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* [PATCH] Document how to decode an IOCTL numberChuck Ebbert2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | Document how to decode a binary IOCTL number. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] submit checklist updateAndrew Morton2006-12-10
| | | | | | | Mention the new fault-injection test framework. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CodingStyle updatesRandy Dunlap2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some kernel coding style comments, mostly pulled from emails by Andrew Morton, Jesper Juhl, and Randy Dunlap. - add paragraph on switch/case indentation (with fixes) - add paragraph on multiple-assignments - add more on Braces - add section on Spaces; add typeof, alignof, & __attribute__ with sizeof; add more on postfix/prefix increment/decrement operators - add paragraph on function breaks in source files; add info on function prototype parameter names - add paragraph on EXPORT_SYMBOL placement - add section on /*-comment style, long-comment style, and data declarations and comments - correct some chapter number references that were missed when chapters were renumbered Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spi: stabilize PIO mode transfers on PXA2xx systemsStephen Street2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stabilize PIO mode transfers against a range of word sizes and FIFO thresholds and fixes word size setup/override issues. 1) 16 and 32 bit DMA/PIO transfers broken due to timing differences. 2) Potential for bad transfer counts due to transfer size assumptions. 3) Setup function broken is multiple ways. 4) Per transfer bit_per_word changes break DMA setup in pump_tranfers. 5) False positive timeout are not errors. 6) Changes in pxa2xx_spi_chip not effective in calls to setup. 7) Timeout scaling wrong for PXA255 NSSP. 8) Driver leaks memory while busy during unloading. Known issues: SPI_CS_HIGH and SPI_LSB_FIRST settings in struct spi_device are not handled. Testing: This patch has been test against the "random length, random bits/word, random data (verified on loopback) and stepped baud rate by octaves (3.6MHz to 115kHz)" test. It is robust in PIO mode, using any combination of tx and rx thresholds, and also in DMA mode (which internally computes the thresholds). Much thanks to Ned Forrester for exhaustive reviews, fixes and testing. The driver is substantially better for his efforts. Signed-off-by: Stephen Street <stephen@streetfiresound.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-08
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] Poison init section before freeing it. [S390] Use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes(). [S390] Virtual memmap for s390. [S390] Update documentation for dynamic subchannel mapping. [S390] Use dev->groups for adding/removing the subchannel attribute group. [S390] Support for disconnected devices reappearing on another subchannel. [S390] subchannel lock conversion. [S390] Some preparations for the dynamic subchannel mapping patch. [S390] runtime switch for qdio performance statistics [S390] New DASD feature for ERP related logging [S390] add reset call handler to the ap bus. [S390] more workqueue fixes. [S390] workqueue fixes. [S390] uaccess_pt: add missing down_read() and convert to is_init().
| * [S390] Update documentation for dynamic subchannel mapping.Cornelia Huck2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | [PATCH] mbxfb: Document the new ioctlRaphael Assenat2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new ioctl range for the mbxfb driver. Signed-off-by: Raphael Assenat <raph@8d.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fault-injection: Correct, disambiguate, and reformat documentationDon Mullis2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct, disambiguate, and reformat documentation. Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fault injection: stacktrace filteringAkinobu Mita2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides stacktrace filtering feature. The stacktrace filter allows failing only for the caller you are interested in. For example someone may want to inject kmalloc() failures into only e100 module. they want to inject not only direct kmalloc() call, but also indirect allocation, too. - e100_poll --> netif_receive_skb --> packet_rcv_spkt --> skb_clone --> kmem_cache_alloc This patch enables to detect function calls like this by stacktrace and inject failures. The script Documentaion/fault-injection/failmodule.sh helps it. The range of text section of loaded e100 is expected to be [/sys/module/e100/sections/.text, /sys/module/e100/sections/.exit.text) So failmodule.sh stores these values into /debug/failslab/address-start and /debug/failslab/address-end. The maximum stacktrace depth is specified by /debug/failslab/stacktrace-depth. Please see the example that demonstrates how to inject slab allocation failures only for a specific module in Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt [dwm@meer.net: reject failure if any caller lies within specified range] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fault-injection capability for kmallocAkinobu Mita2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides fault-injection capability for kmalloc. Boot option: failslab=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> <interval> -- specifies the interval of failures. <probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent. <space> -- specifies the size of free space where memory can be allocated safely in bytes. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/failslab/interval /debug/failslab/probability /debug/failslab/specifies /debug/failslab/times /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait Example: failslab=10,100,0,-1 slab allocation (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(),..) fails once per 10 times. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fault injection: documentation and scriptsAkinobu Mita2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch set provides some fault-injection capabilities. - kmalloc() failures - alloc_pages() failures - disk IO errors We can see what really happens if those failures happen. In order to enable these fault-injection capabilities: 1. Enable relevant config options (CONFIG_FAILSLAB, CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC, CONFIG_MAKE_REQUEST) and if you want to configure them via debugfs, enable CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS. 2. Build and boot with this kernel 3. Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior by boot option or debugfs - Boot option failslab= fail_page_alloc= fail_make_request= - Debugfs /debug/failslab/* /debug/fail_page_alloc/* /debug/fail_make_request/* Please refer to the Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt for details. 4. See what really happens. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] pktcdvd: add sysfs and debugfs interfaceThomas Maier2006-12-08
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Add a sysfs and debugfs interface to the pktcdvd driver. Look into the Documentation/ABI/testing/* files in the patch for more info. Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Dmitry Torokhov2006-12-08
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/usb/input/hid.h
| * ieee1394: conditionally export ieee1394_bus_typeStefan Richter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Follow-up to patch "Consolidate driver registering": Since I plan the lifetime of Linux 2.6.20 to be the deprecation phase of CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API, it seems fair to keep all previously exported symbols available with this option until this phase is over. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
| * ieee1394: schedule *_oui sysfs attributes for removalStefan Richter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no manpower available to reform oui.db into a library for use in more kernel subsystems. The low ratio of usefulness to size and the occasional need to update oui.db from IEEE's official list suggest to drop oui.db. I plan to make a userspace script available which translates the remaining numeric sysfs attributes to names of organizations. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
| * ieee1394: schedule unused symbol exports for removalStefan Richter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This also means that former parts of ieee1394's API will be subject to change or removal. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
| * ieee1394: dv1394: schedule for feature removalStefan Richter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
| * ieee1394: raw1394: defer feature removal of old isoch interfaceStefan Richter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Known to be affected: - libdc1394: prefers video1394 for now, old-style raw1394 support might be dropped eventually - OpenH323 PWLib, AVC video input module: uses libraw1394's old API Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-07
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits) [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl. [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly. [TG3]: Use msleep. [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*. [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement. [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag. [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID. [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback. [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code. [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier(). [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries. audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n audit: Add auditing to ipsec [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags. [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page. [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock. ...
| | * [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.Paul Moore2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a pointer to the OSDL wiki page on Generic Netlink. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-07
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling() [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs() [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return() [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05 [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again ... Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| | * | [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05Vivek Goyal2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct the documentation for bzImage protocol extension due to relocatable bzImage. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
| | * | [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinderJan Beulich2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add debugging printks to the unwinder to allow easier debugging when something goes wrong with it. This can be controlled with the new unwinder_debug=N option Most output is given by N=1 AK: Added documentation of unwinder_debug= Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| | * | [PATCH] i386: always enable regparmAdrian Bunk2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -mregparm=3 has been enabled by default for some time on i386, and AFAIK there aren't any problems with it left. This patch removes the REGPARM config option and sets -mregparm=3 unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| | * | [PATCH] x86: add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_printChuck Ebbert2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add sysctl for kstack_depth_to_print. This lets users change the amount of raw stack data printed in dump_stack() without having to reboot. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| | * | [PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer checkZachary Amsden2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires 100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs have not yet been delivered. In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs. While here, make check_timer be __init. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> [chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
| | * | [PATCH] Calgary: allow compiling Calgary in but not using it by defaultMuli Ben-Yehuda2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes it possible to compile Calgary in but not use it by default. In this mode, use 'iommu=calgary' to activate it. Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| | * | [PATCH] x86-64: Try multiple timer variants in check_timerAndi Kleen2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of adding all kinds of more quirks try various timer routing variants in check_timer. In particular this tries to handle quirks from: - Nvidia NF2-4 reference BIOS: wrong timer override - Asus: Wrong timer override but no HPET table - ATI: require timer disabled in 8259 - Some boards: require timer enabled in 8259 We just try many of the the known variants in the hopefully right order in check_timer. Trying pin 0/2 on Nvidia suggested by Tim Hockin. TBD Experimental. Needs a lot of testing Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| | * | [PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernelVivek Goyal2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address to capture kernel crash dumps. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] IPMI: system interface hotplugCorey Minyard2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the ability to hot add and remove interfaces in the ipmi_si driver. Any users who have the device open will get errors if they try to send a message. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] IPMI: Allow hot system interface removeCorey Minyard2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This modifies the IPMI driver so that a lower-level interface can be dynamically removed while in use so it can support hot-removal of hardware. It also adds the ability to specify and dynamically change the IPMI interface the watchdog timer and the poweroff code use. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] add ignore_loglevel boot optionIngo Molnar2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes the kernel prints something interesting while userspace bootup keeps messages turned off via loglevel. Enable the printing of /all/ kernel messages via the "ignore_loglevel" boot option. Off by default. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] New updated devices.txt - LANANATorben Mathiasen2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Acked-by: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanupAdrian Bunk2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove two different changelog files from fs/sysv/ and merges the INTRO file into Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync()Ralf Baechle2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync() dma_cache_sync() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct device pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist of a mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change dma_cache_sync to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix all its callers to pass it. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Add struct dev pointer to dma_is_consistent()Ralf Baechle2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dma_is_consistent() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct device pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist of a mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change dma_is_consistent to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix the sole caller to pass it. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] kernel-api book: remove videodev chapterRandy Dunlap2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the videodev chapter from the kernel-api book. It's done much better in the videobook kernel-doc. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] kernel-doc: add fusion and i2o to kernel-api bookRandy Dunlap2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Fusion and I2O message-based device interfaces to kernel-api book. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] sleep profilingIngo Molnar2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement prof=sleep profiling. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit for the call site that initiated the sleep. Sample readprofile output on i386: 306 ps2_sendbyte 1.3973 432 call_usermodehelper_keys 1.9548 484 ps2_command 0.6453 790 __driver_attach 4.7879 1593 msleep 44.2500 3976 sync_buffer 64.1290 4076 do_lookup 12.4648 8587 sync_page 122.6714 20820 total 0.0067 (NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from deep within the wakeup path.) akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched. lock_sock(), msleep(), others.. akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise. Presumably doing disk reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex. [akpm@osdl.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Documentation: remount_fs() needs lock_kernelVasily Averin2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixed long-lived typo: remount_fs() needs BKL Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpusDerek Fults2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed to command line helper function, get_options. Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a list of cpus. Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a large system. The kernel isolcpus code would not need any changing to use this feature. To use it, the change would be in the command line format for 'isolcpus=' Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> or <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order.) or a mixture <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] io/storage: Documentation update to as-iosched.txtFilipe2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another document about selecting IO Schedulers. Signed-off-by: Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] fuse: add blksize optionMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add 'blksize' option for block device based filesystems. During initialization this is used to set the block size on the device and the super block. The default block size is 512bytes. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] fuse: add support for block device based filesystemsMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I never intended this, but people started using fuse to implement block device based "real" filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs). The following four patches add better support for these kinds of filesystems. Unlike "normal" fuse filesystems, using this feature should require superuser privileges (enforced by the fusermount utility). Thanks to Szabolcs Szakacsits for the input and testing. This patch adds a 'fuseblk' filesystem type, which is only different from the 'fuse' filesystem type in how the 'dev_name' mount argument is interpreted. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] s2ram debugging documentationPavel Machek2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus posted quite nice TRACE_RESUME how-to, and I think it is too nice to be hidden in archives of mailing list, so I turned it into Documentation piece. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] swsusp: update userland interface documentationRafael J. Wysocki2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The swsusp userland interface has recently changed for a couple of times, but the changes have not been documented. Fix this, and document the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl(). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] swsusp: document support for swap filesRafael J. Wysocki2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in which swap files are supported by swsusp. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] mm: add noaliencache boot option to disable numa alien cachesPaul Menage2006-12-07
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the alien caches, and they consume much memory. Add a kernel boot option to disable them. Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA. The problem is that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of nodes." Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] Clean up 'make help' output for documentation targets.Jesper Juhl2006-12-06
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a patch that cleans up the "make help" output a bit for the documentation targets. Currently the documentation targets are listed completely different than all the other targets : Documentation targets: Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats: xmldocs (XML DocBook), psdocs (Postscript), pdfdocs (PDF) htmldocs (HTML), mandocs (man pages, use installmandocs to install) with this patch they are more in line with the rest of the output : Documentation targets: Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats: htmldocs - HTML installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs mandocs - man pages pdfdocs - PDF psdocs - Postscript xmldocs - XML DocBook Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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