Long-delayed update to the RCU documentation, including adding the new
call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched() APIs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
cio_msg= is gone, also remove it from kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Schedule a removal for this driver. Alternative driver is available for
a while now.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The sequence executed in check_sal_cache_flush:
- pend a timer interrupt
- call SAL_CACHE_FLUSH
- see if interrupt is still pending
can hang HP machines with buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations.
Provide a kernel command-line argument to allow users skip this
check if desired. Using this parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush
to call ia64_pal_cache_flush() instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all
architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all
other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a sentence about when fan speed increases to maximum.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Improve the smbus-protocol documentation file somewhat:
- Use the names of the SMBus protocol operations (from the 2.0
specification), not made-up-for-Linux names.
- Add the name of the call used to execute each operation ... and
point out that there are mismatches, where functions execute
different protocol operations than their names specify.
The most confusing examples are that "Read Byte" isn't executed by
i2c_smbus_read_byte(), and that "Write Byte" isn't executed by
i2c_smbus_write_byte(). When coding, that's not as bad as it may
seem; but that case would seem to be worth fixing.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The only sporadically used CIO_DEBUG messages are replaced by ordinary
CIO_MSG_EVENT messages. The CIO_MSG_EVENT messages debug levels are
consolidated.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst <mernst@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we
can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward
interface.
(It's kinda funny that even the description in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..)
Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of
struct super_operations.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes:
sched: default to n for GROUP_SCHED and FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
sched, x86: add HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
sched: fix cpu clock
sched: fair-group: fix a Div0 error of the fair group scheduler
sched: fix missing locking in sched_domains code
sched: make clock sync tunable by architecture code
sched: fix debugging
sched: fix sched_info_switch not being called according to documentation
sched: fix hrtick_start_fair and CPU-Hotplug
sched: fix SCHED_FAIR wake-idle logic error
sched: fix RT task-wakeup logic
sched: add statics, don't return void expressions
sched: add debug checks to idle functions
sched: remove old sched doc
sched: make rt_sched_class, idle_sched_class static
sched: optimize calc_delta_mine()
sched: fix normalized sleeper
Fabio Checconi noticed that Documentation/scheduler/sched-design.txt was
a stale copy of the old scheduler. Remove it.
Reported-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86 PCI: call dmi_check_pciprobe()
x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
x86/pci: remove flag in pci_cfg_space_size_ext
x86: fix section mismatch in pci_scan_bus
Remove the rest of the old mac_esp driver. Also ditch the rest of the
machw mechanism, it needs to be replaced by a fake openfirmware tree.
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
so we don't align the io port start address for pci cards.
also move out dmi check out acpi.c, because it has nothing to do with acpi.
it could spare some calling when we have several peer root buses.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Two minor fixes to the kgdb documentation.
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Chwesewicz, Chilan <grzegorz.chwesewicz@chilan.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
For the use case the hint describe a simple dependency is
enough.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: #ifdef simplification
slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
slub: Whitespace cleanup and use of strict_strtoul
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpus
[POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfig
[POWERPC] PS3: Remove unsupported wakeup sources
[POWERPC] PS3: Make ps3_virq_setup and ps3_virq_destroy static
[POWERPC] PS3: Add time include to lpm
[POWERPC] Fix slb.c compile warnings
[POWERPC] Xilinx: Fix compile warnings
[POWERPC] Squash build warning for print of resource_size_t in fsl_soc.c
[RAPIDIO] fix current kernel-doc notation
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for PCI Express x8 slot
Fix a potential issue in mpc52xx uart driver
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurations
[POWERPC] 86xx: Fix the wrong serial1 interrupt for 8610 board
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6:
[SCSI] aic94xx: fix section mismatch
[SCSI] u14-34f: Fix 32bit only problem
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: sysfs code
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: 64 bit support
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: move from virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt to dma_alloc_coherent
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: use standard __init / __exit code
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix suspend/resume sections
[SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support
[SCSI] aacraid: Fix jbod operations scan issues
[SCSI] aacraid: Fix warning about macro side-effects
[SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
[SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd->cmnd use request->cmd buffer
[SCSI] bsg: add large command support
[SCSI] aacraid: Fix down_interruptible() to check the return value correctly
[SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: Handle non SCSI error status
[SCSI] bug fix for free list handling
[SCSI] ipr: Rename ipr's state scsi host attribute to prevent collisions
[SCSI] megaraid_mbox: fix Dell CERC firmware problem
This brings us closer to Real Life, where we'd examine the device
features once it's set the DRIVER_OK status bit.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.
Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Add functionality to slabinfo to print out the number of fallbacks
that have occurred for each slab cache when the -D option is specified.
Also widen the allocation / free field since the numbers became
too big after a week.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Various improvements for configuring the MPC5200 MII link from the
device tree:
* Look for 'current-speed' property for fixed speed MII links
* Look for 'fsl,7-wire-mode' property for boards using the 7 wire mode
* move definition of private data structure out of the header file
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6:
hwmon: (adt7473) minor cleanup / refactoring
hwmon: (asb100) Remove some dead code
hwmon: (lm75) Fix an incorrect comment
hwmon: (w83793) VID and VRM handling cleanups
hwmon: (w83l785ts) Don't ask the user to report failures
hwmon: (smsc47b397) add a new chip id (0x8c)
The extended crashkernel syntax is a little confusing in the way it handles
ranges. eg:
crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
Means if the machine has between 512M and 2G of memory the crash region should
be 64M, and if the machine has 2G of memory the region should be 64M. Only if
the machine has more than 2G memory will 128M be allocated.
Although that semantic is correct, it is somewhat baffling. Instead I propose
that the end of the range means the first address past the end of the range,
ie: 512M up to but not including 2G.
[bwalle@suse.de: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (179 commits)
ACPI: Fix acpi_processor_idle and idle= boot parameters interaction
acpi: fix section mismatch warning in pnpacpi
intel_menlo: fix build warning
ACPI: Cleanup: Remove unneeded, multiple local dummy variables
ACPI: video - fix permissions on some proc entries
ACPI: video - properly handle errors when registering proc elements
ACPI: video - do not store invalid entries in attached_array list
ACPI: re-name acpi_pm_ops to acpi_suspend_ops
ACER_WMI/ASUS_LAPTOP: fix build bug
thinkpad_acpi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kstrdup failed
ACPI: check a return value correctly in acpi_power_get_context()
#if 0 acpi/bay.c:eject_removable_drive()
eeepc-laptop: add hwmon fan control
eeepc-laptop: add backlight
eeepc-laptop: add base driver
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.20
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix selects in Kconfig
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a private workqueue
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fluff really minor fix
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use uppercase for "LED" on user documentation
...
Fixed conflicts in drivers/acpi/video.c and drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
manually.
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:
1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects
Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.
While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.
The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.
Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.
The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.
Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.
The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.
The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list
Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.
The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).
The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.
The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A few fields in /proc/meminfo were not documented. Fix.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move BDI statistics to debugfs:
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/<bdi>/stats
Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs,
because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall().
Update descriptions in ABI documentation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the maximum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.
[mszeredi@suse.cz]
- fix parsing in max_ratio_store().
- export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules
- limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio
- document new sysfs attribute
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.
min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device. This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS. (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)
max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device. This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache. Eg. an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.
Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.
[mszeredi@suse.cz]
- fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
- document new sysfs attribute
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.
In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/<block>/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.
With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH
[mszeredi@suse.cz]
- split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
- document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
- do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
won't be initialized
- remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are some places that are known to operate on tasks'
global pids only:
* the rest_init() call (called on boot)
* the kgdb's getthread
* the create_kthread() (since the kthread is run in init ns)
So use the find_task_by_pid_ns(..., &init_pid_ns) there
and schedule the find_task_by_pid for removal.
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix warning in kernel/pid.c]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't refer to file that no longer exists:
docproc: linux-2.6.25-git14/arch/powerpc/kernel/rio.c: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the Version and Changelog for megaraid_sas Driver
Signed-off-by: Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (28 commits)
V4L-DVB(7789a): cx18: fix symbol conflict with ivtv driver
V4L/DVB (7789): tuner: remove static dependencies on analog tuner sub-modules
V4L/DVB (7785): [2.6 patch] make mt9{m001,v022}_controls[] static
V4L/DVB (7786): cx18: new driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chip
V4L/DVB (7783): drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c: printk fix
V4L/DVB (7782): pvrusb2: Driver is no longer experimental
V4L/DVB (7781): pvrusb2-dvb: include dvb support by default and update Kconfig help text
V4L/DVB (7780): pvrusb2: always enable support for OnAir Creator / HDTV USB2
V4L/DVB (7779): pvrusb2-dvb: quiet down noise in kernel log for feed debug
Rename common tuner Kconfig names to use the same
Fix V4L/DVB core help messages
V4L/DVB (7769): Move other terrestrial tuners to common/tuners
V4L/DVB (7768): reorganize some DVB-S Kconfig items
V4L/DVB(7767): Move tuners to common/tuners
V4L/DVB (7766): saa7134: add another PCI ID for Beholder M6
V4L/DVB (7765): Add support for Beholder BeholdTV H6
V4L/DVB (7763): ivtv: add tuner support for the AverMedia M116
V4L/DVB (7762): ivtv: fix tuner detection for PAL-N/Nc
V4L/DVB (7761): ivtv: increase the DMA timeout from 100 to 300 ms
V4L/DVB (7759): ivtv: increase version number to 1.2.1
...
Many thanks to Steve Toth from Hauppauge and Nattu Dakshinamurthy from
Conexant for their support. I am in particular thankful to Hauppauge
since without their help this driver would not exist. It should also
be noted that Steve did the work to get the DVB part up and running.
Thank you!
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: G. Andrew Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
