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2007-10-17security: Convert LSM into a static interfaceJames Morris
Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the overall security architecture. Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API abuse. Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified at boot. The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed. In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM. The modular interface is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure. It is used only by out-of-tree modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and dangerous, e.g. silently re-vectoring SELinux. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc] Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-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>
2007-10-17Add section IDs to Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmplRob Landley
Add recommended section IDs to Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Fix "make htmldocs" build break.Rob Landley
Fix two htmldocs build breaks, introduced by moving include/linux/usb_gadget.h to include/linux/usb/gadget.h and combining resume.c and suspend.c into main.c in drivers/base/power. Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add Documentation/RCU/00-IndexRob Landley
Add Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add recommended section IDs to deviceiobook.tmplRob Landley
Add recommended section ID tags to deviceiobook.tmpl Because otherwise the link #anchors in the html vary from build to build. Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c: clean up this codeWANG Cong
This patch does the following cleanups for Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c: - Fix two memory leaks; - Constify some char pointers; - Use snprintf instead of sprintf in case of buffer overflow; - Fix some indentations; - Other little improvements. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17vm.txt: document min_free_pages as critical for correctnessPavel Machek
min_free_pages is critical for correctness, document it as such. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17kdump: documentation cleanupsPavel Machek
This cleans up kdump documentation a bit. Plus I do not think we want to mention Linux trademark in _every_ file in documentation.... Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Update DMA-mapping documentationMatthew Wilcox
A couple of updates haven't considered whether the documentation makes sense as a whole any more. Three changes here: - Remove the reference to the "DAC Addressing for Address Space Hungry Devices" section which was deleted by Jan Beulich. - Remove the comment about DMA_24BIT_MASK which became obsolete when Tobias Klauser changed the code to actually use DMA_24BIT_MASK. - Remove the section "64-bit DMA and DAC cycle support" since it's fully covered above, and contains a reference to the section deleted by Jan. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> 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>
2007-10-17Add Documentation/power/00-INDEXRob Landley
Add Documentation/power/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add entries to Documentation/powerpcRob Landley
Add two missing entries to Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add Documentation/{w1,w1/masters}/00-INDEXRob Landley
Two 00-INDEX files under Documentation/w1 Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add missing entries to top level Documentation/00-INDEXRob Landley
Add missing entries to Documentation/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Tweak Documentation/SM501.txtRob Landley
The existing Documentation/SM501.txt gives no clue what the chip is or does, so copy the description from Kconfig help text. Acked-by: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add reset_devices to the recommended parametersBernhard Walle
This patch adds the "reset_devices" option (that's used only by one device driver for now) to the recommended list of command line parameters for kdump. Meaning (Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt): reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device during initialization. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Express new ELF32 mechanisms in documentationBernhard Walle
This patch reflects the http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=commit;h=b9c3648e690ad0dad12389659673206213a09760 change in kexec-tools-testing also now in the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Express relocatability of kernel on x86_64 in documentationBernhard Walle
This patch adapts the Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt file to express the fact that the x86_64 kernel is now also relocatable. This makes i386 and x86_64 now behave the same, simplifying the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Documentation: delete unreferenced xterm-linux.xpm fileRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/telephony/Jesper Juhl
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/telephony/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/sysctl/Jesper Juhl
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/sysctl/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/mips/Jesper Juhl
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/mips/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17doc: move vm/00-INDEX to Documentation/vmDavid Rientjes
Looks like the 00-INDEX file lost its parent directory in -rc6-mm1. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Documentation: add entries to filesystems/00-INDEX for several untracked filesDenis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Documentation/make/headers_install.txtRob Landley
Some documentation for "make headers_install". Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Clean up duplicate includes in Documentation/Jesper Juhl
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in Documentation/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.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>
2007-10-17Change man-pages maintainer addressMichael Kerrisk
The email address that I use for man-pages maintenance has changed as of now. This patch changes the address in Documentation/HOWTO and MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17dontdiff: update based on gitignore updatesRandy Dunlap
Update dontdiff, based on .gitignore patches from Pete Zaitcev and Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17NCR53C8XX: Remove deprecated IRQ flags (SA_*)Ahmed S. Darwish
Stop using deprecated IRQ flags in ncr53c8xx documentaion. The new IRQF_* macros are used instead. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Fix wrong filename reference in drivers-testing.txtRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information [Bug 9020]Matti Linnanvuori
atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information about semantics of initializer, atomic_set, atomic_read and atomic_xchg. It also incorrectly implies that operations mentioned above are not actual atomic operations. Included is most of the patch Document non-semantics of atomic_read() and atomic_set() by Chris Snook, except the word "assignment". Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17lk201: remove obsolete driverMaciej W. Rozycki
Remove the old-fashioned lk201 driver under drivers/tc/ that used to be used by the old dz.c and zs.c drivers, which is now orphan code referred to from nowhere and does not build anymore. A modern replacement is available as drivers/input/keyboard/lkkbd.c. There are no plans to do anything about this piece of code and it does not fit anywhere anymore, so it is not just a matter of maintenance or the lack of. There are still some bits that might be added to the new lkkbd.c driver based on the old code, and the embedded hardware documentation which is otherwise quite hard to get hold of might be useful to keep too. Both of these can be done separately though. RIP. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17doc: about email clients for Linux patchesRandy Dunlap
Requested by Jeff Garzik. v3, updated from lkml comments. Add info about various email clients and their applicability in being used to send Linux kernel patches. Some notes takes from http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients Portions used with permission. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronousDavid Howells
Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous to make it easier for NFS to make use of them. There are now accessor functions that do asynchronous constructions, a wait function to wait for construction to complete, and a completion function for the key type to indicate completion of construction. Note that the construction queue is now gone. Instead, keys under construction are linked in to the appropriate keyring in advance, and that anyone encountering one must wait for it to be complete before they can use it. This is done automatically for userspace. The following auxiliary changes are also made: (1) Key type implementation stuff is split from linux/key.h into linux/key-type.h. (2) AF_RXRPC provides a way to allocate null rxrpc-type keys so that AFS does not need to call key_instantiate_and_link() directly. (3) Adjust the debugging macros so that they're -Wformat checked even if they are disabled, and make it so they can be enabled simply by defining __KDEBUG to be consistent with other code of mine. (3) Documentation. [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: keys: missing word in documentation] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timersMatti Linnanvuori
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Spelling fix: weired -> weirdRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17quota: send messages via netlinkJan Kara
Implement sending of quota messages via netlink interface. The advantage is that in userspace we can better decide what to do with the message - for example display a dialogue in your X session or just write the message to the console. As a bonus, we can get rid of problems with console locking deep inside filesystem code once we remove the old printing mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Remove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parmRobert P. J. Day
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs correctionsRandy Dunlap
initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs: - fix typos/spellos/grammar - clarify RAM disk config location - correct cpio option Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17local_t: update documentationMathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17atomic_ops.txt: mention local_tGrant Grundler
local_t is a variant of atomic_t and has related ops to match. Add reference for local_t documentation to atomic_ops.txt. Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17local_t Documentation update 2Mathieu Desnoyers
Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to local_ops.txt. "Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful." Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17CodingStyle: relax the 80-cole ruleAlan Cox
I would suggest this change to make CodingStyle properly reflect the style used by the kernel, rather than the current wording which is wishful thinking and misleading, and comes from the same school of thought that gets off on prescriptive grammar, latin and comp.std.c Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Deprecate a.out ELF interpretersAndi Kleen
The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter). One particular messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out ld.sos. This was originally added to make transition from a.out to ELF easier because an a.out ELF ld.so could be still build using an older a.out toolkit. But by now that should be fully obsolete and removing it would clean up binfmt_elf.c up a bit. I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25. Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel. This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk warning users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: better warning message] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17doc firmware_sample_firmware_class.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzallocMariusz Kozlowski
Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c | 5246 -> 5211 (-35 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameterRavikiran G Thirumalai
Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings. This is useful for debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_thresh to identify possible softlockups earlier. This patch: 1. Adds a sysctl softlockup_thresh with valid values of 1-60s (Higher value to disable false positives) 2. Changes the softlockup printk to print the cpu softlockup time [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix various warnings and add definition of "two"] Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17oom: add oom_kill_allocating_task sysctlDavid Rientjes
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a memory-hogging target. This is helpful for systems with an insanely large number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades performance. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2007-10-16ide: add "hdx=nodma" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "hdx=nodma" option allowing user to disallow DMA for a given device. * Obsolete "ide=nodma" option. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-10-16ide: remove "idex=dma" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
It has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004, is valid only when used together with "ide=nodma" kernel parameter (which makes no sense) and only for aec62xx, cmd64x, cs5220, generic, hpt366, sl82c105, tc86c001 and triflex host drivers. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-10-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu kbuild: check for wrong use of CFLAGS kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists kbuild: call export_report from the Makefile kbuild: move Kai Germaschewski to CREDITS kconfig/menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values include/linux/Kbuild: remove duplicate entries kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt kbuild: call make once for all targets when O=.. is used kbuild: pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO kbuild: update _shipped files for kconfig syntax cleanup ... Fix up conflicts in arch/um/sys-{x86_64,i386}/Makefile manually.
2007-10-16Merge branch 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsaLinus Torvalds
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (264 commits) [ALSA] version 1.0.15 [ALSA] Fix thinko in cs4231 mce down check [ALSA] sun-cs4231: improved waiting after MCE down [ALSA] sun-cs4231: use cs4231-regs.h [ALSA] This simplifies and fixes waiting loops of the mce_down() [ALSA] This patch adds support for a wavetable chip on [ALSA] This patch removes open_mutex from the ad1848-lib as [ALSA] fix bootup crash in snd_gus_interrupt() [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix SKU ID function for realtek codecs [ALSA] Support ASUS P701 eeepc [0x1043 0x82a1] support [ALSA] hda-codec - Add array terminator for dmic in STAC codec [ALSA] hdsp - Fix zero division [ALSA] usb-audio - Fix double comment [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix STAC922x volume knob control [ALSA] Changed Jaroslav Kysela's e-mail from perex@suse.cz to perex@perex.cz [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix for Fujitsu Lifebook C1410 [ALSA] mpu-401: remove MPU401_INFO_UART_ONLY flag [ALSA] mpu-401: do not require an ACK byte for the ENTER_UART command [ALSA] via82xx - Add DXS quirk for Shuttle AK31v2 [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix input_mux numbers for vaio stac92xx ...
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