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2005-05-01[PATCH] Update RCU documentationPaul E. McKenney
Update the RCU documentation to allow for the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() primitives. Fix a few other nits as well. 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>
2005-05-01[PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLPaul E. McKenney
The gpl exports need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a measured manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine. Changing these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not- fine. Here is my earlier proposal: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110520930301813&w=2 See below for a patch that puts the exports back, along with an updated version of my earlier patch that starts the process of moving them to GPL. I will also be following this message with RFC patches that introduce two (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) interfaces to replace synchronize_kernel(), which then becomes deprecated. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] s390: cio documentationCornelia Huck
Synchronize documentation with current interface. 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>
2005-05-01[PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128Venkatesh Pallipadi
The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on the number of e820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32. With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128. The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820). As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect on bootloader-setup code interface. Patch covers both i386 and x86-64. Tested on: * grub booting bzImage * lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled * pxeboot of bzImage Side-effect: bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] doc: Locking updateNikita Danilov
Make the Locking document truer. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-24[NET]: Document ->hard_start_xmit() locking in netdevices.txtBen Greear
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19Merge with kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/Linus Torvalds
for 13 driver core, sysfs, and debugfs fixes.
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 9/12: add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocationecashin@coraid.com
add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 8/12: document env var for specifying numberecashin@coraid.com
document env var for specifying number of partitions per dev Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 4/12: handle distros that have a udev rulesecashin@coraid.com
handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] kref: add link to original documentation to the kref documentation.gregkh@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] kref: add documentationminyard@acm.org
Add some documentation for krefs. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18lpfc: add Emulex FC driver version 8.0.28
From: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Modified for kernel import and Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-18[PATCH] remove old scsi data direction macros
these have been wrappers for the generic dma direction bits since 2.5.x. This patch converts the few remaining drivers and removes the macros. Arjan noticed there's some hunk in here that shouldn't. Updated patch below: Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-18[PATCH] qla2xxx: remove sale revision notes file
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-16[PATCH] IPoIB: document conversion to debugfsRoland Dreier
Update IPoIB documentation now that multicast debugging files have moved from ipoibdebugfs to debugfs. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] Add dontdiff fileRandy.Dunlap
Add a current 'dontdiff' file for use with 'diff -X dontdiff'. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] officially deprecate register_ioctl32_conversionChristoph Hellwig
These have been deprecated since ->compat_ioctl when in, thus only a short deprecation period. There's four users left: i2o_config, s390/z90crypy, s390/dasd and s390/zfcp and for the first two patches are about to be submitted to get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] power/video.txt: update documentation with more systemsPavel Machek
This updates video.txt documentation with information about few more systems. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] pm_message_t: more fixes in common and i386Pavel Machek
I thought I'm done with fixing u32 vs. pm_message_t ... unfortunately that turned out not to be the case as Russel King pointed out. Here are fixes for Documentation and common code (mainly system devices). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!