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Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the
/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch.
This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to
the kernel console. This is useful to find early bootup bugs where
userspace debugging is very hard.
Defaults to off.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a new configuration variable
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON
If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging
switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging
is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a
kernel parameter.
Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was
built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying
slub_debug=-
as a kernel parameter.
Dave Jones wanted this feature.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6.
This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable.
Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based.
[Default Order]
The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically.
[Node-based Order]
This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones
(ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist.
current 2.6.21 kernel uses this.
Pros.
* A user can expect local memory as much as possible.
Cons.
* lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL.
Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL
because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality.
(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.
*node(0)'s memory allocation order:
node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL.
*node(1)'s memory allocation order:
node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.
[Zone-based order]
This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone
never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist.
Pros.
* OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted.
Cons.
* memory locality may not be best.
(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.
*node(0)'s memory allocation order:
node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.
*node(1)'s memory allocation order:
node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.
bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd.
command:
%echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order
Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order.
command:
%echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order
Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order.
Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes.
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and
include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in
serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=>
register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console
ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in
drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0.
that is too late.
Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make
it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature.
and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically.
new command line will be:
console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
or
earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
it will print in very early stage:
Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8')
console [uart0] enabled
later for console it will print:
console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0]
Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This version brings a number of new checks, fixes for flase
positives, plus a clarification of the output to better guide use. Of
note:
- checks for documentation for new __setup calls
- clearer reporting where braces and parenthesis are involved
- reports for closing brace and semi-colon spacing
- reports on unwanted externs
This patch includes an update to the documentation on checkpatch.pl
itself to clarify when it should be used and to indicate that it
is not intended as the final arbitor of style.
Full changelog:
Andy Whitcroft (19):
Version: 0.07
ensure we do not apply control brace checks to preprocesor directives
add {u,s}{8,16,32,64} to the type matcher
accept lack of spacing after the semicolons in for (;;)
report new externs in .c files
fix up typedef exclusion for function prototypes
else trailing statements check need to account for \ at end of line
add enums to the type matcher
add missing check descriptions
suppress double reporting of ** spacing
report on do{ spacing issues
include an example of the brace/parenthesis in output
check for spacing after closing braces
prevent double reports on pointer spacing issues
handle blank continuation lines on macros
classify all reports error, warning, or check
revamp hanging { checks and apply in context
no spaces after the last ; in a for is ok
check __setup has a corresponding addition to documentation
David Woodhouse (1):
limit character set used in patches and descriptions to UTF-8
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (166 commits)
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] dc395x: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ncr53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ppa: coding police and printk levels
[SCSI] aic7xxx_old: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc
[SCSI] i2o: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc from device.c
[SCSI] remove the dead CYBERSTORMIII_SCSI option
[SCSI] don't build scsi_dma_{map,unmap} for !HAS_DMA
[SCSI] Clean up scsi_add_lun a bit
[SCSI] 53c700: Remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs
[SCSI] sni_53c710: Cleanup
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix underrun/overrun conditions
[SCSI] megaraid_mbox: use mutex instead of semaphore
[SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.00-k1.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: add support for NPIV
[SCSI] stex: use resid for xfer len information
[SCSI] Add Brownie 1200U3P to blacklist
[SCSI] scsi.c: convert to use the data buffer accessors
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
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Adding Adaptec 51245 (16 port), 51645 (20 port) and 52445 (28 port)
Universal Serial RAID controllers to the aacraid documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Fix typos in powernow-k8 printk's.
[CPUFREQ] Restore previously used governor on a hot-replugged CPU
[CPUFREQ] bugfix cpufreq in combination with performance governor
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8 compile fix.
[CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI
[CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Option to disable ACPI C3 support
Fixed up arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c due to revert that
got fixed differently in the cpufreq branch.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop
* 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits)
ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id
ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig
iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver
iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver
dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5
md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops
md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops
md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops
md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock
raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug
raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3)
async_tx: add the async_tx api
xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx
dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels
dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor
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This patch contains the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management
for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying. Our understanding of the issues
has improved over time.
- Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators. There are
a few exceptions (like the HID driver).
- Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing
USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet.
- Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem
DMA" capability through a driver stack. This is easy, everything
already avoids highmem. But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much
physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass
storage devices. (Patch, anyone?)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as920) adds an extra level of protection to the
USB-Persist facility. Now it will apply by default only to hubs; for
all other devices the user must enable it explicitly by setting the
power/persist device attribute.
The disconnect_all_children() routine in hub.c has been removed and
its code placed inline. This is the way it was originally as part of
hub_pre_reset(); the revised usage in hub_reset_resume() is
sufficiently different that the code can no longer be shared.
Likewise, mark_children_for_reset() is now inline as part of
hub_reset_resume(). The end result looks much cleaner than before.
The sysfs interface is updated to add the new attribute file, and
there are corresponding documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility,
allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system
suspend.
The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate
warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the
behavior will remain the same as it is now. But when the option is
on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB
filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small
machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device!
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
security: unexport mmap_min_addr
SELinux: use SECINITSID_NETMSG instead of SECINITSID_UNLABELED for NetLabel
security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
SELinux: Use %lu for inode->i_no when printing avc
SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checks
selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy()
selinux: add selinuxfs structure for object class discovery
selinux: change sel_make_dir() to specify inode counter.
selinux: rename sel_remove_bools() for more general usage.
selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Support multiple CPUs going through OS_MCA
[IA64] silence GCC ia64 unused variable warnings
[IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space
[IA64] add sn_register_pmi_handler oemcall
[IA64] Stop bit for brl instruction
[IA64] SN: Correct ROM resource length for BIOS copy
[IA64] Don't set psr.ic and psr.i simultaneously
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (61 commits)
sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes
sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable
sysfs: implement sysfs_get_dentry()
sysfs: move sysfs_drop_dentry() to dir.c and make it static
sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update
sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree
sysfs: consolidate sysfs spinlocks
sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry
sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent()
sysfs: implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag
sysfs: rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags and make room for flags
sysfs: make sysfs_drop_dentry() access inodes using ilookup()
sysfs: Fix oops in sysfs_drop_dentry on x86_64
sysfs: use singly-linked list for sysfs_dirent tree
sysfs: slim down sysfs_dirent->s_active
sysfs: move s_active functions to fs/sysfs/dir.c
sysfs: fix root sysfs_dirent -> root dentry association
sysfs: use iget_locked() instead of new_inode()
sysfs: reorganize sysfs_new_indoe() and sysfs_create()
sysfs: fix parent refcounting during rename and move
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (183 commits)
[TG3]: Update version to 3.78.
[TG3]: Add missing NVRAM strapping.
[TG3]: Enable auto MDI.
[TG3]: Fix the polarity bit.
[TG3]: Fix irq_sync race condition.
[NET_SCHED]: ematch: module autoloading
[TCP]: tcp probe wraparound handling and other changes
[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address
[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification
[VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling
[ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addr
[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.
[AF_UNIX]: Rewrite garbage collector, fixes race.
[NETFILTER]: {ip, nf}_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference (CVE-2007-2876)
[NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.
[UDP]: Fix length check.
[IPV6]: Remove unneeded pointer idev from addrconf_cleanup().
[DECNET]: Another unnecessary net/tcp.h inclusion in net/dn.h
[IPV6]: Make IPV6_{RECV,2292}RTHDR boolean options.
[IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore.
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Fixed up trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
manually.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: (30 commits)
Blackfin serial driver: supporting BF548-EZKIT serial port
Video Console: Blackfin doesnt support VGA console
Blackfin arch: Add peripheral io API to gpio header file
Blackfin arch: set up gpio interrupt IRQ_PJ9 for BF54x ATAPI PATA driver
Blackfin arch: add missing CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS when upstream merging
Blackfin arch: as pointed out by Robert P. J. Day, update the CPU_FREQ name to match current Kconfig
Blackfin arch: extract the entry point from the linked kernel
Blackfin arch: clean up some coding style issues
Blackfin arch: combine the common code of free_initrd_mem and free_initmem
Blackfin arch: Add Support for Peripheral PortMux and resouce allocation
Blackfin arch: use PAGE_SIZE when doing aligns rather than hardcoded values
Blackfin arch: fix bug set dma_address properly in dma_map_sg
Blackfin arch: Disable CACHELINE_ALIGNED_L1 for BF54x by default
Blackfin arch: Port the dm9000 driver to Blackfin by using the correct low-level io routines
Blackfin arch: There is no CDPRIO Bit in the EBIU_AMGCTL Register of BF54x arch
Blackfin arch: scrub dead code
Blackfin arch: Fix Warning add some defines in BF54x header file
Blackfin arch: add BF54x missing GPIO access functions
Blackfin arch: Some memory and code optimizations - Fix SYS_IRQS
Blackfin arch: Enable BF54x PIN/GPIO interrupts
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* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (26 commits)
i2c-rpx: Remove
i2c-mpc: work around missing-9th-clock-pulse bug
i2c: New PMC MSP71xx TWI bus driver
i2c-savage4: Delete many unused defines
i2c/tsl2550: Speed up initialization
i2c: New bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules
i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+
i2c-i801: Various cleanups
i2c: Add support for the TSL2550
i2c-pxa: Support new-style I2C drivers
i2c-gpio: Make some internal functions static
i2c-gpio: Add support for new-style clients
i2c-iop3xx: Switch to static adapter numbering
i2c-sis5595: Resolve resource conflict with sis5595
matroxfb: Clean-up i2c header inclusions
i2c-nforce2: Add support for SMBus block transactions
i2c-mpc: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
i2c-mv64xxx: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB700
i2c: New DS1682 chip driver
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Generic code to walk through the fields in a radiotap header, accounting
for nasties like extended "field present" bitfields and alignment rules
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Add monitor mode radiotap injection docs.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The relocatable kernel code needs a scratch field for the decompressor
to determine its own location. It was using a location inside
struct screen_info; reserve a free location and document it as scratch
instead.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This driver has been broken forever. It depends on i2c-algo-8xx which
has never been in the mainline kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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This is a new I2C bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules. Developped
and tested on the TAOS TSL2550 EVM.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Add an ability to utilize the internal SRAM buffer on ICH4
and newer host controllers to speed up execution of block operations.
I've split the code so that it is more clear which block transaction is
performed.
First of all the host controller's type is identified. isich4 is set when
we think that the controller has the internal buffer. Then, before every
block transaction, if isich4 is set, we attempt to enable the E32B bit in
SMBAUXCTL register.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Ryjkov <olegr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Add the SMBus device ID for ATI SB700.
Signed-off-by: Henry Su <Henry.su@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with
i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was
hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense.
Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's
about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid
things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging,
to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that.
I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already
implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't
follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed
before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used,
which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far.
There are some obvious compatiblity considerations:
* This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users
outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will
have to update their code.
* User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so
the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order
to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA
a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the
old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the
old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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We have a new RTC subsystem with better drivers.
Legacy driver status:
* ds1337: The DS1337 and DS1339 are now supported by the rtc-ds1307
driver, so it looks to me like we could even delete the ds1337
driver right away.
* ds1374: Will soon be replaced with Scott Wood's rtc-ds1374 driver.
* m41t00: The M41T00 is supported by the rtc-ds1307 driver. For the
M41T81 and M41T85, the rtc-m41t80 driver written by Atsushi Nemoto
should work.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Cc: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
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The x1205 driver moved to the RTC subsystem and was significantly
modified since then, so just delete the outdated documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
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Generate I2C kerneldoc; fix various glitches and add "context" sections to
that documentation. Most I2C and SMBus functions still have no kerneldoc.
Let me suggest providing kerneldoc for all the i2c_smbus_*() functions as
a small and mostly self-contained project for anyone so inclined. :)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Add a new security check on mmap operations to see if the user is attempting
to mmap to low area of the address space. The amount of space protected is
indicated by the new proc tunable /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to
0, preserving existing behavior.
This patch uses a new SELinux security class "memprotect." Policy already
contains a number of allow rules like a_t self:process * (unconfined_t being
one of them) which mean that putting this check in the process class (its
best current fit) would make it useless as all user processes, which we also
want to protect against, would be allowed. By taking the memprotect name of
the new class it will also make it possible for us to move some of the other
memory protect permissions out of 'process' and into the new class next time
we bump the policy version number (which I also think is a good future idea)
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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sysfs binary attributes
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.
What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.
In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(
Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)
Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.
Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Here's a document to help clear things up.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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As suggested by Andrew, add pci_try_set_mwi(), which does not require
return-value checking.
- add pci_try_set_mwi() without __must_check
- make it return 0 on success, errno if the "try" failed or error
- review callers
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Based on replies to a respective query, remove the pci_dac_dma_...() APIs
(except for pci_dac_dma_supported() on Alpha, where this function is used
in non-DAC PCI DMA code).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and
from documentation. Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel,
but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
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Example memory map (HP rx7640 with 'default' acpiconfig setting, VGA disabled):
0x00000000 - 0x3FFFBFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
If a user attempts to perform an MMIO mmap (using the PCIIOC_MMAP_IS_MEM ioctl)
to PCI config space (like mmap'ing and accessing memory at 0xA0000),
we will MCA because the kernel will attempt to use a mapping with the UC
attribute.
So check the memory attribute in kern_mmap and the EFI memmap. If WC is
requested, and WC or UC access is supported for the region, allow it.
Otherwise, use the same attribute the kernel uses.
Updates documentation and test cases as well.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Based on <draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-00.txt>.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Document the expectations about device MTU handling.
The documentation about oversize packet handling is probably too
loose.
IMHO devices should drop oversize packets for robustness,
but many devices allow it now. For example, if you set mtu to 1200
bytes, most ether devices will allow a 1500 byte frame in.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Update the documentation about locking assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add a brief howto to Documentation/networking for multiqueue. It
explains how to use the multiqueue API in a driver to support
multiqueue paths from the stack, as well as the qdiscs to use for
feeding a multiqueue device.
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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With help from Chris Wedgwood.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (40 commits)
bonding/bond_main.c: make 2 functions static
ps3: gigabit ethernet driver for PS3, take3
[netdrvr] Fix dependencies for ax88796 ne2k clone driver
eHEA: Capability flag for DLPAR support
Remove sk98lin ethernet driver.
sunhme.c:quattro_pci_find() must be __devinit
bonding / ipv6: no addrconf for slaves separately from master
atl1: remove write-only var in tx handler
macmace: use "unsigned long flags;"
Cleanup usbnet_probe() return value handling
netxen: deinline and sparse fix
eeprom_93cx6: shorten pulse timing to match spec (bis)
phylib: Add Marvell 88E1112 phy id
phylib: cleanup marvell.c a bit
AX88796 network driver
IOC3: Switch to pci refcounting safe APIs
e100: Fix Tyan motherboard e100 not receiving IPMI commands
QE Ethernet driver writes to wrong register to mask interrupts
rrunner.c:rr_init() must be __devinit
tokenring/3c359.c:xl_init() must be __devinit
...
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* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6:
[BATTERY] ds2760 W1 slave
[BATTERY] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver
[BATTERY] Apple PMU driver
[BATTERY] 1-Wire ds2760 chip battery driver
[BATTERY] APM emulation driver for class batteries
[BATTERY] pda_power platform driver
[BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)
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