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* [PATCH] page migration: sys_move_pages(): support moving of individual pagesChristoph Lameter2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | move_pages() is used to move individual pages of a process. The function can be used to determine the location of pages and to move them onto the desired node. move_pages() returns status information for each page. long move_pages(pid, number_of_pages_to_move, addresses_of_pages[], nodes[] or NULL, status[], flags); The addresses of pages is an array of void * pointing to the pages to be moved. The nodes array contains the node numbers that the pages should be moved to. If a NULL is passed instead of an array then no pages are moved but the status array is updated. The status request may be used to determine the page state before issuing another move_pages() to move pages. The status array will contain the state of all individual page migration attempts when the function terminates. The status array is only valid if move_pages() completed successfullly. Possible page states in status[]: 0..MAX_NUMNODES The page is now on the indicated node. -ENOENT Page is not present -EACCES Page is mapped by multiple processes and can only be moved if MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is specified. -EPERM The page has been mlocked by a process/driver and cannot be moved. -EBUSY Page is busy and cannot be moved. Try again later. -EFAULT Invalid address (no VMA or zero page). -ENOMEM Unable to allocate memory on target node. -EIO Unable to write back page. The page must be written back in order to move it since the page is dirty and the filesystem does not provide a migration function that would allow the moving of dirty pages. -EINVAL A dirty page cannot be moved. The filesystem does not provide a migration function and has no ability to write back pages. The flags parameter indicates what types of pages to move: MPOL_MF_MOVE Move pages that are only mapped by the process. MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL Also move pages that are mapped by multiple processes. Requires sufficient capabilities. Possible return codes from move_pages() -ENOENT No pages found that would require moving. All pages are either already on the target node, not present, had an invalid address or could not be moved because they were mapped by multiple processes. -EINVAL Flags other than MPOL_MF_MOVE(_ALL) specified or an attempt to migrate pages in a kernel thread. -EPERM MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL specified without sufficient priviledges. or an attempt to move a process belonging to another user. -EACCES One of the target nodes is not allowed by the current cpuset. -ENODEV One of the target nodes is not online. -ESRCH Process does not exist. -E2BIG Too many pages to move. -ENOMEM Not enough memory to allocate control array. -EFAULT Parameters could not be accessed. A test program for move_pages() may be found with the patches on ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/pmig/patches-2.6.17-rc4-mm3 From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Detailed results for sys_move_pages() Pass a pointer to an integer to get_new_page() that may be used to indicate where the completion status of a migration operation should be placed. This allows sys_move_pags() to report back exactly what happened to each page. Wish there would be a better way to do this. Looks a bit hacky. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: kmalloc, kzalloc comments cleanup and fixPaul Drynoff2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Move comments for kmalloc to right place, currently it near __do_kmalloc - Comments for kzalloc - More detailed comments for kmalloc - Appearance of "kmalloc" and "kzalloc" man pages after "make mandocs" [rdunlap@xenotime.net: simplification] Signed-off-by: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 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] page migration: Update documentationChristoph Lameter2006-06-23
| | | | | | 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] support for panic at OOMKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm. When sysctl vm.panic_on_oom = 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue processes. And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in the same way as it does today. Of course, the default value is 0 and only root can modifies it. In general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes. So the whole system can survive. But there are environments where panic is preferable rather than kill some processes. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentryDavid Howells2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock pointer. This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits the root in the vfsmount to be used instead. linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build successfully. Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mountDavid Howells2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint. The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt() which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour). The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the superblock pointer. This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root and mnt_sb would be set directly. The patch also makes the following changes: (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change very little. (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb(). (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon(). This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root, and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in dentries being left unculled. However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries with child trees. [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree. (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation. [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (44 commits) [PATCH] I2C: I2C controllers go into right place on sysfs [PATCH] hwmon-vid: Add support for Intel Core and Conroe [PATCH] lm70: New hardware monitoring driver [PATCH] hwmon: Fix the Kconfig header [PATCH] i2c-i801: Merge setup function [PATCH] i2c-i801: Better pci subsystem integration [PATCH] i2c-i801: Cleanups [PATCH] i2c-i801: Remove PCI function check [PATCH] i2c-i801: Remove force_addr parameter [PATCH] i2c-i801: Fix block transaction poll loops [PATCH] scx200_acb: Documentation update [PATCH] scx200_acb: Mark scx200_acb_probe __init [PATCH] scx200_acb: Use PCI I/O resource when appropriate [PATCH] i2c: Mark block write buffers as const [PATCH] i2c-ocores: Minor cleanups [PATCH] abituguru: Fix fan detection [PATCH] abituguru: Review fixes [PATCH] abituguru: New hardware monitoring driver [PATCH] w83792d: Add missing data access locks [PATCH] w83792d: Fix setting the PWM value ...
| * [PATCH] lm70: New hardware monitoring driverKaiwan N Billimoria2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This driver implements support for the National Semiconductor LM70 temperature sensor. The LM70 temperature sensor chip supports a single temperature sensor. It communicates with a host processor (or microcontroller) via an SPI/Microwire Bus interface. Communication with the LM70 is simple: when the temperature is to be sensed, the driver accesses the LM70 using SPI communication: 16 SCLK cycles comprise the MOSI/MISO loop. At the end of the transfer, the 11-bit 2's complement digital temperature (sent via the SIO line), is available in the driver for interpretation. This driver makes use of the kernel's in-core SPI support. Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i2c-i801: Remove force_addr parameterJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i2c-i801: Remove force_addr parameter Remove the force_addr module parameter. It doesn't appear to ever have been needed, and PCI resources shouldn't be arbitrarily changed anyway. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] scx200_acb: Documentation updateJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation update for the scx200_acb driver. Hopefully this will help future users. References: [lm-sensors] Support of i2c-nscacb (April, May 2005) http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2005-April/011756.html http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2005-May/012043.html [lm-sensors] making a geode i2c slave driver (April 2006) http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-April/015998.html Kernel bug #6445 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6445 Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] abituguru: New hardware monitoring driverHans de Goede2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New hardware monitoring driver for the Abit uGuru Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] hwmon: Sysfs interface documentation update, 2 of 2, take 2Jean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reword and complete certain parts of the hwmon sysfs-interface documentation file. Hopefully this will make things clearer for new driver authors. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] hwmon: Sysfs interface documentation update, 1 of 2Rudolf Marek2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch cleans up hwmon sysfs documentation file, plus introduces the description of DC/PWM selection for fan speed control. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i2c: New bus driver for the OpenCores I2C controllerPeter Korsgaard2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch adds support for the OpenCores I2C controller IP core (See http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/i2c/overview). Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] HWMON: Improve the help text for CONFIG_HWMONJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve the help text for CONFIG_HWMON to let the users know how they pick the right hardware monitoring driver(s) for their system. Also fix a couple typos in the related documentation file and improve some parts a bit. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] HWMON: lm83: Documentation updateJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One more motherboard confirmed to have an LM83 temperature sensor chip. Thanks to Steven Hardy for reporting. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] HWMON: w83791d: New hardware monitoring driver for the Winbond W83791DCharles Spirakis2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for the w83791d sensor chip. The w83791d hardware is somewhere between the w83781d and the w83792d and this driver code is derived from the code that supports those chips. Signed-off-by: Charles Spirakis <bezaur@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] I2C: i2c-nforce2: Add support for the nForce4 MCP51 and MCP55Jean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for the new nForce4 MCP51 (also known as nForce 410 or 430) and nForce4 MCP55 to the i2c-nforce2 driver. Some code changes were required because the base I/O address registers have changed in these versions. Standard BARs are now being used, while the original nForce2 chips used non-standard ones. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Document the IBM problem more clearlyJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Properly document on which systems the i2c-piix4 SMBus driver will refuse to load. Hopefully this will make it clearer for users, which were often wondering why their destop or server systems were detected as laptops. Closes bug #6429. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Fix typo in documentationJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix i2c-piix4 documentation typo. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Remove the fix_hstcfg parameterRudolf Marek2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the fix_hstcfg option from the driver and related SMBus Interrupt Select register magic because now we know what are valid values for this register. This patch updates the documentation and adds new IRQ mode check so we are sure not to miss any new "unusual" value. The PCI quirk for users of fix_hstcfg was not developed because the chipset lacks of subsystem ID registers and DMI is stated "To be filled". Impact to existing systems is minimal because the problem showed up on motherboards like 10 years back. On the other hand users of newer Serverworks and HT1000 systems won't be misleaded by the message suggesting to try the fix_hstcfg any more. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] i2c-piix4: Add ATI IXP200/300/400 supportRudolf Marek2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the ATI IXP southbridges support to i2c-piix4, as it turned out those chips are compatible with it. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] hwmon: Add sysfs interface for individual alarm filesJean Delvare2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the sysfs interface of hardware monitoring chips, by adding individual alarm and beep files. Contrary to the old aggregated "alarms" and "beeps" files, individual files constitute a standard way to access the status information, making it finally possible to implement a chip-independant hardware monitoring chip access library (once all drivers have been added this new interface, that is.) If future drivers need more individual files, the interface will be extended as needed at the same time these drivers are merged into the kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] smsc47m192: New hwmon driver for SMSC LPC47M192/997Hartmut Rick2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New driver (smsc47m192) which supports voltage and temperature measurement features of SMSC LPC47M192 and LPC47M997 chips. Signed-off-by: Hartmut Rick <linux@rick.claranet.de> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] lm83: Add LM82 supportJordan Crouse2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add LM82 temperature sensor support (similar to the LM83, but less featureful). Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/w1-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/w1-2.6: [PATCH] w1: warning fix [PATCH] w1: clean up W1_CON dependency. [PATCH] drivers/w1/w1.c: fix a compile error [PATCH] W1: fix dependencies of W1_SLAVE_DS2433_CRC [PATCH] W1: possible cleanups [PATCH] W1: cleanups [PATCH] w1 exports [PATCH] w1: Use mutexes instead of semaphores. [PATCH] w1: Make w1 connector notifications depend on connector. [PATCH] w1: netlink: Mark netlink group 1 as unused. [PATCH] w1: Move w1-connector definitions into linux/include/connector.h [PATCH] w1: Userspace communication protocol over connector. [PATCH] w1: Replace dscore and ds_w1_bridge with ds2490 driver. [PATCH] w1: Added default generic read/write operations.
| * | [PATCH] w1: Userspace communication protocol over connector.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are three types of messages between w1 core and userspace: 1. Events. They are generated each time new master or slave device found either due to automatic or requested search. 2. Userspace commands. Includes read/write and search/alarm search comamnds. 3. Replies to userspace commands. From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | [PATCH] w1: Replace dscore and ds_w1_bridge with ds2490 driver.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-06-22
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| * | [PATCH] w1: Added default generic read/write operations.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-06-22
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Special file in each w1 slave device's directory called "rw" is created each time new slave and no appropriate w1 family is registered. "rw" file supports read and write operations, which allows to perform almost any kind of operations. Each logical operation is a transaction in nature, which can contain several (two or one) low-level operations. Let's see how one can read EEPROM context: 1. one must write control buffer, i.e. buffer containing command byte and two byte address. At this step bus is reset and appropriate device is selected using either W1_SKIP_ROM or W1_MATCH_ROM command. Then provided control buffer is being written to the wire. 2. reading. This will issue reading eeprom response. It is possible that between 1. and 2. w1 master thread will reset bus for searching and slave device will be even removed, but in this case 0xff will be read, since no device was selected. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (27 commits) [PATCH] PCI: nVidia quirk to make AER PCI-E extended capability visible [PATCH] PCI: fix issues with extended conf space when MMCONFIG disabled because of e820 [PATCH] PCI: Bus Parity Status sysfs interface [PATCH] PCI: fix memory leak in MMCONFIG error path [PATCH] PCI: fix error with pci_get_device() call in the mpc85xx driver [PATCH] PCI: MSI-K8T-Neo2-Fir: run only where needed [PATCH] PCI: fix race with pci_walk_bus and pci_destroy_dev [PATCH] PCI: clean up pci documentation to be more specific [PATCH] PCI: remove unneeded msi code [PATCH] PCI: don't move ioapics below PCI bridge [PATCH] PCI: cleanup unused variable about msi driver [PATCH] PCI: disable msi mode in pci_disable_device [PATCH] PCI: Allow MSI to work on kexec kernel [PATCH] PCI: AMD 8131 MSI quirk called too late, bus_flags not inherited ? [PATCH] PCI: Move various PCI IDs to header file [PATCH] PCI Bus Parity Status-broken hardware attribute, EDAC foundation [PATCH] PCI: i386/x86_84: disable PCI resource decode on device disable [PATCH] PCI ACPI: Rename the functions to avoid multiple instances. [PATCH] PCI: don't enable device if already enabled [PATCH] PCI: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access ...
| * | [PATCH] PCI: clean up pci documentation to be more specificGrant Grundler2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:46:11AM -0700, Rajesh Shah wrote: > This patch assumes that pci_request_region() will always be called > after pci_enable_device() and pci_release_region() will always > be called before pci_disable_device(). We cannot make this > assumption,since it's perfectly legal to disable a device > first and then release it's regions. So, I think that patch > needs to change. Patch below clarifies comments in Documentation/pci.txt. Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | [PATCH] Keys: Fix race between two instantiators of a keyDavid Howells2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a revocation notification method to the key type and calls it whilst the key's semaphore is still write-locked after setting the revocation flag. The patch then uses this to maintain a reference on the task_struct of the process that calls request_key() for as long as the authorisation key remains unrevoked. This fixes a potential race between two processes both of which have assumed the authority to instantiate a key (one may have forked the other for example). The problem is that there's no locking around the check for revocation of the auth key and the use of the task_struct it points to, nor does the auth key keep a reference on the task_struct. Access to the "context" pointer in the auth key must thenceforth be done with the auth key semaphore held. The revocation method is called with the target key semaphore held write-locked and the search of the context process's keyrings is done with the auth key semaphore read-locked. The check for the revocation state of the auth key just prior to searching it is done after the auth key is read-locked for the search. This ensures that the auth key can't be revoked between the check and the search. The revocation notification method is added so that the context task_struct can be released as soon as instantiation happens rather than waiting for the auth key to be destroyed, thus avoiding the unnecessary pinning of the requesting process. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] selinux: add hooks for key subsystemMichael LeMay2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce SELinux hooks to support the access key retention subsystem within the kernel. Incorporate new flask headers from a modified version of the SELinux reference policy, with support for the new security class representing retained keys. Extend the "key_alloc" security hook with a task parameter representing the intended ownership context for the key being allocated. Attach security information to root's default keyrings within the SELinux initialization routine. Has passed David's testsuite. Signed-off-by: Michael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [ALSA] Change an arugment of snd_mpu401_uart_new() to bit flagsTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the 5th argument of snd_mpu401_uart_new() to bit flags instead of a boolean. The argument takes bits that consist of MPU401_INFO_XXX flags. The callers that used the value 1 there are replaced with MPU401_INFO_INTEGRATED. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] Fix description of cs5535audio driver in ALSA-Configuration.txtTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the description of cs5535audio driver in ALSA-Configuraiton.txt. Now it supports only single device. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] Fix description of snd-hda-intel driver in documentTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixed the description of snd-hda-intel driver in ALSA-Configuration.txt document. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] Remove obsolete description from ALSA-Configuration.txtTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove obsolete descriptions about the dependency on CONFIG_ISA for vxpocket and pdaudiocf drivers. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] cmipci - Disable integrated mpu401 as defaultTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable the support of mpu401 PCI port only when mpu_port=1 module option is given, i.e. disabled as default. It turned out that the check of integrated midi port isn't perfect and caused hang-ups on some boards. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] Fix a typo in writing-an-alsa-driver documentTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixed a typo in writing-an-alsa-driver document. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] Remove unneeded read/write_size fields in proc text opsTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove unneeded read/write_size fields in proc text ops. snd_info_set_text_ops() is fixed, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | [ALSA] hda-codec - Add Thinkpad X60/T60/Z60 supportTakashi Iwai2006-06-22
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | Added the support for Thinkpad X60/T60/Z60 laptops with AD1981HD codec. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] USB: update usbmon.txtPete Zaitcev2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up the documentation. Apparently, I left unedited copy-paste results in examples. Also, Alan helped me to improve the most confusing parts. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] USB: correct the USB info in Documentation/power/swsusp.txtDavid Brownell2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The swsusp.txt documentation harshes confusingly on USB, and this patch addresses the issue. It's harsh because it blames USB for some issues that are generic to all drivers -- especially those supporting removable media -- and it's confusing since it says that USB has the issue with "suspend" not just swsusp ... while in reality, USB doesn't have the issue when real system suspend states are used. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] remove duplication from Documentation/power/devices.txtDavid Brownell2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove a chunk of duplicated documentation text. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] i4l gigaset: move sysfs entry to tty class deviceHansjoerg Lipp2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the class device pointer returned by tty_register_device() with part 1 of the patch, attach the Gigaset drivers' "cidmode" sysfs entry to its tty class device, where it can be found more easily by users who do not know nor care which USB port the device is attached to. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentationGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-21
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-21
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (85 commits) [SCSI] 53c700: remove reliance on deprecated cmnd fields [SCSI] hptiop: don't use cmnd->bufflen [SCSI] hptiop: HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx controller driver [SCSI] aacraid: small misc. cleanups [SCSI] aacraid: Update supported product information [SCSI] aacraid: Fix return code interpretation [SCSI] scsi_transport_sas: fix panic in sas_free_rphy [SCSI] remove RQ_SCSI_* flags [SCSI] remove scsi_request infrastructure [SCSI] mptfusion: change driver revision to 3.03.10 [SCSI] mptfc: abort of board reset leaves port dead requiring reboot [SCSI] mptfc: fix fibre channel infinite request/response loop [SCSI] mptfc: set fibre channel fw target missing timers to one second [SCSI] mptfusion: move fc event/reset handling to mptfc [SCSI] spi transport: don't allow dt to be set on SE or HVD buses [SCSI] aic7xxx: expose the bus setting to sysfs [SCSI] scsi: remove Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txt [SCSI] drivers/scsi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro [SCSI] Remove last page_address from dc395x.c [SCSI] hptiop: HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx controller driver ... Fixed up conflicts in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c manually (due to the sparc interrupt cleanups)
| * [SCSI] aacraid: Update supported product informationMark Haverkamp2006-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Received From Mark Salyzyn Some of the cards product names changed. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * Merge ../linux-2.6James Bottomley2006-06-10
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| * | [SCSI] scsi: remove Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txtArthur Othieno2006-06-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpqfc driver flushed out with: [SCSI] remove broken driver cpqfc (commit ca61f10ab2b874b889e89d14ea09fae2dcccdca6) but somehow Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txt managed to survive the blast. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>