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Michael Ellerman 9e367d8592 jprobes: remove JPROBE_ENTRY()
AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything
useful - so remove it ..

I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still
compile without modifications.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
David Brownell a0a9983509 gpio calls don't need i/o barriers
Clarify that drivers using the GPIO operations don't need to issue io
barrier instructions themselves.  Previously this wasn't clear, and at
least one platform assumed otherwise (and would thus break various
otherwise-portable drivers which don't issue barriers).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki b10d911749 PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiers
Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that
subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that
should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume()
routines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:42 -07:00
Nick Piggin d0217ac04c mm: fault feedback #1
Change ->fault prototype.  We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
 FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things.  This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).

This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.

struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.

The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Mark Fasheh ed2f2f9b3f Document ->page_mkwrite() locking
There seems to be very little documentation about this callback in general.
The locking in particular is a bit tricky, so it's worth having this in
writing.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Nick Piggin 54cb8821de mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.

->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping.  The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie.  pgoff).
 But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).

Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.

This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn.  Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.

The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.

After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache.  Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.

NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed.  This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ce524c8360 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  eHEA: Fix bonding support
  Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver
  fix wrong argument of tc35815_read_plat_dev_addr()
  ARM/ETHER3: Handle multicast frames.
  SAA9730: Handle multicast frames.
  NI5010: Handle multicast frames.
  NS83820: Handle multicast frames.
  Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar
  Fix Vitesse RGMII-ID support
  Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes
  Fix Vitesse 824x PHY interrupt acking
  [PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54
  [PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Planex GW-US54GXS
  [PATCH] Update version ipw2200 stamp to 1.2.2
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw_isr() comments error on shared IRQ
  [PATCH] Fix ipw2200 set wrong power parameter causing firmware error
  [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix `iwpriv set_power` error
  [PATCH] softmac: Channel is listed twice in scan output
2007-07-18 18:33:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7209a1dc25 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6:
  zh_CN/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
  Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
  HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
  Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txt
  HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
2007-07-18 18:28:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 29e7ee378e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
  sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
  Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()
  HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
  dev_vdbg() documentation
  dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
  sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static
  sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting
  Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
  sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
  PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
  PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
  Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
  debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint
2007-07-18 18:28:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fc15bc817e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6:
  UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver
  UIO: Documentation
  UIO: Add the User IO core code
2007-07-18 18:27:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d796e641a3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (29 commits)
  IB/mthca: Simplify use of size0 in work request posting
  IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE UD segment entries
  IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE remote address and atomic segment entries
  IB/mlx4: Factor out setting other WQE segments
  IB/mlx4: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries
  IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries
  IB/mlx4: Return receive queue sizes for userspace QPs from query QP
  IB/mlx4: Increase max outstanding RDMA reads as target
  RDMA/cma: Remove local write permission from QP access flags
  IB/mthca: Use uninitialized_var() for f0
  IB/cm: Make internal function cm_get_ack_delay() static
  IB/ipath: Remove ipath_get_user_pages_nocopy()
  IB/ipath: Make a few functions static
  mlx4_core: Reset device when internal error is detected
  IB/iser: Make a couple of functions static
  IB/mthca: Fix printk format used for firmware version in warning
  IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal
  IB/ehca: Fix warnings issued by checkpatch.pl
  IB/ehca: Restructure ehca_set_pagebuf()
  IB/ehca: MR/MW structure refactoring
  ...
2007-07-18 18:26:18 -07:00
Li Yang ede178e216 zh_CN/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
Addressing patch from Stefan Richter:
HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
(It will be better if we update this to commit-id later)

Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 16:02:12 -07:00
TripleX 29a68ee73e Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
This is a Chinese translated version of
Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.

From: TripleX <zhongyu@18mail.cn>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 16:02:12 -07:00
Li Yang 0da1fa0aa2 HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO.  Currently
Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially comparing to
its largest population base.  Language could be the main obstacle.  Hope
this document will help more Chinese to contribute to Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 16:02:12 -07:00
IKEDA, Munehiro 5d329e6bb5 Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txt
Signed-off-by: IKEDA, Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 16:02:12 -07:00
Tsugikazu Shibata 73fd625371 HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file.

Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 16:02:11 -07:00
Hans J. Koch e3e0a28b5b UIO: Documentation
Documentation for the UIO interface

From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:57:16 -07:00
Paolo Ciarrocchi be38849436 HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
We should let everybody know about where the regression
list is hosted. The more is known the more it is used.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Cc: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:50 -07:00
David Brownell 6b09448ab8 dev_vdbg() documentation
Update CodingStyle to talk about "-DDEBUG" message conventions and the
new "-DVERBOSE_DEBUG" convention.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:50 -07:00
Brandon Philips 2c19c49a59 Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Alan Stern 3f8df781fc PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and
dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core.  The only user of
those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Alan Stern 471d055804 PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
This patch (as932) removes the deprecated sysfs .../power/state
attribute files.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Andy Fleming cc65185d40 Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes
The TSEC/eTSEC automatically detect their PHY interface type, unless
the type is RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay).  In that situation,
it just detects RGMII.  In order to fix this, we need to pass in rgmii-id
if that is the connection type.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
2007-07-18 18:29:37 -04:00
Marco Gittler 59800555f7 V4L/DVB (5829): Firmware extract and loading for opera dvb-usb update
Better way of creating and loading the firmware used.
Update for get_dvb_firmware script to extract the files for opera usb-box
Help file for creating the firmware added

Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:41 -03:00
Michael Krufky 27cb786f4e V4L/DVB (5803): Bttv: add support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2
add analog video support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2
Thanks to Todd Ignasiak for donating the card.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:26 -03:00
Michael Krufky b82736362b V4L/DVB (5800): Tuner: correct description of Philips FCV1236D tuner
The old description was "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", which can be
confused with other Philips tuner models.  This patch corrects the name
to "Philips FCV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", and updates the range and params
array names to match the description.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:25 -03:00
Antoine Jacquet bebeaea0a5 V4L/DVB (5792): Zr364xx: add support for Trust Powerc@m 970Z
Add Trust Powerc@m 970Z (0x06d6:0x003b) to the list of supported devices.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:23 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2d9078f73e V4L/DVB (5789): Fix 3dfx Voodoo entries on Cardlist
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:21 -03:00
Michael Krufky 302170a4b4 V4L/DVB (5771): Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location
Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware

This url is no longer valid:
http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_Premium_217g.zip

Replace with: 
http://www.softwarepatch.pl/9999ccd06a4813cb827dbb0005071c71/tt_Premium_217g.zip

Thanks-to: Tobias Stoeber <tobi@to-st.de>

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:12 -03:00
Luca Risolia 3770be3419 V4L/DVB (5765): SN9C1xx driver updates
- Add support for pair OV7630+SN9C120
- Better and safe locking mechanism of the device structure on open(),
  close() and disconnect()
- Use kref for handling device deallocation
- Generic cleanups

Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:07 -03:00
Uwe Bugla afb758c4b0 V4L/DVB (5701): Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt update
This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the
actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:45 -03:00
Daniel Gimpelevich 7cb47a1460 V4L/DVB (5685): Cx88: add support for ADS Tech Instant Video PCI
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:37 -03:00
Tony Wan aaccb82bdb V4L/DVB (5646): V4l: saa7134: add support for 10moons TM300 card
Support the 10moons TM300 TV card (so called TV Master 3), which is a
10moons saa7130 based board.  Here not include features for the
IR-remote.
It has been tested using TVTIME.  The card was auto-detected and all the
input sources worked correct with sound.

Signed-off-by: Tony Wan <wankai@sjtu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:20 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8573a9e6a8 V4L/DVB (5563a): Add experimental support for tea5761 tuner
This driver were made based on tea5761 specs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:11 -03:00
Roland Dreier f6be6fbe26 IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal
The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X.  However, MSI-X works with
all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what
MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both.  Schedule MSI
support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and
who can't use MSI time to speak up.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2007-07-17 18:37:41 -07:00
Hans-Christian Egtvedt 7a39a49c74 rtc: make example code jump to done instead of return when ioctl not supported
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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>
2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 5d91192e66 eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
Kaiwan N Billimoria 78961a5740 spi_lm70llp parport adapter driver
This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board
for the LM70 temperature sensor.  For those without that board, it may be a
simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly.

Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com>

Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes.  Minor rename.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
Jan Nikitenko ad241528c4 CRC7 support
Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication.
Kerneldoc updates

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const]
Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov bcdcd8e725 Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted.  Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel.  This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson  -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 2492268472 SLUB: change error reporting format to follow lockdep loosely
Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep.

If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines:

============================================
BUG <slab-cache>: <problem>
--------------------------------------------

INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times]

<object dump>

FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action>

This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its
now capable of figuring out the start and end.

Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may
continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through
a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Mel Gorman 7e63efef85 Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE
This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called
movablecore=.  While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of
memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is
used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable
allocations.  The amount of memory used for migratable allocations
determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at
runtime for example.

How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in
the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is

kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore

Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman ed7ed36517 handle kernelcore=: generic
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86.

Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new
sysctl.  This patch adds the necessary documentation.

From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>

  When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
  because of an infinite loop.  In addition, the parsing code can be handled
  in an architecture-independent manner.

  This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter.  It is
  only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing
  (i.e.  define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP).  Other architectures will
  ignore the boot parameter.

[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 489de30259 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits)
  [POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver
  [POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number
  [POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration
  [POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++
  [POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed
  [POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static
  [POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls
  [POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c
  [POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS
  [POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling
  [POWERPC] Remove extra return statement
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform
  [POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports
  [POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
  [POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane
  [POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected
  [POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support.
  [POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex
  [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc
  ...

Fixed up conflicts manually in:

	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c
	arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
	include/asm-powerpc/pci.h

and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
2007-07-16 17:58:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds add096909d Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (32 commits)
  [PATCH] ocfs2: zero_user_page conversion
  ocfs2: Support xfs style space reservation ioctls
  ocfs2: support for removing file regions
  ocfs2: update truncate handling of partial clusters
  ocfs2: btree support for removal of arbirtrary extents
  ocfs2: Support creation of unwritten extents
  ocfs2: support writing of unwritten extents
  ocfs2: small cleanup of ocfs2_write_begin_nolock()
  ocfs2: btree changes for unwritten extents
  ocfs2: abstract btree growing calls
  ocfs2: use all extent block suballocators
  ocfs2: plug truncate into cached dealloc routines
  ocfs2: simplify deallocation locking
  ocfs2: harden buffer check during mapping of page blocks
  ocfs2: shared writeable mmap
  ocfs2: factor out write aops into nolock variants
  ocfs2: rework ocfs2_buffered_write_cluster()
  ocfs2: take ip_alloc_sem during entire truncate
  ocfs2: Add "preferred slot" mount option
  [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(<addr>,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c
  ...
2007-07-16 10:52:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 14dc524972 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice
  more ACSI removal
  umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver
  umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable
  remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin 017f021c7e docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OK
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization
when it is practical.  This patch updates documentation for consistency
with comments in spinlock_types.h.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Borislav Petkov 422b14c2e2 update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl d52988023a Remove the last few UMSDOS leftovers
The UMSDOS filesystem was removed back in 2.6.11, but some tiny bits stuck
around.  This patch removes the few remaining leftovers.  The only things
left behind after this are the entries in the CREDITS file and the ioctl
number in Documentation/ioctl-number.txt as documentation.

This third (hopefully final) version of the patch doesn't edit the
arch/um/config.release file, since Jeff Dike pointed out to me that it
should die completely, and asked me to remove it from my patch as he'll
send in a seperate patch removing the file completely.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00