Some people writing boot loaders seem to falsely belief the 32bit zero page is a
stable interface for out of tree code like the real mode boot protocol. Add a comment
clarifying that is not true.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A warning note from Sam Ravnborg about kconfig's select evilness,
dependencies and the future (slightly corrected).
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In Documentation/sysrq.txt, the description of 'h' says that any key not
listed *above* will generate help. That's obviously not true since all the
keys listed below 'h' will do what they are described to do, not display help.
So change the text so that it says that any key not listed in the table will
generate help, which is what really happens.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt does not exist, it is Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is add a document for memory hotplug to describe "How to use" and
"Current status".
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current version is very old and does not correctly specify how to
set the video mode.
Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a little problem in Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
The code is using "%d" in a printf() call to print an 'unsigned long'.
This patch corrects it to use "%lu" instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
UIO currently contains a rather dubious statement which wants removing.
The actual questions around whether user space code that depends tightly
on kernel GPL code designed to co-work with it are derivative works of
the kernel is extremely complex, and since we don't have space for either
a masters length essay on legal issues or need to start flamewars lets
simply remove the comment and leave law to lawyers
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <tovalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: (61 commits)
sched: refine negative nice level granularity
sched: fix update_stats_enqueue() reniced codepath
sched: round a bit better
sched: make the multiplication table more accurate
sched: optimize update_rq_clock() calls in the load-balancer
sched: optimize activate_task()
sched: clean up set_curr_task_fair()
sched: remove __update_rq_clock() call from entity_tick()
sched: move the __update_rq_clock() call to scheduler_tick()
sched debug: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_task()/_rq()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' local variables
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from deactivate_task()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dequeue_task()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from enqueue_task()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_nr_running()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_nr_running()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_load()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_load()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load()
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new()
...
Some versions of ld.so mmap the shared libraries right in over guest
memory, so compile lguest statically by default.
[ FC7 maps shared libraries very low, where the launcher maps guest's
physical memory. Quick fix is to link Launcher static, real fix is
for 2.6.24. ]
-static is a simple fix. I expect this problem will be more common than we
like, as different distro's make different "improvements" to ld.so
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Grub older than 0.93 are broken when the kernel setup is bigger than
8K. This was fixed in 2002, and 0.93 was the first grub version which
fixed this bug.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6:
hwmon: fscher read control bugfix
hwmon: (adm1031) Fix broken links in documentation
hwmon: make abituguru3_read_increment_offset() static
hwmon: Fix regression caused by typo in lm90.c
hwmon: (applesmc) add temperature sensors set for Macbook
hwmon: fscher control update bugfix
hwmon: fix dme1737 temp fault attribute
hwmon: Add missing __devexit tags in various drivers
hwmon: clean up duplicate includes
hwmon: fix lm78 detection regression
hwmon: fix array overruns in lm93.c
hwmon: add support for THMC50 and ADM1022
The specification link in hpet document is broken.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix docbook warnings:
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//drivers/base/power/main.c): no structured comments found
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/splice.h): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a simple utility used to test SPI functionality. It could stand
growing options to support using other test data patterns; this initial
version only issues full duplex transfers, which rules out 3WIRE or
Microwire links.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert 7e92b4fc34. It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)
This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."
It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO. Serial ports are something
that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game. My new Intel
platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
messing with serial port probing even more... because... just wait a year,
and your box won't have a serial port either! :)
I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
but the probe change seems questionable. That's sorta analagous to
rewriting the floppy driver probe routine. Sure you could do it... but why
risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?
It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.
Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.
Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix PNP docbook warnings:
Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//drivers/pnp/core.c): no structured comments found
Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//drivers/pnp/driver.c): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Updates based on recent .gitignore updates:
*.o.*: Says Alexey Dobriyan:
These are presumably temporary gcc files, which aren't interesting.
setup.bin, setup.elf: new x86 boot code files (from Matthew Wilcox)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The Analog Devices chip information pages moved to a different location.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
This patch adds support for THMC50 and ADM1022 hardware monitoring chips.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] Fix sclp_vt220 error handling.
[S390] cio: Reorganize initialization.
[S390] cio: Make CIO_* macros safe if dbfs are not available.
[S390] cio: Clean up messages.
[S390] Fix IRQ tracing.
[S390] vmur: fix diag14_read.
[S390] Wire up sys_fallocate.
[S390] add types.h include to s390_ext.h
[S390] cio: Remove deprecated rdc/rcd.
[S390] Get rid of new section mismatch warnings.
[S390] sclp: kill unused SCLP config option.
[S390] cio: Remove remains of _ccw_device_get_device_number().
[S390] cio: css_sch_device_register() can be made static.
[S390] Improve __smp_call_function_map.
[S390] Convert to smp_call_function_single.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
docbook: add pipes, other fixes
blktrace: use cpu_clock() instead of sched_clock()
bsg: Fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK=n
[patch] QUEUE_FLAG_READFULL QUEUE_FLAG_WRITEFULL comment fix
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118481061928246&w=2 seems to
indicate disfavour of "deprecated", so let's just kill it now.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fix some typos in pipe.c and splice.c.
Add pipes API to kernel-api.tmpl.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Documentation: The FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation: The Launcher
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.
So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While learning about schedstats I found that the documentation in the tree
is old. I updated it and found some interesting stuff like schedstats
version 14 is the same as version and version 13 never saw a kernel
release! Also there are 6 fields in the current schedstats that are not
used anymore. Nick had made them irrelevant in commit
476d139c21 but never removed them.
Thanks to Rick's perl script who I borrowed some of the updated descriptions
from.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'request-queue-t' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
[BLOCK] Add request_queue_t and mark it deprecated
[BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Fix doc bug noted by Uwe Kleine-König: gpio_set_direction() is long
gone, replaced by gpio_direction_input() and gpio_direction_output().
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
S.Caglar Onur points out that many distributions don't ship a static
zlib. Unfortunately the launcher currently maps virtual device memory
where shared libraries want to go.
The solution is to pre-scan the args to figure out how much memory we
have, then allocate devices above that, rather than down from the top
possible address. This also turns out to be simpler.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fix a typo in SubmittingPatches where "probably" was spelt "probabally".
Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change a headline to reflect that there are three main types of kernel
locking, not two.
Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen