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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modified since then, so just delete the outdated documentation.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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Sometimes other drivers depend on particular configfs items. For
example, ocfs2 mounts depend on a heartbeat region item. If that
region item is removed with rmdir(2), the ocfs2 mount must BUG or go
readonly. Not happy.
This provides two additional API calls: configfs_depend_item() and
configfs_undepend_item(). A client driver can call
configfs_depend_item() on an existing item to tell configfs that it is
depended on. configfs will then return -EBUSY from rmdir(2) for that
item. When the item is no longer depended on, the client driver calls
configfs_undepend_item() on it.
These API cannot be called underneath any configfs callbacks, as
they will conflict. They can block and allocate. A client driver
probably shouldn't calling them of its own gumption. Rather it should
be providing an API that external subsystems call.
How does this work? Imagine the ocfs2 mount process. When it mounts,
it asks for a heart region item. This is done via a call into the
heartbeat code. Inside the heartbeat code, the region item is looked
up. Here, the heartbeat code calls configfs_depend_item(). If it
succeeds, then heartbeat knows the region is safe to give to ocfs2.
If it fails, it was being torn down anyway, and heartbeat can gracefully
pass up an error.
[ Fixed some bad whitespace in configfs.txt. --Mark ]
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Add a notification callback, ops->disconnect_notify(). It has the same
prototype as ->drop_item(), but it will be called just before the item
linkage is broken. This way, configfs users who want to do work while
the object is still in the heirarchy have a chance.
Client drivers will still need to config_item_put() in their
->drop_item(), if they implement it. They need do nothing in
->disconnect_notify(). They don't have to provide it if they don't
care. But someone who wants to be notified before ci_parent is set to
NULL can now be notified.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Convert the su_sem member of struct configfs_subsystem to a struct
mutex, as that's what it is. Also convert all the users and update
Documentation/configfs.txt and Documentation/configfs_example.c
accordingly.
[ Conflict in fs/dlm/config.c with commit
3168b0780d06ace875696f8a648d04d6089654e5 manually resolved. --Mark ]
Inspired-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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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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* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
pipe: add documentation and comments
pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()
Remove remnants of sendfile()
xip sendfile removal
splice: completely document external interface with kerneldoc
sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops
shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()
relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loop
pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointer
splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe header
splice: relay support
sendfile: convert nfsd to splice_direct_to_actor()
sendfile: convert nfs to using splice_read()
loop: convert to using splice_direct_to_actor() instead of sendfile()
splice: add void cookie to the actor data
sendfile: kill generic_file_sendfile()
sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()
sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available
vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user support
splice: abstract out actor data
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Unmaintained, superceded by skge.
Prodded to deletion by Adrian Bunk. Acked by Stephen Hemminger.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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The arch/ppc tree has been in a semi-nebulous "bug fix only" state for a
few kernel releases now. The patch below officially declares this as of
the 2.6.22 kernel release and schedules arch/ppc for removal in June of
2008.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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blk_queue_ordered() no longer has a gfp_mask parameter - blk_queue_ordered_locked() no longer exists - sd_prepare_flush() looks slightly different
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This class is result of "external power" and "battery" classes merge,
as suggested by David Woodhouse. He also implemented uevent support.
Here how userspace seeing it now:
# ls /sys/class/power\ supply/
ac main-battery usb
# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/type
AC
# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/type
USB
# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/type
Battery
# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/online
1
# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/online
0
# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/status
Charging
# cat /sys/class/leds/h5400\:red-left/trigger
none h5400-radio timer hwtimer ac-online usb-online
main-battery-charging-or-full [main-battery-charging]
main-battery-full
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Also add fs/splice.c as a kerneldoc target with a smaller blurb that
should be expanded to better explain the overview of splice.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (31 commits)
firewire: fw-sbp2: fix DMA mapping of management ORBs
firewire: fw-sbp2: fix DMA mapping of command ORBs
firewire: fw-sbp2: fix DMA mapping of S/G tables
firewire: fw-sbp2: add a boundary check
firewire: fw-sbp2: correctly align page tables
firewire: fw-sbp2: memset wants string.h
firewire: fw-sbp2: use correct speed in sbp2_agent_reset
firewire: fw-sbp2: correctly dereference by container_of
firewire: Document userspace ioctl interface.
firewire: fw-sbp2: implement nonexclusive login
firewire: fw-sbp2: let SCSI shutdown commands through before logout
firewire: fw-sbp2: implement max sectors limit for some old bridges
firewire: simplify a struct type
firewire: support S100B...S400B and link slower than PHY
firewire: optimize gap count with 1394b leaf nodes
firewire: remove unused macro
firewire: missing newline in printk
firewire: fw-sbp2: remove unused struct member
ieee1394: remove old isochronous ABI
ieee1394: sbp2: change some module parameters from int to bool
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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: (75 commits)
Ethernet driver for EISA only SNI RM200/RM400 machines
Extract chip specific code out of lasi_82596.c
ehea: Whitespace cleanup
pasemi_mac: Fix TX interrupt threshold
spidernet: Replace literal with const
r8169: perform RX config change after mac filtering
r8169: mac address change support
r8169: display some extra debug information during startup
r8169: add endianess annotations to [RT]xDesc
r8169: align the IP header when there is no DMA constraint
r8169: add bit description for the TxPoll register
r8169: cleanup
r8169: remove the media option
r8169: small 8101 comment
r8169: confusion between hardware and IP header alignment
r8169: merge with version 8.001.00 of Realtek's r8168 driver
r8169: merge with version 6.001.00 of Realtek's r8169 driver
r8169: prettify mac_version
r8169: populate the hw_start handler for the 8110
r8169: populate the hw_start handler for the 8168
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Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}"
from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006.
This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and
disables them in pcilynx. That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and
hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception
and transmission.
Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso
interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no
longer useful for isochronous applications.
raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the
requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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add Documentation/sched-design-CFS.txt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation
code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for
this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve
the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips
tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'.
this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector
doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot
delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the
balancing code pretty undeterministic as well.
(and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-)
under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without
any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline'
tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the
tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Documentation for the spidernet driver.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Document the global utilities node define and example.
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Also, remove outdated 1394 tree and mention MAINTAINERS as pointer to
development trees.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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subnodes
A strict reading of the flattened device tree format defined in
booting-without-of.txt does in fact require that all the tags defining
properties for a node go before any definitions of subnodes, however
it's not particularly emphasised. Although allowing intermingled
properties and subnodes would not be ambiguous in meaning, the kernel
parser does currently require that properties precede subnodes.
Furthermore, keeping this constraint makes life easier for various
device tree scanning tools.
Therefore, re-emphasise in booting-without-of.txt that this is a
strict requirement of the flattened device tree format.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This looks like leftover text in the kernel parameter in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-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>
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Add documentation for the SM501 in Documentation/SM501.txt outlining the SM501
driver.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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This makes unmap_vm_area static and a wrapper around a new
exported unmap_kernel_range that takes an explicit range instead
of a vm_area struct.
This makes it more versatile for code that wants to play with kernel
page tables outside of the standard vmalloc area.
(One example is some rework of the PowerPC PCI IO space mapping
code that depends on that patch and removes some code duplication
and horrible abuse of forged struct vm_struct).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
OHCI: Fix machine check in ohci_hub_status_data
USB: Fix up bogus bInterval values in endpoint descriptors
USB: cxacru: ignore error trying to start ADSL in atm_start
USB: cxacru: create sysfs attributes in atm_start instead of bind
USB: cxacru: add Documentation file
USB: UNUSUAL_DEV: Sync up some reported devices from Ubuntu
USB: usb gadgets avoid le{16,32}_to_cpup()
usblp: Don't let suspend to kill ->used
USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
firmware: remove orphaned Email
kobject: use the proper printk level for kobject error
Driver core: kill unused code
Driver core: keep PHYSDEV for old struct class_device
update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap reports that a tmpfs, mounted with NUMA mpol= specifying an
offline node, crashes as soon as data is allocated upon it. Now restrict it
to online nodes, where before it restricted to MAX_NUMNODES.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Tested-and-acked-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>
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Now that deprecated functions are detected out of
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt update this to include
kernel_thread.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Explain what we use Acked-by: for, and how it differs from Signed-off-by:
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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