[SCSI] HP XP devinfo update

According to Anthony Cheung all HP XP arrays with "OPEN-"
types support REPORT_LUN. So there is no reason why we
shouldn't use it.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Cheung <anthony.cheung@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

[SCSI] megaraid_sas: zcr with fix

The patch adds support for a ZCR controller (Device ID : 0x413).

It also has a critical bug fix :

Disable controller interrupt before firing INIT cmd to FW.  Interrupt
is enabled after required initialization is over. This is done to
ensure that driver is ready to handle interrupts when it is generated
by the controller.

Signed-off-by: Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

[SCSI] ibmvscsi: treat busy and error conditions separately

This patch fixes a condition where ibmvscsi treats a transport error as a
"busy" condition, so no errors were returned to the scsi mid-layer.
In a RAID environment this means that I/O hung rather than failing
over.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

[SCSI] scsi_debug version 1.79

  - add 'virtual_gb' parameter to simulate large storage
    (by wrapping in dev_size_mb megabytes of actual ram)
  - add 'no_lun_0' parameter to skip lun 0 on each target
    (but still respond as required to INQUIRY + REPORT LUNS)
  - add well know lu support
  - add MODE SELECT commands support [pages: 0xa and 0x1c]
  - add LOG SENSE command support [pages: 0xd and 0x2f]
  - add READ CAPACITY (16) support
  - increase number of mode pages supported (to read),
    mainly transport specific (SAS) mode (sub)pages
  - add more VPD pages and extend others, including
    ATA information VPD page
  - START STOP UNIT now maintains a state machine
  - READ (16) and WRITE (16) cope with lbas larger
    than 32 bits (needed for the 'virtual_gb' parameter)
  - allow single command transfers up to 32 MB
  - more precise error (sense data) messages

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

[SCSI] kmalloc argument switcheroo in recent 53c700 change.

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:00:34PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
 > commit 67d59dfdeb21df2c16dcd478b66177e91178ecd0
 > tree ae85703651d81740f4a6cd398f9dd4d6aabe6a2f
 > parent 6db874fbdbedba5e15e76cc03b42f52ea70338c0
 > author James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:31:19 -0500
 > committer James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:34:01 -0500
 >
 > [SCSI] 53c700: remove reliance on deprecated cmnd fields
 >  ...
 >
 > + SDp->hostdata = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, sizeof(struct NCR_700_sense));
 > +
 > + if (!SDp->hostdata)
 > + return -ENOMEM;

"I'll take reversed arguments for $100 please Alex".

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

[PATCH] uclinux: use PER_LINUX_32BIT in binfmt_flat

binfmt_flat.c calls set_personality with PER_LINUX as the personality.
On the arm architecture this results in the program running in 26bit
usermode.  PER_LINUX_32BIT should be used instead.  This doesn't affect
other architectures that use binfmt_flat.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: make enable_irq() macro statement

Change enable_irq() macro to be a statement, not expression.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: fix ColdFire 5249 PLL set

Fix PLL setting for the Coldfire 5249 CPU. This brings it into line with
the new style frequency configuration of m68knommu parts.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire cache flush fixups

Fix flush code for the ColdFire 5206/5206e/5272 cases.
Add support for the new ColdFire 532x CPU family

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: improve syscall entry and fix strace

Here is a patch to the system call handling for 5307/5272/etc to:

- fix the strace support (one tested the wrong bit)
- make all system calls a little bit faster by inlining set_esp0 and
  supporting ENOSYS out of the critical path.
- remove extraneous spaces

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: force stack alignment on ColdFire

This patch solve a bug triggered by execvp (this function use calloc to
store the argument list and gcc 3.4.x align the stack to word, not to dword).
This situation aren't related to signal handling and all 2.6.x have the bug.
On ColdFire targets we must force the stack to be aligned.

Original patch from Andrea Tarani <andrea.tarani@gilbarco.com>,

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: configurable frequency selection header

Remove list of fixed clock frequency options used for configuring master
clock, and make field an int. Much more flexible this way, no need to add
more options for every new used freqency.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: configurable frequency selection

Remove list of fixed clock frequency options used for configuring master
clock, and make field an int. Much more flexible this way, no need to add
more options for every new used freqency.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: configure support for Avnet5282 board

Add support for the AVNET 5282 board.
Patch submitted by Daniel Alomar <dalomar@serrasold.com>.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire 532x CPU configure support

Add configure support for the new Freescale 532x family of CPUs.
Patch submitted by Matt Waddel <Matt.Waddel@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Revert "swsusp special saveable pages support" commits

This reverts commits

  3e3318dee0878d42ed62a19c292a2ac284135db3 [PATCH] swsusp: x86_64 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages
  b6370d96e09944c6e3ae8d5743ca8a8ab1f79f6c [PATCH] swsusp: i386 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages
  ce4ab0012b32c1a4a1d6e934aeb73bf3151c48d9 [PATCH] swsusp: add architecture special saveable pages support

because not only do they apparently cause page faults on x86, the
infrastructure doesn't compile on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire 532x CPU platform build support

Add build support for the new Freescale 532x CPU platforms.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: add ColdFire 532x UART address support

Add support for the UART addressing on the new Freescale M532x CPU family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: add ColdFire 532x timer build support

Add build support for new Freescale M532x CPU family timer.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: cleanup setup.c

A cleanup of m68knommu/kernel/setup.c :

- No need to initialize global pointers to NULL, they will have that value
  automatically, and they eat up space in my data segment image in FLASH.
- Remove get_cpuinfo.  It has been replaced by show_cpuinfo.

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: check DEBUG defined arch code

Don't rely on DEBUG having a value, check for it being defined.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: include ColdFire 532x register definitions

Include the ColdFire 532x support when including ColdFire peripharp
support definitions.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: add ColdFire 532x cache init

Add cache init support for the new ColdFire 532x CPU family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: 532x UART support

ColdFire serial driver support for the new 532x CPU family UARTs.

Patch submitted by Matt Waddel <Matt.Waddel@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire 532x register definitions

Register definitions for the new Freescale 532x Coldfire CPU family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire 532x CPU startup code

Add kernel startup code for the new Freescale 532x CPU family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: read/write register access for PIT timer

Modify the m68knommu/ColdFire PIT timer code to use register offsets
with raw_read/raw_write access, instead of a mapped struct.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: remove use of rom_length

Remove use of rom_length. It serves not real purpose, and when we move
to new stye RAM configuration it will not be needed.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: switch arch config name to CONFIG_M68K

Switch to naming the architecture config options for the m68knommu branch
as "M68K", dropping "M68KNOMMU".  The CONFIG_MMU separates the 2 now, and
the m68knommu branch is still strictly speaking an M68K (including the
ColdFire parts).

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: read/write register access for ColdFire core timer

Modify the m68knommu/ColdFire core timer code to use register offsets
with raw_read/raw_write access, instead of a mapped struct.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] m68knommu: 532x FEC eth struct map

Specify the struct mapping used on the new Freescale 532x CPU family's
FEC ethernet core.

Patch submitted by Matt Waddel <Matt.Waddel@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] spufs: update ->flush method proto

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] xfs: update ->flush method proto

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Merge branch 'for-linus' of /linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IB/iser: iSER Kconfig and Makefile
  IB/iser: iSER handling of memory for RDMA
  IB/iser: iSER RDMA CM (CMA) and IB verbs interaction
  IB/iser: iSER initiator iSCSI PDU and TX/RX
  IB/iser: iSCSI iSER transport provider high level code
  IB/iser: iSCSI iSER transport provider header file
  IB/uverbs: Remove unnecessary list_del()s
  IB/uverbs: Don't free wr list when it's known to be empty

Fix NFS2 compile error

Trond had apparently merged the same patch twice, causing a duplicate
include of the "internal.h" file, with resulting obvious confusion.

Tssk.  I'm the only one allowed to send out trees that don't even
compile! Who does this Trond guy think he is?

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] i386: Fix softirq accounting with 4K stacks

Copy the softirq bits in preempt_count from the current context into the
hardirq context when using 4K stacks to make the softirq_count macro work
correctly and thereby fix softirq cpu time accounting.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6

* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (51 commits)
  nfs: remove nfs_put_link()
  nfs-build-fix-99
  git-nfs-build-fixes
  Merge branch 'odirect'
  NFS: alloc nfs_read/write_data as direct I/O is scheduled
  NFS: Eliminate nfs_get_user_pages()
  NFS: refactor nfs_direct_free_user_pages
  NFS: remove user_addr, user_count, and pos from nfs_direct_req
  NFS: "open code" the NFS direct write rescheduler
  NFS: Separate functions for counting outstanding NFS direct I/Os
  NLM: Fix reclaim races
  NLM: sem to mutex conversion
  locks.c: add the fl_owner to nlm_compare_locks
  NFS: Display the chosen RPCSEC_GSS security flavour in /proc/mounts
  NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c
  NFS: Fix typo in nfs_do_clone_mount()
  NFS: Fix compile errors introduced by referrals patches
  NFSv4: Ensure that referral mounts bind to a reserved port
  NFSv4: A root pathname is sent as a zero component4
  NFSv4: Follow a referral
  ...

Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (244 commits)
  V4L/DVB (4210b): git-dvb: tea575x-tuner build fix
  V4L/DVB (4210a): git-dvb versus matroxfb
  V4L/DVB (4209): Added some BTTV PCI IDs for newer boards
  Fixes some sync issues between V4L/DVB development and GIT
  V4L/DVB (4206): Cx88-blackbird: always set encoder height based on tvnorm->id
  V4L/DVB (4205): Merge tda9887 module into tuner.
  V4L/DVB (4203): Explicitly set the enum values.
  V4L/DVB (4202): allow selecting CX2341x port mode
  V4L/DVB (4200): Disable bitrate_mode when encoding mpeg-1.
  V4L/DVB (4199): Add cx2341x-specific control array to cx2341x.c
  V4L/DVB (4198): Avoid newer usages of obsoleted experimental MPEGCOMP API
  V4L/DVB (4197): Port new MPEG API to saa7134-empress with saa6752hs
  V4L/DVB (4196): Port cx88-blackbird to the new MPEG API.
  V4L/DVB (4193): Update cx2341x fw encoding API doc.
  V4L/DVB (4192): Use control helpers for saa7115, cx25840, msp3400.
  V4L/DVB (4191): Add CX2341X MPEG encoder module.
  V4L/DVB (4190): Add helper functions for control processing to v4l2-common.
  V4L/DVB (4189): Add videodev support for VIDIOC_S/G/TRY_EXT_CTRLS.
  V4L/DVB (4188): Add new MPEG control/ioctl definitions to videodev2.h
  V4L/DVB (4186): Add support for the DNTV Live! mini DVB-T card.
  ...

Fix PM_TRACE dependency: works only on 32-bit x86 for now

Not that x86-64 and other architecture support should be difficult to
add (trivial fixups to the data format and add the proper linker script
entry).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fix race in idr code

I ran into a bug where the kernel died in the idr code:

cpu 0x1d: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000b7096f710]
    pc: c0000000001f8984: .idr_get_new_above_int+0x140/0x330
    lr: c0000000001f89b4: .idr_get_new_above_int+0x170/0x330
    sp: c000000b7096f990
   msr: 800000000000b032
   dar: 0
 dsisr: 40010000
  current = 0xc000000b70d43830
  paca    = 0xc000000000556900
    pid   = 2022, comm = hwup
1d:mon> t
[c000000b7096f990] c0000000000d2ad8 .expand_files+0x2e8/0x364 (unreliable)
[c000000b7096faa0] c0000000001f8bf8 .idr_get_new_above+0x18/0x68
[c000000b7096fb20] c00000000002a054 .init_new_context+0x5c/0xf0
[c000000b7096fbc0] c000000000049dc8 .copy_process+0x91c/0x1404
[c000000b7096fcd0] c00000000004a988 .do_fork+0xd8/0x224
[c000000b7096fdc0] c00000000000ebdc .sys_clone+0x5c/0x74
[c000000b7096fe30] c000000000008950 .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc

[PATCH] update-devices.txt

Update Documentation/devices.txt with a new version from the LANANA site
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] remove unlikely(sb) in prune_dcache

likely profiling shows that the following is a miss.

After boot:
[+- ] Type | # True | # False | Function:Filename@Line
+unlikely |     1074|        0  prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409

After a bonnie++ run:
+unlikely |    66716|    19584  prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409

So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Fix "biovec-(256)" in /proc/slabinfo

Stringify does what it was told to do.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Fix kdump Crash Kernel boot memory reservation for NUMA machines

This patch will fix a boot memory reservation bug that trashes memory on
the ES7000 when loading the kdump crash kernel.

The code in arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c to reserve boot memory for the crash
kernel uses the non-numa aware "reserve_bootmem" function instead of the
NUMA aware "reserve_bootmem_generic".  I checked to make sure that no other
function was using "reserve_bootmem" and found none, except the ones that
had NUMA ifdef'ed out.

I have tested this patch only on an ES7000 with NUMA on and off (numa=off)
in a single (non-NUMA) and multi-cell (NUMA) configurations.

Signed-off-by: Amul Shah <amul.shah@unisys.com>
Looks-good-to: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] s390: setup.c cleanup + build fix

Cleanup & fix 31 bit compilation:

  CC      arch/s390/kernel/setup.o
arch/s390/kernel/setup.c:83: error: initializer element is not computable at
                                    load time
arch/s390/kernel/setup.c:83: error: (near initialization for
                                    'code_resource.start')
Not sure which patch in the -mm tree breaks this, but since this can be
considered a cleanup it can be merged anyway.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] au1xxx: oss sound support for au1200

au1550 ac97 driver works fine on au1200 too.

Comments at the top of file state this code is GPL, so lets
mark it as GPL too.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@ultra.si>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] parport: add to kernel-doc

Add parport interfaces to kernel-doc template.  Small doc.  cleanups in 2
parport source files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] au1550_ac97: spin_unlock in error path

Error paths didn't spin_unlock.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@ultra.si>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext2: cleanup: put_page and comment fix

Things which force me think a little: why so?

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] pacct: none-delayed process accounting accumulation

In current 2.6.17 implementation, signal_struct refered from task_struct is
used for per-process data structure.  The pacct facility also uses it as a
per-process data structure to store stime, utime, minflt, majflt.  But those
members are saved in __exit_signal().  It's too late.

For example, if some threads exits at same time, pacct facility has a
possibility to drop accountings for a part of those threads.  (see, the
following 'The results of original 2.6.17 kernel') I think accounting
information should be completely collected into the per-process data structure
before writing out an accounting record.

This patch fixes this matter.  Accumulation of stime, utime, minflt and majflt
are done before generating accounting record.

[mingo@elte.hu: fix acct_collect() siglock bug found by lockdep]
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] pacct: avoidance to refer the last thread as a representation of the process

When pacct facility generate an 'ac_flag' field in accounting record, it
refers a task_struct of the thread which died last in the process.  But any
other task_structs are ignored.

Therefore, pacct facility drops ASU flag even if root-privilege operations are
used by any other threads except the last one.  In addition, AFORK flag is
always set when the thread of group-leader didn't die last, although this
process has called execve() after fork().

We have a same matter in ac_exitcode.  The recorded ac_exitcode is an exit
code of the last thread in the process.  There is a possibility this exitcode
is not the group leader's one.

[PATCH] pacct: add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs.

The pacct facility need an i/o operation when an accounting record is
generated.  There is a possibility to wake OOM killer up.  If OOM killer is
activated, it kills some processes to make them release process memory
regions.

But acct_process() is called in the killed processes context before calling
exit_mm(), so those processes cannot release own memory.  In the results, any
processes stop in this point and it finally cause a system stall.

[PATCH] Corrections to memory barrier doc

Apply some small corrections to the memory barrier document, as contributed by:

Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] synclink_gt: add GT2 adapter support

Add support for SyncLink GT2 adapter to driver.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fix synclink_gt diagnostics error reporting

Fix diagnostics error reporting that was being overwritten by incorrect use
of return codes from individual diagnostic functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] add synclink_gt crc return feature

Add ability to return HDLC CRC to user application.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] add synclink_gt custom hdlc idle

Add custom HDLC idle pattern feature.

It allows the user to specify an arbitrary 8 or 16 bit repeating pattern on
the transmit data pin between HDLC frames.

In most cases the idle pattern is continuous ones or flags as supported by off
the shelf synchronous controllers and defined in the ISO3309 standard.  Some
applications (radio/satellite modems, connections to legacy military hardware)
require non-standard patterns.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] irda-usb printk fix

drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: In function 'stir421x_patch_device':
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c:1108: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t'

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kthread: move kernel-doc and put it into DocBook

Move kthread API kernel-doc from kthread.h to kthread.c & fix it.
Add kthread API to kernel-api DocBook.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] DMI: cleanup kernel-doc, add to DocBook

Add DMI interface functions to a new Firmware Interfaces chapter in the
kernel-api DocBook.  Clean up kernel-doc in drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Implement kasprintf

Implement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf.  This allocates the
memory required for the formatted string, including the trailing '\0'.
Returns NULL on allocation failure.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Fix bounds check in vsnprintf, to allow for a 0 size and NULL buffer

This change allows callers to use a 0-byte buffer and a NULL buffer pointer
with vsnprintf, so it can be used to determine how large the resulting
formatted string will be.

Previously the code effectively treated a size of 0 as a size of 4G (on
32-bit systems), with other checks preventing it from actually trying to
emit the string - but the terminal \0 would still be written, which would
crash if the buffer is NULL.

This change changes the boundary check so that 'end' points to the putative
location of the terminal '\0', which is only written if size > 0.

vsnprintf still allows the buffer size to be set very large, to allow
unbounded buffer sizes (to implement sprintf, etc).

[akpm@osdl.org: fix long-vs-longlong confusion]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] LED: add LED heartbeat trigger

Add an LED trigger acts like a heart beat.  This can be used as a
replacement of CONFIG_HEARTBEAT code exists in some arch's timer code.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ktime/hrtimer: fix kernel-doc comments

Fix kernel-doc formatting in ktime.h and hrtimer.[ch] files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] reed-solomon: fix kernel-doc comments

Fix kernel-doc formatting in Reed-Solomon code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc: use Members for struct fields consistently

kernel-doc struct fields should be consistently called "Members", not
"Arguments", so switch man-mode output to use "Members" like all of the
other formats do.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc: don't use XML escapes in text or man output mode

For kernel-doc output modes of text and man, do not use XML escapes for
less-than, greater-than, and ampersand characters.  I.e., leave the text
and man output clean and readable.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fix memory leak in rocketport rp_do_receive

Fix memory leak caused by incorrect use of tty buffer facility.  tty
buffers are allocated but never processed by call to tty_flip_buffer_push
so they accumulate on the full buffer list.  Current code uses the buffers
as a temporary storage for data before passing it directly to the line
discipline.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkat

When the linkat() syscall was added the flag parameter was added in the
last minute but it wasn't used so far.  The following patch should change
that.  My tests show that this is all that's needed.

If OLDNAME is a symlink setting the flag causes linkat to follow the
symlink and create a hardlink with the target.  This is actually the
behavior POSIX demands for link() as well but Linux wisely does not do
this.  With this flag (which will most likely be in the next POSIX
revision) the programmer can choose the behavior, defaulting to the safe
variant.  As a side effect it is now possible to implement a
POSIX-compliant link(2) function for those who are interested.

  touch file
  ln -s file symlink

  linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", 0)
    -> newlink is hardlink of symlink

  linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW)
    -> newlink is hardlink of file

The value of AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW is determined by the definition we already
use in glibc.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] add "select GPIO_VR41XX" for TANBAC_TB0229

TANBAC_TB0229 requires GPIO_VR41XX.  This patch adds "select GPIO_VR41XX"
for TANBAC_TB0229.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix CPU_UP_CANCEL handling

If a cpu hotplug callback fails on CPU_UP_PREPARE, all callbacks will be
called with CPU_UP_CANCELED.  A few of these callbacks assume that on
CPU_UP_PREPARE a pointer to task has been stored in a percpu array.  This
assumption is not true if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails and the following calls to
kthread_bind() in CPU_UP_CANCELED will cause an addressing exception
because of passing a NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fs: sys_poll with timeout -1 bug fix

If you do a poll() call with timeout -1, the wait will be a big number
(depending on HZ) instead of infinite wait, since -1 is passed to the
msecs_to_jiffies function.

Signed-off-by: Frode Isaksen <frode.isaksen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread

- Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather than the
  deprecated kernel_threads.

- Update stop_machine to use the more efficient kthread_bind() before
  running task in place of set_cpus_allowed() after.

[akpm@osdl.org: remove now-wrong set_cpus_allowed()]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fix %s in affs_fill_super()

%s is only valid if array is known to contain NUL or precision is given and
does not exceed the size of array.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: tidy up product table indentation

Make each one fit on a line so it's easier to read.  I re-ordered
COMPAQ_CISSC/0x4091, which was out of order.  I double-checked these, but it
would be good if you'd also check them to make sure I didn't miss any.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: run through Lindent

cciss is full of inconsistent style ("for (" vs.  "for(", lines that end with
whitespace, lines beginning with a mix of spaces & tabs, etc).

This patch changes only whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: remove parens around return values

Typical Linux style is "return -EINVAL", not "return(-EINVAL)".

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: fix a few spelling errors

Fix a few spelling errors.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: use ARRAY_SIZE without intermediates

It's easier to verify loop bounds if the array name is mentioned the for()
statement that steps through the array.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: announce cciss%d devices with PCI address/IRQ/DAC info

We already print "cciss: using DAC cycles" or similar for every adapter found:
why not just identify the device we're talking about and include other useful
information?

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>:

  Although this patch is correct, I would consider using dev_printk() rather
  than referencing pci_name() in printk() arguments.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: request all PCI resources

We should call pci_request_regions() to claim all resources the device
decodes.  Previously, we claimed only the I/O port range.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] CCISS: disable device when returning failure

If something fails after we call pci_enable_device(), we should call
pci_disable_device() before returning the failure.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Initramfs docs update

New section on creating an external initramfs image using cpio (with
script), a warning about bad advice in the cpio man page, a bit of
debugging advice (hello world and rdinit=/bin/sh), and a few minor tweaks
to other parts of it.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kthread: convert smbiod

Update smbiod to use kthread instead of deprecated kernel_thread.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kthread: update loop.c to use kthread

Update loop.c to use a kthread instead of a deprecated kernel_thread for
loop devices.

[akpm@osdl.org: don't change the thread's name]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/crc*.c

Make kernel-doc corrections & additions to lib/crc*.c.  Add crc functions to
kernel-api.tmpl in DocBook.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/cmdline.c

Add a new chapter for kernel-lib functions to kernel-api.tmpl.  Add
lib/cmdline.c to the new kernel-lib chapter.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/bitmap.c

Make corrections/fixes to kernel-doc in lib/bitmap.c and include it in DocBook
template.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Remove needless checks in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c

coverity found two needless checks in vfs_inode.c (cid #1165 and #1164)
In both cases inode is always NULL when we goto error; either because it
is still initialized to NULL or is set to NULL explicitly. This patch
simply removes these checks to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ide-floppy: fix debug-only syntax error

Fix debug-only printk syntax error.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kernel-doc: warn on malformed function docs.

When the verbose (-v) option is used with scripts/kernel-doc, this option
reports when the kernel-doc format is malformed and apparently contains
function description lines before function parameters.  In these cases, the
kernel-doc script will print something like: Warning(filemap.c:335):
contents before sections

I have fixed the problems in mm/filemap.c and added lots of kernel-doc to
that file (posted to the linux-mm mailing list Mon.  2006-June-12).

The real goal (as requested by Andrew Morton) is to allow the short
function description to be more than one line long.  This patch is both a
kernel-doc checker and a tool en route to that goal.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: scramble lock owner ID

VFS uses current->files pointer as lock owner ID, and it wouldn't be
prudent to expose this value to userspace.  So scramble it with XTEA using
a per connection random key, known only to the kernel.  Only one direction
needs to be implemented, since the ID is never sent in the reverse
direction.

The XTEA algorithm is implemented inline since it's simple enough to do so,
and this adds less complexity than if the crypto API were used.

Thanks to Jesper Juhl for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add request interruption

Add synchronous request interruption.  This is needed for file locking
operations which have to be interruptible.  However filesystem may implement
interruptibility of other operations (e.g.  like NFS 'intr' mount option).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: rename the interrupted flag

Rename the 'interrupted' flag to 'aborted', since it indicates exactly that,
and next patch will introduce an 'interrupted' flag for a

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: ensure FLUSH reaches userspace

All POSIX locks owned by the current task are removed on close().  If the
FLUSH request resulting initiated by close() fails to reach userspace, there
might be locks remaining, which cannot be removed.

The only reason it could fail, is if allocating the request fails.  In this
case use the request reserved for RELEASE, or if that is currently used by
another FLUSH, wait for it to become available.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add POSIX file locking support

This patch adds POSIX file locking support to the fuse interface.

This implementation doesn't keep any locking state in kernel.  Unlocking on
close() is handled by the FLUSH message, which now contains the lock owner id.

Mandatory locking is not supported.  The filesystem may enfoce mandatory
locking in userspace if needed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add control filesystem

Add a control filesystem to fuse, replacing the attributes currently exported
through sysfs.  An empty directory '/sys/fs/fuse/connections' is still created
in sysfs, and mounting the control filesystem here provides backward
compatibility.

Advantages of the control filesystem over the previous solution:

  - allows the object directory and the attributes to be owned by the
    filesystem owner, hence letting unpriviled users abort the
    filesystem connection

  - does not suffer from module unload race

[akpm@osdl.org: fix this fs for recent dhowells depredations]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix 64-bit printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: no backgrounding on interrupt

Don't put requests into the background when a fatal interrupt occurs while the
request is in userspace.  This removes a major wart from the implementation.

Backgrounding of requests was introduced to allow breaking of deadlocks.
However now the same can be achieved by aborting the filesystem through the
'abort' sysfs attribute.

This is a change in the interface, but should not cause problems, since these
kinds of deadlocks never happen during normal operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: use MISC_MAJOR

The following patches add POSIX file locking to the fuse interface.

Additional changes ralated to this are:

  - asynchronous interrupt of requests by SIGKILL no longer supported

  - separate control filesystem, instead of using sysfs objects

  - add support for synchronously interrupting requests

Details are documented in Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt throughout the
patches.

This patch:

Have fuse.h use MISC_MAJOR rather than a hardcoded '10'.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Another couple of alterations to the memory barrier doc

Make another couple of alterations to the memory barrier document following
suggestions by Alan Stern and in co-operation with Paul McKenney:

 (*) Rework the point of introduction of memory barriers and the description
     of what they are to reiterate why they're needed.

 (*) Modify a statement about the use of data dependency barriers to note that
     other barriers can be used instead (as they imply DD-barriers).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>