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2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7192): Adds support for Genius TVGo A11MCEAdrian Pardini
Signed-off-by: Adrian Pardini <pardo.bsso@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7132): Add USB ID for a newer variant of Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 900Luc Saillard
Device description: WinTV-HVR-900 M/R: 65018/B3C0 ##4207 Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7085): saa7134: detect the LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid Mini PCIHermann Pitton
Thanks to Angelo Lisco for his initial patch we missed and to Ahmet Dogan Ugurel confirming such a device functional. Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7084): saa7134: add support for the Medion / Creatix CTX948 cardHermann Pitton
This adds support for analog inputs and DVB-T. Good sensitivity for DVB-T currently needs to use analog TV first. DVB-S support is not yet completed, but is on the way. Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7082): support for Twinhan Hybrid DTV-DVB 3056 PCIHermann Pitton
S-Video is unconfirmed, but likely correct. The remote is not yet investigated. Thanks go to Sioux for providing code and asking to fix the auto detection. Signed-off-by: sioux <sioux_it@libero.it> Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7081): zr364xx: add support for Creative DiVi CAM 516Antoine Jacquet
Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7080): zr364xx: add support for Pentax Optio 50Antoine Jacquet
Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-18V4L/DVB (7079): zr364xx: fix typo in documentationAntoine Jacquet
Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-02-14cpuidle: Add DocumentationVenkatesh Pallipadi
Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure. (resend) Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-13Documentation: sysctl/kernel.txt: fix documentation referenceMichael Opdenacker
This patch fixes a reference to Documentation/kmod.txt which was apparently renamed to Documentation/debugging-modules.txt Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13docbook: drop z85230 library from kernel-apiRandy Dunlap
Drop z85230 support library info from kernel-api since it's duplicated in the Z85230 book. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13docbook: make a networking book and fix a few errorsRandy Dunlap
Move networking (core and drivers) docbook to its own networking book. Fix a few kernel-doc errors in header and source files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13docbook: sunrpc filenames and notation fixesRandy Dunlap
Use updated file list for docbook files and fix kernel-doc warnings in sunrpc: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:689): No description found for parameter 'rpc_client' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:765): No description found for parameter 'flags' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/clnt.c:584): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/clnt.c:618): No description found for parameter 'bufsize' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13docbook: move pipe and splice to filesystems docbookRandy Dunlap
Move pipes and splice docbook to filesystems book. kernel-api book is huge (10x most other books) & slow to process. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13Documentation: prune redundant SubmitChecklist itemsJ. Bruce Fields
Kernel style is mentioned twice, and the git apply trick is a bit redundant given the checkpatch.pl recommendation (which also checks for bad whitespace). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13remove final fastcall usersHarvey Harrison
fastcall always expands to empty, remove it. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13sched: rt-group: interfacePeter Zijlstra
Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us. This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio. Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/ interface to allow setting the group's rt_runtime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (32 commits) x86: cpa, strict range check in try_preserve_large_page() x86: cpa, enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bit x86: cpa, use page pool x86: introduce page pool in cpa x86: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: enable after mem_init() brk: help text typo fix lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries x86 PM: update stale comments x86 PM: consolidate suspend and hibernation code x86 PM: rename 32-bit files in arch/x86/power x86 PM: move 64-bit hibernation files to arch/x86/power x86: trivial printk optimizations x86: fix early_ioremap pagetable ops x86: construct 32-bit boot time page tables in native format. x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING x86: avoid unused variable warning in mm/init_64.c x86: fixup more paravirt fallout brk: document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK (was Re: x86: fix sparse warnings in acpi/bus.c x86: fix sparse warning in topology.c ...
2008-02-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (24 commits) [SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule. [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/a.out.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/fb.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/errno.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/emergency-restart.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/div64.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/device.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/current.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/cputime.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/cache.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/byteorder.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/bugs.h [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/bug.h [SPARC]: Kill BSD errno translation table and header files. [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/bpp.h [SPARC]: Merge include/asm-sparc{,64}/auxvec.h [SPARC]: Merge include/asm-sparc{,64}/of_device.h [SPARC]: Merge include/asm-sparc{,64}/prom.h [SPARC]: Remove of_platform_device_create [SPARC64]: Add kretprobe support. ...
2008-02-09[SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-09x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLININGHarvey Harrison
Other than the defconfigs, remove the entry in compiler-gcc4.h, Kconfig.debug and feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09brk: document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK (was Re:Jiri Kosina
Document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09acer-wmi - Add documentationCarlos Corbacho
Add some initial documentation detailing what acer-wmi is, and how to use it. Update the Kconfig entry with a reference to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptopsCarlos Corbacho
Also update references to sonypi.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptopsCarlos Corbacho
Also update references to sony-laptop.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09thinkpad-acpi - Move thinkpad-acpi.txt to Documentation/laptopsCarlos Corbacho
Also update references to thinkpad-acpi.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09Documentation - Create laptops sub-directoryCarlos Corbacho
There are currently various laptop drivers floating about with no central place for their documentation, which is currently scattered around the top level Documentation/ directory. So, as a first step, lets create a Documentation sub-directory, and update the relevant index files. The work of then moving the existing laptop driver related documentation will then be handled later. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-08Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update Enhanced partition statistics: remove old partition statistics Enhanced partition statistics: procfs Enhanced partition statistics: sysfs Enhanced partition statistics: aoe fix Enhanced partition statistics: update partition statitics Enhanced partition statistics: core statistics block: fixup rq_init() a bit Manually fixed conflict in drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c due to statistics support.
2008-02-08Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: acer-wmi, tc1100-wmi: select ACPI_WMI ACPI: WMI: Improve Kconfig description ACPI: DMI: add Panasonic CF-52 and Thinpad X61 ACPI: thermal: syntax, spelling, kernel-doc intel_menlo: build on X86 only ACPI: build WMI on X86 only ACPI: cpufreq: Print _PPC changes via cpufreq debug layer ACPI: add newline to printk
2008-02-08getdelays: fix gcc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix gcc warnings in getdelays.c: Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'task_context_switch_counts': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'main': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:402: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'get_family_id': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:171: warning: 'id' may be used uninitialized in this function One warning is not a problem and can be dismissed: Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'main': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:236: warning: 'cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08Remove a.out interpreter support in ELF loaderAndi Kleen
Following the deprecation schedule the a.out ELF interpreter support is removed now with this patch. a.out ELF interpreters were an transition feature for moving a.out systems to ELF, but they're unlikely to be still needed. Pure a.out systems will still work of course. This allows to simplify the hairy ELF loader. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08mount options: add documentationMiklos Szeredi
This series addresses the problem of showing mount options in /proc/mounts. Several filesystems which use mount options, have not implemented a .show_options superblock operation. Several others have implemented this callback, but have not kept it fully up to date with the parsed options. Q: Why do we need correct option showing in /proc/mounts? A: We want /proc/mounts to fully replace /etc/mtab. The reasons for this are: - unprivileged mounters won't be able to update /etc/mtab - /etc/mtab doesn't work with private mount namespaces - /etc/mtab can become out-of-sync with reality Q: Can't this be done, so that filesystems need not bother with implementing a .show_mounts callback, and keeping it up to date? A: Only in some cases. Certain filesystems allow modification of a subset of options in their remount_fs method. It is not possible to take this into account without knowing exactly how the filesystem handles options. For the simple case (no remount or remount resets all options) the patchset introduces two helpers: generic_show_options() save_mount_options() These can also be used to emulate the old /etc/mtab behavior, until proper support is added. Even if this is not 100% correct, it's still better than showing no options at all. The following patches fix up most in-tree filesystems, some have been compile tested only, some have been reviewed and acked by the maintainer. Table displaying status of all in-kernel filesystems: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - legend: none - fs has options, but doesn't define ->show_options() some - fs defines ->show_options(), but some only options are shown good - fs shows all options noopt - fs does not have options patch - a patch will be posted merged - a patch has been merged by subsystem maintainer 9p good adfs patch affs patch afs patch autofs patch autofs4 patch befs patch bfs noopt cifs some coda noopt configfs noopt cramfs noopt debugfs noopt devpts patch ecryptfs good efs noopt ext2 patch ext3 good ext4 merged fat patch freevxfs noopt fuse patch fusectl noopt gfs2 good gfs2meta noopt hfs good hfsplus good hostfs patch hpfs patch hppfs noopt hugetlbfs patch isofs patch jffs2 noopt jfs merged minix noopt msdos ->fat ncpfs patch nfs some nfsd noopt ntfs good ocfs2 good ocfs2/dlmfs noopt openpromfs noopt proc noopt qnx4 noopt ramfs noopt reiserfs patch romfs noopt smbfs good sysfs noopt sysv noopt udf patch ufs good vfat ->fat xfs good mm/shmem.c patch drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c noopt drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_fs.c noopt drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c noopt drivers/usb/core (usbfs) merged drivers/usb/gadget (gadgetfs) noopt drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c patch kernel/cpuset.c noopt fs/binfmt_misc.c noopt net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c noopt arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs patch arch/s390/hypfs good ipc/mqueue.c noopt security (securityfs) noopt security/selinux/selinuxfs.c noopt kernel/cgroup.c good security/smack/smackfs.c noopt in -mm: reiser4 some unionfs good - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This patch: Document the rules for handling mount options in the .show_options super operation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08isofs: implement dmode optionJan Kara
Implement dmode option for iso9660 filesystem to allow setting of access rights for directories on the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: "Ilya N. Golubev" <gin@mo.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08The scheduled 'time' option removalAdrian Bunk
The scheduled removal of the 'time' option. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devicesEd L. Cashin
When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device is created. If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices. Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until the I/O attempt times out. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08aoe: clean up udev configuration exampleEd L. Cashin
This patch adds a known default location for the udev configuration file and uses the more recent "==" syntax for SUBSYSTEM and KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernelDavid Howells
Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the kernel. This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter board, and the ASB2305. The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings] Signed-off-by: Masakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com> Signed-off-by: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08Enhanced partition statistics: documentation updateJerome Marchand
Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-08Merge branches 'release', 'dmi' and 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07ACPI: thermal: syntax, spelling, kernel-docLen Brown
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: (59 commits) hwmon: (lm80) Add individual alarm files hwmon: (lm80) De-macro the sysfs callbacks hwmon: (lm80) Various cleanups hwmon: (w83627hf) Refactor beep enable handling hwmon: (w83627hf) Add individual alarm and beep files hwmon: (w83627hf) Enable VBAT monitoring hwmon: (w83627ehf) The W83627DHG has 8 VID pins hwmon: (asb100) Add individual alarm files hwmon: (asb100) De-macro the sysfs callbacks hwmon: (asb100) Various cleanups hwmon: VRM is not written to registers hwmon: (dme1737) fix Super-IO device ID override hwmon: (dme1737) fix divide-by-0 hwmon: (abituguru3) Add AUX4 fan input for Abit IP35 Pro hwmon: Add support for Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown ADS7828 hwmon: (adm9240) Add individual alarm files hwmon: (lm77) Add individual alarm files hwmon: Discard useless I2C driver IDs hwmon: (lm85) Make the pwmN_enable files writable hwmon: (lm85) Return standard values in pwmN_enable ...
2008-02-07Merge branch 'slub-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm * 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm: SLUB: fix checkpatch warnings Use non atomic unlock SLUB: Support for performance statistics SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_local SLUB: Use unique end pointer for each slab page. SLUB: Deal with annoying gcc warning on kfree()
2008-02-07SLUB: Support for performance statisticsChristoph Lameter
The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache footprint of SLUB. There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime statistics and its off by default. The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options: -D Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size mode to activity mode. -A Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load. -r Report option will report detailed statistics on Example (tbench load): slabinfo -AD ->Shows the most active slabs Name Objects Alloc Free %Fast skbuff_fclone_cache 33 111953835 111953835 99 99 :0000192 2666 5283688 5281047 99 99 :0001024 849 5247230 5246389 83 83 vm_area_struct 1349 119642 118355 91 22 :0004096 15 66753 66751 98 98 :0000064 2067 25297 23383 98 78 dentry 10259 28635 18464 91 45 :0000080 11004 18950 8089 98 98 :0000096 1703 12358 10784 99 98 :0000128 762 10582 9875 94 18 :0000512 184 9807 9647 95 81 :0002048 479 9669 9195 83 65 anon_vma 777 9461 9002 99 71 kmalloc-8 6492 9981 5624 99 97 :0000768 258 7174 6931 58 15 So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load. Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases slabinfo -a | grep 000192 :0000192 <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili Likely skbuff_head_cache. Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache ->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned .... Usual output ... Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr -------------------------------------------------- Fastpath 111953360 111946981 99 99 Slowpath 1044 7423 0 0 Page Alloc 272 264 0 0 Add partial 25 325 0 0 Remove partial 86 264 0 0 RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 350 4832 0 0 Total 111954404 111954404 Flushes 49 Refill 0 Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%) Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken. skbuff_head_cache: Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr -------------------------------------------------- Fastpath 5297262 5259882 99 99 Slowpath 4477 39586 0 0 Page Alloc 937 824 0 0 Add partial 0 2515 0 0 Remove partial 1691 824 0 0 RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 2621 9684 0 0 Total 5301739 5299468 Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%) Descriptions of the output: Total: The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a slab Fastpath: The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath. Slowpath: Other allocations Page Alloc: Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath processing Add Partial: Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes) Remove Partial: Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing the last object of a slab. RemoteObj/Froz: How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use as the cpuslab of another processor. Flushes: Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request (kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc) Refill: Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from remotely freed objects for the same slab. Deactivate: Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were put onto the partial list. In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which may potentially cause list lock contention. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: (w83627ehf) The W83627DHG has 8 VID pinsJean Delvare
While the W83627EHF/EHG has only 6 VID pins, the W83627DHG has 8 VID pins, to support VRD 11.0. Add support for this. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: Add support for Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown ADS7828Steve Hardy
Signed-off-by: Steve Hardy <steve@linuxrealtime.co.uk> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: (w83781d) Drop W83627HF supportJean Delvare
The W83627HF hardware monitoring features are supported by the w83627hf driver for several years now. Support by the w83781d has been advertised as deprecated 6 months ago, it's about time to see it go. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: (it87) Discard a dead e-mail addressJean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: Update the lm-sensors website addressJean Delvare
It's about time to reflect the move of the lm-sensors project to lm-sensors.org. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: (lm87) Add support for the Analog Devices ADM1024Jean Delvare
It happens that the Analog Devices ADM1024 is fully compatible with the National Semiconductor LM87, so support for the former can easily be added to the lm87 driver. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07hwmon: Add support for Winbond W83L786NG/NRKevin Lo
Signed-off-by: Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
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