The set_blink hook code in the LED subdriver would never manage to get
a LED to blink, and instead it would just turn it on. The consequence
of this is that the "timer" trigger would not cause the LED to blink
if given default parameters.
This problem exists since 2.6.26-rc1.
To fix it, switch the deferred LED work handling to use the
thinkpad-acpi-specific LED status (off/on/blink) directly.
This also makes the code easier to read, and to extend later.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
- keep dma functions away from chained scatterlists.
Use the existing scatterlist iteration inside the driver
to call dma_map_single() for each chunk and avoid dma_map_sg().
Signed-off-by: Christian Hohnstaedt <email address hidden>
Tested-By: Karl Hiramoto <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
358c4bc...
by
Miklos Szeredi <email address hidden>
This turned out to be not a scheduler regression, but an already
existing problem in ptrace being triggered by subtle scheduler
changes.
The problem is this:
- task A is ptracing task B
- task B stops on a trace event
- task A is woken up and preempts task B
- task A calls ptrace on task B, which does ptrace_check_attach()
- this calls wait_task_inactive(), which sees that task B is still on the runq
- task A goes to sleep for a jiffy
- ...
Since UML does lots of the above sequences, those jiffies quickly add
up to make it slow as hell.
This patch solves this by not rescheduling in read_unlock() after
ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer.
Thanks to Oleg Nesterov and Ingo Molnar for the feedback.
Please add the following 4 commits to 2.6.27-stable and 2.6.28-stable.
However, there has been a lot of change here between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29:
in particular, fs/exec.c's unsafe_exec() grew into the more complicated
check_unsafe_exec(). So applying the original patches gives too many
rejects: at the bottom is the diffstat and the combined patch required.
4
Commit: f1191b50ec11c8e2ca766d6d99eb5bb9d2c084a3
Author: Al Viro <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:35:18 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
powerpc: Sanitize stack pointer in signal handling code
This has been backported to 2.6.28.x from commit efbda86098 in Linus' tree
On powerpc64 machines running 32-bit userspace, we can get garbage bits in the
stack pointer passed into the kernel. Most places handle this correctly, but
the signal handling code uses the passed value directly for allocating signal
stack frames.
This fixes the issue by introducing a get_clean_sp function that returns a
sanitized stack pointer. For 32-bit tasks on a 64-bit kernel, the stack
pointer is masked correctly. In all other cases, the stack pointer is simply
returned.
Additionally, we pass an 'is_32' parameter to get_sigframe now in order to
get the properly sanitized stack. The callers are know to be 32 or 64-bit
statically.
