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2008-11-07Merge branch 'davem-next' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2008-11-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI" x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
2008-11-06fat: Fix ATTR_RO for directoryOGAWA Hirofumi
FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows, the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually, and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted for the customized folder by Explorer. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969337.aspx This adds "rodir" option. If user specified it, ATTR_RO is used as read-only flag even if it's the directory. Otherwise, inode->i_mode is not used to hold ATTR_RO (i.e. fat_mode_can_save_ro() returns 0). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06fat: document additional vfat mount optionsBart Trojanowski
While debugging a sync mount regression on vfat I noticed that there were mount options parsed by the driver that were not documented. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix some parts] Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update 'isolcpus' kernel optionLi Zefan
cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06cciss: add P700m to list of supported controllersdann frazier
P700m support was added in: 9cff3b383dad193b0762c27278a16237e10b53dc Update cciss.txt to match. Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmailTim Hockin
Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06cciss: new hardware supportMike Miller
Add support for 2 new SAS/SATA controllers. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06bonding: alternate agg selection policies for 802.3adJay Vosburgh
This patch implements alternative aggregator selection policies for 802.3ad. The existing policy, now termed "stable," selects the active aggregator by greatest bandwidth, and only reselects a new aggregator if the active aggregator is entirely disabled (no more ports or all ports down). This patch adds two new policies: bandwidth and count, selecting the active aggregator by total bandwidth (like the stable policy) or by the number of ports in the aggregator, respectively. These two policies also differ from the stable policy in that they will reselect the active aggregator when availability-related changes occur in the bond (e.g., link state change). This permits "gang failover" within 802.3ad, allowing redundant aggregators along parallel paths to always maintain the "best" aggregator as the active aggregator (rather than having to wait for the active to entirely fail). This patch also updates the driver version to 3.5.0. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-06bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failoverBrian Haley
This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices, especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko. - Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the IPv6-specific routines. Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds are supported. - Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event. Default is 1. - Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions: ndisc_build_skb() ndisc_send_skb() These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends shouldn't be asked to do this. These two routines are basically __ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order. - Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond support to 3.4.0. On failover, this new code will generate one packet: - An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch learn that the address has moved to the new slave. Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-04x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docsMark McLoughlin
Impact: documentation fix irqbalance was removed by: commit 8b8e8c1bf7275eca859fe551dfa484134eaf013b Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Date: Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700 Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03Merge branch 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: io mapping: clean up #ifdefs io mapping: improve documentation i915: use io-mapping interfaces instead of a variety of mapping kludges resources: add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps
2008-11-03io mapping: improve documentationKeith Packard
Impact: add documentation Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-02bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behaviorAndy Gospodarek
This documentation patch hopes to clarify that the '+' was only needed for Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and 5.1. After that the IP addreses could be added as a comma separated list just like the module option. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-10-31wireless: remove struct regdom hintingJohannes Berg
The code needs to be split out and cleaned up, so as a first step remove the capability, to add it back in a subsequent patch as a separate function. Also remove the publically facing return value of the function and the wiphy argument. A number of internal functions go from being generic helpers to just being used for alpha2 setting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31wireless: make regdom passing semantics simplerJohannes Berg
The regdom struct is given to the core, so it might as well free it in error conditions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31ipw2x00: change default policy for auto-associateTim Gardner
Do not attempt association until directed to do so by a user space application. In particular, this avoids race conditions with NetworkManager association state. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31rfkill: add master_switch_mode and EPO lock to rfkill and rfkill-inputHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add of software-based sanity to rfkill and rfkill-input so that it can reproduce what hardware-based EPO switches do, blocking all transmitters and locking down any further attempts to unblock them until the switch is deactivated. rfkill-input is responsible for issuing the EPO control requests, like before. While an rfkill EPO is active, all transmitters are locked to one of the BLOCKED states and all attempts to change that through the rfkill API (userspace and kernel) will be either ignored or return -EPERM errors. The lock will be released upon receipt of EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON by rfkill-input, or should modular rfkill-input be unloaded. This makes rfkill and rfkill-input extend the operation of an existing wireless master kill switch to all wireless devices in the system, even those that are not under hardware or firmware control. Since the above is the expected operational behavior for the master rfkill switch, the EPO lock functionality is not optional. Also, extend rfkill-input to allow for three different behaviors when it receives an EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON input event. The user can set which behavior he wants through the master_switch_mode parameter: master_switch_mode = 0: EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON just unlocks rfkill controller state changes (so that the rfkill userspace and kernel APIs can now be used to change rfkill controller states again), but doesn't change any of their states (so they will all remain blocked). This is the safest mode of operation, as it requires explicit operator action to re-enable a transmitter. master_switch_mode = 1: EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON causes rfkill-input to attempt to restore the system to the state before the last EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL OFF event, or to the default global states if no EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL OFF ever happened. This is the recommended mode of operation for laptops. master_switch_mode = 2: tries to unblock all rfkill controllers (i.e. enable all transmitters) when an EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON event is received. This is the default mode of operation, as it mimics the previous behavior of rfkill-input. In order to implement these features in a clean way, the entire event handling of rfkill-input was refactored into a single worker function. Protection against input event DoS (repeatedly firing rfkill events for rfkill-input to process) was removed during the code refactoring. It will be added back in a future patch. Note that with these changes, rfkill-input doesn't need to explicitly handle any radio types for which KEY_<radio type> or SW_<radio type> events do not exist yet. Code to handle EV_SW SW_{WLAN,WWAN,BLUETOOTH,WIMAX,...} was added as it might be needed in the future (and its implementation is not that obvious), but is currently #ifdef'd out to avoid wasting resources. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31resources: add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device aperturesKeith Packard
Impact: add new generic io_map_*() APIs Graphics devices have large PCI apertures which would consume a significant fraction of a 32-bit address space if mapped during driver initialization. Using ioremap at runtime is impractical as it is too slow. This new set of interfaces uses atomic mappings on 32-bit processors and a large static mapping on 64-bit processors to provide reasonable 32-bit performance and optimal 64-bit performance. The current implementation sits atop the io_map_atomic fixmap-based mechanism for 32-bit processors. This includes some editorial suggestions from Randy Dunlap for Documentation/io-mapping.txt Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-31Merge branch 'master' of ↵Paul Mundt
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
2008-10-31Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c
2008-10-31The overdue eepro100 removal.Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-10-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: lguest: fix irq vectors. lguest: fix early_ioremap. lguest: fix example launcher compile after moved asm-x86 dir.
2008-10-30Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: remove sched-design.txt from 00-INDEX sched: change sched_debug's mode to 0444
2008-10-30Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: handle archs that do not support irqs_disabled_flags
2008-10-31lguest: fix example launcher compile after moved asm-x86 dir.Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-30Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5326/1: AFEB9260: Fix for i2c_board_info structure [ARM] mx31ads: Add missing include [ARM] MXC: Fix mxc_gpio_get(), which must read PSR register instead DR. [ARM] MX3: Use ioremap wrapper to map SoC devices nonshared [ARM] gpio_free might sleep, arm architecture [ARM] ep93xx: fix OHCI DMA mask leds: da903x: (da9030 only) led brightness reversed. [ARM] sharpsl_pm: fix compilation w/o CONFIG_PM [ARM] pcm037: map AIPS1 and AIPS2 as nonshared area [ARM] build fixes for netX serial driver [ARM] 5323/1: Remove outdated empeg documentation. [ARM] 5299/1: Add maintainer for Mobilepro 900/c [ARM] corgi_lcd: fix simultaneous compilation with corgi_bl [ARM] pxa/spitz: fix spi cs on spitz [ARM] 5322/1: Fix fastpath issue in mmci.c [ARM] xsc3: revert writethrough memory-type encoding change
2008-10-31ftrace: handle archs that do not support irqs_disabled_flagsSteven Rostedt
Impact: build fix on non-lockdep architectures Some architectures do not support a way to read the irq flags that is set from "local_irq_save(flags)" to determine if interrupts were disabled or enabled. Ftrace uses this information to display to the user if the trace occurred with interrupts enabled or disabled. Besides the fact that those archs that do not support this will fail to compile, unless they fix it, we do not want to have the trace simply say interrupts were not disabled or they were enabled, without knowing the real answer. This patch adds a 'X' in the output to let the user know that the architecture they are running on does not support a way for the tracer to determine if interrupts were enabled or disabled. It also lets those same archs compile with tracing enabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs x86: 64 bit print out absent pages num too x86, kdump: fix invalid access on i386 sparsemem x86: fix APIC_DEBUG with inquire_remote_apic x86: AMD microcode patch loader author update x86: microcode patch loader author update mailmap: add Peter Oruba x86, bts: improve help text for BTS config doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
2008-10-30Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: i2c-s3c2410: Correct use of ! and & i2c: The i2c mailing list is moving scx200_i2c: Add missing class parameter
2008-10-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: Driver core: fix 'dynamic_debug' cmd line parameter HOWTO: Sync patch for jp_JP/HOWTO Update stable tree documentation sysfs: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int} driver core: drivers/base/sys.c: update comments Document kernel taint flags properly
2008-10-30Rationalise Randy's address a bitAlan Cox
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 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>
2008-10-30docs: fix ManagementStyle book nameJiri Pirko
Just corrected the book name. I'm probably the only one who ever read this file :-) Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> 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>
2008-10-30docbook: fix command spacingHans Ulrich Niedermann
The total width of the command name plus spaces should be 8 characters, but were 7 and 9, respectively. With 8 chars, all commands are now lining up nicely. The mandocs, psdocs, xmldocs commands are OK. Before: HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.xml HTML Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.html DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml PDF Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.pdf After: HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.xml HTML Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.html DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml PDF Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.pdf Signed-off-by: Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@n-dimensional.de> 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>
2008-10-30fs: remove prepare_write/commit_writeNick Piggin
Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree completely. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30.gitignore updatesAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30i2c: The i2c mailing list is movingJean Delvare
Replace all references to the old i2c mailing list. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-30Merge branch 'fix' of ↵Russell King
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ycmiao/pxa-linux-2.6
2008-10-30sched: remove sched-design.txt from 00-INDEXLi Zefan
Impact: remove stale documentation reference sched-design.txt has been removed. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-29HOWTO: Sync patch for jp_JP/HOWTOTsugikazu Shibata
Sync the jp_JP version of HOWTO to contain the latest updates From: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-29Update stable tree documentationJosh Boyer
Update the documentation for the stable tree rules to reflect that device IDs and quirks are also suitable for -stable kernels. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-29Document kernel taint flags properlyGreg Kroah-Hartman
This fills in the documentation for all of the current kernel taint flags, and fixes the number for TAINT_CRAP, which was incorrectly described. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-29[ARM] 5323/1: Remove outdated empeg documentation.Mike Crowe
The documents aren't particularly useful anyway and the hardware in question has never run anything newer than a v2.2.14 kernel to my knowledge. Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-28Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix documentation reference for sched_min_granularity_ns sched: virtual time buddy preemption sched: re-instate vruntime based wakeup preemption sched: weaken sync hint sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting sched: fix a find_busiest_group buglet sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistency
2008-10-28doc/x86: fix doc subdirsUwe Hermann
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to those files accordingly. Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28sh: Kill off long-dead HD64465 cchip support.Paul Mundt
This code has been dead for many years. The last update it received was in 2003 in order to update it for the driver model changes, though it had already been in disarray and unused before that point. The only boards that ever used this chip have not had users in many years either, so it is finally safe to just kill it off and move on with life. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-10-27net: implement emergency route cache rebulds when gc_elasticity is exceededNeil Horman
This is a patch to provide on demand route cache rebuilding. Currently, our route cache is rebulid periodically regardless of need. This introduced unneeded periodic latency. This patch offers a better approach. Using code provided by Eric Dumazet, we compute the standard deviation of the average hash bucket chain length while running rt_check_expire. Should any given chain length grow to larger that average plus 4 standard deviations, we trigger an emergency hash table rebuild for that net namespace. This allows for the common case in which chains are well behaved and do not grow unevenly to not incur any latency at all, while those systems (which may be being maliciously attacked), only rebuild when the attack is detected. This patch take 2 other factors into account: 1) chains with multiple entries that differ by attributes that do not affect the hash value are only counted once, so as not to unduly bias system to rebuilding if features like QOS are heavily used 2) if rebuilding crosses a certain threshold (which is adjustable via the added sysctl in this patch), route caching is disabled entirely for that net namespace, since constant rebuilding is less efficient that no caching at all Tested successfully by me. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27sched: fix documentation reference for sched_min_granularity_nsJiri Kosina
Impact: documentation fix sched-design-CFS.txt wrongly references sched_granularity_ns sysctl, as its name in fact is sched_min_granularity_ns. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: psmouse - add support for Elantech touchpads Input: i8042 - add Blue FB5601 to noloop exception table