After Christophs SCSI change, the only usage left is RQ_ACTIVE
and RQ_INACTIVE. The block layer sets RQ_INACTIVE right before freeing
the request, so any check for RQ_INACTIVE in a driver is a bug and
indicates use-after-free.
So kill/clean the remaining users, straight forward.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
It is always identical to &q->rq, and we only use it for detecting
whether this request came out of our mempool or not. So replace it
with an additional ->flags bit flag.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
As the comments indicates in blkdev.h, we can fold it into ->end_io_data
usage as that is really what ->waiting is. Fixup the users of
blk_end_sync_rq().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The rbtree sort/lookup/reposition logic is mostly duplicated in
cfq/deadline/as, so move it to the elevator core. The io schedulers
still provide the actual rb root, as we don't want to impose any sort
of specific handling on the schedulers.
Introduce the helpers and rb_node in struct request to help migrate the
IO schedulers.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Right now, every IO scheduler implements its own backmerging (except for
noop, which does no merging). That results in duplicated code for
essentially the same operation, which is never a good thing. This patch
moves the backmerging out of the io schedulers and into the elevator
core. We save 1.6kb of text and as a bonus get backmerging for noop as
well. Win-win!
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (180 commits)
V4L/DVB (4641): Trivial: use lowercase letters in hex subsystem ids
V4L/DVB (4639): Cx88: add autodetection for alternate revision of Leadtek PVR
V4L/DVB (4638): Basic DVB-T and analog TV support for the HVR1300.
V4L/DVB (4637): Add a default method for VIDIOC_G_PARM
V4L/DVB (4635): Extend bttv and saa7134 to check for both AGP and PCI PCI failure case
V4L/DVB (4634): Zr36120: implement pcipci checks
V4L/DVB (4632): Zoran: Implement pcipci failure check
V4L/DVB (4631): Av7110: remove V4L2_CAP_VBI_CAPTURE flag
V4L/DVB (4630): Av7110: FW_LOADER depemdency fixed
V4L/DVB (4629): Saa7134: add card support for Proteus Pro 2309
V4L/DVB (4628): Fix VIDIOC_ENUMSTD ioctl in videodev.c
V4L/DVB (4627): Vivi crashes with mplayer
V4L/DVB (4626): On saa7111/7113, LUMA_CTRL need a different value
V4L/DVB (4624): Tvaudio: Replaced kernel_thread() with kthread_run()
V4L/DVB (4622): Copy-paste bug in videodev.c
V4L/DVB (4620): Fix AGC configuration for MOD3000P-based boards
V4L/DVB (4619): Fixes some I2C dependencies on V4L devices
V4L/DVB (4617): Problem with dibusb-mb.c USB IDs
V4L/DVB (4616): [PATCH] Nebula DigiTV USB RC support
V4L/DVB (4614): Export symbol saa7134_tvaudio_setmute from saa7134 for saa7134-alsa
...
* 'intelfb-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/intelfb-2.6:
intelfbhw.c: intelfbhw_get_p1p2 defined but not used
intelfb: fix mtrr_reg signedness
intelfb: update doc and Kconfig (supported devices)
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add preliminary i2c support
intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
[PATCH] Use early clobber in semaphores
[PATCH] Define vsyscall cache as blob to make clearer that user space shouldn't use it
[PATCH] Re-positioning the bss segment
[PATCH] Use ARRAY_SIZE in setup.c
[PATCH] i386: replace intermediate array-size definitions with ARRAY_SIZE()
[PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls
[PATCH] Refactor some duplicated code in mpparse.c
[PATCH] Document iommu=panic
[PATCH] Fix broken indentation in iommu_setup
[PATCH] Allow disabling DAC using command line options
[PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomic
[PATCH] i386: Update defconfig
[PATCH] Update defconfig
MSI is defined to be 32-bit write. The 5706 does 64-bit MSI writes
with byte enables disabled on the unused 32-bit word. This is legal
but causes problems on the AMD 8132 which will eventually stop
responding after a while.
Without this patch, the MSI test done by the driver during open will
pass, but MSI will eventually stop working after a few MSIs are
written by the device.
AMD believes this incompatibility is unique to the 5706, and
prefers to locally disable MSI rather than globally disabling it
using pci_msi_quirk.
Update version to 1.4.45.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix some issues Steve Grubb had with the way NetLabel was using the audit
subsystem. This should make NetLabel more consistent with other kernel
generated audit messages specifying configuration changes.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices
based on who is logged in from where, etc. This includes switching back and
forth between multiple user sessions, etc.
Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the
flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem.
Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs.
Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to
different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions
and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate. RedHat uses pam_console, which
changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user. Others use a set of
groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses.
The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a
console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to
devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach.
These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again
on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with
no problems reported. The previous submission is archived here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231
This patch:
Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory
filesystems such as tmpfs.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it can't
probe a lot of modules. Turns out it's kind of silly, the sections section
of /sys/module is limited to 32byte filenames and many of the actual
sections are a a bit longer than that.
[akpm@osdl.org: rewrite to use dymanic allocation]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit())
every time a CPU is hot-added/removed. But this value is not recalculated
when new pages are hot-added.
This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages
are hot-added.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change the list of memory nodes allowed to tasks in the top (root) nodeset
to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a call to a cpuset hook
from the memory hotplug code. Make this top cpus file read-only.
On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't
actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of
systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset.
If that system does support memory hotplug, then these tasks cannot make
use of memory nodes that are added after system boot, because the memory
nodes are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression
over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled.
One key motivation for this change is to remain consistent with the
behaviour for the top_cpuset's 'cpus', which is also read-only, and which
automatically tracks the cpu_online_map.
This change also has the minor benefit that it fixes a long standing,
little noticed, minor bug in cpusets. The cpuset performance tweak to
short circuit the cpuset_zone_allowed() check on systems with just a single
cpuset (see 'number_of_cpusets', in linux/cpuset.h) meant that simply
changing the 'mems' of the top_cpuset had no affect, even though the change
(the write system call) appeared to succeed. With the following change,
that write to the 'mems' file fails -EACCES, and the 'mems' file stubbornly
refuses to be changed via user space writes. Thus no one should be mislead
into thinking they've changed the top_cpusets's 'mems' when in affect they
haven't.
In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems
actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes
the behaviour of the 'mems' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read
only, and making it automatically track the value of node_online_map. Thus
tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged memory nodes
allowed by their cpuset.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I am not sure about this patch, I am asking Ingo to take a decision.
task_struct->state == EXIT_DEAD is a very special case, to avoid a confusion
it makes sense to introduce a new state, TASK_DEAD, while EXIT_DEAD should
live only in ->exit_state as documented in sched.h.
Note that this state is not visible to user-space, get_task_state() masks off
unsuitable states.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce the disable_irq_nosync_lockdep_irqsave() and
enable_irq_lockdep_irqrestore() APIs. These are needed for NE2000; basically
NE2000 calls disable_irq and enable_irq as locking against the IRQ handler,
but both in cases where interrupts are on and off. This means that lockdep
needs to track the old state of the virtual irq flags on disable_irq, and
restore these at enable_irq time.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It always returns 0, so relying on it is useless. The only caller isn't
checking return value. In general, un-, de-, -free functions should return
void.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently, __acquire and __release take a lock expression, but __cond_lock
takes only a condition, not the lock acquired if the expression evaluates
to true. Change __cond_lock to accept a lock expression, and change all
the callers to pass in a lock expression.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
spin_trylock_irq and spin_trylock_irqsave use _spin_trylock, which does not
use the __cond_lock wrapper annotation and thus does not affect the lock
context; change them to use spin_trylock instead, which does use
__cond_lock.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The lock annotations used on spinlocks and rwlocks currently use
__{acquires,releases}(spinlock_t) and __{acquires,releases}(rwlock_t),
respectively. This loses the information of which lock actually got
acquired or released, and assumes a different type for the parameter of
__acquires and __releases than the rest of the kernel. While the current
implementations of __acquires and __releases throw away their argument,
this will not always remain the case. Change this to use the lock
parameter instead, to preserve this information and increase consistency in
usage of __acquires and __releases.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Imho, makes the code a bit easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It is sure confusing that linux/ptrace.h has:
#define PTRACE_SINGLESTEP 9
#define PTRACE_ATTACH 0x10
#define PTRACE_DETACH 0x11
#define PTRACE_SYSCALL 24
All the low-numbered constants are in decimal, but the last two in hex.
It sure makes it likely that someone will look at this and think that
9, 10, 11 are used, and that 16 and 17 are not used.
How about we use the same notation for all the numbers [0,24] in the
same short list?
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[akpm@osdl.org: fix]
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(), and adjust x86_64 and s390
timer interrupt handler with this change.
Currently update_times() calculates ticks by "jiffies - wall_jiffies", but
callers of do_timer() should know how many ticks to update. Passing ticks
get rid of this redundant calculation. Also there are another redundancy
pointed out by Martin Schwidefsky.
This cleanup make a barrier added by
5aee405c66 needless. So this patch removes
it.
As a bonus, this cleanup make wall_jiffies can be removed easily, since now
wall_jiffies is always synced with jiffies. (This patch does not really
remove wall_jiffies. It would be another cleanup patch)
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The clock_nanosleep() function does not return the time remaining when the
sleep is interrupted by a signal.
This patch creates a new call out, compat_clock_nanosleep_restart(), which
handles returning the remaining time after a sleep is interrupted. This
patch revives clock_nanosleep_restart(). It is now accessed via the new
call out. The compat_clock_nanosleep_restart() is used for compatibility
access.
Since this is implemented in compatibility mode the normal path is
virtually unaffected - no real performance impact.
Signed-off-by: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make it possible to include linux/leds.h without first including list.h and
spinlock.h.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
After the asm/ uses of #include <linux/config.h> this one is the next
biggest source of noise.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().
Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.
Eric's original description:
There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
because we give it special properties. Most significantly init
must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test
->pid == 1.
Introduce is_init to capture this case.
With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
process that has pid == 1.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fixed race on put_files_struct on exec with proc. Restoring files on
current on error path may lead to proc having a pointer to already kfree-d
files_struct.
->files changing at exit.c and khtread.c are safe as exit_files() makes all
things under lock.
Found during OpenVZ stress testing.
[akpm@osdl.org: add export]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the
resize against the tty structure updates. This means that while two
parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results
reported.
Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the
console. This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console
driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good
Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any
longer so I switched it to "deallocate".
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fat is commonly used on removable media. Mounting with -o flush tells the
FS to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like -o sync, but
much faster (and not as safe).
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[assuming BSD security levels are deleted]
The only user of i_security, f_security, s_security fields is SELinux,
however, quite a few security modules are trying to get into kernel.
So, wrap them under CONFIG_SECURITY. Adding config option for each
security field is likely an overkill.
Following Stephen Smalley's suggestion, i_security initialization is
moved to security_inode_alloc() to not clutter core code with ifdefs
and make alloc_inode() codepath tiny little bit smaller and faster.
The user of (highly greppable) struct fown_struct::security field is
still to be found. I've checked every "fown_struct" and every "f_owner"
occurence. Additionally it's removal doesn't break i386 allmodconfig
build.
struct inode, struct file, struct super_block, struct fown_struct
become smaller.
P.S. Combined with two reiserfs inode shrinking patches sent to
linux-fsdevel, I can finally suck 12 reiserfs inodes into one page.
/proc/slabinfo
-ext2_inode_cache 388 10
+ext2_inode_cache 384 10
-inode_cache 280 14
+inode_cache 276 14
-proc_inode_cache 296 13
+proc_inode_cache 292 13
-reiser_inode_cache 336 11
+reiser_inode_cache 332 12 <=
-shmem_inode_cache 372 10
+shmem_inode_cache 368 10
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All suppliers of ->quota_read, ->quota_write (I've found ext2, ext3, UFS,
reiserfs) already have them properly ifdeffed. All callers of
->quota_read, ->quota_write are under CONFIG_QUOTA umbrella, so...
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that the generic DMA code has a function to decide if a given DMA
mapping is valid use it. This will catch cases where direction is not any
of the defined enum values but some random number outside the valid range.
The current implementation will only catch the defined but invalid case
DMA_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As suggested by Muli Ben-Yehuda this function is moved to generic code as
may be useful for all archs.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
