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2008-04-28mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local PolicyLee Schermerhorn
Now that we're using "preferred local" policy for system default, we need to make this as fast as possible. Because of the variable size of the mempolicy structure [based on size of nodemasks], the preferred_node may be in a different cacheline from the mode. This can result in accessing an extra cacheline in the normal case of system default policy. Suspect this is the cause of an observed 2-3% slowdown in page fault testing relative to kernel without this patch series. To alleviate this, use an internal mode flag, MPOL_F_LOCAL in the mempolicy flags member which is guaranteed [?] to be in the same cacheline as the mode itself. Verified that reworked mempolicy now performs slightly better on 25-rc8-mm1 for both anon and shmem segments with system default and vma [preferred local] policy. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mempolicy: use MPOL_PREFERRED for system-wide default policyLee Schermerhorn
Currently, when one specifies MPOL_DEFAULT via a NUMA memory policy API [set_mempolicy(), mbind() and internal versions], the kernel simply installs a NULL struct mempolicy pointer in the appropriate context: task policy, vma policy, or shared policy. This causes any use of that policy to "fall back" to the next most specific policy scope. The only use of MPOL_DEFAULT to mean "local allocation" is in the system default policy. This requires extra checks/cases for MPOL_DEFAULT in many mempolicy.c functions. There is another, "preferred" way to specify local allocation via the APIs. That is using the MPOL_PREFERRED policy mode with an empty nodemask. Internally, the empty nodemask gets converted to a preferred_node id of '-1'. All internal usage of MPOL_PREFERRED will convert the '-1' to the id of the node local to the cpu where the allocation occurs. System default policy, except during boot, is hard-coded to "local allocation". By using the MPOL_PREFERRED mode with a negative value of preferred node for system default policy, MPOL_DEFAULT will never occur in the 'policy' member of a struct mempolicy. Thus, we can remove all checks for MPOL_DEFAULT when converting policy to a node id/zonelist in the allocation paths. In slab_node() return local node id when policy pointer is NULL. No need to set a pol value to take the switch default. Replace switch default with BUG()--i.e., shouldn't happen. With this patch MPOL_DEFAULT is only used in the APIs, including internal calls to do_set_mempolicy() and in the display of policy in /proc/<pid>/numa_maps. It always means "fall back" to the the next most specific policy scope. This simplifies the description of memory policies quite a bit, with no visible change in behavior. get_mempolicy() continues to return MPOL_DEFAULT and an empty nodemask when the requested policy [task or vma/shared] is NULL. These are the values one would supply via set_mempolicy() or mbind() to achieve that condition--default behavior. This patch updates Documentation to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again]Lee Schermerhorn
After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually fast paths. In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the unref for interleave policies. A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting. This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes, simplifies the code. Maybe I'll get it right this time. See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch. Summary: Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared policies. So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference counting added by my previous attempt. It then unrefs only shared policies when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put] helper function introduced by this patch. Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma containing just the policy. read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma() multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in this case. To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy. This copy occurs before reading a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue here. I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a conditional free. The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mempolicy: rename struct mempolicy 'policy' member to 'mode'Lee Schermerhorn
The terms 'policy' and 'mode' are both used in various places to describe the semantics of the value stored in the 'policy' member of struct mempolicy. Furthermore, the term 'policy' is used to refer to that member, to the entire struct mempolicy and to the more abstract concept of the tuple consisting of a "mode" and an optional node or set of nodes. Recently, we have added "mode flags" that are passed in the upper bits of the 'mode' [or sometimes, 'policy'] member of the numa APIs. I'd like to resolve this confusion, which perhaps only exists in my mind, by renaming the 'policy' member to 'mode' throughout, and fixing up the Documentation. Man pages will be updated separately. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mempolicy: disallow static or relative flags for local preferred modeDavid Rientjes
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES and MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES don't mean anything for MPOL_PREFERRED policies that were created with an empty nodemask (for purely local allocations). They'll never be invalidated because the allowed mems of a task changes or need to be rebound relative to a cpuset's placement. Also fixes a bug identified by Lee Schermerhorn that disallowed empty nodemasks to be passed to MPOL_PREFERRED to specify local allocations. [A different, somewhat incomplete, patch already existed in 25-rc5-mm1.] Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentationDavid Rientjes
Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> 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>
2008-04-28mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_maskMel Gorman
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations controlled by that mempolicy. As the per-node zonelist is already being filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that takes a nodemask for further filtering. This eliminates the need for MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist. A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered zonelist. I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with available memory. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mm: remove nopageNick Piggin
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in comments). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28kerneldoc for <linux/clk.h>David Brownell
Add <linux/clk.h> to the generated kerneldoc, with some overview to go along with those per-function descriptions. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-27Merge branch 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm * 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (147 commits) KVM: kill file->f_count abuse in kvm KVM: MMU: kvm_pv_mmu_op should not take mmap_sem KVM: SVM: remove selective CR0 comment KVM: SVM: remove now obsolete FIXME comment KVM: SVM: disable CR8 intercept when tpr is not masking interrupts KVM: SVM: sync V_TPR with LAPIC.TPR if CR8 write intercept is disabled KVM: export kvm_lapic_set_tpr() to modules KVM: SVM: sync TPR value to V_TPR field in the VMCB KVM: ppc: PowerPC 440 KVM implementation KVM: Add MAINTAINERS entry for PowerPC KVM KVM: ppc: Add DCR access information to struct kvm_run ppc: Export tlb_44x_hwater for KVM KVM: Rename debugfs_dir to kvm_debugfs_dir KVM: x86 emulator: fix lea to really get the effective address KVM: x86 emulator: fix smsw and lmsw with a memory operand KVM: x86 emulator: initialize src.val and dst.val for register operands KVM: SVM: force a new asid when initializing the vmcb KVM: fix kvm_vcpu_kick vs __vcpu_run race KVM: add ioctls to save/store mpstate KVM: Rename VCPU_MP_STATE_* to KVM_MP_STATE_* ...
2008-04-27KVM: ppc: PowerPC 440 KVM implementationHollis Blanchard
This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace support other SoC/board combinations should work.) See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details. [stephen: build fix] Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27gayle: add "doubler" parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "doubler" parameter to enable support for IDE doublers. * Obsolete "ide=doubler" kernel parameter. Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: add "cdrom=" and "chs=" parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "cdrom=" and "chs=" parameters. * Obsolete "hdx=cdrom" and "hdx=cyls,heads,sects" kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: add "nodma|noflush|noprobe|nowerr=" parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "nodma|noflush|noprobe|nowerr=" parameters. * Obsolete "hdx=noprobe|none|nowerr|nodma|noflush" kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "hdx=autotune" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Remove obsoleted "hdx=autotune" kernel parameter (we always auto-tune PIO if possible nowadays). * Remove no longer needed ide_drive_t.autotune flag. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: mark "idebus=" kernel parameter as obsoleted (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
We have "vlb|pci_clock=" parameters now. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide-tape: remove comments markup from Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txtBorislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide-tape: remove pipelined mode description from Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txtBorislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parameters. * Make probe_* and cmd640_vlb variables static. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=reset" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Remove obsoleted "idex=reset" kernel parameter (it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004). Then remove corresponding code from ide_probe_port() and no longer used ->reset field from ide_hwif_t. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=serialize" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Remove obsoleted "idex=serialize" kernel parameter (it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: add "ignore_cable" parameter (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Add "ignore_cable" parameter: * "ide_core.ignore_cable=[interface_number]" boot option if IDE is built-in (i.e. "ide_core.ignore_cable=1" to force ignoring cable for "ide1") * "ignore_cable=[interface_number]" module parameter (for ide_core module) if IDE is compiled as module v2: * Add ide_port_apply_params() helper - use it in ide_device_add_all() and ide_scan_port(). * Make it possible to later disable ignoring cable detection by passing "[interface_number]:0" to /sys/module/ide_core/parameters/ignore_cable (however sysfs interface is not enabled yet since it needs some other IDE changes to make it work reliable). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Register ioctl rangeAvi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: ia64: Add a guide about how to create kvm guests on ia64Xiantao Zhang
Guide for creating virtual machine on kvm/ia64. Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: API documentationCarsten Otte
This patch adds Documentation/s390/kvm.txt, which describes specifics of kvm's user interface that are unique to s390 architecture. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (46 commits) ide: constify struct ide_dma_ops ide: add struct ide_dma_ops (take 3) ide: add IDE_HFLAG_SERIALIZE_DMA host flag sl82c105: check bridge revision in sl82c105_init_one() au1xxx-ide: use ->init_dma method palm_bk3710: use ->init_dma method sgiioc4: use ->init_dma method icside: use ->init_dma method ide-pmac: use ->init_dma method ide: do complete DMA setup in ->init_dma method (take 2) au1xxx-ide: fix MWDMA support ide: cleanup ide_setup_dma() ide: factor out setting PCI bus-mastering from ide_hwif_setup_dma() ide: export ide_allocate_dma_engine() ide: move ide_setup_dma() call out from ->init_dma method alim15x3: skip DMA initialization completely on revs < 0x20 pdc202xx_old: remove init_dma_pdc202xx() ide: don't display "BIOS" settings in ide_setup_dma() ide: remove ->cds field from ide_hwif_t (take 2) ide: remove ide_dma_iobase() ...
2008-04-26au1xxx-ide: fix MWDMA supportBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Always use "fast" MWDMA support and remove dma_{black,white}_list (they were based on completely bogus ->ide_dma_check implementation which didn't set neither the host controller timings nor the device for the desired transfer mode). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-26x86, boot: Document for linked list of struct setup_dataHuang, Ying
Documentation for linked list of struct setup_data. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-25documentation: remove smart-config.txtRandy Dunlap
As requested by Sam Ravnborg: Remove Documentation/smart-config.txt. It is outdated and has been (functionally) replaced by Documentation/kbuild/*.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (49 commits) [POWERPC] Add zImage.iseries to arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore [POWERPC] bootwrapper: fix build error on virtex405-head.S [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix 460GT support to not enable FPU [POWERPC] 4xx: Add NOR FLASH entries to Canyonlands and Glacier dts [POWERPC] Xilinx: of_serial support for Xilinx uart 16550. [POWERPC] Xilinx: boot support for Xilinx uart 16550. [POWERPC] celleb: Add support for PCI Express [POWERPC] celleb: Move miscellaneous files for Beat [POWERPC] celleb: Move a file for SPU on Beat [POWERPC] celleb: Move files for Beat mmu and iommu [POWERPC] celleb: Move files for Beat hvcall interfaces [POWERPC] celleb: Move the SCC related code for celleb [POWERPC] celleb: Move the files for celleb base support [POWERPC] celleb: Consolidate io-workarounds code [POWERPC] cell: Generalize io-workarounds code [POWERPC] Add CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES_DEBUG to enable debugging for platforms/pseries [POWERPC] Convert from DBG() to pr_debug() in platforms/pseries/ [POWERPC] Register udbg console early on pseries LPAR [POWERPC] Mark udbg console as CON_ANYTIME, ie. callable early in boot [POWERPC] Set udbg_console index to 0 ...
2008-04-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-ledsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds: leds: Add default-on trigger leds: Document the context brightness_set needs leds: Add new driver for the LEDs on the Freecom FSG-3 leds: Add support to leds with readable status leds: enable support for blink_set() platform hook in leds-gpio leds: Cleanup various whitespace and code style issues leds: disable triggers on brightness set leds: Add mail LED support for "Clevo D400P"
2008-04-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (120 commits) usb: don't update devnum for wusb devices wusb: make ep0_reinit available for modules wusb: devices dont use a set address wusb: teach choose_address() about wireless devices wusb: add link wusb-usb device wusb: add authenticathed bit to usb_dev USB: remove unnecessary type casting of urb->context usb serial: more fixes and groundwork for tty changes USB: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences USB: usbfs: export the URB_NO_INTERRUPT flag to userspace USB: fix compile problems in ehci-hcd USB: ehci: qh_completions cleanup and bugfix USB: cdc-acm: signedness fix USB: add documentation about callbacks USB: don't explicitly reenable root-hub status interrupts USB: OHCI: turn off RD when remote wakeup is disabled USB: HCDs use the do_remote_wakeup flag USB: g_file_storage: ignore bulk-out data after invalid CBW USB: serial: remove endpoints setting checks from core and header USB: serial: remove unneeded number endpoints settings ...
2008-04-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: kconfig: fix broken target update-po-config kbuild: silence documentation GEN xml messages according to $(quiet)
2008-04-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (24 commits) dm crypt: add documentation dm: remove md argument from specific_minor dm table: remove unused dm_create_error_table dm table: drop void suspend_targets return dm: unplug queues in threads dm raid1: use timer dm: move include files dm kcopyd: rename dm: expose macros dm kcopyd: remove redundant client counting dm kcopyd: private mempool dm kcopyd: per device dm log: make module use tracking internal dm log: move register functions dm log: clean interface dm kcopyd: clean interface dm io: clean interface dm io: rename error to error_bits dm snapshot: store pointer to target instance dm log: move dirty region log code into separate module ...
2008-04-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits) net: Fix wrong interpretation of some copy_to_user() results. xfrm: alg_key_len & alg_icv_len should be unsigned [netdrvr] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to function start ipv6: Fix typo in net/ipv6/Kconfig via-velocity: fix vlan receipt tg3: sparse cleanup forcedeth: realtek phy crossover detection ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts gianfar: Fix skb allocation strategy netxen: reduce stack usage of netxen_nic_flash_print smc911x: test after postfix decrement fails in smc911x_{reset,drop_pkt} net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug forcedeth: new backoff implementation ehea: make things static phylib: Add support for board-level PHY fixups [netdrvr] atlx: code movement: move atl1 parameter parsing atlx: remove flash vendor parameter korina: misc cleanup korina: fix misplaced return statement WAN: Fix confusing insmod error code for C101 too. ...
2008-04-25Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (82 commits) [MTD] m25p80: Add Support for ATMEL AT25DF641 64-Megabit SPI Flash [MTD] m25p80: add FAST_READ access support to M25Pxx [MTD] [NAND] bf5xx_nand: Avoid crash if bfin_mac is installed. [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand: control NCE signal [MTD] [NAND] AT91 hardware ECC compile fix for at91sam9263 / at91sam9260 [MTD] [NAND] Hardware ECC controller on at91sam9263 / at91sam9260 [JFFS2] Introduce dbg_readinode2 log level, use it to shut read_dnode() up [JFFS2] Fix jffs2_reserve_space() when all blocks are pending erasure. [JFFS2] Add erase_checking_list to hold blocks being marked. UBI: add a message [JFFS2] Return values of jffs2_block_check_erase error paths [MTD] Clean up AR7 partition map support [MTD] [NOR] Fix Intel CFI driver for collie flash [JFFS2] Finally remove redundant ref->__totlen field. [JFFS2] Honour TEST_TOTLEN macro in debugging code. ref->__totlen is going! [JFFS2] Add paranoia debugging for superblock counts [JFFS2] Fix free space leak with in-band cleanmarkers [JFFS2] Self-sufficient #includes in jffs2_fs_i.h: include <linux/mutex.h> [MTD] [NAND] Verify probe by retrying to checking the results match [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410 Allow ECC disable to be specified by the board ...
2008-04-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: kbuild: fix depmod comment kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS kbuild: support loading extra symbols in modpost Add option to enable -Wframe-larger-than= on gcc 4.4 kbuild: add kconfig symbols to tags output kbuild: fix some minor typoes kbuild: error out on missing MODULE_LICENSE
2008-04-25kbuild: silence documentation GEN xml messages according to $(quiet)Mike Frysinger
Add rules for gen_xml and its quiet & silent variants. This causes "make -s" to be silent for gen_xml. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: nfsd: don't allow setting ctime over v4 Update to NFS/RDMA documentation locks: don't call ->copy_lock methods on return of conflicting locks lockd: unlock lockd locks held for a certain filesystem lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip leases: remove unneeded variable from fcntl_setlease(). leases: move lock allocation earlier in generic_setlease() leases: when unlocking, skip locking-related steps leases: fix a return-value mixup
2008-04-25kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLSRichard Hacker
This patch adds a new (Kbuild) Makefile variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS. The space separated list of file names assigned to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS is used when calling scripts/mod/modpost during stage 2 of the Kbuild process for non-kernel-tree modules. Signed-off-by: Richard Hacker <lerichi@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25Document seq_path_root()Jonathan Corbet
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-25Various fixes to Documentation/HOWTOJonathan Corbet
Fix a number of things which have gone somewhat out-of-date over the last few months. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-25Update to NFS/RDMA documentationJames Lentini
Update to the NFS/RDMA documentation to clarify how to configure the exports file. Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-25dm crypt: add documentationMilan Broz
Add description of dm-crypt to device-mapper documentation. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25phylib: Add support for board-level PHY fixupsAndy Fleming
Sometimes the specific interaction between the platform and the PHY requires special handling. For instance, to change where the PHY's clock input is, or to add a delay to account for latency issues in the data path. We add a mechanism for registering a callback with the PHY Lib to be called on matching PHYs when they are brought up, or reset. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-04-24USB: add documentation about callbacksOliver Neukum
Add Documentation about callbacks in USB. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-24USB: add Documentation about usb_anchorOliver Neukum
This adds documentation about the new usb anchor infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-24USB: serial: Remove obsolete contact addressesMatti Linnanvuori
Remove obsolete contact addresses. Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-24USB: check serial-number string after device resetAlan Stern
This patch (as1048) extends the descriptor checking after a device is reset. Now the SerialNumber string descriptor is compared to its old value, in addition to the device and configuration descriptors. As a consequence, the kmalloc() call in usb_string() is now on the error-handling pathway for usb-storage. Hence its allocation type is changed to GFO_NOIO. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-24USB: remove CONFIG_USB_PERSIST settingAlan Stern
This patch (as1047) removes the USB_PERSIST Kconfig option, enabling it permanently. It also prevents the power/persist attribute from being created for hub devices; there's no point in having it since USB-PERSIST is always turned on for hubs. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>