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* wimax: documentation for the stackInaky Perez-Gonzalez2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | wimax documentation Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* USB: storage: make the "quirks=" module parameter writableAlan Stern2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as1190) makes usb-storage's "quirks=" module parameter writable, so that users can add entries for their devices at runtime with no need to reboot or reload usb-storage. New codes are added for the SANE_SENSE, CAPACITY_HEURISTICS, and CAPACITY_OK flags. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* USB: add asynchronous autosuspend/autoresume supportAlan Stern2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as1160b) adds support routines for asynchronous autosuspend and autoresume, with accompanying documentation updates. There already are several potential users of this interface, and others are likely to arise as autosuspend support becomes more widespread. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* USB: usb-storage: add "quirks=" module parameterAlan Stern2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage. This will allow people to make short-term changes to their unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver. Testing will become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead of having to wait for a new kernel release. The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's "delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was never listed among the kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (29 commits) Input: i8042 - add Dell Vostro 1510 to nomux list Input: gtco - use USB endpoint API Input: add support for Maple controller as a joystick Input: atkbd - broaden the Dell DMI signatures Input: HIL drivers - add MODULE_ALIAS() Input: map_to_7segment.h - convert to __inline__ for userspace Input: add support for enhanced rotary controller on pxa930 and pxa935 Input: add support for trackball on pxa930 and pxa935 Input: add da9034 touchscreen support Input: ads7846 - strict_strtoul takes unsigned long Input: make some variables and functions static Input: add tsc2007 based touchscreen driver Input: psmouse - add module parameters to control OLPC touchpad delays Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte M912 netbook to noloop exception table Input: atkbd - Samsung NC10 key repeat fix Input: atkbd - add keyboard quirk for HP Pavilion ZV6100 laptop Input: libps2 - handle 0xfc responses from devices Input: add support for Wacom W8001 penabled serial touchscreen Input: synaptics - report multi-taps only if supported by the device Input: add joystick driver for Walkera WK-0701 RC transmitter ...
| * Merge branch 'next' into for-linusDmitry Torokhov2008-12-30
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| | * Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc9' into nextDmitry Torokhov2008-12-20
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| | * | Input: add joystick driver for Walkera WK-0701 RC transmitterPeter Popovec2008-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Peter Popovec <popovec@fei.tuke.sk> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-06
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #3] Revert "CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2]" SELinux: shrink sizeof av_inhert selinux_class_perm and context CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2] keys: fix sparse warning by adding __user annotation to cast smack: Add support for unlabeled network hosts and networks selinux: Deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionality netlabel: Update kernel configuration API
| * \ \ \ Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris2009-01-06
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| | * | | | selinux: Deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionalityPaul Moore2008-12-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is the first step towards removing the old "compat_net" code from the kernel. Secmark, the "compat_net" replacement was first introduced in 2.6.18 (September 2006) and the major Linux distributions with SELinux support have transitioned to Secmark so it is time to start deprecating the "compat_net" mechanism. Testing a patched version of 2.6.28-rc6 with the initial release of Fedora Core 5 did not show any problems when running in enforcing mode. This patch adds an entry to the feature-removal-schedule.txt file and removes the SECURITY_SELINUX_ENABLE_SECMARK_DEFAULT configuration option, forcing Secmark on by default although it can still be disabled at runtime. The patch also makes the Secmark permission checks "dynamic" in the sense that they are only executed when Secmark is configured; this should help prevent problems with older distributions that have not yet migrated to Secmark. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-06
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (60 commits) uio: make uio_info's name and version const UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handling UIO: Pass information about ioports to userspace (V2) UIO: uio_pdrv_genirq: allow custom irq_flags UIO: use pci_ioremap_bar() in drivers/uio arm: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() libata: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() avr: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() dmi: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() gadget: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() gpio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() gpu: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() hwmon: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() i2o: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() IA64: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() i7300_idle: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() infiniband: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() ISDN: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() ...
| * | | | | | uio: make uio_info's name and version constStephen Rothwell2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are only ever assigned constant strings and never modified. This was noticed because Wolfram Sang needed to cast the result of of_get_property() in order to assign it to the name field of a struct uio_info. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | | | UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handlingHans J. Koch2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates UIO documentation with the changes introduced by previous UIO patch. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | | | kobject: Make Documentation/kobject.txt a little more coherent.Rusty Russell2009-01-06
| |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While reading Documentation/kobject.txt: Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking and serialization. I expect better: You never see me hard with time word making sentence coherent stuff. Ever. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-06
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (41 commits) scc_pata: make use of scc_dma_sff_read_status() ide-dma-sff: factor out ide_dma_sff_write_status() ide: move read_sff_dma_status() method to 'struct ide_dma_ops' ide: don't set hwif->dma_ops in init_dma() method Resurrect IT8172 IDE controller driver piix: sync ich_laptop[] with ata_piix.c ide: update warm-plug HOWTO ide: fix ide_port_scan() to do ACPI setup after initializing request queues ide: remove now redundant ->cur_dev checks ide: remove unused ide_hwif_t.sg_mapped field ide: struct ide_atapi_pc - remove unused fields and update documentation ide: remove superfluous hwif variable assignment from ide_timer_expiry() ide: use ide_pci_is_in_compatibility_mode() helper in setup-pci.c ide: make "paranoia" ->handler check in ide_intr() more strict ide-cd: convert to ide-atapi facilities ide-cd: start DMA before sending the actual packet command ide-cd: wait for DRQ to get set per default ide: Fix drive's DWORD-IO handling ide: add port and host iterators ide: dynamic allocation of device structures ...
| * | | | | | ide: update warm-plug HOWTOBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-01-06
| |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | | | | | coredump_filter: permit changing of the default filterHidehiro Kawai2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'. Setting a value to this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be changed. It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole system at boot time. Without this parameter, users have to change coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | doc: reformat some long lines in kernel-parameters.txtRandy Dunlap2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text. 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>
* | | | | | docs: add more early params to kernel-parameters.txtRandy Dunlap2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt. 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>
* | | | | | documentation: how to use DOC: section blocksRandy Dunlap2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add info on how to use DOC: sections in kernel-doc. DOC: sections enable the addition of inline source file comments that are general in nature instead of being specific to a function, struct, union, enum, or typedef. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | documentation: update s390 header file pathsRandy Dunlap2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Documentation/s390/ files to reflect changed header files locations. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | documentation: update header file pathsRandy Dunlap2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one change in each) to reflect changed header files locations. 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>
* | | | | | docs: document how to write @varargs in kernel-docRandy Dunlap2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation on how to use kernel-doc for function parameters that are "..." (varargs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | kprobes: support probing module __exit functionMasami Hiramatsu2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allows kprobes to probe __exit routine. This adds flags member to struct kprobe. When module is freed(kprobes hooks module_notifier to get this event), kprobes which probe the functions in that module are set to "Gone" flag to the flags member. These "Gone" probes are never be enabled. Users can check the GONE flag through debugfs. This also removes mod_refcounted, because we couldn't free a module if kprobe incremented the refcount of that module. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document some locking] [mhiramat@redhat.com: bugfix: pass aggr_kprobe to arch_remove_kprobe] [mhiramat@redhat.com: bugfix: release old_p's insn_slot before error return] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | adt7470: make automatic fan control really workDarrick J. Wong2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It turns out that the adt7470's automatic fan control algorithm only works when the temperature sensors get updated. This in turn happens only when someone tells the chip to read its temperature sensors. Regrettably, this means that we have to drive the chip periodically. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | poll: allow f_op->poll to sleepTejun Heo2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | f_op->poll is the only vfs operation which is not allowed to sleep. It's because poll and select implementation used task state to synchronize against wake ups, which doesn't have to be the case anymore as wait/wake interface can now use custom wake up functions. The non-sleep restriction can be a bit tricky because ->poll is not called from an atomic context and the result of accidentally sleeping in ->poll only shows up as temporary busy looping when the timing is right or rather wrong. This patch converts poll/select to use custom wake up function and use separate triggered variable to synchronize against wake up events. The only added overhead is an extra function call during wake up and negligible. This patch removes the one non-sleep exception from vfs locking rules and is beneficial to userland filesystem implementations like FUSE, 9p or peculiar fs like spufs as it's very difficult for those to implement non-sleeping poll method. While at it, make the following cosmetic changes to make poll.h and select.c checkpatch friendly. * s/type * symbol/type *symbol/ : three places in poll.h * remove blank line before EXPORT_SYMBOL() : two places in select.c Oleg: spotted missing barrier in poll_schedule_timeout() Davide: spotted missing write barrier in pollwake() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | mm: remove try_to_munlock from vmscanHugh Dickins2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An unfortunate feature of the Unevictable LRU work was that reclaiming an anonymous page involved an extra scan through the anon_vma: to check that the page is evictable before allocating swap, because the swap could not be freed reliably soon afterwards. Now try_to_free_swap() has replaced remove_exclusive_swap_page(), that's not an issue any more: remove try_to_munlock() call from shrink_page_list(), leaving it to try_to_munmap() to discover if the page is one to be culled to the unevictable list - in which case then try_to_free_swap(). Update unevictable-lru.txt to remove comments on the try_to_munlock() in shrink_page_list(), and shorten some lines over 80 columns. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctlsDavid Rientjes2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change introduces two new sysctls to /proc/sys/vm: dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes. dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_background_ratio and dirty_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_ratio. With growing memory capacities of individual machines, it's no longer sufficient to specify dirty thresholds as a percentage of the amount of dirtyable memory over the entire system. dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes specify quantities of memory, in bytes, that represent the dirty limits for the entire system. If either of these values is set, its value represents the amount of dirty memory that is needed to commence either background or direct writeback. When a `bytes' or `ratio' file is written, its counterpart becomes a function of the written value. For example, if dirty_bytes is written to be 8096, 8K of memory is required to commence direct writeback. dirty_ratio is then functionally equivalent to 8K / the amount of dirtyable memory: dirtyable_memory = free pages + mapped pages + file cache dirty_background_bytes = dirty_background_ratio * dirtyable_memory -or- dirty_background_ratio = dirty_background_bytes / dirtyable_memory AND dirty_bytes = dirty_ratio * dirtyable_memory -or- dirty_ratio = dirty_bytes / dirtyable_memory Only one of dirty_background_bytes and dirty_background_ratio may be specified at a time, and only one of dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio may be specified. When one sysctl is written, the other appears as 0 when read. The `bytes' files operate on a page size granularity since dirty limits are compared with ZVC values, which are in page units. Prior to this change, the minimum dirty_ratio was 5 as implemented by get_dirty_limits() although /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio would show any user written value between 0 and 100. This restriction is maintained, but dirty_bytes has a lower limit of only one page. Also prior to this change, the dirty_background_ratio could not equal or exceed dirty_ratio. This restriction is maintained in addition to restricting dirty_background_bytes. If either background threshold equals or exceeds that of the dirty threshold, it is implicitly set to half the dirty threshold. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfsGary Hade2009-01-06
|/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all the memory sections located on nodeX. For example: /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135 indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1. Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state' that were previously not described there. In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with the maximum possible amount of physical location information for resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by this change. Immediate: - Provides information needed to determine the specific node on which a defective DIMM is located. This will reduce system downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out. - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was previously offlined due to a defective DIMM. This could happen during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added node. The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory could be ugly. - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes. Future: - Will provide information needed to identify the memory sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal of a specific node. Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems. Symlink creation during physical memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system. Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | ocfs2: add mount option and Kconfig option for aclTiger Yang2009-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the Kconfig option "CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL" and mount options "acl" to enable acls in Ocfs2. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-03
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits) x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid() cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix xtensa: define __fls mn10300: define __fls m32r: define __fls h8300: define __fls frv: define __fls cris: define __fls cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/ cpumask: convert mm/ ...
| * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'master' of ↵Mike Travis2009-01-03
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c kernel/rcuclassic.c kernel/sched.c kernel/time/tick-sched.c Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> [ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵Rusty Russell2008-12-31
| | |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
| | * | | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵Rusty Russell2008-12-29
| | |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
| | * | | | | | sysfs: add documentation to cputopology.txt for system cpumasksMike Travis2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add information to cputopology.txt explaining the output of various system cpumask's. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-03
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (34 commits) V4L/DVB (10173): Missing v4l2_prio_close in radio_release V4L/DVB (10172): add DVB_DEVICE_TYPE= to uevent V4L/DVB (10171): Use usb_set_intfdata V4L/DVB (10170): tuner-simple: prevent possible OOPS caused by divide by zero error V4L/DVB (10168): sms1xxx: fix inverted gpio for lna control on tiger r2 V4L/DVB (10167): sms1xxx: add support for inverted gpio V4L/DVB (10166): dvb frontend: stop using non-C99 compliant comments V4L/DVB (10165): Add FE_CAN_2G_MODULATION flag to frontends that support DVB-S2 V4L/DVB (10164): Add missing S2 caps flag to S2API V4L/DVB (10163): em28xx: allocate adev together with struct em28xx dev V4L/DVB (10162): tuner-simple: Fix tuner type set message V4L/DVB (10161): saa7134: fix autodetection for AVer TV GO 007 FM Plus V4L/DVB (10160): em28xx: update chip id for em2710 V4L/DVB (10157): Add USB ID for the Sil4701 radio from DealExtreme V4L/DVB (10156): saa7134: Add support for Avermedia AVer TV GO 007 FM Plus V4L/DVB (10155): Add TEA5764 radio driver V4L/DVB (10154): saa7134: fix a merge conflict on Behold H6 board V4L/DVB (10153): Add the Beholder H6 card to DVB-T part of sources. V4L/DVB (10152): Change configuration of the Beholder H6 card V4L/DVB (10151): Fix I2C bridge error in zl10353 ...
| * | | | | | | | V4L/DVB (10157): Add USB ID for the Sil4701 radio from DealExtremeMark Lord2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [tobias.lorenz@gmx.net: Code beautifications and documentation added] Signed-off-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | V4L/DVB (10156): saa7134: Add support for Avermedia AVer TV GO 007 FM PlusPham Thanh Nam2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for Avermedia AVer TV GO 007 FM Plus (M15C) on saa7134 driver (PCI ID 1461:f31d). Signed-off-by: Pham Thanh Nam <phamthanhnam.ptn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | V4L/DVB (10141): v4l2: debugging API changed to match against driver name ↵Hans Verkuil2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | instead of ID. Since the i2c driver ID will be removed in the near future we have to modify the v4l2 debugging API to use the driver name instead of driver ID. Note that this API is not used in applications other than v4l2-dbg.cpp as it is for debugging and testing only. Should anyone use the old VIDIOC_G_CHIP_IDENT, then this will be logged with a warning that it is deprecated and will be removed in 2.6.30. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | V4L/DVB (10136): v4l2 doc: update v4l2-framework.txtHans Verkuil2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mention the new v4l2_file_operations struct. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | V4L/DVB (10134): v4l2 doc: set v4l2_dev instead of parent.Hans Verkuil2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the documentation now that the v4l2_dev field is in. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | V4L/DVB (10133): v4l2-framework: use correct comment style.Hans Verkuil2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
* | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-02
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (33 commits) UBIFS: add more useful debugging prints UBIFS: print debugging messages properly UBIFS: fix numerous spelling mistakes UBIFS: allow mounting when short of space UBIFS: fix writing uncompressed files UBIFS: fix checkpatch.pl warnings UBIFS: fix sparse warnings UBIFS: simplify make_free_space UBIFS: do not lie about used blocks UBIFS: restore budg_uncommitted_idx UBIFS: always commit on unmount UBIFS: use ubi_sync UBIFS: always commit in sync_fs UBIFS: fix file-system synchronization UBIFS: fix constants initialization UBIFS: avoid unnecessary calculations UBIFS: re-calculate min_idx_size after the commit UBIFS: use nicer 64-bit math UBIFS: fix available blocks count UBIFS: various comment improvements and fixes ...
| * | | | | | | | | UBIFS: fix numerous spelling mistakesArtem Bityutskiy2008-12-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
| * | | | | | | | | UBIFS: introduce compression mount optionsArtem Bityutskiy2008-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is very handy to be able to change default UBIFS compressor via mount options. Introduce -o compr=<name> mount option support. Currently only "none", "lzo" and "zlib" compressors are supported. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-02
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6: UBI: fix checkpatch.pl warnings UBI: simplify PEB protection code UBI: prepare for protection tree improvements UBI: return -ENOMEM upon failing vmalloc UBI: document UBI ioctls UBI: handle write errors in WL worker UBI: fix error path UBI: some code re-structuring UBI: fix deadlock UBI: fix warnings when debugging is enabled
| * | | | | | | | | | UBI: document UBI ioctlsArtem Bityutskiy2008-12-09
| |/ / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the ioctl-numbers.txt file, add UBI and DVB there (because they use the same ioctl numbers). Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds2009-01-02
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: kbuild: ignore a few files in headers_check kbuild: add checks for include of linux/types in userspace headers kbuild: drop debugging leftover in tags.sh kbuild: document environment variables kbuild: make *config usage docs kbuild: disable sparse warning "returning void-valued expression" kbuild: in headers_install autoconvert asm/inline/volatile to __xxx__ kbuild: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols to userspace headers_check.pl: disallow extern's kconfig: improve error messages for bad source statements kconfig: struct property commented kconfig: add comments to symbol flags kconfig: explain symbol value defaults m68k: fix recursive dependency in Kconfig
| * | | | | | | | | | kbuild: document environment variablesSam Ravnborg2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add kbuild.txt to Documentation/kbuild More stuff can be added later - at least we have som of the varous environment variables documented now. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>