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2009-05-15Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"Jens Axboe1-28/+0
This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-08Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more senseHenrik Austad1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-05-06doc: small kernel-parameters updatesRandy Dunlap1-2/+8
Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bitHugh Dickins1-1/+1
kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-05Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-3/+3
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: fix sparse warning dma-debug: remove broken dma memory leak detection for 2.6.30 locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits
2009-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds2-0/+205
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol Input: add detailed multi-touch finger data report protocol Input: allow certain EV_ABS events to bypass all filtering Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driver Input: bcm5974 - augment debug information Input: bcm5974 - Add support for the Macbook 5 (Unibody) Input: bcm5974 - add quad-finger tapping Input: bcm5974 - prepare for a new trackpad header type Input: appletouch - fix DMA to/from stack buffer Input: wacom - fix TabletPC touch bug Input: lifebook - add DMI entry for Fujitsu B-2130 Input: ALPS - add signature for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 Input: elantech - make sure touchpad is really in absolute mode Input: elantech - provide a workaround for jumpy cursor on firmware 2.34 Input: ucb1400 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler Input: tsc2007 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler Input: sa1111ps2 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handlers Input: omap-keypad - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
2009-05-02Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds1-2/+3
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch missing "ax"/"aw" kbuild: fix comment in modpost.c kbuild: fix scripts/setlocalversion with git kbuild: fix Module.markers permission error under cygwin docs: also clean index.html kbuild: remove a tag file before it is regenerated kbuild: "make prepare" should be "make modules_prepare" kbuild: clean Module.markers and modules.order for out-of-tree modules avr32: drop unused CLEAN_FILES
2009-05-02mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytesAndrea Righi1-0/+4
Avoid setting less than two pages for vm_dirty_bytes: this is necessary to avoid potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits(). [ 49.951610] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 49.952195] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent [ 49.952195] CPU 1 [ 49.952195] Modules linked in: pcspkr [ 49.952195] Pid: 3064, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3 #1 [ 49.952195] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802d39a9>] [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0 [ 49.952195] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de03a98 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 49.952195] RAX: 00000000000000c0 RBX: ffff88001de03b80 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 [ 49.952195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] RBP: ffff88001de03ae8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] R10: ffff88001ddda9a0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 49.952195] R13: ffff88001fbc8218 R14: ffff88001de03b70 R15: ffff88001de03b78 [ 49.952195] FS: 00007fe9a435b6f0(0000) GS:ffff8800025d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 49.952195] CR2: 00007fe9a39ab000 CR3: 000000001de38000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 49.952195] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 49.952195] Process dd (pid: 3064, threadinfo ffff88001de02000, task ffff88001ddda250) [ 49.952195] Stack: [ 49.952195] ffff88001fa0de00 ffff88001f2dbd70 ffff88001f9fe800 000080b900000000 [ 49.952195] 00000000000000c0 ffff8800027a6100 0000000000000400 ffff88001fbc8218 [ 49.952195] 0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88001de03bb8 ffffffff802d3ed7 [ 49.952195] Call Trace: [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802d3ed7>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x1d7/0x3f0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80368f8e>] ? ext3_writeback_write_end+0x9e/0x120 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cc7df>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x12f/0x330 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cce8d>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26d/0x460 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cda32>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x52/0xd0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff802cda49>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80365fa6>] ext3_file_write+0x26/0xc0 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff803034d1>] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x140 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80290d1a>] ? get_lock_stats+0x2a/0x60 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff80280730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff8030411b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff803042d0>] sys_write+0x50/0x90 [ 49.952195] [<ffffffff8022ff6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 49.952195] Code: 00 00 00 2b 05 09 1c 17 01 48 89 c6 49 0f af f4 48 c1 ee 02 48 89 f0 48 f7 e1 48 89 d6 31 d2 48 c1 ee 02 48 0f af 75 d0 48 89 f0 <48> f7 f7 41 8b 95 ac 01 00 00 48 89 c7 49 0f af d4 48 c1 ea 02 [ 49.952195] RIP [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0 [ 49.952195] RSP <ffff88001de03a98> [ 50.096523] ---[ end trace 008d7aa02f244d7b ]--- Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02kernel-doc: restrict syntax for private: and public:Randy Dunlap1-2/+5
scripts/kernel-doc can (incorrectly) delete struct members that are surrounded by /* ... */ <struct members> /* ... */ if there is a /* private: */ comment in there somewhere also. Fix that by making the "/* private:" only allow whitespace between /* and "private:", not anything/everything in the world. This fixes some erroneous kernel-doc warnings that popped up while processing include/linux/usb/composite.h. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02mm: close page_mkwrite racesNick Piggin1-8/+16
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-01docs: also clean index.htmlRandy Dunlap1-2/+3
Missed index.html in "make cleandocs", so add it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-04-30Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocolHenrik Rydberg1-0/+140
This patchs adds documentation for the multi-touch protocol to Documentation/input/. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: grammar fixes] Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-04-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2-4/+226
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits) e100: do not go D3 in shutdown unless system is powering off netfilter: revised locking for x_tables Bluetooth: Fix connection establishment with low security requirement Bluetooth: Add different pairing timeout for Legacy Pairing Bluetooth: Ensure that HCI sysfs add/del is preempt safe net: Avoid extra wakeups of threads blocked in wait_for_packet() net: Fix typo in net_device_ops description. ipv4: Limit size of route cache hash table Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX ixgbe: Fix WoL functionality for 82599 KX4 devices veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor xfrm: wrong hash value for temporary SA forcedeth: tx timeout fix net: Fix LL_MAX_HEADER for CONFIG_TR_MODULE mlx4_en: Handle page allocation failure during receive mlx4_en: Fix cleanup flow on cq activation vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down netfilter: xt_recent: fix stack overread in compat code ...
2009-04-28Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driverHenrik Rydberg1-0/+65
This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/. Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-04-27Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"Linus Torvalds3-2914/+12
This reverts commit 8032b526d1a3bd91ad633dd3a3b5fdbc47ad54f1. Hey, it was only meant to be a single release. Now they can all die as far as I'm concerned. [ Just kidding. They're cute and cuddly. Except when they have horrible nasty facial diseases. Oh, and I guess they're not actually that cuddly even when disease-free. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-27Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+5
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: only save/restore existent registers in the PCIe capability x86/PCI: don't bother with root quirks if _CRS is used docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-doc PCI: cleanup debug output resources x86/PCI: set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default cleanups x86/PCI: Move set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default into arch/x86 x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case PCI quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets
2009-04-27Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standardKarsten Keil1-7/+13
Move the entry about CAPI 2.0 to the beginning and add a URL. Incorporate changes suggested by Randy Dunlap, thanks for proofreading. Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPITilman Schmidt2-0/+209
isdn: document Kernel CAPI driver interface Create a file Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI describing the interface between the kernel CAPI subsystem and ISDN device drivers, analogous to the existing Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE for the old isdn4linux subsystem. Also add kerneldoc comments to the exported functions in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c. Impact: Documentation Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEXTilman Schmidt1-4/+11
After the merging of mISDN, state which files refer only to the old isdn4linux subsystem. Also add a few missing files. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-26Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, hpet: Stop soliciting hpet=force users on ICH4M x86: check boundary in setup_node_bootmem() uv_time: add parameter to uv_read_rtc() x86: hpet: fix periodic mode programming on AMD 81xx x86: more than 8 32-bit CPUs requires X86_BIGSMP x86: avoid theoretical spurious NMI backtraces with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y x86: fix boot crash in NMI watchdog with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and flat APIC x86-64: fix FPU corruption with signals and preemption x86/uv: fix for no memory at paddr 0 docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux x86/uv: fix init of cpu-less nodes x86/uv: fix init of memory-less nodes
2009-04-26locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bitsMing Lei1-3/+3
From source code of get_usage_char(), the previous note is not correct, so fix it. static char get_usage_char(struct lock_class *class, enum lock_usage_bit bit) { char c = '.'; if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))/*LOCK_ENABLED_##STATE*/ c = '+'; if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit)) {/*LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE*/ c = '-'; if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2)) c = '?'; } return c; } note: 1) The 'bit' parameter always is passed as LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE or LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE_READ , from get_usage_chars(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1240585806-5744-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer namesMarc Dionne1-4/+4
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential pointers in task_struct. The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials patches. Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-24Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6Linus Torvalds2-4/+8
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (34 commits) ACPI, i915: Register ACPI video even when not modesetting Revert "ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83" I/O port protection: update for windows compatibility. sony-laptop: always try to unblock rfkill on load sony-laptop: fix bogus error message display on resume ACPI: EC: Fix ACPI EC resume non-query interrupt message sony-laptop: SNC input event 38 fix sony-laptop: SNC 127 Initialization Fix sony-laptop: Duplicate SNC 127 Event Fix ACPI: prevent processor.max_cstate=0 boot crash ACPI/hpet: prevent boot hang when hpet=force used on ICH-4M ACPI: delete obsolete "bus master activity" proc field ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter ACPI video: fix an error when the brightness levels on AC and on Battery are same acpi-cpufreq: Do not let get_measured perf depend on internal variable acpi-cpufreq: style-only: add parens to math expression acpi-cpufreq: Cleanup: Use printk_once x86, acpi_cpufreq: Fix the NULL pointer dereference in get_measured_perf thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23 ...
2009-04-24Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds2-77/+92
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: powerpc: Fix modular build of ide-pmac when mediabay is built in powerpc/pasemi: Fix build error on UP powerpc: Make macintosh/mediabay driver depend on CONFIG_BLOCK maintainers: Fix PS3 patterns powerpc/ps3: Fix CONFIG_PS3_FLASH=n build warning powerpc/32: Don't clobber personality flags on exec powerpc: Fix crash on CPU hotplug powerpc/85xx: Remove defconfigs that mpc85xx_{smp_}defconfig cover powerpc/85xx: Added SMP defconfig powerpc/85xx: Enabled a bunch of FSL specific drivers/options powerpc/85xx: Updated generic mpc85xx_defconfig powerpc: don't disable SATA interrupts on Freescale MPC8610 HPCD fsl_rio: Pass the proper device to dma mapping routines powerpc: Fix of_node_put() exit path in of_irq_map_one() powerpc/5200: defconfig updates powerpc/5200: Add FLASH nodes to lite5200 device tree powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuples powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-of powerpc/5200: Bring the legacy fsl_spi_platform_data hooks back
2009-04-24Merge branch 'irq' into releaseLen Brown1-2/+6
2009-04-24Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into releaseLen Brown1-2/+2
2009-04-22docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-docRandy Dunlap1-1/+5
Add drivers/pci/*.c source files to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl and update those pci/*.c source files that need kernel-doc fixes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-04-22Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar2-2/+7
Merge reason: hpet.c changed upstream, make sure we test against that Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-22Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 into mergePaul Mackerras43-929/+2390
2009-04-21spi: documentation: emphasise spi_master.setup() semanticsDavid Brownell1-0/+6
This is a doc-only patch which I hope will reduce the number of spi_master controller driver patches starting out with a common implementation bug. (As in: almost every spi_master driver I see starts out with its version of this bug. Sigh.) It just re-emphasizes that the setup() method may be called for one device while a transfer is active on another ... which means that most driver implementations shouldn't touch any registers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-21ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counterLen Brown1-2/+6
This counter may prove useful in debugging some spurious interrupt issues seen in the field. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-20Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being heldAdrian McMenamin1-2/+1
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence. remove reference to BKL being held in statfs Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar29-555/+1207
Merge reason: We need the x86/uv updates from upstream, to queue up dependent fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtioLinus Torvalds2-5/+7
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio: lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements lguest: tell git to ignore Documentation/lguest/lguest virtio: fix suspend when using virtio_balloon lguest: fix guest crash on non-linear addresses in gdt pvops lguest: fix crash on vmlinux images
2009-04-19lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirementsRusty Russell1-5/+6
Robert noted that we don't actually document that lguest is 32-bit only, nor that PAE must be off (CONFIG_PAE is now prompted for if HIGHMEM is set to "off). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
2009-04-19lguest: tell git to ignore Documentation/lguest/lguestMatt Kraai1-0/+1
This is the example lguest launcher binary. Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-19kbuild: introduce subdir-ccflags-ySam Ravnborg1-0/+10
Following patch introduce support for setting options to gcc that has effect for current directory and all subdirectories. The typical use case are an architecture or a subsystem that decide to cover all files with -Werror. Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their Makefile- with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so as only the top-level directories needs to be covered. Likewise if we decide to cover a full subsystem such as net/ with -Werror this is done by adding a single line to net/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-04-18doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt mistaken deletionsRandy Dunlap1-0/+38
Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally deleted in commit 0cb55ad2. Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-18docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txtWeidong Han1-0/+2
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt. [ Impact: add boot parameter description ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-18thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1-2/+2
Plenty of high-profile changes, so it deserves a new version number. Features added since 0.22: * Restrict unsafe LEDs * New race-less brightness control strategy for IBM ThinkPads * Disclose TGID of driver access from userspace (debug) * Warn when deprecated functions are used Other changes: * Better debug messages in some subdrivers * Removed "hotkey disable" support, since it breaks the driver * Dropped "ibm-acpi" alias Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds2-6/+20
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (43 commits) staging: slicoss: update README otus/zdusb.c: additional USB idnetifier Staging: go7007: fix build issues Staging: sxg: Fix leaks and checksum errors in transmit code path Staging: sxg: Fix sleep in atomic context warning while loading driver Staging: sxg: Use correct queue_id for transmitting non-TCP packets Staging: sxg: Fire watchdog timer at end of open routine to change the link Staging: Pohmelfs: Add load balancing between network states with the same priority. Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities. Staging: Pohmelfs: Added ->show_stats() callback. Staging: Pohmelfs: Drop ftrans debugging code. Staging: Pohmelfs: Use wait_on_page_timeout when waiting for remote directory sync instead of hardcoded 25 seconds. Staging: Pohmelfs: Reduce debugging noise about non-existing objects. Staging: Pohmelfs: Sync fs before killing it, since dentry cache is shrunk before writeback is invoked via generic_shutdown_super() Staging: Pohmelfs: Extend remount option. Staging: Pohmelfs: Set NETFS_INODE_REMOTE_SYNCED and clear NETFS_INODE_OWNED bits in the root inode. Staging: Pohmelfs: Added 'need_lock' variable into debug print. Staging: Pohmelfs: Disable read lock in pohmelfs_getattr(). Staging: Pohmelfs: Move parent lock to the place where we really have to send a lookup request to the server. Staging: pohmelfs: Populate dentry cache when receiving the new readdir entry. ...
2009-04-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+59
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: UIO: fix specific device driver missing statement for depmod Driver core: remove pr_fmt() from dynamic_dev_dbg() printk driver core: prevent device_for_each_child from oopsing dynamic debug: resurrect old pr_debug() semantics as pr_devel() Driver Core: early platform driver proc: mounts_poll() make consistent to mdstat_poll sysfs: sysfs poll keep the poll rule of regular file. driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents driver core: fix driver_match_device sysfs: don't use global workqueue in sysfs_schedule_callback()
2009-04-17Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.Evgeniy Polyakov2-6/+20
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-17Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-20/+20
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: fix microcode driver newly spewing warnings x86, PAT: Remove page granularity tracking for vm_insert_pfn maps x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS for now x86, documentation: kernel-parameters replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86 x86: pci-swiotlb.c swiotlb_dma_ops should be static x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in devmem mmap x86, PAT: Consolidate code in pat_x_mtrr_type() and reserve_memtype() x86, PAT: Changing memtype to WC ensuring no WB alias x86, PAT: Handle faults cleanly in set_memory_ APIs x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb x86, CPA: Change idmap attribute before ioremap attribute setup
2009-04-16Driver Core: early platform driverMagnus Damm1-0/+59
V3 of the early platform driver implementation. Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses, interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms. For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk support. Early in this case means before initcalls. These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same driver. A single way would be better. The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the probe is decided by the architecture code. See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-16powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuplesStefan Roese1-1/+18
Add binding for mtd nodes with multiple reg tuples. Multiple reg tuples are used when the flash region covers multiple devices of the same type, but not necessarily the same size. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2009-04-16powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-ofStefan Roese2-77/+75
It's easier to find bindings descriptions in separate files. So factor out the MTD physmap bindings into a separate file to not clutter booting-without-of.txt more. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2009-04-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (64 commits) phylib: Fix delay argument of schedule_delayed_work NET/ixgbe: Fix powering off during shutdown NET/e1000e: Fix powering off during shutdown NET/e1000: Fix powering off during shutdown packet: avoid warnings when high-order page allocation fails gianfar: stop send queue before resetting gianfar myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment declance: convert to net_device_ops bfin_mac: convert to net_device_ops au1000: convert to net_device_ops atarilance: convert to net_device_ops a2065: convert to net_device_ops ixgbe: update real_num_tx_queues on changing num_rx_queues ixgbe: fix tx queue index Revert "rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c" sfc: Use correct macro to set event bitfield sfc: Match calls to netif_napi_add() and netif_napi_del() bonding: Remove debug printk e1000/e1000: fix compile warning ehea: Fix incomplete conversion to net_device_ops ...
2009-04-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Fix the cmd cache keys for amp verbs ALSA: add missing definitions(letters) to HD-Audio.txt ALSA: hda - Add quirk mask for Fujitsu Amilo laptops with ALC883 [ALSA] intel8x0: add one retry to the ac97_clock measurement routine [ALSA] intel8x0: fix wrong conditions in ac97_clock measure routine ALSA: hda - Avoid call of snd_jack_report at release ALSA: add private_data to struct snd_jack ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: rename files to remove redundant information in file pathes ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: clean up header includes ALSA: sound/pci: use memdup_user() ALSA: sound/usb: use memdup_user() ALSA: sound/isa: use memdup_user() ALSA: sound/core: use memdup_user() [ALSA] intel8x0: do not use zero value from PICB register [ALSA] intel8x0: an attempt to make ac97_clock measurement more reliable [ALSA] pcm-midlevel: Add more strict buffer position checks based on jiffies [ALSA] hda_intel: fix unexpected ring buffer positions ASoC: Disable S3C64xx support in Kconfig ASoC: magician: remove un-necessary #include of pxa-regs.h and hardware.h
2009-04-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-13/+6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (28 commits) cfq-iosched: add close cooperator code cfq-iosched: log responsible 'cfqq' in idle timer arm cfq-iosched: tweak kick logic a bit more cfq-iosched: no need to save interrupts in cfq_kick_queue() brd: fix cacheflushing brd: support barriers swap: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT gfs2: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT ext4: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT dio: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT block: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT bio: add documentation to bio_alloc() splice: add helpers for locking pipe inode splice: remove generic_file_splice_write_nolock() ocfs2: fix i_mutex locking in ocfs2_splice_to_file() splice: fix i_mutex locking in generic_splice_write() splice: remove i_mutex locking in splice_from_pipe() splice: split up __splice_from_pipe() block: fix SG_IO to return a proper error value cfq-iosched: don't delay queue kick for a merged request ...
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