A brief document describing how to use lguest. Because lguest doesn't have an
ABI we also include an example launcher in the Documentation directory.
[jmorris@namei.org: Fix up nat example in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <matias.zabaljauregui@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).
Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:
@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@
x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
(E1,E2)
... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);
@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@
- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- warnings for multiple assignments per line
- warnings for multiple declarations per line
- checks for single statement blocks with braces
This patch includes an update for feature-removal-schedule.txt to
better target checks.
Andy Whitcroft (12):
Version: 0.08
only apply printk checks where there is a string literal
allow suppression of errors for when no patch is found
warn about multiple assignments
warn on declaration of multiple variables
check for kfree() with needless null check
check for single statement braced blocks
check for aggregate initialisation on the next line
handle the => operator
check for spaces between function name and open parenthesis
move to explicit Check: entries in feature-removal-schedule.txt
handle pointer attributes
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove include/linux/rmap.h from kernel-api.tmpl since it no longer
contains kernel-doc. Fixes this warning:
Warning(linux-2.6.22//include/linux/rmap.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>
Add kernel-doc tools info in Makefile.
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 purpose of audit_bprm() is to log the argv array to a userspace daemon at
the end of the execve system call. Since user-space hasn't had time to run,
this array is still in pristine state on the process' stack; so no need to
copy it, we can just grab it from there.
In order to minimize the damage to audit_log_*() copy each string into a
temporary kernel buffer first.
Currently the audit code requires that the full argument vector fits in a
single packet. So currently it does clip the argv size to a (sysctl) limit,
but only when execve auditing is enabled.
If the audit protocol gets extended to allow for multiple packets this check
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Cc: <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything
useful - so remove it ..
I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still
compile without modifications.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Clarify that drivers using the GPIO operations don't need to issue io
barrier instructions themselves. Previously this wasn't clear, and at
least one platform assumed otherwise (and would thus break various
otherwise-portable drivers which don't issue barriers).
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>
Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that
subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that
should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume()
routines.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).
This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.
struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.
The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There seems to be very little documentation about this callback in general.
The locking in particular is a bit tricky, so it's worth having this in
writing.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff).
But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.
This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.
The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6:
zh_CN/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txt
HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (29 commits)
IB/mthca: Simplify use of size0 in work request posting
IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE UD segment entries
IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE remote address and atomic segment entries
IB/mlx4: Factor out setting other WQE segments
IB/mlx4: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries
IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries
IB/mlx4: Return receive queue sizes for userspace QPs from query QP
IB/mlx4: Increase max outstanding RDMA reads as target
RDMA/cma: Remove local write permission from QP access flags
IB/mthca: Use uninitialized_var() for f0
IB/cm: Make internal function cm_get_ack_delay() static
IB/ipath: Remove ipath_get_user_pages_nocopy()
IB/ipath: Make a few functions static
mlx4_core: Reset device when internal error is detected
IB/iser: Make a couple of functions static
IB/mthca: Fix printk format used for firmware version in warning
IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal
IB/ehca: Fix warnings issued by checkpatch.pl
IB/ehca: Restructure ehca_set_pagebuf()
IB/ehca: MR/MW structure refactoring
...
Addressing patch from Stefan Richter:
HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
(It will be better if we update this to commit-id later)
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a Chinese translated version of
Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.
From: TripleX <zhongyu@18mail.cn>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO. Currently
Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially comparing to
its largest population base. Language could be the main obstacle. Hope
this document will help more Chinese to contribute to Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file.
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should let everybody know about where the regression
list is hosted. The more is known the more it is used.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Cc: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Update CodingStyle to talk about "-DDEBUG" message conventions and the
new "-DVERBOSE_DEBUG" convention.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and
dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core. The only user of
those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The TSEC/eTSEC automatically detect their PHY interface type, unless
the type is RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay). In that situation,
it just detects RGMII. In order to fix this, we need to pass in rgmii-id
if that is the connection type.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Better way of creating and loading the firmware used.
Update for get_dvb_firmware script to extract the files for opera usb-box
Help file for creating the firmware added
Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
add analog video support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2
Thanks to Todd Ignasiak for donating the card.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
The old description was "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", which can be
confused with other Philips tuner models. This patch corrects the name
to "Philips FCV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", and updates the range and params
array names to match the description.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Add Trust Powerc@m 970Z (0x06d6:0x003b) to the list of supported devices.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
- Add support for pair OV7630+SN9C120
- Better and safe locking mechanism of the device structure on open(),
close() and disconnect()
- Use kref for handling device deallocation
- Generic cleanups
Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the
actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Support the 10moons TM300 TV card (so called TV Master 3), which is a
10moons saa7130 based board. Here not include features for the
IR-remote.
It has been tested using TVTIME. The card was auto-detected and all the
input sources worked correct with sound.
Signed-off-by: Tony Wan <wankai@sjtu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X. However, MSI-X works with
all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what
MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both. Schedule MSI
support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and
who can't use MSI time to speak up.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board
for the LM70 temperature sensor. For those without that board, it may be a
simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly.
Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com>
Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes. Minor rename.
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>
Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication.
Kerneldoc updates
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const]
Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.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>
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep.
If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines:
============================================
BUG <slab-cache>: <problem>
--------------------------------------------
INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times]
<object dump>
FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action>
This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its
now capable of figuring out the start and end.
Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may
continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through
a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called
movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of
memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is
used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable
allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations
determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at
runtime for example.
How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in
the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is
kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore
Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86.
Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new
sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation.
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled
in an architecture-independent manner.
This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is
only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing
(i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will
ignore the boot parameter.
[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add per-CPU vector domain support for IA64_GENERIC. It is enabled by
adding the "vector=percpu" boot option.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits)
[POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver
[POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number
[POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration
[POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++
[POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed
[POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static
[POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls
[POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c
[POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS
[POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling
[POWERPC] Remove extra return statement
[POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED
[POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform
[POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports
[POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
[POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane
[POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected
[POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support.
[POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex
[POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc
...
Fixed up conflicts manually in:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
include/asm-powerpc/pci.h
and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (32 commits)
[PATCH] ocfs2: zero_user_page conversion
ocfs2: Support xfs style space reservation ioctls
ocfs2: support for removing file regions
ocfs2: update truncate handling of partial clusters
ocfs2: btree support for removal of arbirtrary extents
ocfs2: Support creation of unwritten extents
ocfs2: support writing of unwritten extents
ocfs2: small cleanup of ocfs2_write_begin_nolock()
ocfs2: btree changes for unwritten extents
ocfs2: abstract btree growing calls
ocfs2: use all extent block suballocators
ocfs2: plug truncate into cached dealloc routines
ocfs2: simplify deallocation locking
ocfs2: harden buffer check during mapping of page blocks
ocfs2: shared writeable mmap
ocfs2: factor out write aops into nolock variants
ocfs2: rework ocfs2_buffered_write_cluster()
ocfs2: take ip_alloc_sem during entire truncate
ocfs2: Add "preferred slot" mount option
[KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(<addr>,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice
more ACSI removal
umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver
umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable
remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization
when it is practical. This patch updates documentation for consistency
with comments in spinlock_types.h.
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The UMSDOS filesystem was removed back in 2.6.11, but some tiny bits stuck
around. This patch removes the few remaining leftovers. The only things
left behind after this are the entries in the CREDITS file and the ioctl
number in Documentation/ioctl-number.txt as documentation.
This third (hopefully final) version of the patch doesn't edit the
arch/um/config.release file, since Jeff Dike pointed out to me that it
should die completely, and asked me to remove it from my patch as he'll
send in a seperate patch removing the file completely.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the
Documentation/00-INDEX file.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I recently received a patch including a file that had a vim modeline,
and I realized that nothing specifically proscribed that practice.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Poeple keep on adding new numbered sysctls, when they're supposed not to.
Add a documentation file which explain why new sysctls should use
CTL_UNNUMBERED. The next patch will sprinkle pointers to this throughout
sysctl.c.
Eric provided the text (thanks)
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the description of struct file_system_type and get_sb() in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to match the current code.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add info that the Code: bytes line contains <xy> or (wxyz) in some
architecture oops reports and what that means.
Add a script by Andi Kleen that reads the Code: line from an Oops report
file and generates assembly code from the hex bytes.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The procfs-guide claims that 'the parameter start doesn't seem to be used
anywhere in the kernel'. This is out of date. In linux/fs/proc/generic.c
we find a very nice description of the parameters to read_func. The
appended patch replaces the bogus description with this (as far as I know)
accurate one.
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
Especially if it triggers during a distro install.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add an item to the RCU documentation checklist noting that RCU callbacks
can run in parallel.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use lib/parser.c to parse hugetlbfs mount options. Correct docs in
hugetlbpage.txt.
old size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 675 bytes
new size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 686 bytes
(hugetlbfs_parse_options() is inlined)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver
seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing
users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make available to the user the following task and process performance
statistics:
* Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw)
* Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw)
Statistics information is available from:
1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/)
2. /proc/PID/status (task only).
This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some buses (e.g. USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the
background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace(). In order
to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device
specified in root= to actually show up.
If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. In
order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be
turned on via the command line option "rootwait".
[bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static]
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers. This will
let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in
/proc/timer_stats.
Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below.
10D, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
10, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. Previously it
could be enabled only, but not disabled.
Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. Make its
logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time").
Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value".
Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be
changed at run-time by modifying
/sys/module/printk/parameters/time
to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it.
Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also
be set at boot-time by using
linux printk.time=<bool>
If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated
and will be removed.
Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt.
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>
Fix and cleanup example scripts in fault injection documentation.
1. Eliminate broken oops() shell function.
2. Fold failcmd.sh and failmodule.sh into example scripts. It makes
the example scripts work independent of current working directory.
3. Set "space" parameter to 0 to start injecting errors immediately.
4. Use /sys/module/<modulename>/sections/.data as upper bound of
.text section. Because some module doesn't have .exit.text section.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Limiting smaller allocation failures by fault injection helps to find real
possible bugs. Because higher order allocations are likely to fail and
zero-order allocations are not likely to fail.
This patch adds min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc. It specifies the
minimum page allocation order to be injected failures.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the
/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch.
This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to
the kernel console. This is useful to find early bootup bugs where
userspace debugging is very hard.
Defaults to off.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new configuration variable
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON
If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging
switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging
is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a
kernel parameter.
Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was
built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying
slub_debug=-
as a kernel parameter.
Dave Jones wanted this feature.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6.
This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable.
Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based.
[Default Order]
The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically.
[Node-based Order]
This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones
(ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist.
current 2.6.21 kernel uses this.
Pros.
* A user can expect local memory as much as possible.
Cons.
* lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL.
Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL
because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality.
(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.
*node(0)'s memory allocation order:
node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL.
*node(1)'s memory allocation order:
node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.
[Zone-based order]
This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone
never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist.
Pros.
* OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted.
Cons.
* memory locality may not be best.
(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.
*node(0)'s memory allocation order:
node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.
*node(1)'s memory allocation order:
node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.
bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd.
command:
%echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order
Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order.
command:
%echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order
Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order.
Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes.
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and
include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in
serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=>
register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console
ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in
drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0.
that is too late.
Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make
it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature.
and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically.
new command line will be:
console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
or
earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
it will print in very early stage:
Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8')
console [uart0] enabled
later for console it will print:
console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0]
Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, fixes for flase
positives, plus a clarification of the output to better guide use. Of
note:
- checks for documentation for new __setup calls
- clearer reporting where braces and parenthesis are involved
- reports for closing brace and semi-colon spacing
- reports on unwanted externs
This patch includes an update to the documentation on checkpatch.pl
itself to clarify when it should be used and to indicate that it
is not intended as the final arbitor of style.
Full changelog:
Andy Whitcroft (19):
Version: 0.07
ensure we do not apply control brace checks to preprocesor directives
add {u,s}{8,16,32,64} to the type matcher
accept lack of spacing after the semicolons in for (;;)
report new externs in .c files
fix up typedef exclusion for function prototypes
else trailing statements check need to account for \ at end of line
add enums to the type matcher
add missing check descriptions
suppress double reporting of ** spacing
report on do{ spacing issues
include an example of the brace/parenthesis in output
check for spacing after closing braces
prevent double reports on pointer spacing issues
handle blank continuation lines on macros
classify all reports error, warning, or check
revamp hanging { checks and apply in context
no spaces after the last ; in a for is ok
check __setup has a corresponding addition to documentation
David Woodhouse (1):
limit character set used in patches and descriptions to UTF-8
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI
removal.
It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by
commit c2bcf3b8978c291e1b7f6499475c8403a259d4d6:
config ATARI_SLM
tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support"
- depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n
+ depends on ATARI
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch removes the documentation for the removed legacy CDROM drivers.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (166 commits)
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] dc395x: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ncr53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ppa: coding police and printk levels
[SCSI] aic7xxx_old: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc
[SCSI] i2o: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc from device.c
[SCSI] remove the dead CYBERSTORMIII_SCSI option
[SCSI] don't build scsi_dma_{map,unmap} for !HAS_DMA
[SCSI] Clean up scsi_add_lun a bit
[SCSI] 53c700: Remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs
[SCSI] sni_53c710: Cleanup
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix underrun/overrun conditions
[SCSI] megaraid_mbox: use mutex instead of semaphore
[SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.00-k1.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: add support for NPIV
[SCSI] stex: use resid for xfer len information
[SCSI] Add Brownie 1200U3P to blacklist
[SCSI] scsi.c: convert to use the data buffer accessors
...
Adding Adaptec 51245 (16 port), 51645 (20 port) and 52445 (28 port)
Universal Serial RAID controllers to the aacraid documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Fix typos in powernow-k8 printk's.
[CPUFREQ] Restore previously used governor on a hot-replugged CPU
[CPUFREQ] bugfix cpufreq in combination with performance governor
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8 compile fix.
[CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI
[CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Option to disable ACPI C3 support
Fixed up arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c due to revert that
got fixed differently in the cpufreq branch.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits)
ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id
ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig
iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver
iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver
dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5
md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops
md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops
md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock
raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug
raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3)
async_tx: add the async_tx api
xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx
dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels
dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor
...
This patch contains the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management
for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying. Our understanding of the issues
has improved over time.
- Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators. There are
a few exceptions (like the HID driver).
- Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing
USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet.
- Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem
DMA" capability through a driver stack. This is easy, everything
already avoids highmem. But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much
physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass
storage devices. (Patch, anyone?)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as920) adds an extra level of protection to the
USB-Persist facility. Now it will apply by default only to hubs; for
all other devices the user must enable it explicitly by setting the
power/persist device attribute.
The disconnect_all_children() routine in hub.c has been removed and
its code placed inline. This is the way it was originally as part of
hub_pre_reset(); the revised usage in hub_reset_resume() is
sufficiently different that the code can no longer be shared.
Likewise, mark_children_for_reset() is now inline as part of
hub_reset_resume(). The end result looks much cleaner than before.
The sysfs interface is updated to add the new attribute file, and
there are corresponding documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility,
allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system
suspend.
The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate
warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the
behavior will remain the same as it is now. But when the option is
on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB
filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small
machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device!
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
security: unexport mmap_min_addr
SELinux: use SECINITSID_NETMSG instead of SECINITSID_UNLABELED for NetLabel
security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
SELinux: Use %lu for inode->i_no when printing avc
SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checks
selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy()
selinux: add selinuxfs structure for object class discovery
selinux: change sel_make_dir() to specify inode counter.
selinux: rename sel_remove_bools() for more general usage.
selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Support multiple CPUs going through OS_MCA
[IA64] silence GCC ia64 unused variable warnings
[IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space
[IA64] add sn_register_pmi_handler oemcall
[IA64] Stop bit for brl instruction
[IA64] SN: Correct ROM resource length for BIOS copy
[IA64] Don't set psr.ic and psr.i simultaneously
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision
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Doug Thompson