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2006-02-06Merge branch 'origin'Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-02-04[PATCH] x86_64: Calibrate APIC timer using PM timerAndi Kleen
On some broken motherboards (at least one NForce3 based AMD64 laptop) the PIT timer runs at a incorrect frequency. This patch adds a new option "apicpmtimer" that allows to use the APIC timer and calibrate it using the PMTimer. It requires the earlier patch that allows to run the main timer from the APIC. Specifying apicpmtimer implies apicmaintimer. The option defaults to off for now. I tested it on a few systems and the resulting APIC timer frequencies were usually a bit off, but always <1%, which should be tolerable. TBD figure out heuristic to enable this automatically on the affected systems TBD perhaps do it on all NForce3s or using DMI? Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04[PATCH] x86_64: Allow to run main time keeping from the local APIC interruptAndi Kleen
Another piece from the no-idle-tick patch. This can be enabled with the "apicmaintimer" option. This is mainly useful when the PIT/HPET interrupt is unreliable. Note there are some systems that are known to stop the APIC timer in C3. For those it will never work, but this case should be automatically detected. It also only works with PM timer right now. When HPET is used the way the main timer handler computes the delay doesn't work. It should be a bit more efficient because there is one less regular interrupt to process on the boot processor. Requires earlier bugfix from Venkatesh Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://oss.oracle.com/home/sourcebo/git/ocfs2Linus Torvalds
2006-02-03configfs: Add permission and ownership to configfs objects.Joel Becker
configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the items and attributes. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03[OCFS2] Documentation FixJ. Bruce Fields
Update ocfs2.txt to add "cluster aware lockf" under missing features. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-03[PATCH] Export cpu topology in sysfsZhang, Yanmin
The patch implements cpu topology exportation by sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo. 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id: represent the physical package id of cpu X; 2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id: represent the cpu core id to cpu X; 3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings: represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core; 4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings: represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package; To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file, driver/base/topology.c, is to export the 5 attributes. If one architecture wants to support this feature, it just needs to implement 4 defines, typically in file include/asm-XXX/topology.h. The 4 defines are: #define topology_physical_package_id(cpu) #define topology_core_id(cpu) #define topology_thread_siblings(cpu) #define topology_core_siblings(cpu) The type of **_id is int. The type of siblings is cpumask_t. To be consistent on all architectures, the 4 attributes should have deafult values if their values are unavailable. Below is the rule. 1) physical_package_id: If cpu has no physical package id, -1 is the default value. 2) core_id: If cpu doesn't support multi-core, its core id is 0. 3) thread_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support HT/multi-thread. 4) core_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support multi-core and HT/Multi-thread. So be careful when declaring the 4 defines in include/asm-XXX/topology.h. If an attribute isn't defined on an architecture, it won't be exported. Thank Nathan, Greg, Andi, Paul and Venki. The patch provides defines for i386/x86_64/ia64. Signed-off-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] parport: fix documentationArnaud Giersch
Fix documentation to actually match the code. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Documentation: Updated PCI Error RecoveryLinas Vepstas
This patch is a cleanup/restructuring/clarification of the PCI error handling doc. It should look rather professional at this point. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Clean up Documentation/driver-model/overview.txtLinas Vepstas
Edits to the driver-model documentation for grammar, clarity and content. These docs haven't been updated in years, and some of the technical content and discussion has become stale; this patch updates these. In addition, some of the language is awkward. Fix this. (I'm trying to cleanup the other files in this directory also, patches for these will come a bit later). Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-02[IPV4]: Document icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr sysctlHorms
Taken largely from the commit of the patch that added this feature: 1c2fb7f93cb20621772bf304f3dba0849942e5db I'm not sure about the ordering of the options in sysctl.txt, so I took a wild guess about where it fits. Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsaLinus Torvalds
2006-02-01Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
2006-02-01[PATCH] Doc/kernel-doc: add more usage infoRandy Dunlap
- Add info that structs, unions, enums, and typedefs are supported. - Add doc about "private:" and "public:" tags for struct fields. - Fix some typos. - Remove some trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] RCU documentation fixes (January 2006 update)Paul E. McKenney
Updates to in-tree RCU documentation based on comments over the past few months. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: migrate_pages() extensionChristoph Lameter
Add direct migration support with fall back to swap. Direct migration support on top of the swap based page migration facility. This allows the direct migration of anonymous pages and the migration of file backed pages by dropping the associated buffers (requires writeout). Fall back to swap out if necessary. The patch is based on lots of patches from the hotplug project but the code was restructured, documented and simplified as much as possible. Note that an additional patch that defines the migrate_page() method for filesystems is necessary in order to avoid writeback for anonymous and file backed pages. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] Reclaim slab during zone reclaimChristoph Lameter
If large amounts of zone memory are used by empty slabs then zone_reclaim becomes uneffective. This patch shakes the slab a bit. The problem with this patch is that the slab reclaim is not containable to a zone. Thus slab reclaim may affect the whole system and be extremely slow. This also means that we cannot determine how many pages were freed in this zone. Thus we need to go off node for at least one allocation. The functionality is disabled by default. We could modify the shrinkers to take a zone parameter but that would be quite invasive. Better ideas are welcome. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] Zone reclaim: Allow modification of zone reclaim behaviorChristoph Lameter
In some situations one may want zone_reclaim to behave differently. For example a process writing large amounts of memory will spew unto other nodes to cache the writes if many pages in a zone become dirty. This may impact the performance of processes running on other nodes. Allowing writes during reclaim puts a stop to that behavior and throttles the process by restricting the pages to the local zone. Similarly one may want to contain processes to local memory by enabling regular swap behavior during zone_reclaim. Off node memory allocation can then be controlled through memory policies and cpusets. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.Christoph Lameter
Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left. Reclaim will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless scans for memory. This is also useful to established sufficiently large off node allocation chunks to relieve the local node. It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations. For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up for longer periods of time. If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations. This patch allows just that.... Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] powerpc: Add flattened device tree documentationDavid Gibson
The flattened device tree is the only supported way of booting ARCH=powerpc kernels on non Open Firmware machines. The documentation for the flattened tree format and contents has been discussed on mailing lists and lately has been living in the dtc git tree. Really, it ought to go in the kernel's Documentation directory for maximum visibility. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size unitsRafael J. Wysocki
Make swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed for future compatibility. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[ALSA] fix typos in writing-an-alsa-driverGiuliano Pochini
Modules: Documentation Fixed typos in writing-an-alsa-driver document. Signed-off-by: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-02-01[ALSA] intel8x0 - Add MCP51 PCI IDTakashi Iwai
Modules: Documentation,Intel8x0 driver Added MCP51 PCI ID to intel8x0 driver. Also, updated the supported chips in documentation. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-01-31Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-01-31[PATCH] pci: Schedule removal of pci_module_initRichard Knutsson
Scheduled the removal of pci_module_init. Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] PCI: schedule PCI_LEGACY_PROC for removalAdrian Bunk
PCI_LEGACY_PROC is deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] USB: drivers/usb/media/w9968cf.c: remove hooks for the vpp moduleAdrian Bunk
- the w9968cf-vpp module is not intended for inclusion into the kernel - the upstream w9968cf package shipping the w9968cf-vpp module suggests to simply replace the w9968cf module shipped with the kernel Therefore, there seems to be no good reason spending some bytes of kernel memory for hooks for the w9968cf-vpp module. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] USB: Add ET61X[12]51 Video4Linux2 driverLuca Risolia
This patch adds a Video4Linux2 driver giving support to ET61X151 and ET61X251 PC Camera Controllers made by Etoms Electronics. Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] USB: SN9C10x driver updatesLuca Risolia
SN9C10x driver updates: - Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() - Move some macro definitions from sn9c102.h to sn9c102_core.c - Use vfree() and vmalloc_32() instead of rvfree() and rvmalloc() - Fix mmap() sys call - Documentation updates Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] USB: SN9C10x driver updates and bugfixesLuca Risolia
SN9C10x driver updates and bugfixes. Changes: + new, - removed, * cleanup, @ bugfix: @ fix poll() @ Remove bad get_ctrl()'s * Reduce ioctl stack usage * Remove final ";" from some macro definitions * Better support for SN9C103 + Add sn9c102_write_regs() + Add 0x0c45/0x602d to the list of SN9C10x based devices + Add support for OV7630 image sensors + Provide support for the built-in microphone interface of the SN9C103 + Documentation updates + Add 0x0c45/0x602e to the list of SN9C10x based devices Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[SCSI] aic7xxx: update documentationHannes Reinecke
This patch updates the documentation for aic7xxx and aic79xx with fixes from the adaptec driver. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-29[SCSI] megaraid_sas: new template defined to represent each type of controllersSumant Patro
This patch defines a new template to represent each type of controllers (identified by the processor used). The template has members that is set with appropriate values during driver initialisation. This change is done to support new controllers with minimal change to existing code. In future, for a new controller support, a template will be declared and its members initialised appropriately. Signed-off-by: Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com> Rejections fixed and Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-29[SCSI] megaraid_sas: cleanup queue command pathSumant Patro
This patch (originally submitted by Christoph Hellwig) removes code duplication in megasas_build_cmd. It also defines MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 to allow 64 bit compiled applications to work. Signed-off-by: Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com> Rejections fixed and Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-24[ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica asus fops pnpacpi ↵Len Brown
branches into release Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-23V4L/DVB (3409): Mark Typhoon cards as Lifeview OEM'sPeter Missel
- Mark Typhoon cards as OEM of Lifeview. Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-23V4L/DVB (3392): Add PCI ID for DigitalNow DVB-T Dual, rebranded DViCO ↵Michael Krufky
FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual. - Add PCI ID for DigitalNow DVB-T Dual, rebranded DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-18[PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support codeAlan Cox
This is a subset of the bluesmoke project core code, stripped of the NMI work which isn't ready to merge and some of the "interesting" proc functionality that needs reworking or just has no place in kernel. It requires no core kernel changes except the added scrub functions already posted. The goal is to merge further functionality only after the core code is accepted and proven in the base kernel, and only at the point the upstream extras are really ready to merge. From: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> This converts EDAC to sysfs and is the final chunk neccessary before EDAC has a stable user space API and can be considered for submission into the base kernel. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18[PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc overrideChristoph Lameter
proc support for zone reclaim This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on bootup. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
2006-01-16Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
2006-01-16[PATCH] fuse: update documentation for sysfsMiklos Szeredi
Add documentation for new attributes in sysfs. Also describe the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵Mauro Carvalho Chehab
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
2006-01-16barrier.txt got lost while the new barrier patchset was climbing upTejun Heo
the ladder to the mainline. Add it back. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
2006-01-15Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-01-14[PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inliningIngo Molnar
If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc to inline all the time. This requires several places that require to be inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] Update kernel-parameters.txt IOSCHED to spell out 'anticipatory'Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] nlm kernel-parameters updateRandy Dunlap
Add 2 lockd kernel parameters and spell 2 others correctly. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Cc: <buraphalinuxserver@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policiesRobin Holt
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately decrease the available memory on a particular node. Since there's no telling what sort of application (e.g. dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their site's situation. Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy. With the default policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today. This patch adds support for preferred, bind, and interleave policies. The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node which is doing the writing. Some jobs expect a single process to create and manage the tmpfs files. This results in a node which has a significantly reduced number of free pages. With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for that policy where they would prefer allocations. This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins. I added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist mount option. Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>