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Markus Heidelberg 82d27b2b2f trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
It is outdated here and can be found in the MAINTAINERS file. Also
remove the URL of the previous maintainer, similar content can be found
in the SubmittingPatches file.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
Németh Márton 6e22168954 trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc
Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
Matt Kraai ff2f5ff0cf trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
Pavel Machek 3226224039 trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
Masanori Kobayasi 1b68bfc18b trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
Remove a period from end of command-line and fix misplaced comma.

Signed-off-by: Masanori Kobayasi <zap03216@nifty.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
GeunSik Lim baf20b3e51 trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
Fix trace source directory from kernel/tracing/ to kernel/trace/.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:49 +02:00
Wang Tinggong 190342335c trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
figo.zhang 27af1da4b5 trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt
The first formal parameter of the rb_link_node() is a pointer, and the
 "node" is define a data struct (pls see line 67 and line 73 in the
 doc), so the actual parameter should use "&data->node".

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo.zhang@kolorific.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Martin Olsson 19af5cdb7c trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
Signed-off-by: Martin Olsson <martin@minimum.se>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
Martin Olsson 98a1708de1 trivial: fix typos s/paramter/parameter/ and s/excute/execute/ in documentation and source comments.
Signed-off-by: Martin Olsson <martin@minimum.se>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin d1f0132e76 lguest: add support for indirect ring entries
Support the VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC feature.

This is a simple matter of changing the descriptor walking
code to operate on a struct vring_desc* and supplying it
with an indirect table if detected.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:13 +09:30
Rusty Russell b60da13fc7 lguest: suppress notifications in example Launcher
The Guest only really needs to tell us about activity when we're going
to listen to the eventfd: normally, we don't want to know.

So if there are no available buffers, turn on notifications, re-check,
then wait for the Guest to notify us via the eventfd, then turn
notifications off again.

There's enough else going on that the differences are in the noise.

Before:				Secs	RxKicks	TxKicks
 1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.94	  4686	  32815
 1M normal pings:		104	142862	1000010
 1M 1k pings (-l 120):		57	142026	1000007

After:
 1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.76	  4691	  32811
 1M normal pings:		111	142859	 997467
 1M 1k pings (-l 120):		55	 19648	 501549

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:13 +09:30
Rusty Russell 4a8962e21b lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive
Rather than triggering an interrupt every time, we only trigger an
interrupt when there are no more incoming packets (or the recv queue
is full).

However, the overhead of doing the select to figure this out is
measurable: 1M pings goes from 98 to 104 seconds, and 1G Guest->Host
TCP goes from 3.69 to 3.94 seconds.  It's close to the noise though.

I tested various timeouts, including reducing it as the number of
pending packets increased, timing a 1 gigabyte TCP send from Guest ->
Host and Host -> Guest (GSO disabled, to increase packet rate).

// time tcpblast -o -s 65536 -c 16k 192.168.2.1:9999 > /dev/null

Timeout		Guest->Host	Pkts/irq	Host->Guest	Pkts/irq
Before		11.3s		1.0		6.3s		1.0
0		11.7s		1.0		6.6s		23.5
1		17.1s		8.8		8.6s		26.0
1/pending	13.4s		1.9		6.6s		23.8
2/pending	13.6s		2.8		6.6s		24.1
5/pending	14.1s		5.0		6.6s		24.4

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:12 +09:30
Rusty Russell 95c517c09b lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs.
If we track how many buffers we've used, we can tell whether we really
need to interrupt the Guest.  This happens as a side effect of
spurious notifications.

Spurious notifications happen because it can take a while before the
Host thread wakes up and sets the VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY flag, and
meanwhile the Guest can more notifications.

A real fix would be to use wake counts, rather than a suppression
flag, but the practical difference is generally in the noise: the
interrupt is usually coalesced into a pending one anyway so we just
save a system call which isn't clearly measurable.

				Secs	Spurious IRQS
1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.93	58
1M normal pings:		100	72
1M 1k pings (-l 120):		57	492904

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:12 +09:30
Rusty Russell 38bc2b8c56 lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example Launcher
Rather than sending an interrupt on every buffer, we only send an interrupt
when we're about to wait for the Guest to send us a new one.  The console
input and network input still send interrupts manually, but the block device,
network and console output queues can simply rely on this logic to send
interrupts to the Guest at the right time.

The patch is cluttered by moving trigger_irq() higher in the code.

In practice, two factors make this optimization less interesting:
(1) we often only get one input at a time, even for networking,
(2) triggering an interrupt rapidly tends to get coalesced anyway.

Before:				Secs	RxIRQS	TxIRQs
 1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.72	32784	32771
 1M normal pings:		99	1000004	995541
 100,000 1k pings (-l 120):	5	49510	49058

After:
 1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.69	32809	32769
 1M normal pings:		99	1000004	996196
 100,000 1k pings (-l 120):	5	52435	52361

(Note the interrupt count on 100k pings goes *up*: see next patch).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:11 +09:30
Rusty Russell 659a0e6633 lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threads
Currently lguest has three threads: the main Launcher thread, a Waker
thread, and a thread for the block device (because synchronous block
was simply too painful to bear).

The Waker selects() on all the input file descriptors (eg. stdin, net
devices, pipe to the block thread) and when one becomes readable it calls
into the kernel to kick the Launcher thread out into userspace, which
repeats the poll, services the device(s), and then tells the kernel to
release the Waker before re-entering the kernel to run the Guest.

Also, to make a slightly-decent network transmit routine, the Launcher
would suppress further network interrupts while it set a timer: that
signal handler would write to a pipe, which would rouse the Waker
which would prod the Launcher out of the kernel to check the network
device again.

Now we can convert all our virtqueues to separate threads: each one has
a separate eventfd for when the Guest pokes the device, and can trigger
interrupts in the Guest directly.

The linecount shows how much this simplifies, but to really bring it
home, here's an strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping before:

* Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, return control to Launcher
* Launcher clears notification flag on xmit ring
* Launcher writes packet to TUN device
	writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\366\r\224`\2058\272m\224vf\274\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108
* Launcher sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty)
	write(10, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Launcher sets up timer for interrupt mitigation
	setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 505}}, NULL) = 0
* Launcher re-runs guest
	pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) ...
* Waker notices reply packet in tun device (it was in select)
	select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
* Waker kicks Launcher out of guest:
	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher returns from running guest:
	... = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
* Launcher looks at input fds:
	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0})
* Launcher reads pong from tun device:
	readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\272m\224vf\274\366\r\224`\2058\10\0E\0\0T\364\26\0\0@"..., 1518}], 2) = 108
* Launcher injects guest notification:
	write(10, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Launcher rechecks fds:
	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
* Launcher clears Waker:
	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher reruns Guest:
	pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
* Signal comes in, uses pipe to wake up Launcher:
	--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
	write(8, "\0", 1)       = 1
	sigreturn()             = ? (mask now [])
* Waker sees write on pipe:
	select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6])
* Waker kicks Launcher out of Guest:
	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher exits from kernel:
	pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
* Launcher looks to see what fd woke it:
	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0})
* Launcher reads timeout fd, sets notification flag on xmit ring
	read(6, "\0", 32)       = 1
* Launcher rechecks fds:
	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
* Launcher clears Waker:
	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher resumes Guest:
	pread64(10, "\0p\0\4", 4, 0) ....

strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping after:

* Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, creates event on eventfd.
* Network xmit thread wakes from read on eventfd:
	read(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)          = 8
* Network xmit thread writes packet to TUN device
	writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"J\217\232FI\37j\27\375\276\0\304\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108
* Network recv thread wakes up from read on tunfd:
	readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"j\27\375\276\0\304J\217\232FI\37\10\0E\0\0TiO\0\0@\1\214"..., 1518}], 2) = 108
* Network recv thread sets up interrupt for the Guest
	write(6, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Network recv thread goes back to reading tunfd
	13:39:42.460285 readv(4,  <unfinished ...>
* Network xmit thread sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty)
	write(6, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Network xmit thread goes back to reading from eventfd
	read(7, <unfinished ...>

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:10 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui acdd0b6292 lguest: PAE support
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status.
NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:08 +09:30
Rusty Russell 7b5c806c35 lguest: fix writev returning short on console output
I've never seen it here, but I can't find anywhere that says writev
will write everything.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell e606490c44 lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher
The "len" field in the used ring for virtio indicates the number of
bytes *written* to the buffer.  This means the guest doesn't have to
zero the buffers in advance as it always knows the used length.

Erroneously, the console and network example code puts the length
*read* into that field.  The guest ignores it, but it's wrong.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell 2644f17d6c lguest: clean up example launcher compile flags.
18 months ago 5bbf89fc26 changed to loading
bzImages directly, and no longer manually ungzipping them, so we no longer
need libz.

Also, -m32 is useful for those on 64-bit platforms (and harmless on
32-bit).

Reported-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:03 +09:30
Rusty Russell ebf9a5a99c lguest: remove invalid interrupt forcing logic.
2088761152 (lguest: notify on empty) introduced
lguest support for the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY flag, but in fact it turned on
interrupts all the time.

Because we always process one buffer at a time, the inflight count is always 0
when call trigger_irq and so we always ignore VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT from
the Guest.

It should be looking to see if there are more buffers in the Guest's queue:
if it's empty, then we force an interrupt.

This makes little difference, since we usually have an empty queue; but
that's the subject of another patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:02 +09:30
Rusty Russell f7027c6387 lguest: get more serious about wmb() in example Launcher code
Since the Launcher process runs the Guest, it doesn't have to be very
serious about its barriers: the Guest isn't running while we are (Guest
is UP).

Before we change to use threads to service devices, we need to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:00 +09:30
Rusty Russell 56739c802c lguest: cleanup passing of /dev/lguest fd around example launcher.
We hand the /dev/lguest fd everywhere; it's far neater to just make it
a global (it already is, in fact, hidden in the waker_fds struct).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:26:59 +09:30
Rusty Russell 713b15b378 lguest: be paranoid about guest playing with device descriptors.
We can't trust the values in the device descriptor table once the
guest has booted, so keep local copies.  They could set them to
strange values then cause us to segv (they're 8 bit values, so they
can't make our pointers go too wild).

This becomes more important with the following patches which read them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:26:59 +09:30
Benjamin Herrenschmidt bc47ab0241 Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Manual merge of:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
2009-06-12 16:53:38 +10:00
John Dykstra 746e6ad23c [PATCH] net core: Some interface flags not returned by SIOCGIFFLAGS
Commit b00055aacd " [NET] core: add
RFC2863 operstate" defined new interface flag values.  Its
documentation specified that these flags could be accessed from user
space via SIOCGIFFLAGS.  However, this does not work because the new
flags do not fit in that ioctl's argument width.

Change the documentation to match the code's behavior.  Also change
the source to explicitly show the truncation.  This _should_ have no
effect on executable code, and did not with gcc 4.2.4 generating x86
code.

A new ioctl could be defined to return all interface flags to user
space.  However, since this has been broken for three years with no
one complaining, there doesn't seem much need.  They are still
accessible via netlink.

Reported-by:  "Fredrik Arnerup" <fredrik.arnerup@edgeware.tv>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11 20:57:21 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0d5959723e Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 23:31:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 512626a04e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
  kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
  kmemleak: Add modules support
  kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
  kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Add the base support

Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
	drivers/char/vt.c
	init/main.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-06-11 14:15:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0a33f80a83 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (25 commits)
  GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta
  GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read
  GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs
  GFS2: Remove unused variable
  GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call.
  GFS2: Remove args subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files
  GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c
  GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c
  GFS2: Clean up some file names
  GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes
  GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag
  GFS2: Improve resource group error handling
  GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem
  GFS2: Update docs
  GFS2: Umount recovery race fix
  GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries
  GFS2: Add commit= mount option
  ...
2009-06-11 10:36:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3296ca27f5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (44 commits)
  nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition.
  TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures.
  TOMOYO: Remove unused field.
  integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure
  TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter.
  security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models
  TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader.
  TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers.
  SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages
  TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex.
  tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct
  smack: Remove redundant initialization.
  integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix
  rootplug: Remove redundant initialization.
  smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data
  integrity: move ima_counts_get
  integrity: path_check update
  IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions
  IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy
  selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool
  ...
2009-06-11 10:01:41 -07:00
Catalin Marinas 04f70336c8 kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some
information about how kmemleak works.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:03:29 +01:00
Takashi Iwai 4f64e15019 ALSA: pcm - Update document about xrun_debug proc file
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-11 16:14:11 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto 62fdac5913 x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errors
This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce
and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors.

The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature.

Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable
it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving.

The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected
errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
errors.

The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected
errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci.  All corrected events are
not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.

Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be
a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware
monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in
banks instead of OS.

[ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ]

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 11:42:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 57eee9ae7b Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type
  oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom
  oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option
  oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
2009-06-10 19:51:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 20f3f3ca49 Merge branch 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: rcu_sched_grace_period(): kill the bogus flush_signals()
  rculist: use list_entry_rcu in places where it's appropriate
  rculist.h: introduce list_entry_rcu() and list_first_entry_rcu()
  rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pending
  rcu: Add __rcu_pending tracing to hierarchical RCU
  RCU: make treercu be default
2009-06-10 19:50:03 -07:00
James Morris 73fbad283c Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-06-11 11:03:14 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 3f6280ddf2 Merge branch 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
  amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix
  amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain
  amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling
  dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter()
  dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations
  dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...)
  dma-debug: code style fixes
  dma-debug: comment style fixes
  dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit
  x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods
  amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance
  dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter
  dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line
  dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter
  dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter
  dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device
  dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor
  dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly
  amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
  amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
  ...
2009-06-10 16:19:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 75063600fd Merge branch 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: fix restart in wait_requeue_pi
  futex: fix restart for early wakeup in futex_wait_requeue_pi()
  futex: cleanup error exit
  futex: remove the wait queue
  futex: add requeue-pi documentation
  futex: remove FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI (non CMP)
  futex: fix futex_wait_setup key handling
  sparc64: extend TI_RESTART_BLOCK space by 8 bytes
  futex: fixup unlocked requeue pi case
  futex: add requeue_pi functionality
  futex: split out futex value validation code
  futex: distangle futex_requeue()
  futex: add FUTEX_HAS_TIMEOUT flag to restart.futex.flags
  rt_mutex: add proxy lock routines
  futex: split out fixup owner logic from futex_lock_pi()
  futex: split out atomic logic from futex_lock_pi()
  futex: add helper to find the top prio waiter of a futex
  futex: separate futex_wait_queue_me() logic from futex_wait()
2009-06-10 16:16:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bb7762961d Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
  x86: fix system without memory on node0
  x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic
  mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
  x86: make sparse mem work in non-NUMA mode
  x86: process.c, remove useless headers
  x86: merge process.c a bit
  x86: use sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() on UMA
  x86: unify 64-bit UMA and NUMA paging_init()
  x86: Allow 1MB of slack between the e820 map and SRAT, not 4GB
  x86: Sanity check the e820 against the SRAT table using e820 map only
  x86: clean up and and print out initial max_pfn_mapped
  x86/pci: remove rounding quirk from e820_setup_gap()
  x86, e820, pci: reserve extra free space near end of RAM
  x86: fix typo in address space documentation
  x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits
  x86, mm: fault.c, use printk_once() in is_errata93()
  x86: move per-cpu mmu_gathers to mm/init.c
  x86: move max_pfn_mapped and max_low_pfn_mapped to setup.c
  x86: unify noexec handling
  x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables
  ...
2009-06-10 16:13:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c44e3ed539 Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: cpu_debug: Remove model information to reduce encoding-decoding
  x86: fixup numa_node information for AMD CPU northbridge functions
  x86: k8 convert node_to_k8_nb_misc() from a macro to an inline function
  x86: cacheinfo: complete L2/L3 Cache and TLB associativity field definitions
  x86/docs: add description for cache_disable sysfs interface
  x86: cacheinfo: disable L3 ECC scrubbing when L3 cache index is disabled
  x86: cacheinfo: replace sysfs interface for cache_disable feature
  x86: cacheinfo: use cached K8 NB_MISC devices instead of scanning for it
  x86: cacheinfo: correct return value when cache_disable feature is not active
  x86: cacheinfo: use L3 cache index disable feature only for CPUs that support it
2009-06-10 15:51:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 082b63ae45 Merge branch 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
2009-06-10 15:48:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 99e97b860e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix typo in sched-rt-group.txt file
  ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file.
  sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields
  sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users
  sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
  sched: Don't export sched_mc_power_savings on multi-socket single core system
  sched: emit thread info flags with stack trace
  sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
  sched: Replace first_cpu() with cpumask_first() in ILB nomination code
  sched: remove extra call overhead for schedule()
  sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus())
  wait: don't use __wake_up_common()
  sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer()
  sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package.
  sched: remove redundant hierarchy walk in check_preempt_wakeup
2009-06-10 15:32:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 82782ca77d Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
  x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
  x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
  x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
  x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
  x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
  x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
  x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
  x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
  x86: document new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
  x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
  x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
  x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
  x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
  x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
  x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
  x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
  x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
Russell King 547c32aeb5 Merge branch for-rmk-devel of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux into devel 2009-06-10 22:41:06 +01:00
Mike Frysinger bc5c6c043d ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
The function graph tracer is called just "function_graph" (no trailing
"_tracer" needed).

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244623722-6325-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-10 13:06:25 -04:00
Ryusuke Konishi fb6e7113ae nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00
Takashi Iwai 45d60e3648 Merge branch 'topic/sc6000' into for-linus
* topic/sc6000:
  ALSA: sc6000: enable joystick port
  ALSA: sc6000: fix older card initialization
  ALSA: sc6000: add support for SC-6600 and SC-7000
2009-06-10 07:26:45 +02:00
Takashi Iwai 9dea75c709 Merge branch 'topic/oxygen' into for-linus
* topic/oxygen:
  sound: virtuoso: add Xonar Essence ST support
  sound: virtuoso: enable HDAV S/PDIF input
  sound: virtuoso: add another DX PCI ID
  sound: oxygen: reset DMA when stream is closed
2009-06-10 07:26:39 +02:00
Takashi Iwai ed8cc176c9 Merge branch 'topic/maya44' into for-linus
* topic/maya44:
  ALSA: ice1724 - Add ESI Maya44 support
  ALSA: ice1724 - Allow spec driver to create own routing controls
  ALSA: ice1724 - Add PCI postint to reset sequence
  ALSA: ice1724 - Clean up definitions of DMA records
  ALSA: ice1724 - Check error in set_rate function
2009-06-10 07:26:36 +02:00
Takashi Iwai 03cece06c4 Merge branch 'topic/lx6464es' into for-linus
* topic/lx6464es:
  ALSA: Add missing description of lx6464es to ALSA-Configuration.txt
  ALSA: lx6464es - Disable lx_message_send()
  ALSA: lx6464es - Use snd_card_create()
  ALSA: lx6464es - driver for the digigram lx6464es interface
2009-06-10 07:26:34 +02:00
Takashi Iwai 81ad969dbf Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-linus
* topic/hda: (51 commits)
  ALSA: hda - Fix the previous tagra-8ch patch
  ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620
  ALSA: support Sony Vaio TT
  ALSA: hda_intel: fix build error when !PM
  ALSA: hda - More Aspire 8930G fixes
  ALSA: hda - Acer Aspire 8930G support
  ALSA: hda - Limit codec-verb retry to limited hardwares
  ALSA: hda - Add codec bus reset and verb-retry at critical errors
  ALSA: hda - Reorder and clean-up ALC268 quirk table
  ALSA: hda - fix audio on LG R510
  ALSA: hda - Macbook[Pro] 5 6ch support
  ALSA: hda-intel: improve initialization for ALC262_HP_BPC model
  ALSA: hda - Jack Mode changes for Sigmatel boards
  ALSA: hda - Support NVIDIA 8 channel HDMI audio
  ALSA: hda - Fix a typo in the previous patch
  ALSA: hda - Fix reverted LED setup for HP
  ALSA: hda - Add more register bits definitions
  ALSA: hda - Always sync writes in single_cmd mode
  ALSA: hda - Support sync after writing a verb
  ALSA: hda - Allow concurrent RIRB access in single_cmd mode
  ...
2009-06-10 07:26:31 +02:00
Takashi Iwai e618a5609e Merge branch 'topic/ctxfi' into for-linus
* topic/ctxfi: (35 commits)
  ALSA: ctxfi - Clear PCM resources at hw_params and hw_free
  ALSA: ctxfi - Check the presence of SRC instance in PCM pointer callbacks
  ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing start check in atc_pcm_playback_start()
  ALSA: ctxfi - Add use_system_timer module option
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix wrong model id for UAA
  ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up probe routines
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix / clean up hw20k2 chip code
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix possible buffer pointer overrun
  ALSA: ctxfi - Remove useless initializations and cast
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix DMA mask for emu20k2 chip
  ALSA: ctxfi - Make volume controls more intuitive
  ALSA: ctxfi - Optimize the native timer handling using wc counter
  ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing inclusion of linux/math64.h
  ALSA: ctxfi - Set device 0 for mixer control elements
  ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up / optimize
  ALSA: ctxfi - Set periods_min to 2
  ALSA: ctxfi - Use native timer interrupt on emu20k1
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix previous fix for 64bit DMA
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix endian-dependent codes
  ALSA: ctxfi - Allow 64bit DMA
  ...
2009-06-10 07:26:27 +02:00
Takashi Iwai ba252af8d6 Merge branch 'topic/asoc' into for-linus
* topic/asoc: (135 commits)
  ASoC: Apostrophe patrol
  ASoC: codec tlv320aic23 fix bogus divide by 0 message
  ASoC: fix NULL pointer dereference in soc_suspend()
  ASoC: Fix build error in twl4030.c
  ASoC: SSM2602: assign last substream to the master when shutting down
  ASoC: Blackfin: document how anomaly 05000250 is handled
  ASoC: Blackfin: set the transfer size according the ac97_frame size
  ASoC: SSM2602: remove unsupported sample rates
  ASoC: TWL4030: Check the interface format for 4 channel mode
  ASoC: TWL4030: Use reg_cache in twl4030_init_chip
  ASoC: Initialise dev for the dummy S/PDIF DAI
  ASoC: Add dummy S/PDIF codec support
  ASoC: correct print specifiers for unsigneds
  ASoC: Modify mpc5200 AC97 driver to use V9 of spin_event_timeout()
  ASoC: Switch FSL SSI DAI over to symmetric_rates
  ASoC: Mark MPC5200 AC97 as BROKEN until PowerPC merge issues are resolved
  ASoC: Fabric bindings for STAC9766 on the Efika
  ASoC: Support for AC97 on Phytec pmc030 base board.
  ASoC: AC97 driver for mpc5200
  ASoC: Main rewite of the mpc5200 audio DMA code
  ...
2009-06-10 07:26:18 +02:00
Markus Heidelberg 98f540d31b kconfig: resort the documentation of the environment variables
All the KCONFIG_ environment variables were previously located in a
section "Environment variables in 'menuconfig'", but neither are they
restricted to 'menuconfig' nor are they all used by 'menuconfig'.

Introduce the following three sections for these variables:
  * Environment variables for '*config'
  * Environment variables for '{allyes/allmod/allno/rand}config'
  * Environment variables for 'silentoldconfig'

Furthermore this puts MENUCONFIG_MODE next to MENUCONFIG_COLOR into a
common section "User interface options for 'menuconfig'".

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:47 +02:00
David VomLehn 3e56f08bff kbuild/Documentation: Incorrect makefile syntax in example
There is an error in the make syntax for one of the kbuild examples

Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:45 +02:00
Sergey Lapin 02cf228639 ieee802154: add documentation about our stack
Add MAINTAINERS entry and a small text describing our stack interfaces,
how to hook the drivers, etc.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 05:25:33 -07:00
James Morris 0b4ec6e4e0 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-06-09 09:27:53 +10:00
David Heidelberger 64a8be7435 ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620
Added 7.1 support for MSI GX620 and jack quirk.

Reference: kernel bug#13430
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13430

Signed-off-by: David Heidelberger <d.okias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-08 16:18:31 +02:00
Tilman Schmidt fe93299a00 isdn: extend INTERFACE.CAPI document
Clarify calling context and return codes of callback methods, and
add a description of the _cmsg structure and helper functions.

Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:45:52 -07:00
Tilman Schmidt 4e32997205 isdn: rename capi_ctr_reseted() to capi_ctr_down()
Change the name of the Kernel CAPI exported function capi_ctr_reseted()
to something representing its purpose better.

Impact: renaming, no functional change
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:45:50 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 075affcbe0 ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host
Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and
risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools.

Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally
disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time
when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the
BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives.

Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using
HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if
any partitions overlapping HPA are detected.  Additionally HPA can also
be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0"
to disable HPA on /dev/hda).

v2:
Fix ->resume HPA support.

While at it:
- remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop]
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5f4457a4f6 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 62a6f465f6 Merge branch 'dma-debug/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu 2009-06-07 11:36:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 56fdd18c7b Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommu
Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30
              to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure
              the combination works fine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 11:35:05 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet f89d7eaf6c Document the debugfs API
This is an updated document covering the internal API for the debugfs
filesystem.  Thanks to Shen Feng for suggesting that I put this text here
and noting that the old LWN version was rather out of date.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reported-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-06 10:28:14 -06:00
Guido Günther 3e1647c5b5 ALSA: support Sony Vaio TT
with BIOS probing only we offer a non functional headphone swith and
volume slider.

Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-05 12:12:26 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o 2ae19acaa5 Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
Unfortunately many patch submissions are arriving with painfully poor
patch descriptions.   As a result of the discussion on LKML:

      http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/296

explain how to submit a better patch description, in the (perhaps
vain) hope that maintainers won't end up having to rewrite the git
commit logs as often as they do today.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:34:33 -06:00
Pavel Machek 5801da1b2f SubmittingPatches: fix typo
Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:33:24 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 5d98932ab0 docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
Add a couple of paragraphs to the "patch formatting" section on how patches
should be described.  This text is shamelessly cribbed from suggestions
posted by Rusty Russell.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet bbb0a4247a Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
Randy pointed out that the Reported-By tag should be documented with the
others in SubmittingPatches.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
Andi Kleen 3c0797925f x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election.
On Intel platforms machine check exceptions are always broadcast to
all CPUs.  This patch makes the machine check handler synchronize all
these machine checks, elect a Monarch to handle the event and collect
the worst event from all CPUs and then process it first.

This has some advantages:

- When there is a truly data corrupting error the system panics as
  quickly as possible. This improves containment of corrupted
  data and makes sure the corrupted data never hits stable storage.

- The panics are synchronized and do not reenter the panic code
  on multiple CPUs (which currently does not handle this well).

- All the errors are reported. Currently it often happens that
  another CPU happens to do the panic first, but reports useless
  information (empty machine check) because the real error
  happened on another CPU which came in later.
  This is a big advantage on Nehalem where the 8 threads per CPU
  lead to often the wrong CPU winning the race and dumping
  useless information on a machine check.  The problem also occurs
  in a less severe form on older CPUs.

- The system can detect when no CPUs detected a machine check
  and shut down the system.  This can happen when one CPU is so
  badly hung that that it cannot process a machine check anymore
  or when some external agent wants to stop the system by
  asserting the machine check pin.  This follows Intel hardware
  recommendations.

- This matches the recommended error model by the CPU designers.

- The events can be output in true severity order

- When a panic happens on another CPU it makes sure to be actually
  be able to process the stop IPI by enabling interrupts.

The code is extremly careful to handle timeouts while waiting
for other CPUs. It can't rely on the normal timing mechanisms
(jiffies, ktime_get) because of its asynchronous/lockless nature,
so it uses own timeouts using ndelay() and a "SPINUNIT"

The timeout is configurable. By default it waits for upto one
second for the other CPUs.  This can be also disabled.

From some informal testing AMD systems do not see to broadcast
machine checks, so right now it's always disabled by default on
non Intel CPUs or also on very old Intel systems.

Includes fixes from Ying Huang
Fixed a "ecception" in a comment (H.Seto)
Moved global_nwo reset later based on suggestion from H.Seto
v2: Avoid duplicate messages

[ Impact: feature, fixes long standing problems. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:45:12 -07:00
Johannes Berg f71fea23a2 rfkill: document /dev/rfkill
Add some blurb about /dev/rfkill to the documentation and
fix the "transmiter" spelling error.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:15 -04:00
Johannes Berg c64fb01627 rfkill: create useful userspace interface
The new code added by this patch will make rfkill create
a misc character device /dev/rfkill that userspace can use
to control rfkill soft blocks and get status of devices as
well as events when the status changes.

Using it is very simple -- when you open it you can read
a number of times to get the initial state, and every
further read blocks (you can poll) on getting the next
event from the kernel. The same structure you read is
also used when writing to it to change the soft block of
a given device, all devices of a given type, or all
devices.

This also makes CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT selectable again in
order to be able to test without it present since its
functionality can now be replaced by userspace entirely
and distros and users may not want the input part of
rfkill interfering with their userspace code. We will
also write a userspace daemon to handle all that and
consequently add the input code to the feature removal
schedule.

In order to have rfkilld support both kernels with and
without CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT (or new kernels after its
eventual removal) we also add an ioctl (that only exists
if rfkill-input is present) to disable rfkill-input.
It is not very efficient, but at least gives the correct
behaviour in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg 19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Denis Karpov 85c7859190 FAT: add 'errors' mount option
On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.

`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
	<bdev> <mount point>`

This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-06-04 02:34:51 +09:00
Joerg Roedel 016ea6874a dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter
This patch adds the driver filter feature to the dma-debug
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-06-02 16:21:42 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 1745de5e56 dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line
This patch add the dma_debug_driver= boot parameter to enable the driver
filter for early boot.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-06-02 16:21:41 +02:00
vibi sreenivasan dbdc9dd342 Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
File Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt does not exist.
 Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt contains DMA Mapping details

Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-02 14:52:32 +02:00
Andrew Patterson 7fe063268e cciss: add cciss driver sysfs entries
Add sysfs entries to the cciss driver needed for the dm/multipath tools.

A file for vendor, model, rev, and unique_id is added for each logical
drive under directory /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY.  Where X =
the controller (or host) number and Y is the logical drive number.

A link from /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/block:cciss!cXdY to
/sys/block/cciss!cXdY/device is also created.  A bus is created in
/sys/bus/cciss.  A link is created from the pci ccissX entry to
/sys/bus/cciss/devices/ccissX.  Please consider this for inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-02 14:48:39 +02:00
Hector Martin 3b315d70b0 ALSA: hda - Acer Aspire 8930G support
Short story: this laptop has 5.1 built-in speakers which you *really*
want to use (the not-so-"sub" woofer is what makes the audio above
average for a laptop), so 6-channel support is important (plus a decent
asound.conf to upmix stereo). It also has the 3 typical jacks that ought
to have a selectable mode. And it's based on ALC889, which sucks.

Rationale/explanations:

The const_channel_count stuff was added because, for a laptop like this,
you always have 6 channels available (internal speakers) but still need
to set the mode for the 3 external jacks. Therefore, the device always
needs to be in 6-channel mode but there still needs to be a mixer
control for the jack mode. You could use line/mic-in at the same time as
the 6 internal speakers, for example. You might be tempted to make it
even smarter by dynamically switching the max channel count when
headphones are plugged in (therefore muting the internal speakers and
reducing the physical channel count to the jack channel mode), but as a
user I consider this to be harmful because I want the audio to blow up
to 6 channels / upmixed as soon as I unplug the headphones, and having
opened the device while in 2-channel mode would prevent this from
working (and always making 6-channel mode available doesn't do any harm).

The hardware needs EAPD turned on and the DACs routed to the internal
speaker pins, so the patch adds those verbs.

The ALC889 CLFE and subsequent (side/aux, here unused) DACs do NOT work
by default, at least here. I wasted much time trying to talk to
Realtek/pshou about this, but they just kept sending me useless updates
to patch_realtek.c that did nothing relevant. In the end I gave up and
brute forced the issue by trying to flip every bit in the proprietary
coefficient registers, and eventually found the two magic registers that
need to be cleared to enable all DACs. I have only heard Acer users
complain, but that might be because ALC889 is pretty new and using 5.1
(and noticing the missing center/lfe channels) might not be that common.
If this is a generalized issue with all ALC889 systems then those verbs
should probably be moved to a common verb array.

The internal mic is untested and probably doesn't work.

These settings will probably work for other Acer Gemstone laptops with
the same 5.1 speaker config. When identified, those should be added to
the PCI subsystem ID list.

Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-02 10:58:37 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 2af15d6a44 ftrace: add kernel command line function filtering
When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions
on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called.

This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.

  ftrace_notrace=function-list
  ftrace_filter=function-list

Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included
in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions
listed.

These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and
debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively.

The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also
be used by the command line interface.

	ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*

Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has
the word spin in it.

Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering
set by the command lines.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:23:10 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin 48b1fddbb1 Merge branch 'irq/numa' into x86/mce3
Merge reason: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_{32,64}.c unified in irq/numa
and modified in x86/mce3; this merge resolves the conflict.

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-01 15:25:31 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 3d58f48ba0 Merge branch 'linus' into irq/numa
Conflicts:
	arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c
	arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c

Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01 21:06:21 +02:00
Christian Engelmayer d54d462472 hwmon: Update documentation on fan_max
Add fan_max description.

Add fan limit alarm 'max_alarm' to the alarm section.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@frequentis.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2009-06-01 13:46:50 +02:00
Brian Haley 56d417b12e IPv6: Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' module parameters
Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' parameters to the IPv6 module.

The first controls if IPv6 addresses are autoconfigured from
prefixes received in Router Advertisements.  The IPv6 loopback
(::1) and link-local addresses are still configured.

The second controls if IPv6 addresses are desired at all.  No
IPv6 addresses will be added to any interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01 03:07:33 -07:00
Wolfgang Grandegger d1a277c584 can: sja1000: generic OF platform bus driver
This patch adds a generic driver for SJA1000 chips on the OpenFirmware
platform bus found on embedded PowerPC systems. You need a SJA1000 node
definition in your flattened device tree source (DTS) file similar to:

  can@3,100 {
  	compatible = "nxp,sja1000";
  	reg = <3 0x100 0x80>;
  	interrupts = <2 0>;
  	interrupt-parent = <&mpic>;
  	nxp,external-clock-frequency = <16000000>;
  };

See also Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/can/sja1000.txt.

CC: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01 02:53:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5f789cd8ba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: libps2 - better handle bad scheduler decisions
  Input: usb1400_ts - fix access to "device data" in resume function
  Input: multitouch - augment event semantics documentation
  Input: multitouch - add tracking ID to the protocol
2009-05-29 08:48:25 -07:00
GeunSik Lim f04d82b7e0 sched: fix typo in sched-rt-group.txt file
Fix typo about static priority's range.

    Kernel Space                     User Space
    ===============================================================
      0(high) to  98(low)     user RT priority 99(high) to 1(low)
                              with SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
     99                       sched_priority is not used in scheduling
                              decisions(it must be specified as 0)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    100(high) to 139(low)     user nice -20(high) to 19(low)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    140                       idle task priority
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    * ref) http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/sched_setscheduler.2.html

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 16:21:09 +02:00
GeunSik Lim 294ae40115 ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file.
Fix typo about chart to map the kernel priority to user land priorities.

   * About sched_setscheduler(2)
      Processes scheduled under SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR
      can have a (user-space) static priority in the range 1 to 99.
      (reference: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/
                  man2/sched_setscheduler.2.html)

   * From: Steven Rostedt
      0 to 98 - maps to RT tasks 99 to 1 (SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO)

      99 - maps to internal kernel threads that want to be lower than RT tasks
      but higher than SCHED_OTHER tasks. Although I'm not sure if any
      kernel thread actually uses this. I'm not even sure how this can be
      set, because the internal sched_setscheduler function does not allow
      for it.

      100 to 139 - maps nice levels -20 to 19. These are not set via
      sched_setscheduler, but are set via the nice system call.

      140 - reserved for idle tasks.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 16:21:08 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 435462c6e6 Merge branch 'merge' into next 2009-05-29 13:54:52 +10:00
Andi Kleen 8780e8e0f6 x86, mce: improve documentation
Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling.
Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto

Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables

Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:15 -07:00
Andi Kleen 172d899db4 x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:13 -07:00
Andi Kleen 45f458e9a8 x86, mce: deprecate old 32bit machine check code
Schedule for removal in 2.6.32

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:13 -07:00
Joerg Roedel d9cfed9254 amd-iommu: remove amd_iommu_size kernel parameter
This parameter is not longer necessary when aperture increases
dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-05-28 18:16:49 +02:00
Takashi Iwai f5219b6195 Merge branch 'fix/pcm-jiffies-check' into for-linus
* fix/pcm-jiffies-check:
  ALSA: Enable PCM hw_ptr_jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode
  ALSA: Fix invalid jiffies check after pause
2009-05-27 16:51:27 +02:00
Takashi Iwai c87d973200 ALSA: Enable PCM hw_ptr_jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode
The PCM hw_ptr jiffies check results sometimes in problems when a
hardware doesn't give smooth hw_ptr updates.  So far, au88x0 and some
other drivers appear not working due to this strict check.
However, this check is a nice debug tool, and the capability should be
still kept.

Hence, we disable this check now as default unless the user enables it
by setting the xrun_debug mode to the specific stream via a proc file.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-05-27 11:04:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 878a4f521b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Add missing check of pin vref 50 and others in Realtek codecs
  ALSA: hda - Add 5stack-no-fp model for STAC927x
  ALSA: hda - Add forced codec-slots for ASUS W5Fm
2009-05-26 12:14:46 -07:00