Merge commit 'v2.6.29' into x86/setup-lzma

4 files changed, 161 insertions, 149 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a3e3bf54804..38396ec7ee3 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -298,6 +298,98 @@ config AUDIT_TREE
 	def_bool y
 	depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
 
+menu "RCU Subsystem"
+
+choice
+	prompt "RCU Implementation"
+	default CLASSIC_RCU
+
+config CLASSIC_RCU
+	bool "Classic RCU"
+	help
+	  This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
+	  designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
+	  systems.
+
+	  Select this option if you are unsure.
+
+config TREE_RCU
+	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
+	help
+	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
+	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
+	  thousands of CPUs.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU
+	bool "Preemptible RCU"
+	depends on PREEMPT
+	help
+	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
+	  RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
+	  this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
+	  preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
+	  now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
+	  remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
+
+endchoice
+
+config RCU_TRACE
+	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
+	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
+	help
+	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
+	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
+
+	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
+	  Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config RCU_FANOUT
+	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
+	range 2 64 if 64BIT
+	range 2 32 if !64BIT
+	depends on TREE_RCU
+	default 64 if 64BIT
+	default 32 if !64BIT
+	help
+	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
+	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
+	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
+	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
+	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
+
+	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
+	  Take the default if unsure.
+
+config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
+	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
+	depends on TREE_RCU
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
+	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
+	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
+	  strong NUMA behavior.
+
+	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
+
+	  Say N if unsure.
+
+config TREE_RCU_TRACE
+	def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
+	select DEBUG_FS
+	help
+	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
+	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
+	def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
+	select DEBUG_FS
+	help
+	  This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
+	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.
+
+endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
+
 config IKCONFIG
 	tristate "Kernel .config support"
 	---help---
@@ -383,26 +475,26 @@ config CGROUP_SCHED
 	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
 	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
 	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
-	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
-	  on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
+	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more
+	  information on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
 
 endchoice
 
-menu "Control Group support"
-config CGROUPS
-	bool "Control Group support"
+menuconfig CGROUPS
+	boolean "Control Group support"
 	help
-	  This option add support for grouping sets of processes together, for
+	  This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
 	  use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory
 	  controls or device isolation.
 	  See
-		- Documentation/cpusets.txt	(Cpusets)
 		- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt	(CFS)
-		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation)
-		- Documentation/controllers/ (features for resource control)
+		- Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation
+					  and resource control)
 
 	  Say N if unsure.
 
+if CGROUPS
+
 config CGROUP_DEBUG
 	bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
 	depends on CGROUPS
@@ -410,24 +502,24 @@ config CGROUP_DEBUG
 	help
 	  This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
 	  exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
-	  framework
+	  framework.
 
-	  Say N if unsure
+	  Say N if unsure.
 
 config CGROUP_NS
-        bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
-        depends on CGROUPS
-        help
-          Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
-          provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
-          for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
-          jobs.
+	bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
+	depends on CGROUPS
+	help
+	  Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
+	  provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
+	  for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
+	  jobs.
 
 config CGROUP_FREEZER
-        bool "control group freezer subsystem"
-        depends on CGROUPS
-        help
-          Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
+	bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem"
+	depends on CGROUPS
+	help
+	  Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
 	  cgroup.
 
 config CGROUP_DEVICE
@@ -448,18 +540,23 @@ config CPUSETS
 
 	  Say N if unsure.
 
+config PROC_PID_CPUSET
+	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
+	depends on CPUSETS
+	default y
+
 config CGROUP_CPUACCT
 	bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem"
 	depends on CGROUPS
 	help
 	  Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the
-	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup
+	  total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup.
 
 config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
 	bool "Resource counters"
 	help
 	  This option enables controller independent resource accounting
-          infrastructure that works with cgroups
+	  infrastructure that works with cgroups.
 	depends on CGROUPS
 
 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
@@ -485,9 +582,6 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
 	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
 
-config MM_OWNER
-	bool
-
 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
 	bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL
@@ -504,8 +598,10 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
 	  there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y,
 	  if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted.
 
+endif # CGROUPS
 
-endmenu
+config MM_OWNER
+	bool
 
 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 	bool
@@ -543,11 +639,6 @@ config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
 	  if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has
 	  this option set to N.
 
-config PROC_PID_CPUSET
-	bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
-	depends on CPUSETS
-	default y
-
 config RELAY
 	bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
 	help
@@ -602,6 +693,14 @@ config PID_NS
 	  Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
 	  say N here.
 
+config NET_NS
+	bool "Network namespace"
+	default n
+	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
+	help
+	  Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
+	  of the network stack.
+
 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
 	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
 	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
@@ -636,6 +735,9 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
 config SYSCTL
 	bool
 
+config ANON_INODES
+	bool
+
 menuconfig EMBEDDED
 	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
 	help
@@ -686,13 +788,6 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL
 
 	   Say N.
 
-config KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED
-	bool "Strip machine generated symbols from kallsyms"
-	depends on KALLSYMS_ALL
-	default y
-	help
-	  Say N if you want kallsyms to retain even machine generated symbols.
-
 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
 	bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
 	depends on KALLSYMS
@@ -748,18 +843,6 @@ config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
           This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker
           support, saving some memory.
 
-config COMPAT_BRK
-	bool "Disable heap randomization"
-	default y
-	help
-	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
-	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
-	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
-	  disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
-	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
-
-	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
-
 config BASE_FULL
 	default y
 	bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
@@ -777,9 +860,6 @@ config FUTEX
 	  support for "fast userspace mutexes".  The resulting kernel may not
 	  run glibc-based applications correctly.
 
-config ANON_INODES
-	bool
-
 config EPOLL
 	bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
 	default y
@@ -865,6 +945,18 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG
 	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
 	  no support for cache validation etc.
 
+config COMPAT_BRK
+	bool "Disable heap randomization"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it
+	  also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based).
+	  This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization
+	  disabled, and can be overriden runtime by setting
+	  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2.
+
+	  On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice.
+
 choice
 	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
 	default SLUB
@@ -1033,90 +1125,3 @@ source "block/Kconfig"
 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
 	bool
 
-choice
-	prompt "RCU Implementation"
-	default CLASSIC_RCU
-
-config CLASSIC_RCU
-	bool "Classic RCU"
-	help
-	  This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
-	  designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
-	  systems.
-
-	  Select this option if you are unsure.
-
-config TREE_RCU
-	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
-	help
-	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
-	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
-	  thousands of CPUs.
-
-config PREEMPT_RCU
-	bool "Preemptible RCU"
-	depends on PREEMPT
-	help
-	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
-	  RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
-	  this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
-	  preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
-	  now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
-	  remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
-
-endchoice
-
-config RCU_TRACE
-	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
-	depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
-	help
-	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
-	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
-
-	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
-	  Say N if you are unsure.
-
-config RCU_FANOUT
-	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
-	range 2 64 if 64BIT
-	range 2 32 if !64BIT
-	depends on TREE_RCU
-	default 64 if 64BIT
-	default 32 if !64BIT
-	help
-	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
-	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
-	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the cube
-	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit
-	  systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems.
-
-	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
-	  Take the default if unsure.
-
-config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
-	bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing"
-	depends on TREE_RCU
-	default n
-	help
-	  This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified,
-	  regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy.  This is useful for
-	  testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with
-	  strong NUMA behavior.
-
-	  Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy.
-
-	  Say N if unsure.
-
-config TREE_RCU_TRACE
-	def_bool RCU_TRACE && TREE_RCU
-	select DEBUG_FS
-	help
-	  This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU implementation,
-	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c.
-
-config PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE
-	def_bool RCU_TRACE && PREEMPT_RCU
-	select DEBUG_FS
-	help
-	  This option provides tracing for the PREEMPT_RCU implementation,
-	  permitting Makefile to trivially select kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c.
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 708105e163d..8d4ff5afc1d 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -370,10 +370,14 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 		ssleep(root_delay);
 	}
 
-	/* wait for the known devices to complete their probing */
-	while (driver_probe_done() != 0)
-		msleep(100);
-	async_synchronize_full();
+	/*
+	 * wait for the known devices to complete their probing
+	 *
+	 * Note: this is a potential source of long boot delays.
+	 * For example, it is not atypical to wait 5 seconds here
+	 * for the touchpad of a laptop to initialize.
+	 */
+	wait_for_device_probe();
 
 	md_run_setup();
 
@@ -399,6 +403,7 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 		while (driver_probe_done() != 0 ||
 			(ROOT_DEV = name_to_dev_t(saved_root_name)) == 0)
 			msleep(100);
+		async_synchronize_full();
 	}
 
 	is_floppy = MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == FLOPPY_MAJOR;
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_md.c b/init/do_mounts_md.c
index ff95e319288..9bdddbcb3d6 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_md.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_md.c
@@ -281,8 +281,9 @@ static void __init autodetect_raid(void)
 	 */
 	printk(KERN_INFO "md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect\n");
 	printk(KERN_INFO "md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect\n");
-	while (driver_probe_done() < 0)
-		msleep(100);
+
+	wait_for_device_probe();
+
 	fd = sys_open("/dev/md0", 0, 0);
 	if (fd >= 0) {
 		sys_ioctl(fd, RAID_AUTORUN, raid_autopart);
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 844209453c0..83697e160b3 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static inline void mark_rodata_ro(void) { }
 extern void tc_init(void);
 #endif
 
-enum system_states system_state;
+enum system_states system_state __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_state);
 
 /*
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ static noinline void __init_refok rest_init(void)
 	 * at least once to get things moving:
 	 */
 	init_idle_bootup_task(current);
+	rcu_scheduler_starting();
 	preempt_enable_no_resched();
 	schedule();
 	preempt_disable();