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* jprobes: remove JPROBE_ENTRY()Michael Ellerman2007-07-191-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything useful - so remove it .. I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still compile without modifications. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* gpio calls don't need i/o barriersDavid Brownell2007-07-191-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Clarify that drivers using the GPIO operations don't need to issue io barrier instructions themselves. Previously this wasn't clear, and at least one platform assumed otherwise (and would thus break various otherwise-portable drivers which don't issue barriers). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiersRafael J. Wysocki2007-07-191-0/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume() routines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fault feedback #1Nick Piggin2007-07-192-20/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte. FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to arch code). This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were going to do that anyway. struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use without really good reason. The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Document ->page_mkwrite() lockingMark Fasheh2007-07-191-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | There seems to be very little documentation about this callback in general. The locking in particular is a bit tricky, so it's worth having this in writing. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)Nick Piggin2007-07-192-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings. ->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff). But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation). Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing to be doing. This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and ->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if everyone switches over. The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two. After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway. NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no users have hit mainline yet. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-07-181-0/+6
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: eHEA: Fix bonding support Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver fix wrong argument of tc35815_read_plat_dev_addr() ARM/ETHER3: Handle multicast frames. SAA9730: Handle multicast frames. NI5010: Handle multicast frames. NS83820: Handle multicast frames. Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar Fix Vitesse RGMII-ID support Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes Fix Vitesse 824x PHY interrupt acking [PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54 [PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Planex GW-US54GXS [PATCH] Update version ipw2200 stamp to 1.2.2 [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw_isr() comments error on shared IRQ [PATCH] Fix ipw2200 set wrong power parameter causing firmware error [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix `iwpriv set_power` error [PATCH] softmac: Channel is listed twice in scan output
| * Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodesAndy Fleming2007-07-181-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The TSEC/eTSEC automatically detect their PHY interface type, unless the type is RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay). In that situation, it just detects RGMII. In order to fix this, we need to pass in rgmii-id if that is the connection type. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-07-184-0/+1606
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6: zh_CN/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txt HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
| * | zh_CN/HOWTO: update URLs of git treesLi Yang2007-07-181-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Addressing patch from Stefan Richter: HOWTO: update URLs of git trees (It will be better if we update this to commit-id later) Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txtTripleX2007-07-181-0/+157
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt. From: TripleX <zhongyu@18mail.cn> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTOLi Yang2007-07-181-0/+536
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO. Currently Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially comparing to its largest population base. Language could be the main obstacle. Hope this document will help more Chinese to contribute to Linux kernel. Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txtIKEDA, Munehiro2007-07-181-0/+263
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: IKEDA, Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTOTsugikazu Shibata2007-07-181-0/+650
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file. Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-07-184-6/+23
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link() HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation dev_vdbg() documentation dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL) PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint
| * | HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentationPaolo Ciarrocchi2007-07-181-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should let everybody know about where the regression list is hosted. The more is known the more it is used. Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com> Cc: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | dev_vdbg() documentationDavid Brownell2007-07-181-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update CodingStyle to talk about "-DDEBUG" message conventions and the new "-DVERBOSE_DEBUG" convention. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.cBrandon Philips2007-07-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routinesAlan Stern2007-07-181-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core. The only user of those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | PM: Remove deprecated sysfs filesAlan Stern2007-07-181-2/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as932) removes the deprecated sysfs .../power/state attribute files. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-07-182-0/+615
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6: UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver UIO: Documentation UIO: Add the User IO core code
| * | UIO: DocumentationHans J. Koch2007-07-182-0/+615
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation for the UIO interface From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-07-181-0/+10
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (29 commits) IB/mthca: Simplify use of size0 in work request posting IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE UD segment entries IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE remote address and atomic segment entries IB/mlx4: Factor out setting other WQE segments IB/mlx4: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries IB/mlx4: Return receive queue sizes for userspace QPs from query QP IB/mlx4: Increase max outstanding RDMA reads as target RDMA/cma: Remove local write permission from QP access flags IB/mthca: Use uninitialized_var() for f0 IB/cm: Make internal function cm_get_ack_delay() static IB/ipath: Remove ipath_get_user_pages_nocopy() IB/ipath: Make a few functions static mlx4_core: Reset device when internal error is detected IB/iser: Make a couple of functions static IB/mthca: Fix printk format used for firmware version in warning IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal IB/ehca: Fix warnings issued by checkpatch.pl IB/ehca: Restructure ehca_set_pagebuf() IB/ehca: MR/MW structure refactoring ...
| * IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removalRoland Dreier2007-07-171-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X. However, MSI-X works with all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both. Schedule MSI support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and who can't use MSI time to speak up. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
* | V4L/DVB (5829): Firmware extract and loading for opera dvb-usb updateMarco Gittler2007-07-182-1/+87
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Better way of creating and loading the firmware used. Update for get_dvb_firmware script to extract the files for opera usb-box Help file for creating the firmware added Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5803): Bttv: add support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2Michael Krufky2007-07-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | add analog video support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2 Thanks to Todd Ignasiak for donating the card. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5800): Tuner: correct description of Philips FCV1236D tunerMichael Krufky2007-07-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The old description was "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", which can be confused with other Philips tuner models. This patch corrects the name to "Philips FCV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", and updates the range and params array names to match the description. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5792): Zr364xx: add support for Trust Powerc@m 970ZAntoine Jacquet2007-07-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Trust Powerc@m 970Z (0x06d6:0x003b) to the list of supported devices. Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5789): Fix 3dfx Voodoo entries on CardlistMauro Carvalho Chehab2007-07-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5771): Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new locationMichael Krufky2007-07-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware This url is no longer valid: http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_Premium_217g.zip Replace with: http://www.softwarepatch.pl/9999ccd06a4813cb827dbb0005071c71/tt_Premium_217g.zip Thanks-to: Tobias Stoeber <tobi@to-st.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5765): SN9C1xx driver updatesLuca Risolia2007-07-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Add support for pair OV7630+SN9C120 - Better and safe locking mechanism of the device structure on open(), close() and disconnect() - Use kref for handling device deallocation - Generic cleanups Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5701): Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt updateUwe Bugla2007-07-181-12/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1. Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5685): Cx88: add support for ADS Tech Instant Video PCIDaniel Gimpelevich2007-07-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5646): V4l: saa7134: add support for 10moons TM300 cardTony Wan2007-07-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support the 10moons TM300 TV card (so called TV Master 3), which is a 10moons saa7130 based board. Here not include features for the IR-remote. It has been tested using TVTIME. The card was auto-detected and all the input sources worked correct with sound. Signed-off-by: Tony Wan <wankai@sjtu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | V4L/DVB (5563a): Add experimental support for tea5761 tunerMauro Carvalho Chehab2007-07-181-0/+1
|/ | | | | | This driver were made based on tea5761 specs. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* rtc: make example code jump to done instead of return when ioctl not supportedHans-Christian Egtvedt2007-07-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/Josef 'Jeff' Sipek2007-07-171-0/+0
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* spi_lm70llp parport adapter driverKaiwan N Billimoria2007-07-171-0/+69
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board for the LM70 temperature sensor. For those without that board, it may be a simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly. Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes. Minor rename. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* CRC7 supportJan Nikitenko2007-07-171-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication. Kerneldoc updates [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const] Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPSPavel Emelianov2007-07-171-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki2007-07-173-54/+164
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: change error reporting format to follow lockdep looselyChristoph Lameter2007-07-171-48/+89
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep. If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines: ============================================ BUG <slab-cache>: <problem> -------------------------------------------- INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times] <object dump> FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action> This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its now capable of figuring out the start and end. Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in Documentation/vm/slub.txt. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman2007-07-171-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at runtime for example. How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* handle kernelcore=: genericMel Gorman2007-07-173-1/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-07-163-3/+52
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits) [POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver [POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number [POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration [POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++ [POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed [POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static [POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls [POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c [POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS [POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling [POWERPC] Remove extra return statement [POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED [POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform [POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports [POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc [POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane [POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected [POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support. [POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc ... Fixed up conflicts manually in: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c include/asm-powerpc/pci.h and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
| * Merge branch 'for-2.6.23' into mergePaul Mackerras2007-07-113-3/+51
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| | * [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppcJosh Boyer2007-07-101-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The arch/ppc tree has been in a semi-nebulous "bug fix only" state for a few kernel releases now. The patch below officially declares this as of the 2.6.22 kernel release and schedules arch/ppc for removal in June of 2008. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| | * [POWERPC] Fix the node index confusion for SOCRoy Zang2007-07-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
| | * [POWERPC] Document the global utilities node define and exampleRoy Zang2007-07-031-0/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the global utilities node define and example. Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
| | * [POWERPC] In booting-without-of.txt, clarify that properties must precede ↵David Gibson2007-06-281-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | subnodes A strict reading of the flattened device tree format defined in booting-without-of.txt does in fact require that all the tags defining properties for a node go before any definitions of subnodes, however it's not particularly emphasised. Although allowing intermingled properties and subnodes would not be ambiguous in meaning, the kernel parser does currently require that properties precede subnodes. Furthermore, keeping this constraint makes life easier for various device tree scanning tools. Therefore, re-emphasise in booting-without-of.txt that this is a strict requirement of the flattened device tree format. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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