Here's the big staging tree pull request for 3.19-rc1.
We continued to delete more lines than were added, always a good thing,
but not at a huge rate this release, only about 70k lines removed
overall mostly from removing the horrid bcm driver.
Lots of normal staging driver cleanups and fixes all over the place,
well over a thousand of them, the shortlog shows all the horrid details.
The "contentious" thing here is the movement of the Android binder code
out of staging into the "real" part of the kernel. This is code that
has been stable for a few years now and is working as-is in the tens of
millions of devices with no issues. Yes, the code is horrid, and the
userspace api leaves a lot to be desired, but it's not going to change
due to legacy issues that we have no control over. Because so many
devices and companies rely on this, and the code is stable, might as
well promote it out of staging.
This was all discussed at the Linux Plumbers conference, and everyone
participating agreed that this was the best way forward.
There is work happening to replace the binder code with something new
that is happening right now, but I don't expect to see the results of
that work for another year at the earliest. If that ever happens, and
Android switches over to it, I'll gladly remove this version.
As for maintainers, I'll be glad to maintain this code, I've been doing
it for the past few years with no problems. I'll send a MAINTAINERS
entry for it before 3.19-final is out, still need to talk to the Google
developers about if they are willing to help with it or not, last I
checked they were, which was good.
All of these patches have been in linux-next for a while with no
reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big staging tree pull request for 3.19-rc1.
We continued to delete more lines than were added, always a good
thing, but not at a huge rate this release, only about 70k lines
removed overall mostly from removing the horrid bcm driver.
Lots of normal staging driver cleanups and fixes all over the place,
well over a thousand of them, the shortlog shows all the horrid
details.
The "contentious" thing here is the movement of the Android binder
code out of staging into the "real" part of the kernel. This is code
that has been stable for a few years now and is working as-is in the
tens of millions of devices with no issues. Yes, the code is horrid,
and the userspace api leaves a lot to be desired, but it's not going
to change due to legacy issues that we have no control over. Because
so many devices and companies rely on this, and the code is stable,
might as well promote it out of staging.
This was all discussed at the Linux Plumbers conference, and everyone
participating agreed that this was the best way forward.
There is work happening to replace the binder code with something new
that is happening right now, but I don't expect to see the results of
that work for another year at the earliest. If that ever happens, and
Android switches over to it, I'll gladly remove this version.
As for maintainers, I'll be glad to maintain this code, I've been
doing it for the past few years with no problems. I'll send a
MAINTAINERS entry for it before 3.19-final is out, still need to talk
to the Google developers about if they are willing to help with it or
not, last I checked they were, which was good.
All of these patches have been in linux-next for a while with no
reported issues"
* tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1382 commits)
Staging: slicoss: Fix long line issues in slicoss.c
staging: rtl8712: remove unnecessary else after return
staging: comedi: change some printk calls to pr_err
staging: rtl8723au: hal: Removed the extra semicolon
lustre: Deletion of unnecessary checks before three function calls
staging: lustre: fix sparse warnings: static function declaration
staging: lustre: fixed sparse warnings related to static declarations
staging: unisys: remove duplicate header
staging: unisys: remove unneeded structure
staging: ft1000 : replace __attribute ((__packed__) with __packed
drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Include "asm/unaligned.h" instead of "access_ok.h" in "rtl819x_BAProc.c"
Drivers:staging:rtl8192e: Fixed checkpatch warning
Drivers:staging:clocking-wizard: Added a newline
staging: clocking-wizard: check for a valid clk_name pointer
staging: rtl8723au: Hal_InitPGData() avoid unnecessary typecasts
staging: rtl8723au: _DisableAnalog(): Avoid zero-init variables unnecessarily
staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _ResetDigitalProcedure1()
staging: rtl8723au: _ResetDigitalProcedure1_92C() reduce code obfuscation
staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB()
staging: rtl8723au: _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB8192C(): Reduce code obfuscation
...
The imx-drm driver was put into staging mostly for the following reasons,
all of which have been addressed or superseded:
- convert the irq driver to use linear irq domains
- work out the device tree bindings, this lead to the common of_graph
bindings being used
- factor out common helper functions, this mostly resulted in the
component framework and drm of_graph helpers.
Before adding new fixes, and certainly before adding new features,
move it into its proper place below drivers/gpu/drm.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
The Beceem WiMAX driver was barely function in its current state
and was non-functional on 64 bit systems. Based on repeated
statements from Greg KH that he wanted the driver removed, I am
removing the driver.
CC: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
CC: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a driver for the Xilinx Clocking Wizard soft IP. The clocking wizard
provides an AXI interface to dynamically reconfigure the clocking
resources of Xilinx FPGAs.
Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The current version of the et131x driver has been accepted into the
main tree at /drivers/net/ethernet, so it can now be removed from
staging.
The MAINTAINERS entry has not been touched here, as the patch to
add the driver to drivers/net modifies it correctly.
Signed-off-by: Mark Einon <mark.einon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
A new version of this driver has been merged into the regular wireless tree.
The staging version is hereby removed.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is now a "real" driver in the wireless tree for this hardware
device, so remove the staging driver as it is no longer needed.
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This driver has been functional and stable throughout the year it has spent
in the staging area. It has been patched for minor bugs, coding style issues
and improvements during this period.
This is the second submission of this move-out, after making several style
improvements, as suggested by Dan Carpenter.
Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The Bluetooth maintainer has been complaining about it for a while, and
I shouldn't have merged it over his objections. There also has been no
real work done on it at all to get it out of the staging tree, so just
delete the code for now.
If someone wants to get this fixed up properly, feel free to revert this
commit and send the revert, along with cleanups and we will be glad to
consider it.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Cc: Miguel Oliveira <cmroliv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
At this point, USB/IP kernel code is fully functional
and can be moved out of staging.
Signed-off-by: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Looks like no one's working on the driver anymore, so remove it for now.
If someone wants to work on moving it out of staging, this commit can be
reverted.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark A. Allyn <mark.a.allyn@intel.com>
Cc: Jayant Mangalampalli <jayant.mangalampalli@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like anyone is
working on it anymore (including the original author). So remove it.
If someone wants to work on cleaning the driver up and moving it out of
staging, this commit can be reverted.
In addition, since this removes the CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SILICOM config
symbol, remove the symbol from all defconfig files that reference it.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Cotey <puff65537@bansheeslibrary.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like anyone is
working on it anymore (including the original author). So remove the
driver from the kernel. If someone wants to work on cleaning it up and
moving it out of staging, this commit can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like anyone is
working on it anymore (including the original author). So remove the
driver from the kernel. If someone wants to work on cleaning it up and
moving it out of staging, this commit can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Evan Ko <evan_ko@phison.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't been fully cleaned up and it doesn't look like anyone
is working on it anymore (including the original author). So remove the
driver and all references to it. If someone wants to finish cleaning
the driver up and moving it out of staging, this commit can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Cho, Yu-Chen <acho@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like anyone is
working on it anymore (including the original author). So remove the
driver from the kernel. If someone wants to work on cleaning it up and
moving it out of staging, this commit can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: David Täht <d@teklibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The state of the driver hasn't improved much since it was added to
staging, and no one with the hardware is currently working on it, so
remove it. This commit can be reverted if someone wants to clean the
driver up and move it to its proper place in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@ced.co.uk>
Cc: Alois Schlögl <alois.schloegl@ist.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver has been broken and disabled for several kernel versions now.
It doesn't have a maintainer anymore, and most of the people who've
worked on it have moved on. There's also still a long list of issues in
the TODO file before it can be moved out of staging. Until someone can
put in the work to make the driver work again and move it out of
staging, remove it from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@copitl.com>
Cc: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove the driver as it hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like
anyone is going to work on it anymore. This can be reverted if someone
wants to work to fix the remaining issues the driver has.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Bob Beers <bob.beers@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove the driver as it hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like
anyone is going to work on it anymore. This can be reverted if someone
wants to work to fix the remaining issues the driver has.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@worldbroken.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove the driver as it hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like
anyone is going to work on it anymore. This can be reverted if someone
wants to work to fix the remaining issues the driver has.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove the driver as it hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like
anyone is going to work on it anymore.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>
Cc: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't been cleaned up and nobody is working to do so, so
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver hasn't had significant work done on it for a long time.
Broadcom has EOLed the hardware and is no longer selling it. There are
probably very few people still using it. So remove the driver.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Naren Sankar <nsankar@broadcom.com>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>
Cc: Scott Davilla <davilla@4pi.com>
Cc: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add staging board base support to allow continuous upstream
in-tree development and integration of platform devices.
Helps developers integrate devices as platform devices for
device drivers that only provide platform device bindings.
This in turn allows for incremental development of both
hardware feature support and DT binding work in parallel.
Two separate pieces of board staging functionality is
provided to ease per-board staging board support:
- The board_staging() macro allows easy per-board callbacks
- The board_staging_dt_node_available() provides DT node checking
Tested on the KZM9D board with the emxx_udc staging driver.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm+renesas@opensource.se>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add the emxx_udc driver to staging based on an old linux-2.6.35.7
android tree. The driver has been brushed up slightly to complile
but it is still in great need of cleanup.
At this point DT bindings are clearly lacking and I doubt that the
driver even can run with multiple instances (global variables, hurray!).
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm+renesas@opensource.se>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Roger writes:
Since all patches have been applied and the device is now
supported by the new driver, would you remove the former staging
one at drivers/staging/rts5139?
Cc: Roger Tseng <rogerable@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In addition, this commit contains a TODO file for this driver
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It never really got cleaned up properly, and no one is working on it, so
remove it. If someone wants to pick it up, this can be easily reverted.
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This resolves a bunch of merge errors with other fixes that are already
in Linus's tree.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
These are the minimum changes required to get the code to build
statically in the kernel. It's necessary to do this first so that we
can empirically determine that future cleanup patches aren't changing
the generated object code.
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is a "real" driver for this hardware now in drivers/net/ so remove
the staging version as it's not needed anymore.
Reported-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit also creates a TODO file.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The visorutil module is a support library required by all other s-Par
driver modules. Among its features it abstracts reading, writing, and
manipulating a block of memory.
Signed-off-by: Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Romer <sparmaintainer@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It's been marked BROKEN for over a year, and no one has stepped up to do
anything with the code, and no one has complained. So just delete it.
If someone wants to fix it up and merge it "properly", they can revert
this commit.
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The code is clean, there are users of it, so it doesn't belong in
staging anymore, move it to drivers/misc/.
Cc: Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org>
Cc: David Rowe <david@rowetel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It hasn't been worked on in a very long time, and the original author
has moved on to a different product as this one is no longer being made.
So remove the driver. If someone wants to resurect it, and clean it up
and get it merged to the "proper" part of the kernel, this commit can be
reverted.
Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add hci_h4p bluetooth driver to staging tree. This device is used
for example on Nokia N900 cell phone.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Thanks-to: Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org>
Thanks-to: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This driver downloads Xilinx FPGA firmware using gpio pins.
It loads Xilinx FPGA bitstream format firmware image and
program the Xilinx FPGA using SelectMAP (parallel) mode.
Signed-off-by: Insop Song <insop.song@gainspeed.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here's a single staging driver for a wireless chipset that has shown up
in the SteamBox hardware. It is merged separately from the "main"
staging pull request to sync up with the wireless api changes that came
in from the networking tree.
It's self-contained and works for me and others. Larry will be
replacing it with a "real" driver for 3.15, but for now this one is
needed.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull rtl8812ae staging wireless driver from Greg KH:
"Here's a single staging driver for a wireless chipset that has shown
up in the SteamBox hardware. It is merged separately from the "main"
staging pull request to sync up with the wireless api changes that
came in from the networking tree.
It's self-contained and works for me and others. Larry will be
replacing it with a "real" driver for 3.15, but for now this one is
needed"
* tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
staging: r8821ae: Enable build by reverting BROKEN marking
staging: r8821ae: Fix build problems
Staging: rtl8812ae: disable due to build errors
Staging: rtl8821ae: add TODO file
Staging: rtl8821ae: removed unused functions and variables
Staging: rtl8821ae: rc.c: fix up function prototypes
Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver
Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been
fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of
course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice.
The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and
recently our production team released android smart phone with zram
which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram
for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released
their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long
time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs.
In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example,
Lubuntu start to use it.
The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the
benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory
pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression
but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent
mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But
embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap
because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use
swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could
encounter OOM kill. :(
Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because
it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap
storage performance.
Quote from Luigi on Google
"Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap
to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully
and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to
manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting
processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive
with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the
available RAM. " and he announced.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html
Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device
so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on
the internet start zram as /var/tmp.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html
Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch moves zsmalloc under mm directory.
Before that, description will explain why we have needed custom
allocator.
Zsmalloc is a new slab-based memory allocator for storing compressed
pages. It is designed for low fragmentation and high allocation success
rate on large object, but <= PAGE_SIZE allocations.
zsmalloc differs from the kernel slab allocator in two primary ways to
achieve these design goals.
zsmalloc never requires high order page allocations to back slabs, or
"size classes" in zsmalloc terms. Instead it allows multiple
single-order pages to be stitched together into a "zspage" which backs
the slab. This allows for higher allocation success rate under memory
pressure.
Also, zsmalloc allows objects to span page boundaries within the zspage.
This allows for lower fragmentation than could be had with the kernel
slab allocator for objects between PAGE_SIZE/2 and PAGE_SIZE. With the
kernel slab allocator, if a page compresses to 60% of it original size,
the memory savings gained through compression is lost in fragmentation
because another object of the same size can't be stored in the leftover
space.
This ability to span pages results in zsmalloc allocations not being
directly addressable by the user. The user is given an
non-dereferencable handle in response to an allocation request. That
handle must be mapped, using zs_map_object(), which returns a pointer to
the mapped region that can be used. The mapping is necessary since the
object data may reside in two different noncontigious pages.
The zsmalloc fulfills the allocation needs for zram perfectly
[sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: borrow Seth's quote]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This comes directly from the Realtek tarball, filename:
wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
I mushed the three modules (btcoexist, rtlwifi and rtl8821ae) together
into one, in order to make it all build as one stand-alone module.
After the btcoexist driver gets merged upstream, I'll pull it out of
here, and will continue to work on removing this version of rtlwifi in
order to use the in-kernel one.
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The DWC2 driver should now be in good enough shape to move out of
staging. I have stress tested it overnight on RPI running mass
storage and Ethernet transfers in parallel, and for several days
on our proprietary PCI-based platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Zimmerman <paulz@synopsys.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
No one seems to be working on it anymore, and it really should be merged
into the already-existing btusb driver. Also, there is not any proper
author attribution on the code (it was copied from the in-kernel
driver...)
If someone wants to pick this back up, we can easily revert this, but
for now, delete the driver.
Cc: Yu-Chen, Cho <acho@suse.com>
Cc: Jay Hung <jay.hung@mediatek.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There are still many rts5208/5288 card readers being used, but no
drivers are supported them in kernel now. This driver can make a
great convenience for people who use them.
Many other rts-series card reader are supported by mfd driver, but due
to much difference with others, rts5208/5288 can not add into mfd driver
pretty now, so we provide a separated driver here to support the device.
Signed-off-by: Micky Ching <micky_ching@realsil.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ktap should be merged through the "proper" place in the kernel tree, in
the perf tool, not as a stand-alone kernel module in staging. So remove
it from here for now so that it can be merged correctly later.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jovi Zhangwei <jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch introduces ktap to staging tree.
ktap is a new script-based dynamic tracing tool for Linux,
it uses a scripting language and lets users trace the
Linux kernel dynamically. ktap is designed to give
operational insights with interoperability that allow
users to tune, troubleshoot and extend kernel and application.
It's similar with Linux Systemtap and Solaris Dtrace.
ktap have different design principles from Linux mainstream
dynamic tracing language in that it's based on bytecode,
so it doesn't depend upon GCC, doesn't require compiling
kernel module for each script, safe to use in production
environment, fulfilling the embedded ecosystem's tracing needs.
See ktap tutorial for more information:
http://www.ktap.org/doc/tutorial.html
The merit of putting this software in staging tree is
to make it more possible to get feedback from users
and thus polish the code.
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhangwei <jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linus Torvalds