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2006-11-20	Add "pure_initcall" for static variable initialization	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+8
	This is a quick hack to overcome the fact that SRCU currently does not allow static initializers, and we need to sometimes initialize those things before any other initializers (even "core" ones) can do so. Currently we don't allow this at all for modules, and the only user that needs is right now is cpufreq. As reported by Thomas Gleixner: "Commit b4dfdbb3c707474a2254c5b4d7e62be31a4b7da9 ("[PATCH] cpufreq: make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU breaks cpu frequency notification users, which register the callback > on core_init level." Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-27	[PATCH] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels	Andrew Morton	1	-9/+19
	The multithreaded-probing code has a problem: after one initcall level (eg, core_initcall) has been processed, we will then start processing the next level (postcore_initcall) while the kernel threads which are handling core_initcall are still executing. This breaks the guarantees which the layered initcalls previously gave us. IOW, we want to be multithreaded _within_ an initcall level, but not between different levels. Fix that up by causing the probing code to wait for all outstanding probes at one level to complete before we start processing the next level. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27	[PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line option	Vivek Goyal	1	-0/+1
	Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices). This option can be used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset during initialization. This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable environment. For ex. during kdump boot where devices are in unknown random state and BIOS execution has been skipped. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-26	Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/	David Woodhouse	1	-1/+0
	Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-04-09	[PATCH] x86_64: Support memory hotadd without sparsemem	Andi Kleen	1	-1/+2
	Memory hotadd doesn't need SPARSEMEM, but can be handled by just preallocating mem_maps. This only needs some untangling of ifdefs to enable the necessary code even without SPARSEMEM. Originally from Keith Mannthey, hacked by AK. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25	[PATCH] add a proper prototype for setup_arch()	Adrian Bunk	1	-0/+4
	This patch adds a proper prototype for setup_arch() in init.h. This patch is based on a patch by Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16	[PATCH] x86_64: add __meminit for memory hotplug	Matt Tolentino	1	-0/+12
	Add __meminit to the __init lineup to ensure functions default to __init when memory hotplug is not enabled. Replace __devinit with __meminit on functions that were changed when the memory hotplug code was introduced. Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25	[PATCH] x86_64: Change init sections for CPU hotplug support	Ashok Raj	1	-0/+12
	This patch adds __cpuinit and __cpuinitdata sections that need to exist past boot to support cpu hotplug. Caveat: This is done only for EM64T CPU Hotplug support, on request from Andi Kleen. Much of the generic hotplug code in kernel, and none of the other archs that support CPU hotplug today, i386, ia64, ppc64, s390 and parisc dont mark sections with __cpuinit, but only mark them as __devinit, and __devinitdata. If someone is motivated to change generic code, we need to make sure all existing hotplug code does not break, on other arch's that dont use __cpuinit, and __cpudevinit. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+250
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!