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2007-07-16change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logicKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6. This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable. Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based. [Default Order] The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically. [Node-based Order] This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones (ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist. current 2.6.21 kernel uses this. Pros. * A user can expect local memory as much as possible. Cons. * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL. Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. [Zone-based order] This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist. Pros. * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted. Cons. * memory locality may not be best. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd. command: %echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order. command: %echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16update checkpatch.pl to version 0.07Andy Whitcroft
This version brings a number of new checks, fixes for flase positives, plus a clarification of the output to better guide use. Of note: - checks for documentation for new __setup calls - clearer reporting where braces and parenthesis are involved - reports for closing brace and semi-colon spacing - reports on unwanted externs This patch includes an update to the documentation on checkpatch.pl itself to clarify when it should be used and to indicate that it is not intended as the final arbitor of style. Full changelog: Andy Whitcroft (19): Version: 0.07 ensure we do not apply control brace checks to preprocesor directives add {u,s}{8,16,32,64} to the type matcher accept lack of spacing after the semicolons in for (;;) report new externs in .c files fix up typedef exclusion for function prototypes else trailing statements check need to account for \ at end of line add enums to the type matcher add missing check descriptions suppress double reporting of ** spacing report on do{ spacing issues include an example of the brace/parenthesis in output check for spacing after closing braces prevent double reports on pointer spacing issues handle blank continuation lines on macros classify all reports error, warning, or check revamp hanging { checks and apply in context no spaces after the last ; in a for is ok check __setup has a corresponding addition to documentation David Woodhouse (1): limit character set used in patches and descriptions to UTF-8 Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-15Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (166 commits) [SCSI] ibmvscsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors [SCSI] dc395x: convert to use the data buffer accessors [SCSI] ncr53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors [SCSI] sym53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors [SCSI] ppa: coding police and printk levels [SCSI] aic7xxx_old: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc [SCSI] i2o: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc from device.c [SCSI] remove the dead CYBERSTORMIII_SCSI option [SCSI] don't build scsi_dma_{map,unmap} for !HAS_DMA [SCSI] Clean up scsi_add_lun a bit [SCSI] 53c700: Remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs [SCSI] sni_53c710: Cleanup [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix underrun/overrun conditions [SCSI] megaraid_mbox: use mutex instead of semaphore [SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation. [SCSI] qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.00-k1. [SCSI] qla2xxx: add support for NPIV [SCSI] stex: use resid for xfer len information [SCSI] Add Brownie 1200U3P to blacklist [SCSI] scsi.c: convert to use the data buffer accessors ...
2007-07-14Merge branch 'upstream-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2007-07-14[SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.Salyzyn, Mark
Adding Adaptec 51245 (16 port), 51645 (20 port) and 52445 (28 port) Universal Serial RAID controllers to the aacraid documentation. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-07-13Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Fix typos in powernow-k8 printk's. [CPUFREQ] Restore previously used governor on a hot-replugged CPU [CPUFREQ] bugfix cpufreq in combination with performance governor [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8 compile fix. [CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Option to disable ACPI C3 support Fixed up arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c due to revert that got fixed differently in the cpufreq branch. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop * 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits) ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5 md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3) async_tx: add the async_tx api xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor ...
2007-07-13[CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPIAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-07-12USB: usb/dma doc updatesDavid Brownell
This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying. Our understanding of the issues has improved over time. - Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators. There are a few exceptions (like the HID driver). - Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet. - Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem DMA" capability through a driver stack. This is easy, everything already avoids highmem. But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass storage devices. (Patch, anyone?) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12USB: add power/persist device attributeAlan Stern
This patch (as920) adds an extra level of protection to the USB-Persist facility. Now it will apply by default only to hubs; for all other devices the user must enable it explicitly by setting the power/persist device attribute. The disconnect_all_children() routine in hub.c has been removed and its code placed inline. This is the way it was originally as part of hub_pre_reset(); the revised usage in hub_reset_resume() is sufficiently different that the code can no longer be shared. Likewise, mark_children_for_reset() is now inline as part of hub_reset_resume(). The end result looks much cleaner than before. The sysfs interface is updated to add the new attribute file, and there are corresponding documentation updates. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12USB: add USB-Persist facilityAlan Stern
This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility, allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system suspend. The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the behavior will remain the same as it is now. But when the option is on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device! Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: security: unexport mmap_min_addr SELinux: use SECINITSID_NETMSG instead of SECINITSID_UNLABELED for NetLabel security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap SELinux: Use %lu for inode->i_no when printing avc SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checks selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy() selinux: add selinuxfs structure for object class discovery selinux: change sel_make_dir() to specify inode counter. selinux: rename sel_remove_bools() for more general usage. selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy
2007-07-12Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Support multiple CPUs going through OS_MCA [IA64] silence GCC ia64 unused variable warnings [IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space [IA64] add sn_register_pmi_handler oemcall [IA64] Stop bit for brl instruction [IA64] SN: Correct ROM resource length for BIOS copy [IA64] Don't set psr.ic and psr.i simultaneously
2007-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits) PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0 PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3 PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision ...
2007-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (61 commits) sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable sysfs: implement sysfs_get_dentry() sysfs: move sysfs_drop_dentry() to dir.c and make it static sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree sysfs: consolidate sysfs spinlocks sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent() sysfs: implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag sysfs: rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags and make room for flags sysfs: make sysfs_drop_dentry() access inodes using ilookup() sysfs: Fix oops in sysfs_drop_dentry on x86_64 sysfs: use singly-linked list for sysfs_dirent tree sysfs: slim down sysfs_dirent->s_active sysfs: move s_active functions to fs/sysfs/dir.c sysfs: fix root sysfs_dirent -> root dentry association sysfs: use iget_locked() instead of new_inode() sysfs: reorganize sysfs_new_indoe() and sysfs_create() sysfs: fix parent refcounting during rename and move ...
2007-07-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (183 commits) [TG3]: Update version to 3.78. [TG3]: Add missing NVRAM strapping. [TG3]: Enable auto MDI. [TG3]: Fix the polarity bit. [TG3]: Fix irq_sync race condition. [NET_SCHED]: ematch: module autoloading [TCP]: tcp probe wraparound handling and other changes [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification [VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling [ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addr [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll. [AF_UNIX]: Rewrite garbage collector, fixes race. [NETFILTER]: {ip, nf}_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference (CVE-2007-2876) [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const. [UDP]: Fix length check. [IPV6]: Remove unneeded pointer idev from addrconf_cleanup(). [DECNET]: Another unnecessary net/tcp.h inclusion in net/dn.h [IPV6]: Make IPV6_{RECV,2292}RTHDR boolean options. [IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore. ... Fixed up trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt manually. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: (30 commits) Blackfin serial driver: supporting BF548-EZKIT serial port Video Console: Blackfin doesnt support VGA console Blackfin arch: Add peripheral io API to gpio header file Blackfin arch: set up gpio interrupt IRQ_PJ9 for BF54x ATAPI PATA driver Blackfin arch: add missing CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS when upstream merging Blackfin arch: as pointed out by Robert P. J. Day, update the CPU_FREQ name to match current Kconfig Blackfin arch: extract the entry point from the linked kernel Blackfin arch: clean up some coding style issues Blackfin arch: combine the common code of free_initrd_mem and free_initmem Blackfin arch: Add Support for Peripheral PortMux and resouce allocation Blackfin arch: use PAGE_SIZE when doing aligns rather than hardcoded values Blackfin arch: fix bug set dma_address properly in dma_map_sg Blackfin arch: Disable CACHELINE_ALIGNED_L1 for BF54x by default Blackfin arch: Port the dm9000 driver to Blackfin by using the correct low-level io routines Blackfin arch: There is no CDPRIO Bit in the EBIU_AMGCTL Register of BF54x arch Blackfin arch: scrub dead code Blackfin arch: Fix Warning add some defines in BF54x header file Blackfin arch: add BF54x missing GPIO access functions Blackfin arch: Some memory and code optimizations - Fix SYS_IRQS Blackfin arch: Enable BF54x PIN/GPIO interrupts ...
2007-07-12Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (26 commits) i2c-rpx: Remove i2c-mpc: work around missing-9th-clock-pulse bug i2c: New PMC MSP71xx TWI bus driver i2c-savage4: Delete many unused defines i2c/tsl2550: Speed up initialization i2c: New bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+ i2c-i801: Various cleanups i2c: Add support for the TSL2550 i2c-pxa: Support new-style I2C drivers i2c-gpio: Make some internal functions static i2c-gpio: Add support for new-style clients i2c-iop3xx: Switch to static adapter numbering i2c-sis5595: Resolve resource conflict with sis5595 matroxfb: Clean-up i2c header inclusions i2c-nforce2: Add support for SMBus block transactions i2c-mpc: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter i2c-mv64xxx: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB700 i2c: New DS1682 chip driver ...
2007-07-12[PATCH] cfg80211: Radiotap parserAndy Green
Generic code to walk through the fields in a radiotap header, accounting for nasties like extended "field present" bitfields and alignment rules Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: Monitor mode radiotap injection docsAndy Green
Add monitor mode radiotap injection docs. Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12Define zero-page offset 0x1e4 as a scratch field, and use itH. Peter Anvin
The relocatable kernel code needs a scratch field for the decompressor to determine its own location. It was using a location inside struct screen_info; reserve a free location and document it as scratch instead. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12i2c-rpx: RemoveJean Delvare
This driver has been broken forever. It depends on i2c-algo-8xx which has never been in the mainline kernel. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12i2c: New bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modulesJean Delvare
This is a new I2C bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules. Developped and tested on the TAOS TSL2550 EVM. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+Oleg Ryjkov
Add an ability to utilize the internal SRAM buffer on ICH4 and newer host controllers to speed up execution of block operations. I've split the code so that it is more clear which block transaction is performed. First of all the host controller's type is identified. isich4 is set when we think that the controller has the internal buffer. Then, before every block transaction, if isich4 is set, we attempt to enable the E32B bit in SMBAUXCTL register. Signed-off-by: Oleg Ryjkov <olegr@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB700Henry Su
Add the SMBus device ID for ATI SB700. Signed-off-by: Henry Su <Henry.su@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12i2c: Fix the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototypeJean Delvare
Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense. Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging, to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that. I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used, which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far. There are some obvious compatiblity considerations: * This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will have to update their code. * User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12i2c: Deprecate legacy RTC driversJean Delvare
We have a new RTC subsystem with better drivers. Legacy driver status: * ds1337: The DS1337 and DS1339 are now supported by the rtc-ds1307 driver, so it looks to me like we could even delete the ds1337 driver right away. * ds1374: Will soon be replaced with Scott Wood's rtc-ds1374 driver. * m41t00: The M41T00 is supported by the rtc-ds1307 driver. For the M41T81 and M41T85, the rtc-m41t80 driver written by Atsushi Nemoto should work. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Cc: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
2007-07-12i2c: Delete outdated x1205 driver documentationJean Delvare
The x1205 driver moved to the RTC subsystem and was significantly modified since then, so just delete the outdated documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
2007-07-12i2c: Add kernel documentationDavid Brownell
Generate I2C kerneldoc; fix various glitches and add "context" sections to that documentation. Most I2C and SMBus functions still have no kerneldoc. Let me suggest providing kerneldoc for all the i2c_smbus_*() functions as a small and mostly self-contained project for anyone so inclined. :) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-11security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmapEric Paris
Add a new security check on mmap operations to see if the user is attempting to mmap to low area of the address space. The amount of space protected is indicated by the new proc tunable /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to 0, preserving existing behavior. This patch uses a new SELinux security class "memprotect." Policy already contains a number of allow rules like a_t self:process * (unconfined_t being one of them) which mean that putting this check in the process class (its best current fit) would make it useless as all user processes, which we also want to protect against, would be allowed. By taking the memprotect name of the new class it will also make it possible for us to move some of the other memory protect permissions out of 'process' and into the new class next time we bump the policy version number (which I also think is a good future idea) Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for ↵Zhang Rui
sysfs binary attributes Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either. What I do: Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the .read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes. In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work. But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods. I'm not sure if I missed any. :( Why I do this: For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the struct attribute in the .show/.store method, while we can't do this for the binary attributes. I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones. So I think this patch is reasonable. :) Who benefits from it: The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs requires such an improvement. All the table binary attributes share the same .read method. Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get the table signature and instance number which are used to distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes. Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods for different ACPI table binary attributes. This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11Rules on how to use sysfs in userspace programsKay Sievers
Here's a document to help clear things up. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11PCI: add pci_try_set_mwiRandy Dunlap
As suggested by Andrew, add pci_try_set_mwi(), which does not require return-value checking. - add pci_try_set_mwi() without __must_check - make it return 0 on success, errno if the "try" failed or error - review callers Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIsJan Beulich
Based on replies to a respective query, remove the pci_dac_dma_...() APIs (except for pci_dac_dma_supported() on Alpha, where this function is used in non-DAC PCI DMA code). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11PCI: remove useless pci driver methodDavid Brownell
Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and from documentation. Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel, but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11I/OAT: Add documentation for the tcp_dma_copybreak sysctlChris Leech
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
2007-07-11[IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config spaceAlex Chiang
Example memory map (HP rx7640 with 'default' acpiconfig setting, VGA disabled): 0x00000000 - 0x3FFFBFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access If a user attempts to perform an MMIO mmap (using the PCIIOC_MMAP_IS_MEM ioctl) to PCI config space (like mmap'ing and accessing memory at 0xA0000), we will MCA because the kernel will attempt to use a mapping with the UC attribute. So check the memory attribute in kern_mmap and the EFI memmap. If WC is requested, and WC or UC access is supported for the region, allow it. Otherwise, use the same attribute the kernel uses. Updates documentation and test cases as well. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-10[IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Based on <draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-00.txt>. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: netdevice mtu assumptions documentationStephen Hemminger
Document the expectations about device MTU handling. The documentation about oversize packet handling is probably too loose. IMHO devices should drop oversize packets for robustness, but many devices allow it now. For example, if you set mtu to 1200 bytes, most ether devices will allow a 1500 byte frame in. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: netdevice locking assumptions documentationStephen Hemminger
Update the documentation about locking assumptions. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: ipt_SAME: add to feature-removal-schedulePatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: [DOC] Multiqueue hardware support documentationPeter P Waskiewicz Jr
Add a brief howto to Documentation/networking for multiqueue. It explains how to use the multiqueue API in a driver to support multiqueue paths from the stack, as well as the qdiscs to use for feeding a multiqueue device. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[L2TP]: Add PPPoL2TP in-kernel documentationJames Chapman
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[IPV4]: The scheduled removal of multipath cached routing support.David S. Miller
With help from Chris Wedgwood. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (40 commits) bonding/bond_main.c: make 2 functions static ps3: gigabit ethernet driver for PS3, take3 [netdrvr] Fix dependencies for ax88796 ne2k clone driver eHEA: Capability flag for DLPAR support Remove sk98lin ethernet driver. sunhme.c:quattro_pci_find() must be __devinit bonding / ipv6: no addrconf for slaves separately from master atl1: remove write-only var in tx handler macmace: use "unsigned long flags;" Cleanup usbnet_probe() return value handling netxen: deinline and sparse fix eeprom_93cx6: shorten pulse timing to match spec (bis) phylib: Add Marvell 88E1112 phy id phylib: cleanup marvell.c a bit AX88796 network driver IOC3: Switch to pci refcounting safe APIs e100: Fix Tyan motherboard e100 not receiving IPMI commands QE Ethernet driver writes to wrong register to mask interrupts rrunner.c:rr_init() must be __devinit tokenring/3c359.c:xl_init() must be __devinit ...
2007-07-10Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6: [BATTERY] ds2760 W1 slave [BATTERY] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver [BATTERY] Apple PMU driver [BATTERY] 1-Wire ds2760 chip battery driver [BATTERY] APM emulation driver for class batteries [BATTERY] pda_power platform driver [BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)
2007-07-10Merge branch 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: pipe: add documentation and comments pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm() Remove remnants of sendfile() xip sendfile removal splice: completely document external interface with kerneldoc sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile() relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loop pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointer splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe header splice: relay support sendfile: convert nfsd to splice_direct_to_actor() sendfile: convert nfs to using splice_read() loop: convert to using splice_direct_to_actor() instead of sendfile() splice: add void cookie to the actor data sendfile: kill generic_file_sendfile() sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user support splice: abstract out actor data
2007-07-10Remove sk98lin ethernet driver.Jeff Garzik
Unmaintained, superceded by skge. Prodded to deletion by Adrian Bunk. Acked by Stephen Hemminger. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-10Documentation/block/barrier.txt is not in sync with the actual code: - ↵Geert Uytterhoeven
blk_queue_ordered() no longer has a gfp_mask parameter - blk_queue_ordered_locked() no longer exists - sd_prepare_flush() looks slightly different Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>