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* iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsoleteDavid Howells2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an inode bad). Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem. iget_locked() should be used instead. A new function is added in an earlier patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it and release it should the get routine fail. Mark iget() and read_inode() as being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation. Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function becomes an internal iget function, for example the following: void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode) { ... } would be changed into something like: struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino) { struct inode *inode; int ret; inode = iget_locked(sb, ino); if (!inode) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW)) return inode; ... unlock_new_inode(inode); return inode; error: iget_failed(inode); return ERR_PTR(ret); } and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example: ret = -EINVAL; inode = iget(sb, ino); if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode)) goto error; becomes: inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { ret = PTR_ERR(inode); goto error; } Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called. The error returned by thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* iget: introduce a function to register iget failureDavid Howells2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path. This includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and releasing it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fixPaul Jackson2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Update cpuset documentation to match the October 2007 "Fix cpusets update_cpumask" changes that now apply changes to a cpusets 'cpus' allowed mask immediately to the cpus_allowed of the tasks in that cpuset. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* update Documentation/controller/memory.txtKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Documentation updates for memory controller. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* oom: add sysctl to enable task memory dumpDavid Rientjes2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_dump_tasks', that enables the kernel to produce a dump of all system tasks (excluding kernel threads) when performing an OOM-killing. Information includes pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj score, and name. This is helpful for determining why there was an OOM condition and which rogue task caused it. It is configurable so that large systems, such as those with several thousand tasks, do not incur a performance penalty associated with dumping data they may not desire. If an OOM was triggered as a result of a memory controller, the tasklist shall be filtered to exclude tasks that are not a member of the same cgroup. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memory controller improve user interfaceBalbir Singh2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the interface to use bytes instead of pages. Page sizes can vary across platforms and configurations. A new strategy routine has been added to the resource counters infrastructure to format the data as desired. Suggested by David Rientjes, Andrew Morton and Herbert Poetzl Tested on a UML setup with the config for memory control enabled. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: possible race fix in res_counter] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memory controller: add documentBalbir Singh2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cgroups: move cgroups destroy() callbacks to cgroup_diput()Paul Menage2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the calls to the cgroup subsystem destroy() methods from cgroup_rmdir() to cgroup_diput(). This allows control file reads and writes to access their subsystem state without having to be concerned with locking against cgroup destruction - the control file dentry will keep the cgroup and its subsystem state objects alive until the file is closed. The documentation is updated to reflect the changed semantics of destroy(); additionally the locking comments for destroy() and some other methods were clarified and decrustified. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* email-clients.txt: sylpheed is OK at IMAPRandy Dunlap2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | This comment is not helpful (no reason given) and is incorrect. Just stick to facts that are useful regarding working on Linux. (akpm: I've used sylpheed+imap for years) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectoryJ. Bruce Fields2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories. These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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>
* Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | This documentation is also vfs-related. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> 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>
* Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> 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>
* move edac.txt two levels upAdrian Bunk2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | There's no reason for edac.txt for being at this unusual place. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add chapter IDs to z8530book.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add chapter IDs to z8530book.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* Add table IDs to videobook.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add table IDs to videobook.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* Add section IDs to rapidio.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add section IDs to rapidio.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* Add missing IDs to procfs-guide.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add missing IDs to procfs-guide.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* Add section IDs to mtdnand.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add section IDs to mtdnand.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* Add missing section ID to lsm.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add missing section ID to lsm.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmplRob Landley2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
* docbook: dmapool: fix fatal changed filenameRandy Dunlap2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | Docbook fatal error, file was moved: docproc: linux-2.6.24-git15/drivers/base/dmapool.c: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* md: allow a maximum extent to be set for resyncingNeilBrown2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows userspace to control resync/reshape progress and synchronise it with other activities, such as shared access in a SAN, or backing up critical sections during a tricky reshape. Writing a number of sectors (which must be a multiple of the chunk size if such is meaningful) causes a resync to pause when it gets to that point. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fb: defio nopageNick Piggin2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Convert fb defio from nopage to fault. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* w1-gpio: add GPIO w1 bus master driverVille Syrjala2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a GPIO 1-wire bus master driver. The driver used the GPIO API to control the wire and the GPIO pin can be specified using platform data similar to i2c-gpio. The driver was tested with AT91SAM9260 + DS2401. Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rtc: cleanup example codeMike Frysinger2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | No functional changes here, just tighten up style/whitespace. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rtc: update documentation wrt irq_set_freqMike Frysinger2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | Document the proper use of the irq_set_freq function. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kprobes: kretprobe user entry-handlerAbhishek Sagar2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide support to add an optional user defined callback to be run at function entry of a kretprobe'd function. Also modify the kprobe smoke tests to include an entry-handler during the kretprobe sanity test. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTINGRichard Kennedy2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a couple of small additions to BUG-HUNTING. 1. point out that you can list code in gdb with only one command (gdb) l *(<symbol> + offset) 2. give a very brief hint how to decode module symbols in call traces Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docs: convert kref semaphore to mutexDaniel Walker2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Just converting this documentation semaphore reference, since we don't want to promote semaphore usage. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docs: kernel-locking: Convert semaphore referencesDaniel Walker2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | I converted some of the document to reflect mutex usage instead of semaphore usage. Since we shouldin't be promoting semaphore usage when it's on it's way out.. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation about unaligned memory accessDaniel Drake2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a document I wrote after figuring out what unaligned memory access is all about. I've tried to cover the information I was looking for when trying to learn about this, without producing a hopelessly detailed/complex spew. I hope it is useful to others. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_openEric Dumazet2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open more than 1024*1024 handles. Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process. Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential exhaust. This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to 1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload needs it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* scheduled OSS driver removalAdrian Bunk2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers whose config options have been removed in 2.6.23. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ide-pci-generic: kill the unused ifdef/endif/MODULE codeDenis Cheng2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | with module_param macro, the __setup code can be killed now: const __setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on); and the module name "generic.ko" is not descriptive to its functionality, can be changed in Makefile, the "ide-pci-generic.ko" is better. the ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide parameter also documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-02-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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] make pfm_get_task work with virtual pids [IA64] honor notify_die() returning NOTIFY_STOP [IA64] remove dead code: __cpu_{down,die} from !HOTPLUG_CPU [IA64] Appoint kvm/ia64 Maintainers [IA64] ia64_set_psr should use srlz.i [IA64] Export three symbols for module use [IA64] mca style cleanup [IA64] sn_hwperf semaphore to mutex [IA64] generalize attribute of fsyscall_gtod_data [IA64] efi.c Add /* never reached */ annotation [IA64] efi.c Spelling/punctuation fixes [IA64] Make efi.c mostly fit in 80 columns [IA64] aliasing-test: fix gcc warnings on non-ia64 [IA64] Slim-down __clear_bit_unlock [IA64] Fix the order of atomic operations in restore_previous_kprobes on ia64 [IA64] constify function pointer tables [IA64] fix userspace compile error in gcc_intrin.h
| * [IA64] aliasing-test: fix gcc warnings on non-ia64Randy Dunlap2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eliminate all build warnings. OK, these build warnings are from a build on x86_64. When I build on ia64, I don't see warnings. Now builds cleanly on ia64 and x86_64. Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c: In function 'map_mem': Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c:39: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ioctl' Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c: In function 'scan_rom': Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c:183: warning: format '%ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'int' Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c: At top level: Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c:208: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c: In function 'main': Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c:259: warning: control reaches end of non-void function Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c: In function 'scan_rom': Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c:152: warning: 'rc' may be used uninitialized in this function Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c: In function 'scan_tree': Documentation/ia64/aliasing-test.c:68: warning: 'rc' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-02-05
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] dcss: Initialize workqueue before using it. [S390] Remove BUILD_BUG_ON() in vmem code. [S390] sclp_tty/sclp_vt220: Fix scheduling while atomic [S390] dasd: fix panic caused by alias device offline [S390] dasd: add ifcc handling [S390] latencytop s390 support. [S390] Implement ext2_find_next_bit. [S390] Cleanup & optimize bitops. [S390] Define GENERIC_LOCKBREAK. [S390] console: allow vt220 console to be the only console [S390] Fix couple of section mismatches. [S390] Fix smp_call_function_mask semantics. [S390] Fix linker script. [S390] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support for s390. [S390] cio: Add shutdown callback for ccwgroup. [S390] cio: Update documentation. [S390] cio: Clean up chsc response code handling. [S390] cio: make sense id procedure work with partial hardware response
| * | [S390] cio: Update documentation.Cornelia Huck2008-02-05
| |/ | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | pm qos infrastructure and interfaceMark Gross2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done by Arjan last year. It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter, and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos expectations of processes. This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on one of the parameters. Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as the initial set of pm_qos parameters. The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented parameter. The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init() and pm_qos_params.h. This is done because having the available parameters being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to abuse. For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with an aggregated target value. The aggregated target value is updated with changes to the requirement list or elements of the list. Typically the aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values held in the parameter list elements. >From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple: pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value): Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS parameter with the target value. Upon change to this list the new target is recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value is now different. pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value): Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the aggregated target is changed. with that name is already registered. pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name): Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement. >From user mode: Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement. To provide for automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register its parameter requirements in the following way: To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput] As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered requirement on the parameter. The name of the requirement is "process_<PID>" derived from the current->pid from within the open system call. To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32 value to the open device node. This translates to a pm_qos_update_requirement call. To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control KernelCasey Schaufler2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Smack is the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. Smack implements mandatory access control (MAC) using labels attached to tasks and data containers, including files, SVIPC, and other tasks. Smack is a kernel based scheme that requires an absolute minimum of application support and a very small amount of configuration data. Smack uses extended attributes and provides a set of general mount options, borrowing technics used elsewhere. Smack uses netlabel for CIPSO labeling. Smack provides a pseudo-filesystem smackfs that is used for manipulation of system Smack attributes. The patch, patches for ls and sshd, a README, a startup script, and x86 binaries for ls and sshd are also available on http://www.schaufler-ca.com Development has been done using Fedora Core 7 in a virtual machine environment and on an old Sony laptop. Smack provides mandatory access controls based on the label attached to a task and the label attached to the object it is attempting to access. Smack labels are deliberately short (1-23 characters) text strings. Single character labels using special characters are reserved for system use. The only operation applied to Smack labels is equality comparison. No wildcards or expressions, regular or otherwise, are used. Smack labels are composed of printable characters and may not include "/". A file always gets the Smack label of the task that created it. Smack defines and uses these labels: "*" - pronounced "star" "_" - pronounced "floor" "^" - pronounced "hat" "?" - pronounced "huh" The access rules enforced by Smack are, in order: 1. Any access requested by a task labeled "*" is denied. 2. A read or execute access requested by a task labeled "^" is permitted. 3. A read or execute access requested on an object labeled "_" is permitted. 4. Any access requested on an object labeled "*" is permitted. 5. Any access requested by a task on an object with the same label is permitted. 6. Any access requested that is explicitly defined in the loaded rule set is permitted. 7. Any other access is denied. Rules may be explicitly defined by writing subject,object,access triples to /smack/load. Smack rule sets can be easily defined that describe Bell&LaPadula sensitivity, Biba integrity, and a variety of interesting configurations. Smack rule sets can be modified on the fly to accommodate changes in the operating environment or even the time of day. Some practical use cases: Hierarchical levels. The less common of the two usual uses for MLS systems is to define hierarchical levels, often unclassified, confidential, secret, and so on. To set up smack to support this, these rules could be defined: C Unclass rx S C rx S Unclass rx TS S rx TS C rx TS Unclass rx A TS process can read S, C, and Unclass data, but cannot write it. An S process can read C and Unclass. Note that specifying that TS can read S and S can read C does not imply TS can read C, it has to be explicitly stated. Non-hierarchical categories. This is the more common of the usual uses for an MLS system. Since the default rule is that a subject cannot access an object with a different label no access rules are required to implement compartmentalization. A case that the Bell & LaPadula policy does not allow is demonstrated with this Smack access rule: A case that Bell&LaPadula does not allow that Smack does: ESPN ABC r ABC ESPN r On my portable video device I have two applications, one that shows ABC programming and the other ESPN programming. ESPN wants to show me sport stories that show up as news, and ABC will only provide minimal information about a sports story if ESPN is covering it. Each side can look at the other's info, neither can change the other. Neither can see what FOX is up to, which is just as well all things considered. Another case that I especially like: SatData Guard w Guard Publish w A program running with the Guard label opens a UDP socket and accepts messages sent by a program running with a SatData label. The Guard program inspects the message to ensure it is wholesome and if it is sends it to a program running with the Publish label. This program then puts the information passed in an appropriate place. Note that the Guard program cannot write to a Publish file system object because file system semanitic require read as well as write. The four cases (categories, levels, mutual read, guardbox) here are all quite real, and problems I've been asked to solve over the years. The first two are easy to do with traditonal MLS systems while the last two you can't without invoking privilege, at least for a while. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Document lowmem_reserve_ratioYasunori Goto2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Though the lower_zone_protection was changed to lowmem_reserve_ratio, the document has been not changed. The lowmem_reserve_ratio seems quite hard to estimate, but there is no guidance. This patch is to change document for it. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable optionBron Gondwana2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written randomly by the dbclean process. On 2.6.16 this process took a few minutes. With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12 hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes. Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to add the highmem back to the total available memory count. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build] Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | deprecate obsolete pca9539 drivereric miao2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use drivers/gpio/pca9539.c instead. Signed-off-by: eric miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | gpiolib: update Documentation/gpio.txtDavid Brownell2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Documentation/gpio.txt, primarily to include the new "gpiolib" infrastructure. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | pcmcia: replace kio_addr_t with unsigned int everywhereOlof Johansson2008-02-05
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove kio_addr_t, and replace it with unsigned int. No known architecture needs more than 32 bits for IO addresses and ports and having a separate type for it is just messy. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 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/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds2008-02-04
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (78 commits) x86: fix RTC lockdep warning: potential hardirq recursion x86: cpa, micro-optimization x86: cpa, clean up code flow x86: cpa, eliminate CPA_ enum x86: cpa, cleanups x86: implement gbpages support in change_page_attr() x86: support gbpages in pagetable dump x86: add gbpages support to lookup_address x86: add pgtable accessor functions for gbpages x86: add PUD_PAGE_SIZE x86: add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid bit x86: switch direct mapping setup over to set_pte x86: fix page-present check in cpa_flush_range x86: remove cpa warning x86: remove now unused clear_kernel_mapping x86: switch pci-gart over to using set_memory_np() instead of clear_kernel_mapping() x86: cpa selftest, skip non present entries x86: CPA fix pagetable split x86: rename LARGE_PAGE_SIZE to PMD_PAGE_SIZE x86: cpa, fix lookup_address ...
| * documentation: add Documentation/x86-64/00-INDEXRob Landley2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds2008-02-04
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (25 commits) virtio: balloon driver virtio: Use PCI revision field to indicate virtio PCI ABI version virtio: PCI device virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz,vdaa-vdzz,vdaaa-vdzzz virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers virtio_blk: provide getgeo virtio_net: parametrize the napi_weight for virtio receive queue. virtio: free transmit skbs when notified, not on next xmit. virtio: flush buffers on open virtnet: remove double ether_setup virtio: Allow virtio to be modular and used by modules virtio: Use the sg_phys convenience function. virtio: Put the virtio under the virtualization menu virtio: handle interrupts after callbacks turned off virtio: reset function virtio: populate network rings in the probe routine, not open virtio: Tweak virtio_net defines virtio: Net header needs hdr_len virtio: remove unused id field from struct virtio_blk_outhdr virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usage ...
| * | virtio: reset functionRusty Russell2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A reset function solves three problems: 1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a guest driver without rebooting the guest. 2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset, we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and 3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers. So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove feature bits is via reset. We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues: the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its remove function. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usageRusty Russell2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The other side (host) can set the NO_NOTIFY flag as an optimization, to say "no need to kick me when you add things". Make it clear that this is advisory only; especially that we should always notify when the ring is full. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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