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* b43: Change schedule for old-fw support removalMichael Buesch2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | The scheduled date for the removal of old fw support was in July 2008. However, we're not going to remove the support unless it causes a major headache. So change the schedule from "July 2008" to "when it causes headaches". Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-01-26
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| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds2009-01-26
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos kbuild: print usage with no arguments in scripts/config Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
| | * kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typosRandy Dunlap2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typos in the new kbuild.txt file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-26
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (92 commits) gianfar: Revive VLAN support vlan: Export symbols as non GPL symbols. bnx2x: tx_has_work should not wait for FW netxen: reduce memory footprint netxen: fix vlan tso/checksum offload net: Fix linux/if_frad.h's suitability for userspace. net: Move config NET_NS to from net/Kconfig to init/Kconfig isdn: Fix missing ifdef in isdn_ppp networking: document "nc" in addition to "netcat" in netconsole.txt e1000e: workaround hw errata af_key: initialize xfrm encap_oa virtio_net: Fix MAX_PACKET_LEN to support 802.1Q VLANs lcs: fix compilation for !CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST rtl8187: Add termination packet to prevent stall iwlwifi: fix rs_get_rate WARN_ON() p54usb: fix packet loss with first generation devices sctp: Fix another socket race during accept/peeloff sctp: Properly timestamp outgoing data chunks for rtx purposes sctp: Correctly start rtx timer on new packet transmissions. sctp: Fix crc32c calculations on big-endian arhes. ...
| | * | networking: document "nc" in addition to "netcat" in netconsole.txtJesse Barnes2009-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It always annoyed me that the netconsole documentation didn't give me the correct command for my distro. Update it with a command line that actually works on my Fedora install. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | Merge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-01-23
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| | * | | ALSA: hda: Add STAC92HD83XXX_PWR_REF quirkMatthew Ranostay2009-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some revisions of the 92hd8xxx codec's not supporting port power downs in which the using of it causes capture and also randomly playback streams to not function at all. Thus by disabling it by default and adding a option to enable it manually will fix all issue on current and future revisions. Signed-off-by: Matthew Ranostay <mranostay@embeddedalley.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | sound: Remove removed OSS kernel parameters from docHenrik Kretzschmar2009-01-18
| | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove removed OSS kernel parameters from kernel-parameters.txt Remove the kernel parameters from the OSS drivers of the chips es1371 (removed 10-2007/2.6.24) and cs4232 (removed 02-2008/2.6.25) from the kernel parameters documentation. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* / | | dccp: Implement both feature-local and feature-remote Sequence Window featureGerrit Renker2009-01-21
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds full support for local/remote Sequence Window feature, from which the * sequence-number-validity (W) and * acknowledgment-number-validity (W') windows derive as specified in RFC 4340, 7.5.3. Specifically, the following is contained in this patch: * integrated new socket fields into dccp_sk; * updated the update_gsr/gss routines with regard to these fields; * updated handler code: the Sequence Window feature is located at the TX side, so the local feature is meant if the handler-rx flag is false; * the initialisation of `rcv_wnd' in reqsk is removed, since - rcv_wnd is not used by the code anywhere; - sequence number checks are not done in the LISTEN state (cf. 7.5.3); - dccp_check_req checks the Ack number validity more rigorously; * the `struct dccp_minisock' became empty and is now removed. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into releaseLen Brown2009-01-16
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| * | | ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.22Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is about time to bump up the version. Features added since 0.21: fan suspend/resume support, preserve radio state across power off (for some radio types), built-in UWB radio rfkill support and thermal alarm events support. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add UWB radio supportHenrique de Moraes Holschuh2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add rfkill support for USB UWB radio devices on very recent ThinkPad laptop models. The new subdriver is moslty a trimmed down copy of the wwan subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update documents for the new locationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh2009-01-15
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update documentation to reflect the new location of the thinkpad-acpi driver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-15
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: hwmon: (abituguru3) Fix CONFIG_DMI=n fallback to probe hwmon: (abituguru3) Enable DMI probing feature on IN9 32X MAX hwmon: (abituguru3) Match partial DMI board name strings hwmon: Add a driver for the ADT7475 hardware monitoring chip hwmon: (k8temp) Fix temperature reporting for (most) K8 RevG CPUs hwmon: (k8temp) Fix wrong sensor selection for AMD K8 RevF/RevG CPUs hwmon: (k8temp) Warn about fam F rev F errata
| * | | hwmon: Add a driver for the ADT7475 hardware monitoring chipJordan Crouse2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hwmon driver for the ADT7475 chip. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* | | | lis3: fix documentation to fit into 80 columnsPavel Machek2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix lis3 documentation to fit into 80 columns. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: fix endless loopMarcus Meissner2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When no option is passed to getdelays it just hangs, waiting for a reply which will never come. This patch prints usage() when no output marker is specified. Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | cgroups: consolidate cgroup documentsLi Zefan2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to Documentation/cgroups/ Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | sysrq documentation: document why the command header only is shownAndy Whitcroft2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the interactions between loglevel and the sysrq output. Also document how to work round it should output be required on the console. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | sysrq documentation: remove the redundant updated dateAndy Whitcroft2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git is maintaining the last update time much more accuratly than the internal update time. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Update of Documentation: vm.txt and proc.txtPeter W Morreale2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. More specifically, the section on /proc/sys/vm in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt was removed and a link to Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt added. Most of the verbiage from proc.txt was simply moved in vm.txt, with new addtional text for "swappiness" and "stat_interval". Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> 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>
* | | | Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-15
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] SN specific version of dma_get_required_mask() [IA64] generic_defconfig: Enable SATA_VITESSE [IA64] dump stack on kernel unaligned warnings [IA64] Turn on CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_CLOCK [IA64] Update to use account_{steal,idle}_ticks
| * | | | [IA64] SN specific version of dma_get_required_mask()John Keller2009-01-15
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a platform specific version of dma_get_required_mask() for ia64 SN Altix. All SN Altix platforms support 64 bit DMA addressing regardless of the size of system memory. Create an ia64 machvec for dma_get_required_mask, with the SN version unconditionally returning DMA_64BIT_MASK. Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-15
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / |/| | / | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Fix invalid amp value for STAC925x ASoC: Fix the power update function for snd_soc_dapm_value_mux sound: virtuoso: do not overwrite EEPROM on Xonar D2/D2X ALSA: hda - Fix HP dv5 mic input ALSA: hda - Fix missing initialization of NID 0x0e for STAC925x ALSA: USB quirk for Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 name ALSA: hda - Fix stac92hd83xxx_amp_nids[] ALSA: hda - Add automatic model setting for Samsung Q45 ALSA: hda - Don't reset HP pinctl in patch_sigmatel.c ALSA: hda: stac92hd8xxx amp mixers ALSA: hda - Fix silent headphone output on Panasonic CF-74 ALSA: hda - Update model descriptions in patch_sigmatel.c ALSA: hda - Use queue_delayed_work() ALSA: hda - Add quirk for another HP dv5 ALSA: hda - Add support of NVidia MCP78 HDMI ALSA: hda - Fix a typo ALSA: hda - More fixes on Gateway entries ALSA: patch_sigmatel: Add missing Gateway entries and autodetection ALSA: hda - Add a new function to seek for a codec ID
| * | ALSA: hda - Update model descriptions in patch_sigmatel.cTakashi Iwai2009-01-13
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | Update models in patch_sigmatel.c, mainly for the last Gateway updates. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* / ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-01-14
|/ | | | | Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits) x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes x86: remove duplicated #include's x86: k8 numa register active regions later x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems x86: i8259.c fix style problems x86: irq_32.c fix style problems x86: ioport.c fix style problems ...
| *-. Merge branches 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mpparse', 'x86/numa' and 'x86/uv' into ↵Ingo Molnar2009-01-06
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| | * | Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_lengthBaodong Chen2009-01-04
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfsTakashi Sato2009-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and replication) while it is mounted. In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature and it would be used to get the consistent backup. If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it without a commercial filesystem. So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature. I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps. 1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl. 2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot with the storage device's feature. 3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl. 4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume or the snapshot. This patch: VFS: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they can return an error. Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion. ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed, and unlockfs always returns 0. reiserfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 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/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry Squashfs: documentation Squashfs: initrd support Squashfs: Kconfig entry Squashfs: Makefiles Squashfs: header files Squashfs: block operations Squashfs: cache operations Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations Squashfs: fragment block operations Squashfs: export operations Squashfs: super block operations Squashfs: symlink operations Squashfs: regular file operations Squashfs: directory readdir operations Squashfs: directory lookup operations Squashfs: inode operations
| * | | Squashfs: documentationPhillip Lougher2009-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommuLinus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu: NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions. FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
| * | | | NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.Paul Mundt2009-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NOMMU mmap allocates a piece of memory for an mmap that's rounded up in size to the nearest power-of-2 number of pages. Currently it then discards the excess pages back to the page allocator, making that memory available for use by other things. This can, however, cause greater amount of fragmentation. To counter this, a sysctl is added in order to fine-tune the trimming behaviour. The default behaviour remains to trim pages aggressively, while this can either be disabled completely or set to a higher page-granular watermark in order to have finer-grained control. vm region vm_top bits taken from an earlier patch by David Howells. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
| * | | | NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linuxDavid Howells2009-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems: (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of shmat's (and forks) done. (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another process or a dead process. A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure is discarded as it's no longer required. This patch makes the following additional changes: (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead, each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it. When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero. (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages. (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is appended to the sort key. (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list. (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if necessary. (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different virtual addresses as under MMU-mode. (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode. (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits that aren't actually mapped anywhere. (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not anonymous. These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] update documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter. [S390] hvc_iucv: Special handling of IUCV HVC devices [S390] hvc_iucv: Refactor console and device initialization [S390] hvc_iucv: Update function documentation [S390] hvc_iucv: Limit rate of outgoing IUCV messages [S390] hvc_iucv: Change IUCV term id and use one device as default [S390] Use unsigned long long for u64 on 64bit. [S390] qdio: fix broken pointer in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled [S390] vdso: compile fix [S390] remove code for oldselect system call [S390] types: add/fix types.h include in header files [S390] dasd: add device attribute to disable blocking on lost paths [S390] dasd: send change uevents for dasd block devices [S390] tape block: fix dependencies [S390] asm-s390/posix_types.h: drop __USE_ALL usage [S390] gettimeofday.S: removed duplicated #includes [S390] ptrace: no extern declarations for userspace
| * | | | | [S390] update documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.Hendrik Brueckner2009-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstableLinus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (864 commits) Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writeback Btrfs: Drop the hardware crc32c asm code Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifies Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixes Btrfs: don't change file extent's ram_bytes in btrfs_drop_extents Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation Btrfs: drop remaining LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks and compat code Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.c Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings Btrfs: Fix free block discard calls down to the block layer Btrfs: avoid orphan inode caused by log replay Btrfs: avoid potential super block corruption Btrfs: do not call kfree if kmalloc failed in btrfs_sysfs_add_super Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cb Btrfs: Fix memset length in btrfs_file_write Btrfs: update directory's size when creating subvol/snapshot Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls ...
| * | | | | | Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYINGDavid Woodhouse2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
* | | | | | | Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (67 commits) [MTD] [MAPS] Fix printk format warning in nettel.c [MTD] [NAND] add cmdline parsing (mtdparts=) support to cafe_nand [MTD] CFI: remove major/minor version check for command set 0x0002 [MTD] [NAND] ndfc driver [MTD] [TESTS] Fix some size_t printk format warnings [MTD] LPDDR Makefile and KConfig [MTD] LPDDR extended physmap driver to support LPDDR flash [MTD] LPDDR added new pfow_base parameter [MTD] LPDDR Command set driver [MTD] LPDDR PFOW definition [MTD] LPDDR QINFO records definitions [MTD] LPDDR qinfo probing. [MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: convert from ns to clock ticks more accurately [MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: fix non-page-aligned reads [MTD] [NAND] fix nandsim sched.h references [MTD] [NAND] alauda: use USB API functions rather than constants [MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() [MTD] fix m25p80 64-bit divisions [MTD] fix dataflash 64-bit divisions [MTD] [NAND] Set the fsl elbc ECCM according the settings in bootloader. ... Fixed up trivial debug conflicts in drivers/mtd/devices/{m25p80.c,mtd_dataflash.c}
| * | | | | | | [MTD] [NAND] ndfc driverSean MacLennan2009-01-05
| | |_|_|/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current ndfc driver only compiles under arch/ppc. This arch was removed from the kernel. I notice the event entry for the ndfc in Kconfig has been removed in 2.6.28. This patch converts the ndfc to a proper OF (OpenFirmware) driver. I can give a working example of the DTS if needed. The patch has been in production use on the PIKA Warp Appliance and is in use by others. The Warp basically boots from NAND, so the ndfc driver is very important to us. Signed-off-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com> Acked-By: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* | | | | | | Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (94 commits) ACPICA: hide private headers ACPICA: create acpica/ directory ACPI: fix build warning ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt" ACPI: Avoid array address overflow when _CST MWAIT hint bits are set fujitsu-laptop: Simplify SBLL/SBL2 backlight handling fujitsu-laptop: Add BL power, LED control and radio state information ACPICA: delete utcache.c ACPICA: delete acdisasm.h ACPICA: Update version to 20081204. ACPICA: FADT: Update error msgs for consistency ACPICA: FADT: set acpi_gbl_use_default_register_widths to TRUE by default ACPICA: FADT parsing changes and fixes ACPICA: Add ACPI_MUTEX_TYPE configuration option ACPICA: Fixes for various ACPI data tables ACPICA: Restructure includes into public/private ACPI: remove private acpica headers from driver files ACPI: reboot.c: use new acpi_reset interface ACPICA: New: acpi_reset interface - write to reset register ACPICA: Move all public H/W interfaces to new hwxface ...
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'linus' into releaseLen Brown2009-01-09
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| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'suspend' into releaseLen Brown2009-01-09
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| | * | | | | | | doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt formattingRandy Dunlap2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spell out "wrt". I suspect plenty of people won't know what that means. Fix a '}' that should be a ']'. Reformat long lines into shorter lines. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * | | | | | | ACPI hibernate: Introduce new kernel parameter acpi_sleep=s4_nonvsRafael J. Wysocki2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On some machines it may be necessary to disable the saving/restoring of the ACPI NVS memory region during hibernation/resume. For this purpose, introduce new ACPI kernel command line option acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs. Based on a patch by Zhang Rui. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | | | | | | ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"Zhao Yakui2009-01-09
| | |_|_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On some boxes there exist both RSDT and XSDT table. But unfortunately sometimes there exists the following error when XSDT table is used: a. 32/64X address mismatch b. The 32/64X FACS address mismatch In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246 Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> cc:Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | | | | | | Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits) ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown iop-adma: enable module removal iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level ...
| * | | | | | | async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api reworkDan Williams2009-01-05
| | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "Wouldn't it be better if the dmaengine layer made sure it didn't pass the same channel several times to a client? I mean, you seem concerned that the memcpy() API should be transparent and easy to use, but the whole registration interface is just ridiculously complicated..." - Haavard The dmaengine and async_tx registration/allocation interface is indeed needlessly complicated. This redesign has the following goals: 1/ Simplify reference counting: dma channels are not something one would expect to be hotplugged, it should be an exceptional event handled by drivers not something clients should be mandated to handle in a callback. The common case channel removal event is 'rmmod <dma driver>', which for simplicity should be disallowed if the channel is in use. 2/ Add an interface for requesting exclusive access to a channel suitable to device-to-memory users. 3/ Convert all memory-to-memory users over to a common allocator, the goal here is to not have competing channel allocation schemes. The only competition should be between device-to-memory exclusive allocations and the memory-to-memory usage case where channels are shared between multiple "clients". Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>