Merge branches 'bugzilla-14668' and 'misc-2.6.35' into release

Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc1' into amd-iommu/2.6.35

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc1' into for-2.6.36

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/crypto-2.6

Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-spi

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree

Merging in current state of Linus' tree to deal with merge conflicts and
build failures in vio.c after merge.

Conflicts:
drivers/i2c/bus

Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree

Merging in current state of Linus' tree to deal with merge conflicts and
build failures in vio.c after merge.

Conflicts:
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/net/gianfar.c

Also fixed up one line in arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c to use the
correct node pointer.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>

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Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus

Conflicts:
drivers/md/md.c

- Resolved conflict in md_update_sb
- Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent.

Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus

Conflicts:
drivers/md/md.c

- Resolved conflict in md_update_sb
- Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35

Conflicts:
fs/ext3/fsync.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (38 commits)
net: Expose all network devices in a

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (38 commits)
net: Expose all network devices in a namespaces in sysfs
hotplug: netns aware uevent_helper
kobj: Send hotplug events in the proper namespace.
netlink: Implment netlink_broadcast_filtered
net/sysfs: Fix the bitrot in network device kobject namespace support
netns: Teach network device kobjects which namespace they are in.
kobject: Send hotplug events in all network namespaces
driver-core: fix Typo in drivers/base/core.c for CONFIG_MODULE
pci: check caps from sysfs file open to read device dependent config space
sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks
sysfs: Remove usage of S_BIAS to avoid merge conflict with the vfs tree
sysfs: Don't use enums in inline function declaration.
sysfs-namespaces: add a high-level Documentation file
sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logic
driver core: Implement ns directory support for device classes.
sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link
sysfs: Add support for tagged directories with untagged members.
sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.
kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with namespaces.
sysfs: Remove double free sysfs_get_sb
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sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.

The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this
is a probl

sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.

The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and
potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*.

What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the
sysfs dirent structure. For directories that should show different
contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and
/sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the
context in which those directories should be visible. Effectively
this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with
the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer.

I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple
directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories.

For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need
to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug
hardware or which modules are currently loaded. Which means I need
a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged.

To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created
and managed by sysfs itself.

Users of this interface:
- define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration.
- call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations
- sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid

- Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process
so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock.
- Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject.

Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer.

For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially
one line functions, and look to remain that.

Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is
both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons,
and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the
existing namespace pointer.

The work needed in sysfs is more extensive. At each directory
or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being
created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate
tag to place on the sysfs_dirent. Likewise at each symlink or
directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is
being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out
which tag goes along with the name I am deleting.

Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and
symlinks are supported. There is not enough information
in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything
to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are
no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem
to solve.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logic

Add some in-line comments to explain the new infrastructure, which
was introduced to support sysfs directory tagging with namespaces.
I think an overall

sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logic

Add some in-line comments to explain the new infrastructure, which
was introduced to support sysfs directory tagging with namespaces.
I think an overall description someplace might be good too, but it
didn't really seem to fit into Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt,
which appears more geared toward users, rather than maintainers, of
sysfs.

(Tejun, please let me know if I can make anything clearer or failed
altogether to comment something that should be commented.)

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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sysfs: Add support for tagged directories with untagged members.

I had hopped to avoid this but the bonding driver adds a file
to /sys/class/net/ and the easiest way to handle that file is
to make

sysfs: Add support for tagged directories with untagged members.

I had hopped to avoid this but the bonding driver adds a file
to /sys/class/net/ and the easiest way to handle that file is
to make it untagged and to register it only once.

So relax the rules on tagged directories, and make bonding work.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Merge mainline (v2.6.34-rc7)

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into perf/nmi

Merge reason: catch up with latest softlockup detector changes.

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc6' into core/locking

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc6' into core/locking

Merge reason: Further lockdep patches depend on per cpu updates
made in -rc1.

Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic

Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/

Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic

Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

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Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc5' into oprofile/core

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core

Merge reason: update to latest upstream

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'v2.6.34-rc2' into drm-linus