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2008-06-27[GFS2] Glock documentationSteven Whitehouse
This patch adds a file describing the internals of GFS2's glock abstraction. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27x86, AMD IOMMU: add documentation for kernel parametersJoerg Roedel
Add documentation for the kernel parameters introduced with this driver. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com Cc: Sebastian.Biemueller@amd.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: joro@8bytes.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27s2io: fix documentation about intr_typeMichal Schmidt
The documentation for intr_type module parameter of the s2io driver is not consistent with the code. The comments in drivers/net/s2io.c are OK, but Documentation/networking/s2io.txt is wrong. Pointed out by Andrew Hecox. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-26V4L/DVB (8043): au0828: add support for additional USB device id'sMichael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-06-26powerpc/booke: Add kprobes support for booke style processorsKumar Gala
This patch is based on work done by Madhvesh. R. Sulibhavi back in March 2007. We refactor some of the single step handling since it differs between "classic" and "booke" powerpc cores. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-06-26rcu: make rcutorture even more vicious: invoke RCU readers from irq handlers ↵Paul E. McKenney
(timers) This patch allows torturing RCU from irq handlers (timers, in this case). A new module parameter irqreader enables such additional torturing, and is enabled by default. Variants of RCU that do not tolerate readers being called from irq handlers (e.g., SRCU) ignore irqreader. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: josh@freedesktop.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dino@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru Cc: bunk@kernel.org Cc: rjw@sisk.pl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-26Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc8' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-06-25thermal: Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=nRene Herman
A bug in libsensors <= 2.10.6 is exposed when this new hwmon I/F is enabled. Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=n until some time after libsensors 2.10.7 ships so those users can run the latest kernel. libsensors 3.x is already fixed -- those users can use CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=y now. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-06-25Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanupsIngo Molnar
2008-06-25Merge branch 'linus' into sched/develIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/sched_rt.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-24kgdb: documentation update - remove kgdboeJason Wessel
kgdboe is not presently included kgdb, and there should be no references to it. Also fix the tcp port terminal connection example. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-06-23Merge branch 'linus' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-06-23Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-06-21Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: hwmon: (lm75) sensor reading bugfix hwmon: (abituguru3) update driver detection hwmon: (w83791d) new maintainer hwmon: (abituguru3) Identify Abit AW8D board as such hwmon: Update the sysfs interface documentation hwmon: (adt7473) Initialize max_duty_at_overheat before use hwmon: (lm85) Fix function RANGE_TO_REG()
2008-06-19hwmon: Update the sysfs interface documentationJean Delvare
* Document the characteristics of libsensors 3.0.0 and 3.0.1. * The sysfs interface is no longer subject to changes. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-06-19rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: reinstate boot-time testingPaul E. McKenney
This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into the Linux kernel. The reason that this capability was removed was that this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture would be running starting from early boot. This problem has been avoided by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default, (2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel. Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture is built as a module. Please also note that to get the earlier take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero. The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. The default action will be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_levelLi Zefan
We allow the inputs to be [-1 ... SD_LV_MAX), and return -EINVAL for inputs outside this range. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-18rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: add stutter featurePaul E. McKenney
This patch takes a step towards making rcutorture more brutal by allowing the test to be automatically periodically paused, with the default being to run the test for five seconds then pause for five seconds and repeat. This behavior can be controlled using a new "stutter" module parameter, so that "stutter=0" gives the old default behavior of running continuously. Starting and stopping rcutorture more heavily stresses RCU's interaction with the scheduler, as well as exercising more paths through the grace-period detection code. Note that the default to "shuffle_interval" has also been adjusted from 5 seconds to 3 seconds to provide varying overlap with the "stutter" interval. I am still unable to provoke the failures that Alexey has been seeing, even with this patch, but will be doing a few additional things to beef up rcutorture. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-18sched: fix typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txtHiroshi Shimamoto
Fix minor typos. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanupsIngo Molnar
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into sched-develIngo Molnar
2008-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fixup write combine comment in pci_mmap_resource x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs x86, pci-dma.c: don't always add __GFP_NORETRY to gfp suspend-vs-iommu: prevent suspend if we could not resume x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005) PCI: use dev_to_node in pci_call_probe PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist
2008-06-13ALSA: hda - Add description of bdl_pos_adj optionTakashi Iwai
Added a brief description of the new bdl_pos_adj option to ALSA-Configuration.txt. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-06-13ALSA: hda - remove position_fix=3Takashi Iwai
position_fix=3 is the option to correct the DMA position with the FIFO size. But, it never worked correctly, and we have now more other workarounds for the DMA position fixes. Thus better to remove it. Also, change POS_FIX_NONE to POS_FIX_LPIB to represent its real role better. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-06-13cpu topology: always define CPU topology informationBen Hutchings
This can result in an empty topology directory in sysfs, and requires in-kernel users to protect all uses with #ifdef - see <http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=120639033904472&w=2>. The documentation of CPU topology specifies what the defaults should be if only partial information is available from the hardware. So we can provide these defaults as a fallback. This patch: - Adds default definitions of the 4 topology macros to <linux/topology.h> - Changes drivers/base/topology.c to use the topology macros unconditionally and to cope with definitions that aren't lvalues - Updates documentation accordingly [ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - fold now-duplicated code - fix layout ] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-12cciss: add new hardware supportMike Miller
Add support for the next generation of HP Smart Array SAS/SATA controllers. Shipping date is late Fall 2008. Bump the driver version to 3.6.20 to reflect the new hardware support from patch 1 of this set. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-12Suspend-related patches for 2.6.27Rafael J. Wysocki
ACPI PM: Add possibility to change suspend sequence There are some systems out there that don't work correctly with our current suspend/hibernation code ordering. Provide a workaround for these systems allowing them to pass 'acpi_sleep=old_ordering' in the kernel command line so that it will use the pre-ACPI 2.0 ("old") suspend code ordering. Unfortunately, this requires us to add a platform hook to the resuming of devices for recovering the platform in case one of the device drivers' .suspend() routines returns error code. Namely, ACPI 1.0 specifies that _PTS should be called before suspending devices, but _WAK still should be called before resuming them in order to undo the changes made by _PTS. However, if there is an error during suspending devices, they are automatically resumed without returning control to the PM core, so the _WAK has to be called from within device_resume() in that cases. The patch also reorders and refactors the ACPI suspend/hibernation code to avoid duplication as far as reasonably possible. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-06-12Merge branch 'pci-for-jesse' of ↵Jesse Barnes
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus
2008-06-12x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfsvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
For the ranges with IORESOURCE_PREFETCH, export a new resource_wc interface in pci /sysfs along with resource (which is uncached). Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: kobject: Documentation Spelling Patch dev_set_name: fix missing kernel-doc
2008-06-11kobject: Documentation Spelling PatchDavid Brigada
Signed-off-by: David Brigada <brigad@rpi.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-11thinkpad-acpi: SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL renameHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL in thinkpad-acpi code and docs, following 5adad0133907790c50283bf03271d920d6897043 "Input: rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL". Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-06-10PCI: boot parameter to avoid expansion ROM memory allocationGary Hade
Contention for scarce PCI memory resources has been growing due to an increasing number of PCI slots in large multi-node systems. The kernel currently attempts by default to allocate memory for all PCI expansion ROMs so there has also been an increasing number of PCI memory allocation failures seen on these systems. This occurs because the BIOS either (1) provides insufficient PCI memory resource for all the expansion ROMs or (2) provides adequate PCI memory resource for expansion ROMs but provides the space in kernel unexpected BIOS assigned P2P non-prefetch windows. The resulting PCI memory allocation failures may be benign when related to memory requests for expansion ROMs themselves but in some cases they can occur when attempting to allocate space for more critical BARs. This can happen when a successful expansion ROM allocation request consumes memory resource that was intended for a non-ROM BAR. We have seen this happen during PCI hotplug of an adapter that contains a P2P bridge where successful memory allocation for an expansion ROM BAR on device behind the bridge consumed memory that was intended for a non-ROM BAR on the P2P bridge. In all cases the allocation failure messages can be very confusing for users. This patch provides a new 'pci=norom' kernel boot parameter that can be used to disable the default PCI expansion ROM memory resource allocation. This provides a way to avoid the above described issues on systems that do not contain PCI devices for which drivers or user-level applications depend on the default PCI expansion ROM memory resource allocation behavior. Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-06-10powerpc/QE: implement support for the GPIO LIB APIAnton Vorontsov
This is needed to access QE GPIOs via Linux GPIO API. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Acked-By: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-06-10powerpc/sysdev: implement FSL GTM supportAnton Vorontsov
GTM stands for General-purpose Timers Module and able to generate timer{1,2,3,4} interrupts. These timers are used by the drivers that need time precise interrupts (like for USB transactions scheduling for the Freescale USB Host controller as found in some QE and CPM chips), or these timers could be used as wakeup events from the CPU deep-sleep mode. Things unimplemented: 1. Cascaded (32 bit) timers (1-2, 3-4). This is straightforward to implement when needed, two timers should be marked as "requested" and configured as appropriate. 2. Super-cascaded (64 bit) timers (1-2-3-4). This is also straightforward to implement when needed, all timers should be marked as "requested" and configured as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-06-09Merge branch 'merge'Paul Mackerras
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c
2008-06-06Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: enable barriers by default jbd2: Fix barrier fallback code to re-lock the buffer head ext4: Display the journal_async_commit mount option in /proc/mounts jbd2: If a journal checksum error is detected, propagate the error to ext4 jbd2: Fix memory leak when verifying checksums in the journal ext4: fix online resize bug ext4: Fix uninit block group initialization with FLEX_BG ext4: Fix use of uninitialized data with debug enabled.
2008-06-06pagemap: add documentation for pagemapThomas Tuttle
Just a quick explanation of the pagemap interface from a userspace point of view, and an example of how to use it (in English, not code). Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@google.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06doc: document the kernel-doc conventions for kernel hackersPaul Jackson
Provide documentation of the kernel-doc documentation conventions oriented to kernel hackers. Since I figure that there will be more people reading this kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt file who are kernel developers focused on the rest of the kernel, than there will be readers of this file who are documentation developers extracting that embedded kernel-doc documentation, I have taken the liberty of making the new section added here: How to format kernel-doc comments the first section of the kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt file. This first section is intended to introduce, motivate and provide basic usage of the kernel-doc mechanism for kernel hackers developing other portions of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06Fix various old email addresses for dwmw2David Woodhouse
Although if people have questions about ARCnet, perhaps it's _better_ for them to be mailing dwmw2@cam.ac.uk about it... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06doc: update to URL and status of kernel-docs.txt entryPaul Jackson
Update status and URL for the "Gary's Encyclopedia" entry. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06cpusets: fix and update DocumentationMiao Xie
Make the doc consistent with current cpusets implementation. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06sched: update the sched-domains debug documentationGautham R Shenoy
SCHED_DOMAIN_DEBUG mentioned in the Documentation for sched-domains for enabling sched-domains debugging doesn't exist anymore. Update the documentation to reflect the correct way of enabling sched-domain debugging. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (48 commits) V4L/DVB (8001): dib0070: fix dib0070_attach when !CONFIG_DVB_TUNER_DIB0070 V4L/DVB (8000): tda827x: fix NULL pointer in tda827xa_lna_gain V4L/DVB (7990): Fix entry for PowerColor RA 330 and make it run with firmware version 2.7 V4L/DVB (7983): tda18271_calc_rf_cal must return the return value of tda18271_lookup_map V4L/DVB (7978): cx18: explicitly test for XC2028 tuner V4L/DVB (7977): cx18: fix init order and remove duplicate open_on_first_use. V4L/DVB (7975): saa7134_empress V4L/DVB (7974): fix MEDIA_TUNER && FW_LOADER build error V4L/DVB (7972): or51132.c: unaligned V4L/DVB (7971): usb: unaligned V4L/DVB (7970): mix trivial endianness annotations V4L/DVB (7969): m920x: unaligned access V4L/DVB (7968): zoran: endianness annotations V4L/DVB (7967): bt8xx: unaligned access V4L/DVB (7966): cx18: direct dereferencing of iomem V4L/DVB (7965): annotate bcx_riscmem V4L/DVB (7964): cx18 iomem annotations V4L/DVB (7963): ivtv: trivial annotations V4L/DVB (7962): ttusb endianness annotations and fixes V4L/DVB (7961): fix endianness bug in dib0700_devices.c ...
2008-06-05doc: add suggestions about good practises for maintainersWilly Tarreau
Suggest how to deal with patch modifications caused by merging or back-porting when you're a maintainer. Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-05[SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management cards to documentationMark Salyzyn
Update the documented list of products supported by the aacraid driver. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-06-05genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)Max Krasnyansky
Current IRQ affinity interface does not provide a way to set affinity for the IRQs that will be allocated/activated in the future. This patch creates /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity that lets users set default affinity mask for the newly allocated IRQs. Changing the default does not affect affinity masks for the currently active IRQs, they have to be changed explicitly. Updated based on Paul J's comments and added some more documentation. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: pj@sgi.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-05V4L/DVB (7990): Fix entry for PowerColor RA 330 and make it run with ↵Daniel Gimpelevich
firmware version 2.7 Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-06-05V4L/DVB (7932): cx18: mark Compro H900 as fully supported.Hans Verkuil
I always assumed that the Compro H900 could do digital as well, but it turned out that it is an analog-only card. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>