the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation
code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for
this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve
the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips
tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'.
this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector
doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot
delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the
balancing code pretty undeterministic as well.
(and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-)
under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without
any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline'
tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the
tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Document the global utilities node define and example.
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Also, remove outdated 1394 tree and mention MAINTAINERS as pointer to
development trees.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A strict reading of the flattened device tree format defined in
booting-without-of.txt does in fact require that all the tags defining
properties for a node go before any definitions of subnodes, however
it's not particularly emphasised. Although allowing intermingled
properties and subnodes would not be ambiguous in meaning, the kernel
parser does currently require that properties precede subnodes.
Furthermore, keeping this constraint makes life easier for various
device tree scanning tools.
Therefore, re-emphasise in booting-without-of.txt that this is a
strict requirement of the flattened device tree format.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This looks like leftover text in the kernel parameter in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add documentation for the SM501 in Documentation/SM501.txt outlining the SM501
driver.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes unmap_vm_area static and a wrapper around a new
exported unmap_kernel_range that takes an explicit range instead
of a vm_area struct.
This makes it more versatile for code that wants to play with kernel
page tables outside of the standard vmalloc area.
(One example is some rework of the PowerPC PCI IO space mapping
code that depends on that patch and removes some code duplication
and horrible abuse of forged struct vm_struct).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
OHCI: Fix machine check in ohci_hub_status_data
USB: Fix up bogus bInterval values in endpoint descriptors
USB: cxacru: ignore error trying to start ADSL in atm_start
USB: cxacru: create sysfs attributes in atm_start instead of bind
USB: cxacru: add Documentation file
USB: UNUSUAL_DEV: Sync up some reported devices from Ubuntu
USB: usb gadgets avoid le{16,32}_to_cpup()
usblp: Don't let suspend to kill ->used
USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
Randy Dunlap reports that a tmpfs, mounted with NUMA mpol= specifying an
offline node, crashes as soon as data is allocated upon it. Now restrict it
to online nodes, where before it restricted to MAX_NUMNODES.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Tested-and-acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that deprecated functions are detected out of
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt update this to include
kernel_thread.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Explain what we use Acked-by: for, and how it differs from Signed-off-by:
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The sysfs attributes for exposing cxacru statistics/status information with
possible values is now explained in Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt
including information on the writable adsl_state attribute's commands and a
sample of the kernel log format.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got
deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got
CC'ed in recent discussions about it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that
are mostly unused except by such drivers. We probably can't escape having
legacy drivers for a while (e.g. old ISA drivers), but we can at least
discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix typo in section numbering.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but
not used. (this way distros can enable it more easily)
Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was
written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list
walk based lookup ;-)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds instructions how to use GDB to figure out the exact location of
an OOPS to Documentation/BUG-HUNTING.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree. These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.
As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree. Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions. This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to
compile, due to ifdefs.
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The initial version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface (not yet released
in any stable mainline kernel) made liberal use of named sysfs groups, in
order to get the attributes more organized.
This proved to be a really bad design decision. Maybe if attribute groups
were as flexible as a real directory, and if binary attributes were not
second-class citizens, the idea of subdirs and named groups would not have
been so bad.
This patch makes all the thinkpad-acpi sysfs groups anonymous (thus
removing the subdirs), adds the former group names as a prefix (so that
hotkey/enable becomes hotkey_enable for example), and updates the
documentation.
These changes will make the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI a lot easier to
maintain.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
[IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt.
[BRIDGE]: Round off STP perodic timers.
[BRIDGE]: Reduce frequency of forwarding cleanup timer in bridge.
[TCP] tcp_probe: use GCC printf attribute
[TCP] tcp_probe: a trivial fix for mismatched number of printl arguments.
[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Fix conflicts in DEVCONF_xxx constant.
[NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_complete
[TCP]: Consolidate checking for tcp orphan count being too big.
[SOCK]: Shrink struct sock by 8 bytes on 64-bit.
[AF_PACKET]: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_SOCKET.
[IPV6]: Fix build warning.
[AF_PACKET]: Kill bogus CONFIG_PACKET_MULTICAST
[IPV4]: Kill references to bogus non-existent CONFIG_IP_NOSIOCRT
[IPSEC]: Fix panic when using inter address familiy IPsec on loopback.
[NET]: parse ip:port strings correctly in in4_pton
[IPV6] ROUTE: No longer handle ::/0 specially.
[IPSEC]: Fix IPv6 AH calculation in outbound
[XFRM]: xfrm_larval_drop sysctl should be __read_mostly.
[XFRM]: Allow XFRM_ACQ_EXPIRES to be tunable via sysctl.
[CASSINI]: Fix printk message typo.
...
Update documentation to describe how to read a SLUB error report.
Add slub parameters to Documentation/kernel-parameters.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds support for the Gateway NX860 system.
Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Conflicts:
drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c
Same changes made by both SCSI and SPARC trees: problem with UTF-8
conversion in the copyright.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The boot option "acpi_osi=" has always disabled Linux _OSI support,
thus disabling all OS Interface strings which are advertised
by Linux to the BIOS.
Now...
acpi_osi="string" adds the interface string, and
acpi_osi="!string" invalidates the pre-defined interface string
eg. acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"
would disable Linux's claim of Vista compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: intercept cmd timeout and throttle io
[SCSI] fusion: Fix |/|| confusion
[SCSI] aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus should fail if the cleared task does not complete
[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix aicasm build failure with gcc-3.4.6
[SCSI] aacraid: apply commit config for reset_devices flag
[SCSI] sd: fix refcounting regression in suspend/resume routines
[SCSI] aacraid: fix panic on short Inquiry
[SCSI] aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)
[SCSI] NCR53C9x: correct spelling mistake in deprecation notice
[SCSI] tgt: fix a rdma indirect transfer error bug
[SCSI] MegaRAID: Update MAINTAINERS email-id
[SCSI] stex: minor cleanup and version update
[SCSI] stex: fix reset recovery for console device
[SCSI] stex: extend hard reset wait time
[SCSI] stex: fix id mapping issue
[SCSI] ipr: Proper return codes for eh_dev_reset for SATA devices
[SCSI] zfcp: IO stall after deleting and path checker changes after reenabling zfcp devices
[SCSI] zfcp: avoid clutter in erp_dbf
When the vport attribute "delete" is used to delete the vport, sysfs
deadlocks waiting for the write to complete, which is waiting for the
sysfs teardown to complete. Moved this effort to a work_q element.
Took the opportunity to make some other cosmetic changes:
- removed tabs in Doc file - replaced with expanded spaces
- minor copyright text and author text updates
- removed a bunch of trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Random sampling of some URLs in the Documentation tree to see how many were
stale found that one watchdog driver was now a porn site. In fact if the
watchdogs document directory was any older it would be written in latin
Clean it up somewhat and add Last reviewed headers, something all the
Documentation could do with IMHO.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
.. it got changed to 'i_mutex' some time ago.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 722385f75e (or commit
3f27100872, it's your choice ;), since the
same patch to Documentation/HOWTO got added twice because it just kept
applying cleanly.
Noted by Qi Yong.
Cc: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Acked-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Textual clarifications (and fix an off-by-one error) based on feedback
mostly from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix various grammatical issues in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into
the correct (alpha) location in the file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Final clearification of the pivot_root mechanism, which brings this
document really up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@dandreoli.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update dontdiff file by adding entries from many .gitignore files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of
media changes. This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags",
which is documented in (insert file name). This sysfs file will export all
disk capabilities flags to user space. We also define a new flag to define
the media change notification capability.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the SPI documentation to cover a few points that have proven to be
confusing or unclear; most notably the two clock mode bits.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This just removes some warnings generated by the Docbook tools when
turning USB (host and peripheral side) kerneldoc into HTML; they're
all about missing ID attributes.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] More verbose show_mem() like other architectures.
[S390] Make use of kretprobe_assert.
[S390] Wire up signald, timerfd and eventfd syscalls.
[S390] Wire up sys_utimensat.
[S390] cio: Update documentation.
This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic
disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones.
The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be
recognized and parsed successfully.
Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing.
Cc: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- read_dev_chars()/read_conf_data() are deprecated. Don't document them, but
advise to issue the channel program from the driver itself.
- Remove some really obsolete and incorrect stuff.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
A number of items in the i386 boot documentation have been either
vague, outdated or hard to read. This text revision adds several more
examples, including a memory map for a modern kernel load. It also
adds a field-by-field detailed description of the setup header, and a
bootloader ID for Qemu.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The slab manipulation functions should not be triggered by slabs that
are unresovable in the subset of slabs selected on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With STANDBYDOWN tracking added, libata.spindown_compat isn't
necessary anymore. If userspace shutdown(8) issues STANDBYNOW, libata
warns. If userspace shutdown(8) doesn't issue STANDBYNOW, libata does
the right thing. Userspace can tell whether kernel supports spindown
by testing whether sysfs node manage_start_stop exists as before.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Loosen gpio_{request,free}() and gpio_direction_{in,out}put() call context
restrictions slightly, so a common idiom is no longer an error: board init
code setting up spinlock-safe GPIOs before tasking is enabled.
The issue was caught by some paranoid code with might_sleep() checks. The
legacy platform-specific GPIO interfaces stick to spinlock-safe GPIOs, so this
change reflects current implementations and won't break anything.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen pointed out to me that the kernel locking cheat sheet
table entries are unreadable.
Make table entries smaller so that pdf and ps output is readable
(columns were being overwritten and garbled) by using abbreviations.
This allows the tables to fit on one page cleanly.
Add a Legend for the abbreviations:
SLIS: spin_lock_irqsave
SLI: spin_lock_irq
SL: spin_lock
SLBH: spin_lock_bh
DI: down_interruptible
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Align the output of % with K/M/G of sizes.
Check for empty NUMA information to avoid segfault on !NUMA.
-r should work directly not only if we match a single slab
without additional options.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:16:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > +What: old NCR53C9x driver
> > +When: October 2007
> > +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
> > + driver can ported over almost trivially.
> ^
> be
current linus' tree still has my spelling mistake. Here's a patch to
update it
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch provides support for FC virtual ports based on NPIV.
For information on the interfaces and design, please read the
Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt file enclosed within
the patch.
The RFC was originally posted here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117226959918393&w=2
Changes from the initial RFC:
- Bug fix: needed a transport_class_unregister() for the vport class
- Create a symlink to the vport in the shost device if it is not the
parent of the vport.
- Made symbolic name writable so it can be set after creation
- Made the temporary fc_vport_identifiers struct private to the
transport.
- Deleted the vport_id field from the vport. I couldn't find any good
use for it (and symname is a good replacement).
- Made the vport_state and vport_last_state "private" attributes.
Added the fc_vport_set_state() helper function to manage state
transitions
- Updated vport_create() to allow a vport to be created in a disabled
state.
- Added INITIALIZING and FAILED vport states
- Added VPCERR_xxx defines for errors to be returned from vport_create()
- Created a Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt file that describes
the interfaces and expected LLDD behaviors.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Now that libata uses sd->manage_start_stop, libata spins down disk on
shutdown. In an attempt to compensate libata's previous shortcoming,
some distros sync and spin down disks attached via libata in their
shutdown(8). Some disks spin back up just to spin down again on
STANDBYNOW1 if the command is issued when the disk is spun down, so
this double spinning down causes problem.
This patch implements module parameter libata.spindown_compat which,
when set to one (default value), prevents libata from spinning down
disks on shutdown thus avoiding double spinning down. Note that
libata spins down disks for suspend to mem and disk, so with
libata.spindown_compat set to one, disks should be properly spun down
in all cases without modifying shutdown(8).
shutdown(8) should be fixed eventually. Some drive do spin up on
SYNCHRONZE_CACHE even when their cache is clean. Those disks
currently spin up briefly when sd tries to shutdown the device and
then the machine powers off immediately, which can't be good for the
head. We can't skip SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE during shudown as it can be
dangerous data integrity-wise.
So, this spindown_compat parameter is already scheduled for removal by
the end of the next year and here's what shutdown(8) should do.
* Check whether /sys/modules/libata/parameters/spindown_compat
exists. If it does, write 0 to it.
* For each libata harddisk {
* Check whether /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop
exists. Iff it doesn't, synchronize cache and spin the disk
down as before.
}
The above procedure will make shutdown(8) work properly with kernels
before this change, ones with this workaround and later ones without
it.
To accelerate shutdown(8) updates, if the compat mode is in use, this
patch prints BIG FAT warning for five seconds during shutdown (the
optimal interval to annoy the user just the right amount discovered by
hours of tireless usability testing).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (122 commits)
[ALSA] version 1.0.14rc4
[ALSA] Add speaker pin sequencing to hda_codec.c:snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config()
[ALSA] hda-codec - Add ALC861VD Lenovo support
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix connection list in generic parser
[ALSA] usb-audio: work around wrong wMaxPacketSize on ESI M4U
[ALSA] usb-audio: work around broken M-Audio MidiSport Uno firmware
[ALSA] usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix a typo
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix ALC880 uniwill auto-mutes
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix AD1988 SPDIF playback route control
[ALSA] wm8750 typo fix
[ALSA] wavefront: only declare isapnp on CONFIG_PNP
[ALSA] hda-codec - bug fixes for stac92xx HDA codecs.
[ALSA] add MODULE_FIRMWARE entries
[ALSA] do not depend on FW_LOADER when internal firmware images are used
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix resume of STAC92xx codecs
[ALSA] usbaudio - Revert the minimal period size fix patch
[ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for new HP DV series laptops
[ALSA] usb-audio - Fix the minimum period size per transfer mode
[ALSA] sound/pcmcia/vx/vxpocket.c: fix an if() condition
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* 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (44 commits)
V4L/DVB (5571): V4l1-compat: Make VIDIOCSPICT return errors in a useful way
V4L/DVB (5624): Radio-maestro.c cleanup
V4L/DVB (5623): Dsbr100.c Replace usb_dsbr100_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2
V4L/DVB (5622): Radio-zoltrix.c cleanup
V4L/DVB (5621): Radio-cadet.c Replace cadet_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2
V4L/DVB (5619): Dvb-usb: fix typo
V4L/DVB (5618): Cx88: Drop the generic i2c client from cx88-vp3054-i2c
V4L/DVB (5617): V4L2: videodev, allow debugging
V4L/DVB (5614): M920x: Disable second adapter on LifeView TV Walker Twin
V4L/DVB (5613): M920x: loosen up 80-col limit
V4L/DVB (5612): M920x: rename function prefixes from m9206_foo to m920x_foo
V4L/DVB (5611): M920x: replace deb_rc with deb
V4L/DVB (5610): M920x: remove duplicated code
V4L/DVB (5609): M920x: group like functions together
V4L/DVB (5608): M920x: various whitespace cleanups
V4L/DVB (5607): M920x: Initial support for devices likely manufactured by Dposh
V4L/DVB (5606): M920x: add "c-basic-offset: 8" to help emacs to enforce tabbing
V4L/DVB (5605): M920x: Add support for LifeView TV Walker Twin
V4L/DVB (5603): V4L: Prevent queueing queued buffers.
V4L/DVB (5602): Enable DiSEqC in Starbox II (vp7021a)
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
further UTF-8 fixes and name correction
Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt
There's a typo / wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (28 commits)
[MIPS] Rework cobalt_board_id
[MIPS] Use RTC_CMOS for Cobalt
[MIPS] Use platform_device for Cobalt UART
[MIPS] Separate Alchemy processor based boards config
[MIPS] Fix build error in atomic64_cmpxchg
[MIPS] Run checksyscalls for N32 and O32 ABI
[MIPS] tlbex: use __maybe_unused
[MIPS] excite: use __maybe_unused
[MIPS] Add extern cobalt_board_id
[MIPS] Remove unused CONFIG_TOSHIBA_BOARDS
[MIPS] Rename tb0229_defconfig to tb0219_defconfig
[MIPS] Update tb0229_defconfig; add CONFIG_GPIO_TB0219.
[MIPS] Add minimum defconfig for RBHMA4200
[MIPS] SB1: Build fix.
[MIPS] Drop __devinit tag from allocate_irqno() and free_irqno()
[MIPS] clocksource: use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() macro
[MIPS] Remove LIMITED_DMA support
[MIPS] Remove Momenco Jaguar ATX support
[MIPS] Remove Momenco Ocelot G support
[MIPS] FPU hazard handling
...
Help people to work out how to use `gcc -W'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/gpio.txt should mention the Kconfig GENERIC_GPIO flag, for
platforms to declare when relevant. This should help minimize goofs like
omitting it, or not depending on it when needed.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Added the description of missing imac-intel model for hda-intel driver.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
This replaces all occurences of alsa-devel@lists.s[ource]f[orge].net
that a simple recursive grep found in the current HG ALSA repos by
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Accept model=generic option to specify the generic parser regardless
of codec chips. This is helpful for testing and debugging.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Added MPU401_INFO_UART_ONLY bitflag to avoid issueing UART_ENTER command
at opening streams. Some devices support only UART mode and give errors
to UART_ENTER.
A new module option, uart_enter, is added to snd-mpu401 driver.
For UART-only devices, set uart_enter=0.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
[WATCHDOG] MTX-1 Watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] s3c2410_wdt - initialize watchdog irq resource
[WATCHDOG] Kconfig menuconfig patch
[WATCHDOG] pcwd.c: Port to the new device driver model
[WATCHDOG] use mutex instead of semaphore in Berkshire USB-PC Watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] the scheduled removal of the i8xx_tco watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register()
[WATCHDOG] add support for the w83627thf chipset.
Looks like you removed the combined_mode quirk (yay!) but didn't update
kernel-parameters.txt... might confuse people. Here's a patch to remove
mention of it from the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
fix file specification in comments
drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
misc doc and kconfig typos
Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
Fix occurrences of "the the "
Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
Fix "deprecated" typoes.
...
Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
"reshape_position" records how much progress has been made on a "reshape"
(adding drives, changing layout or chunksize).
When it is set, the number of drives, layout and chunksize can have
two possible values, an old an a new.
So allow these different values to be visible, and allow both old and new to
be set: Set the old ones first, then the reshape_position, then the new
values.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds fbdev driver for graphics core in VIA VT8623
[adaplas@gmail.com: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress. This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions. It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).
[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It seems that we need to clarify that a patch series is a series of related
patches rather than "here are some of my patches as multiple (numbered)
emails."
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ With Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> ]
Separate the hibernation (aka suspend to disk code) from the other suspend
code. In particular:
* Remove the definitions related to hibernation from include/linux/pm.h
* Introduce struct hibernation_ops and a new hibernate() function to hibernate
the system, defined in include/linux/suspend.h
* Separate suspend code in kernel/power/main.c from hibernation-related code
in kernel/power/disk.c and kernel/power/user.c (with the help of
hibernation_ops)
* Switch ACPI (the only user of pm_ops.pm_disk_mode) to hibernation_ops
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
New device-mapper target that can delay I/O (for testing). Reads can be
separated from writes, redirected to different underlying devices and delayed
by differing amounts of time.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-e Show empty slabs
-d Modification of slab debug options at runtime
-o Operations. Display of ctor / dtor etc.
-r Report: Display all available information about a slabcache.
Cleanup tracking display and make it work right.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Maintainer's notice: I needed to re-number the board, since the board
number conflicted with a patch committed previously.
Signed-off-by: James T Klaas <jklaas@appalachian.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Add support for the "Elitegroup ECS TVP3XP FM1246", the "KWorld DVB-T
210", and the Animation Technologies LR214 Rev F onwards (SAA7131) to
the saa7134 driver.
Also rename the LR214WF to the LR214 Rev E or ealier (SAA7135), to match
what we've seen on boards in the field.
Changed the comment on the Lifeview cards to indicate Rev E and earlier
versus Rev F and later, together with a chip indicator, following
feedback from Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>.
Signed-off-by: Simon Farnsworth <simon.farnsworth@onelan.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8.
Adrian Bunk:
small additional fixes
Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch substitutes i_sem by i_mutex in
Documentation/filesystems/Locking.
The patch also removes a couple of trailing white-spaces.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Fix remaining misspellings of "depreciated" to "deprecated."
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Fix the misspellings of "propogate", "writting" and (oh, the shame
:-) "kenrel" in the source tree.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Make devres.c ready for adding to DocBook.
Add devres.c to DocBook.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
In the process of rewriting the x86 setup code, I found a number of
inaccuracies and outdated recommendations in the boot protocol
documentation. Revamp to make it more up to date.
In particular, the common use of the heap actually requires (slightly)
more than 4K of heap plus stack, which is the recommended amount in
the document; currently the code compensates by being smaller than
specified, but we can't assume that will be true forever. Thus,
recommend that if we have a modern bzImage kernel, that the bootloader
maximizes the available space.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (58 commits)
[SCSI] zfcp: clear boxed flag on unit reopen.
[SCSI] zfcp: clear adapter failed flag if an fsf request times out.
[SCSI] zfcp: rework request ID management.
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix deadlock between zfcp ERP and SCSI
[SCSI] zfcp: Locking for req_no and req_seq_no
[SCSI] zfcp: print S_ID and D_ID with 3 bytes
[SCSI] ipr: Use PCI-E reset API for new ipr adapter
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.01.07-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add MSI support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct pci_set_msi() usage semantics.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Attempt to stop firmware only if it had been previously executed.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Honor NVRAM port-down-retry-count settings.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Error-out during probe() if we're unable to complete HBA initialization.
[SCSI] zfcp: Stop system after memory corruption
[SCSI] mesh: cleanup variable usage in interrupt handler
[SCSI] megaraid: replace yield() with cond_resched()
[SCSI] megaraid: fix warnings when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
[SCSI] aacraid: correct SUN products to README
[SCSI] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers
[SCSI] aacraid: kexec fix (reset interrupt handler)
...
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (32 commits)
Use menuconfig objects - hwmon
hwmon/smsc47b397: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
hwmon/smsc47b397: Convert to a platform driver
hwmon/w83781d: Deprecate W83627HF support
hwmon/w83781d: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
hwmon/w83781d: Be less i2c_client-centric
hwmon/w83781d: Clean up conversion macros
hwmon/w83781d: No longer use i2c-isa
hwmon/ams: Do not print error on systems without apple motion sensor
hwmon/ams: Fix I2C read retry logic
hwmon: New AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418 driver
hwmon/coretemp: Add documentation
hwmon: New coretemp driver
i386: Use functions from library in msr driver
i386: Add safe variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu
hwmon/lm75: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
hwmon/lm78: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
hwmon/lm78: Be less i2c_client-centric
hwmon/lm78: No longer use i2c-isa
hwmon: New max6650 driver
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6:
JFS: Fix race waking up jfsIO kernel thread
JFS: use __set_current_state()
Copy i_flags to jfs inode flags on write
JFS: document uid, gid, and umask mount options in jfs.txt
This fixes broken fbcon on Virge VX in 24 bpp mode, and contains several
other small updates.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add description to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt on new options
default_blue, default_grn, default_red, and default_utf8.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This implements deferred IO support in fbdev. Deferred IO is a way to delay
and repurpose IO. This implementation is done using mm's page_mkwrite and
page_mkclean hooks in order to detect, delay and then rewrite IO. This
functionality is used by hecubafb.
[adaplas]
This is useful for graphics hardware with no directly addressable/mappable
framebuffer. Implementing this will allow the "framebuffer" to be accesible
from user space via mmap().
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make x86 COM ports into platform devices and don't probe for them
if we have PNP.
This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by
the legacy probe and by 8250_pnp, e.g.,
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
This also means IRDA devices without a UART PNP ID will no longer be
claimed by the serial driver, which might require changes in IRDA
drivers and administration.
In addition to this patch, you may need to configure a setserial init
script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, so it doesn't poke legacy UART
stuff back in. On Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure setserial" with the "kernel"
option does this.
To force the old legacy probe behavior even when we have PNPBIOS or
ACPI, load the new legacy_serial module (or build 8250 static) with
the "legacy_serial.force" option.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix makefiles]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Claim devices using PNP, unless the user explicitly specified device
addresses. This can be disabled with the "smsc-ircc2.nopnp" option.
This removes the need for probing legacy addresses and helps untangle IR
devices from serial8250 devices.
Sometimes the SMC device is at a legacy COM port address but does not use the
legacy COM IRQ. In this case, claiming the device using PNP rather than 8250
legacy probe means we can automatically use the correct IRQ rather than
forcing the user to use "setserial" to set the IRQ manually.
If the PNP claim doesn't work, make sure you don't have a setserial init
script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, configured to poke in legacy COM port
resources for the IRDA device. That causes the serial driver to claim
resources needed by this driver.
Based on this patch by Ville Syrjälä:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/ir260_smsc_pnp.diff
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off
o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but
not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case.
o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones
registered in the intervening period) will be enabled
o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally
enabled or not.
o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there
also update the doc to make it current.
We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling
feature provided by this patch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels]
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390]
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes a common glitch in how RTC drivers handle two "set alarm" modes,
by getting rid of the surprising/hidden one that was rarely implemented
correctly (and which could expose nonportable hardware-specific behavior).
The glitch comes from the /dev/rtcX logic implementing the legacy
RTC_ALM_SET (limited to 24 hours, needing RTC_AIE_ON) ioctl on top of the
RTC driver call providing access to the newer RTC_WKALM_SET (without those
limitations) by initializing the day/month/year fields to be invalid ...
that second mode.
Now, since few RTC drivers check those fields, and most hardware misbehaves
when faced with invalid date fields, many RTC drivers will set bogus alarm
times on those RTC_ALM_SET code paths. (Several in-tree drivers have that
issue, and I also noticed it with code reviews on several new RTC drivers.)
This patch ensures that RTC drivers never see such invalid alarm fields, by
moving some logic out of rtc-omap into the RTC_ALM_SET code and adding an
explicit check (which will prevent the issue on other code paths).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various documentation updates for the SPI infrastructure, to clarify things
that may not have been clear, to cope with lack of editing, and fix
omissions.
Also, plug SPI into the kernel-api DocBook template, and fix all the
resulting glitches in document generation.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a filesystem API for <linux/spi/spi.h> stack. The initial version of
this interface is purely synchronous.
dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net:
Cleaned up, bugfixed; much simplified; added preliminary documentation.
Works with mdev given CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; and presumably udev.
Updated SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to full spi_message semantics, supporting
groups of one or more transfers (each of which may be full duplex if
desired).
This is marked as EXPERIMENTAL with an explicit disclaimer that the API
(notably the ioctls) is subject to change.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Paterniani <a.paterniani@swapp-eng.it>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit 226a6b84aa renumbered Chapter 11 in
Documentation/CodingStyle to Chapter 12, but it didn't update the reference
to that chapter further down in the file. This patch corrects the chapter
reference.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
undocumented. Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly.
This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default. (instead, add "usefree"
for forcing to use it)
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w.
Cc: <matt@bluehost.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Document how to detect drive failures for cciss
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global, TOC-like
index.html page after building 'htmldocs'
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated
warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines:
> This is going to break a lot of external stuff. We should have found
> a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_
> warning) to warn people of impending doom. But I can't immediately
> find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I
> suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months. It's
> going to get ugly out there. We shall see...
Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function
so a warning is emitted on compile time.
Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method
called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
special filesystems. It is called without locks.
Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);
2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations
3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
/proc/pid/fd/...
4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
/proc/pid/fd/...
A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :
3.090 s instead of 3.450 s
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The /proc/pid/ "maps", "smaps", and "numa_maps" files contain sensitive
information about the memory location and usage of processes. Issues:
- maps should not be world-readable, especially if programs expect any
kind of ASLR protection from local attackers.
- maps cannot just be 0400 because "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2" makes glibc
check the maps when %n is in a *printf call, and a setuid(getuid())
process wouldn't be able to read its own maps file. (For reference
see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/22/150)
- a system-wide toggle is needed to allow prior behavior in the case of
non-root applications that depend on access to the maps contents.
This change implements a check using "ptrace_may_attach" before allowing
access to read the maps contents. To control this protection, the new knob
/proc/sys/kernel/maps_protect has been added, with corresponding updates to
the procfs documentation.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: New sysctl numbers are old hat]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The tty driver write method is different to the usual fops device write
methods as the buffer is already in kernel space. Clarify the docs since
someone writing a driver made that mistake.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a paragraph in Documentation/SubmittingDrivers requesting that the
basic PM support be provided by new device drivers.
Add two new documents in Documentation/power/ giving general instructions
on debugging the suspend/resume functionality and testing the suspend and
resume support in device drivers.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This driver supports the Maxim MAX6650 and MAX6651 fan speed
monitoring and control chips.
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The new SMSC LPC47M292 Super-I/O chip is a bit different from the
previous ones, it supports a 3rd fan, but unfortunately the pin
configuration registers are different.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The new SMSC LPC47M292 Super-I/O chip includes a hardware monitoring
block which is compatible with those of the LPC47M192.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Hartmut Rick <linux@rick.claranet.de>
Change /sys/power/disk to display all valid modes as well as the currently
selected one in a fashion known from the LED subsystem.
This changes userspace API, but it is apparently not used much (we asked
some userspace developers)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds support for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and
currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561
(Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those
avaliable from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP,
BF561-EZKIT), and Bluetechnix! Tinyboards.
The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices
Inc. (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in
December of 2000. Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin
processor family of devices. The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean,
orthogonal,RISC-like microprocessor instruction set. It combines a dual-MAC
(Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and
single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single
instruction-set architecture.
The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the
ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/download/frsrelease/29/2549/Blackfin_PRM.pdf
The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and
there are binary and source rpms/tarballs for many architectures at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs There is complete
documentation, including "getting started" guides available at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/ which provides links to the sources and
patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for
bfin-linux-uclibc
This patch, as well as the other patches (toolchain, distribution,
uClibc) are actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/
We have tested this on LTP, and our test plan (including pass/fails) can
be found at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=testing_the_linux_kernel
[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: balance parenthesis in blackfin header files]
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current panic_on_oom may not work if there is a process using
cpusets/mempolicy, because other nodes' memory may remain. But some people
want failover by panic ASAP even if they are used. This patch makes new
setting for its request.
This is tested on my ia64 box which has 3 nodes.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the tool which gets reports about slabs to the VM documentation directory.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds /proc/pid/clear_refs. When any non-zero number is written to this file,
pte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its
corresponding page, respectively, in that task's VMAs. This file is only
writable by the user who owns the task.
It is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using
by clearing the reference bits with
echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs
and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output
at a measured time interval. For example, to observe the approximate change
in memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references
(echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and
extracts the size in kB. Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total
referenced footprint. Moments later, repeat the process and observe the
difference.
For example, using an efficient Mozilla:
accumulated time referenced memory
---------------- -----------------
0 s 408 kB
1 s 408 kB
2 s 556 kB
3 s 1028 kB
4 s 872 kB
5 s 1956 kB
6 s 416 kB
7 s 1560 kB
8 s 2336 kB
9 s 1044 kB
10 s 416 kB
This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory
footprint for a task.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ingo Molnar