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Suresh Siddha
0c752a9335 x86: introduce noxsave boot parameter
Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.

[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-22 13:10:54 -07:00
James Morris
2c9e703c61 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c

Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()).

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 18:40:59 +10:00
Eric Paris
5789ba3bd0 IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy
The IMA TCB policy is dangerous.  A normal use can use all of a system's
memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of
executables.  The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root
often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the
measurements meaningless.

There is no good fix for this in the kernel.  A full TCB policy would need to
be loaded in userspace using LSM rule matching to get both a protected and
useful system.  But, if too little is measured before userspace can load a real
policy one again ends up with a meaningless set of measurements.  One option
would be to put the policy load inside the initrd in order to get it early
enough in the boot sequence to be useful, but this runs into trouble with the
LSM.  For IMA to measure the LSM policy and the LSM policy loading mechanism
it needs rules to do so, but we already talked about problems with defaulting
to such broad rules....

IMA also depends on the files being measured to be on an FS which implements
and supports i_version.  Since the only FS with this support (ext4) doesn't
even use it by default it seems silly to have any IMA rules by default.

This should reduce the performance overhead of IMA to near 0 while still
letting users who choose to configure their machine as such to inclue the
ima_tcb kernel paramenter and get measurements during boot before they can
load a customized, reasonable policy in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 09:31:20 +10:00
Hugh Dickins
98f32602d4 hugh: update email address
My old address will shut down in a few days time: remove it from the tree,
and add a tmpfs (shmem filesystem) maintainer entry with the new address.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-21 13:14:32 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
521c180874 Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/futexes
Merge reason: this branch was on an pre -rc1 base, merge it up to -rc6+
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

Conflicts:
	kernel/futex.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-20 09:02:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
fbb5ba9276 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  ipv4: make default for INET_LRO consistent with help text
  net: fix skb_seq_read returning wrong offset/length for page frag data
  pkt_sched: gen_estimator: use 64 bit intermediate counters for bps
  be2net: add two new pci device ids to pci device table
  sch_teql: should not dereference skb after ndo_start_xmit()
  tcp: fix MSG_PEEK race check
  Doc: fixed descriptions on /proc/sys/net/core/* and /proc/sys/net/unix/*
  Neterion: *FIFO1_DMA_ERR set twice, should 2nd be *FIFO2_DMA_ERR?
  mv643xx_eth: fix PPC DMA breakage
  bonding: fix link down handling in 802.3ad mode
  bridge: fix initial packet flood if !STP
  bridge: relay bridge multicast pkgs if !STP
  NET: Meth: Fix unsafe mix of irq and non-irq spinlocks.
  mlx4_en: Fix not deleted napi structures
  ipconfig: handle case of delayed DHCP server
  netpoll: don't dereference NULL dev from np
  wimax/i2400m: fix device crash: fix optimization in _roq_queue_update_ws
2009-05-19 18:43:50 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
e9ccb73ab5 GFS2: Update docs
Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-19 10:23:23 +01:00
Li Zefan
143c145e3a tracing/events: Documentation updates
- fix some typos
- document the difference between '>' and '>>'
- document the 'enable' toggle
- remove section "Defining an event-enabled tracepoint", since it's
  out-dated and sample/trace_events/ already serves this purpose.

v2: add "Updated by Li Zefan"

[ Impact: make documentation up-to-date ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
LKML-Reference: <4A125503.5060406@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 10:29:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1079cac0f4 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into tracing/core
Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 10:15:35 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
888a589f6b mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
after:

 | commit b263295dbf
 | Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
 | Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:30:47 2008 +0100
 |
 |    x86: 64-bit, make sparsemem vmemmap the only memory model

we don't have MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE anymore.

Historically, x86-64 had an architecture-specific method for memory hotplug
whereby it scanned the SRAT for physical memory ranges that could be
potentially used for memory hot-add later. By reserving those ranges
without physical memory, the memmap would be allocated and left dormant
until needed. This depended on the DISCONTIG memory model which has been
removed so the code implementing HOTPLUG_RESERVE is now dead.

This patch removes the dead code used by MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE.

(Changelog authored by Mel.)

v2: updated changelog, and remove hotadd= in doc

[ Impact: remove dead code ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Workflow-found-OK-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0C4910.7090508@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 09:13:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b286e21868 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into x86/mm
Merge reason: sync up to -rc6 which has changes to mm/ which we are
              going to touch in the commits to follow as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 09:12:51 +02:00
Wang Tinggong
705efc3b03 Doc: fixed descriptions on /proc/sys/net/core/* and /proc/sys/net/unix/*
Signed-off-by: Wang Tinggong <wangtinggong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17 21:19:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bba0b4ec3c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  mm: SLOB fix reclaim_state
  mm: SLUB fix reclaim_state
  slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
  slub: enforce MAX_ORDER
2009-05-17 11:44:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ade385e4d1 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  kgdb: gdb documentation fix
  kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame
  sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
2009-05-15 08:06:45 -07:00
Frank Rowand
d34a792da9 kgdb: gdb documentation fix
gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command.

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2009-05-15 07:56:25 -05:00
Jens Axboe
cd17cbfda0 Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"
This reverts commit fafd688e4c.

Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-15 11:32:24 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
5031296c57 x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
d297366ba6 x86: document new bzImage fields
Document the new bzImage fields for kernel memory placement.

[ Impact: adds documentation ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:05 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
7961386fe9 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: sched/core was on .30-rc1 before, update to latest fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:59:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7a309490da Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/apic
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with
              all the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 09:50:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
134cbf35c7 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/mm
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with
              all the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 09:33:15 +02:00
Darren Hart
b30505c81a futex: add requeue-pi documentation
Add Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt describing the motivation for the
newly added FUTEX_*REQUEUE_PI op codes and their implementation.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A03634E.3080609@us.ibm.com>
[ reformatted the file ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-09 07:12:50 +02:00
Henrik Austad
441ee4cb87 Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-05-08 19:22:20 -07:00
Robert Richter
7e4e0bd50e oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type
This patch removes module_param oprofile.force_arch_perfmon and
introduces oprofile.cpu_type=archperfmon instead. This new parameter
can be reused for other models and architectures.

Currently only archperfmon is supported.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-05-08 11:06:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1dcdb5a9e7 oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
This re-adds the force_arch_perfmon option that was in the original
arch perfmon patchkit. Originally this was rejected in favour
of a generalized perfmon=name option, but it turned out implementing
the later in a reliable way is hard (and it would have been easy
to crash the kernel if a user gets it wrong)

But now Atom and Core i7 support being readded a user would
need to update their oprofile userland to beyond 0.9.4 to use oprofile again
on Atom or Core i7.

To avoid this problem readd the force_arch_perfmon option.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-05-08 11:06:33 +02:00
James Morris
d254117099 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +10:00
Ingo Molnar
44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
ca1eda2d75 doc: small kernel-parameters updates
Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file.
Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the
rest of the file.

Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names,
with examples.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
429aa0fca0 doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bit
kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06 16:36:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
2feceeff1e x86: fix typo in address space documentation
Fix a trivial typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

[ Impact: documentation only ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2009-05-05 19:10:18 -07:00
Rik van Riel
c898faf91b x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits
Extend the maximum addressable memory on x86-64 from 2^44 to
2^46 bytes. This requires some shuffling around of the vmalloc
and virtual memmap memory areas, to keep them away from the
direct mapping of up to 64TB of physical memory.

This patch also introduces a guard hole between the vmalloc
area and the virtual memory map space.  There's really no
good reason why we wouldn't have a guard hole there.

[ Impact: future hardware enablement ]

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505172856.6820db22@cuia.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-05 19:10:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
da87bbd142 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: fix sparse warning
  dma-debug: remove broken dma memory leak detection for 2.6.30
  locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits
2009-05-05 12:08:20 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
60aa605dfc sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
Thomas noted that we should disallow sysctl_sched_rt_runtime == 0 for
(!RT_GROUP) since the root group always has some RT tasks in it.

Further, update the documentation to inspire clue.

[ Impact: exclude corner-case sysctl_sched_rt_runtime value ]

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.863098054@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:07:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8c0c3f7ff0 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: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol
  Input: add detailed multi-touch finger data report protocol
  Input: allow certain EV_ABS events to bypass all filtering
  Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driver
  Input: bcm5974 - augment debug information
  Input: bcm5974 - Add support for the Macbook 5 (Unibody)
  Input: bcm5974 - add quad-finger tapping
  Input: bcm5974 - prepare for a new trackpad header type
  Input: appletouch - fix DMA to/from stack buffer
  Input: wacom - fix TabletPC touch bug
  Input: lifebook - add DMI entry for Fujitsu B-2130
  Input: ALPS - add signature for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10
  Input: elantech - make sure touchpad is really in absolute mode
  Input: elantech - provide a workaround for jumpy cursor on firmware 2.34
  Input: ucb1400 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
  Input: tsc2007 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
  Input: sa1111ps2 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handlers
  Input: omap-keypad - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
2009-05-02 16:35:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
414772fa49 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch missing "ax"/"aw"
  kbuild: fix comment in modpost.c
  kbuild: fix scripts/setlocalversion with git
  kbuild: fix Module.markers permission error under cygwin
  docs: also clean index.html
  kbuild: remove a tag file before it is regenerated
  kbuild: "make prepare" should be "make modules_prepare"
  kbuild: clean Module.markers and modules.order for out-of-tree modules
  avr32: drop unused CLEAN_FILES
2009-05-02 16:33:56 -07:00
Andrea Righi
9e4a5bda89 mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytes
Avoid setting less than two pages for vm_dirty_bytes: this is necessary to
avoid potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits().

[   49.951610] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[   49.952195] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent
[   49.952195] CPU 1
[   49.952195] Modules linked in: pcspkr
[   49.952195] Pid: 3064, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3 #1
[   49.952195] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802d39a9>]  [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0
[   49.952195] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de03a98  EFLAGS: 00010202
[   49.952195] RAX: 00000000000000c0 RBX: ffff88001de03b80 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3
[   49.952195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000000
[   49.952195] RBP: ffff88001de03ae8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   49.952195] R10: ffff88001ddda9a0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001
[   49.952195] R13: ffff88001fbc8218 R14: ffff88001de03b70 R15: ffff88001de03b78
[   49.952195] FS:  00007fe9a435b6f0(0000) GS:ffff8800025d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   49.952195] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   49.952195] CR2: 00007fe9a39ab000 CR3: 000000001de38000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[   49.952195] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   49.952195] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   49.952195] Process dd (pid: 3064, threadinfo ffff88001de02000, task ffff88001ddda250)
[   49.952195] Stack:
[   49.952195]  ffff88001fa0de00 ffff88001f2dbd70 ffff88001f9fe800 000080b900000000
[   49.952195]  00000000000000c0 ffff8800027a6100 0000000000000400 ffff88001fbc8218
[   49.952195]  0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88001de03bb8 ffffffff802d3ed7
[   49.952195] Call Trace:
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802d3ed7>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x1d7/0x3f0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80368f8e>] ? ext3_writeback_write_end+0x9e/0x120
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cc7df>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x12f/0x330
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cce8d>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26d/0x460
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cda32>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x52/0xd0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cda49>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80365fa6>] ext3_file_write+0x26/0xc0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff803034d1>] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x140
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80290d1a>] ? get_lock_stats+0x2a/0x60
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80280730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff8030411b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff803042d0>] sys_write+0x50/0x90
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff8022ff6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   49.952195] Code: 00 00 00 2b 05 09 1c 17 01 48 89 c6 49 0f af f4 48 c1 ee 02 48 89 f0 48 f7 e1 48 89 d6 31 d2 48 c1 ee 02 48 0f af 75 d0 48 89 f0 <48> f7 f7 41 8b 95 ac 01 00 00 48 89 c7 49 0f af d4 48 c1 ea 02
[   49.952195] RIP  [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0
[   49.952195]  RSP <ffff88001de03a98>
[   50.096523] ---[ end trace 008d7aa02f244d7b ]---

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
52dc5aec9f kernel-doc: restrict syntax for private: and public:
scripts/kernel-doc can (incorrectly) delete struct members that are
surrounded by /* ...  */ <struct members> /* ...  */ if there is a /*
private: */ comment in there somewhere also.

Fix that by making the "/* private:" only allow whitespace between /* and
"private:", not anything/everything in the world.

This fixes some erroneous kernel-doc warnings that popped up while
processing include/linux/usb/composite.h.

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>
2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
Nick Piggin
b827e496c8 mm: close page_mkwrite races
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page
locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the
lock until the page is marked dirty.  This allows the filesystem to have
full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.

Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we
call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with
it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.

The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to
associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will
perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite.  It currently then must
return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according
to existing page_mkwrite convention).

In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty.  The
filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be
attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the
filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no
longer dirty.

It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in
->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail.  The
filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.

And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because
page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the
page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.

This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations
(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)
closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being
initiated in that window.  This provides the filesystem with a strong
synchronisation against the VM here.

- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.
- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913).
- I need it for fsblock.
- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).
- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation
  under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page
  at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot
  be fixed properly without this patch).
- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their
  page_mkwrite functions themselves.

[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should
  eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a
  filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping]
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
Jason Baron
9ee1983c9a tracing: add irq tracepoint documentation
Document irqs for the newly created docbook.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: wcohen@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <73ff42be3420157667ec548e9b0e409c3cfad05f.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-01 14:03:36 +02:00
Jason Baron
a76f8c6da1 tracing: add new tracepoints docbook
Add tracepoint docbook. This will help us document and understand
what tracepoints are in the kernel. Since there are multiple
macros, and files that contain tracepoints.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: wcohen@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <84160b6bd94aff02455da7e12bad054d34c579a0.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-01 14:03:35 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
64e3da1094 docs: also clean index.html
Missed index.html in "make cleandocs", so add it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-05-01 10:54:03 +02:00
Henrik Rydberg
eacaad01b4 Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol
This patchs adds documentation for the multi-touch protocol to
Documentation/input/.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: grammar fixes]
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-04-30 10:41:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3dacbdad24 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
  e100: do not go D3 in shutdown unless system is powering off
  netfilter: revised locking for x_tables
  Bluetooth: Fix connection establishment with low security requirement
  Bluetooth: Add different pairing timeout for Legacy Pairing
  Bluetooth: Ensure that HCI sysfs add/del is preempt safe
  net: Avoid extra wakeups of threads blocked in wait_for_packet()
  net: Fix typo in net_device_ops description.
  ipv4: Limit size of route cache hash table
  Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard
  Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
  update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
  ixgbe: Fix WoL functionality for 82599 KX4 devices
  veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor
  xfrm: wrong hash value for temporary SA
  forcedeth: tx timeout fix
  net: Fix LL_MAX_HEADER for CONFIG_TR_MODULE
  mlx4_en: Handle page allocation failure during receive
  mlx4_en: Fix cleanup flow on cq activation
  vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down
  netfilter: xt_recent: fix stack overread in compat code
  ...
2009-04-29 07:55:45 -07:00
David Howells
50fa610a3b sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
Add a section to the memory barriers document to note the implied
memory barriers of sleep primitives (set_current_state() and wrappers)
and wake-up primitives (wake_up() and co.).

Also extend the in-code comments on the wake_up() functions to note
these implied barriers.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090428140138.1192.94723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:15:55 +02:00
Henrik Rydberg
4c57e379f4 Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driver
This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-04-28 09:36:08 -07:00
David Rientjes
51e95bed62 slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
Adds documentation for the slub ABI.

This is placed in the `testing' directory since the meanings of these
files are still subject to change as slub is developed.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-04-28 14:30:35 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
3d4f16348b Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"
This reverts commit 8032b526d1.

Hey, it was only meant to be a single release.  Now they can all die as
far as I'm concerned.

[ Just kidding.  They're cute and cuddly.

  Except when they have horrible nasty facial diseases.  Oh, and I guess
  they're not actually that cuddly even when disease-free. ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3fb8e49200 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: only save/restore existent registers in the PCIe capability
  x86/PCI: don't bother with root quirks if _CRS is used
  docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-doc
  PCI: cleanup debug output resources
  x86/PCI: set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default cleanups
  x86/PCI: Move set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default into arch/x86
  x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case
  PCI quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets
2009-04-27 11:59:46 -07:00
Karsten Keil
2296e5a013 Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard
Move the entry about CAPI 2.0 to the beginning and add a URL.
Incorporate changes suggested by Randy Dunlap, thanks for proofreading.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27 05:37:39 -07:00
Tilman Schmidt
554f200e22 Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
isdn: document Kernel CAPI driver interface

Create a file Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI describing the
interface between the kernel CAPI subsystem and ISDN device drivers,
analogous to the existing Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE for the old
isdn4linux subsystem. Also add kerneldoc comments to the exported
functions in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c.

Impact: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27 05:37:39 -07:00
Tilman Schmidt
7ced70c47f update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
After the merging of mISDN, state which files refer only to the
old isdn4linux subsystem.  Also add a few missing files.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27 05:37:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b820a8c5f Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hpet: Stop soliciting hpet=force users on ICH4M
  x86: check boundary in setup_node_bootmem()
  uv_time: add parameter to uv_read_rtc()
  x86: hpet: fix periodic mode programming on AMD 81xx
  x86: more than 8 32-bit CPUs requires X86_BIGSMP
  x86: avoid theoretical spurious NMI backtraces with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
  x86: fix boot crash in NMI watchdog with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and flat APIC
  x86-64: fix FPU corruption with signals and preemption
  x86/uv: fix for no memory at paddr 0
  docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt
  x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init
  x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux
  x86/uv: fix init of cpu-less nodes
  x86/uv: fix init of memory-less nodes
2009-04-26 10:29:38 -07:00
Ming Lei
992d7ced75 locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits
From source code of get_usage_char(), the previous note is not correct,
so fix it.

static char get_usage_char(struct lock_class *class, enum lock_usage_bit bit)
{
	char c = '.';

	if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))/*LOCK_ENABLED_##STATE*/
		c = '+';
	if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit)) {/*LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE*/
		c = '-';
		if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))
			c = '?';
	}

	return c;
}

note:

1) The 'bit' parameter always is passed as  LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE
   or LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE_READ , from get_usage_chars().

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1240585806-5744-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-26 18:21:24 +02:00
Marc Dionne
91ac033d83 CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.

The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-24 13:28:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ef54b1bb2e Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (34 commits)
  ACPI, i915: Register ACPI video even when not modesetting
  Revert "ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83"
  I/O port protection: update for windows compatibility.
  sony-laptop: always try to unblock rfkill on load
  sony-laptop: fix bogus error message display on resume
  ACPI: EC: Fix ACPI EC resume non-query interrupt message
  sony-laptop: SNC input event 38 fix
  sony-laptop: SNC 127 Initialization Fix
  sony-laptop: Duplicate SNC 127 Event Fix
  ACPI: prevent processor.max_cstate=0 boot crash
  ACPI/hpet: prevent boot hang when hpet=force used on ICH-4M
  ACPI: delete obsolete "bus master activity" proc field
  ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time
  ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter
  ACPI video: fix an error when the brightness levels on AC and on Battery are same
  acpi-cpufreq: Do not let get_measured perf depend on internal variable
  acpi-cpufreq: style-only: add parens to math expression
  acpi-cpufreq: Cleanup: Use printk_once
  x86, acpi_cpufreq: Fix the NULL pointer dereference in get_measured_perf
  thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23
  ...
2009-04-24 08:48:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f8c3301e83 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:
  powerpc: Fix modular build of ide-pmac when mediabay is built in
  powerpc/pasemi: Fix build error on UP
  powerpc: Make macintosh/mediabay driver depend on CONFIG_BLOCK
  maintainers: Fix PS3 patterns
  powerpc/ps3: Fix CONFIG_PS3_FLASH=n build warning
  powerpc/32: Don't clobber personality flags on exec
  powerpc: Fix crash on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/85xx: Remove defconfigs that mpc85xx_{smp_}defconfig cover
  powerpc/85xx: Added SMP defconfig
  powerpc/85xx: Enabled a bunch of FSL specific drivers/options
  powerpc/85xx: Updated generic mpc85xx_defconfig
  powerpc: don't disable SATA interrupts on Freescale MPC8610 HPCD
  fsl_rio: Pass the proper device to dma mapping routines
  powerpc: Fix of_node_put() exit path in of_irq_map_one()
  powerpc/5200: defconfig updates
  powerpc/5200: Add FLASH nodes to lite5200 device tree
  powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuples
  powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-of
  powerpc/5200: Bring the legacy fsl_spi_platform_data hooks back
2009-04-24 07:44:58 -07:00
Len Brown
6e6c348fb2 Merge branch 'irq' into release 2009-04-24 01:34:59 -04:00
Len Brown
7b806016b1 Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into release 2009-04-24 01:34:37 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
cffb2fafb7 docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-doc
Add drivers/pci/*.c source files to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
and update those pci/*.c source files that need kernel-doc fixes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-04-22 14:49:33 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
3568b71d46 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: hpet.c changed upstream, make sure we test against that

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-22 12:44:20 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
5bd3ef84d7 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 into merge 2009-04-22 13:02:09 +10:00
David Brownell
6e538aaf50 spi: documentation: emphasise spi_master.setup() semantics
This is a doc-only patch which I hope will reduce the number of
spi_master controller driver patches starting out with a common
implementation bug.

(As in: almost every spi_master driver I see starts out with its
version of this bug.  Sigh.)

It just re-emphasizes that the setup() method may be called for one
device while a transfer is active on another ...  which means that most
driver implementations shouldn't touch any registers.

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>
2009-04-21 13:41:50 -07:00
Len Brown
88bea188b8 ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter
This counter may prove useful in debugging some
spurious interrupt issues seen in the field.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-21 00:35:47 -04:00
Adrian McMenamin
66672fefaa Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being held
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.

remove reference to BKL being held in statfs

Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
62d1702909 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: We need the x86/uv updates from upstream, to queue up
              dependent fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20 18:08:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d91dfbb41b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio:
  lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements
  lguest: tell git to ignore Documentation/lguest/lguest
  virtio: fix suspend when using virtio_balloon
  lguest: fix guest crash on non-linear addresses in gdt pvops
  lguest: fix crash on vmlinux images
2009-04-19 10:58:20 -07:00
Rusty Russell
38cfe96804 lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements
Robert noted that we don't actually document that lguest is 32-bit only,
nor that PAE must be off (CONFIG_PAE is now prompted for if HIGHMEM is
set to "off).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
2009-04-19 23:14:02 +09:30
Matt Kraai
9536c26b31 lguest: tell git to ignore Documentation/lguest/lguest
This is the example lguest launcher binary.

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-19 23:14:02 +09:30
Sam Ravnborg
720097d895 kbuild: introduce subdir-ccflags-y
Following patch introduce support for setting options
to gcc that has effect for current directory and all
subdirectories.

The typical use case are an architecture or a subsystem that
decide to cover all files with -Werror.
Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their
Makefile- with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so
as only the top-level directories needs to be covered.

Likewise if we decide to cover a full subsystem such
as net/ with -Werror this is done by adding a single
line to net/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-04-19 11:12:12 +02:00
Weidong Han
03ea815506 x86, intr-remap: add option to disable interrupt remapping
Add option "nointremap" to disable interrupt remapping.

[ Impact: add new boot option ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-5-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-19 10:21:54 +02:00
Weidong Han
2b2fd87a6e docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.

[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-19 10:21:13 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
4af94f3900 doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt mistaken deletions
Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally
deleted in commit 0cb55ad2.

Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-18 11:37:33 -07:00
Weidong Han
8b5b94e4e9 docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.

[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-18 09:29:16 +02:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
b57f7e7b83 thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23
Plenty of high-profile changes, so it deserves a new version number.

Features added since 0.22:
 *  Restrict unsafe LEDs
 *  New race-less brightness control strategy for IBM ThinkPads
 *  Disclose TGID of driver access from userspace (debug)
 *  Warn when deprecated functions are used

Other changes:
 *  Better debug messages in some subdrivers
 *  Removed "hotkey disable" support, since it breaks the driver
 *  Dropped "ibm-acpi" alias

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-18 01:19:54 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
d022bafbb6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (43 commits)
  staging: slicoss: update README
  otus/zdusb.c: additional USB idnetifier
  Staging: go7007: fix build issues
  Staging: sxg: Fix leaks and checksum errors in transmit code path
  Staging: sxg: Fix sleep in atomic context warning while loading driver
  Staging: sxg: Use correct queue_id for transmitting non-TCP packets
  Staging: sxg: Fire watchdog timer at end of open routine to change the link
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Add load balancing between network states with the same priority.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Added ->show_stats() callback.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Drop ftrans debugging code.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Use wait_on_page_timeout when waiting for remote directory sync instead of hardcoded 25 seconds.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Reduce debugging noise about non-existing objects.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Sync fs before killing it, since dentry cache is shrunk before writeback is invoked via generic_shutdown_super()
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Extend remount option.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Set NETFS_INODE_REMOTE_SYNCED and clear NETFS_INODE_OWNED bits in the root inode.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Added 'need_lock' variable into debug print.
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Disable read lock in pohmelfs_getattr().
  Staging: Pohmelfs: Move parent lock to the place where we really have to send a lookup request to the server.
  Staging: pohmelfs: Populate dentry cache when receiving the new readdir entry.
  ...
2009-04-17 13:53:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
74a205a3f1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  UIO: fix specific device driver missing statement for depmod
  Driver core: remove pr_fmt() from dynamic_dev_dbg() printk
  driver core: prevent device_for_each_child from oopsing
  dynamic debug: resurrect old pr_debug() semantics as pr_devel()
  Driver Core: early platform driver
  proc: mounts_poll() make consistent to mdstat_poll
  sysfs: sysfs poll keep the poll rule of regular file.
  driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents
  driver core: fix driver_match_device
  sysfs: don't use global workqueue in sysfs_schedule_callback()
2009-04-17 13:53:16 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
e0ca873916 Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-17 11:06:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b9836e0837 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix microcode driver newly spewing warnings
  x86, PAT: Remove page granularity tracking for vm_insert_pfn maps
  x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS for now
  x86, documentation: kernel-parameters replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86
  x86: pci-swiotlb.c swiotlb_dma_ops should be static
  x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in devmem mmap
  x86, PAT: Consolidate code in pat_x_mtrr_type() and reserve_memtype()
  x86, PAT: Changing memtype to WC ensuring no WB alias
  x86, PAT: Handle faults cleanly in set_memory_ APIs
  x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb
  x86, CPA: Change idmap attribute before ioremap attribute setup
2009-04-17 09:56:11 -07:00
Magnus Damm
13977091a9 Driver Core: early platform driver
V3 of the early platform driver implementation.

Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate
driver configuration from the actual driver.  So base addresses,
interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board
code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms.

For early devices we have nothing today.  For instance, to configure early
timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices.  This
because the setup order during boot.  Timers are needed before the
platform driver core code is available.  The same goes for early printk
support.  Early in this case means before initcalls.

These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or
they receive it using some special configuration method.  This is working
quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and
early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same
driver.  A single way would be better.

The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow
drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and
probe.  Registration happens through early_param().  The time for the
probe is decided by the architecture code.

See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-16 16:17:10 -07:00
Stefan Roese
c5a88dd90c powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuples
Add binding for mtd nodes with multiple reg tuples.  Multiple reg tuples
are used when the flash region covers multiple devices of the same type,
but not necessarily the same size.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2009-04-16 15:11:54 -06:00
Stefan Roese
efcc2da3fd powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-of
It's easier to find bindings descriptions in separate files.  So factor
out the MTD physmap bindings into a separate file to not clutter
booting-without-of.txt more.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2009-04-16 15:11:54 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
cd97824994 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (64 commits)
  phylib: Fix delay argument of schedule_delayed_work
  NET/ixgbe: Fix powering off during shutdown
  NET/e1000e: Fix powering off during shutdown
  NET/e1000: Fix powering off during shutdown
  packet: avoid warnings when high-order page allocation fails
  gianfar: stop send queue before resetting gianfar
  myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
  declance: convert to net_device_ops
  bfin_mac: convert to net_device_ops
  au1000: convert to net_device_ops
  atarilance: convert to net_device_ops
  a2065: convert to net_device_ops
  ixgbe: update real_num_tx_queues on changing num_rx_queues
  ixgbe: fix tx queue index
  Revert "rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c"
  sfc: Use correct macro to set event bitfield
  sfc: Match calls to netif_napi_add() and netif_napi_del()
  bonding: Remove debug printk
  e1000/e1000: fix compile warning
  ehea: Fix incomplete conversion to net_device_ops
  ...
2009-04-16 07:41:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3ee8da87ba 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 - Fix the cmd cache keys for amp verbs
  ALSA: add missing definitions(letters) to HD-Audio.txt
  ALSA: hda - Add quirk mask for Fujitsu Amilo laptops with ALC883
  [ALSA] intel8x0: add one retry to the ac97_clock measurement routine
  [ALSA] intel8x0: fix wrong conditions in ac97_clock measure routine
  ALSA: hda - Avoid call of snd_jack_report at release
  ALSA: add private_data to struct snd_jack
  ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: rename files to remove redundant information in file pathes
  ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: clean up header includes
  ALSA: sound/pci: use memdup_user()
  ALSA: sound/usb: use memdup_user()
  ALSA: sound/isa: use memdup_user()
  ALSA: sound/core: use memdup_user()
  [ALSA] intel8x0: do not use zero value from PICB register
  [ALSA] intel8x0: an attempt to make ac97_clock measurement more reliable
  [ALSA] pcm-midlevel: Add more strict buffer position checks based on jiffies
  [ALSA] hda_intel: fix unexpected ring buffer positions
  ASoC: Disable S3C64xx support in Kconfig
  ASoC: magician: remove un-necessary #include of pxa-regs.h and hardware.h
2009-04-15 09:11:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
23da64b471 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (28 commits)
  cfq-iosched: add close cooperator code
  cfq-iosched: log responsible 'cfqq' in idle timer arm
  cfq-iosched: tweak kick logic a bit more
  cfq-iosched: no need to save interrupts in cfq_kick_queue()
  brd: fix cacheflushing
  brd: support barriers
  swap: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
  gfs2: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
  ext4: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
  dio: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
  block: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
  bio: add documentation to bio_alloc()
  splice: add helpers for locking pipe inode
  splice: remove generic_file_splice_write_nolock()
  ocfs2: fix i_mutex locking in ocfs2_splice_to_file()
  splice: fix i_mutex locking in generic_splice_write()
  splice: remove i_mutex locking in splice_from_pipe()
  splice: split up __splice_from_pipe()
  block: fix SG_IO to return a proper error value
  cfq-iosched: don't delay queue kick for a merged request
  ...
2009-04-15 09:03:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a23c218bd3 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:
  powerpc: pseries/dtl.c should include asm/firmware.h
  powerpc: Fix data-corrupting bug in __futex_atomic_op
  powerpc/pseries: Set error_state to pci_channel_io_normal in eeh_report_reset()
  powerpc: Allow 256kB pages with SHMEM
  powerpc: Document new FSL I2C bindings and cleanup
  powerpc/mm: Fix compile warning
  powerpc/85xx: TQM8548: update defconfig
  powerpc/85xx: TQM8548: use proper phy-handles for enet2 and enet3
  powerpc/85xx: TQM85xx: correct address of LM75 I2C device nodes
  powerpc: Add support for early tlbilx opcode
  powerpc: Fix tlbilx opcode
2009-04-15 08:42:40 -07:00
Justin Mattock
83b2086ce2 ALSA: add missing definitions(letters) to HD-Audio.txt
impact: Add missing definitions(letters).

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-04-15 11:51:50 +02:00
Jens Axboe
329007ce25 block: update biodoc.txt on plugging
We do per-device plugging, get rid of any references to tq_disk as that
has been dead since 2.6.5 or so.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:11 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
6cececfcec x86, documentation: kernel-parameters replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86
X86 is same as X86-32+X86-64 so replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239698023.3033.37.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 11:46:38 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
6fd9b3a40b rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pending
This patch updates the RCU documentation to reflect the changes in
tracing made in the previous patch in the set.

Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: schamp@sgi.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: ego@in.ibm.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <12396834792865-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 11:33:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b21597d026 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:
  tomoyo: version bump to 2.2.0.
  tomoyo: add Documentation/tomoyo.txt
2009-04-13 18:16:09 -07:00
Tetsuo Handa
17a7b7b390 tomoyo: add Documentation/tomoyo.txt
Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-14 09:14:58 +10:00
Etienne Basset
ecfcc53fef smack: implement logging V3
the following patch, add logging of Smack security decisions.
This is of course very useful to understand what your current smack policy does.
As suggested by Casey, it also now forbids labels with ', " or \

It introduces a '/smack/logging' switch :
0: no logging
1: log denied (default)
2: log accepted
3: log denied&accepted

Signed-off-by: Etienne Basset <etienne.basset@numericable.fr>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-14 09:00:23 +10:00
Shen Feng
bbdba27374 doc: use correct debugfs mountpoint
Use the default mountpoint of debugfs in the pktcdvd ABI.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:33 -07:00
Bharata B Rao
c863d835b7 memcg: fix documentation
The description about various statistics from memory.stat is not accurate
and confusing at times.

Correct this along with a few other minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:33 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
a55ce6dc70 mm: add documentation describing what tsk->active_mm means vs tsk->mm
I'm sure everyone knows this, but I didn't, so I googled it, and found a
nice explanation from Linus.  Might be worth sticking in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00
David Howells
c24b720188 mm: reformat the Unevictable-LRU documentation
Do a bit of reformatting on the Unevictable-LRU documentation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:31 -07:00
Andrea Righi
5341cfab94 res_counter: update documentation
After the introduction of resource counters hierarchies
(28dbc4b6a0) the prototypes of
res_counter_init() and res_counter_charge() have been changed.

Keep the documentation consistent with the actual function prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:30 -07:00
Li Zefan
ca8b995029 Documentation/sysctl/net.txt: fix a typo
s/spicified/specified

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>
2009-04-13 15:04:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b5c851a88a Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in
              kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming change

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:02:22 +02:00
David S. Miller
83400207a0 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
2009-04-13 14:41:05 -07:00