linux/drivers/char, branch v2.6.36

virtio: console: Don't block entire guest if host doesn't read data

2010-10-20T20:18:04Z

If the host is slow in reading data or doesn't read data at all, blocking write calls not only blocked the program that called write() but the entire guest itself. To overcome this, let's not block till the host signals it has given back the virtio ring element we passed it. Instead, send the buffer to the host and return to userspace. This operation then becomes similar to how non-blocking writes work, so let's use the existing code for this path as well. This code change also ensures blocking write calls do get blocked if there's not enough room in the virtio ring as well as they don't return -EAGAIN to userspace. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah Acked-by: Hans de Goede CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipmi: fix hardcoded ipmi device exit path warning

2010-09-23T00:22:40Z

When modprobe.conf has options ipmi_si type="kcs" ports=0xCA2 regspacings="4" ipmi_si can be loaded properly, but when try to unload it get: Sep 20 15:00:27 xx abrt: Kerneloops: Reported 1 kernel oopses to Abrt Sep 20 15:00:27 xx abrtd: Directory 'kerneloops-1285020027-1' creation detected Sep 20 15:00:27 xx abrtd: New crash /var/spool/abrt/kerneloops-1285020027-1, processing Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: WARNING: at drivers/base/driver.c:262 driver_unregister+0x8a/0xa0() Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: Hardware name: Sun Fire x4800 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: Unexpected driver unregister! Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: Modules linked in: ipmi_si(-) ipmi_msghandler ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat bridge stp llc autofs4 sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf xt_physdev be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs bnx2i cnic uio cxgb3i iw_cxgb3 cxgb3 mdio ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr ipv6 iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun kvm_intel kvm uinput sg ses enclosure ahci libahci pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support igb dca i7core_edac edac_core ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif megaraid_sas [last unloaded: ipmi_devintf] Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: Pid: 10625, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 2.6.36-rc5-tip+ #6 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: Call Trace: Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] driver_unregister+0x8a/0xa0 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] pnp_unregister_driver+0x12/0x20 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] cleanup_ipmi_si+0x3c/0xa7 [ipmi_si] Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] sys_delete_module+0x1a0/0x270 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] ? do_page_fault+0x150/0x320 Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Sep 20 15:01:09 xx kernel: ---[ end trace 0d1967161adcee0d ]--- We need to check if ipmi_pnp_driver is loaded before we try to unload it. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Cc: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipmi: fix acpi probe print

2010-09-23T00:22:38Z

After d9e1b6c45059ccf ("ipmi: fix ACPI detection with regspacing") we get [ 11.026326] ipmi_si: probing via ACPI [ 11.030019] ipmi_si 00:09: (null) regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0 [ 11.035594] ipmi_si: Adding ACPI-specified kcs state machine on an old system with only one range for ipmi kcs range. Try to fix it by adding another res pointer. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-09-22T16:12:37Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: bdi: Fix warnings in __mark_inode_dirty for /dev/zero and friends char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback bdi: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info properly cfq-iosched: fix a kernel OOPs when usb key is inserted block: fix blk_rq_map_kern bio direction flag cciss: freeing uninitialized data on error path

char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback

2010-09-22T07:48:47Z

These devices don't do any writeback but their device inodes still can get dirty so mark bdi appropriately so that bdi code does the right thing and files inodes to lists of bdi carrying the device inodes. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel

2010-09-21T18:00:30Z

* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel: drm/i915: Hold a reference to the object whilst unbinding the eviction list drm/i915,agp/intel: Add second set of PCI-IDs for B43 drm/i915: Fix Sandybridge fence registers drm/i915/crt: Downgrade warnings for hotplug failures drm/i915: Ensure that the crtcinfo is populated during mode_fixup()

virtio: console: Prevent userspace from submitting NULL buffers

2010-09-21T01:24:01Z

A userspace could submit a buffer with 0 length to be written to the host. Prevent such a situation. This was not needed previously, but recent changes in the way write() works exposed this condition to trigger a virtqueue event to the host, causing a NULL buffer to be sent across. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell CC: stable@kernel.org

virtio: console: Fix poll blocking even though there is data to read

2010-09-21T01:24:01Z

I found this while working on a Linux agent for spice, the symptom I was seeing was select blocking on the spice vdagent virtio serial port even though there were messages queued up there. virtio_console's port_fops_poll checks port->inbuf != NULL to determine if read won't block. However if an application reads enough bytes from inbuf through port_fops_read, to empty the current port->inbuf, port->inbuf will be NULL even though there may be buffers left in the virtqueue. This causes poll() to block even though there is data to be read, this patch fixes this by using will_read_block(port) instead of the port->inbuf != NULL check. Signed-off-By: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Amit Shah Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: stable@kernel.org

drm/i915,agp/intel: Add second set of PCI-IDs for B43

2010-09-17T07:22:30Z

There is a second revision of B43 (a desktop gen4 part) floating around, functionally equivalent to the original B43, so simply add the new PCI-IDs. Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bugs.cgi?id=30221 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson Cc: stable@kernel.org

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

2010-09-08T18:19:18Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: i8042 - fix device removal on unload Input: bcm5974 - adjust major/minor to scale Input: MT - initialize slots to unused Input: use PIT_TICK_RATE in vt beep ioctl Input: wacom - fix mousewheel handling for old wacom tablets