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:11:16 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
9f8dd31945 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Make port queue enable/disable code consistent
Add and use the following functions:
	mv643xx_eth_port_enable_tx()
	mv643xx_eth_port_enable_rx()
	mv643xx_eth_port_disable_tx()
	mv643xx_eth_port_disable_rx()

so that ports are enabled/disabled consistently.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:11:16 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
f98e36f1f7 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Rename mp->tx_ring_skbs to mp->tx_desc_count
tx_ring_skbs is actually a count of tx descriptors currently in use.
Since there may be multiple descriptors per skb, it is not the
same as the number of skbs in the ring.

Also change rx_ring_skbs to rx_desc_count to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:11:16 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
cf4086c772 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Merge unicast and multicast address filtering code
Remove duplicated code by having unicast and multicast code use
a common filter table function: eth_port_set_filter_table_entry().

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:11:16 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
ed9b5d4576 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Remove needless mp->port_mac_addr
mp->port_mac_addr is just a redundant copy of dev->dev_addr, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:11:16 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
cfc88b0729 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' 2006-01-27 11:09:39 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
6651a5c383 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix for building as a module
Enable mv643xx_eth driver to work when built as a module on
mv64x60-based embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
b4de9051a9 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
Paolo Galtieri
12ad74f88f [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Update dev->last_rx on packet receive
Update dev->last_rx on packet receive

This fix corrects errors seen during configuration of the bonding driver.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
c7cd9014e6 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix spinlock recursion bug
This patch eliminates a spinlock recursion bug introduced recently.
Since eth_port_send() is always called with the lock held, we simply
remove the locking inside the function itself.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn / snakebyte
cca4aa83c7 [PATCH] BUG_ON() Conversion in net/tulip/winbond-840.c
hi,

this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 10:33:16 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn / snakebyte
7e0b58f32f [PATCH] BUG_ON() Conversion in net/tulip/de2104x.c
hi,

this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

One of the if()s contains a call to de_is_running(),
which seems to be safe to replace, but someone with more
knownledge of the code might want to verify this...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 10:33:16 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn / snakebyte
a707cd6e2d [PATCH] BUG_ON() Conversion in net/tulip/xircom_cb.c
hi,

this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 10:33:16 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
97309d1a0b Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' 2006-01-26 22:19:57 -05:00
Ananda Raju
efd51b5c67 [PATCH] s2io: scatter-gather fix
There is a problem with fragmented skb in s2io driver version 2.0.9.4
	available in 2.6.16-rc1 kernel. The adapter will fail to transmit if
	any scatter-gather skb arrives.  This patch provides fix for the above
	described problem.

Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-26 22:11:26 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
c35ca399e0 [PATCH] b44: fix laptop carrier detect
On my laptop, the b44 device is created and the carrier state defaults
to ON when created by alloc_etherdev. This means tools like NetworkManager
see the carrier as On and try and bring the device up.  The correct thing
to do is mark the carrier as Off when device is created.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-26 22:10:39 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn
6f9d47220e [PATCH] acenic: fix checking of read_eeprom_byte() return values
tmp in ace_init is u32 thus rendering read_eeprom_byte() return values
checks useless.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-26 22:09:40 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn
6a986ce45d [PATCH] bonding: fix ->get_settings error checking
Since get_settings() returns a signed int and it gets checked
for < 0 to catch an error, res should be a signed int too.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-26 22:08:56 -05:00
David S. Miller
3ee68c4af3 [SPARC64]: Use compat_sys_futimesat in 32-bit syscall table.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-20 01:49:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
18a4144028 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-19 22:19:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
02829f7377 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-19 22:17:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
497992917e Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-01-19 22:16:58 -08:00
David S. Miller
7e732bfc55 [PATCH] Fix regression added by ppoll/pselect code.
The compat layer timeout handling changes in:

9f72949f67

are busted.  This is most easily seen with an X application
that uses sub-second select/poll timeout such as emacs.  You
hit a key and it takes a second or so before the app responds.

The two ROUND_UP() calls upon entry are using {tv,ts}_sec where it
should instead be using {tv_usec,ts_nsec}, which perfectly explains
the observed incorrect behavior.

Another bug shot down with git bisect.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-19 22:11:31 -08:00
David S. Miller
4f2d7680cb [NETFILTER] x_tables: Make XT_ALIGN align as strictly as necessary.
Or else we break on ppc32 and other 32-bit platforms.

Based upon a patch from Harald Welte.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 16:58:37 -08:00
David S. Miller
cf9e50a920 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6 2006-01-19 16:53:02 -08:00
John Hawkes
386d1d50c8 [IA64] eliminate softlockup warning
Fix an unnecessary softlockup watchdog warning in the ia64
uncached_build_memmap() that occurs occasionally at 256p and always at
512p.  The problem occurs at boot time.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:18:25 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
60f1c4443c [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
Migrate perfmon from using an old semaphore to a completion handler.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:56 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
92ff2ecd0d [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
Migrate arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32 to using a mutex for mmap protection.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:33 -08:00
David S. Miller
2d7d5f0511 [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.
This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support,
which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups.

The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should
clean it up some day.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 02:42:49 -08:00
David S. Miller
f7111ceb52 [SPARC]: sparc32 needs PROMDEV_{I,O}RSC defines too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 21:57:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0f36b018b2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2006-01-18 19:37:57 -08:00
mark gross
648bf4fb21 [PATCH] tlclk driver update
some driver clean ups, and a re-posting of changes that are needed

to match the updated TPS.

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:25:49 -08:00
Alan Cox
da9bb1d27b [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code
This is a subset of the bluesmoke project core code, stripped of the NMI work
which isn't ready to merge and some of the "interesting" proc functionality
that needs reworking or just has no place in kernel.  It requires no core
kernel changes except the added scrub functions already posted.

The goal is to merge further functionality only after the core code is
accepted and proven in the base kernel, and only at the point the upstream
extras are really ready to merge.

From: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>

  This converts EDAC to sysfs and is the final chunk neccessary before EDAC
  has a stable user space API and can be considered for submission into the
  base kernel.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
Alan Cox
2f768af73f [PATCH] EDAC: drivers for Radisys 82600
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
Alan Cox
0d88a10e56 [PATCH] EDAC: drivers for Intel i82860, i82875
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
Alan Cox
806c35f505 [PATCH] EDAC: drivers for AMD 76x and Intel E750x, E752x
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
Alan Cox
715b49ef2d [PATCH] EDAC: atomic scrub operations
EDAC requires a way to scrub memory if an ECC error is found and the chipset
does not do the work automatically.  That means rewriting memory locations
atomically with respect to all CPUs _and_ bus masters.  That means we can't
use atomic_add(foo, 0) as it gets optimised for non-SMP

This adds a function to include/asm-foo/atomic.h for the platforms currently
supported which implements a scrub of a mapped block.

It also adjusts a few other files include order where atomic.h is included
before types.h as this now causes an error as atomic_scrub uses u32.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
3213e913b0 [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system calls on i386
Add the sys_pselect6() and sys_poll() calls to the i386 syscall table.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
9f72949f67 [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system call implementation
The following implementation of ppoll() and pselect() system calls
depends on the architecture providing a TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the
thread_info.

These system calls have to change the signal mask during their
operation, and signal handlers must be invoked using the new, temporary
signal mask. The old signal mask must be restored either upon successful
exit from the system call, or upon returning from the invoked signal
handler if the system call is interrupted. We can't simply restore the
original signal mask and return to userspace, since the restored signal
mask may actually block the signal which interrupted the system call.

The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag deals with this by causing the syscall exit
path to trap into do_signal() just as TIF_SIGPENDING does, and by
causing do_signal() to use the saved signal mask instead of the current
signal mask when setting up the stack frame for the signal handler -- or
by causing do_signal() to simply restore the saved signal mask in the
case where there is no handler to be invoked.

The first patch implements the sys_pselect() and sys_ppoll() system
calls, which are present only if TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined. That
#ifdef should go away in time when all architectures have implemented
it. The second patch implements TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for the PowerPC
kernel (in the -mm tree), and the third patch then removes the
arch-specific implementations of sys_rt_sigsuspend() and replaces them
with generic versions using the same trick.

The fourth and fifth patches, provided by David Howells, implement
TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FR-V and i386 respectively, and the sixth patch
adds the syscalls to the i386 syscall table.

This patch:

Add the pselect() and ppoll() system calls, providing core routines usable by
the original select() and poll() system calls and also the new calls (with
their semantics w.r.t timeouts).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
Jeff Dike
36a7878a22 [PATCH] uml: use generic sys_rt_sigsuspend
Use the generic sys_rt_sigsuspend.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
Jeff Dike
2fc10620e7 [PATCH] uml: add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support
Add support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.  I copy the i386 handling of the flag.
sys_sigsuspend is also changed to follow i386.
Also a bit of cleanup -
   turn an if into a switch
   get rid of a couple more emacs formatting comments

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
f27201da5c [PATCH] TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
Implement the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the new arch/powerpc kernel, for
both 32-bit and 64-bit system call paths.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Howells
283828f3c1 [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386
Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:

        [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
        [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend

It does the following:

 (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386.

 (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.

 (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
     in current->saved_sigmask.

 (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.

 (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
     rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.

 (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
     intrinsically.

 (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
     -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
     kernel.

Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:

 (8) Makes do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
     ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.

 (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
     necessary.

(10) Makes do_signal() static.

(11) Marks the second argument to do_notify_resume() as unused. The unused
     argument should remain in the middle as the arguments are passed in as
     registers, and the ordering is specific in entry.S

Given the way do_signal() is now no longer called from sys_{,rt_}sigsuspend(),
they no longer need access to the exception frame, and so can just take
arguments normally.

This patch depends on sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
David Howells
a411aee96e [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV
Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:

        [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
        [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend

It does the following:

 (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV.

 (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.

 (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
     in current->saved_sigmask.

 (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.

 (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
     rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.

 (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
     intrinsically.

 (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
     -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
      kernel.

Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:

 (8) Make do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
     ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.

 (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
     necessary.

This patch depends on the FRV signalling patches as well as the
sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
David Woodhouse
150256d8aa [PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend()
The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of
sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture.  This
provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it.

It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
a60fc5190a [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: x86_64
Wire up the x86_64 syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
4f08550723 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: i386
Wire up the x86 syscalls

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
5590ff0d55 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core
Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name.  These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
occasions.  They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.

We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
/proc/self/fd magic.  But this code is rather expensive.  Here are some
results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).

The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem.  Then
rm -fr is used to remove all directories.  Without syscall support I get
this:

real    0m31.921s
user    0m0.688s
sys     0m31.234s

With syscall support the results are much better:

real    0m20.699s
user    0m0.536s
sys     0m20.149s

The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used.  But they'll
be used.  coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
them.  I expect a patch to make follow soon.  Every program which is walking
the filesystem tree will benefit.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
e2f99018eb [PATCH] exportfs: add find_acceptable_alias helper
find_exported_dentry contains two duplicate loops to find an alias that the
acceptable callback likes.  Split this out to a new helper and switch from
list_for_each to list_for_each_entry to make it more readable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:28 -08:00
David Shaw
846f2fcd77 [PATCH] knfsd: Provide missing NFSv2 part of patch for checking vfs_getattr.
A recent patch which checked the return status of vfs_getattr in nfsd,
completely missed the nfsproc.c (NFSv2) part.  Here is it.

This patch moved the call to vfs_getattr from the xdr encoding (at which point
it is too late to return an error) to the call handling.  This means several
calls to vfs_getattr are needed in nfsproc.c.  Many are encapsulated in
nfsd_return_attrs and nfsd_return_dirop.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:28 -08:00