kernel/lib, branch linux-2.6.13.y

[PATCH] Document idr_get_new_above() semantics, update inotify

2005-08-26T18:32:57Z

There is an off by one problem with idr_get_new_above. The comment and function name suggest that it will return an id > starting_id, but it actually returned an id >= starting_id, and kernel callers other than inotify treated it as such. The patch below fixes the comment, and fixes inotifys usage. The function name still doesn't match the behaviour, but it never did. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] %t... in vsnprintf

2005-08-24T01:43:46Z

handling of %t... (ptrdiff_t) in vsnprintf Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert unnecessary zlib_inflate/inftrees.c fix

2005-08-17T20:07:28Z

It turns out that empty distance code tables are not an error, and that a compressed block with only literals can validly have an empty table and should not be flagged as a data error. Some old versions of gzip had problems with this case, but it does not affect the zlib code in the kernel. Analysis and explanations thanks to Sergey Vlasov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] crc32.c typo fix

2005-08-07T17:00:40Z

This patch fixes a typo in lib/crc32.c which results in incorrect debug output. Signed-off-by: Dominik Hackl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines

2005-08-05T23:23:21Z

These bugs have been fixed in the standard zlib for a while. See for example a) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html b) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94584 Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] DEBUG_FS must depend on SYSFS

2005-07-29T20:12:49Z

CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y and CONFIG_SYSFS=n results in the following compile error: <-- snip --> ... LD vmlinux fs/built-in.o: In function `debugfs_init': inode.c:(.init.text+0x31be): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 <-- snip --> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] statically link halfmd4

2005-07-27T23:25:53Z

For some reason halfmd4 isn't being linked into the kernel any more and modular ext3 wants it. So statically link the halfmd4 code into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mostly_read data section

2005-07-08T01:23:46Z

Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Use ALIGN to remove duplicate code

2005-06-25T23:25:02Z

This patch makes use of ALIGN() to remove duplicate round-up code. Signed-off-by: Nick Wilson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] lib/sha1.c: fix sparse warning

2005-06-25T23:25:02Z

lib/sha1.c:44:10: warning: cast to restricted type Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds