This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using.
Give panic_timeout the twelve-month treatment.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using.
Give insert_resource the twelve-month treatment.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Docs for ramfs, rootfs, and initramfs.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch splits dentry locking documentation from
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to a separate file. The dentry locking
bits are useful but do not fit into the VFS overview document as is.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch updates the Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt document. I
rearranged and rewrote parts of the introduction chapter and added better
headings for each section. I also added a description for the inode
rename() operation which was missing and added links to some useful
external VFS documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Put text into < 80 columns. No other changes.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix various warnings in kernel-doc:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/net.h:89): Enum value 'SOCK_DCCP' not described in enum 'sock_type'
usercopy.c: should use !E instead of !I for exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c): no structured comments found
fs.h does not need to use !E since it has no exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/fs.h:1182): No description found for parameter 'find_exported_dentry'
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/fs.h): no structured comments found
irq/manage.c should use !E for its exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//kernel/irq/manage.c): no structured comments found
macmodes.c should use !E for its exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//drivers/video/macmodes.c): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add structure fields kernel-doc for 2 fields in struct journal_s.
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbuf'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbufsize'
Convert fs/jbd/recovery.c non-static functions to kernel-doc format.
fs/jbd/recovery.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use
!I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message:
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//fs/jbd/recovery.c): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I've recently added this documentation, Alasdair gave some corrections, and
here are some further corrections on top of his work (partly style issue,
partly a technical error due to different past experience, partly a note
which I've added - i.e. transient snapshots are lighter).
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
vesafb occassionally gets the size wrong when setting the mtrr. When X or DRI
attempts to set the mtrr, it will fail due to range overlap significantly
affecting their performance. Disable mtrr and let the user explicitly enable
it with the mtrr:n option.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds a RapidIO subsystem to the kernel. RIO is a switched fabric interconnect
used in higher-end embedded applications. The curious can look at the specs
over at http://www.rapidio.org
The core code implements enumeration/discovery, management of
devices/resources, and interfaces for RIO drivers.
There's a lot more to do to take advantages of all the hardware features.
However, this should provide a good base for folks with RIO hardware to start
contributing.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updates to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt:
- there's no need to select HUGETLB_PAGE manually and it's no longer
under the processor menu. Update the text accordingly.
- fix typos and trim trailing whitespace.
Signed-Off-By: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the hlist_for_each_rcu() API, which is used only in one place, and
is trivially converted to hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(), making the code
shorter and more readable. Any out-of-tree uses may be similarly
converted.
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix typos and add a section about cpus in the driver-model documentation.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds few more working systems.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using
it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds SCSI error handling code to the SCSI portion
of the cciss driver.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The SCSI qlogicisp driver is both marked BROKEN and superseded by the
qla1280 driver.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
undefined symbol in Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Hi,
This patch provides updated documentation on the Neterion(S2io) driver.
Please review the patch.
Signed-off-by: Ravinandan Arakali <ravinandan.arakali@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
- egcs is not supported by kernel 2.6
- gcc 3.3 seems to be a good choice on ARM
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Modules: Documentation,ALI5451 driver,NM256 driver
Removed multi-card supports for ali5451 and nm256 drivers.
They are supposed to be a single device.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,MIPS AU1x00 driver,PPC Beep,SPARC DBRI driver
Removed the use of chip_t, which was obsoleted.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
- Remove vmalloc wrapper
- Add release_and_free_resource() to remove kfree_nocheck() from each driver
and simplify the code
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: Documentation,PCM Midlevel,Timer Midlevel,ALSA Core
Use the standard getnstimeofday() function instead of ALSA's own one.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Remove snd_runtime_check() macro.
This macro worsens the readability of codes. They should be either
normal if() or removable asserts.
Also, the assert displays stack-dump, instead of only the last caller
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Remove the code for supporting eight cards from the integrated
controller drivers because There Can Be Only One controller of
each type per mainboard.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Fix up etherdevice docbook comments and make them (and other networking stuff)
get dragged into the kernel-api. Delete the old 8390 stuff, it really isn't
interesting anymore.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Patch from Ben Dooks
Update the Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX to add
example platform data initialisation, and add the
linux-arm mailing list URL.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.
In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2).
This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an
intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed due to the
continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks,
CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file
that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how
to run the test and interpret the output is also included.
This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the
code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of
the PREEMPT_RT patchset.
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable
changes are:
(1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security
modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which
programs may access a key.
(2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key.
(3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules;
the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out.
(4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather
than a boolean value.
(5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of
attributes (UID, GID, permissions).
Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation,
but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based
on the permission request bits.
Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both
CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled.
This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected:
[PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
(akpm: I don't do typo patches, but one of these is in a printk string)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Removed some more references to check_region().
I checked these changes into the 'checkreg' branch of
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
The only valid references remaining are in:
drivers/scsi/advansys.c
drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c
sound/oss/pss.c
Remove last vestiges of ide_check_region()
drivers/char/specialix: trim trailing whitespace
drivers/char/specialix: eliminate use of check_region()
Remove outdated and unused references to check_region()
[sound oss] remove check_region() usage from cs4232, wavfront
[netdrvr eepro] trim trailing whitespace
[netdrvr eepro] remove check_region() usage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There was one small but very significant change in the previous patch:
mprotect's flush_tlb_range fell outside the page_table_lock: as it is in 2.4,
but that doesn't prove it safe in 2.6.
On some architectures flush_tlb_range comes to the same as flush_tlb_mm, which
has always been called from outside page_table_lock in dup_mmap, and is so
proved safe. Others required a deeper audit: I could find no reliance on
page_table_lock in any; but in ia64 and parisc found some code which looks a
bit as if it might want preemption disabled. That won't do any actual harm,
so pending a decision from the maintainers, disable preemption there.
Remove comments on page_table_lock from flush_tlb_mm, flush_tlb_range and
flush_tlb_page entries in cachetlb.txt: they were rather misleading (what
generic code does is different from what usually happens), the rules are now
changing, and it's not yet clear where we'll end up (will the generic
tlb_flush_mmu happen always under lock? never under lock? or sometimes under
and sometimes not?).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Please, please now delete the Atari CONFIG_STRAM_SWAP code. It may be
excellent and ingenious code, but its reference to swap_vfsmnt betrays that it
hasn't been built since 2.5.1 (four years old come December), it's delving
deep into matters which are the preserve of core mm code, its only purpose is
to give the more conscientious mm guys an anxiety attack from time to time;
yet we keep on breaking it more and more.
If you want to use RAM for swap, then if the MTD driver does not already
provide just what you need, I'm sure David could be persuaded to add the
extra. But you'd also like to be able to allocate extents of that swap for
other use: we can give you a core interface for that if you need. But unbuilt
for four years suggests to me that there's no need at all.
I cannot swear the patch below won't break your build, but believe so.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- converted to platform bus
- removed pci dependencies
- removed virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt calls
System now can root off of a disk.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/mips/AU1xxx_IDE.README b/Documentation/mips/AU1xxx_IDE.README
new file mode 100644
The default value for tcp_tso_win_divisor is 3.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
This revised patch (as586b) makes usb-handoff permanently true and no
longer a kernel boot parameter. It also removes the piix3_usb quirk code;
that was nothing more than an early version of the USB handoff code
(written at a time when Intel's PIIX3 was about the only motherboard with
USB support). And it adds identifiers for the three PCI USB controller
classes to pci_ids.h.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
usb/core/buffer.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use
!I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message:
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//drivers/usb/core/buffer.c): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Just a small patch that fixes a small parameter validation bug.
drivers/usb/input/map_to_7segment.h:
This patch fixes the broken parameter validation in the char to seg7
conversion. This could cause out-of-bounds memory references.
MAINTAINERS:
Yealink maintainer info now in sorted order.
Documentation/input/yealink.txt:
Added a Q&A section that answers some common questions.
Signed-off-by: Henk <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
006491df1a13f85ad245d1039dfdf20e49c394fd
PCI hotplug.c: does not contain kernel-doc, so don't process it for now.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The SMSC LPC47M997 Super-I/O chip seems to be compatible with the
LPC47M192, so it is supported by the smsc47m1 driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Update the I2C addresses for the ADM1032 and ADT7461 chips.
Also update the links to the Analog Devices web site.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add PEC support to the lm90 driver. Only the ADM1032 chip supports it,
and in a rather tricky way, which is why this patch comes with
documentation reinforcements. At least, this demonstrates that the new
PEC support logic in i2c-core can properly deal with chips with partial
PEC support.
As enabling PEC causes a significant performance drop, it can be
disabled through a sysfs file (unsurprisingly named "pec").
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Update the documented list of devices supported by the i2c-i810
driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Update the i2c documentation: kzalloc should be used instead of
kmalloc.
I also fixed a couple other things nearby in writing-clients, as several
past changes had never been reported there.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
New driver for the Xicor X1205 RTC chip.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds a new ID to the SMSC LPC47B397-NC hardware
monitoring driver - for a chip that is claimed to be 100%
compatible otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Young (Utilitek Systems, Inc.)
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Drop legacy ISA address support from the it87 driver. All supported
chips are Super-I/O chips, so the device ISA address can be safely read
from Super-I/O space rather than blindly assumed.
Two nearby inaccurate documentation statements have been fixed as well:
* The IT8705F doesn't have an SMBus interface.
* The SiS950 doesn't have a distinct prefix.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
i2c documentation fixes.
>From Hideki Iwamoto:
* i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data is not deleted in 2.6.10. It still
exists.
* The name which can be set to i2c_driver is up to 31 characters.
>From Jean Delvare:
* Reword the paragraph about i2c_driver.name, to reflect the "new"
naming policy.
* Delete the out-of-date note about now gone inc_use and dec_use
fields.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make it clearer which chips are supported by the i2c-viapro driver,
and which support I2C block transactions.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 12 ++++++------
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Implement the I2C block transactions on VIA chips which support them:
VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235 and VT8237R. This speeds up EEPROM
accesses by a factor 10 or so.
I would like to thank Antonino A. Daplas, Hinko Kocevar, Salah Coronya
and Andreas Henriksson for their help in testing this new feature.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 7 +++++-
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Before I go on cleaning up and improving the i2c-viapro driver, let's
fix all the coding style issues: mostly trailing white space, and
spaces used where tabs should be.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 12 ++---
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
Do not enable the VIA VT82C686A/B integrated sensors by default, as
disabled sensors usually means that this feature is not used so the
values won't make any sense. This has been confusing many users in the
past:
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1786http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1811http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=2052
It is still possible to forcibly enable the sensors by using the
force_addr module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/hwmon/via686a | 17 +++++++++++++++--
drivers/hwmon/via686a.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level. Then
all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally
SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level. However, with PM v2, to maintain
compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2
suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume
callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing
drivers continued to work.
Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary,
we can remove it. Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is the Documentation/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in example code in Documentation/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The 071 release is needed to handle the input changes. Older versions
will work properly with module-based systems, but not for users that
build input stuff into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The document porting.txt in Documentation/driver-model says:
When a device is successfully bound to a device
I think it should say:
When a device is successfully bound to a driver
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix typos & trailing whitespace.
Add blank lines in a few places.
Remove "AM53C974=" option: driver does not exist.
Restrict to < 80 columns in most places (but don't split formatted
command-line arguments).
Add a few option arguments for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix some simple typos in the bonding.txt file. The typos are in areas
relating to loading the bonding driver multiple times.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Updated documentation to reflect 2.6.14 netlink changes
about socket options, multicasting and group number.
Please concider for 2.6.14.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the
user app dump every individual packet in to the driver.
This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the
/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear
again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump
another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of
large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will
change the way we do packet updates;
In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already
packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file.
This driver also creates a new entry in
/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet
size here before downloading the packet file.
The user should do the following:
create one single file which has all the packets stacked together.
echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size.
echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory.
This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet
update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the
downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data.
Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
file operations ->write(), ->aio_write(), and ->writev() for regular
files. This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
code path. There are two limitations at present and these are that
we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
across multiple extents. When such a case is encountered,
EOPNOTSUPP is returned.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
The attached patch adds documentation for the process by which request-key
works, including how it permits helper processes to gain access to the
requestor's keyrings.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hello, Jeff.
This patch adds ATA errors & exceptions chapter to
Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl. As suggested, the chapter is
placed before low level driver specific chapters. Contents are
unchanged from the last posting.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Improve explanation of the Subject line fields in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches Canonical Patch Format.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Document more details of patch format such as the "from" line
and the "---" marker line, and provide more references for
patch guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a
key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes
SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key
targets using the LSM facilities.
This patch adds a second "pointer type" to key structures (struct key_ref *)
that can have the bottom bit of the address set to indicate the possession of
a key. This is propagated through searches from the keyring to the discovered
key. It has been made a separate type so that the compiler can spot attempts
to dereference a potentially incorrect pointer.
The "possession" attribute can't be attached to a key structure directly as
it's not an intrinsic property of a key.
Pointers to keys have been replaced with struct key_ref *'s wherever
possession information needs to be passed through.
This does assume that the bottom bit of the pointer will always be zero on
return from kmem_cache_alloc().
The key reference type has been made into a typedef so that at least it can be
located in the sources, even though it's basically a pointer to an undefined
type. I've also renamed the accessor functions to be more useful, and all
reference variables should now end in "_ref".
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.
Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I've recently discovered the real functionality of device-mapper snapshots,
and since they are not well known, I've decided to write some docs for
them.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch (as564) updates Documentation/usb/URB.txt, bringing it roughly
up to the current level.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__FUNCTION__ is the prefered kernel idiom, __func__ is not supported by gcc
2.95 (we actually map __FUNCTION__ to __func__ for more recent compilers,
but it should never be used directly)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds a new chapter on memory allocation to
Documentation/CodingStyle.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
BUG fixes:
The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been
fixed in this patch.
The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid
entry in image_type. The fix is to only print a warning message and not
the buffer.
Usability enhancements:
It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu
entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following
echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the
only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver.
This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to
image_type.
This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage.
Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txt, an ad-hoc collection of notes on IA64
MCA and INIT processing.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the
io_remap_page_range() kernel API.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel,
as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.
Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec. It
also include a name change for one controller. I know there's a lot of
duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations.
Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms,
standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We seem to use both asm-offsets.* and asm_offsets.*
Signed-off-by: Michal K. K. Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt:
- remove some trailing whitespace
- add a blank line before each T: line to match current kernel
and to make the text more readable.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on post-February 2005
Apple PowerBooks.
This driver is derived from Johannes Berg's appletrackpad driver [1],
but it has been improved in some areas:
* appletouch is a full kernel driver, no userspace program is necessary
* appletouch can be interfaced with the synaptics X11 driver[2], in order
to have touchpad acceleration, scrolling, two/three finger tap, etc.
This driver has been tested by the readers of the 'debian-powerpc' mailing
list for a few weeks now and I believe it is now ready for inclusion into the
mainline kernel.
Credits go to Johannes Berg for reverse-engineering the touchpad protocol,
Frank Arnold for further improvements, and Alex Harper for some additional
information about the inner workings of the touchpad sensors.
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Original patch from Bertro Simul
This is probably still not quite correct, but seems to be
the best solution so far.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation,Intel8x0 driver
Added buggy_semaphore module option to snd-intel8x0 driver
for a workaround for hardwards with buggy codec semaphores.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Update i810fb documentation to describe new features and configuration
changes.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.
Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.
From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:
socket();
bind();
send();
recv();
But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:
int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
struct cb_id
{
__u32 idx;
__u32 val;
};
idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.
Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.
Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.
[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
Andrew Morton -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency
chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting
include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke.
With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles
the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare
The dependency chain looks like this now:
prepare
|
+--> prepare0
|
+--> archprepare
|
+--> scripts_basic
+--> prepare1
|
+---> prepare2
|
+--> prepare3
So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc.
This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic
are all updated before archprepare is processed.
prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the
actions performed by archprepare.
The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most
likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility.
Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch adds Documentation/scsi/scs_eh.txt. I've chosen plain
text over DocBook as most other scsi docs are in plain text and it's
more accessible.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_
once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in feature-removal
for a long time, and it should have been removed before.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches:
- spelling fixes
- remove duplicate includes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
- double "the"
- Several misspellings of function/functionality
- infomation
- memeory
- Recieved
- wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update RCU documentation based on discussions and review of RCU-based tree
patches. Add an introductory whatisRCU.txt file.
Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Change the number of supported AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf
address to 16.
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of
per-mount. Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and
'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or
later).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds the FUSE device handling functions.
This contains the following files:
o dev.c
- fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll)
- registers misc device
- support for sending requests to userspace
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The URL for Documentation/sparse is wrong now that it is in git.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
back to life. Thanks to Carsten Otte, Trond Myklebust, and Anton
Altaparmakov for their help on updating this documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are minor changes in command line options in kexec-tools for kdump.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect those changes.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Someone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong.
This patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation for how the ISA DMA controller is handled in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a new document describing the major kernel trees and how to apply their
patches.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update the hacking guide, before CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT goes in and it needs
rewriting again.
Changes include modernization of quotes, removal of most references to
bottom halves (some mention required because we still use bh in places to
mean softirq).
It would be nice to have a discussion of sparse and various annotations.
Please send patches straight to akpm.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (authored)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) is the latest standard approved by VESA
concerning video timings generation. It addresses the limitation of GTF which
is designed mainly for CRT displays. CRT's have a high blanking requirement
(as much as 25% of the horizontal frame length) which artificially increases
the pixelclock. Digital displays, on the other hand, needs to conserve the
pixelclock as much as possible. The GTF also does not take into account the
different aspect ratios in its calculation.
The new function added is fb_find_mode_cvt(). It is called by fb_find_mode()
if it recognizes a mode option string formatted for CVT. The format is:
<xres>x<yres>[M][R][-<bpp>][<at-sign><refresh>][i][m]
The 'M' tells the function to calculate using CVT. On it's own, it will
compute a timing for CRT displays at 60Hz. If the 'R' is specified, 'reduced
blanking' computation will be used, best for flatpanels. The 'i' and the 'm'
is for 'interlaced mode' and 'with margins' respectively.
To determine if CVT was used, check for dmesg for something like this:
CVT Mode - <pix>M<n>[-R], ie: .480M3-R (800x600 reduced blanking)
where: pix - product of xres and yres, in MB
M - is a CVT mode
n - the aspect ratio (3 - 4:3; 4 - 5:4; 9 - 16:9, 15:9; A - 16:10)
-R - reduced blanking
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core.
Currently tridenfb claims to support the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. This
is of very limited truth. Even vesafb is faster and provides more working
modes and a much better quality of the video signal. There is a great
number of bugs in tridentfb ... but most often it is impossible to decide
if these bugs are real bugs or if fixing them for the cyberblade/i1 core
would break support for one of the other supported chips.
Tridentfb seems to be unmaintained,and documentation for most of the
supported chips is not available. So "fixing" cyberblade/i1 support inside
of tridentfb was not an option, it would have caused numerous
if(CYBERBLADEi1) else ... cases and would have rendered the code to be
almost unmaintainable.
A first version of this driver was published on 2005-07-31. A fix for a
bug reported by Jochen Hein was integrated as well as some changes
requested by Antonino A. Daplas.
A message has been added to tridentfb to inform current users of tridentfb
to switch to cyblafb if the cyberblade/i1 graphics core is detected.
This patch is one logical change, but because of the included documentation
it is bigger than 70kb. Therefore it is not sent to lkml and
linux-fbdev-devel,
Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
OVERVIEW
V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).
BACKGROUND
Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.
The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.
Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.
V9FS HISTORY
V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.
About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.
STATUS
The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.
It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.
PERFORMANCE
Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).
RESOURCES
The source code is available in a few different forms:
tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564
The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.
Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).
There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs
This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked
up without locks using RCU.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- cx88-dvb has been incorrectly reporting the card name instead of frontend name
- Removes a bad PCI subsystem ID for saa713x Sabrent card
- Renames DVICO --> DViCO for bttv.
- #include <linux/config.h> no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV Terminator
Signed-off-by: James R Webb <jrwebb@qwest.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files
- linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h
- Add new Digimatrix card and LG TAPC Mini tuner for it
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files
- Added DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card.
- Added Acorp Y878F.
- CodingStyle fixes.
- Added tuner_addr to bttv cards structure.
- linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h on bttvp.h
- kernel module for acquiring RDS data from a SAA6588.
- Allow multiple open() and reading calls to /dev/radio on bttv-driver.c
- added i2c address for lgdt330x.
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <koch@hjk-az.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files
- Included newer cards.
- Added a new NEC protocol for ir based on pulse distance.
- Enable ATSC support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold.
- Added tuner LG NTSC (TALN mini series).
- Fixed tea5767 autodetection.
- Resolve more tuner types.
- Commented debug function removed from mainstream.
- Remove comments from mainstream. Still on development tree.
- linux/version dependencies removed.
- BTSC Lang1 now is set to auto_stereo mode.
- New tuner standby API.
- i2c-core.c uses hexadecimal for the i2c address, so it should stay consistent.
Signed-off-by: Uli Luckas <luckas@musoft.de>
Signed-off-by: Mac Michaels <wmichaels1@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updated Documentation
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updated documentation
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch aggregates all modifications in the -mm tree and adds
complete ringtone support.
The following features are supported:
- keyboard full support
- LCD full support
- LED full support
- dialtone full support
- ringtone full support
- audio playback via generic usb audio diver
- audio record via generic usb audio diver
For driver documentation see: Documentation/input/yealink.txt
For vendor documentation see: http://yealink.com
Signed-off-by: Henk <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Patrick Keene wrote to the linux-dvb list, asking where in menuconfig he
can enable dvb-bt8xx for his AVerMedia DVB card. I pointed the following
out to him:
config DVB_BT8XX
tristate "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/Twinhan PCI cards"
It has been agreed upon that this description is extremely misleading.
This patch changes the one-liner description text of dvb-bt8xx to something
more meaningful, and adds AVerMedia to the detailed description.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The IPMI power control function proc_write_chassctrl was badly written, it
directly used userspace pointers, it assumed that strings were NULL
terminated, and it used the evil sscanf function. This converts over to
using the sysctl interface for this data and changes the semantics to be a
little more logical.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch makes use of the previously underutilized cpuset flag
'mem_exclusive' to provide what amounts to another layer of memory placement
resolution. With this patch, there are now the following four layers of
memory placement available:
1) The whole system (interrupt and GFP_ATOMIC allocations can use this),
2) The nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset (GFP_KERNEL allocations can use),
3) The current tasks cpuset (GFP_USER allocations constrained to here), and
4) Specific node placement, using mbind and set_mempolicy.
These nest - each layer is a subset (same or within) of the previous.
Layer (2) above is new, with this patch. The call used to check whether a
zone (its node, actually) is in a cpuset (in its mems_allowed, actually) is
extended to take a gfp_mask argument, and its logic is extended, in the case
that __GFP_HARDWALL is not set in the flag bits, to look up the cpuset
hierarchy for the nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset, to determine if
placement is allowed. The definition of GFP_USER, which used to be identical
to GFP_KERNEL, is changed to also set the __GFP_HARDWALL bit, in the previous
cpuset_gfp_hardwall_flag patch.
GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL allocations will stay within the current tasks
cpuset, so long as any node therein is not too tight on memory, but will
escape to the larger layer, if need be.
The intended use is to allow something like a batch manager to handle several
jobs, each job in its own cpuset, but using common kernel memory for caches
and such. Swapper and oom_kill activity is also constrained to Layer (2). A
task in or below one mem_exclusive cpuset should not cause swapping on nodes
in another non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset, nor provoke oom_killing of a
task in another such cpuset. Heavy use of kernel memory for i/o caching and
such by one job should not impact the memory available to jobs in other
non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpusets.
This patch enables providing hardwall, inescapable cpusets for memory
allocations of each job, while sharing kernel memory allocations between
several jobs, in an enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset.
Like Dinakar's patch earlier to enable administering sched domains using the
cpu_exclusive flag, this patch also provides a useful meaning to a cpuset flag
that had previously done nothing much useful other than restrict what cpuset
configurations were allowed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function
from files in Documentation/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to
run from it. Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from
/init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical.
Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible,
since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early
userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e. load filesystem
modules and drivers).
Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if
specified.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support.
This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage.
Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Newer Sony VAIO models (VGN-S480, VGN-S460, VGN-S3XP etc) use a new method to
initialize the SPIC device. The new way to initialize (and disable) the
device comes directly from the AML code in the _CRS, _SRS and _DIS methods
from the DSDT table. This patch adds support for the new models.
Signed-off-by: Erik Waling <erikw@acc.umu.se>
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All users have been converted.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Uses of RCU for dynamically changeable NMI handlers need to use the new
rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() facilities. This change makes
it clear that these uses are safe from a memory-barrier viewpoint, but the
main purpose is to document exactly what operations are being protected by
RCU. This has been tested on x86 and x86-64, which are the only
architectures affected by this change.
Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Here's the latest version of relayfs, against linux-2.6.11-mm2. I'm hoping
you'll consider putting this version back into your tree - the previous
rounds of comment seem to have shaken out all the API issues and the number
of comments on the code itself have also steadily dwindled.
This patch is essentially the same as the relayfs redux part 5 patch, with
some minor changes based on reviewer comments. Thanks again to Pekka
Enberg for those. The patch size without documentation is now a little
smaller at just over 40k. Here's a detailed list of the changes:
- removed the attribute_flags in relay open and changed it to a
boolean specifying either overwrite or no-overwrite mode, and removed
everything referencing the attribute flags.
- added a check for NULL names in relayfs_create_entry()
- got rid of the unnecessary multiple labels in relay_create_buf()
- some minor simplification of relay_alloc_buf() which got rid of a
couple params
- updated the Documentation
In addition, this version (through code contained in the relay-apps tarball
linked to below, not as part of the relayfs patch) tries to make it as easy
as possible to create the cooperating kernel/user pieces of a typical and
common type of logging application, one where kernel logging is kicked off
when a user space data collection app starts and stops when the collection
app exits, with the data being automatically logged to disk in between. To
create this type of application, you basically just include a header file
(relay-app.h, included in the relay-apps tarball) in your kernel module,
define a couple of callbacks and call an initialization function, and on
the user side call a single function that sets up and continuously monitors
the buffers, and writes data to files as it becomes available. Channels
are created when the collection app is started and destroyed when it exits,
not when the kernel module is inserted, so different channel buffer sizes
can be specified for each separate run via command-line options. See the
README in the relay-apps tarball for details.
Also included in the relay-apps tarball are a couple examples
demonstrating how you can use this to create quick and dirty kernel
logging/debugging applications. They are:
- tprintk, short for 'tee printk', which temporarily puts a kprobe on
printk() and writes a duplicate stream of printk output to a relayfs
channel. This could be used anywhere there's printk() debugging code
in the kernel which you'd like to exercise, but would rather not have
your system logs cluttered with debugging junk. You'd probably want
to kill klogd while you do this, otherwise there wouldn't be much
point (since putting a kprobe on printk() doesn't change the output
of printk()). I've used this method to temporarily divert the packet
logging output of the iptables LOG target from the system logs to
relayfs files instead, for instance.
- klog, which just provides a printk-like formatted logging function
on top of relayfs. Again, you can use this to keep stuff out of your
system logs if used in place of printk.
The example applications can be found here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dprobes/relay-apps.tar.gz?download
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
avoid lookup_hash usage in relayfs
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This updates documentation a bit (mostly removing obsolete stuff), and
marks swsusp as no longer experimental in config.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change filemode to use defines in stead of 0644,
based on suggestions by Walter Harms and Domen Puncer.
Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix whitespace after comma between parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The 24RF08 corruption would better be prevented at i2c-core level than
at chip driver level, for several reasons:
* The second quick write should happen as soon as possible after the
first one, so as to limit the risk that another command is issued on
the bus inbetween, causing the corruption.
* As a matter of fact, the protection code at driver level was reworked
at least three times already, which proves how hard it is to get it
right there, while it's straightforward at i2c-core level.
* It's easy to add a new driver that would need the protection, and
forget to add it. This did happen already.
* As additional probing addresses can be passed to most i2c chip drivers
as module parameters, virtually every i2c chip driver would need the
protection if we want to be really safe.
* Why duplicate code when we can easily avoid it?
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
i2c_probe was quite complex and slow, so I rewrote it in a more
efficient and hopefully clearer way.
Note that this slightly changes the way the module parameters are
handled. This shouldn't change anything for the most common cases
though.
For one thing, the function now respects the order of the parameters
for address probing. It used to always do lower addresses first. The
new approach gives the user more control.
For another, ignore addresses don't overrule probe addresses anymore.
This could have been restored the way it was at the cost of a few more
lines of code, but I don't think it's worth it. Both lists are given
as module parameters, so a user would be quite silly to specify the
same addresses in both lists. The normal addresses list is the only
one that isn't controlled by a module parameter, thus is the only one
the user may reasonably want to remove an address from.
Another significant change is the fact that i2c_probe() will no more
stop when a detection function returns -ENODEV. Just because a driver
found a chip it doesn't support isn't a valid reason to stop all
probings for this one driver. This closes the long standing lm_sensors
ticket #1807.
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1807
I updated the documentation accordingly.
In terms of algorithmic complexity, the new code is way better. If
I is the ignore address count, P the probe address count, N the
normal address count and F the force address count, the old code
was doing 128 * (F + I + P + N) iterations max, while the new code
does F + P + ((I+1) * N) iterations max. For the most common case
where F, I and P are empty, this is down from 128 * N to N.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The only part left in i2c-sensor is the VRM/VRD/VID handling code.
This is in no way related to i2c, so it doesn't belong there. Move
the code to hwmon, where it belongs.
Note that not all hardware monitoring drivers do VRM/VRD/VID
operations, so less drivers depend on hwmon-vid than there were
depending on i2c-sensor.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The only thing left in i2c-sensor.h are module parameter definition
macros. It's only an extension of what i2c.h offers, and this extension
is not sensors-specific. As a matter of fact, a few non-sensors drivers
use them. So we better merge them in i2c.h, and get rid of i2c-sensor.h
altogether.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
i2c_probe and i2c_detect now do the exact same thing and operate on
the same data structure, so we can have everyone call i2c_probe.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix a typo in the i2c documentation: the i2c bus scanning tool found in
lm_sensors is called i2cdetect, not i2c_detect.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We could refactor the error message 34 different i2c drivers print if
i2c_detach_client() fails in this function itself. Saves quite a few
lines of code. Documentation is updated to reflect that change.
Note that this patch should be applied after Rudolf Marek's w83792d
patches.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds documentation entry for W83792D chip.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kill all uses of i2c_is_isa_adapter except for the hybrid drivers (it87,
lm78, w83781d). The i2c-isa adapter not being registered with the i2c
core anymore, drivers don't have to fear being erroneously attached to
it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kill normal_isa in header files, documentation and all chip drivers, as
it is no more used.
normal_i2c could be renamed to normal, but I decided not to do so at the
moment, so as to limit the number of changes. This might be done later
as part of the i2c_probe/i2c_detect merge.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Drop the separate client name for the LM78-J chip. This is really
only a later revision of the LM78, with almost no difference and
no difference the driver handles in any case.
This was the only client name that had a dash in it, and special care
had to be taken in libsensors because of it. As we plan to write a new
library soon, I'd like to get rid of this exception before we do.
As a nice side effect, it saves 876 bytes in lm78.ko.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Updates to the max6875 driver documentation.
This brings the documentation in sync with the code, which was recently
simplified.
This patch is based off 2.6.13-rc2-mm2.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The attached patch contains a mini howto for using dm-crypt together with
swsusp.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
PowerPC 40x and Book-E processors support a watchdog timer at the processor
core level. The timer has implementation dependent timeout frequencies
that can be configured by software.
One the first Watchdog timeout we get a critical exception. It is left to
board specific code to determine what should happen at this point. If
nothing is done and another timeout period expires the processor may
attempt to reset the machine.
Command line parameters:
wdt=0 : disable watchdog (default)
wdt=1 : enable watchdog
wdt_period=N : N sets the value of the Watchdog Timer Period.
The Watchdog Timer Period meaning is implementation specific. Check
User Manual for the processor for more details.
This patch is based off of work done by Takeharu Kato.
Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a "smaps" entry to /proc/pid: show howmuch memory is resident in each
mapping.
People that want to perform a memory consumption analysing can use it
mainly if someone needs to figure out which libraries can be reduced for
embedded systems. So the new features are the physical size of shared and
clean [or dirty]; private and clean [or dirty].
Take a look the example below:
# cat /proc/4576/smaps
08048000-080dc000 r-xp /bin/bash
Size: 592 KB
Rss: 500 KB
Shared_Clean: 500 KB
Shared_Dirty: 0 KB
Private_Clean: 0 KB
Private_Dirty: 0 KB
080dc000-080e2000 rw-p /bin/bash
Size: 24 KB
Rss: 24 KB
Shared_Clean: 0 KB
Shared_Dirty: 0 KB
Private_Clean: 0 KB
Private_Dirty: 24 KB
080e2000-08116000 rw-p
Size: 208 KB
Rss: 208 KB
Shared_Clean: 0 KB
Shared_Dirty: 0 KB
Private_Clean: 0 KB
Private_Dirty: 208 KB
b7e2b000-b7e34000 r-xp /lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so
Size: 36 KB
Rss: 12 KB
Shared_Clean: 12 KB
Shared_Dirty: 0 KB
Private_Clean: 0 KB
Private_Dirty: 0 KB
...
(Includes a cleanup from "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>)
From: Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>
show_smap calls first show_map and then prints its additional information to
the seq_file. show_map checks if all it has to print fits into the buffer and
if yes marks the current vma as written. While that is correct for show_map
it is not for show_smap. Here the vma should be marked as written only after
the additional information is also written.
The attached patch cures the problem. It moves the functionality of the
show_map function to a new function show_map_internal that is called with an
additional struct mem_size_stats* argument. Then show_map calls
show_map_internal with NULL as struct mem_size_stats* whereas show_smap calls
it with a real pointer. Now the final
if (m->count < m->size) /* vma is copied successfully */
m->version = (vma != get_gate_vma(task))? vma->vm_start: 0;
is done only if the whole entry fits into the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The idea of a swap_device_lock per device, and a swap_list_lock over them all,
is appealing; but in practice almost every holder of swap_device_lock must
already hold swap_list_lock, which defeats the purpose of the split.
The only exceptions have been swap_duplicate, valid_swaphandles and an
untrodden path in try_to_unuse (plus a few places added in this series).
valid_swaphandles doesn't show up high in profiles, but swap_duplicate does
demand attention. However, with the hold time in get_swap_pages so much
reduced, I've not yet found a load and set of swap device priorities to show
even swap_duplicate benefitting from the split. Certainly the split is mere
overhead in the common case of a single swap device.
So, replace swap_list_lock and swap_device_lock by spinlock_t swap_lock
(generally we seem to prefer an _ in the name, and not hide in a macro).
If someone can show a regression in swap_duplicate, then probably we should
add a hashlock for the swap_map entries alone (shorts being anatomic), so as
to help the case of the single swap device too.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the feature is removed, there's no need to keep the entry in
feature-removal-schedule.txt.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The XTEA implementation was incorrect due to a misinterpretation of
operator precedence. Because of the wide-spread nature of this
error, the erroneous implementation will be kept, albeit under the
new name of XETA.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Grothe <ajgrothe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The start_tx and stop_tx methods were passed a flag to indicate
whether the start/stop was from the tty start/stop callbacks, and
some drivers used this flag to decide whether to ask the UART to
immediately stop transmission (where the UART supports such a
feature.)
There are other cases when we wish this to occur - when CTS is
lowered, or if we change from soft to hard flow control and CTS
is inactive. In these cases, this flag was false, and we would
allow the transmitter to drain before stopping.
There is really only one case where we want to let the transmitter
drain before disabling, and that's when we run out of characters
to send.
Hence, re-jig the start_tx and stop_tx methods to eliminate this
flag, and introduce new functions for the special "disable and
allow transmitter to drain" case.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Documentation,CS46xx driver,EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver,AD1848 driver
SB16/AWE driver,CMIPCI driver,ENS1370/1+ driver,RME32 driver
RME96 driver,ICE1712 driver,ICE1724 driver,KORG1212 driver
RME HDSP driver,RME9652 driver
This patch changes .iface to SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER whre _PCM or
_HWDEP was used in controls that are not associated with a specific PCM
(sub)stream or hwdep device, and changes some controls that got
inconsitent .iface values due to copy+paste errors. Furthermore, it
makes sure that all control that do use _PCM or _HWDEP use the correct
number in the .device field.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
- Add new nfnetlink_queue module
- Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535
- Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE
- Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This removes very old functions from pci docs, which are no longer in
the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When both platform-specific and generic drivers exist,
enable generic over-ride with "acpi_generic_hotkey".
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4953
Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Patch from Ben Dooks
Documentation for the in-built OHCI host controller
and the support for it in Linux.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Don't log machine check events left over from boot. Too many BIOSes leave
bogus events in there.
This unfortunately also makes it impossible to log events that caused a
reboot. For people with non broken BIOS there is mce=bootlog
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch upports all relevant code fixes and bumps the driver version
to 7.0 to signify starting a new tree.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
no_overlay bttv parameter implemented to fix OOPS on some PCI chipsets
(like some VIA) with these behaviors:
1) If pci_quicks does identify the chip as having troubles to
handle PCI2PCI transfers, no_overlay defaults to 1. The user may force
it to 0, to reenable (not recommended).
2) For newer chipsets not blacklisted, no_overlay=1 is provided as a
workaround until PCI chipset included on /drivers/pci/quirks.c
Thanks to Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Michael Burian
This file is maintained by RMK's machine registry, it should not be patched.
Signed-off-by: Michael Burian <dynmail1@gassner-waagen.at>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the
MAN-PAGES maintainer.
This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice
range for RLIMIT NICE"
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Missel:
- Add support for the SVideo input on the GDI Black Gold.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Linux/version.h removed. Replaced by linux/utsname.h
Michael Krufky:
- Added analog support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold.
CC: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Fixed some bttv card numbers.
- BTTV and SAA7134 version numbers incremented to reflect changes.
- pci_dma_supported() is called after pci_set_dma_mask() which
already did check that for us. This patch removes the unneeded call to
pci_dma_supported() at bttv-driver.c
- Ensure a sufficient I2C bus idle time between 2 messages for
saa7134-i2c.c
- It is important to write at first to MO_GP3_IO for cx88-tvaudio.c
- Use try_to_freeze() instead of refrigerator at msp3400.c
- Recognizing the MFPE05-2 Tuner at tveeprom.c
- Add new parameter to help identify radio chipsets at tuner module:
show_i2c=1 will show 16 reading bytes from detected tuners.
- BTTV does generate some Unimplemented IOCTL log at tuner module:
0x40046d11(dir=1,tp=0x6d,nr=17,sz=4) means that it is sending
MSP3400 calls to non-msp3400 tuners. Warning eliminated.
VIDIOSAUDIO is also called, so debug messages updated. It is still
requiring IOCTL implementation.
- Added two more tuners.
- Add support for the SVideo input on the GDI Black Gold.
Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Graham Bevan <graham.bevan@ntlworld.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Seeboth <Torsten.Seeboth@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t.online.de>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Contains general updates (additional configuration info, hopefully
better examples, updated some out of date info, and a bonus pass
through ispell to banish the "paramters.") and info specific to
gratuitous ARP and xmit policy functionality already in 2.6.13-rc2.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
ethernet drivers to remain as ignorant as is reasonable of the connected
PHY's design and operation details.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
This was the last agreed upon set of rules, it's probably time we actually add
them to the kernel tree to make them "official".
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Whitespace is significant for make, and I just fought against this... so
please apply this patch.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Update the PCMCIA documentation to reflect some more, though older, changes.
Parts extracted from an e-mail from Randy Dunlap with his consent.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation,ARM,/arm/Makefile,ARM PXA2XX driver
Added ARM PXA2xx AC97 driver by Nicolas Pitre
(moved from alsa-driver tree).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Documentation,SPARC,/sparc/Makefile
Add the DBRI driver on Sparcs by Martin Habets <mhabets@users.sourceforge.net>
(moved from alsa-driver tree).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Documentation,PCMCIA Kconfig,Digigram VX Pocket driver
- Fixed Oops with request_firmware()
- Detect the card type in runtime (vxpoocket v2 or 440)
- snd-vxp440 driver is merged to snd-vxpocket
- Clean up the code
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Documentation,HDA Codec driver
- Added a new '6stack' model for ALC880.
- Fixed the typo in 6stack-digout model name.
- Added description for missing models in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
User MAD ABI changes to support RMPP
Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Document that udev 058 is required.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Michael Burian
comment in "mach-types.h" tells that it should not be patched
"Image" is a binary, just as zImage, uImage and friends are
Signed-off-by: Michael Burian <dynmail1@gassner-waagen.at>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
I think it's about time to make the build a little more vocal about the
expiry of these functions. Due to recent discussions with problems in
the console initialisation vs power manglement, I'd like to move the
date forward to September.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Clean up and expand some of the inotify documentation.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Card definitions updated.
- Tail spaces removed.
- Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.
- Correct info about sync byte for MPEG-2 transport stream packets.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: hermann pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make usbmon to print Setup packets of Control transfers. This is useful
when debugging enumeration issues.
This is a change to the trace format which is not fully compatible.
A parser has to look at the data length word now. If that word is
a character like 's', read setup packet before proceeding with data.
I decided not to bump the API tag for this because not many such
parsers exist at this point.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
See Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt
Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable
legacy platform specific drivers.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887
Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Part 3: Move the drivers documentation, plus two general documentation
files.
Note that the patch "adds trailing whitespace", because it does move the
files as-is, and some files happen to have trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Upon suggestion by Nils Roeder, here is an update to the i2c
documentation to clarify which header files user-space applications
relying on the i2c-dev interface should include.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix documentation to match code in include/linux/i2c-dev.h
Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <jan@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The I2C stack has long had "id" fields, of rather dubious utility, in
many data structures. This removes mention of one of them from the
documentation about how to write an I2C driver, so that only drivers
that really need to use them (probably old/legacy code) will have any
reason to use this field.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Here is a proposed documentation update for the new max6875 i2c chip
driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
One more system where video works with S3.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the
pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005.
A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in
Linux. Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make
PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
almost completely remade the text file with the following focuses:
useful infos for beginners: how to load modules manually and
automatically developers infos are reduced to a minimum as module loading
works automatic in kernel >= 2.6.12 by loading modules bttv and dvb-bt8xx
I completely erased the out of date TwinHan part dealing with additional
parameters, debug parameters, and overriding autodetection Further up to
date information about TwinHan + clones can be found in
/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt
Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updated the readme file to point to the DVB USB wikipage to find out which
firmware necessary, + minor updates.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
o removed device listing (they are all in the linuxtv wiki now)
o misc updates
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a small documentation patch for a boot time parameter.
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
As the information is now exported via sysfs, there's no need for an userspace
tool any longer.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch changes the way serial ports are locked when getting modem
status. This change is necessary because we will need to atomically
read the modem status and take action depending on the CTS status.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
New cards included.
V4L1 api renamed. Message included informing it is obsoleted by V4L2 API.
V4L2 api included.
Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.
Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>.
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options. Its effectiveness
varies we've found in the Fedora case. Quite a few systems with misdescribed
IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll. It also fixes up the VIA systems
although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default
as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically).
A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause
an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for. In those cases it
doesn't help.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I updated this to remove unnecessary variable initialization, make
check_routing be inline only and not __init, switch to strtoul, and
formatting fixes as per Randy Dunlap's recommendations.
I updated this to change pirq_table_addr to a long, and to add a warning
msg if the PIRQ table wasn't found at the specified address, as per thread
with Matthew Wilcox.
In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ
table in the F0000h-100000h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel
parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform
the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A beneficial side-effect is that,
if one's BIOS uses a static address each time for it's PIRQ table, then
pirqaddr can be used to avoid the $pirq search through that address block each
time at boot for normal PIRQ BIOSes.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to
Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches.
Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes. With recent
changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have
PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a PCI ID I got wrong before. It also adds support for
another new SAS controller due out this summer. I didn't have a marketing
name prior to my last submission. Also modifies the copyright date range.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch indents dmfe.txt to look like other docs. It adds a tip about CNET
cards using Davicom chipsets. Also it removes parts where it refers to how
to build driver out-of-kernel which seems to be cruft from times where the
driver was out of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@kde.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty. For
same inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk
inode, i.e. mft record, which is in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging
to the table of inodes, i.e. $MFT, inode 0.
What happens:
Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever... calls
__sync_single_inode() for $MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for
the dirty page containing the on-disk inode X, the page is now locked
-> ntfs_write_mst_block() which clears PageUptodate() on the page to
prevent anyone else getting hold of it whilst it does the write out.
This is necessary as the on-disk inode needs "fixups" applied before
the write to disk which are removed again after the write and
PageUptodate is then set again. It then analyses the page looking
for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this
on-disk inode. This then calls ilookup5() to check if the
corresponding VFS inode is in icache(). This in turn calls ifind()
which waits on the inode lock via wait_on_inode whilst holding the
global inode_lock.
Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the
same VFS inode X on the ntfs volume. This locks the inode (I_LOCK)
then calls write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() ->
read_cache_page() for the page (in page cache of table of inodes
$MFT, inode 0) containing the on-disk inode. This page has
PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1 (see above) so
read_cache_page() blocks when it tries to take the page lock for the
page so it can call ntfs_read_page().
Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the
on-disk inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in
ifind() so it can write the page out and then unlock the page.
And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for
the page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover
that Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.
Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.
The solution: The fix is to use the newly introduced
ilookup5_nowait() which does not wait on the inode's lock and hence
avoids the deadlock. This is safe as we do not care about the VFS
inode and only use the fact that it is in the VFS inode cache and the
fact that the vfs and ntfs inodes are one struct in memory to find
the ntfs inode in memory if present. Also, the ntfs inode has its
own locking so it does not matter if the vfs inode is locked.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4. and 5., I
removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under
'Select your CC list'.
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
scsi_add_host is the proper place to set the device, but people copy
the scsi_set_device usage from older drivers again and again.
note that this leaves some legacy drivers like qlogicisp/qlogicfc
without pci association in sysfs, but they're scheduled to go away soon
anyway.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:
frozen(process) Check for frozen process
freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen
freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
thaw_process(process) Restart process
frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now
2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
kernel sources except sched.h
3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver
4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.
5. Some whitespace cleanup
6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
PF_FROZEN).
This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
obsolete.
(trolling for IBMers)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The files wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain
the exact same information (diff between the two shows no document is "Linux
WAN Router Utilities Package" and therefor the name wan-router.txt is more
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain the exact
same information (diff between the two shows no
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX as pointed out by Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch makes a few minor changes to the example programs in
Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd to kill off some warnings and build failures.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I corrected a small error and enhanced the govenor.txt file with the
ondemand daemon because the kernel configs link to the documentation but
ondemand wasn't documentated. Feel free to include the patch in the
attachment.
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a sysrq-trigger mechanism for kexec based crashdumps. Alt-Sysrq-c
triggers a kexec based crashdump.
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
