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Adrian Bunk
57c511d8d4 bridge: update URL
This patch updates the URL of the bridge homepage.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03 16:00:01 -07:00
Rusty Russell
2088761152 lguest: notify on empty
This is the lguest implementation of the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY feature.
It is currently only published for network devices, but it is turned on for
everyone.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-30 15:09:46 +10:00
Darrick J. Wong
8808a793f0 ibmaem: new driver for power/energy/temp meters in IBM System X hardware
This driver reads IBM Active Energy Manager energy/temperature/power
sensors on IBM System X hardware.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:08 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
03fb0bce01 fuse: fix bdi naming conflict
Fuse allocates a separate bdi for each filesystem, and registers them
in sysfs with "MAJOR:MINOR" of sb->s_dev (st_dev).  This works fine for
anon devices normally used by fuse, but can conflict with an already
registered BDI for "fuseblk" filesystems, where sb->s_dev represents a
real block device.  In particularl this happens if a non-partitioned
device is being mounted.

Fix by registering with a different name for "fuseblk" filesystems.

Thanks to Ioan Ionita for the bug report.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e6b027a398 Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] clarify license of freq_table.c
  [CPUFREQ] Remove documentation of removed ondemand tunable.
  [CPUFREQ] Crusoe: longrun cpufreq module reports false min freq
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: improve error messages
2008-05-23 09:24:52 -07:00
Matti Linnanvuori
4d2e7d0d77 doc: add a chapter about trylock functions [Bug 9011]
Add a chapter about trylock functions.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9011

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed down_trylock)
2008-05-23 13:09:34 +10:00
Dave Jones
da8395be0b [CPUFREQ] Remove documentation of removed ondemand tunable.
sampling_down_factor was removed in ccb2fe209d
back in June 2006.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-05-20 22:13:09 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7371fd11a6 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] fix personality(PER_LINUX32) performance issue
  [IA64] Properly unregister legacy interrupts
  [IA64] Remove NULL pointer check for argument never passed as NULL.
  [IA64] trivial cleanup for perfmon.c
  [IA64] trivial cleanup for entry.S
  [IA64] fix interrupt masking for pending works on kernel leave
  [IA64] allow user to force_pal_cache_flush
  [IA64] Don't reserve crashkernel memory > 4 GB
  [IA64] machvec support for SGI UV platform
  [IA64] Add header files for SGI UV platform
2008-05-15 13:56:42 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
e0a45ee0b9 [S390] Remove last traces of cio_msg=.
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>
2008-05-15 16:52:38 +02:00
Sebastian Siewior
f7c5a770e6 m68knommu: add info about removing mcfserial
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>
2008-05-14 19:11:12 -07:00
Alex Chiang
f13ae30e13 [IA64] allow user to force_pal_cache_flush
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>
2008-05-14 15:42:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4717df5830 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (70 commits)
  V4L/DVB (7900): pvrusb: Fix Kconfig if DVB=m V4L_core=y
  V4L/DVB (7899): Fixes a few remaining Kbuild issues at common/tuners
  V4L/DVB (7898): Fix VIDEO_MEDIA Kconfig logic
  V4L/DVB (7895): tveeprom: update Hauppauge analog audio and video decoders
  V4L/DVB (7893): xc5000: bug-fix: allow multiple devices in a single system
  V4L/DVB (7891): cx18/ivtv: fix open() kernel oops
  V4L/DVB (7890): cx18: removed bogus and confusing conditional
  V4L/DVB (7889): cx18: improve HVR-1600 detection.
  V4L/DVB (7888): cx18: minor card definition updates.
  V4L/DVB (7887): cx18: fix Compro H900 analog support.
  V4L/DVB (7881): saa7134: fixed a compile warning in saa7134-core.c
  V4L/DVB (7880): saa7134: remove explicit GPIO initialization
  V4L/DVB(7879): Adding cx18 Support for mxl5005s
  V4L/DVB(7878): mxl55005s: Makefile and Kconfig additions
  V4L/DVB(7877): mxl5005s: Ensure debug is off
  V4L/DVB(7876): mxl5005s: Remove incorrect copyright holders
  V4L/DVB(7875): mxl5005s: Remove redundant functions
  V4L/DVB(7874): mxl5005s: Fix function statics
  V4L/DVB(7873): mxl5005s: Fix header includes.
  V4L/DVB(7872): mxl5005s: checkpatch.pl compliance
  ...
2008-05-14 13:31:25 -07:00
Nick Piggin
73f10281ea read_barrier_depends arch fixlets
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>
2008-05-14 10:05:18 -07:00
Michael Krufky
3c3852cda6 V4L/DVB (7827): cx23885: add missing subsystem ID for Hauppauge HVR-1200 OEM
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-05-14 02:54:00 -03:00
Michael Krufky
74ee05109c V4L/DVB (7823): em28xx: add additional usb subids for Hauppauge HVR-950
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-05-14 02:54:00 -03:00
Dhaval Giani
0f146a764f cgroups: fix documentation
Correct the cgroups documentation to reflect the correct file names.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:25 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong
241937b863 adt7473: minor documentation update
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>
2008-05-13 08:02:24 -07:00
Jean Delvare
88b283281f i2c: Improve the functionality documentation
Attempt to make the documentation about the I2C/SMBus functionality
checking API clearer.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-05-11 20:37:05 +02:00
David Brownell
1a31a88f4f i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentation
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>
2008-05-11 20:37:05 +02:00
Michael Ernst
139b83dd57 [S390] cio: Remove cio_msg kernel parameter.
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>
2008-05-07 09:23:01 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
33dcdac2df [PATCH] kill ->put_inode
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>
2008-05-06 13:45:34 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bb896afe20 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes
* '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
2008-05-05 17:31:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
733a0771df sched: remove old sched doc
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>
2008-05-05 23:56:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
108c196184 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:
  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
2008-05-05 12:39:10 -07:00
Finn Thain
b6d9d267f0 m68k: remove old mac_esp cruft
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>
2008-05-05 12:38:50 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
13a6ddb08e x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
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>
2008-05-05 09:22:08 -07:00
grzegorz.chwesewicz@chilan.com
f92509371e kgdb: minor documentation fixes
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>
2008-05-05 07:13:21 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
2cb1e1257f kconfig-language.txt: remove bogus hint
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>
2008-05-04 21:05:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c402f98c6d 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:
  slub: #ifdef simplification
  slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
  slub: Whitespace cleanup and use of strict_strtoul
2008-05-03 10:18:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c36c804559 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 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
2008-05-03 10:01:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d626e3bf72 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* 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
2008-05-02 13:52:35 -07:00
Rusty Russell
a007a751d9 lguest: make Launcher see device status updates
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>
2008-05-02 21:50:54 +10:00
Rusty Russell
cb38fa23c1 virtio: de-structify virtio_block status byte
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>
2008-05-02 21:50:45 +10:00
Christoph Lameter
f715e6f15e slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
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>
2008-05-02 00:26:51 +03:00
Grant Likely
80791be111 [POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurations
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>
2008-05-01 11:05:58 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
c92758ceda Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6
* '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)
2008-05-01 08:28:26 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
be089d79c4 kexec: make extended crashkernel= syntax less confusing
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>
2008-05-01 08:04:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
08acd4f8af 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: (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.
2008-04-30 11:52:52 -07:00
Len Brown
96916090f4 Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release 2008-04-30 13:58:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ec31b21241 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix crashkernel= handling when no crashkernel= specified
  [POWERPC] Make emergency stack safe for current_thread_info() use
  [POWERPC] spufs: add .gitignore for spu_save_dump.h & spu_restore_dump.h
  [POWERPC] spufs: trace spu_acquire_saved events
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix marker name for find_victim
  [POWERPC] spufs: add marker for destroy_spu_context
  [POWERPC] spufs: add sputrace marker parameter names
  [POWERPC] spufs: add context switch notification log
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: defconfigs for CM5200, Lite5200B, Motion-PRO and TQM5200
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Switch mpc5200 dts files to dts-v1 format
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix FEC error handling on FIFO errors
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: add Phytec pcm030 board support
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: add gpiolib support for mpc5200
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: add interrupt type function
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix unterminated of_device_id table
2008-04-30 08:37:40 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
691cc54c7d debugobjects: add documentation
Add a DocBook for debugobjects.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-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>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
3ac7fe5a4a infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Samuel Thibault
f7511d5f66 Basic braille screen reader support
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b88473f73e mm: document missing fields for /proc/meminfo
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
76f1418b48 mm: bdi: move statistics to debugfs
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
a42dde0415 mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
189d3c4a94 mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
cf0ca9fe5d mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
5cd204550b Deprecate find_task_by_pid()
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
957d33fc1a docbook: fix fatal rapidio yet again (and more to come)
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>
2008-04-29 20:40:00 -07:00