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This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch (as776) adds a new chapter to Documentation/CodingStyle,
explaining the circumstances under which a function should return 0 for
failure and non-zero for success as opposed to a negative error code for
failure and 0 for success.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Change the list of memory nodes allowed to tasks in the top (root) nodeset
to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a call to a cpuset hook
from the memory hotplug code. Make this top cpus file read-only.
On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't
actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of
systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset.
If that system does support memory hotplug, then these tasks cannot make
use of memory nodes that are added after system boot, because the memory
nodes are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression
over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled.
One key motivation for this change is to remain consistent with the
behaviour for the top_cpuset's 'cpus', which is also read-only, and which
automatically tracks the cpu_online_map.
This change also has the minor benefit that it fixes a long standing,
little noticed, minor bug in cpusets. The cpuset performance tweak to
short circuit the cpuset_zone_allowed() check on systems with just a single
cpuset (see 'number_of_cpusets', in linux/cpuset.h) meant that simply
changing the 'mems' of the top_cpuset had no affect, even though the change
(the write system call) appeared to succeed. With the following change,
that write to the 'mems' file fails -EACCES, and the 'mems' file stubbornly
refuses to be changed via user space writes. Thus no one should be mislead
into thinking they've changed the top_cpusets's 'mems' when in affect they
haven't.
In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems
actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes
the behaviour of the 'mems' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read
only, and making it automatically track the value of node_online_map. Thus
tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged memory nodes
allowed by their cpuset.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.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>
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Fix "quiet" parameter doc. No trailing '=' sign, no value after it. And
it disables "most" kernel messages, not all of them.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add some documentation comments for the cdev interface.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This code has suffered from broken core design and lack of developer
attention. Broken security modules are too dangerous to leave around. It
is time to remove this one.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of
undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes.
Here's a small documentation patch for /proc/<pid>/oom_adj and
/proc/<pid>/oom_score.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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drivers/base/class.c is omitted by "make *docs". Add it to get
documentation for class_create() and friends for free.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Move all VFS + filesystem docs together.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add relay interface support to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl. Fix typos etc. in
relay.c and relayfs.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Francesco Fondelli <francesco.fondelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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hwmon: Remove Yuan Mu's address
Yuan Mu no longer works at Winbond.
I wish to publicly thank Yuan for his help with Winbond hardware
monitoring chips support during the past 10 months.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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vt1211: Document module parameters
Add a description of the module parameters to the documentation of
the vt1211 driver.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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vt1211: Add documentation
Add documentation for the new vt1211 hardware monitoring driver.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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w83791d: Documentation update
The alarm bits and the beep enable bits are in different positions in
the hardware. Document the problem and leave it to the user-space code
to handle the situation. When this driver is updated to the standardized
sysfs alarm/beep methodology, this won't be a problem.
This is a documentation only change.
Signed-off by: Charles Spirakis <bezaur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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k8temp: Add documentation
Add promised documentation for the k8temp driver.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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it87: Copyright update
I think my contributions to the it87 driver over the past two
years qualify me as a co-author of this driver.
Also drop old comments of dubious usefulness.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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it87: Add support for the IT8718F
The IT8718F is a Super-I/O chip with integrated hardware monitoring
functions. It is very similar to the IT8716F, so adding support to the
it87 driver was pretty straightforward. The most significant difference
is that the IT8718F has up to 8 VID pins, instead of 6 for the older
chips.
For the IT8718F, the VID value can only be read from Super-I/O space.
Userspace support is already in lm_sensors SVN (to be soon released
as 2.10.1.)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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it87: Add support for the IT8716F
The IT8716F is a Super-I/O chip with integrated hardware monitoring
functions. It is very similar to the IT8712F, so adding support to the
it87 driver was pretty straightforward. The most significant change here
is that the IT8716F has 16-bit fan speed counters, so the user no more
needs to tweak the fan clock dividers to get the best readings.
Userspace support is already in lm_sensors SVN (to be soon released
as 2.10.1.)
Thanks to Stian Oksavik, Olivier Nicolas, Prakash Punnoor and
Juergen Kilb for testing the early versions of this patch.
Thanks also to ITE for providing datasheets and answering my questions.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add documentation for the w83627ehf hardware monitoring driver.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (48 commits)
[PATCH] bonding: update version number
[PATCH] git-netdev-all: pc300_tty build fix
[PATCH] Make PC300 WAN driver compile again
[PATCH] Modularize generic HDLC
[PATCH] more s2io __iomem annotations
[PATCH] restore __iomem annotations in e1000
[PATCH] 64bit bugs in s2io
[PATCH] bonding: Fix primary selection error at enslavement time
[PATCH] bonding: Don't mangle LACPDUs
[PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
[PATCH] bonding: Don't release slaves when master is admin down
[PATCH] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling
[PATCH] bonding: Handle large hard_header_len
[PATCH] bonding: Remove unneeded NULL test
[PATCH] bonding: Format fix in seq_printf call
[PATCH] bonding: Convert delay value from s16 to int
[PATCH] bonding: Allow bonding to enslave a 10 Gig adapter
Delete unused drivers/net/gt64240eth.h
[PATCH] skge: fiber support
[PATCH] fix possible NULL ptr deref in forcedeth
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The purpose of this patch is to split off the case when a device does
not reply on the lower level (which is reported by HC hardware), and
a case when the device accepted the request, but does not reply at
upper level. This redefinition allows to diagnose issues easier,
without asking the user if the -110 happened "immediately".
The usbmon splits such cases already thanks to its timestamp, but
it's not always available.
I adjusted all drivers which I found affected (by searching for "urb").
Out of tree drivers may suffer a little bit, but I do not expect much
breakage. At worst they may print a few messages.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch adds support for Ontrak ADU USB devices.
Fixed for printk issues by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add driver for AIRcable USB Bluetooth dongle.
Signed-off-by: Naranjo, Manuel Francisco <naranjo.manuel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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A little more detail on how and when to poll() /proc/bus/usb/devices.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bishop <sam@bishop.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Grammar, spelling, and stylistic edits.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bishop <sam@bishop.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (108 commits)
sh: Fix occasional flush_cache_4096() stack corruption.
sh: Calculate shm alignment at runtime.
sh: dma-mapping compile fixes.
sh: Initial vsyscall page support.
sh: Clean up PAGE_SIZE definition for assembly use.
sh: Selective flush_cache_mm() flushing.
sh: More intelligent entry_mask/way_size calculation.
sh: Support for L2 cache on newer SH-4A CPUs.
sh: Update kexec support for API changes.
sh: Optimized readsl()/writesl() support.
sh: Report movli.l/movco.l capabilities.
sh: CPU flags in AT_HWCAP in ELF auxvt.
sh: Add support for 4K stacks.
sh: Enable /proc/kcore support.
sh: stack debugging support.
sh: select CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
sh: machvec rework.
sh: Solution Engine SH7343 board support.
sh: SH7710VoIPGW board support.
sh: Enable verbose BUG() support.
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices). This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.
This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment. For ex. during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.
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>
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Make futexes work under NOMMU conditions.
This can be tested by running this in one shell:
#define SYSERROR(X, Y) \
do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0)
int main()
{
int shmid, tmp, *f, n;
shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666);
SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget");
f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0);
SYSERROR(f, "shmat");
n = *f;
printf("WAIT: %p{%x}\n", f, n);
tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAIT, n, NULL, NULL, 0);
SYSERROR(tmp, "futex");
printf("WAITED: %d\n", tmp);
tmp = shmdt(f);
SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt");
exit(0);
}
And then this in the other shell:
#define SYSERROR(X, Y) \
do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0)
int main()
{
int shmid, tmp, *f;
shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666);
SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget");
f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0);
SYSERROR(f, "shmat");
(*f)++;
printf("WAKE: %p{%x}\n", f, *f);
tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0);
SYSERROR(tmp, "futex");
printf("WOKE: %d\n", tmp);
tmp = shmdt(f);
SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt");
exit(0);
}
The first program will set up a SYSV IPC SHM segment and wait on a futex in it
for the number at the start to change. The program will increment that number
and wake the first program up. This leads to output of the form:
SHELL 1 SHELL 2
======================= =======================
# /dowait
WAIT: 0xc32ac000{0}
# /dowake
WAKE: 0xc32ac000{1}
WAITED: 0 WOKE: 1
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add documentation about using shared memory in NOMMU mode.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels. It may resize a VMA provided
that it doesn't exceed the size of the slab object in which the storage is
allocated that the VMA refers to. Shareable VMAs may not be resized.
Moving VMAs (as permitted by MREMAP_MAYMOVE) is not currently supported.
This patch also makes use of the fact that the VMA list is now ordered to cut
it short when possible.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU by reading the vm_area_list attached to
current->mm->context.vmlist.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (30 commits)
i2c: Drop unimplemented slave functions
i2c: Constify i2c_algorithm declarations, part 2
i2c: Constify i2c_algorithm declarations, part 1
i2c: Let drivers constify i2c_algorithm data
i2c-isa: Restore driver owner
i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
i2c: Warn on i2c client creation failure
i2c-core: Drop useless bitmaskings
i2c-algo-pcf: Discard the mdelay data struct member
i2c-algo-bit: Cleanups
i2c-isa: Fail adding driver on attach_adapter error
i2c: __must_check fixes (chip drivers)
i2c-dev: attach/detach_adapter cleanups
i2c-stub: Chip address as a module parameter
i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal
i2c: New bus driver for TI OMAP boards
i2c-algo-bit: Discard the mdelay data struct member
i2c-matroxfb: Struct init conversion
i2c: Fix copy-n-paste in subsystem Kconfig
i2c-au1550: Add I2C support for Au1200
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (28 commits)
pciehp - fix wrong return value
IA64: PCI: dont disable irq which is not enabled
acpiphp: add support for ioapic hot-remove
PCI: assign ioapic resource at hotplug
acpiphp: disable bridges
acpiphp: stop bus device before acpi_bus_trim
PCI: add pci_stop_bus_device
acpiphp: do not initialize existing ioapics
acpiphp: initialize ioapics before starting devices
acpiphp: set hpp values before starting devices
PCI Hotplug: cleanup pcihp skeleton code.
PCI: Restore PCI Express capability registers after PM event
PCI: drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c: make a function static
PCI: Multiprobe sanitizer
PCI: fix __must_check warnings
PCI Hotplug: fix __must_check warnings
SHPCHP: fix __must_check warnings
PCI-Express AER implemetation: pcie_portdrv error handler
PCI-Express AER implemetation: AER core and aerdriver
PCI-Express AER implemetation: export pcie_port_bus_type
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This fell behind a bit, get it updated so the documentation
has something in common with reality.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Initial register bank cleanup. Make SR.RB configurable, and add some
preliminary documentation on register bank usage within the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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PCI-Express AER (Advanced Error Reporting) provides more robust error reporting.
The series of patches enable kernel support to AER.
The initial patches were written by Tom Long Nguyen. I ported them to the kernel
2.6.18-rc3. Many thanks to Rajesh Shah and Narayanan Chandramouli for their great
review comments and testing help.
Patch 1 consists of the pciaer-howto.txt document.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
Documentation update included. Compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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i2c-stub: Chip address as a module parameter
Add a mandatory chip_addr parameter to i2c-stub. This parameter
defines to which chip address the driver will respond, instead of
reponding to all addresses as before. The idea is to prevent the
users from loading i2c-stub at random and being then confused by
the results of sensors-detect or other user-space tools.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal
i2c-isa doesn't make much sense in the device driver model. Drivers
relying on it are better implemented as platform drivers. We must
wait for recent versions of libsensors (2.10.0 or later) to be widely
deployed beforehand, though. This move should also make it easier to
convert i2c-core to the device driver model.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
[PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
[PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
[PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
[PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
[PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
[PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
[PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
[PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
[PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
[PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
[PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
[PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
[PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
[PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (47 commits)
Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock
Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core
Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core
PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe
Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe
sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype
drivers/base: check errors
drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device
v4l-dev2: handle __must_check
add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
add __must_check to device management code
Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definition
Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c
sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error
kobject: must_check fixes
Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files
Class: add support for class interfaces for devices
Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree
Driver core: add device_rename function
Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly
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Add the pm_trace attribute in /sys/power which has to be explicitly set to
one to really enable the "PM tracing" code compiled in when CONFIG_PM_TRACE
is set (which modifies the machine's CMOS clock in unpredictable ways).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a boot parameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which might
not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a useful tool
to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address space.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in
/proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. Slab reclaim is then used as a final
option if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free
enough pages to allow a local allocation.
However, that means that the slab can grow excessively and that most memory
of a node may be used by slabs. We have had a case where a machine with
46GB of memory was using 40-42GB for slab. Zone reclaim was effective in
dealing with pagecache pages. However, slab reclaim was only done during
global reclaim (which is a bit rare on NUMA systems).
This patch implements slab reclaim during zone reclaim. Zone reclaim
occurs if there is a danger of an off node allocation. At that point we
1. Shrink the per node page cache if the number of pagecache
pages is more than min_unmapped_ratio percent of pages in a zone.
2. Shrink the slab cache if the number of the nodes reclaimable slab pages
(patch depends on earlier one that implements that counter)
are more than min_slab_ratio (a new /proc/sys/vm tunable).
The shrinking of the slab cache is a bit problematic since it is not node
specific. So we simply calculate what point in the slab we want to reach
(current per node slab use minus the number of pages that neeed to be
allocated) and then repeately run the global reclaim until that is
unsuccessful or we have reached the limit. I hope we will have zone based
slab reclaim at some point which will make that easier.
The default for the min_slab_ratio is 5%
Also remove the slab option from /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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