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* Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfsAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or not (default enabled) o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case. o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones registered in the intervening period) will be enabled o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally enabled or not. o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there also update the doc to make it current. We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling feature provided by this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels] [cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390] Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rtc: remove "RTC_ALM_SET mode" bugsDavid Brownell2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a common glitch in how RTC drivers handle two "set alarm" modes, by getting rid of the surprising/hidden one that was rarely implemented correctly (and which could expose nonportable hardware-specific behavior). The glitch comes from the /dev/rtcX logic implementing the legacy RTC_ALM_SET (limited to 24 hours, needing RTC_AIE_ON) ioctl on top of the RTC driver call providing access to the newer RTC_WKALM_SET (without those limitations) by initializing the day/month/year fields to be invalid ... that second mode. Now, since few RTC drivers check those fields, and most hardware misbehaves when faced with invalid date fields, many RTC drivers will set bogus alarm times on those RTC_ALM_SET code paths. (Several in-tree drivers have that issue, and I also noticed it with code reviews on several new RTC drivers.) This patch ensures that RTC drivers never see such invalid alarm fields, by moving some logic out of rtc-omap into the RTC_ALM_SET code and adding an explicit check (which will prevent the issue on other code paths). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SPI kerneldocDavid Brownell2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various documentation updates for the SPI infrastructure, to clarify things that may not have been clear, to cope with lack of editing, and fix omissions. Also, plug SPI into the kernel-api DocBook template, and fix all the resulting glitches in document generation. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* /dev/spidevB.C interfaceAndrea Paterniani2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a filesystem API for <linux/spi/spi.h> stack. The initial version of this interface is purely synchronous. dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: Cleaned up, bugfixed; much simplified; added preliminary documentation. Works with mdev given CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; and presumably udev. Updated SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to full spi_message semantics, supporting groups of one or more transfers (each of which may be full duplex if desired). This is marked as EXPERIMENTAL with an explicit disclaimer that the API (notably the ioctls) is subject to change. Signed-off-by: Andrea Paterniani <a.paterniani@swapp-eng.it> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docbook: librs typo fixesRandy Dunlap2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | librs docbook typo fixes. 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>
* Misc: add sensable phantom driverJiri Slaby2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | Add sensable phantom driver Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* laptop-mode URL updateZach Carter2007-05-08
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Zach Carter <linux@zachcarter.com> Cc: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* doc: fix oops-tracing duplicateMichal Piotrowski2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | Remove duplicate 'U' entry -- fix mis-merge. Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> 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>
* Fix chapter reference in CodingStyleJesper Juhl2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | commit 226a6b84aaaf1fac7a5d41cf4e7387fd9ba895d5 renumbered Chapter 11 in Documentation/CodingStyle to Chapter 12, but it didn't update the reference to that chapter further down in the file. This patch corrects the chapter reference. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32OGAWA Hirofumi2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's undocumented. Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly. This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default. (instead, add "usefree" for forcing to use it) Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimerAdrian Bunk2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of bracesOliver Neukum2007-05-08
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* getdelays.c: fix overrunScott Wiersdorf2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w. Cc: <matt@bluehost.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Taskstats: fix getdelays usage informationRandy Dunlap2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drivesStephen M. Cameron2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | Document how to detect drive failures for cciss Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel-doc: generate main index page when building 'htmldocs'Borislav Petkov2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | A patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global, TOC-like index.html page after building 'htmldocs' Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Acked-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>
* Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2Thomas Gleixner2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines: > This is going to break a lot of external stuff. We should have found > a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_ > warning) to warn people of impending doom. But I can't immediately > find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I > suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months. It's > going to get ugly out there. We shall see... Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function so a warning is emitted on compile time. Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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>
* schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 4th roundAdrian Bunk2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | Schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipesEric Dumazet2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for special filesystems. It is called without locks. Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); 2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations 3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to /proc/pid/fd/... 4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to /proc/pid/fd/... A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a *nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz : 3.090 s instead of 3.450 s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: maps protectionKees Cook2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The /proc/pid/ "maps", "smaps", and "numa_maps" files contain sensitive information about the memory location and usage of processes. Issues: - maps should not be world-readable, especially if programs expect any kind of ASLR protection from local attackers. - maps cannot just be 0400 because "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2" makes glibc check the maps when %n is in a *printf call, and a setuid(getuid()) process wouldn't be able to read its own maps file. (For reference see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/22/150) - a system-wide toggle is needed to allow prior behavior in the case of non-root applications that depend on access to the maps contents. This change implements a check using "ptrace_may_attach" before allowing access to read the maps contents. To control this protection, the new knob /proc/sys/kernel/maps_protect has been added, with corresponding updates to the procfs documentation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: New sysctl numbers are old hat] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tty: Clarify documentation of ->write()Alan2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | The tty driver write method is different to the usual fops device write methods as the buffer is already in kernel space. Clarify the docs since someone writing a driver made that mistake. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: Ask driver writers to provide PM supportRafael J. Wysocki2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a paragraph in Documentation/SubmittingDrivers requesting that the basic PM support be provided by new device drivers. Add two new documents in Documentation/power/ giving general instructions on debugging the suspend/resume functionality and testing the suspend and resume support in device drivers. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-07
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases [IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes [IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps [IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes [IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386 [IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC [IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 [IA64] Fix example error injection program [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration
| * Pull mem-attribute into release branchTony Luck2007-04-30
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| | * [IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test casesBjorn Helgaas2007-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updates documentation and adds some test cases. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | Pull error-inject into release branchTony Luck2007-04-30
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| | * | [IA64] Fix example error injection programTony Luck2007-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Progam accessed using /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpu%d/err_inject/ This path only exists for CONFIG_NUMA=y systems. Better to use /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%d/err_inject/ which is available on all systems. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| | * | [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample applicationFenghua Yu2007-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains a documention and sample application. Since the sample application has ~1000 lines of code, it might not be suitable in a kernel documention in kenrel tree. If you think this is not good place to hold the sample application, please let me know and I'm open to other choices e.g. sourceforge etc. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-07
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (38 commits) sh: R7785RP board updates. sh: Update r7780rp defconfig. sh: Add die chain notifiers. sh: Fix APM emulation on hp6xx. sh: Wire up more IRQs for SH7709. sh: Solution Engine 7722 board support. sh: Fix r7780rp build. sh: kdump support. sh: Move clock reporting to its own proc entry. sh: Solution Engine SH7705 board and CPU updates. serial: sh-sci: Fix module clock refcount for serial console. serial: sh-sci: Fix module clock refcounting. sh: SH7722 clock framework support. sh: hp6xx pata_platform support. sh: Obey CONFIG_HZ for HZ definition. sh: Fix fstatat64() syscall. sh: se7780 PCI support. sh: SH7780 Solution Engine board support. sh: Add a dummy SH-4 PCIC fixup. sh: Tidy up L-BOX area5 addresses. ...
| * | | | sh: SH7722 clock framework support.dmitry pervushin2007-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for the SH7722 (MobileR) to the clock framework. Signed-off-by: dmitry pervushin <dimka@nomadgs.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
| * | | | doc: Update sysrq doc for sh kgdb trigger.Paul Mundt2007-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sh uses the same sysrq trigger as ppc, update the documentation to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* | | | | power management: change /sys/power/disk displayJohannes Berg2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change /sys/power/disk to display all valid modes as well as the currently selected one in a fashion known from the LED subsystem. This changes userspace API, but it is apparently not used much (we asked some userspace developers) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | blackfin architectureBryan Wu2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561 (Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those avaliable from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP, BF561-EZKIT), and Bluetechnix! Tinyboards. The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in December of 2000. Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin processor family of devices. The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean, orthogonal,RISC-like microprocessor instruction set. It combines a dual-MAC (Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single instruction-set architecture. The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/download/frsrelease/29/2549/Blackfin_PRM.pdf The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and there are binary and source rpms/tarballs for many architectures at: http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs There is complete documentation, including "getting started" guides available at: http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/ which provides links to the sources and patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for bfin-linux-uclibc This patch, as well as the other patches (toolchain, distribution, uClibc) are actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at: http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ We have tested this on LTP, and our test plan (including pass/fails) can be found at: http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=testing_the_linux_kernel [m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: balance parenthesis in blackfin header files] Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | mm: fix handling of panic_on_oom when cpusets are in useYasunori Goto2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current panic_on_oom may not work if there is a process using cpusets/mempolicy, because other nodes' memory may remain. But some people want failover by panic ASAP even if they are used. This patch makes new setting for its request. This is tested on my ia64 box which has 3 nodes. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | slub: add slabinfo toolChristoph Lameter2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the tool which gets reports about slabs to the VM documentation directory. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | slub: user documentationChristoph Lameter2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | smaps: add clear_refs file to clear referenceDavid Rientjes2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds /proc/pid/clear_refs. When any non-zero number is written to this file, pte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its corresponding page, respectively, in that task's VMAs. This file is only writable by the user who owns the task. It is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using by clearing the reference bits with echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output at a measured time interval. For example, to observe the approximate change in memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references (echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and extracts the size in kB. Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total referenced footprint. Moments later, repeat the process and observe the difference. For example, using an efficient Mozilla: accumulated time referenced memory ---------------- ----------------- 0 s 408 kB 1 s 408 kB 2 s 556 kB 3 s 1028 kB 4 s 872 kB 5 s 1956 kB 6 s 416 kB 7 s 1560 kB 8 s 2336 kB 9 s 1044 kB 10 s 416 kB This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory footprint for a task. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | add new_id to PCMCIA driversBernhard Walle2007-05-07
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PCI drivers have the new_id file in sysfs which allows new IDs to be added at runtime. The advantage is to avoid re-compilation of a driver that works for a new device, but it's ID table doesn't contain the new device. This mechanism is only meant for testing, after the driver has been tested successfully, the ID should be added in source code so that new revisions of the kernel automatically detect the device. The implementation follows the PCI implementation. The interface is documented in Documentation/pcmcia/driver.txt. Computations should be done in userspace, so the sysfs string contains the raw structure members for matching. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2007-05-06
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits) kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message. kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help usr/Kconfig: fix typo kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs' kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string. kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode '.config' kbuild: override build timestamp & version ...
| * | | | kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs'Randy Dunlap2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make docbook index.html contain sorted output. I prefer to let the computer do it. This also avoids people not reading the comment(s). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | | | kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/manSam Ravnborg2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "make mandocs" generate > 2000 files in Documentation/DocBook/man and this caused kbuild to barf out during make mrproper like this: make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=Documentation/DocBook make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=Documentation/DocBook/man/ make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long make[2]: *** [__clean] Error 127 make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/man/] Error 2 make: *** [_mrproper_Documentation/DocBook] Error 2 The man directory were solely used for output so the fix is to remove it entirely during the make mrproper process. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
| * | | | kbuild: small documentation fix in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txtAnton Blanchard2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Makefile fragment in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt looks to be missing some braces. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2007-05-06
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (82 commits) [ARM] Add comments marking in-use ptrace numbers [ARM] Move syscall saving out of the way of utrace [ARM] 4360/1: S3C24XX: regs-udc.h remove unused macro [ARM] 4358/1: S3C24XX: mach-qt2410.c: remove linux/mmc/protocol.h header [ARM] mm 10: allow memory type to be specified with ioremap [ARM] mm 9: add additional device memory types [ARM] mm 8: define mem_types table L1 bit 4 to be for ARMv6 [ARM] iop: add missing parens in macro [ARM] mm 7: remove duplicated __ioremap() prototypes ARM: OMAP: fix OMAP1 mpuio suspend/resume oops ARM: OMAP: MPUIO wake updates ARM: OMAP: speed up gpio irq handling ARM: OMAP: plat-omap changes for 2430 SDP ARM: OMAP: gpio object shrinkage, cleanup ARM: OMAP: /sys/kernel/debug/omap_gpio ARM: OMAP: Implement workaround for GPIO wakeup bug in OMAP2420 silicon ARM: OMAP: Enable 24xx GPIO autoidling [ARM] 4318/2: DSM-G600 Board Support [ARM] 4227/1: minor head.S fixups [ARM] 4328/1: Move i.MX UART regs to driver ...
| * | | | | [ARM] 4304/1: removes the unnecessary bit number from CKENnn_XXXXEric Miao2007-04-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the unnecessary bit number from CKENnn_XXXX definitions for PXA, so that CKEN0_PWM0 --> CKEN_PWM0 CKEN1_PWM1 --> CKEN_PWM1 ... CKEN24_CAMERA --> CKEN_CAMERA The reasons for the change of these defitions are: 1. they do not scale - they are currently valid for pxa2xx, but definitely not valid for pxa3xx, e.g., pxa3xx has bit 3 for camera instead of bit 24 2. they are unnecessary - the peripheral name within the definition has already announced its usage, we don't need those bit numbers to know which peripheral we are going to enable/disable clock for 3. they are inconvenient - think about this: a driver programmer for pxa has to remember which bit in the CKEN register to turn on/off Another change in the patch is to make the definitions equal to its clock bit index, so that #define CKEN_CAMERA (24) instead of #define CKEN_CAMERA (1 << 24) this change, however, will add a run-time bit shift operation in pxa_set_cken(), but the benefit of this change is that it scales when bit index exceeds 32, e.g., pxa3xx has two registers CKENA and CKENB, totally 64 bit for this, suppose CAMERA clock enabling bit is CKENB:10, one can simply define CKEN_CAMERA to be (32 + 10) and so that pxa_set_cken() need minimum change to adapt to that. Signed-off-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-05
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits) [PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall [PATCH] i386: type may be unused [PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation. [PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split. [PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff [PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu [PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h [PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks [PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c [PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems [PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64 [PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER [PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls [PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0) [PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c [PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning [PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible [PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP [PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386 [PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386 ... Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | [PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiffAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | asm-offsets.c is valid source code and needs to be diffed. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * | | | | | [PATCH] x86-64: Dynamically adjust machine check intervalTim Hockin2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Background: We've found that MCEs (specifically DRAM SBEs) tend to come in bunches, especially when we are trying really hard to stress the system out. The current MCE poller uses a static interval which does not care whether it has or has not found MCEs recently. Description: This patch makes the MCE poller adjust the polling interval dynamically. If we find an MCE, poll 2x faster (down to 10 ms). When we stop finding MCEs, poll 2x slower (up to check_interval seconds). The check_interval tunable becomes the max polling interval. The "Machine check events logged" printk() is rate limited to the check_interval, which should be identical behavior to the old functionality. Result: If you start to take a lot of correctable errors (not exceptions), you log them faster and more accurately (less chance of overflowing the MCA registers). If you don't take a lot of errors, you will see no change. Alternatives: I considered simply reducing the polling interval to 10 ms immediately and keeping it there as long as we continue to find errors. This felt a bit heavy handed, but does perform significantly better for the default check_interval of 5 minutes (we're using a few seconds when testing for DRAM errors). I could be convinced to go with this, if anyone felt it was not too aggressive. Testing: I used an error-injecting DIMM to create lots of correctable DRAM errors and verified that the polling interval accelerates. The printk() only happens once per check_interval seconds. Patch: This patch is against 2.6.21-rc7. Signed-Off-By: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * | | | | | [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allow boot-time disable of paravirt_ops patchingJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add "noreplace-paravirt" to disable paravirt_ops patching. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | [PATCH] i386: Allow boot-time disable of SMP altinstructionsJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add "noreplace-smp" to disable SMP instruction replacement. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| * | | | | | [PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10Andi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking. I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386 Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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